MIX FEELINGS: Recent Episodes
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An intermittent yet continuous series of “community” mixtapes from firefly friends scattered around the world of some of the music that is helping them think or plan or escape or simply get by in the present time...
A mix by Haduhi Szukis. For Ozzy.
Accompanying text: https://nihilistoptimism.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-minor-sabbath.html
Launching a series of experimental mixtapes adjacent to their regular radio show, Terminal Beach take us on an immersive 'deeps' listening journey into an infra-aquatic soundworld.
Untamed, unheard, unstoppable – this mixtape is a sonic memoir for the feral class: those who refuse to be tamed by the art world’s elitism and instead carve their own messy, radical spaces on the margins. This selection, mixed by Marc Garrett, accompanies his forthcoming book Feral Class, his deeply personal and political reflection on growing up working-class and creating art without permission. This mixtape channels the same raw energy, resourcefulness, humour, and rebellion.
Across 29 tracks, the mixtape threads together the DIY spirit, sly wit, and gritty determination of artists who, like Garrett, thrive outside the mainstream. Post-punk, dub, experimental pop, and outsider folk collide here: a wild dance between alienation and joy, critique and celebration. From the sardonic absurdity of The B-52’s and Ivor Cutler, to the punk defiance of X-Ray Spex, Bush Tetras, and Zounds; from the eerie elegance of Nico and Robert Wyatt, to the industrial and electronic provocations of Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, and Kraftwerk — this mixtape embodies the creativity of those who make their own rules and find beauty in the cracks of capitalism. It’s a soundtrack to spray-painting a wall, pirating a signal, staging a protest, or dancing in an abandoned hall. These are songs for the feral class: untamed, unheard, unstoppable.
A mixtape of West-African and Saharan sounds, inspired by our recent trip to Dakar.
Buon ascolto!
A new mixtape from 'Quel che resta della notte'... Buon ascolto and have a great summer!
A mixtape in tribute to the late Mark Stewart, co-founder of The Pop Group, dub-punk pioneer and sonic situationist extraordinaire.
First episode of a two-part homage to the late Ryuichi Sakamoto, techno pioneer, inspired synthesist of Eastern and Western styles of electronic avant-pop and groundbreaking soundtrack composer. Featuring music from B2-Unit, Proxima, Furyo, Playing the Piano, BGM. Insen, Left-Handed Dream, Async, Cendre, The Sheltering Sky, 12 and Beauty.
An episode in memory of Mimi Parker of Low who, like all the best souls, died way too young, but whose unique voice, the sound of hope against hope, will continue both to console and haunt us.
This is the third episode XYU BOUHE fuck the war – collaged for you from soviet and postsoviet antiwar music of all genres. This series is put together by Arkadiy Kots band – antifascist folk-punk, riot cantautore group formerly based in Moscow.
And here we will focus on Two particular authors
Galina Ustvolskaya – symphonic and camera music composer of the post World War Two period. Whose life and work was severely affected by the experience of that war. Even if she had never expressed any interest in politics or even social life, she was actually always monastically and frugally dig into her music, - her only refuge. But we can draw a clear line through the trauma of her early life during the fascist invasion in Europe and Soviet Union 80 years ago and her method of creating her music in this clearly painful way.
She herself could not apply any lable to her work, she was saying: There is no link whatsoever between my music and that of any other composer, living or dead
Critics called her a woman with the hammer for a reason, in her mature period she uses the hammer as a percussion instrument, and the octets of upright basses, and a fist-hammering technique to play grand piano.
Another feature we put in dialague with Ustvolskaya – is Egor Letov and Grazhdanskaya Oborona his flagship band. Fans of Letov are uncountable including Arkadiy Kots band ourselves. and he is referred to as a Father of Siberian Punk, which is a very specific phenomena of late soviet underground music scene. Letov died 14 years ago, he was only 42.
Here we collected for you some of the most clearly antiwar manifestation of Letov. Who in the time of war become even more required by the people who oppose the invasion of putin in Ukraine.
Buon ascolto, comrades
XYU BOUHE
A mixtape of hydraulic suspension and amniotic drift with sounds from Tenka, Tomoko Sauvage, Gurun Gurun, Perila, Pink Courtesy Phone, Isnaj Dui, Siavash Amini & Eugene Thacker, Ian William Craig, Ithaca Trio, Alexandra Spence, Federico Durand, Flora Yin-Wong, Felicia Atkinson, Giuseppe Ielasi and Toshihiko Mori.
