I threw together a short, nostalgic mix yesterday—'90 to '92 bleeps n' beats, with a couple modern tracks included for good measure. Enjoy the flashback.

Trax>>>
i - l.t.b.c.y.b.
Sweet Exorcist - Per Clonk
Cyclone - Stream
LFO - We Are Back (Remix)
Mental Cube - Q
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Party In My Head
Fortran 5 - Heart On The Line (Voodoo Child Remix)
Ectomorph - Lost Angles (Manyangles Version)
Lowfish - 8_Op

Download: Bleeps n' Beats

Lil' minimix here for your holiday weekend. 25 minutes of robot mechanics and dark futurism.

Trax>>>
Scarletron - Monomaniac
Scape One - Ectosphere
Egypt Ear Werk- Egypt Ear Werk (Swedish Version)
Uncle Jamm's Army - Yes, Yes, Yes
Dez Dickerson - (I Need A) Modernaire Lover (Complexxion Version)
Man Parrish - Heat Stroke
Raiders of the Lost Arp - Funk001 (Raid)
Mat101 - Dirty
B12 - Telefone 529

Download: Dirty dr

Reposted from Pontone.pl

Celebrating the release of a new great album (“Where Is The Truth”) and the Seefeel reunion, Pontone digs through Mark Van Hoen’s back catalogue and found many musical treasures.

Pontone's Mark Van Hoen Mix

PLAYLIST:
1 Mark Van Hoen He Run Far (“The Warmth Inside You” Very Friendly, 2004)
2 Mark Van Hoen Another Light Casts Its Will (“The Last Flowers From The Darkness” Touch, 1997)
3 Locust I Feel Cold Because Of The Things You Say (“Truth Is Born Of Arguments” R&S, 1995)
4 Scala A Category (“Compass Heart” Touch, 1997)
5 Darren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen Thursday’s Light (August 20th, 1977) (“Aurobindo: Involution” Ash International, 1994)
6 Locust All My Sadness (“Natural Composite” Apollo, 1994)
7 Darren Seymour & Mark Van Hoen Tema (V/A “Invisible Soundtracks 1″ Leaf, 1997)
8 Scala Broken Down Beauty (“Compass Heart” Touch, 1997)
9 Mark Van Hoen Since Tomorrow Will Come (“The Warmth Inside You” Very Friendly, 2004)
10 Mark Van Hoen You & Me Inside (“Playing With Time” R&S, 1999 )
11 Mark Van Hoen Real Love (“Playing With Time” R&S, 1999)

Mark Van Hoen has always defined and stayed true to his own sound, and as a result, has amassed a timeless discography that manages to remain unique due to the fact that he creates his own exquisite production techniques, never copying what's currently out there or replaying what has already been done. His music isn't easily categorizable, a marker of true artistry in my book.

For the past 10+ years, followers of Van Hoen have learned to be a patient group - there's been 2 6-year gaps between albums (as Mark Van Hoen), owing to his other production projects as well as numerous life/career interruptions (getting dropped from his label, getting his house demolished, starting a family, and most recently, moving to the states). His own patience, along with his ability to cast the right collaborators to work with has allowed him to grow as an artist while continuing to shape his own sonic legacy. Fans will be very eager to hear his latest opus (out now on City Centre Offices), knowing that what Mark has crafted, has been honed over the last few years, until he felt he arrived at something close to the truth.

Here's my own mix of MVH for your listening pleasure:
Robotsound's MVH Mix

PLAYLIST:
1 Annie Williams Ruby (“Ruby” Apollo, 1995)
2 Scala Be Together (“To You In Alpha” Too Pure, 1998)
3 Sylvania Oval (Locust Mix) (“Galax Trax” Stereophonic Elefant Dance Recordings, 1996)
4 Locust When We Coincide (“Truth Is Born Of Arguments” R&S, 1995)
5 Locust It Is Called Peace (1985) (“In Remembrance of Times Past” Apollo, 1994)
6 Locust Dreams (1984) ("Needle” Apollo, 1994)
7 Seefeel Plainsong (Sine Bubble Embossed Dub) (“Time To Find Me″ Too Pure, 1993)
8 Locust 1966 (“L'inachevé / Unfinished” Sub Rosa, 1995)

Stream Where Is The Truth.

Watch MVH's first state-side performance, which took place in his newly adopted hometown of Brooklyn a couple months back here.

