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Fractal - Blissfully Unpretentious Sex

( 15:36. 37 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Posted August 2010 )

1: Jamie Lidell - I Can Love Again [Warp]
2: Flying Lotus - Mmmmmhmmmmm feat. Thundercat [Warp]
3: Bullion - God Only Knows [Bullion]
4: Bibio - Lover's Carvings [Warp]
5: Bibio - Haikuesque [Warp]
6: Lusine - Twilight [Ghostly]

Fractal - The Seven Deadly Sins

( 81:24. 116 MB mp3 @ 194.166 kbps. Posted March 2010 )

One hell of a ride - through dubstep, custom remixes, huge breaks, ambient, slamming techno, and so on. Dante would be proud - or just jealous.

1: wAgAwAgA - The Wolf [wAgAwAgA]
2: Andy Page - Twitter and Bisted [Noodles]
3: Vogel, K, & Page - Crowd Noise []
// Radiohead - Myxomatosis [Parlophone]
4: Samual Barber - Hermit Songs VII - Promiscuity (Heather Harker & Karl Hirzer) []
// Thom Yorke - Skip Divided - [XL]
5: Clark - Growls Gardens [Warp]
6: Holden & Thompson - Come To Me (Amatuer Guitar Mix) [Loaded]
7: Carl Orff - Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) [Angel]
8: Mauro Picotto - Verdi [BXR]
9: Hybrid - Theme From Wide Angle (Rolling Thunder Mix) [Distinct'ive]
// Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Fluffy Mix) [Border Community]
10: Portishead - The Rip [Island]
11: Pink Floyd - Money (Eric Idle Hands Remix) [Harvest]
12: Aesop Rock - 39 Thieves [Def Jux]
13: Two Fingers - Jewels & Gems [Big Dada]
14: Two Fingers- Bad Girl [Big Dada]
15: Karlkeinz Stockhausen - Kontakte [Ecstatic Peace!]
16: Jay-Z - Encore (B4AFall Layer) [Roc-A-Fella]
17: Anton Webern - 6 Pieces For Orchestra I, II [Columbia]
18: Brian Eno - Lantern Marsh [EG]
19: X-Press 2 - Lazypella [Skint]
20: Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel - I, III [New Albion]
21: Bell Clap Dance - [Rekids]
22: Audion - Mouth To Mouth [Spectral]
23: Perc & Fractal - Up (Perc Mix) [Kompakt]

Fractal - Sweet Nothings

( 20:04. 47 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded March 2010 )

Indulging in some disco, some electro, and some crypto-djing. Alban would be proud.

0: Calvin Harris - I Get All The Girls (Acapella) []
1: Van She - Techno Music (Vemixed) [Modular]
2: Kano - Ike Saya [K7]
// Little Boots - Earthquake (Acapella) []
3: Gossip - Love Long Distance (Fake Blood Remix) [Columbia]
4: Vitalic - Posion Lips [PIAS]
5: Fever Ray - Triangle Walks (Rex The Dog Remix) [Rabid]

Fractal - Jupiter & Galileo

( 42:50. 60 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded January 2010 )

Deep, outer-planets progressive house, with a hint of the Italian style.

1: Exoplanet - My Circuits Are Fading [Proton]
2: Exoplanet - Afterlife [Proton]
3: Exoplanet - Clouds [Proton]
4: John Debo & Steve Porter - Deported [Bedrock]
5: Marc Mitchell - Souls On Board [Proton]
6: Sasha - Three Little Piggies [emFire]
7: Luke Chable - Melburn (Amb Bee En Tea Mix) [Bedrock]

Fractal - JANK

( 18:30. 43 MB mp3 @ 320 kbps. Recorded February 2010 )

Some lazer-hop, some abstract wobbles, two top-secret remixes, with mixing somewhere between mixtape and masterful.

1: Missy Elliot - Pass That Dutch (Petter Remix) []
2: Jackson - Rock On [Warp]
3: Janet Jackson - Scream (Neon Tetra Remix) []
4: Flying Lotus - GNG BNG [Warp]
5: Bibio - Sugarette [Warp]
6: MIA - 20 Dollar [XL]

Fractal - The Weimar Republic

( 26:42. 50 MB mp3 @ 256 kbps. Recorded January 2010 )

All Kurt Weill all the time; also dusty vocals, thruming basslines, and casually decadent drums.

