Showing posts with label Calexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Calexico. Show all posts

Monday, 26 December 2022

It's Hard To Settle For Second Best

After last year's tenuous Boxing Day themed selection, here's another to stretch credulity even further, with 10 gift-themed songs. A couple of obvious/inevitable choices with The Jam and Lou Reed, a trio of not-quite-forgotten classics from Cocteau Twins, Way Out West and Calexico and a cheeky Monday Long Song to round things off from Julian Cope, pulling a double shift as frontperson of Brain Donor.

I hope you kept your receipts!

The cover photo was taken in Gloucester city centre a few weeks ago. I was particularly struck by how well they captured the classic Nativity scene of Joseph and Mary's Bethlehem barbecue.

1) It's A Gift: The Kane Gang (1987)
2) The Gift: The Jam (1982)
3) You Can't Steal A Gift: El Perro Del Mar (2008)
4) Gift Horse: Black Box Recorder (2000)
5) Surprise Gift (Fool's Gold vs. N.A.S.A.): Team9 (2009)
6) A Gift: Lou Reed (1976)
7) Half-Gifts: Cocteau Twins (1996)
8) The Gift (Radio Edit): Way Out West ft. Miss Joanna Law (1996)
9) Gift X-Change (Album Version): Calexico (2000)
10) Odin's Gift To His Mother (Album Version): Brain Donor (2001)
 
1976: Coney Island Baby: 6
1982: The Gift: 2
1987: What Time Is It? EP: 1
1996: Milk & Kisses: 7
1996: The Gift EP: 8
2000: It's A Cool, Cool Christmas: 9
2000: The Facts Of Life: 4
2001: Love Peace & Fuck: 10
2008: From The Valley To The Stars: 3
2009: Stereogum & Team9 Present: MySplice 4: 5

It's Hard To Settle For Second Best (45:45) (KF) (Mega)

Friday, 26 August 2022

Black & White

Well, what else could I do...? The logical, some (me included) may say ridiculous conclusion of this week's accidental monochrome theme is of course a 'Black & White' Dubhed excursion.

The selection kicks off with Dollar, a duo who it has to be said I disliked intensely when they had hits in the 1980s and loathed anew when they popped up like a turd you can't flush away in last-chance-saloon reality TV show Reborn In The USA in 2003. In the spirit of Kevin Rowland's recent rework of classic Dexys Midnight Runners' album Too-Rye-Ay, I present Dollar 'as they should have sounded', surprisingly coming across like an Andy Bell outtake from The View From Halfway Down.

Asian Dub Foundation get things back on track, with Jazzanova and David Holmes putting a different spin on Calexico and Doves respectively. Martha & The Muffins appear in their short-lived M+M guise with a song so 1984, it repeatedly mentions the year throughout, instantly freezing the song in time. I love it. 
 
A special mention for David Devant & His Spirit Wife, who I always associate with the late 1990s and was therefore surprised to find have kept going into the 21st Century, releasing their fourth album in 2019. Luckily for them, their song Black And White appears on the only single I own by the band, 1997's Lie Detector EP.

Closing proceedings is a wonderful live take of Black Man In A White World by the astonishingly talented Michael Kiwanuka, stretching out the original album version to nearly twice the length. If you were there, I'd imagine you'd have been quite happy if the song had gone on for 15 to 20 minutes.
 
As a nod to the trio of songs from 1980 by The The, Siouxsie & The Banshees and Elvis Costello & The Attractions, today's cover picture is made up of screen shots from The Blues Brothers, which came out the same year. A superb film with a spectacular scene-stealing turn from the brilliant, beautiful and greatly missed Carrie Fisher.

Happy Friday, everyone!
 
1) Hand Held In Black & White ('As It Should Have Sounded' Version By Khayem): Dollar (1981)
2) Black White (Brendan Lynch Mix): Asian Dub Foundation (1998)
3) Black Heart (Jazzanova's White Soul Dub): Calexico (2004)
4) Black And White: The The (1980)
5) Eve White / Eve Black: Siouxsie & The Banshees (1980)
6) Black And White: David Devant & His Spirit Wife (1997)
7) Black And White Town (David Holmes Remix): Doves (2005)
8) Black & White World: Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1980)
9) Black Stations/White Stations (Extended Dance Mix): M+M (1984)
10) Black Man In A White World (Live @ The Royal Albert Hall, London): Michael Kiwanuka (2017)

Tuesday, 16 August 2022

16 In 16 On 16

No messing about, this selection features songs that are track 16 on their respective albums, delivered in 16 minutes (and 16 seconds) on 16th August. Bosh, done.