It has been a while since I posted a proper, hastily-recorded mix. This one is imbued with Japanese themes [robots/technology/ramen/harajuku/geisha/etc.] and spans the last three decades of electronic dance music. I recommend preparing yourself some quality sashimi and chilled sake as a fitting accompaniment.

お楽しみください！
O tanoshimi kudasai!

ROBOTAKU
[320k, 137MB, 1 hour]

Tracklist
The Human League - Toyota City [1981]
Steril feat. Sue M. - Nothing's Ever Finished [2003]
AIR - Cherry Blossom Girl [Simian Mobile Disco Mix] [2003]
Human Body - Acid Bizard [2005]
Caltrop - Manta Romantix [2001]
Kraftwerk - Dentaku [1991]
Tampopo - Add Boiling Water [2001]
David Carretta - Disco Dance [2008]
Mutron - Ryuhgoojyo [2003]
Turismo - Akihabara [1999]
Polygon Window - If It Really Is Me [1992]
YMO - La Femme Chinoise [The LFO Mix] [1992]
Klystron - Polycell [1998]
Mutron - Rotten Zipangu [2002]
Hong Kong Counterfeit - Japanese Plastic [2002]
Arpanet - Illuminated Displays [2002]
Japanese Telecom - Nipponese Robots [1999]
Martin Matiske - Japanese Science [2006]
Logic System - Unit [1981]
Malcolm McLaren [R.I.P.] - Madame Butterfly [Un Bel di Vedremo] [1984]

dr's setlists for August's sizzling edition of New Wave Hookers.
Dedicated to Jazzy...keep hustlin' baby.

FUNK
B.E.F. - Groove Thing
XDISTRICT - Color Correction [Jimmy Edgar LTNT rmx]
Extra T's - E. T. Boogie
dâm-funk - galactic fun
Ronnie Jones - Don't Turn Around [The Kommissar]
Dexter - D-Funked
Jimmy Edgar - My Beats
Rodney O - These Are My Beats
The Bureau - Trunk of Funk
Prince - D.M.S.R.
Art of Noise - Beatbox
Mick Wills - Calling All Boys

WAVE
Nitzer Ebb - Control I'm Here [Command Control Confront Mix]
Greater Than One - G-Force
Kill Memory Crash - Never Forget
Neon Electronics vs. The Hacker - Better Way [Long Version]
Miss Kittin & The Hacker - Inutile Éternité
Sneak-Thief - Not A Ghost
Zombie Nation - Cycles To Failure
Cristina - Things Fall Apart
Thompson Twins - [Dub] Lies
Stacey Q - Two of Hearts [Dance Mix]
Animotion - I Engineer [Remix]
Anna - Systems Breaking Down
Subway - Persuasion
Mike Paradinas - Hi-Q

Even Music Non-Stop robots like us, who seemingly never tire, have to unplug and recharge ye olde batteries from tyme to tyme. There's only so much dance-orientated music one can handle before the need to slow the BPMs down becomes apparent. True, it's great listening to bangers while you race to and from work or when you're out on the town, but you can't keep up the pace indefinitely. Sometimes it's necessary to just CTFD. Luckily, a co-conspirator from across the pond has provided just such the antidote for decompressing from some of the stress of modern life.

From Waxadelica, a longtime cyber-friend who knows how to compile the right soundtrack to net-surfing, long bus trips, or even better, chillaxing out by the pool with a few cold ones.

Waxa - Lost Broadcast

Tracklist:
cex - first for wounds
boards of canada - heard from telegraph lines
blue states - heroes elegy
boom bip - closed shoulders (clouddead mix)
midaircondo - serenade
boards of canada - buckie high (waxa’s xentrix mix)
d’arcangelo - flatcalm
solvent - an introduction to ghosts (extended)
interpol - untitled (datasette mix)
burial - dog shelter
claro intelecto - harsh reality
intricate - efforts
bitstream - decontamination room
blech III sample
brothomstates - mdrmx
bloc party - where is home (burial mix)
modeselektor - the white flash (feat thom yorke)
panda bear - i’m not
radioactive man - goodnight morton
portishead - the rip
tricky - christiansands
meat beat manifesto - shes unreal
warp watch & repeat - section 011

Us hookers are busy prepping for our next event. As always, we keep it hot, sleazy and best of all, free. First Saturday of the month, 371 N. Western Ave. Spy Hunter is out of commission and the sound system has seen better days, but when you've got action like this, you don't pass it up, gnome sane?

Here's a little something to get you in the mood. And there's more where that came from.

But if you want any more, it'll have to wait till April 4th.