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Sound Contours
by Benito Sinclair
Themed mixes for the heads.
Episodes
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Ep. 40 – Entrance Music (Spencer Owen)
For the first time ever, a special guest selector takes over the Sound Contours decks: Fresh off the release of Logo Dubs, Spencer Owen’s album of original music for Sight Lines Visual, the LA-based composer-producer has concocted an entrancing set of influential tracks and selected inspirations...
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Ep. 39 – Arrow Through Me
Big ’70s sounds for getting swept away — Whether by love or lust, joy or jealousy, or even just the sounds themselves. Tracklist: Supertramp – Lady, Wings – Arrow Through Me, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles, Lion – You’ve Got A Woman, Charles Stepney –…
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Ep. 38 – Soft Millennial
Soak in a smooth 21st century comfort blend aligning voices from indie, pop, R&B and electronica, all vibing on the Sade/Enya/Prefab Sprout/”fourth world” edges of the sonic multi-sided die. Tracklist: Body-San – Koko Chats Online, Nite Jewel – Real High, Toro Y Moi – No Show, Kendrick Lamar &...
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Ep. 37 – Shifty Atmospheric Post Rock & Jazz Shit
As advertised: A cosmic blend for the epic cool off so desperately needed between our ears, now and always. Sit within a vast interior and take in the rich atmosphere. Tracklist: Pan-American – The Cloud Room, Triosk & Jan Jelinek – Neckless, Isotope 217 – Le Jeteé, Bennie Maupin – Ensenada,...
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Ep. 36 – Curiously Slick Art Rock Styles
Enjoy deep grooves and progressive rock riddims selected from ’70s and ’80s art rock artists across the UK, Japan, America, Brazil, and Italy. The smooth lilt, driving pulse and spacey production touches of dub reggae, the sublime syncopation of funk, the soft timbres of mallet instruments and...
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Ep. 35 – The Things You Notice
Your curt shots / Sarcastic remarks come so often / They’re never sincere / Darker amusement sets in / That’s the problem / You’re saying something and my eyes open wider / There’s someone identical / Far away from here / Our love settles down into soft sweet sounds / You’re that one I lost and…
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Ep. 34 – Bounce Dial
Stretch out and lose your sense of time with a mix blending beat-making and the avant-garde. The bounce dial turns until a near-dissolution of rhythm, before returning to earth with hot drumming and sublime ambience until the finish. Keep bouncing. Tracklist: Califone – Outro, Dabrye – How Many...
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Ep. 33 – Pilsen Spring
Sounds of rebirth and renewal in a cool register, from artists and labels associated with Chicago, LA and far beyond, made during my first Spring in the windy city after moving from LA. A cumbia mix would have been equally appropriate to Pilsen, but in an ode to the sensations given by Chicago’s...
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Ep. 32 – Endless
And so we return and begin again. Tracklist: Kraftwerk – Endless Endless, The New Year – The End’s Not Near, It’s Here, Chicago Underground Quartet – Total Recovery, Thom Yorke – Atoms For Peace – Four Tet Remix, James Blake, Bon Iver – I Need A Forest Fire, A Grape Dope – Rats It’s Up – Laetitia...
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Ep. 31 – Last Patios
The lounge chair’s in the right place. Most of the umbrella’s still standing. It’s everything else that’s gone. Bid farewell to civilization with this dramatic mix of post-nuclear lounge tunes — a fantasia of slunk grooves, dramatic orchestral arrangements and exotic percussion. Join me for our...
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Ep. 30 – Passage
The only way out is through. Wild Gems III will get you there. Tracklist: Roger Roger and Nino Nardini – Strange Motion (Nature Nocturne), Los Amaya – Bailen Mi Rumbita, Indian Rope – Purple Mania, Ike Mathews – African Feeling, Erkin Koray – Karli Daglar, Goat – Try My Robe, Wadih Essafi –…
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Ep. 29 – Mind Train
Mind Train aka Wild Gems II picks up where the first Wild Gems left off, taking us further down the stoney path through a vibrant and concerted wilderness of psych, exotica and eclectic international rock records. Tracklist: Budapest Radio Orchestra – The Lights of Hong Kong, Yoko Ono –…
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Ep. 28 – Thai Town
Enjoy a mix of vintage Luk Thang 45s, ripped from a stack of singles brought over from Thailand by our cousin and good friend Matthew Baker. Here’s the best hour of material — I try to provide an authentic rendering of each disc, while avoiding the harsher surface noise, clicks, and scratches…
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Ep. 27 – Home Furnishing
House music for the nest: These selections of micro, minimal, lo-fi, glitch, ambient and deep house hang together like insulating drapes — subtle head music heaving and pulsing in the stillness of a calm room, with steady, four-on-the-floor background beats and tightly knit bass lines that like…
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Ep. 26 – Athleisure
Euphoric vibes, sculpted tones and melodic (at times challenging) beats converge for a brisk tour through the industrial cyberpark of tomorrow. The hoverboard has its soundtrack. Tracklist: Yasuaki Shimizu – Tachikawa, Radiohead – I Am Citizen Insane, Rival Consoles – Morning Vox, Ada – You and…
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Ep. 25 – Herd Instinct
It’s the sound of momentum: Hand drums, mallet instruments and mesmeric beats cut an exotic path through the worlds of global electronica and avant-garde techno. Tracklist: You’re Me – Walled Garden, Mestre Geraldo E Su Bateria – Mistura #2, Don’t DJ – Evolve, Black Merlin – Reef Play, Tyondai...
