Mix: Surreal Synthesizers

If you happen to have 213 minutes to spare please listen to some synthedelic bits, blips and swooshes I carried to Bern and played in a row one night in January 2017 at Cinema Rex for their Rextone series. They were playing surrealist films that month, hence the motto of this mix.
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Festive mix: Zpívánky - Czech folk song TV show for kids

It'll be a good conversation starter at any christmas party to say that you're currently listening to a mix/edit of songs from a Czech folk song/folk dance/fairy tale TV show for children.

Download this mix here.

I stumbled upon this show on YouTube while looking for TV idents. Here's my YouTube playlist (the mix/edit is based on sound snippets from these videos).

If this puts you in a festive mood, you might also like this Eastern European fairy tale soundscape I made some time ago.

Mix: l'arbre qui pleure

A novemberish mix for your february listening pleasures in frosty leafless forests.
Download here or listen on Mixcloud.
Cover star: Mariza Koch

L'arbre qui pleure - Dispokino Mix February 2015 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

1. Franco Potenza - Keola
2. Georges Auric - O Willow Waly
3. G. Ferroni - Altri Tempi
4. Savia Andina - Incallacta
5. Roberto Lanieri - Two Views of the Amazon
6. Mariza Koch - Δώδεκα Μήνες Στο Στρατό
7. Gerhard Trede - Montage No. 22
8. Ahmed Malek - Silence des Cendres
9. Walter Lietha - Märli
10. Bernard Szajner - Superficial Music 3
11. The Poppy Family - You Took My Moonlight
12. E. Allen, F.Reidy - Bygones
13. Marie Laforet - l'arbre qui pleure
14. Jean-Pierre Mirouz - Tandoori Dance

Mix: Soothing Sounds for J.

My first child J. was born this spring. To celebrate his 5 months birthday, here's a little mix to soothe the young and old folks.

With some Brazil bliss, Kraut Kitsch, Back-to-the-land romance, a Library Lullaby, greetings from the New Age, falsettos from the beach (J. loves when I sing along) and a healthy dose of sweet Morr Music from around the Millenium.

Listen on Mixcloud or download here.

Soothing Sounds for J. - Dispokino Mix October 2014 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

Tracklist:

F.S. Blumm - Schneeglocke

Raymond Scott - Music Box

B. Fleischmann - Drops

The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl

Michael Rother - KM3

João Gilberto - Undiú

Vashti Bunyan - Window Over the Bay

Jim Lawless - Vibes Lullaby

Laurie Spiegel - Appalachian Grove

Laraji - Essence (excerpt)

Isan - Clipper

Mort Garson - Rhapsody in Green

Mix: Sculptural Macramé

Here's an autumn mix for you. Questions and comments welcome as usual.

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Or listen on Mixcloud.

Sculptural Macramé - Dispokino mix October 2013 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

Bruno Spoerri - Music for Chinde verzelled 's Märli vom Geischt im Glas
Roj - Ludwig's Children
René Eespere - Okasroosike
Vashti Bunyan - Love Song
plastic moonrise - The Rapid Rain
Fred Jordan, Aston Munslow, Shropshire - Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight
Vote Robot - eo_xugod_
Frédéric Chanu - Prends le temps d'écouter
Pierre van Hauwe - Bolero
Tod Dockstader - Pond Dance
Les Baxter's Orchestra - The Left Arm of Buddha
Sais Salah Ahmed, Dahir Cali Jimale, Khaliif Osman Cabdi - Umuliso
Gábor Presser - Indulás a koncertre
Tündérkaszinó - A part alatt
Die Welttraumforscher - This Could Be the Greatest Love in Town
Brenda Ray - The Scream
Solfeggio Tones - Solfeggio 396 417 528 639