1) There's No Beautiful Way To Say Goodbye: Television Personalities (2006)
2) Possession: Elvis Costello & The Attractions (1980)
3) The Mayor: N.A.S.A. ft. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM (2009)
4) Punk Love: The Magnetic Fields (1999)
5) Bloodflow: Calexico (1998)

1980: Get Happy!: 2
1998: The Black Light: 5
1999: 69 Love Songs: 4
2006: My Dark Places: 1
2009: The Spirit Of Apollo: 3

Sunday, 31 July 2022

Oh iPod I Love You

A slightly different blast from the past today as I take another dip into the dusty archives of my previous blog. This selection was posted on 7th April 2007 as individual MP3s. Originally an iPod Top 20 most played selection, I've re-sequenced and re-created the playlist as two 'sides' which flow more naturally, to these ears at least. As you'll see, I was deep into an obsession with mash-ups at the time, which accounted for half of the Top 20.

Over to my former 30-something self...

I finally got around to upgrading from my much loved Panasonic portable cassette player to an iPod Nano last month. Even though I'm making very slow progress with uploading stuff from my record collection (about 500 songs so far, barely half the 4GB space), I've been giving my iPod a good run for it's money. It's been great to hear songs that I haven't listened to in a while, as well as discovering a whole load of stuff on the internet. The shuffle option has proved to be highly addictive when it comes to unusual playlists. I quit smoking (again) on Tuesday and (honest, guv) the moment I lit up my last fag, Chumbawamba's Give The Anarchist A Cigarette kicked into my headphones. Thankfully, so far my iPod's skipped John Lennon's Cold Turkey, which is also lurking in there somewhere...

To pick up the story, 15 years on, apart from the cliché of a celebratory cigar when Lady K was born, I've not smoked since and I have never been tempted to try vaping.
 
I've been through 5 iPod Nanos since that initial purchase (the green one in the picture, if you're wondering); I worked them very hard. The subsequent iPods were all cheap secondhand purchases from eBay and for varying reasons all eventually gave up. I think my iPods were less forgiving than SWC's over at No Badger Required... 

You'll note that only 4 Nanos are pictured. The fifth - also pink and always the least wanted on eBay, it seems - fell from my pocket as I was racing to platform 12 at Leeds Railway Station to catch a train home. I saw it slide effortlessly across the platform before gliding briefly above the tracks then dropping down into the path of an incoming train. I'd like to say that either Dylan's Blood On The Tracks or Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll was playing in that fateful moment but, to be honest, I don't remember and I was probably swearing too loudly to notice as I continued running for my train, my suddenly orphaned headphone cable trailing behind me... 
 
I retired my last Nano a couple of years ago and sold the 4 defunct iPods as parts on eBay. These days, my headphone and in-car music listening is all on my phone, with a never-ending variation of playlists.
 
As for mash-ups, I still love them, but my frankly ridiculous habit of downloading and collecting hundreds of them had significantly dropped by the end of the 2000s. The artists that I followed now seem to have mostly retired from mash-ups and are focused on other music-related pursuits.
 
IDC aka David McCarthy has released two albums, Overthrow The Boss Class (2008) and The Sun is Always Shining Above The Clouds (2011) and, according to his website, album #3 is currently in production.
 
McSleazy seems to have been retired around 2010-2011 and Grant J. Robson has since worked as a soundtrack composer and solo artist. His 4th album, Lit By The Dark, was released in 2021 and features The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly on The Burden, which is rather wonderful.

Team9 also ceased some years ago by all accounts and I've struggled to find any current website for Neil Mason. Info suggests that Neil is still based in Perth and working as a soundtrack composer and music producer.

Go Home Productions last released a couple of mash-ups in 2020, but Mark Vidler has more recently been involved with Graham Daniels as Addictive TV, including the incredible Orchestra Of Samples project. Mark was recently pictured with Devo and John Lydon at the Cruel World Fest in Pasadena, California.
 
Loo & Placido aka Laurent Lupidi & Jeremy Johnson are still going strong, celebrating over 20 years of mash-ups, more recent beneficiaries being XXXTentacion, Billie Eilish, Chvrches and Post Malone. 

