Shameless self-promotion... well sort of, I dunno. This is the first mix that we did together as Invisible Sounds (in fact we were Invisible City then) and listening back to it more than five years later is quite interesting, for me anyhow, if not for you. It feels as though - for better or worse - our sound has really been defined by what we put on this mix, as a rule we have generally stuck to the same parameters and concentrated on a mixture of darker types of "dance" music along with some grimy rockier stuff that, in my head at least, comes from the same place. I'm struggling now to think about whether that came about by accident or design but I really can't remember.
Some of the mixing on this set is, er, a little bit rough to say the least. And while there are a few bits that I wince when I hear and think "why didn't I edit that out?" it's also true to recognise that I'm never going to be someone who can seamlessly mix tune after tune all night and never put a single beat out of place. In other words, a few bits that are, to say the least "very raw" are always gonna be part of our "style" so it's only right that they were recorded for posterity on our first ever mix. Basically with respect to that aspect of making mixes my job is not gonna be doing long smooth mixes or showing off any technical skills, rather it boils down to something more like trying to make sure that as much of possible of the beatmatching is good enough to fit into the box that could fairly be called "rough and ready" and doesn't cross right over into simply being "completely wrong and out of time".
Anyway, seems the mix was seven years ago. When I made it I had no idea that in 2022 we would still be just about talking to each other and living in Portugal but there it is. Would be nice to get it over 1000 listens anyhow. Or hear what any of you lot think of it if anything.
Edit: I put together a tracklist with a bit of help from Shazam and some searching through the shelves.
- Unknown Artist - FX track from album Space Invaders - Sound Effects From a Fantasy Space Mission
- Psychic TV - Paris
- Narcotic Syntax - Romantic Infinity
- Gatekeeper - Chains
- Dirty Beaches - Mirage Hall
- Scorpion Violente - Rome Violente
- White Fence - The Love Between
- Fat White Family - Touch The Leather
- Baris K - The 200
- DAF - Der Rauber und Der Prinz
- Cosmetics - Sleepwalking
- Lydia Lunch and Die Haut - Der Karabische Western
- Dave Ball - Man in the Man
- Drift - Go Commando