The Bruno Spoerri track is the intro for a Swiss fairy tale record. The René Eespere song comes from the fantastic Estonian Teeme Muusikat series I got to know through several posts on toys and techniques. All tracks come from vinyl records except the wonderful electronic poems of Catherine Norris (plastic moonrise) and the mathematic melodies of Solfeggio Tones which I found on Soundcloud. Frédéric Chanu's Prends le temps d'écouter was made in a Freinet school. Tom Gagnaire from the Shapes and Colors blog had the wonderfully insane idea to make a reissue of this 7" of music composed and played by children. Well, since you read this blog you probably don't find the idea insane at all and you should order the record through the Tona Serenad label. There's more to come, I'll keep you posted. While you're at it, you should also order the Welttraumforscher's This Could Be the Greatest Love in Town (originally released on cassette in 1987) on 7" that was recently released in the context of the Welttraumforscher retrospective and book I organised.

Mix: Sunearth Summerdays

I had the pleasure to DJ in the garden of the Maison Baron in Geneva on the hot summer evening of last Saturday. Here's a recording of my set. It's best enjoyed lying under a tree.

Some of the places visited during these 90 minutes: Berlin in the rain, the Himalaya, a classroom in Germany, a party on the Antilles, a garden in Hamburg, the outer space via Zurich, a vocoded Greece, a wedding in Indonesia, a church in Jamaica, the garden of evil and some other artificial and real gardens and forests.

Sorry no playlist, but please ask if you want to know anything.

Download here or listen on Mixcloud.

Sunearth Summerdays - Dispokino mix August 2013 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

Post 100 * Mix * Fauna Grotesque *

This seems to be post 100 of this little blog. Time for a long overdue new mix of mine.
Listen on Mixcloud or get it here.

Fauna Grotesque - Dispokino mix March 2013 by Dispokino on Mixcloud

Benjamin und Gäste - For Myriam
Peter Michael Hamel - Nada
Jerusalem In My Heart - Yudaghdegh El-ra3ey Walal-Ghanam
Clara Mondshine - Caesar in Kamerun
Syzygys - Fauna Grotesque
Jacno & Elli - Anne cherchait l'amour
Art of Noise - Snapshot
Christian Oestreicher - Boléro
Λένα Πλάτωνος - Tικ Tακ Ή Aurorina Selene (Ωρορίνα Σελένε)
E. Allen/F. Reidy - Highway Patrol
Die Welttraumforscher - Konstruiert aus Sonnenschein
Emanuele Calanduccio- Le due Sicilie
Shusha - Banafsheh
Jorge Autuori Trio - Temarisa
The Machines - Moonbug
Piet Janssens Beat Band -  Der Strom der Zeit
Moebius - im wedding
The Sammy Burdson Group - Galactic Impulses
Cindy Kallet - We Rigged Our Ship

Guest mix: The Inner Voice And The Rhythm Of The Outside

My friend Tai aka dj/Artist made an amazing guest mix for Dispokino (it comes at exactly the right time since I'm moving house and all my records are in boxes). Tai's a DJ, master digger and runs an underground film club. He litteraly lives between thousands of the most interesting and weird records, I'm glad he chose and mixed some of them for us.
Download the mix here.
Say hi to Tai on Mixcloud or Facebook.

Mix: Lasst uns auf die Reise gehn

It's vacation time!

N. and I are flying to North America. We'll take a road trip from New York to Montreal.

Let us know if you know of anything we shouldn't miss on the way.

Meanwhile here's a mix for you. Listen on Mixcloud or grab it here to listen on your mobile device while on vacation.

Lasst uns auf die Reise gehn - Dispokino mix July 2012 

These are the intercontinental goodies, from French and German library, via several Swiss oddities, Jazz from Québec and Poland, Italian xian folk, to American soundtracks, theater music and electronic music pioneers.

