Kill Ugly Radio Presents: Stranger Than Fiction II: Equinox

This is the follow-up to my personal nostalgic romp from February. As tag-team partner to Mr. B., the other half of the so-called Octave Doctors, Equinox would take over the board at 3:30 AM or so and would play a mix of space-rock, ambient and prog-rock until the sun came up. His mostly-instrumental mix made a great soundtrack for my all-night drawing binges. It made it easier for me to visualize some of the bizarre, otherwordly stuff I’d dream up in the trance-like state that type of music was capable of. It was also the first time I was aware of the power of mixing music together to form a new composition. Eno would blend into Van Der Graaf Generator, which would morph into Peter Gabriel. Whoever the mysterious Equinox was, he certainly knew how to warp space and time with his musical selections.

Here’s an iTunes mix that I’ve been listening to for a while that is very evocative of the kind of music he would play. For the complete effect, I like to listen to this immediately after the previous STF mix when I’m desk-bound in long projects (now you know why part one ends with an intermission bit).

Playlist:

1. Kraftwerk – Nachrichten
2. Gong – Magick Mother Invocation
3. Steve Hillage - Activation Meditation/The Glorious OM Riff
4. Arthur Brown – 2024
5. Kraftwerk – It’s More Fun To Compute
6. Brian Eno – Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch/Baby’s on Fire
7. Godley and Creme - Flood
8. Peter Gabriel – At the Powerstation
9. Robert Fripp – Watermusic I
10. Peter Gabriel – Here Comes the Flood
11. Robert Fripp – Watermusic II
12. Eno and Cluster – The Belldog
13. Vangelis – To The Unknown Man
14. Jean Michel Jarre – Equinoxe Part 1
15. OMD – Architecture and Morality
16. Godley & Creme – Art School Canteen
17. King Crimson – The Sheltering Sky
18. XTC - Jason and the Argonauts
19. Talking Heads – Drugs

Download ( 90 mins. 80 megs.)

Mea Culpa

Again, so sorry for being away so long. Multiple life changes. So little time for this, too.

Plus, I am struggling with what I want to do with this space. Perhaps it will resume its original purpose; to share my original audio art, or that of like-minded comrades.

I sort of got burned out expended so much energy on putting up other people’s music. I mainly wanted to contribute to the little international community that had given me so much. I started sharing about a year ago, in the wave of 2006. I was inspired by bloggers such as Lucky, Pax Diero, MoogPower, and many, many others. Some are sadly MIA, and some have come to the same – or similar  – conclusion as I: that it takes us not only away from our creative endeavors, but often sucks us away from our friends and family in real-space.  It’s sad to see so many fine blogs under attack from deleters. I guess it’s the dark side of the share aspect raising its ugly head. I was fortunate to have received very little of that action. I think my meager little blog didn’t get as much traffic and at my peak in the summer of ought-six the deleter aspect wasn’t as prevalent.  I did get one rather snotty cease request from the commercial guardian of Mr. Arthur Brown (for his obscure and long OoP Requiem ) and one extremely polite one from Robert Fripp’s webmaster.

What have I been up to? A little local political blogging, some art, learning circuit bending, purchased a KAOSS Pad, trying for the upteenth time in  25 years to play the guitar to my satisfaction and gearing up to start freelancing in graphic design (my day job, right now).

I will probably be purging some projects that I’ve had on my back burner but were complete enough to share, so there might be a slow trickle of posts for a spell. Keep your eyes peeled.