Terrahertz

  • Mix: The Incredible Superstring Band – Funk de l’Automne

    Here are some funky electro-tech party jams from many different eras I put together in the Fall of 2023. 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s all represented. I had a lot of fun with my Roland DJ 202 sequencing a bunch of possibilities while I put together my “crate,” but ultimately mixed it in Sonic Foundry Acid (yeap it still runs). Not a single mashup here, but there are a few very extended blends.

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    1. Neon Indian – Techno Clique
    2. Kavinsky – Nightcall (Robotaki Remix)
    3. Christian Smith & John Selway – Cirriforms
    4. Photodementia – 1 Year Later
    5. Les Rythmes Digitales – Sometimes
    6. Systm – 808 Whore
    7. FM Attack – Let You Go
    8. Datassette – Mannequin On The Run
    9. Systm – Videodrone
    10. Raiders Of The Lost ARP – Workflow
    11. Photodementia – Sporobolus
    12. Siliconvortex – Ergotnomic 1
    13. Anthony Rother – Sex With The Machines
    14. Sect – Dream Circuit
    15. FM Attack – I Saw Her Dancing
    16. Quant – Soft Ice Sunshade
    17. Raiders Of The Lost ARP – Crashing
    18. Friend and Dr. Kosmos – Career Opportunities
    19. Ben Wa – Binary Mary
    20. Raiders Of The Lost ARP – Software Creations
    21. Dynamix II – Technology
    22. Datassette – Kestrel Manoeuvres In The Dark
    23. Com Truise – Declination (feat. Joel Ford)
    24. Dazz Band – Let It Whip (Extended 7″ Mix)

  • Mix: The Incredible Superstring Band – Gamut

    For the second Incredible Superstring Band mix I wanted to continue on the weird trend I’d started with the first one. What better way to get there than opening up with Pantera? And Ministry?? And then flip the whole script at the halfway point by veering off into weird bubblegum techno/gabber/I don’t even know. There are some odd moments in this one. It weirds me out to listen to it now, so I suppose that’s “mission accomplished.”

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    01) Pantera – Fucking Hostile (Kemal and Rob Data remix)
    02) Pantera – Fucking Hostile
    03) Ministry – NWO
    04) Frontline Assembly – Plasticity
    05) Klute – Autokarma
    06) AFX – Gibbon
    07) Skinny Puppy – Dig It
    08) Jega – Norton Midgate
    09) Polygon Window – Quoth (Wooden Thump mix)
    10) Frontline Assembly – Colombian Necktie (GOArge mix by Tim Schuldt)
    11) Push Button Objects – Non-Existant (Keyed In by Gescom)
    12) Bagga Worries and Jooxie Nice – Legalize (Remarc VIP remix)
    13) DMX Krew – The Arnos Groove
    14) Acen – Window In The Sky (Nino’s Brighter Day mix)
    15) Roupe – Herbie Strides Again
    16) Atomizer – Hooked On Radiation (Orange Alert mix)
    17) The Beatles – A Hard Day’s Night (The Scourge Of The Earth mix)
    18) Yaz – The Only Way Is Up (Almighty White Label mix)
    19) Swedish Eraser Cities – Save Our Concrete Loveship
    20) Killing Joke – Requiem

  • Mix: The Incredible Superstring Band – Be The Change You Wish To See In The World

    Here lies the very first ISB mix. Yes, this opens up with the Airwolf theme, doubled in syncopation. From there it just gets weirder. When I adopted the new alias I wanted it to be clear I was ready to do new things. This spirit led me to such strange choices as including the C&C Music Factory remix of New Kids On The Block’s hit “Step by Step.” Which is exactly as horrid as it sounds; I found this horridness delightful in the early summer of 2008 for whatever reason. This mix got a few raucous plays at the sorely-missed SCarey Studios space in West Baltimore that summer.

