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Xanaxdu

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Xanaxdu

Here’s another gem back from the ‘intelligent techno’ days during the peak of Midwest raving and deeeep AAC chill outs. I think this was made during a particularly bitter winter so it has quite a cold, dark overtone to it. On this mix are some all time favorites like LFO’s ‘Mentok 1’, Carl Craig’s ‘Galaxy’ and Trak 1’s ‘For This’ (to which Mr. Farina turned me on). So if you want to get in the mood for this month’s archive dig, take a bite of a Xanax, get comfy on the couch, and pop in that VHS copy of Beyond The Mind’s Eye.  Enjoy!

SIDE 1
1. Eddie “Flashin” Fowlkes – One Dance
2. Trak 1 – For This II
3. Unit Moebius – Overload
4. The Higher Intelligence Agency – Ketamine Entity (Axiom Mix)
5. Mental Cube – Q
6. Speedy J – Perfect Pitch
7. Minimal Vision – C 119
8. Orbital – Lush
9. POW – Double Life
10. Eddie “Flashin” Fowlkes – Stella
11. Bango – Wave The Rave Goodbye
12. Sandoz – Satellite

SIDE 2
1. Florence – Off Balance
2. BFC – Galaxy
3. Jack Street Inc. – Break It Down
4. DJ Funk – Move Your Body
5. Ultramarine – Hooter (Carl Craig mix)
6. Nine-L – Untitled
7. Stasis – Inosphere
8. Jump “Chico” Slamm – Mecca
9. Rebel Alliance – Detroit Michigan
10. EON – Light Color Sound
11. LFO – Mentok I
12. Mono Junk – I’m Okey
13. Stasis – View From The Rille

Uncontrollable Falling Down

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Uncontrollable Falling Down

SIDE 1
1. Deepside – II
2. Onionz & Master D – Never Ending Journey
3. Rockes Hi Fi – Hash Recall
4. K-Life / DJ Booman – Puff Alotta Weed
5. Skylab – Exotika (Remix)
6. La Funk Mob – Motor Bass Gets Phunked Up (Electrofunk Remix)
7. David Caron – Fantasy On A Fantasy (Mark Broom Remix)
8. The Black Dog – Squelch
9. Beta Test – Reach
10. Bam Bam – Street Beat
11. DJ Mink Featuring The K.I.D. & Carruthers – Hey! Hey! Can U Relate
12. Bass Kittens – Get A Grip
13. Space Children – Let’s Go Disco

SIDE 2
1. Jedi Knights – May The Funk Be With You
2. Underworld – Born Slippy .TELEMATIC
3. Beach Flea – Green Bananas
4. Leon Roberts, Chris Reynolds & Tom Wainwright – Everything’s Alright
5. Nature Boy – Trackin
6. Repo – So Get
7. R.B.M. Featuring “El Barrio Bob” – Yo Shorty
8. …??
9. Take Aim – Praise Dance Revisited
10. Sweet Exorcist – Feel Your Hands
11. A Man Called Adam – Barefoot In The Head

Meltdown 13

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Welcome back to the Meltdown series, this being number 13. It is presented in honor of our upcoming ZenDaze Halloween party which we decided (under the influence of much tequila) would be a rave. I have saved everyone the embarrassment (mine) that was Side 1 and am only posting Side 2. The happy piano-driven breakbeats was a short-lived moment in the Midwest rave scene, but it sure does bring back some of those more ecstatic memories. Enjoy!

