Lakespeed1

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Member Since: 8/22/2000
Total Mixes: 74
Total Feedback: 60

Other Mixes By Lakespeed1

CD | Mixed Genre

individual mythologies (for adolf wolfli)

Artist Song
Ghost  Regenesis 
Neutral Milk Hotel  Marching Theme 
Getatchew Makurya  Ambassel 
Peyu Nikolov  Ala imash ochi (makedonska pesen) 
(field recording - Alejandra & Aeron)  (fiestas la Magdalena) 
Kemialliset Ystavat  Mustametsa 
Algarnas Tradgard  There is a time for everything, there is a time when even time will meet 
Mark Dwinell  Hazy, Rushing 
Tower Recordings  Vokalis: The Fauna Inverts Itself In The Sway Of The Equinox Tower 
Ekkehard Ehlers & Stephan Mathieu  Turkey Song 
Bjorn Olsson  Visionen Vecklar Ut Sitt Landskap (The Vision Unfolds Its Landscape) 
Nuno Canavarro  Untitled (Plux Quba track #5) 
Gyorgy Ligeti/London Sinfonietta Voices  Hungarian Etude 49 
Mika Vainio  Osittain (Partly) 
Fille Qui Mousse  Gibet-Jasmine Ordination 
Amon Duul II  Dem Guten, Schonen, Wahren 
Arbete och Fritid  Ganglat Effer Lejsme Per Larsson, Malung 
Fred Van Hove & Cel Overberghe  Kreem Gelas 
Youngsbower  Welding The Sea 
Trevor Wishart  Menagerie: Visions 
Ester Brinkmann  Eros 
Bernard Parmegiani  Metamorphose du vide: Jeux de configurations 
Olivier Messiaen  Turangalila Symphonie: Turangalila 2 
International Harvester  Dies Irae 

Comment:

not trying to be willfully obscurist here, but there's probably not a lot on here that people are gonna know. so the story goes: Lottie, whom I rely on for all my non-musical good taste, insisted I go to the Adolf Wolfli exhibit at the NY Folk Art Musuem a few weeks ago - needless to say it made an impression. For the curious, I suggest doing some exploring on your own (here's a start: http://www.phylliskindgallery.com/self-taught/artbrut/aw/), but the short version is a institutionalized schizophrenic who created a 45 book, 25,000 newspaper print size page complete fictional world, densely packed with texts, poems, music, illustrations, and collages touching on everything from cosmic wars, scientific explorations, inventions, travelogues, maps, numerical charts, investment calculations, urban development, social and political platforms, transformation, redemption, catastrophe and regenesis, none the least of which is his recasting his autobiography as a saint. Given some of the past things I've thrown up on this sight, you may be able to see why I was just a little turned on - the mix is mostly just impressionistic, some of which immediately came to mind when we were there - lots of "colors", psychelics, folk songs, marches, pop culture, blurred and jagged lines and several deconstructed appearances of words + text (which were integral in all of Wolfli's stuff). The "regenesis"/"dies irae" (the latin death hymn) open/close wasn't not on purpose, though. btw, the image is Wolfli, "General view of the island Neveranger, 1911"
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Muzag
Date: 4/22/2003
Looks like some nice weirdness here. In the dark about most of it but those I know indicate how twisted this could be...Nice :)
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Sean Lally
Date: 4/22/2003
His work is amazing. I'd like to hear this. Let me know if you're up for a trade.
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Bear
Date: 4/22/2003
Pretty impressive. I've been trying to find Ghost's music for a while! so if you fancy doing us a best of. How's $23 sound?
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p the swede
Date: 4/22/2003
wow -lgarnas trSdgsrd (for you all = Garden of mooses)
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Rob Conroy
Date: 4/22/2003
Yeah, both this mix and the artist in question sound really interesting to me, my friend.
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Thomas_Mohr
Date: 4/23/2003
Looks mighty interesting indeed.
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valis
Date: 4/23/2003
Adolf Wolfli is one among many of these "outsider artists" worthy of such a carefully thought-out honor. Lakespeed, you're on to something here......, great picks. (Might I suggest Charles A.A. Dellschau for your next possible tribute....? Fascinating. What's left of his art...., and story.) Bravo Lakespeed!
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lottie
Date: 4/23/2003


(my favorite part is that i was referenced.......)
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Dom1
Date: 2/24/2004
I've missed out on yr mixes and I apologize for this over-sight. Looks absolutely fascinating!