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    Tracklist:

    01) Sylvester Levay – Theme From Airwolf
    02) Private Lives – Private Life (Extended Mix)
    03) Photek – Mine To Give
    04) L Kan – Ama Y Esclavo
    05) The KLF – Last Train To Trancentral (120 Rock Steady)
    06) Communication Saints – What Keynell Do Fer Ae
    07) Devo – I Desire
    08) Polar – The White Chambers
    09) Scandinavian Leopard – Love Stalks
    10) Amsterdam Klezmer Band – Pluk-A-Dub
    11) UB40 – One In Ten (808 7 inch Mix)
    12) New Kids On The Block – Step By Step (The C&C Vocal Club Mix)
    13) Trans Mania – Boing Boom Jack (Robotnick Remix)
    14) Denki Groove – Pocket Cowboy (DMX Krew Remix)
    15) Autechre’s Cat – Feel The Drive (Inhakemental Mix)
    16) Christian Smith & John Selway – Blink Of An Eye
    17) Autechre – Are Y Are We
    18) Boards Of Canada – Orange Romeda
    19) The Prodigy – Charly (Alley Cat Remix)
    20) Killing Joke – Adorations
    21) Transchamps – Somebody Like You
    22) Kluochum Van Pelt – Moving Fingers On A Screen
    23) Bill Hicks – Gifts Of Forgiveness

  • Mix: Drawers – From An Angle You’ve Never Seen Before

    The final Drawers mix I ever made, this one has a theme that you can probably identify within a single listen. There’s a ton of mashups. A bunch of Klute (still my favorite DNB producer). But somehow none of that is involved in my favorite track, which is “The Volume” by Shy Child, a criminally under-appreciated group from the aughts who called it quits too soon. I will pump my fist for this track to this day.

    Download it here.

    Tracklist:

    01) Matthew Garrison & Bill Hicks – Intro
    02) Squarepusher – Untitled
    03) Ah Salmonellha – Take On Your Ways
    04) Pailhead – Man Should Surrender
    05) Klute – Song Seller
    06) KRS One, Last Emporer, Zack de la Rocha – CIA (Criminals In Action)
    07) DJ Shadow – Seein Thangs (Feat. David Banner)
    08) K – Still Moving
    09) Cylob – Cut The Midrange Drop The Bass
    10) Balkan Beat Box – Digital Monkey
    11) Datassette – Synthesize
    12) Wagon Christ – Rendleshack
    13) A Thorn For Every Heart – Dead Man’s Party
    14) The Tuss – Last Rushup 10
    15) Salmonella Dub – Ramblings From The Anatoki (Jagwah Remix)
    16) Senor Coconut – Beat It (DJ Enne Latino Bass and Breaks Mix)
    17) Shy Child – The Volume
    18) Amit – Village Folk
    19) Concord Dawn – Broken Eyes
    20) The Sea Vine And Rio Cake – Vibration Corners
    21) Nosferatu – People Are Strange
    22) I Heart Klutor Rockers – Get Ready 2 Hang Up These Dreamz
    23) Amsterdam Klezmer Band – Harmandalidub
    24) Klute – We Control The Vertical
    25) Slag Boom Van Loon – Poppy Seed (Reprise By Boards Of Canada)

  • Mix: DJ Chase The Devil – Wizards Have Landed

    This mix, named after a Bill Hicks bit, is the most mashup-heavy mix I’ve ever made. For a few moments around the 7 minute mark there are four tracks playing simultaneously in this July 2007 release. Several other mashups make an appearance. Eventually I’ll put together a complete mashup discography release.

    There are some fairly obscure references in these tunes. Super accurate recreations of the soundtrack from The Mysterious Cities of Gold make multiple appearances. I also used Timbaland’s ripoff of a demoscene track he made for Nelly Furtado while giving credit to the composer and SID translator (“Tempest and GRG with Nelly Furtado”).

    Finally, where else have you heard The Four Seasons sound so dope?