Meltdown 13

1. Third Mind – (Get Some) Beans And Barley
2. Eternal – Eternal (Up On Under Club Mix)
3. Son’z Of A Loop Da Loop Era – Far Out (Original Scratchadelic Mix)
4. Justice And Mercy – Fake Lobsters
5. Isotonic – Everywhere I Go
6. 2 Da Core – Rub A Dub
7. Nebula II – Atheama
8. House Crew – We Are Hardcore
9. Zero Zero – Zero Not Zero
10. Acen – Close Your Eyes (Optikonfusion!) (Remix I)
11. Justice & Mercy – Experience (Remix)

ZenDaze Disco

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Total M disco, nu and old, as featured on ZenDaze Radio – www.myhouseyourhouse.net

ZenDaze Disco

1. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Light In Darkness
2. Azari & III – Into The Night
3. Yam Who? – I’m In Love
4. Liz Torres feat. Master C & J – Touch Of Love (Club Mix)
5. Wild Geese – Macho Disco Master
6. D.A.F. – Kebab Dreams
7. Glass Candy – Warm In The Winter
8. Was (Not Was) – Out Come The Freaks (Predominantly Funk Version)
9. Captain Rapp – Bad Time (I Can’t Stand It)
10. Aleem feat. Leroy Burgess – Get Loose (Dub)
11. Colourbox – Breakdown (Extended Mix)
12. Xymox – Scum (Dance Mix)
13. Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
14. David Bowie – The Secret Life Of Arabia
15. West India Company – Ave Maria (Om Ganesha)(Extended Version)
16. Chris & Cosey – Gofex
17. The Flirts – Passion (Special R.E.M.I.X.)
18. Fockewulf 190 – Body Heat
19. Gary Low – I Want You
20. Blood Orange – The Complete Knock
21. Washed Out – Echoes
22. Chris & Cosey – Lost Bliss
23. Dinosaur L – In The Cornbelt (Larry Levan Mix)
24. Visions Of Tomorrow – Galaxy
25. Toro Y Moi – Saturday Love

Us!* (*or how you can change the world)

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We go deep for this month’s post.  Enjoy the trip back to 1999.

SIDE 1
1. Round Four – Find A Way
2. Brommage Dub – Untitled
3. Markus Nikolai – Workout
4. Mr. James Barth & A.D. – Inner City Lullaby
5. Cari Lekebusch – Unite
6. …
7. Derrick Carter
8. Wassermann – W.I.R.
9. E-Smoove – Bam-A-Lam
10. The Big Bang Theory – No Clothes On Your Back
11. …
12. Kenny Dope
13. G Flame & Mr. G – Make Me High

SIDE 2
1. Lego – Build Da Vibe
2. CeCe Peniston – Nobody Else
3. Blaze – My Beat (Derrick Carter Mix)
4. Motorbass – Ezio
5. Janet Jackson – Go Deep (MAW Mix)
6. Dino & Terry – Freestyle
7. Brian Tappert & DJ John ‘Julius’ Knight – E.E.I.O.U Dub
8. …
9. Masters At Work
10. …
11. Nick Holder – She Likes It
12. Randy Crawford – Wishing On A Star (Elusive Dub)

Hybridization

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By request, here is this month’s archive dig.  This is one of my all-time personal favorites, and boy does it bring back memories.  Enjoy the trip…!

Hybridization

SIDE 1
1. The Transplant – Come Together
2. Winx – Nervous Build-Up
3. DJ Bri – Tribal Trip
4. Count Zero – Acid Base
5. Alternations – Dance
6. The Black Dog – Cycle
7. DJ Skipp – 4 The Luv Of
8. Rio Rhythm Band – Ti Amo Semprini
9. Jackstreet Inc. – Makin’ House Music
10. Romanthony – The Wanderer
11. The Faces – Everything I Got
12. Why – Not? – Out Of The Bottle
13. DJ Duke – Can You Feel It
14. The Lab – Mary Stomp Your Feet

SIDE 2
1. Speedy J – Fill 14
2. Bobby Pruit – Tried So Hard
3. Major Problems – Flashbacks
4. Alternations – Beat On Their Drums
5. Terence Trent D’Arby – Do You Love Me Like You Say?
6. K.O.T. – Showcase
7. The Unknown – Abstract Expressionism
8. George Acosta & Erick Paredes – Deep South
9. Inner Cosm – Ultramundane
10. Nightmares On Wax – A Case Of Funk
11. Deep Six – Chomsky
12. Zoo Experience – Thinking About Your Love

