Ben McCormick

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Member Since: 10/21/2002
Total Mixes: 16
Total Feedback: 78

Other Mixes By Ben McCormick

CD | Mixed Genre
Cassette | Mixed Genre

(if some words appear strange they are the names of colors)

Side A
Artist Song
SpaceSounds  From Sun Gods to Science: "The music of the spheres" 
Tortoise  The Taut and Tame 
Os Mutantes  Tempo No Tempo 
Raymond Scott  Lightworks (slow) 
Palace Music  West Palm Beach 
The Microphones  Sand (eric's trip) 
Brian Eno  The Big Ship 
Sigur Ros  Olsen Olsen 
Claude Debussy  Sonata for Cello and Piano, II. 
Tom Waits  All the World is Green 
Vibracathedral Orchestra  Stole Some Sentimental Jewelry 
The Velvet Underground  Ride Into the Sun 
Daniel Johnston  Easy Listening 
   
   
   
Side B
ArtistSongBuy
SpaceSounds  Energy From Space: "'Have you ever heard the sun?'/The dawn chorus" 
Boards of Canada  Dawn Chorus 
Donovan  Wear Your Love Like Heaven 
John Cage  Sonata II for Prepared Piano 
Charles Mingus  Put Me In That Dungeon 
Bjork  Anchor Song 
Kronos Quartet  Bells 
Erik Satie  Sonatine Bureaucratique 
Frank Zappa  Little Umbrellas 
My Bloody Valentine  From Here Knows When (outro)/When You Sleep 
Neutral Milk Hotel  10 
RJD2  Ghostwriter 
My Morning Jacket  They Ran 
Led Zeppelin  Going to California (live on BBC) 
Nina Nastasia  The Same Day 
Low  Will the Night (Secret Name version) 

Comment:

I was trying to do something murkier and more free-form than usual, although this mix ended up being poppier than I had intended. The title is from the liner notes to the Donovan album. SpaceSounds is an old, scratchy flexidisc that National Geographic put out in 1980 which belongs to e-lo, and which I have mined for samples. That Palace song slays me.

Feedback:

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Rob Conroy
Date: 2/1/2003
This is pretty great, Ben. I like your mixes a lot.
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Muzag
Date: 2/1/2003
Yep, I'm with Rob. This (and your others) are really good work.Let me know if you fancy a trade...:~)
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bufo alvarius
Date: 2/1/2003
Very cool mix, Ben. What Rob and Muzag said, your mixes always look great.
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Adr8012
Date: 2/1/2003
really good. i esp. love la Sonatine Bureaucratique
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 2/1/2003
Stunning. Love the John Cage through My Bloody Valentine stretch especially.