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Trish Keenan's "Mind Bending Motorway Mix"

Started by The Mollusk, August 04, 2020, 08:47:18 PM

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The Mollusk

This was linked in the thread in which her tragic passing was announced back in 2011, but I wasn't a Broadcast fan then so I imagine that entire thread passed me by at the time. This week, however, I was browsing the r/vintageobscura subreddit (as I often do because it's fucking excellent) and I heard this track which someone pointed out was a part of this mix, and I got straight onto it:

https://soundcloud.com/abandapart/sets/trishs-mind-bending-motorway-mix

It's such a great selection of psychedelia, hauntology, quirky electronic noodlings and vintage rarities. What I find particularly remarkable, however, is that each of the songs here sounds a bit like Broadcast at some point. I know the aesthetic of Broadcast was very much "what a band in the 1960s trying to make futuristic music would sound like" and so in some ways it's obvious that they'd sound like their influences from 40-50 years prior, but there's more to it than that.

Broadcast don't really sound like any other band to me (or at least, no one has ever done that sound even remotely as good as they did), and so on hearing these songs, one could possibly conclude that it cheapens their output at or even makes them sound like they just nicked a bunch of ideas, but that isn't the case at all. They collected so many of these antique relics, blew the dust off them and put them together to create something otherworldly, beautiful, and unique.

So there it is. Have a listen!

Egyptian Feast

That's such a great comp. I haven't listened to it for years so thanks for the reminder.

The album I keep revisiting recently is The Focus Group collab. It's bewitching, guaranteed to always make me drift off 'somewhere else' if I'm just sitting still and listening.

My favourite track on there is Carl Erdmann's "Devil Worship", a deceptively slight piece of hippy jazzy jamming that somehow I've listened to hundreds of times- maybe the title hints at some occult powers hidden in the track but it's very moreish.
I first heard about it on this blog page, (the musician himself makes some remarks in the comments section), and I bet Trish did too, 'cos it's a amateur private-press type thing:
https://waxidermy.com/blog/carl-erdmann-bizzarrophytes/
I once saw Broadcast support Stereolab and its weird thinking that Trish and Mary Hansen are both gone now.

You were talking the other day about retro artists and both Broadcast and Stereolab are good example of brilliant bands who are obviously backward looking in a way. In both cases though, whilst  the music was retro, the lyrics aren't rockist pastiches but vital, living things about the world outside of music.

If you think nothing is yours
And if I think everything belongs to me
How wrong I'll be, none of us have anything.


Brundle-Fly

That's a great mix. In case fans have not heard these other treasure troves.

This ArchivesListening YouTube channel has compiled the 'Origins' videos of the tracks that influenced Broadcast (and Stereolab). Genius steals. Fill your boots.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_6uEDdFvXqlP2hQS2JJHw

Norton Canes

I wonder if James will ever release anything from the LP they were working on?

spaghetamine

This is fantastic, I'd actually forgotten she'd died until I clicked on the thread though :(

SpiderChrist

The Aquarium Drunkard blog, where I first heard of this, have all the individual tracks available for download - https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/04/20/trish-keenans-mind-bending-motorway-mix/

Puce Moment

It's a fantastic mix, that I have listened to so many times it is weird hearing the songs out of context of the comp.

If I'm feeling down about Trish passing I tend to listen to this before I listen to Broadcast, especially if I have been overdosing on them. Or I just play the Valerie soundtrack.

Puce Moment

Quote from: Brundle-Fly on August 05, 2020, 12:23:25 PM
That's a great mix. In case fans have not heard these other treasure troves.

This ArchivesListening YouTube channel has compiled the 'Origins' videos of the tracks that influenced Broadcast (and Stereolab). Genius steals. Fill your boots.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv_6uEDdFvXqlP2hQS2JJHw

Fucking hell! Nice one! How has this passed me by?

Brundle-Fly

Quote from: Puce Moment on August 05, 2020, 03:44:19 PM
Fucking hell! Nice one! How has this passed me by?

My favourite Broadcast influence has to be Turn To Earth by Al Stewart. 1966   (Which I've just learnt tonight is a Yardbirds cover).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGhvXa_uxNU