This Is The Sound Of An Invasion

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A journey into the heart & mind of Total M…

This Is The Sound Of An Invasion…

1. Sugar Bear – Don’t Scandalize Mine
2. Twin Hype – Do It To The Crowd
3. Mantronix – Got To Have Your Love
4. Renegade Soundwave – Thunder
5. Meat Beat Manifesto – God O.D.
6. M|A|R|R|S – Pump Up The Volume
7. Mr. Lee – Rock This Place
8. West Bam – Monkey Say, Monkey Do
9. The Beatmasters – Ska Train
10. Double Trouble & The Rebel MC – Just Keep Rockin’
11. Liaisons Dangereuses – Los Niños Del Parque
12. Mike Dunn – So Let It Be House
13. Fast Eddie – Hip House
14. Frank De Wulf – Reforced
15. Kraftwerk – It’s More Fun To Compute

Duran Japan presents... The NuWave Army

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In honor of the upcoming FAC51 Haçienda party in Tokyo, I bring to you this mix which has my favorite version of New Order’s 5-8-6 remixed by the one and only Peter Black. It also features lots of other goodies like the Berlin infused Joshua Iz remix of Volga Select and Mystic Bill’s Japan inspired Visions Of Tokyo. Not quite “Electro”, not quite NuDisco, this mix is a collection that captures this strangely ambiguous era of electronica. Enjoy!

Duran Japan presents… The NuWave Army 

1. Joakim – Are You Vegetarian?
2. New Order – 5-8-6 (Peter Black Remix)
3. Volga Select – Les Années Des Plombs (DJ Joshua’s Dubwise Mix)
4. Chris J – Dreaming Colour
5. Alexkid With Lissette Alea – Come With Me (Tiga’s Aciddeathrave Remix)
6. Neuro-Manics – Visions Of Tokyo
7. Glove feat. Julia W. – Wunderbar
8. Minimal Compact – Deadly Weapons (Optimo Remix)
9. David Carretta – Ca Plane Pour Moi
10. Swayzak – I Dance Alone (Connecticut Ron’s Return To Saigon Mix)
11. Joakim – Come Into My Kitchen
12. Bakazou – Risky Disco
13. Charlie – Spacer Woman
14. The Human League – All I Ever Wanted (Alter Ego Remix)
15. Freaks – The Creeps (Steve Bug Remix)
16. Sven Väth – Ghost (John Starlight Remix)
17. Fresh & Low – Feels So Good (Astor’s Remix)

NEO

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Total M trips down 80s/Industrial/Electro lane. Enjoy the ride…!

NEO

1. The Human League – Sound Of The Crowd (Extended)
2. Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (12″ Version)
3. Time Zone – World Destruction
4. The Sisters Of Mercy – This Corrosion
5. Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy (Extended Version)
6. Chris & Cosey – Exotica (12″ Mix)
7. Duran Duran – Girls On Film (Extended Night Version)
8. The Cure – The Walk
9. Revolting Cocks – … On Fire
10. Clan Of Xymox – Stranger (Remix)
11. Severed Heads – Dead Eyes Opened (Remix Three)
12. Berlin – Sex (I’m a…) (Instrumental)
13. Trans-X – Living On Video (Dub Mix)
14. Heaven 17 – Penthouse And Pavement (12″ Mix)
15. Ministry – I Wanted To Tell Her (12″ Mix)
16. The B-52’s – Mesopotamia (Extended Mix)
17. Freeez – I.O.U. (Megamix)
18. Red Flag – Russian Radio (Glasnost Club Mix)

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Here we have yet another installation of the Meltdown series, number 16 to be exact.  This mix features some darker UK breakbeat (hence Rufige Cru), and is the last of my breakbeat mixes.  It’s pretty rough, just flipped on the tape recorder and started playing records (and don’t even ask me about a playlist…).  It was never circulated widely, but I’m inspired to share this because Jimpster played our Love Tempo party here in Tokyo and this mix actually has one of his early moniker Flag tracks (we chuckled about it).  So buckle up, and get ready for a voyage into the darkside.