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Ep. 24 – Damp II
The second of two mixes compiling excellent 2016 instrumental music, fashioned for wet weather and a cool state of mind. This one’s got (somewhat) more of a rock bent. Enjoy. Tracklist: So Percussion – Drumkit Quartet No. 51 (Chicago Realization), Thor Harris – 12 Ate, Anna Meredith –…
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Ep. 23 – Damp I
The first of two mixes compiling excellent 2016 instrumental music, fashioned for wet weather and a cool state of mind. Tracklist: Mica Levi and Oliver Coates – Mob of Waters, Olof Melander – Travelers, Body-San – Voices 1, Foodman – Waterfall, Barnaby Carter – Cold Weather Warm Soul, You’re Me –...
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Ep. 22 – Period Piece
My mood at the end of an era. This Best Of 2016 mix offers neither the very best songs nor representation for the very best albums of 2016. Instead it condenses some of the year’s very best tracks from some of the year’s best albums into a cloud of sentiment–a Top 40 mix defined by its vintage,...
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Ep. 21 – Beat Yield
It’s 35 swag beats from 34 of my favorite producers this year. All 2016 everything. Shitty year; awesome sounds. Reap the harvest. Tracklist: Parks Burton – dlab1, Four Tet – Evening Side (Oneohtrix Point Never edit), Nicola Cruz – Invocacion, GOALS – Sugar Crush, Brother Mynor – david duchovny...
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Ep. 20 – Cocoon
Lose yourself in an atmosphere of allied electronic artistry, from collaborators in turn-of-the-millennium Japan. Cocoon (“Maju” in Japanese) features work by artists who played in Audio Sports, Maju, Neina, Hosomi, Kangaroo Paw and Synapse — with particular focus on musicians Aki Onda and Sakana...
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Ep. 19 – Trattoria Tastes
Keigo Oyamada’s vibrant Trattoria Records, a Polystar-owned imprint that lasted from 1991 to 2002, stood out among the core labels of Tokyo’s Shibuya-kei scene. It also provided a home to Oyamada’s brilliant Cornelius project, in which counterpoint, syncopation and sampling invaded — nay,...
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Ep. 18 – Childisc Outbursts
A small label run by Nobukazu Takemura in Kyoto from 1994 to 2007, Childisc was subtly groundbreaking. Takemura was at the cutting edge: beyond just granular synthesis, his output randomizers affected melody, his glitches (the sounds of ordered processes going awry) became pleasant listening…
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Ep. 17 – Global Antenna
On this global bass mix, energy is central: Rhythms of the Afro-latin world are brought together in a transatlantic call-and-response between Africa, Europe, South and Central America — a swirl of synthetic and acoustic beats, a weaving of sampled and recorded voices, a synthesis of roots and...
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Ep. 16 – Coastin’
Holographic sounds for a Schwinn Beach Cruiser. Make the bike path glow. Tracklist: Bop – Fragments, Weval – You Made It (Part I), Al Dobson Jr. – Vibration, Armadillo – Aves del Valle, Don’t DJ – Southern Shore, The Invisibles – Wing, John Wizards – Leuk, Seiho – DO NOT LEAVE WET, Jose Larralde…
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Ep. 15 – High Summer
Ambient heat and luminescent drones from contemporary artists and composers for bathing in the light ecstatic or brooding in the blinding sun. On this episode, tons of 2016 tracks are featured alongside seldom heard classics, all by thinkers who truly know how to focus their (and our) senses....
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Ep. 14 – Let It Hit
Feel it. Tracklist: Pharaohs – Beyond Within, Musiccargo – Sol Lucet Omnibux, Jib Kidder – Remove a Tooth, The Chemical Brothers – Dream On, Flamingods – Yuka, Morgan Delt – Little Zombies, Animal Collective – Graze, Nice Nice – Big Bounce, Dalhous – Bolder and Lighter Than the Beat from a Wing,...