Suffice to say, my digital music collection has grown exponentially since 2007 and my Top 20 most played list has significantly changed, skewed in part by school runs and Lady K's brief obsessions with Queen and, way out in front, Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man which was curtailed only by the lockdown in 2020. Of today's selection, only Lou Reed comes anywhere close, coming in at #84...

Anyway, enough of my yakking, without further ado here's today's selection for your listening pleasure.

Side One
1) Pain Killer (Album Version): Turin Brakes (2003)
2) Toop Toop Groove (Cassius vs. Madonna): Loo & Placido (2006)
3) In The Morning (Album Version By Geoff Barrow & Adrian Utley): The Coral (2005)
4) 7 Nation Rocker (Alter Ego vs. The White Stripes): IDC (2004)
5) Don't Call Me Song 2 (Madison Avenue vs. Blur): McSleazy (2000)
6) Satellite Of Love (Album Version By David Bowie & Mick Ronson): Lou Reed (1972)
7) Get I.D. (Kelis vs. Kasabian): McSleazy (2004)
8) Sheltered Life (Radio Edit): Erlend Øye (2003)
9) Since You Love Me (Kelly Clarkson vs. David Guetta vs. The Egg): Loo & Placido (2006)
10) Uptight Maggie (Re-Vision) (Stevie Wonder vs. Rod Stewart): Go Home Productions (2004) 
 
Side Two
1) Oblivious (Remix By Felix Chamberlain & Ted Templeman) (7" Version): Aztec Camera (1983)
2) Oops I'm Loaded (Original Version) (Tweet vs. Primal Scream): Team9 (2006) 
3) The Doorbell Encore (Jay-Z vs. The White Stripes): Team9 (2005)
4) Lost In Music (Album Version) (Cover of Sister Sledge): The Fall (1993)
5) Naive Hustler (Mirwais vs. Simian Mobile Disco): IDC (2006)
6) I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have (Cover of Primal Scream): Idha (1994)
7) Give The Anarchist A Cigarette (Edit): Chumbawamba (1994)
8) Insatiable Love (Darilyn Mansun) (Darren Hayes vs. Marilyn Manson): McSleazy (2002)
9) Sometimes Always (Album Version): The Jesus & Mary Chain ft. Hope Sandoval (1994)
10) Tulsa Telephone Book (Live @ Roskilde Festival, Denmark) (Cover of Tom T. Hall): Calexico (2000) 
 

Saturday, 30 July 2022

In My Dreams I Wrote The Best Song I've Ever Written

Another random, eclectic selection for your listening pleasure.  
 
Fujiya & Miyagi start proceedings with a bold attempt at a New Order classic from Power Corruption & Lies, swiftly followed by a track from the sole EP from The Badgers, one of many (I've lost count now) bands that I've discovered thanks to the ever-wonderful music blog The Vinyl Villain. We then jump from Norfolk to the Netherlands, and 90s indie pop to 80s electro disco, with the Modern Danceable Music Company, who thankfully also used the acronym M.D.M.C. Ben Liebrand on the mix here, luckily a few years before he incorporated the break from Think (About It) by Lyn Collins in every bloody remix he produced.
 
Fast forward to a contemporary favourite - and the source of today's post title - the wonderful Courtney Barnett, remixed by the equally wonderful 10:40 aka Jesse Fahnestock. As the mix title suggests, most of the vocals have been excised but this is definitely a case of less is more, with a lovely dreamy vibe leading into Psychic TV's foray into vocal house music with 1990's Towards Thee Infinite Beat and remix companion Beyond Thee Infinite Beat.
 
A sharp swerve Psychic TV to Micah Blue Smaldone, who was brought to my attention earlier this month by The Swede, firstly via an excellent Imaginary Compilation Album at The Vinyl Villain then a follow up post on his own blog, Unthought Of, Though, Somehow. The Swede perfectly describes Micah Blue Smaldone as "an old-timey acoustic folk-blues troubadour [...] delivering a series of lyrically dense, folk-noir songs" and Time, the track featured here, was the stirring closer to his ICA. 

A trio of legends follow: John Cale collaborating with Bob Neuwirth and David Byrne almost remixed out of existence by Jack Dangers, the latter dovetailing into an early instrumental of The News About William, preceding the vocal version that appeared on Calexico's 2008 album Carried To Dust.
 
