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A few FACT mixes

Time for another listicle sans commentary!

Here are a few of the weirder FACT magazine mixes — the ones to which I find myself getting back, time and time again.

#379 - Grouper (Apr 2013)

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#399 - Zola Jesus (Sept 2013)

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#414 - Julianna Barwick (Dec 2013)

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#445 - Stephen O'Malley (Jun 2014)

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Tracklist

  1. Spiridon Shisgigin - ‘Tanz der Schamanin (Dance of the Female Shaman)’ (from Soul of Yakutia)
  2. Akira Rabelais - ‘Comme Un Ange Enivré D’un Soleil Radieux’ (from Caduceus)
  3. Hornroh - ‘MUEZZO’ (from Findling)
  4. Ernstalbrecht Stiebler - ‘…Im klang II’ (from «… Im klang…» hat(now))
  5. Angus MacLise - ‘Universal Solar Calendar’ (The Cloud Doctrine)
  6. Angus MacLise - ‘Tambura Drone + Sine Wave Generator’ (from The Cloud Doctrine)
  7. Moluk Zarrābi Darāmad - ‘Dād (Māhur)’ (from Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings From Iran, 1906-1933)
  8. Montakhab-oz-Zākerin - ‘Qafqāz I (Segāh)’ (from Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings From Iran, 1906-1933)
  9. Montakhab-oz-Zākerin - ‘Qafqāz II (Segāh)’ (from Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings From Iran, 1906-1933)
  10. Irān-od-Dowleh Helen - ‘Darāmad, Dād, Khāvarān (Māhur)’ (from Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings From Iran, 1906-1933)
  11. Hans Kennel, Mytha - ‘Chuehreiheli’ (from How It All Started)
  12. Susan Alcorn - ‘Sapphire’ (from New Music For Old Instruments)
  13. Christian Wolff - ‘Exercise 10’ (from 10 Exercises)
  14. Arthur Brown’s Kingdom Come - ‘Triangles’ (from Journey)
  15. Jacula - ‘Ego Sum Qui Sum’ (from Anno Demoni)
  16. Antonius Rex - ‘Enchanted Woods’ (from Ralefun)
  17. Fushitsusha - ‘暗号’ (from A Document Film Of Keiji Haino)
  18. Joe Meek/The Blue Men - ‘The Bulblight’ (from I hear a new world)
  19. François-Bernard Mâche - ‘Ouverture’ (from L’announce faite a marie)
  20. François-Bernard Mâche - ‘Le baiser’ (from L’announce faite a marie)
  21. François-Bernard Mâche - ‘Le vent’ (from L’announce faite a marie)
  22. François-Bernard Mâche - ‘Chevauchée’ (from L’announce faite a marie)
  23. François-Bernard Mâche - ‘Le pélerin’ (from L’announce faite a marie)
  24. François-Bernard Mâche - ‘Ma mise au tombeau’ (from L’announce faite a marie)
  25. Jakob Ullmann - ‘Disappearing Musics For Six Players (More Or Less)’ (from Edition Zeitgenössische Musik)

#471 - Jonny Trunk (Nov 2014)

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Tracklist

  1. Guide To Oral Sex (unreleased)
  2. You – Mean
  3. Flugerenden – Unknown
  4. Hot Water – Hazlewood / Trey
  5. Pace – Golden Ring 6
  6. Screw On – Jacky Giordano
  7. The Sapphic Sleep – Don Cherry
  8. Ode To A Screw – Taking Off
  9. The Wizard – Frankie Bones
  10. Metallic Doings – Bruton Library
  11. Electro People – Fox
  12. Moogies Bloogies – Anthony Newley / Delia Derbyshire (unreleased)
  13. Shadows Of Blood – Platonos
  14. Eyes Without A Face – Jarre
  15. See Saw – Libby
  16. Smilin Billy – Heath Bros
  17. Even The Horses Had Wings – Kathy Bobo Bates
  18. Underwater Boy – Lindt
  19. Airlock – Herrmann
  20. Makkaresh – Torrossi
  21. Tornadeo – Jiants
  22. Ghost Horse – Elsie
  23. Sea Drift – Jonny Trunk (unreleased)

#512 - Max Richter

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Tracklist

  1. Charles Ives – The Unanswered Question
  2. Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Rockets fall on Rocket falls
  3. J.S. Bach – Fugue in C# minor from Book 1 of The Well tempered Clavier
  4. J.S Bach – Chorale from “Christ Lag in Todesbanden”
  5. Osvaldo Golijov – Tenebrae II
  6. Urmas Sisask – Ursa Minor from Starry Sky Cycle
  7. Boards of Canada – Over the horizon radar
  8. Sergei Rachmaninov – Rejoice O Virgin from The Vespers
  9. Howard Skempton – Of Late
  10. Philip Glass – Violin Concerto 2nd Movement
  11. Grouper – Clearing
  12. Henry Purcell – Fantasia in 7 parts
  13. William Byrd – Mass for 5 voices, Agnus Dei
  14. Luciano Berio – Wasserklavier
  15. Michael Tippet – Concerto for Sting Orchestra, II Adagio Cantabile
  16. Cat Power – Maybe Not

#522 - Vainio & Vigroux

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Tracklist

  1. Giacinto Scelsi – Anahit
  2. Orchestra and choir of Polish radio
  3. Pharmakon – Crawling on bruised knees
  4. Napalm Death – Peel Sessions 88: tracks 1 to 10
  5. Bernard Parmegiani – Accidents Harmoniques – De Naturae Sonorum (GRM)
  6. Scott Walker – Clara
  7. Techno Animal – Hell
  8. Federico Schmucher – Print…?
  9. Whitehouse – Wriggle like a Fucking Eel
  10. Swans – Coward
  11. Robert de Visee – Courante
  12. Interprète Pascal Monteilhet (Orbe) – Zig Zag label
  13. Haino Keiji – First Blackness
  14. Disques Du Soleil Et De L’Acier
  15. Shapednoise feat. Justin K Broadrick – Enlightenment

#527 - Jóhann Jóhannsson (Dec 2015)

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Tracklist

  1. Mihaly Vig: The Turin Horse
  2. Dimitri Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 15 in E Flat Minor Op. 144 – 1. Elegy, Adagio
  3. David Lang: Amelia (I’m Waiting for My Man)
  4. Meredith Monk: Braid 1 and Leaping Song
  5. Robert Turman: Flux
  6. Glenn Branca: Second Movement (The Temple of Venus Pt. 2)
  7. Gloria Coates: Chiaroscuro – Illumination
  8. Witold Lutoslawski: Funeral Music – Prologue
  9. Jón Leifs: Hinsta Kveðja (Elegy) Op. 53 for String Orchestra
  10. Irena Havlová & Vojtěch Havel: Pod Hvězdou Pomiranč (Under The Orange Star)
  11. Charlemagne Palestine: Sliding Fifths (1 2)
  12. Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room
  13. Holger Czukay: Boat Woman Song
  14. Charlemagne Palestine: One Two Three Fifths (1 3)