I’m honored to have one of my favorite producers include a track of mine on a recent mix. Federsen is a native of Scotland but resides right here in San Francisco. His dub techno productions have been instrumental to my understanding of the genre, and I’m psyched to have met him and to have my music cross over into his realm.
This mix includes some really nice selections. Hope you enjoy it as much as I am!
Almost every bad feeling you’ve ever had
almost all the suffering you’ve ever experienced
was the result of attaching emotion and significance
to some passing thought
that could have simply been ignored
I love that Eno composed the Windows 95 theme. Here’s the backstory which is pretty interesting.
What’s also interesting is listening the original track — both at original speed (4 seconds), and slowed down by 2300%.
Screenshot from “Don Cherry Swedish TV Documentary 1978”
The Don Cherry documentary created by Swedish television in 1978 is a wonderful exposition of the jazz musician and his approach to life. The soft spoken man was best known for being a trumpeter with some of the great jazzers of the 1950s-70s, but the film shows there was more to Cherry than his rapid fire trumpet. His whole approach to music and to life was both beautiful and radical.
Just viewing bits and pieces of the doc, you quickly pick up that Cherry was more than just a horn player, or a piano player, or a flutist, or a bird caller. The guy’s approach to life was music. Anything and everything he came across was music. Life was a song and Cherry sang it out loud.
I especially enjoyed how he viewed competition in music.
“I don’t believe in competition in music. I don’t think of music as better or worse. It’s just different… and that brings a lot of ego and keeps musicians from coming together, because everyone wants to feel like they’re doing something different. Everyone wants to be an innovator. And all the innovators I’ve ever known—Coltrane, Ornette, Eric Dolphy—they all were playing their music and trying to develop in music. It wasn’t to try to be an innovator. They were innovators but they weren’t intentionally trying to be innovators.”
Wonderful. The doc also features some killer shots of NYC in the 1970s… worth a shot.