Bringing the selection to a close is Irish singer/songwriter Gemma Hayes who I first heard via her cover of Bob Dylan's Lay Lady Lay in 2004, which I featured with multiple other versions of the song in January this year. Iona features on Gemma's (to date) last album, 2014's Bones + Longing but Gemma's been back on the live circuit this month and is promising new music later in 2022.
 
1) Your Silent Face (Cover of New Order): Fujiya & Miyagi (2011)
2) Ragged Jack: The Badgers (1992)
3) How About It (12" Version By Ben Liebrand & Sander Bos): M.D.M.C. ft. Karin Klare & Margie Davies (1983)
4) History Eraser (10:40's Redacted Dub) (Remix By Jesse Fahnestock): Courtney Barnett (2021)
5) Horror House (Album Version): Psychic TV (1990)
6) Time: Micah Blue Smaldone ft. Colleen Kinsella (2013)
7) Who's In Charge?: John Cale & Bob Neuwirth (1994)
8) Ava (Nu Wage Mix By Jack Dangers): David Byrne (1991)
9) The News About William (Instrumental Version): Calexico (2007)
10) Iona: Gemma Hayes (2014) 

1983: How About It EP: 3
1990: Towards Thee Infinite Beat: 5
1992: Picnic EP: 2
1994: Last Day On Earth: 7
2002: Pro.File 1: Meat Beat Manifesto/Jack Dangers Remix Collection: 8
2007: Tool Box: 9
2011: Power Corruption & Lies Covered (Mojo magazine promo CD): 1
2013: The Ring Of The Rise: 6 
2014: Bones + Longing: 10
2021: Left Behind Blues EP: 4
 

Sunday, 3 July 2022

Acoustic Tent

I've been catching up with the BBC's Glastonbury coverage on iPlayer this week: Róisín Murphy, Yves Tumor, Saint Etienne, Confidence Man, Bicep... the list goes on. I feel the need to calm things down a bit for Sunday so here's 45 minutes of acoustic loveliness for your aural pleasure.

Paul Weller gets things off to an atypically rousing start with a bit of effing and jeffing, but it's generally family friendly language from there on. Charlotte Hatherley pops up twice, once as a solo artist and again near the end with former bandmates Ash. Patrick Duff delivers a beautiful version of Moon River from Breakfast At Tiffany's and the selection closes with someone you might not expect.
 
1) Come On/Let's Go (Acoustic Demo): Paul Weller (2006)
2) Easy In The Sunshine (Acoustic): Emilíana Torrini (2000)
3) This Is The Day (Live Acoustic US Radio Session): The The (2000)
4) Murphy's Law (Acoustic) (Live @ Home): Róisín Murphy (2020)
5) Crystal Frontier (Acoustic): Calexico (2001)
6) I Want You To Know (Acoustic Version): Charlotte Hatherley (2007)
7) Buzzing Round The Honey Pots (Acoustic): Dot Allison (2009)
8) Moon River (Live Acoustic Version @ BBC Radio Bristol) (Cover of Audrey Hepburn): Strangelove (1996)
9) The Sea (Acoustic Demo): Morcheeba (1996)
10) The Party (Acoustic): The Dream Academy (1985)
11) Broken & Mended (Acoustic Version): The Blue Aeroplanes (1995)
12) Burn Baby Burn (Acoustic Version): Ash (2001)
13) Too Many Walls (Acoustic Version): Cathy Dennis (1991)

1985: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want EP: 10
1995: Sugared Almond EP: 11
1996: Sway EP: 8 
1996: The Music That We Hear (Moog Island) EP: 9
2000: Easy EP: 2 
2001: Crystal Frontier EP: 5
2001: Free All Angels (ltd 2x CD): 12
2006: Come On/Let's Go EP (Japan-only CD single): 1
2007: I Want You To Know EP (promo CD single): 6 
2009: Buzzing Round The Honey Pots (official website exclusive download): 7
2014: Move To This (Deluxe Edition) (2x CD): 13
2020: Live @ Home for Festival Marvin 9.5, 10th December 2020: 4
2022: Official Bootleg 005: 3

Acoustic Tent (45:47) (Box) (Mega)

Sunday, 3 April 2022

I Know What You Did Last Sombre

Side 1 of a mix CD-R, burned on 4th December 2006. This was originally compiled for my brother, who was living overseas at the time so in an uncharacteristic feat of organisation, I had this and a clutch of other gifts ready in time for the last airmail posting date for Christmas.
 
