neptune records' best of 2021 no.2 (oystered 64)

(oystered 64)

Second of eight album-length mixes featuring songs released in 2021.

1. Arab Strap "Just Enough" As Days Get Dark (Rock Action)
2. Dry Cleaning "Strong Feelings" New Long Leg (4AD) ~3:34
3. Low "Days Like These" Hey What (Sub Pop) ~7:31
4. Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy "The Wild Kindness" Blind Date Party (Drag City) ~12:39
5. Nightshift "Power Cut" Zoe (Trouble In Mind) ~16:08
6. Vanishing Twin "Wider Than Itself" Ookii Gekkou (Fire) ~23:00
7. Jeff Parker "Four Folks" Forfolks (International Anthem) ~26:06
8. Neicy Blues "Bones Become The Trees" Bones Become The Trees (Mexican Summer Looking Glass) ~33:37
9. Twenty One Pilots "Mulberry Street/ Bennie & The Jets" Takeover Tour Studio Version (Fueled By Ramen) ~38:04
10. Iceage "Shelter Song" Seek Shelter (Mexican Summer) ~42:53
11. Living Hour & Peel Dream Magazine "Double Bus" Double Bus (Kanine) ~48:20


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neptune records' best of 2021 no.1 (oystered 63)

(oystered 63)

First of eight manageably-sized mixes from 2021.

1. Blue Ocean "Human Now" Blue Ocean (Dandy Boy)
2. Andy Bell "Plastic Bag (Pye Corner Audio Uptown)" Another View (Sonic Cathedral) ~2:35
3. Winter "Violet Blue" Violet Blue (Bar/None) ~8:00
4. Lucid Express "Ride The Night" Lucid Express (Kanine) ~12:20
5. The Reds, Pinks & Purples "Perished In The Afternoon" Uncommon Weather (Tough Love) ~16:50
6. The Telephone Numbers "I Took A Walk (BZC Version)" Leviathan (Fruits & Flowers) ~22:08
7. Silver Synthetic "Chasm Killer" Silver Synthetic (Third Man) ~25:32
8. Ducks Ltd. "Patience Wearing Thin" Modern Fiction (Carpark) ~30:27
9. Chime School "Calling In Sick" Chime School (Slumberland) ~32:02
10. Honey Radar "Play-Box Relay" Play-Box Relay (self-released) ~35:20
11. Wednesday "One More Last One" Twin Plagues (Orindal) ~37:20
12. Mogwai "To The Bin My Friend, Tonight We Vacate Earth" As The Love Continues (Temporary Residence) ~40:35

Due to mixcloud's increasing user limitations, I've switched over to uploading on youtube. Mixcloud's cover designs looked better but hopefully listeners will notice improved functionality here.

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Love Will Always Win (2)

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1. Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples "TimeOfTheBaracudasWalksOnBy" Anthology of American Pop Music (Faitiche)
2. Andy Bell "Indica" The View From Halfway Down (Sonic Cathedral)
3. Andrew Chalk "The Soft Air" Incidental Music (Faraway Press)
4. MV & EE "Dancin' In The Street" Cap Trips (Child Of Microtones)
5. Autechre "TM1 open/ r cazt [b neptune mash]" PLUS > SIGN (Warp)
6. Pole "Fading" Fading (Mute)
7. Barry Walker Jr. "Up The Fan, Into The Keyhole" Shoulda Zenith (Holy Mountain)
8. Yo La Tengo "Wasn't Born To Follow" Sleepless Night (Matador)
9. Emily A. Sprague "Moon View" Hill, Flower, Fog (Rvng Intl.)
10. Working Men's Club "Angel [b neptune's radio edit]" Working Men's Club (Heavenly)
11. Maarja Nuut & Sun Araw "Festi" Fantasias For Violin and Guitar (MiDA)
12. Sonic Boom "I Wish It Was Like Xmas Everyday (A Little Bit Deeper) (feat. Dean & Britta)" I Wish It Was Like Xmas Everyday (A Little Bit Deeper) (Self Released, Bandcamp)
13. Stephan Mathieu & Ekkehard Ehlers "Turkey Song" Heroin (Keplar)
14. Yui Onodera "Monochrome" Pop Ambient 2021 (Kompakt)
15. Fuxa "Photon" Southeast Of Saturn (Third Man)
16. Cleared "Bonded (Fennesz)" The Key (Touch)
17. Kassel Jaeger "Meith (Part 2)" Meith (Black Truffle)

Part two of a two part end-of-year roundup, featuring favorite cuts mostly from the fourth quarter of 2020, but also some overlooked or missed altogether jams from earlier in the year.