1: Subfractal - You [Proton Particles]
2: Phil Kieran - Don't Look Far Away [Cocoon]
3: Elkin 'Billie' Longton - My Man [Tide Pool]
4: Hrdvsion - The Mohana [Wagon Repair]
5: Paul Ritch - Evil Laugh [Wagon Repair]
6: Marshall Jefferson - Mushrooms (Justin Martin Remix) [Airtight]

Fractal - Sunreturn

( 25:29. 59 MB mp3 @ 316.769 kbps. Posted January 2009 )

Warm chords and summer vibes for cold times and climes; the sun is coming back, I promise.

1: Zoe Keating - Sun Will Set [zoekeating.com]
2: Tycho - Coastal Brake [Ghostly]
3: Bibio - All The Flowers [Warp]
4: Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue [Warp]
5: Gold Panda - Quitters Raga [Make Mine]
6: Hudson Mohawke - Polkadot Blues [Warp]
7: Three Trapped Tigers - Six [Blood and Biscuits]

Fractal - A Battle Of Flowers

( 38:54. 52 MB mp3 @ 181.187 kbps. Recorded December 23rd, 2009 )

Pastorally psychedelic dance music. I can't insist that everyone who listens this be high, but it would probably help.

0: Nathan Fake - The Curfew [Border Community]
1: Limbo - Gazing At My Shoesteps [Tide Pool]
2: Nathan Fake - Fentiger [Border Community]
3: Nathan Fake - Narrier [Border Community]
4: Rcid - 002 [Elefant]
5: Nathan Fake - Basic Mountain [Border Community]
6: Rcid - 003 [Elefant]
7: Nathan Fake - Castle Rising [Border Community]
8: Limbo - Distant From Sealong [Tide Pool]

Fractal - Deny What Makes Us Human

( 45:35. 64 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded live @ Dub Riddims 4, December 2009. )

So sideways, I kept the dubsteppers off the dancefloor. The huge gaps of ambient wash may have helped too. Just call it "cinematic", and have done with it.

1: Arnold Schoenberg - String Quartet No.2 - IV []
2: Two Fingers - Moth Rhythm [Big Dada]
3: Hybrid - Keep It In The Family [Distinctive]
4: Two Fingers - Keman Rhythm [Big Dada]
// Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna []
5: Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night [XL]
6: Limbo - Tin [Tide Pool]
//Stravinsky - Symphony Of Psalms []
7: The Beatles - Eleanor Rigby (Fractal Remix) [Tide Pool]
8: Hybrid - Everything Is Brand New [Distinctive]
9: Lostep - Theme From A Fairy Tale [GU]
10: Fractal - Oceanography [Pacific Front]
11: BT - The Antikythera Mechanism [Binary]

Fractal & Matt What - Twisp & Catsby - L...

( 79:18. 112 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. )

This is a selected hour and twenty minutes from the ridiculous five hour set that Matt and I played. We used seven decks, two mixers, a guitar, an EFX500, and a lot of rocking out. Art is by Gabe of Penny Arcade fame.

Fractal - Deathmark

( 60:00. 84 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded October 2007 )

This is a set I posted for Radioactivity on Proton Radio that turned out really well, I think. It's very current, with lots of weird techy noises and suchlike.

1: Nero - Lost (C79 Remix) [Pacific Front]
// Perc & Fractal - Up (Original Mix) [Kompakt]
2: Misstress Barbara - Barcelona (Holden Bell Dub / Holden Bass Tool) [Border Community]
3: Dapayk - Hollis (The Wolves Outside Remix) [Mo's Ferry]
// Shirt - Marksman [Tide Pool]
// Armand Van Helden - The Witch Doktor [Strictly Rhythm]
4: Roel H - The Dancing Bears [Manual]
5: Babyl-Tr0n - Responsibility (Dub Mix) [PercTrax]
6: The Sky Patrol - The Ultraviolet Catastrophe [Tide Pool]
7: Strumplasten - Laben [Mmmph]
// Strumplasten - Lunken [Mmmph]
8: Darius Bassiray - Drive By (Nubreed Remix) [Proton]
9: Robsounds - NO UNDO [Tide Pool]
// Bu - D-Bu (In Lim-Bu Remix by Limbo) []
10: Avus - SPNKR [Border Community]
// Lazy Fat People - Big City (Mirko's Tool) [Border Community]
11: Robsounds - Slashwild []
// Lazy Fat People - Big City (Mirko's Tool) [Border Community]
12: Velocirapture - Rubix [Mmmph]

Fractal - Fragile Things

( 60:01. 84 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded August 2007. )

This is a set I did for B-Sides on Proton - it’s ambient and downtempo and pretty, in roughly that order.