The mix runs for the maximum burn time, just under 80 minutes, with a split into two 'sides'. I'd loosely describe this as the 'downtempo side'. The title itself is both a twist on the popular horror film franchise and perhaps a comment on the winter chill surrounding me as, on the other side of the world, my brother was experiencing a seasonal opposite. 
 
In the summer of 2005, my wife and I also travelled to stay with my brother and his wife for a week, I think the first time we'd seen each other in person for nearly six years, so the title is probably a nod to the sadness of separation, 18 months on. Ho ho ho and festive cheer, indeed. Bloody hell, I should have sent a jangly pop compilation, in retrospect...!

Glancing at this tracklist, you'd be forgiven for thinking that I only bought one album in 2006, although if that had been the case, it still would have been White Bread Black Beer by Scritti Politti. The rest of the collection is made up of songs from the previous 5 years, a couple of which I had discovered in the bargain bins of Virgin Megastore in Bristol.
 
On such discovery was Your Love Means Everything by Faultline aka David Kosten. I was drawn in by the photo of a wrench on the cover and the list of guest vocalists on the back cover: Michael Stipe, Jacob Golden and Wayne Coyne. Okay, Chris Martin also pops up on a couple of tracks, but I didn't let that stop me from shelling out a couple of quid for what turned out to be a good record. I was surprised to find that this was the second and final (to date) Faultline album. Even more surprisingly, The Colossal Gray Sunshine was released as a promo single in 2004, with a remix by Paul Oakenfold, Apart from a one-off cover of Send In The Clowns featuring Lisa Hannigan in 2017, David Kosten seems to be largely working as a producer and programmer these days, with the likes of Bat For Lashes, Keane and Steven Wilson.
 
Another favourite at the time was Pony Club, not to be confused with New Young Pony Club. Much as I'm loathe to admit it, Pony Club first came to my attention in 2004 via cover mounted CD with NME, curated by the Manchester Racist. The track in question was from the debut Pony Club album, 2002's Home Truths, and I was sufficiently intrigued to pick up a copy, again troubling the bargain bins in the local megastore. Pony Club is essentially a vehicle for Mark Cullen and Home Truths is a claustrophobic and cutting depiction of a life trapped in housing estates and martial discord. Cullen also co-wrote a number of songs with Ian Broudie for Lightning Seeds, which is about as diametrically opposed as you can get.
 
Amongst the other sombre gems are Daníel Ágúst, on his first solo detour from GusGus, the much-missed Anita Lane, a Calexico rarity, a classic from former Voodoo Queen Anjali and Jah Wobble dropping his trademark bass into a remix of Norwegian Sami musician Mari Boine's 1994 song, Ĉuovgi Liekkas. Luke Haines resurrected The Auteurs in 2003 to air a combination of new songs and re-recordings on the excellent Das Capital, whilst The Go-Betweens returned for what would sadly prove to be their final album of new material, Oceans Apart, which is also one of their finest.
 
Likewise, Scritti Politti. Hard to believe - or accept - that it's now been sixteen years since White Bread Black Beer, with no immediate prospect of a further album. This is the third outing for Petrococadollar on the Dubhed blog, following it's appearance in my opening series 50@50 in December 2020 and again as part of a Scritti Politti selection in October 2021. I make no apologies, it's an exceptional song, even by Green Gartside's standards.

1) The Gray (Album Version): Daníel Ágúst (2005)
2) The Next Man That I See (Album Version By Mick Harvey): Anita Lane (2001) 
3) Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Version Française): Calexico ft. Marianne Dissard (2000)
4) The Colossal Gray Sunshine (Album Version): Faultline ft. Wayne Coyne & Steven Drozd (2002)
5) Lazy Lagoon (Album Version): Anjali (2000)
6) No Reason To Cry: The Go-Betweens (2005)
7) Satan Wants Me (Album Version): Luke Haines & The Auteurs (2003)
8) Ĉuovgi Liekkas (Jah Wobble Remix II): Mari Boine (2001)
9) CCTV: Pony Club (2002)
10) Petrococadollar: Scritti Politti (2006)