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    01) Toto – Big Battle
    02) Wa Am Camera – Automatic Solution Jump
    03) Boards Of Manifesto – Constants Are Prime
    04) Guided By Voices – My Valuable Hunting Knife
    05) Goblin – Un Ragazzo D’Argento
    06) Tempest and GRG with Nelly Furtado – Do It
    07) Aphex Twin – xmd5a
    08) Saban Levy Technics – Mysterious Cities of Maryland
    09) The Four Seasons – Who Loves You
    10) Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 – Scorpio (Plaid remix)
    11) Earth Wind and Fire – Let’s Groove
    12) Selway – Digital Emotion (Seratonin Mix)
    13) Dexwad – No More Gordon
    14) Autechre – Slip
    15) Fun Tourist – King Kong Of The Dancefloor
    16) Pixies – Velouria
    17) Datatalo – Blue Condor Paskaa
    18) Future Bible Heroes – Hopeless
    19) Our Man From Odessa – Oxamit
    20) Trans Am – North East Rising Sun

  • Mix: Drawers – Sabbath Mode

    This one is all over the place in the way that I often hope things will turn out. The cadence of Chris Rock’s bit in the intro seems to align with the rhythm of Cut Chemist’s beat. AFX blends into Killing Joke and then into Boards of Canada. The beautiful alternate version of the Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation” eerily slips into classic era Autechre (the 1990s). Teebee-remixed Photek into Ceephax. Autechre returns within a mashup of a Chingy instrumental that itself borrows a line from Jaco Pastorius’ famous “Portrait of Tracy.” Throw Goblin and some strange Japanese drum n bass in the middle and this is what you get. 2006 was quite a year.

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    Tracklist:

    01) Cut Chemist feat. Chris Rock – A Peak In Time
    02) AFX – Fenix Funk 5
    03) Killing Joke – Slipstream
    04) Boards of Canada – Left Side Drive
    05) We – 3/10 of the population
    06) Goblin – Opera Magnifica
    07) OOO – Kichigai Arukedo
    08) Societysuckers – Zettai Remix
    09) Pixies – Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)
    10) Autechre – Second Peng
    11) Photek – Ni Ten Ichi Ryu (Teebee remix)
    12) Ceephax – Hardcore Wick
    13) Furillo – The Final Countdown
    14) Black Uhuru – Party In Session
    15) Solvent – Steve Strange
    16) Squarepusher – The Modern Bass Guitar
    17) Autengy – Daelin Me Back
    18) Trans Am – Carboforce

  • Mix: DJ Chase The Devil – The Only Winning Move Is Not To Play

    After an introduction by everyone’s favorite integrative medicine guru, Dr. Andrew Weil, this mix starts out with a weirdly perfect pairing of Mike & Rich with Datassette. Somehow these two are perfectly in tune, and the effect is a strikingly smooth blend. This mix reminds me of the rainy days that frequently occurred as I mixed this during the spring of 2006. The title is a reference to one of my favorite movies: War Games. The final track is a reminder from Willie Nelson to think about the big picture whenever war is on the table.

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    Tracklist:

    01) Weil Y Metheny – Introduction
    02) Mike and Rich – Mr Frosty
    03) Datassette – Can You Smell Maths
    04) David Michael Cross – Cold War (Atomic Dub)
    05) AFX – Pwsteal.ldpinch.d
    06) Isolee – Face B
    07) Antibalas – Big Man
    08) The Timelords – Doctorin’ The Tardis
    09) Jackson And His Computer Band – Arpeggio
    10) Mira Calix – Sandsings (Boards Of Canada Remix)
    11) Global Goon – Afterlife
    12) Laserdance – Power Run
    13) Muziq – Within A Sound
    14) My Bloody Valentine – Map Ref 41N 93W
    15) Solvent – For You (JDSY Remix)
    16) The Selecter – Last Tango In Dub
    17) Black Dog Productions – End Of Time
    18) Chaos AD – Davey’s Safety Lamp
    19) Trans Am – White Rhino
    20) Asian Dub Foundation – Powerlines
    21) DMX Krew – I’m All Alone (Cylob’s Mix)
    22) New Composers – Palace Of Friendship On Fontanka
    23) Willie Nelson – Whatever Happened To Peace On Earth

  • Mix: Drawers – Aught Six Mix

    Having decided to release under a new name, I thought one would be better than two, so Drawers became the alias for everything in the neighborhood of 170-ish DNB style, and DJ Chase The Devil would be the name for 130-ish electro style stuff. This is the first ‘Drawers’ mix I did, with much of it coming together during a trip with friends to West Virginia. I tend to wake up early in the morning, regardless of how late I was up the night before, and so during the trip when everyone else was still asleep I would slip on my headphones for several mornings and go to work on this. The title is a reference to my plan to have it ready for release by New Year’s Day 2006 and not anything to do with ammunition or firearms.