1: Neil Gaiman - Fragile Things (Introduction) [William Morrow]
2: Lostep - 6 AM Sedna [Global Underground]
3: Shirt - Naing [Tide Pool]
4: Antiguru - Pre-Emption [Tide Pool]
5: Neon Tetra - Surroundings [Tide Pool]
6: Shirt - Dirty Ye [Tide Pool]
7: Boards Of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat (Outro) [Warp]
8: Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day [Domino]
9: Boards Of Canada - Chromakey Dreamcoat [Warp]
10: Hills West - Hay-On-Wye [Unsigned]
11: Neon Tetra - Immure [Audio Aubergine]
12: Hills West - Watchman's Cabin Site [Unsigned]
13: Lusine - Still Frame (Lusine Remix) [Spectral Sound]
14: BT - All That Makes Us Human Continues [DTS]
15: Chris Fortier - Despegue (Fractal Ambient Mix) [FDX]
16: Limbo - Pioneer (Fractal's Verb-Tool) [Tide Pool]
17: Dustin H - Receive The Light (Fractal's Photons Are Data Mix) [Pacific Front]
18: BT - Dynamic Symmetry [DTS]
19: Hermann & Kleine - Hello, This One Is For You [Morr Music]

Fractal - Pretty Fishes

( 54:27. 45 MB mp3 @ 112 kbps. Recorded September 2006. )

The first of the Tide Pool mix series, full of strange & wonderful tracks from the label.

1: Blake Jarrel - Sluggish [Tide Pool]
2: Shirt - Naing [Tide Pool]
3: Antiguru - Things Get Better [Tide Pool]
4: Limbo - Pioneer (Fractal's Verb-Tool) [Tide Pool]
5: Betamax Warriors - Blart Runner [Tide Pool]
6: Betamax Warriors - Diode (New Watch) [Tide Pool]
7: Russian Linesman - Talon (Tundra Remix) [Tide Pool]
8: Mendel - We Want To Be Free [Tide Pool]
9: Robsounds - Aah [Tide Pool]
10: Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy (Blake Jarrell Remix) [Tide Pool]
11: Russian Linesman - Loki [Tide Pool]
12: Fractal - The Tiger [Tide Pool]

Fractal - A Ritual Of Doors

( 76:19. 107 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded May 2006. )

A danceable and multifaceted demo mix, with awesome techno, thooming progressive, snappy electro, and so on.

1: AFK - Eclipse (Fractal's Transit of Venus) [Pacific Front]
2: AFK & Dustin H - Cascadia [Emote]
3: Peres & Petersky - Silent Moment [Aurium]
4: Fairmont - Gazebo (Tool) [Border Community]
5: Spada - I Love Acid (Tundra Remix) [Mmmph]
6: Petter - Saw The Sine [Manual]
7: Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone (Qbical Dub) []
8: Robsounds - SCSI Liquid [Tide Pool]
9: Caleb Fox - Play [Tide Pool]
10: Lostep - Because We Can [GU]
11: Andy Page - Serpent [Blueprint]
12: Pob & Taylor - Aura [Bedrock]
13: Group Therapy - Thumbsucker [Audiotherapy]

Fractal - All Tomorrows Parties

( 60:29. 87 MB mp3 @ 195.728 kbps. Recorded October 2005. )

A set for Pacific Front Sessions on Proton that turned out really, really well. Any excuse you can get to put Beatles and Sigur Ros and Leftfield into a set is a good excuse.

1: The Beatles - It's All Too Much [Apple]
2: Caribou - I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life [Leaf]
3: The MFA - Rinse Time [Bpitch Control]
4: Torley Wong - Xristophan (Fair & Masiello Remix) [Alternative Route]
5: BCML - Mr. Horowitz (Way Out West Remix) [Silver Planet]
6: Libra - Calling Your Name (Fractal Will Call You Back) [Tide Pool]
7: Chable & Fernandez - Before You Beat My Box [M Theory]
8: Leftfield - Inspection [Hard Hands]
9: Sigur Ros - Intro/Milano/Hufupukar (Fractal's Medley Edit) [Geffen]
10: Habersham - MEHS [Audiotherapy]
11: Rouzbeh Delavri - Soup [Maris Music]
12: Royal Assassin - Timing & Precision (Fractal's Dark Ritual) [Inaspace]
13: Santiago Nino - Circuit [Precinct]
14: Hybrid - Lights Go Down, Knives Come Out [Distinctive]

Fractal - Star Eater

( 76:46. 111 MB mp3 @ 198.14 kbps. Recorded January 2005. )

A hugely ambitious posted set, complete with piano interlude, classical, and so on.