On September 21 of 2022, after 7 months of bloody invasion of Russia in Ukraine, Putin has openly declared the full-scale war and announced a full-scale military mobilization.
This immediately led to the new wave of protests, street guerilla actions - setting on fire more and more recruitment offices, women’s uprisings.
It also brought up a very unusual wave of migration of men who consciously decided not to take part in the war. These days there’s a massive stream of war-migrants never seen in history – a somewhat reversed flux from “prosperous” Russia to the poor former-soviet south.
This chapter of MIXFEELINGS is compiled by Arkadiy Kots – an antifascist folk-punk band formerly based in Moscow. Their series of mixtapes is dedicated to the antiwar culture in Soviet and post-Soviet time\spaces.
00:01 jingle + No to War Intro {background sound -- Solvychegodsk from Krebsgang}
01:05 Arina Dovgan – Mourning for the Recruit
02:41 protests & arrests {part 1}, anti-war Movement in Russia after September 21, 2022
04:04 Lucio Morelli & Nicola Negrini – Le Deserteur
05:31 Solvychegodsk – Soldiers’ Song
09:52 Jrpjej from After the War Comes Funeral: Circassian Songs of Resistance and Sorrow 1763-1864
12:00 Masha I Medvedi – XYU BOUHE | Fuck the War
16:35 Chto Delat a sound fragment from the Canary Archives film, 2022
21:22 Krasnye Zori – Chervei [No One's Stronger than the Earthworms]
29:09 DJ Bomboklad (Werk It Rec) – Blew Raw See You
32:17 NUR Ensemble of Pamir Musicians in Moscow – Garibi
36:17 GOU – I Hate Moscow!
39:16 Sepultura – Terrritory
43:38 Aleksandr Vertinsky – On the Death of Young Soldiers
46:41 Joan Baez – Saigon Bride
49:48 Arkadiy Kots Band – Amara Terra Mia (Domenico Modugno cover)
53:31 protests & arrests {part 2}, anti-war Movement in Russia after September 21, 2022
54:39 Firefly Frequencies Outro
On the day of Jean-Luc Godard's passing (Sept. 13, 2022) we present one of the master's own superlative 'mixes', the soundtrack to episode 1b of Histoire(s) du cinéma, Une histoire seule.
In this ХУЙ ВОЙНЕ [Fuck a War] series of mixtapes, Arkadiy Kots are mixing their rage, pain, and opposition against the ongoing war, and solidarity with the peoples of Ukraine.
A Moscow-based protest-folk combat-punk band, Arkadi Kots is formed by dissident poet and translator Kirill Medvedev, social mouvements scholar and sociologist Oleg Zhuravlev, together with artist Nikolay Oleynikov.
In this mix tape the band share soviet and post-soviet anti-war evergreens from WWI, komsomol-core of the 60-70s, zastoy-punk of the 80s, and very recent anti-regime podpolye dig outs.
They also bring in some iconic anti-war anthems that have been influential and inspirational for Arkadiy Kots:
00:12 Mark Bernes - On the Night of June 22nd
02:07 Grazhdanskaya Oborona - War
04:25 Boris Vian - Le Déserteur
07:48 Arkadiy Kots Band - Follow Your Girl (Across the Border cover)
10:50 Joan Baez - Partisan
13:36 IC3PEAK - March
15:51 Dmitry Shostakovich - Symphony №7 aka Leningrad** (fragment)
20:56 Geto Boys - Fuck a War
24:24 Across the Border - Follow Your Girl
28:00 Sergey Babkin - Soldat {2022 version || Russian Warship Go Fuck Yourself}
30:40 Solvychegodsk - A Wish to All Russian Warriors
34:57 Velly Joonas - Stopp, Seisku Aeg!
39:12 KINO - I Declare My Home As [...a nuclear free zone]
41:25 Edwin Starr - War (What is Good For?)
44:24 Black Sabbath - War Pigs
52:14 Nina Hagen - The Song to Sing from the Prison (Eissler-Brecht)
54:43 TechnoPoezia - Out of Politics
57:57 KINO - Gruppa Krovi
62:00 Arkadiy Kots Band - Le Déserteur (Boris Vian cover)
- Mark Bernes -- Soviet Ukrainian Jewish singer and actor who performed some of the most poignant songs emerging from WWII;
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On the Night of June 22nd -- a song written by the amateur poet Boris Kovynev in June 1941 shortly after the Nazi Germany’s invasion on the territory of the USSR. Kovynev adapted the melody of a popular tango by Polish composer and band leader Jerzy Peterburski. In a timeline manner the song tells about the first days of invasion. The song became part of the day-to-day soviet anti-war mind-set.