Patrice Sciortino - Speleolien
Tanto Pressanto - Motto per Toto
Franz Hohler (feat. Bruno Spoerri) - Es cheibe Meitli
Davie Allan and the Arrows - The Chase
Michel Bühler - J'irai cracher sur vos bombes
Johan Franco - The Tempest
Thomas Wiehe and Turid Lundqvist - Shri Rama
Claude Léveillée / André Gagnon - Baie des Sables
Jean-Paul Liardet - Modal
Michal Urbaniok Group - Inactin
Peter Thomas - Evening Air C
Clover - Mr. Moon
Elfi Zimmer - L'espoir cassé
Witthüser & Westrupp - Laßt uns auf die Reise gehn
Dominique André - On The Way To The Jungle
Domenico Machetta - Pastori
Orchestra of the Broadcasting company of Democratic Kampuchea - Song Of The Boatmen
Susan Ciani - Lixiviation

Eastern European fairytale soundscape

A collage I made from soundbits of eastern european fairy tale records without understanding any of the languages but loving the sound. 


Previously: Pohádky na deskách Supraphon

DJ Mahssa's set from the intercontinental psychedelic dance party

DJ Mahssa set at intercontinental psychedelic dance party, Sud Basel, 2/24/2012 

I'm very happy that DJ Mahssa from Los Angeles (via Teheran) stopped in Basel on her long European tour to play at the intercontinental psychedelic dance party I recently organised. 

I'm a big fan of her (essential) Pomegranates compilation with Persian pre-revolutionary funk/pop/psych. Among many other things she's also running the US-branch of Finders Keepers Records, is a member of the B-Music collective and is about to open a shop called Mount Analog for europhile psychedelia-loving Californian connoisseurs.

She kindly let me record and now publish her smashing set of Persian, Turkish and other delights from the party. Thanks again, Mahssa!

Stream from Mixcloud or download here.

Previously: My own set from the party.

My set from the intercontinental psychedelic dance party

Most of my set from the party I recently organised. Some needle feedback and a little distortion now and then, but hey, this is raw, wild, psyched out etc. dance music, sometimes even with lyrics in languages with weird amounts of consonants.
Sorry, no tracklist, but just ask me in the comments if you want to know something about a certain track.
Stream from Mixcloud or dl here.

Mix: A Very Good Year

Happy New Year - I wish you a very good year 2012! Here's a mix for you, mostly with stuff I got on vinyl recently. Some of it was even released recently. I hope you enjoy it.
Big shoutout to Ben from the toys and techniques blog who sent me two amazing records featured here, The Encore Sound of 1970, a record promoting beer with soft psych songs and Who Wants To Be Free, a record promoting Jesus with soft psych songs. I hope they mostly promote their soft psych-ness within my mix. But I don't mind if you have a little beer with it.

The Encore Sound of 1970 - Market
John Sold - Jubaliness
Hauschka - Sunrise
Lotti Tauber - Mother Courage
Timmy Thomas - Dizzy Dizzy World
Claudine Chirac - Pour Mes Amis
Pye Corner Audio - November Sequence
Bruno Spoerri - Rollin'
John Innes and Bill Fasig - Who Wants To Be Free
François de Roubaix - Rendez-Vous à l'Aube
Marie Laforêt - Siffle, Siffle Ma Fille
Julee Cruise - Floating
E. Schlepper - Regen
The Encore Sound of 1970 - Cheers Everyone

Download mix and tracklist here or stream via mixcloud:

A Very Good Year by Dispokino on Mixcloud

Are you a man who goes where the wind blows?

The Good News Singers fished souls with catchy songs and psychedelic pics

Are you a man who goes where the wind blows? Well, I'm pretty sure you could use half an hour of moral re-armament, spiritual food and aural Krishna cookies, rather psyched out jesus/allah freaks, directions to the path of glory, and stuff.

Music from some varieties of xtianity  and - in the name of universal love -  some other belief systems:

Are you a man who goes where the wind blows? by Dispokino on Mixcloud

Or download the mix and tracklist here.

Thanks to Ben for sharing Beth Sholom U.S.Y. in this post.