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For this month’s archive dig, I present to you ‘Easy’. I was still a simple yogi living up in the mountains, getting my inspiration from the starry skies and desert landscape. And if you listen carefully, you can hear the hints of the soon-to-come ‘Painting’ which was made just a few months later. These two mixes were definitely siblings, meandering through the halls of some smooth jazzy house. This is still one of my favorites to this day. So please enjoy this journey from the nostalgic 90s!

Easy

SIDE 1
1. The Visionary – My Life Is Music (Bonus)
2. Wamdue Kids – Echoes & Instruments
3. The Beloved – Outer Space Girl
4. Stranger & C-Rell – Drum Whispers
5. Lithops – Wackler
6. Julius Papp
7. Global Communication – The Need
8. Aquanauts – Karma (Jazzy Mix)
9. …..
10. Black Fibre – You Can Lift Me Up
11. The Ram Project – Gonna Be Alright
12. E-Motion – Naughty North & Sexy South

SIDE 2
1. Shades Of Black – You Know It
2. Vincent Floyd – Get Closer
3. Dirty Harry – Let The Music Play (Ad Lib Mix)
4. Shuffle Inc. Presents Rhythmical Movement – Don’t Wait (Ride The Feeling Mix)
5. Ferry Ultra Feat. Roy Ayers – Dangerous Vibes
6. M&S Presents The Guy Next Door – Deeper
7. City People – It’s All In The Groove
8. 95 North – Elevation
9. Azymuth – Jazz Carnival (Space Jazz Mix)
10. Deep Sensation – Get Together
11. Ferry Ultra – Dangerous Vibes
12. Mae-i – Sweet Melody

Our March ZenDaze event has been postponed because of the tragic events in northeastern Japan.  We are refocusing our creative energies for April and raising funds for relief efforts to help those in need.  I will also be donating all monetary contributions received via this blog for the month of April.  So if you’d like to help, use the Paypal link at the right.  All donations will go to Second Harvest Japan who physically deliver much needed food and supplies to the earthquake affected areas.  Let’s make a difference!

MEGUMILK
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DJ Megoopy
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An aural polaroid capturing the surreal atmospherics in Tokyo after the earthquake+tsunami+radiation trifecta.

Sea Wave Water Shake Earth

1. Planet Earth – Duran Duran
2. Twin & Earth – Dif Juz
3. Waves Become Wings – This Mortal Coil
4. Slow Water – Brian Eno
5. Sea, Swallow Me – Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins
6. On Earth – The Sundays
7. …In That Quiet Earth – Genesis
8. Wave – David Sylvian
9. Earthrise (Moon Mix) – Joshua Iz
10. Waves, Waves, Waves – M83
11. Underwater (The Dome Part I) – Worship
12. Shake – Bombers
13. Waterfalls – Mr. Fingers
14. Shake The Disease – Depeche Mode
15. Water Window – The Depriciation Guild
16. Underwater Lady – Kirstie Hawkshaw
17. The Waters Deep – Bent
18. Underwater Boy – Virna Lindt
19. Velvet Water – Stereolab
20. The Garden Of Earthly Delights (Ballistic Bario Boom) – D*Note
21. Earth (Gaia) – The Orb
22. Broad Waters/Oh. Our River Narew – Henryk Gorecki
23. Wind On Water – Fripp & Eno
24. Blackwater – Rain Tree Crow
25. Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground) – The Jacksons