Symphony №7 by Dmitry Shostakovich was premiered in August 1942 in the city of Leningrad while besieged by German and Finnish military forces (1941-1943).
A new mixtape from What is Left of the Night to all fireflies...
Sun Ra - Cosmo Enticement
Andrea Penso - Oh! Uomo (Parte I)
Zoviet France - Wood Shock
Satomimagae - Numa
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Movement 6
Cinéma Verité - Gebestmühlen
Aka Pygmy Music - Dikoboda sombe (Hut Song)
Ca Qui Parle - 2
Crass - Reality Asylum
Terminal Cheesecake - Tibetan Lift Off
Jean C. Roche - Howler Monkeys
Les Voix du Monde / Albanie - Chant Himarioçe 1
Kink Gong - hani pipa
Brannten Schnüre - Brüderchen und Schwesterchen
Jochen Arbeit, Günter Schickert & Schneider - 38°C
Organum - Dom Uss07 - Wolf 1
Roly Porter - Mass
Marvin Pontiac - I Want to Get out of Here
Dream Weapon Ritual - Ebb & Flow III
Helm - Para
Ennio Morricone - Un Uomo Da Rispettare
A journey through haunted voices, including Witch Camp, Dead Can Dance, Moor Mother & Irreversible Entanglements, Jerusalem in My Heart, Nadah El Shazly, El Mahdy Jr., Birds of Passage, Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O., Sevdaliza, Akio Suzuki, Motion Sickness of Time Travel and more and beyond…
About Death, Shamans and Boars
Dedicated to A. I. (1947-2021)
Louise Bock - Oolite / from the album ‘Abyss For Cello’
Senyawa - Sujud (Prostration) / from the album ‘Sujud’
Hendrik Singerdât - East Greenland / from the album ‘Inuit, 55 Historical Recordings’
Przewalski's Horses - 12 Experimenting at What do you call the place / from the album ‘The Devil Man’
EITR - Cicuda / from the album ‘Antologia de Música Atípica Portuguesa’
Gil Scott-Heron - The Crutch / from the album ‘I'm New Here’
City & i.o - Fatal flower / from the album ‘Spirit Volume’
Kim Kashkashian - Satie, Ogive No. 2 / from the album ‘Rothko Chapel - Morton Feldman / Erik Satie / John Cage’
FLF - I Z C O P O C Z I / from the album ‘INVOCATION DES CELLULES-MAISONS POUR CONJURER L'ETOUFFEMENT’
Ahmed Malek and Flako - tape 23 track 6 / from the album ‘ The Electronic Tapes’
Aki Onda - I'll Be Your Mirror / from the album ‘ Bon Voyage
Alessandra Novaga - April 21 / from the album ‘ Should Have Been a Gardener ‘
Carla Boregas / M Takara - Linha De Agua / from the album ‘ Elipse’
Celestial Trax - Serpent Power / from the album ‘ Serpent Power’
latifa punk - i know a few / from the album ‘ broken breaths’
Savotchka - Ne Dui Mari Vetre (field Work Song) / from the album ‘ Columbia Anthology of Bulgarian Folk Music’
Benedikt Frey - DIVer / from the album ‘Artificial’
Nishimura Alimoti - Inkasanka / from the album ‘Vanity Tapes (Vanity Records)’
Tolerance - Osteo-Tomy / from the album ‘Vanity Box (Vanity Records)’
1997EV - Ologramatic / from the album ‘ Love Symposium Alien Spider'
K. S. Narayana Ayyengar - Mokshamu Galadha, Pt 1 (Saramathi) / from the album ‘ Excavated Shellac-An Alternate History of the World's ‘
9T Antiope - In Hiatus / from the album ‘Grimace’
all n4tural - burning dubness / from the album ‘burning palms’
+ Ethiopie (Guji) - Chant De Rite De Passage / from the album ‘ Les Voix Du Monde - Une Anthologie Des Expressions Vocales
+ Monks of the Thami Monastery - Moulin à prières / from the album ‘ Musique rituelle tibétaine’
Nora Keyes & The Rococo Jet - Violet Flame / from the album ‘ Mysterium Tremens’
L'ORO DEL RENO - Delta del Reno / from the album ‘INVOCATION DES CELLULES-MAISONS POUR CONJURER L'ETOUFFEMENT’
ai yamamoto - dreaming of swim / from the album ‘ Melatonin Meditations on Sound in Sleep’
K'umangâpik - North Greenland & Canada / from the album ‘Inuit, 55 Historical Recordings’
ACC #1
A willingly maritime selection, from mediterranean meditative to postdigital broken to ridiculous, by Flora Pitrolo.