2000: Ballad Of Cable Hogue EP (French promo CD single): 3
2000: Lazy Lagoon EP / Anjali: 5 
2001: Remixed / Oðða Hámis: 8 
2001: Sex o'Clock: 2
2002: Home Truths: 9
2002: Your Love Means Everything: 4
2003: Das Capital: The Songwriting Genius Of Luke Haines & The Auteurs: 7
2005: Oceans Apart: 6
2005: Swallowed A Star: 1
2006: White Bread Black Beer: 10

Side One (38:36) (KF) (Mega)

Tuesday, 31 August 2021

Calexico - Dustbowl Live 1998-2005

My introduction to Calexico came in the early 2000s via the wonderful resource that is the Live Music Archive. I'd heard very little by the band at this point so I initially picked a selection of songs then went back over time and downloaded full concerts. The quality of Live Music Archive material can be variable, but the Calexico concerts that I've got have generally been high quality soundboard recordings.

This selection is pretty much my initial download playlist, although I've rejigged the running order here to achieve a slightly less jarring jump between songs. The majority of songs come from Live Music Archive, with a few from Calexico's official website, back in the days when you'd get freebie downloads. There are picks from Calexico's second album, The Black Light (1998), through to the Convict Pool EP (2004), with a few cover versions and rare songs thrown in for good measure. I've still not heard studio recordings of a number of these songs - or seen Calexico live in person - so for me these remain the most familiar/definitive versions,
 
1) El Picador (Live @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15 February 2001)
2) Jesus And Tequila (Live @ The Backyard, Austin, Texas, 04 May 2005)
3) El Cascabel (Live @ KGNU, Boulder, Colorado, 05 May 2002) (ft. Mariachi Luz De Luna)
4) Gift X-Change (Live @ Rudolstadt Festival, Germany, 06 July 2001)
5) Minas De Cobre (Live @ White Stage, Roskilde Festival, Denmark, 01 July 2000)
6) Ballad Of Cable Hogue (Live @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15 February 2001) (ft. Kathleen Rahn) 
7) The Black Light (Live @ SPOKE, Tucson, Arizona, 10 June 2002)
8) Return Of The Manta Ray (Live @ Satyricon, Portland, Oregon, 14 June 1998)
9) I Started A Joke (Cover of Bee Gees) (Live @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15 February 2001) (ft. Shannon Wright) 
10) Alone Again Or (Cover of Love) (Live @ China Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden, 25 April 2003)
11) Tulsa Telephone Book (Cover of Tom T. Hall) (Live @ White Stage, Roskilde Festival, Denmark, 01 July 2000)
12) Stray (Live @ The Casbah, San Diego, California, 02 June 2001)
13) Not Even Stevie Nicks... (Live @ Rialto Theatre, Tucson, Arizona, 02 December 2006)
14) Crystal Frontier (Live @ Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 15 February 2001)
15) Attack El Robot! Attack! (Live @ China Theatre, Stockholm, Sweden, 25 April 2003)
 

Saturday, 21 August 2021

I'll Keep On Forgiving If You'd Like To Show Me How

Side 2 of a 2001 mixtape, featuring Two Lone Swordsmen aka Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood. Again, the selection draws exclusively on the 1998-2001 period, covering the album Tiny Reminders, remix companion Further Reminders, and the two mini-albums/EPs, A Bag Of Blue Sparks and A Virus With Shoes. For the eagle-eyed amongst you, I got 1998's album Stay Down some years after this mixtape was compiled. In amongst the brilliant song names - Cloned Christ On A Hover Donkey (Be Thankful) a highlight - and glitchy (itchy?) electronica, there is a touching vocal from Nina Walsh, which gives today's post it's title.
 
Schismatic (Split Two) (50:30)
1) Palais Munich (1999)
2) Brother Foster Through The Phones (1999)
3) Black Commandments (1998)
4) Gay Spunk (1998)
5) Tiny Reminder No. 1 (C-Pij Remix Vocal By Nina Walsh) (2001)
6) Tiny Reminder No. 2 (2000)
7) Tiny Reminder No. 3 (Calexico Remix) (2001)
8) Electric 4 Bird (1998)
9) Very Futuristic (2000)
10) It Hits (1999)
11) Kist (1999)
12) Cloned Christ On A Hover Donkey (Be Thankful) (1999) 
 
Schismatic (Split Two) (50:30) (KF) (Mega)
Find Schismatic (Split One) here