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Some DJ Total M slow jamz…

Zen.Daze.II

1. Active Child – When Your Love Is Safe (Classixx Remix)
2. Matt Van Schie – Journey
3. Destroyer – Chinatown
4. All Tiny Creatures – An Iris
5. Röyksopp – Electric Counterpoint III. Fast (RYXP True To Original Edit)
6. Washed Out – New Theory
7. Twin Shadow – Yellow Balloon
8. Brusque Twins – Trapped In Corners
9. Glass Candy – Computer Love
10. Oh Land – White Nights (Twin Shadow Remix)
11. Professor Genius – Pegaso (Excerpt)
12. Gino Soccio – So Lonely (Debukas Edit)
13. Lake – Madagascar
14. Max Tundra – Lysine
15. The Great Mundane – The Hug Machine
16. Windsurf – Cracking The Tube
17. Cassie – Official Girl (CFCF Remix)
18. Eluvium – Crash Deconstructed

MILES MAEDA
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EARCANDY
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Here begins Zen.Daze.  Following in the footsteps of the Atmospheric Audio Chair parties, the resident DJs all spent time in the Midwest rave scene in the early 90s.  Here in Japan, we’ll take a modern approach to the day-chillout party and include indie pop, nu disco, classic dub/downtempo, of course 90s electronica, even krautrock and experimental jazz.  But above all, it’ll be a chance to have fun on a Sunday with friends and wind up the weekend.  Join us every last Sunday of the month at Bonobo!

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Here’s my one and only adventure into the world of drum & bass.  I’m a fan of breakbeat, and at the time this was a well needed diversion from a long stint of house mixes.  Whenever I listen to this, I’m transported back to good old Deep Grooves in St. Louis where I acquired most of these records.  And I have to give that city props for providing me with some of my most unforgettable rave memories.  So from me to you, enjoy Kiku.  HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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We all love our techno, especially those hidden gems form the early 90s.  And not just the Detroit and Chicago varietals, but especially those vintage blends from the UK (I believe I made this mix just so I could include LFO’s ‘Syndrome’ on it).  Techno was branded as ‘intelligent’ back then, and who can deny that about Carl Craig, Mr. Fingers or The Black Dog?!  But as they say, they just don’t make music like they used to.  Sad but true.  So here for your enjoyment, a 90 min atypical-techno excursion, so aptly titled after what was my thirty-third ‘meltdown’ series endeavor.

No. 33

SIDE 1
1. Wiwanyag Wachipi – I Don’t Want You (I Don’t Need You)
2. System 7 – Sirenes (Carl Craig Remix)
3. Psyche – From Beyond
4. Kenny Larkin – Catatonic (Stacey Pullen Remix)
5. Ghetto Brothers – Musik (FX Mix)
6. …..
7. LFO – Syndrome
8. …..
9. …..
10. M-D-Emm – Get Acidic
11. Mr. Fingers – Slam Dance
12. …..

SIDE 2
1. …..
2. BFC – Evolution
3. Kenny Larkin – Catatonic (Carl Craig Remix)
4. …..
5. …..
6. Heychild – Heychild’s Theme
7. LFO – Nurture
8. …..
9. …..
10. Rhythim Is Rhythim – Icon
11. Sterac – Sitting On Clouds
12. I.A.O. – Clan (Mongol Hordes)

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Back in 1993, before the Detroit Electronic Music Festival and Movement there was World Party; a mega-event at the Joe Lewis arena in downtown Detroit in which the AAC collective were most lucky to participate.  It featured possibly the most legendary Detroit line-up one could ever hope for: Juan Atkins, Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Carl Craig, Richie Hawtin, Inner City live, D Wynn…  Unfortunately it was not well organized, well equipped or well attended.  But whatever energy World Party lacked, the after-party certainly made up for it (D Wynn definitely stole the show).  This entire experience, beginning to end, was resuscitated and resurrected, becoming this very mix I present before you.

