Rainstorm blues

An ambient mix with a lot of history behind it and very little in the way of summer vibes.

 

Track	Artist	Title	Label	Year
1	Cabeza de Vaca	Leaving Rupert Street April 2003	Dullsville Trax	2003
2	Vangelis	Blade Runner blues	EastWest	1982
3	Francis Harris	Fangerdream (original mix)	Scissors and Thread	2014
4	Flying Saucer Attack	Rainstorm blues	Domino	1994
5	The Jesus and Mary Chain	F hole	Blanco y Negro	1987
6	Lou Reed	Berlin	RCA Victor	1973
7	Surgeon	Not two	Dynamic Tension Records	2011
8	Swans	Nathalie Neal	Young Gods	2014
9	Donato Dozzy	Il Canto Della Maga	Stroboscopic Artefacts	2014
10	Nesta Kerin Crain	Gongs in the rain	Light in the Attic	2013
11	The Cure	Plainsong	Fiction Records	1989
12	Deaf Center	Thunder night	Type	2005
13	Alice Damon	Waterfall Wind	Light in the Attic	2013
14	Burial	Night bus (+ Gutted)	Hyperdub	2006
15	Fennesz + Sakamoto	Trace	Touch	2007
16	ASC	Washed away over time	Silent Season	2013
17	William Basinski	Disintegration loop d|lp 2.2	2062	2002
18	Flying Saucer Attack	For silence	Domino	1994
19	Faust	Meadow meal	Polydor	1971
20	Bohren and Der Club of Gore	Dead end angels	Wonder	2000

Bathetic Records

Here is an interesting label I came across recently called Bathetic Records, who release all their stuff on 7”s and casettes. The style of the label is difficult to pin down, but varies from folk to the more low fi semi-electronic elements of some modern strains of indie, noticeably the Not Not Fun crew who’s roster has crossed over with Bathetic on the odd occasion.

The first video is from Angel Olsen singing a folk piece that is surprisingly haunting and recorded in an interesting homage to 60s psych-folk. The vocal is fragile and delivered with a hint of pain or longing and has received many positive reviews on the web.

Tiniest Lights from Angel Olsen on Vimeo.

Second up is High Wolf, a Frenchman, who apparently lives in exotic locations such as Brazil and Jakarta, who makes low fi analogue tracks with a kind of faux New Age bent that recalls the tongue in cheek “dubious eroticism” of Father Moo and the Black Sheep.

Somewhere in between all these styles and ideas, and with a similar video to Angel Olsen, is the curious group The Wreathes with their debut release.

Wreathes - The Reigns from Death Coast Entertainment on Vimeo.