First broadcast on Skopje’s Kanal 103 in June 2021.
Tracklist:
Pavel Milyakov - Odessean Night Sea
Saskia/Marinada - Lips Get Hot/Kristalno Jasno
Cucina Povera - Tuuli pajuissa
Spivak - Σχεδόν Σίγουρα (with HforSpirit)
Spivak - Μετά Το Ρέιβ
OVOD - Road to the Sea
Gamayun - 12th Melody
Restive Plaggona - Untitled
Restive Plaggona - Untitled
Rosa Damask - Memorials
Wlasyslaw Trejo - Tranzyt W
The Innocence of Crime - Phantoms Of Fear
oozini - air
Scan Lines - Scan Lines
Maria erre - Une bataille sans fin
OVOD - Alley of Cubes
NIGULESUGCI - Intro
Zhe Pechorin - My Sunsets
Gerstein - w.b.
An FFF homage to the late great Lee "Scratch" Perry in the company of the Upsetters, The Congoes, Augustus Pablo, Junior Murvin, The Meditations, Dub Syndicate and Prince Jazzbo>
A mixtape in homage to Texan singer-songwriter and folk-poet Nanci Griffith who passed on Friday August 13, featuring some of her finest songs, along with interpretations of the work of friends, accomplices and inspirations (John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Bill Staines, Tom Waits, Joan Baez), songs that have stayed with us over the years and that continue to work their magic in some of the overlooked corners of our lives. (GT & SM).
This tentative "soundtrack" consists of a series of recordings made during the lockdown on a balcony in Berlin Kreuzberg, in which ambient sounds from the outside meet diegetic music, playing inside the apartment as part of the acoustic reality of the non-fictional setting.
Pt. 2 features music by Waxahatchee, Cassandra Jenkins, Karima Walker, Fuvk, Marika Hackman, Lana Del Rey, U.S. Girls, Death Grips, Sophie and others.
Featuring music from Death Chants, Tanz Mein Herz, Senyawa, S. Kelly, AIR Krew, Rendeece, Hiiragi Fukuda, Merchants, Tomutonttu, 9T Antiope, Ghédalia Tazartès, Birchville Cat Motel and more
UNE ECLIPSE TOTALE DE SOLEIL
[A Shamanistic Ritual For Ghédalia Tazartès, 1947-2021]
We join our friends at Epsilonia in sharing this homage, mixed by Samon Takahashi, to "unclassifiable" experimental musician and avant-folk troubadour, Ghédalia Tazartès who passed in February. Including tracks by GOL, Ghédalia Tazartès, Reines D'Angleterre - Globe Et Dynastie, Franco Battiato, John Bender and more.
This mixtape combines elements of doom-fem, back to folk, back to the land, back to minimal, back to the ground, and under the ground. In Krasnye Zori's own words:
"Our mixtape consists in one-third of our friends' compositions and the St. Petersburg underground scene significant for us (Techno-Poetry, Borisov|Borisov, and Studio of Unconscious Music among others); an other third is taken from famous Western and Russian bands that inspired and formed us (from Grazhdankaya Oborona to Janis Joplin and Coil; Portishead to C.C.C.P. and Lingua Ignota); and for the last third, we used tracks from our first album.
There's no one stronger than the earthworms, comrades!"
Krasnye Zori is a fem-trip-punk electronic duo who occasionally expand into a five-piece live band. Their name translates from Russian as Red Dawns and they hail from a little-known railway station near Peterhof, on the outskirts of St Petersburg where trains rarely stop.
The musical approach of Krasnye Zori mixes field recordings, beats, and synthesizers. Their latest experiments include invented instruments made of found objects and throat singing, as well as a powerhouse punk-rock rhythm section.
A Lockdown Road Trip Mixtape from Radio Zen (Oscar Marletta) featuring the following Weirdos & Misfits: Badgewearer, Dub Syndicate, Ron Geesin, Ivor Cutler, The Bohman Brothers, Kill Pretty, 23 Skidoo, Peter Manson, David Munrow & The Early Music Consort of London, Qa'a, International Harvester, Keiji Haino & Fushitsusha, My dead parents, Dominic Cummings and Lord Garmadon
This tentative "soundtrack" consists of a series of recordings made during the lockdown on a balcony in Berlin Kreuzberg, in which ambient sounds from the outside meet diegetic music, playing inside the apartment as part of the acoustic reality of the non-fictional setting.