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    Tracklist:

    01 scen – disasemble
    02 jeru the damaja – me or the papes (dillinja remix)
    03 z-trip – breakfast club (feat. murs and supernatural)
    04 afx – cilonen
    05 ddamage – pressure
    06 embrace – money
    07 lbh krew – and the light became day
    08 kaada – volkswagen
    09 die!!die!!color!!! – lsd
    10 shy child – summer
    11 beck – broken drum (boards of canada remix)
    12 knifehandchop – goin back to scarborough
    13 kick the can crew – 337
    14 thievery corporation – amerimacka (feat. notch)
    15 plaid – marry
    16 dragon ash – canvas (riow arai mix)
    17 8bit betty – reading rainbow
    18 chimerical child – wellenreiter
    19 d’arcangelo – diagram 9
    20 the new deal – a little while longer
    21 black uhuru – solidarity

  • Mix: DJ Chase The Devil – Flex and Preen

    At some point I decided to retire the Terrahertz moniker in favor of a fresh start. “DJ Chase The Devil” was one of the names I picked as a replacement, a reference to a classic Reggae tune sung by Max Romeo and backed by Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s band The Upsetters. When I made and released this in 2005, the emo scene (which I was already too old for) had blown up, and the cover art was inspired by this meme-ish picture of a girl “dancing.” Musically, the mix is kind of all over the place, I think in a good way.

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    Tracklist:

    1. mr. tobacco – to the ladies
    2. v.l.a.d. – transcom t.v.
    3. brothomstates – rktic
    4. chromeo – since you were gone
    5. illreme – naisyo and roll
    6. jean-jacques perry – gossipo perpetuo
    7. the new deal – gone, gone, gone
    8. boards of canada – chinook
    9. the jesus and mary chain – head on
    10. jackson – radio caca
    11. solvent – my radio
    12. mr. tobacco – electalker
    13. telefon tel aviv – ttv
    14. v.l.a.d. – 8 bit bull
    15. earth, wind and fire – got to get you into my life
    16. plaid – last remembered thing
    17. barrington levy – murderer
    18. chevron – emails and viruses
    19. prince – uptown (arcola white label remix)
    20. starship rockers – we built this city on technosound
    21. the new deal – home
    22. the fucking am – electrico gomez

  • Mix: Terrahertz – Haole Nyahbinghi

    The last mix I released under my Terrahertz alias, Haole Nyahbinghi came together so quickly that I still associate it with a particular time and place. In the summer of 2004 when I was putting this together, I lived across the street from a large antebellum cemetery in Baltimore. I would take breaks from this mix by walking around the cemetery, picking wineberries and pears that grew on the grounds. My ancient and poorly insulated second-floor apartment had a single window AC unit which would struggle during the heat of that summer, so the walks weren’t much hotter than staying inside, and the numerous mature trees throughout the cemetery provided effective shade. Listening back to this I can still recall the feeling of barely clinging to comfort in my bedroom studio, perched in front of my clunky laptop setup on an old primary school desk pushed against the wall. The blends into and out of Gift of Gab’s Flashback stand out for me.

    You can download here.

    Tracklist:

    01) fula visboken – brittas fitta
    02) amit – roots
    03) krs one – uh oh
    04) squarepusher – massif (stay strong)
    05) the gift of gab – flashback
    06) brothomstates vs bill yard
    07) acen – window in the sky (monolythikmaniak mix)
    08) clouddead – dead dogs two (boards of canada mix)
    09) aphex twin – alberto balsalm
    10) jega – gemini
    11) kick the can crew – saga continue
    12) fun tourist – smoking brain & a journey
    13) k – trackspill
    14) mr. dope america – tom sawyer
    15) muziq – my little beautiful
    16) pharcyde – frontline
    17) klute – survival
    18) amen andrews – jungle bunny
    19) black uhuru – slaughter
    20) souljah – fade 2 black
    21) lfo – nurture (surgeon mix)