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Ep. 13 – Building Brains
Last in the Dutch Waves series, Building Brains is a post-punk mix for the open mind. Holland’s contributions to post-punk were restlessly creative and aesthetically experimental: industrial noise, synthesizers, modern classical, dub and krautrock grooves all made an impact. You might hear an...
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Ep. 12 – Short Memories
Wild, uptempo post-punk slammers from Holland in the ’80s. If the spirit of Dutch new wave can be captured in a single mix of dark, eccentric party tracks? Here’s your candidate. Tracklist: Kiem – Short Memories, Das Ding – H.S.T.A., De Div – Walk, Güler – Princess Parade, La Voix Qui Rit – Huba...
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Ep. 11 – Chase Horizons
New wave poses. Art rock techniques. Cyberpunk poetry. Gothic moods. Alien synths. Caterwauling guitars. Scrap yard funk. Tractor tire basslines. Abandoned factories. It’s post-punk, it’s’ Holland, it’s the 80s. Tracklist: Mecano – Autoportrait, The Tapes – March, Coitus Int. – Bonanza, Nine...
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Ep. 10 – Magic
It’s magic. Tracklist: D/P/I – Dead Hearts, Durlin Lurt – Magic, Knxwledge – BuildMyWrld[ArowndJew], J Dilla – So Far To Go (Instrumental), Bullion – You Still Believe In Dee, Charles Trees – Memories, Gobby – Immortality, Sharpshooters – Don’t Turn Away, FloFilz – Paramahansa, mieksneak. –…
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Ep. 9 – Cinemascope Patio
Rum punch from a coconut. Plastic hula skirts. Vivid fantasies. More dreamy 70mm music, tuned in to terra-cotta tiles, potted palms and those infinity pools behind your eyelids. Many thanks to the incredible Exotica 45s project and of course astral exploration affionado Flash Strap for pointing…
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Ep. 8 – Shoreline Daydream
Don your rose-colored glasses as the beach vibes flourish on this hypnagogic springtime mix, and let yourself traverse a coastal trail of cooled out beats, rich chords and pleasant, sunny textures. Tracklist: Hammafest – Wunderer, Sweet Valley – Bros Beyond, The Avalanches – Since I Left You...
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Ep. 7 – Diction
SC’s second modern classical episode focuses on the dynamic between words, other mouth-made sounds and music. Talking, spoken word, speech as composition, speech in composition, lyrics sung as if meant to be spoken, poetry: It’s all here. Let the language (and lack thereof) wash over you in a…
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Ep. 6 – Wild Gems
The first in our percussion-heavy Wild Gems series, this episode is an exotic time travel odyssey taking place between 1959 to 2012, visiting tons of great moments in hard funk, psych rock and groovy Latin music along its journey. Selections hail from the international psychedelic continuum, and...
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Ep. 5 – Groundhog Suite
The second in our Electronic(a) series, this tasty 90-minute installment of diverse electronic gems is sure to dislocate listeners to a whole new season. Tracklist: Penguin Cafe Orchestra – The Snake and the Lotus (The Pond), Illangelo – Shattered Paradise, Ccolo – Peace Me Babi Dub, Anchorsong –...
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Ep. 4 – Furniture Music
I’m excited to share a new mix I’ve curated with dublab for the organization’s upcoming event Sleepless: The Music Center After Hours at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. This set traverses many eras, weaving together decades in an exhibition of classical ambient music’s various roots...
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Ep. 3 – Snow Globe
Fire up your eardrums with some essential cuts of global electonica, alternative pop, and other sounds from around the world. Tracklist: Mexican Institute of Sound – Cumbia Meguro, Souleance – Secoue, The Very Best – Guju Guju, M.I.A. – Space, The 2 Bears – Muizenberg (Remix), Armadillo – Neón,...
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Ep. 2 – Nocturnes
Launch head-first into 100-minutes of nocturnal beats and compositions, all hailing from 2015. Tracklist: Jun Miyake – Mad Funny Balance Town, Nosaj Thing – Uv3, sealab 2012 – long. too long, El Mahdy Jr. – B Side (Excerpt), Shigeto – Do My Thing, Arca – Front Load, Puto Anderson & Deejay NinOo...
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Ep. 1 – Electronic(a)
Enter a 2-hour set of songs, sounds and surprises. Tracklist: George Delerue – Capri, DJ Raff – Sudakaizbeautiful, Flying Lotus – Camera Day, Caribou – Silver, Gobby – Quickie, Harbour – Heartbeat (Prettymuch), Spectre – Black Abstract Italiano, Lifted – Medicated Yoga, Clark – Com Re-Touch /...
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