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Yesss! What a joy.

you are very welcome.

is Are People People? (On-U Sound Pt.1) available anywhere to stream?

ah, i see it is not online anymore. here you go - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/NZG5bAWsNy

many thanks for this stirmonster.
what's that ?
oh, just some dust in my eye.
i genuinely love that you can hear dennis loud and proud throughout.

ooops : my post was re the silly games edit, not the on-u mixtape.

just coming here to say how much I've been enjoying the Tafi & Green Door Allstars album, I am giving u official US radio plays via Spinitron :)

Love that Silly Games version! Thanks again.

Thanks Stirmonster, you are a genuine legend

yr all welcome and cheers sleeve!

d/l numbers are an interesting insight into no. of lurkers here.

Guilty as charged.

likewise

Good news and bad news!

New Optimo monthly mixtape series!

https://optimomusic.bandcamp.com/album/ultragoth-mixtape-by-jd-twitch-2

First one is Ultragoth. Second is gonna be Japanese electronic music.

Collect all 12 and get a bonus zine.

The bad news - it just came out today and is sold out already so I’ve missed my chance :(

Don’t suppose there are any plans to make additional copies of the upcoming ones?

Edit - because I can’t add up properly there’s only 10 mixtapes, one for each remaining month of 2021. Also Twitch sez on Bandcamp there will be some available at Boomkat - no sign of them on there yet

Booomkat won't get them until next week so probably late next week or the week after before they have them on sale.

Trying to figure out how to make this all a bit more egalitarian.

man I had no idea, these sound cool. and I get your Bandcamp updates!

Sorry, didn’t mean to sound like I’m complaining, will keep checking back on Boomkat and hopefully snag some of the forthcoming ones. Still an unexpected treat to look forward to even if I don’t get Ultragothed out.

stirmonster : i will never ever buy a cassette cos i hated the format even when it was a necessary evil, but i would love to see a tracklisting ?

You get the track listing in the zine if you collect the set. I’d imagine that the listing might end up online at the end of the year

Oh! No need to apologise, I am using your worlds,; you didn't sound like you were complaining! :)

cos i hated the format even when it was a necessary evil,

i loved the format, then hated it, and have fallen in love with it again after recently finding an old personal stereo in a drawer and taking up lockdown walking marathons.

tape comes without a tracklisting so i haven't typed it out yet but will give you a shout when i have.

a few folk said they didn't see the update, sleeve. odd.

here's the audio if anyone wants it - https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/RGpeDPx2wE

shhhh!

;-)

Oh God <3

Off to change into all black clothing

Oh God <3

Off to change into all black clothing

bloody hell, did not expect that sir stirmonster.
love-n-hugs.
xx

Oh god thank you s(t)ir!

Trying to figure out how to make this all a bit more egalitarian.

🖤🖤

Thanks for the download link, loving this

Especially happy to hear the cover of Final Solution that you played before the Martin Rev show at the ABC about five years ago. I've tried to hunt that down a few times without success.

I was about to say you must be mistaken as it's much more recent than that but it is indeed about 5 years old. Timewarp! It's by John Duncan.

Thanks for thre feedback willem. Definitely going to take it on board and passed that on to the cycling cap dept. too.

💪 cap went on sale on Saturday morning and I capped one. Can't wait to test how it'll improve my rhythm uphill ;)

this (digital) tape! Thanks for sharing!

Isn't it great how this crazy time we're living in has pushed you to reacquaint with old and overlooked joys like long walks and Walkmen? I've found increased pleasure in bike rides, an old Yamaha QY70 pocket workstation and drawing like a madman.

yes thanks very much for sharing Stirmonster, listening now, it's creepy!

FFS I missed the Boomkat copies as well, their updates come at 2 AM my time

ah, sorry about that. still contemplating doing another run.

I’d been checking Boomkat every day and managed to miss their copies too!

here's the audio if anyone wants it - shhhh!

I knew there was a reason I just checked back in to ILM. I don't have a tape player but I feel the urge to get a hard copy just because of the bespoke case design!

Hollow Hills is the ultimate goth song in my book, I'd be interested to find out what the song immediately after that is.

I couldn't keep that display name for this thread...

the one immdeiately after is this (which will possibly take on a different significance if the listener grew up in Britain).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCa2johwTDM

<3 <3 <3

Much obliged. I'm still kicking myself that I didn't get to see you play when I was in Glasgow early last year. Definitely looking forward to more in this series though!

the one immdeiately after is this (which will possibly take on a different significance if the listener grew up in Britain).

Wikipedia:

Rosa Mundi was the name of a very short-lived electronic music supergroup which consisted of Rose McDowall, John Balanceand possibly Peter Christopherson.[citation needed] The group is credited for "The Snow Man" which appeared on the compilations The Final Solstice and The Final Solstice II and the split 7" vinyl Grief. It is also credited on the song "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near" from the Coil single Winter Solstice: North, later released on Moons Milk (In Four Phases). Since both songs, "The Snow Man" and "Christmas Is Now Drawing Near", were both originally released in 1999, it can be said that this is the only year the group functioned.

However, the song "Rosa Decidua" from the 1998 Coil EP Autumn Equinox: Amethyst Deceivers, while not credited to Rosa Mundi, has exactly the same line-up.[citation needed]

Alternatively, some critics have inferred that "Rosa Mundi" is simply an alternative name for Rose McDowall, and not the name of a group at all.

This is like that time I tried to read Lanark.

Great mixes, keeping me sane working from home. Love that track after Arabian Nights on the 2nd side.

ohhh man I was feeling smart (and also warm and fuzzy) for pegging a bunch of these and then this fuckin "Lovecats" version comes on and it's like the first time I ever listened to the cool radio station all over again, love it. not even sure if I wanna know anything about this, save it for the zine :)

I swear I know that female voice from somewhere though

haha and then that's literally followed by one of the first tracks I ever heard on said "cool" radio station back in 1983 <3 <3 <3

It's the Tricky cover. I dunno who the female vocalist is though.

It's not Martina is someone called Costanza.

Really love this, btw. Thanks stirmonster.

yeah it's fab, I don't know very many of these later side B tracks

I know only 20% of it but this is amazing stuff.

What’s the song around 38 mins on side A. Voice sounds familiar but song is new to me and I’m loving that one in particular.

And that lovecats cover is also amazing

It’s been years since I heard it and didn’t make much of an impression but when paired with the other songs in here it sounds better than I remembered.