All songs released or reissued 2020. "Turkey Song" originally released 2001 (Brombron/ Staalplaat) and "Photon" 1994 (Mind Expansion).

Thank you for listening!

Love Wil Always Win (1)

(oystered 61)

1. Albert Ayler "New Ghosts (demo fragments) [b neptune fragment]" Holy Ghost, 2004 (Revenant)/ New Grass, 1969 (Impulse!)
2. Four Tet "Parallell 2" Parallel (Text)
3. Julie Byrne & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma "Love's Refrain" (Mexican Summer/ Looking Glass series)
4. William Basinski "Tear Vial" Lamentations (Temporary Residence)
5. KILN "Open Field" Astral Welder (Ghostly International)
6. Simon Scott "Apart B" Apart (12k)
7. Minamo "Superscience [b neptune edit]" Superscience (901 Editions)
8. Ryley Walker "Heavy Water/ I'd Rather Be Sleeping" Covers (self-released, bandcamp)
9. Matt Lajoie "A Flicker in the Void" Light Emerging (Trouble In Mind)
10. Kurt Vile "Dandelions" Speed, Sound, Lonely KV (Matador)
11. Ilyas Ahmed & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma "Ghosted" Torch Songs (self-released, bandcamp)
12. Peel Dream Magazine "Verfremdungseffekt" Agitprop Alterna (Slumberland)
13. Gregg Kowalsky "Three Sisters Spring" A Little Night Music: Aural Apparitions from the Geographic North (Geographic North)
14. Gunn-Truscinski Duo "Ocean City" Soundkeeper (Three Lobed)
15. Taylor Deupree "Canoe" Canoe (Longform Editions)

Part one of a two part end-of-year roundup, fearturing favorite cuts mostly from the fourth quarter of 2020, but also some overlooked or missed altogether jams from earlier in the year.

All songs released in 2020, except my edit of Albert Ayler's "New Ghosts (demo fragments)" featured in the 2004 issued Revenant label box set, Holy Ghost, originally peformed circa 1969.

Peace, love, strength, clarity, unity,

~b neptune

So Drunk In the August Sun

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1. -intro Q3-
2. Yo La Tengo "James Gets Up and Watches Morning Birds With Abraham" We Have Amnesia Sometimes (Matador)
3. Eric Copeland "Motor" Dumb It Down (Post Present Medium)
4. Thurston Moore "Siren" By The Fire (The Daydream Library Series)
5. Pausal "Circadia" Melatonia (Past Inside The Present)
6. Koen Holtkamp "Insides" F Is For Flakes (Thrill Jockey)
7. Rosy Parlane "Awa" Touch: Isolation (Touch)
8. Mark Templeton "Named Experience" Ocean Front Property (Senufo Editions)
9. Richard Skelton "For Either Deadened Or Undeadened" These Charms May Be Sung Over A Wound (Phantom Limb)
10. Growing "Tired Tubes Sigh Like Old Men" Humming Amps and Broken Strings Sing Vol. 1 (self-released)
11. Bill Callahan "Breakfast" Gold Record (Drag City)
12. Christopher Bissonnette "Suffering" Wayfinding (12k)
13. Tuluum Shimmering "Happiness Is Drumming 1" Flowers Of Daybreak (Tuluum Shimmering)
14. Sam Prekop "Wax Wing" Comma (Thrill Jockey)
15. Gregg Kowalsky "Sunstruck In the Shadows" (Mexican Summer Looking Glass)
16. This Valley Of Old Mountains "Lef" This Valley Of Old Mountains (12k)
17. Steve Kilbey "Queen Of Spades" Eleven Women (Foghorn)
18. Bellows "03" Undercurrents (Black Truffle)
19. Fennesz "Sunday Evening" En el fin del mundo, hasta el fin del mundo (EMA)
20. Ricardo Villalobos & Oren Ambarchi "Slow" Hubris Variation Parts 2 & 3 (self-released)

Q3 2020 mix. Listen -or ignore- at your own peril... I'm guessing you might just have the time-time!

