Wednesday, August 2, 2023

Dream Weapons present: MACHINERY C60

Finally, a new mix! So while awaiting our great 200th mixtape-collab Drain Crystals 3 to materialize, I decideded to skip straight to number 201. What can I say, collaborations are simply more difficult to finish. This one is more of a typically electronic mind trip with a touch of human warmth. As that’s how I prefer my electronic mind trips. Enjoy! -Moahaha 

1 Bruno Spoerri - Space Cantata pt. 1
2 Monoton - Π 3.141592653589793
3 Those Little Aliens - Incident In Moderan
4 Marco Melchiori aka Teisco aka Rimauri - Dimensione Alpha
5 Trees Speak - Skip Breath, Odyssey, Passage
6 Zed - Shai Hulud (First Vision)
7 Robert Schröder - Frozen Breath of Life

8 Greg Foat - Riding into Battle
9 Jonas Palm - Linguatronics
10 Rheingold - Stahlherz (#7)
11 Philippe Feret - Le Cri Ces Profondeurs
12 William Hoskins - Variation
13 Michel Mouline - L'echo de L'acier
14 Air Craft - Valley of the Lord

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21 comments:

  1. I wonder if one of you wonderful people would check this Youtube link and see if you can help me in my quest to find a piece of music.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k30aj8ATiZA
    Many regards, Michael.

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    1. Hi Michael. I had a listen. It sounded somewhat familiar (and I can understand why you thought it was Soft Machine. Maybe it is), but I don't really know. Very beautiful. I need to check a few contenders I got, and come back to you if any of them are a match.

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    2. Thank you so much, Moahaha. You would make an old man happy.

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    3. Shazam claims its "Dorian Terilament" from this record, though I can't find anywhere to listen to it to confirm: https://www.discogs.com/release/17327347-Morris-Pert-Chromosphere

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    4. Yes I found that too. It would sort of make sense if this music is a Morris Pert composition. He was in a handful of british jazz-fusion groups during the 1970's (the music in Michael's link is decades older than that 2013-release). Perhaps it's some live in BBC-studio reindition based on the same ideas as "Dorian Terilament" (which I haven't heard), that has never been officially released. The sax-playing remind me of Elton Dean and the song itself shares many similarities with the more abstract parts of early 1970's Soft Machine, So I listened through their Peel-sessions album ++. Also checked the two Sun Treader albums I got and all of Pert's Brand X compositions (which I had little faith it would be). Could it be some Elton Dean/Keith Tippett etc... collaboration? Or maybe I'm looking into the wrong scene, and hearing things that are not there...:)

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    5. Following that link to Morris Pert, I read that there is a guy called Ian Campbell who worked with Morris Pert and who has a site dedicated to his music, with some CDs for sale. It might be worth emailing him to see if he recognises it as the track that Shazam suggests. Here's the email address - blackpark@btinternet.com . Hope you have some luck! It's a lovely piece, by the way. Let us know how you get on.

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    6. Btw: during covid/lockdown I co-arranged some interactive events at Facebook. For that I collected songs never made available for streaming or commercially digitalized - that could be played without Facebook shutting the livestream down (which happens the second a song is recognized). I used Shazam to check many hundred obscure songs I was certain had no reissues or any official online presence. But Shazam «found» a completely wrong match for about 40% of them. Frustrating, because a wrongly recognized tune would also shut the livestream down. Anyway, because of that, I’m personally a little skeptical in regards to the Morris Pert-trace/find. It absolutely is worth following up - as he would make sense. But I just thought I should share that Shazam-experience of mine. A few times Shazam matched my songs with a seemingly random, wrong song so many times in a row that I ended up testing it's system with a Beatles or ABBA-tune (to find out if it was working at all).

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  2. Hi there, this is Michael. Thank you Gentlemen for your interest in my quest. I've been doing some investigating using your findings but nothing has produced any fruit yet. I did investigate Elton Dean a few years ago but no to no avail. I will not give though. I will hopefully find it before I pop my clogs. I had a simular problem a while back with another track from the same mix tape. I eventualy found it. It was "By Your Grace" by Beaver & Krause. Check it out, it's beautiful.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBs1-pCneqs

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    1. good that you found it, in fact it is a suggestive song... I wonder if there is a community of audiophiles where you can consult for unknown songs because I have a few, in the past I used soulseek for that purpose but now nobody participates in the chat rooms

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    2. Hi Mike. I tried to comment on your youtube-video, but I can't see my own comment there, so I guess something went wrong. I meant to link to the reddit/Lostwave community. Solving mysteries such as yours is what they are about. And they often succeed. I suggest you create an account, and make a post about your mystery track there.
      https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/

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  3. Thank you Moahaha!

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  4. Great music and an eye catching cover. What's not to like? Thanks yet again Moahaha.

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  5. Thank you,Moahaha !Very nice!
    Check out my amateur space-disco-"sci-fi" electronic music compilation!...they're tunes from my childhood :)

    here:
    https://uloz.to/file/uhWfuSTRMuqw/best-electronica-rar#!ZGR0BQR2AQMxZJSuBQZjLmp3LJEvZ3qkqH0mLH9SFQAwBGL0AD==

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    1. Wow! Thanks. Huge file. Downloading now, and look forward to listen through it:)

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  6. now I realized that some things are repeated there!...but most of the compilation is ok :) :) I did it quickly

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    1. It's a wonderful compilation, thanks! I suppose I already owned about 25-30% of it's content, but out of the remaining 70-75% - I loved most of it really. So, many hours of nice discoveries and listening joy for me:)

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  7. Hi there, Michael here. A minor unfruitful update. I emailed Ian Campbell but he never replied.

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    1. Hi there Michael. Well that's sad. But what was the link to Ian Campbell again?

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    2. it was email address - blackpark@btinternet.com

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