Shiver

7–8 June 2003

This was the first mix I made that was driven by theme and not by what was new at the time. I began with a 1 Mile North track that I’d been obsessively playing for weeks, and began tossing other pieces into the stew as they occurred to me.

So yes, there is a theme here, of chimes and trills and reverberation. It begins as guitar harmonics, and the plucked guitar string carries through, until Windy & Carl dissolve it into aether and lovesliescrushing exorcise it. After that the electronic oscillator takes over, entering as pure sound but accreting overtones and warmth.

A friend asked me “why is it called Shiver when it sounds so warm?”, and that’s because it’s not about cold, it’s about the shiver I get from a certain kind of scary beauty. And you too, I hope.

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Track List

  1. 00:00 1 Mile North — “Evil Architecture”
  2. 08:49 Pink Floyd — “The Narrow Way” [part 1]
  3. 11:40 Cocteau Twins, — “Feet-Like Fins” [edit]
  4. 13:24 Slowdive — “Miranda”
  5. 17:58 Aarktica — “These Days Fail To Bring Me Near”
  6. 22:38 yellow6 — “threefold”
  7. 29:52 American Music Club — “I'm In Heaven Now”
  8. 32:52 Labradford — “V”
  9. 38:18 Windy & Carl — “Kate” [edit]
  10. 45:04 lovesliescrushing — “moinaexquisitewallflower”
  11. 50:40 Schizophrenia — “Schizophrenia”
  12. 57:15 Double Muffled Dolphin — “Betaspin”
  13. 65:18 Biosphere — “The Seal And The Hydrophone”
  14. 70:42 Ulrich Schnauss — “Between Us And Them”

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