1: The Rapture - Sister Saviour (Tiefschwarz Remix) [Output]
2: The Operators - Furball (Original Mix) [Lobotomy]
3: Rowan Blades & Chris Lake - Filth (Andy Page Remix) [Alternative Route]
4: The Operators - Furball (Marscruiser Remix) [Lobotomy]
5: Britney Spears - Breathe On Me (Holden Dub) []
6: Moby - We Are All Made Of Stars (Timo Maas Remix) [Mute]
7: Buds Not Bombs - Deladio (Infusion Exorcism Dub) [Baroque]
8: Black Pearl - Rouge Noir [4:20]
9: The MFA - Sphinx [Precinct]
10: Adam Beyer - Remainings III (DK Mix 2) [Drumcode]
11: Holst - Mars, The Bringer Of War []
12: James Holden - Horizons (Torley's Pianomental Cover) []
13: BMEX - Apollonia [Union City]
14: Steve May - Blend Forty-3 (Luke Chable & Steve May Remix) [Baroque]
15: Robsounds - Moya Zenya []
16: Yilmaz Altanhan - Eighties [Ajuna]
17: Mathew Jonson - Followed By Angels [ISWIS]
18: Lucid - Sine In [Epsilon Lab]
19: Rex The Dog - I Look Into Mid Air [Kompakt]
20: Antiguru - Things Get Better (Fractal's Outro Pass) [Tide Pool]
21: Lustral - Everytime (Red Jerry Mix) [Hooj]

Fractal - Leviathan

( 75:19. 106 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded September 2004. )

This was a demo mix for friday nights at the Lotus in Vancouver. It wasn't housey enough for them, but it's darn fine none the less.

1: Naveen G - Keeper Of 5 [M Theory]
2: Blake Jarrell & Starkid - Apricot [3beat Breaks]
3: Habersham & Numinous - Leaving Tifton [Blueprint]
4: Vangelis - Blush Response [EastWest]
5: Quest - Bitter & Twisted (Luke Chable's Dirty Funktrain Mix) [Vapour]
6: Descent - Gravity Drop [Fade]
7: Gwill Morris - Time [Skyline]
8: Holden - A Break In The Clouds (Beats Tool) [Border Community]
9: Volo - Have No Fear Of Falling []
10: Vapourspace - Gravitational Arch Of 10 [Plus 8]
11: Chris Fraser - Flashpoint (Trendroid Remix) [Release]
12: Nathan Fake - Adamedge [Saw]
13: Kris B - Last Minute Flight [Teknology]
14: Trafik - Your Light (Luke Chable 4.4 Remix) [GU]
15: Breeder - Tyrantanic (Slacker's Kingdom Come Mix) [RSR]
16: Powerplant - Turn It Into Gold (Madoka Remix) [Deep]

Fractal - Down To A Sunless Sea

( 68:28. 96 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded August 2003 )

An old, super-deep set that's still one of my favorites.

1: Kumulus - Cloud Chaser (String Mix) [Electric Soul]
2: Holden - A Break In The Clouds [Border Community]
3: Medway & Sean Cusick - Neutrix [Saw]
4: Yunus Güvenen - Opus 34 [Bedrock]
5: Hybrid - Out Of The Dark [Distinctive]
6: Momu - The Dive (Jondi & Spesh Remix) [Looq]
7: Bedrock - Forge (Orignal Mix) [Bedrock Breaks]
8: James Holden - One For You (Avus' One For The Heads Mix) [Silver Planet]
9: Bedrock - Forge (Fretwell Mix) [Bedrock Breaks]
10: Hiatus - Tactile (Christian West Breakz Mix) [Pacifica]
11: Fractal - Steppin' Razor (Outro Pass) [Tide Pool]

Fractal - Communist Robots

( 53:58. 76 MB mp3 @ 192 kbps. Recorded February 2003. )

Pure, unadulterated silly dance music, complete with a ridiculous fore-spin (is that even a word?) and an accapella talking about penises.

1: Hakan Lidbo - Wall To Wall [Horehaus]
2: Mike Monday - T.F.D.T. [Whoop!]
3: Zoo Brazil - One Day (Laid Remix) [Cuba]
4: Petter - Freak & Love [Deep Focus]
5: Joey Beltram - Energy Flash [Transmat]
6: Steve Lawler - Lost [Subversive]
7: Deetron - Velocity (Adam Beyer Remix) [Phont Music]
8: Chable & Bonnici - Ride [Alternative Route]
9: Mauro Picotto & Riccardo Ferri - New Time, New Place [Primate]
10: Christiaan Kouijzer & Alex Calver - Untitled [Hydraulix]
11: One Finger - Short Dick Man (Like To Move It Mix) [BGM]
12: New Order - Blue Monday [Factory]