Part 1. featuring music by Silver Jews, Waxahatchee, The Modern Lovers, Nena, Alphaville, Spacemen 3, Moor Mother, The Cure, Grouper and Nico.
An eclectic mixtape from Carlo Santabinder that takes us on a wild ride from communal singalong to intimate psych-folk tremblings to dream pop, post-industrial electro, abstract glitch-hop and post-punk synth-noise apocalypse. Among those on the trail are Nathan Fake, Otto von Schirach, Grim Grim, The Red Krayola and Connan Mockasin.
A second night walk following the sonorities of "Quel che resta della notte" including Charles Bukowski, Rella the woodcutter, Wondrous Horse, Felicia Atkinson, Hiiro Issiki, The Linear A experiment, Ricardo Donoso, Trio Elettrico Mesa, Shackleton & Waclaw Zimpel, Opaque and much more…
Quel che resta della notte (aka Jene nella Notte)
Jene nella Notte nasce nel 2005 su Radio Blackout dall’incontro di Jena e Walter. Partendo dalla grande passione per la musica psichedelica e per le alterazioni degli stati di coscienza, JNN cerca di creare un flusso sonoro costante dove gli ascoltatori e le ascoltatrici possano perdersi e lasciarsi andare all’esperienza sonora pura.
Nel corso degli anni ci siamo avvicinati a generi diversi, mantenendo sempre una tensione sperimentale e abbandonandoci sempre di più ad atmosfere cupe, notturne ed oniriche - mescolando la psychedelia del rock a quella del post punk, il free jazz alla musica tribale, l’elettronica sperimentale al drone ed al noise.
ARCHIVES RADIO BLACKOUT
https://radioblackout.org/shows/jene-nella-notte/
In the company of the rarified sounds of Coil, Tuxedo Moon, Ellen Akbro, Fire Toolz and others, painter Giuseppe Adamo takes us on a walk on the dark side, down an overgrown path where liminal shadow-voices, celestial drones and sudden noise bursts give rise to strange, intoxicating blooms.
Image: Giuseppe Adamo, "False memory of a hindu temple" (2019; acrilico su tela, 190 x 130 cm)
As part of his 'double agent' persona, painter and performance artist Vassilis Salpistis cycles and wanders alongside Canal de l'Ourcq (Paris) playing sad Greek songs on his mobile phone, the sound occasionally buffeted by the wind and passing trains or boats.
A somnambulant trip through the sonorities of Wondrous Horse, Felicia Atkinson, Hiiro Issiki, The Linear A experiment, Teddy, Ricardo Donoso, Metal preyers, Sonja Tofik, Robert Turman, Trio elettrico Mesa, Angellis Taliuu, Shackleton & waclaw zimpel, Opaque, Boden, Gavilan Rayna Russom and much more...
Quel che resta della notte (aka Jene nella Notte)
Jene nella Notte nasce nel 2005 su Radio Blackout dall’incontro di Jena e Walter. Partendo dalla grande passione per la musica psichedelica e per le alterazioni degli stati di coscienza, JNN cerca di creare un flusso sonoro costante dove gli ascoltatori e le ascoltatrici possano perdersi e lasciarsi andare all’esperienza sonora pura.
Nel corso degli anni ci siamo avvicinati a generi diversi, mantenendo sempre una tensione sperimentale e abbandonandoci sempre di più ad atmosfere cupe, notturne ed oniriche - mescolando la psychedelia del rock a quella del post punk, il free jazz alla musica tribale, l’elettronica sperimentale al drone ed al noise.
ARCHIVES RADIO BLACKOUT
https://radioblackout.org/shows/jene-nella-notte/
Kicking off our new series of community mixtapes, artist, musician and mixologist Samon Takahashi, co-founder of the legendary experimental radio show Epsilonia, brings us the first of two mixes conjured from the eerie atmosphere of lockdown while seeking surreal, at times irreverent flight from the first international "assignation au domicile". Woven from titles related to ideas and sensations of infection or contamination, Pandemix (Post-Intubation Chill-out - Synth Wave Art Rock Electronic Noise Experiments) includes tracks by Graeme Revell, Toru Takemitsu, Nocturnal Emissions, Gabor Darvas, Psychic TV and more.
See also
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https://www.mixcloud.com/soundarchives_epsiloniamix/