All songs released in 2020, except -intro Q3- mashup.

Can't Feel At Home

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1. His Name Is Alive "~intro~ 'Last One' (excerpt)" Stars On E.S.P. (4AD)
2. The Howling Hex "Words" Knuckleball Express (Fat Possum)
3. Psychic Ills "Never Learn Not To Love" Never Learn Not To Love/ Cease To Exist (Sacred Bones)
4. Sonic Boom "Just A Little Piece Of Me" All Things Being Equal (Carpark)
5. Sun Araw "78 Sutra" Rock Sutra (Sun Ark)
6. France Jobin "p" Death Is Perfection, Everything Else Is Relative (Editions Mego)
7. Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker "Vocoder Divorce" I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often (self-released)
8. Kyle Bobby Dunn "Cescon (field version)" Selected Ambient Expansion Pack (self-released)
9. Tom James Scott "Hapax" Mine Is The Heron (Students Of Decay)
10. Marcus Fischer "Arctic 3" Arctic/ Antarctic (Luxus-Arctica Int'l)
11. Rafael Anton Irisarri "Vanishing Points" Peripeteia (Black Truffle)
12. CV & JAB "Stone Circle" Landscape Architecture (Editions Basilic)
13. Christopher Bissonnette "The Desire To Destroy Beauty" The Wine Dark Sea (Dronarivm)
14. Élodie "Heure Dorée" Le Nid d'Ivoire (La Scie Dorée)
15. Simon Scott "Fen(ce)" Migrations (Touch)
16. Federico Durand "Jardin de Musgo" Alba (12k)
17. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma "Door With No Sign" Door With No Sign (Mexican Summer Looking Glass)
18. Corey Fuller "Sanctuary (b neptune's 'radio edit')" Sanctuary (self-released)

Arcing like a siren's blat that suddenly softens, skimming on water; buoyant in dusk's dimming light.

2020 coronavirus quarantine mix Q2. All songs released or reissued in 2020, except track one, 1996, His Name Is Alive.

So Far Away, From My Friends

(oystered 58)

1. ~intro~
2. Zelienople "America" Hold You Up (Miasmah)
3. Vladislav Delay "Raakile" Rakka (Cosmo Rhythmatic)
4. Beatrice Dillon "Workaround Four" Workaround (PAN)
5. Stephen J. Malkmus "The Greatest Own In Legal History" Traditional Techniques (Matador)
6. Michael Grigoni & Stephen Vitiello "Transparent As A Hanging Glass" Slow Machines (12k)
7. Fabio Orsi "Vibra 02" Vibra (Fluid Audio)
8. Botany "Fourteen 45 Tails" Fourteen 45 Tails (Longform Editions)
9. Jan St. Werner feat. Mark E. Smith "VS Cancelled" Molocular Meditation (editions Mego)
10. Jeff Parker & The New Breed "Build A Nest (feat. Ruby Parker)" Suite For Max Brown (International Anthem)
11. Andrew Chalk & Daisuke Suzuki "Natsukodachi" Thanking You (Black Truffle)
12. Britton Powell "If Anything Is" If Anything Is (Catch Wave Ltd.)
13. Califone "By The Time Starlight Reaches Our Eyes [b. neptune edit]" Echo Mine (Jealous Butcher)
14. Six Organs Of Admittance "Two Forms Moving" Companion Rises (Drag City)
15. Matt LaJoie "Showers Over Birch Point" Everlasting Spring (Flower Room)
16. Richard Skelton "The Oracle Bone" The Oracle Bone (Aeolian)
17. Keith Fullerton Whitman "Broadcast's 'Echo's Answer'" Resonators (1) (self-released)

As worldly pleasures wave goodbye, music is and always has been an ideal vehicle for social seclusion; the perfect getaway tool. The unfortunate circumstance impacting all of us right now has provided me a little extra time to curate this rather wildly disparate set of restless isolationism and deep melancholy alongside more joyful tones, campfire pop and microdot escapism. Stay down.
[all songs Q1 2020 except ~intro~]