First guest mix of the year - DJML's Grippers' Tips!
Guest mix — DJML
Dan Letson is someone who's been present in the same online sphere as me for a long time. He had a mix series called The Globule of Non-Standard. He has his DJML releases on the likes of Jacktone and F T D. He has his Do/While series with his wife and musical partner Wonja, a sort of successor to their Herzog Hideout weekly livestream. The couple also produce as Motoko & Myers, and have released an album for Open Hand Real Flames, a 7" for Future Times as well as contributing a track to Bandcloud's 2019 compilation Missives. ON TOP OF ALL THAT, Dan maintains a blog called Grippers' Tips, "a celebration of overlooked and under-appreciated music of all kinds". Not unlike Bandcloud, he gets together music that has gone under the or a radar for any number of reasons. He finds obscure records and rips them; he seeks out brand new releases and shares purchase links. All with the same aim as me, sharing music with the world.
Last year I asked him if he would be interested in putting together a mix of music from the GT archives. We talked about it briefly and then early 2020 he sent me this. He sent me a blurb that you can read below but in short it's all self-published material found online. Pretty simply. It's extremely broad in its scope but he pulls it together for a fascinating and hugely enjoyable listen.
Bandcloud Guest Mix - January 2020 Grippers' Tips "100% Publishing" Mix
"This mix is a celebration of my favorite online-music phenomenon: the "DIY reissue." Bandcamp and other artist-centering platforms are a godsend for emerging acts, but they serve another vital role for those whose careers reach back into the pre-digital era. While deluxe vinyl reissues generate massive press for certain lost discographies, there's an entire economy of defunct labels and persistent weirdos taking their recorded history into their own hands. Expired contracts, homemade vinyl rips, and unpublished archives bringing obscure sounds from the CD era to the post-streaming 'net.
"The tracks here were originally released between 1988 and 2005 and are all available for legal gripping at the included links below."
Selected and mixed by DJML.
1. Kazumasa Hashimoto - lil
2. Electroscope - December Moods
3. Jim Horton - Simulated Winds and Cries
4. Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger - Empty Building
5. Aspen - 85%
6. Chugga - Blue Icee
7. Being - Sular One
8. Pauline Oliveros / Andrew Deutsch - Springs (Part 1)
9. Mobach - Global
10. N.Y. House'n Authority - APT 3A
11. Kruton - Pissy Brick
12. Dada Munchamonkey - Ley'ch N' Tearac
13. Mr. Projectile - Beach Toy Animals
14. Marco Passarani - Ixora
15. Wayne Folk - Old School
16. CSM - The Way
17. Horvitz Morris Previte Trio - Cheyenne
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