A Mixtape From mutatedpony

 


I know mutatedpony (who is actually Gavin Laird from Telstar Ponies) via the Fall Online Forum. He sent me this mix in the summer of 2019.


White Heaven - Blind Promise

Bursts into life with a squall of nasty, grainy noise-rock. A collision of Neil Young and Dinosaur Jr after they've spent an intoxicated evening listened to VU's I Heard Her Call My Name. Grabs you by the labels and forces you to turn it up to eleven.



Walter Wegmüller - Der Herrscher

Lovely slice of woozy, trippy bluesy krautrock.


Rockaragnarok - Pleasure Centre Of My Mind

A bit of a mystery: not to be found online anywhere, and the sound quality is reminiscent of the days when you used to hold your tape deck with built-in mic next to the TV to record Top of the Pops. Nonetheless a intriguing, rather sweet and melodic slice of glam-pop-rock.Put 

The Music In The Coffin - The Shadow Ring

Angular, dissonant art-rock. Several playing completely different songs. A mayfly falls to the ground; a waxwork corpse just crying wax tears; all gold is not true - some are grit and some are stone. All angles and earnest endeavour; sailing out now; sailing out boys...


Burning Star Core - Challenger

Delicately chiming keys over oscillating, understated distortion; the second half cuts the distortion loose, a restrained wall of noise clambering about below the persistently gentle melody. The full album is here.


Shizuka - 孤独を図る/Measuring loneliness
Expansive, spacious psychedelic strum that gives a nod to Galaxie 500 and Bardo Pond. Deadpan but sweetly captivating; the sort of thing that may well be even more moving heard live.



Moniack - Dirty Water

Another that seems to be a stranger to the internet. Muscular, chugging Shellac-like riff; punkish chanting chorus. More mainstream than much of the rest, but sits well here.


Hey Colossus - Oktave Dokkter

Ponderous, snaking, malevolent bass in the style of Slint/Butthole Surfers, underpinned by shards of icy synth and skittering, twisted guitar. Throaty, forceful vocals get right in your face and demand to know what you're going to do about it. A steady increase in tempo and intensity over the last couple of minutes ramps up the bludgeoning.



Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra - Rocket #9

Cosmic-space-rock-jazz-swing-psych-a million other genres. Could have been recorded any time from about 1935 onwards. 


You Ishihara - Nightwalker

Lazy, jazzy, bluesy, expansive; off-hand but deeply soulful vocals that refuse to be hurried. Packs a lifetime of experience into a surprisingly brief quarter of an hour. There's a truncated version here.

Alasdair Gray/Scott Twynholm - What Are We?

A chilled, tropical take on Dreadzone's Little Britain, with added fiddle from the Hebrides. Part of this somehow. Joyfully abstract.



Receiving a good mixtape is one of life's undoubted pleasures, and Gavin provided me with a fine one here.


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