For your listening pleasure, as side 1 begins with the haunting blips and bleeps of Model 500, just imagine standing in the cavernous lobby at the ‘ambient stage’ (two tables in front of some vinyl covered booths next to the soda and popcorn vendors) with Richie Hawtin on one side, Mike Huckaby on the other, and you will be instantly transported to the original Detroit Electronic Music Festival.  Enjoy!

Change & Transformation

SIDE 1
1. Model 500 – The Passage
2. …….
3. …….
4. Fugue – Interlagos
5. Tomas – Mind Song
6. …….
7. The Higher Intelligence Agency – Selenite
8. GAK – GAK 1
9. Speedy J – The FUN Equations
10. The Black Dog – Tactile
11. Kenny Larkin – Colonize
12. Paperclip People – Remake

SIDE 2
1. Kenny Larkin – Track
2. …….
3. …….
4. …….
5. Richard H. Kirk
6. …….
7. Esser’ay – Forces (Carl Craig’s Mix)
8. …….
9. Robert Hood – Rhythm
10. …….
11. The Black Dog – Erb

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Delving once again into the Meltdown series, this breakbeat gem adventures heavily into the dub and reggae influenced tracks which eventually evolved into ‘jungle’.  This was when you could clearly hear the differentiation from the house/techno inspired breakbeats.  Ah, the memories…back when raves were fun.  Enjoy this little time capsule of UK rydims.

Meltdown 15

SIDE 1
1. Rhythm Section – Perfect Love 2am
2. Force Mass Motion – V.N.E.
3. 2 Bad Mice – Hold It Down (Remix)
4. Urban Shakedown – Some Justice
5. DJ Scoobie – King Basshead!
6. Nick O.D. – Jazzy Hardcore
7. Phuture Assassins – Future Sound
8. Krome & Time – Sound Is For The Underground
9. DMS – Vengeance
10. Projet 1 – Roughneck
11. Manix – Try To Love Me

SIDE 2
1. Criminal Minds – A Vision Of Dread
2. 2 Da Core – Love Thy Brother
3. 2 Bad Mice – Drumscare
4. Krome & Time – Manic Stampede
5. Phuture Assassins – Rydim Come Forward
6. Nu-Matic – It’s Strange (Dances Are Changin’)
7. Nick O.D. – Ruff Dub
8. Criminal Minds – Presence
9. Project 1 – Can’t Take The Heartbreak
10. Younghead – Bad Bad Man
11. 2 Bad Mice – Bomb Scare (Remix)

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We continue the new year with another reunification of the Atmospheric Audio Chair collective, direct from the tundra of wintery Chicago.  Here is presented a generous collection of canorous compositions which spans the gamut from YMO to MBV to M83.  Perfect for studying for exams, babysitting the neighbor’s kids, and a great conversation starter at dinner parties.  Enjoy!

Atmospheric Audio Chair / 2010

1. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Silence Of Time
2. My Bloody Valentine – Instrumental B
3. Panda Bear – I’m Not
4. Steve Jansen & Richard Barbieri – One More Zombie
5. Robert Fripp – Midnight Blue
6. Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook – Several Times I
7. Midnight Juggernauts – Shadows (M83 Remix)
8. Future Sound Of London – Papua New Guinea (Blue States Full Length Mix)
9. Crisopa – Algo Cián
10. Bliss – Life On The Rooftop
11. Schlomo – 7am
12. Depeche Mode – Any Second Now (Tranquility Bass)
13. Front 242 – Sample D (Aerial Version)
14. The Human League – Toyota City
15. Steve Reich – Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint
16. Ryonkt – Gray Sky
17. Rheingold – Überblendung
18. Slowdive – Moussaka Chaos
19. Summer Camp – I Only Have Eyes For You
20. Colourbox – Tarantula
21. Swallow – Peekaboo (Dub)
22. A Shoreline Dream – The Barrier
23. Primal Scream – Higher Than The Sun (Andrew Weatheral Mix)
24. Yellow Magic Orchestra – Loom
25. Hammock – Gold Star Mothers
26. Brian Eno – Spider And I