Conjurers' Dub - Vol. 2

above a still from Maya Deren's Divine Horsemen

"The tracks succumb to apparitions, become porous, crackle like the celluloid burning up a the end of Persona. Degeneration = Regeneration. Sound susurrates into an electromagnetic nth world through which ghosts grow, effects superimpose and wraiths congregate."

    
     - Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant Than The Sun

A new bass heavy mix designed for those magical late-night/early-morning hours when spirits are summoned from obsidian and mad-beautiful ideas are conjured through key strokes. A sequel to last years Conjurers' Dub, to my ears this mix has a little more drive than its older sister but there is still enough bass and space to do the job.

My aim was an elastic mix of drag, doomjazz and dub-techno custom built for long winter nights spent trawling the abyss. Let me know what you think.


Conjurers Dub Vol 2 (mix) by kelcey

1.The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation – Deadly Rehearsals
2.Forest Swords – Rattling Cage
3.Demdike Stare – Bardo Thodol
4.Water Borders – Akko (Petals remix)
5.Roman Lindau – Keppra
6.Fever Ray – Seven (Marcel Dettman remix)
7.Eliphino – I Just Can't
8.Raime – This Foundry
9.Badawi – The Axiom (Andy Stott remix)
10.L.B. Dub Corp. - It's What You Feel
11.Onmutu Mechanicks – Lupus Moon (Xdb remix)
12.Nick Hoppner – Isp
13.Mike Shannon – Under the Radar (Deadbeat remix)
14.Scuba – Tracers (Deadbeat remix)
15.Rhythm & Sound (feat. Tikiman) – Acting Crazy
16.Resoe – Minus & Plus (Sigha remix)
17.Lerosa and Donato Dozzy – Neon Snake
18.Alice Russell – Hurry On Now (Emika remix)
19.Echologist (feat. The Spaceape) – Mercy Beat (Mri vs. UES remix)
20.Bvdub – A Silent Reign
21.Forest Swords – Hjurt (Pariah remix)
22.oOoOO - Sedsumting

Conjurers' Dub (mix)

image via The Afflicted Yard

There is no silence in that Abyss: for all that men
call Silence is Its Speech.
- the book of lies

For some time now I've wanted to assemble a mix comprised of the deep, dark, dubby tunes that soundtrack my late night writing sessions and dark nights of soul. This mix rides a thick black night groove through headier Shackleton productions, stripped back dubstep and echo drenched, slow burn dub-techno. It's laced with a haunting Tikiman vocal and The Space Ape's hypnotic delivery and bookended by TKDE's glorious doomjazz.

It's built more for head-nodding meditation than peek time dancing. A sustaining anti-lullaby for babes of the abyss

Conjurers' Dub (mix)  by  kelcey

(00:00) Demdike Stare - Extwistle Hall
(01:40) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Seneca
(05:35) Harmonia '76 - Sometimes In Autumn (Shackleton Remix)
(09:50) Shackleton - Asha In The Tabernacle
(15:35) Vindixatrix - Private Places (Shackleton & Mordant Music Version)
(20:50) Emika - Drop The Other (Scuba's Vulpine Remix)
(25:00) Pangaea - Dead Living
(29:20) CV313 - Subtraktive
(30:35) Rhythm and Sound feat. Tikiman - Na Fe Throw It
(38:00) STL - Checkmate (cv313 Remodel)
(39:35) Fever Ray - Seven (Marcel Dettmann remix)
(44:15) Martyn feat. Space Ape - Is This Insanity? (Ben Klock Remix)
(47:00) Red Shape - Dark & Sticky
(50:00) Pendle Coven -Uncivil Engineering (Calm Mix)
(52:05) Deadbeat - Teach The Devil's Son
(58:00) Beat Pharmacy feat. Space Ape - Ghostship (Deadbeat dub)
(62:00) Appleblim - Within
(65:15) The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Embers

The Daughters of Erzulie

"I reach the corner of Washington Square Park and my feet freeze up short of the curb. My ears draw whispers from the bushes. My mind populates the shadows with darting figures. The small patch of artificial wild appears alive with menace. I gaze up at a towering elm with the moon nestled in its high branches. The Hangman’s Elm, as they call it on the walking tours."

My new story, The Daughters of Erzulie, is up at Troubadour 21. It's my contribution to the excellent T21 horror series and is paired with another cracking essay by Chris Deal. You can find the previous installments of the horror series here. I recommend each of them highly.

Erzulie is my take on the classic ghost story, set in my old Greenwich Village stomping grounds. It owes a debt to Pete Hamill's brilliant novel Forever for it's initial inspiration and to Carly's exhaustive research into paranormal NYC.

I hope it's as much fun to read as it was to write.

Moon Dandies

"Still others thrive , swaggering ex-pats of reality who work the export angle, crafting dreamland bric-a-brac for sale at a considerable mark-up. The oneiric carpet-baggers: artists, writers, sculptors, sorcerers.

Tycoons of fancy, speculating, long on made-up futures. Sauntering the silvery parades. A tall-tale aristocracy.

Moon Dandies with their pockets full of brushes, pens and fireflies. Plumes of imagery are kicked up from their spats at every step."

- from Alan Moore's Snakes & Ladders


Snakes & Ladders: Audio CD w/ Tim Perkins and Graphic Novel w/ Eddie Campbell

I also highly recomend the Disease of Language hardcover, collecting The Birth Caul, Snakes & Ladders and a fascinating interview of Moore by Campbell (edit: sadly it appears to be out of stock).

[actual bloggery will commence very soon I promise. I've been a bit distracted]

Merry Crowleymas

GOLD BRICKS
Teach us Your secret, Master! yap my Yahoos.
Then for the hardness of their hearts, and for the
softness of their heads, I taught them Magick.
But...alas!
Teach us Your real secret, Master! how to become
invisible, how to acquire love, and oh! beyond all,
how to make gold.
But how much gold will you give me for the Secret
of Infinite Riches?
Then said the foremost and most foolish; Master, it
is nothing; but here is an hundred thousand
pounds.
This did I deign to accept, and whispered in his ear
this secret:
A SUCKER IS BORN EVERY MINUTE

from The Book of Lies

Merry Crowleymas to you all! Though I'm not much of a Crowleyite or practicing Thelemist, I've always liked the idea of a holiday that celebrates the mad, deviant, paranoid and down right wicked aspects of our nature. I also like a bit of spooky Current 93 every now and again.

So lift a glass of Absinthe tonight for old wretched Al and maybe let those dark and devious demons that haunt the shadows of your psyche loose in the world if only for an evening.



















Suggested Crowleymas reading – Liber Al Vel Legis (The Book of The Law) as well as Crowleymas 1974 from RAW's Cosmic Trigger.

"why does the gnosis always get busted? Every single time the energy is raised and large-scale group illuminations are occurring, the local branch of the Inquisition kills it dead. Why, why, why?"

from Crowleymas 1974

To quote Unkle Dick: "May your Crowlymass be filled with good strong wine, an opiate or three and some good old fashioned buggery!"