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A definite advantage of living in Philadelphia (besides being able to visit The Mütter Museum) is the fact that the members of Bardo Pond also live here, so we get to see them play on a fairly regular basis. Ever since their latest show on 11.24, their records have been on heavy rotation here in the home office (I can always count on Michael to bring an excellent selection of their various projects on vinyl to sell to me at each show). My most recent purchase included releases from Alasehir, Moon Phantoms, Bardo Pond, and 500mg. Two of the three tracks on this collection are from those records. I have included the links below to each, so once you are done enjoying this mix, you can spend a few of your hard-earned dollars on these fine releases. Limited edition colored vinyl always makes great holiday gifts, right?!

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This collection has been archived. Send me an email if you are interested in hearing it (mike@6forty.com).

640.025 playlist

Alasehir <> Fire Crack
John Gibbons : guitar
Michael Gibbons : guitar
Jason Kourkounis : drums
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Moon Phantoms <> Departure To The Space
John Gibbons : guitar/synthesizer
Michael Gibbons : guitar
Jason Kourkounis : drums
Isobel Sollenberger : viola/flute/voice
Pirako Kurenai : guitar/voice
Kageo : voice
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Bardo Pond <> From The Sky
John Gibbons : guitar
Michael Gibbons : guitar
Ed Farnsworth : drums
Clint Takeda : bass
Isobel Sollenberger : flute/voice
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Lately it’s been feeling as if my days are on fast-forward – I often forget to slow down. So I put together this collection to use as my emergency break. I’m really pleased with the flow of the songs on the playlist. I’ve been listening to these records a lot lately and thought that they would make a nice mix together.

Support these bands – go to their concerts, buy their records, join them online and help spread the word so they can continue making such excellent music.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Moya
Rachel’s – Lloyd’s Register
The Tumbled Sea – 97202
The Declining Winter – Killer
…And the Earth Swarmed With Them – Everyone Will Fade
Woodworkings – Some Sunlight
Goodnight, Sleep Well – Desmond Hume Has Come Unstuck In Time
The Tumbled Sea – Summer V
Un Vortice Di Bassa Pressione – Bird’s Eye Wall
Stubborn Tiny Lights vs Clustering Darkness Forever OK – Familiars

‘Bones?’ I exclaimed. ‘Why, yes, these are the bones of antediluvian animals!’

I fell on these primeval remains, composed of indestructible calcium phosphate, and unhesitatingly identified these gigantic bones, which looked like dried-up tree-trunks.

‘Here is the lower jaw of the mastodon,” I said; ‘and there is a femur which can only have belonged to the biggest of all those monsters, the megatherium. Yet, it certainly is a menagerie, for these bones can’t have been brought here by a cataclysm. The animals they belonged to have lived on the shores of this subterranean sea, in the shade of these arborescent plants. Why, I can even see some whole skeletons. And yet…’

‘Yet what?’ asked my uncle.

‘I can’t understand the presence of such huge quadrupeds in this granite cavern.’

‘Why?’

‘Because animal life existed on earth only in the Secondary Period, when a sediment of soil had been deposited by the flood-waters and had taken the place of the incandescent rocks of the Primitive Period.’

‘Well, Axel, there is a very simple answer to your objection, and that is that this soil is alluvial.’

‘What! At this depth below the surface of the earth?’

‘Why, yes, and there is a geological explanation of the fact. At a certain period the earth consisted only of and elastic crust, which moved alternatively upwards or downwards according to the laws of attraction and gravitation. Probably subsidences of the crust occurred and some of the alluvial soil was carried to the bottom of the abysses which suddenly opened up.’

‘That must be it. But if antediluvian animals have lived in these subterranean regions, how do we know that some of those monsters are not still roaming about in these gloomy forests or behind these steep rocks?’

As the idea occurred to me, I examined, not without certain alarm, the various points of the horizon, but no living creature could be seen on those deserted shores.

from Journey to Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne, first published in 1864

All of the songs on 640.021 were either purchased legitimately or were offered for free. For more information about the music featured on this collection, please click on the band names in the list below.

Russian Circles – Geneva (00:00)
Pelican – The Woods (05:49)
Bardo Pond – Living Testament (18:47)
The End Of Science – You Are Dead (26:24)
Exilym – The Space Stranger And The Orbital Wish (35:21)
Tesa – IV (40:25)
La Vérité – You Eyes Are The Sun (47:05)
The End Of Science – 1113 (55:11)
Maybeshewill – Not For Want Of Trying (59:09)
Maybeshewill – Takotsubo (64:44)

640.021 playlist

The songs featured on this collection are taken from the various projects released over the years by Tara Jane ONeil, Dan Littleton, and Elizabeth Mitchell. My wife and I have been fans for a long time, and love the fact that our daughters are now also listening (Abby’s first concert was Elizabeth Mitchell at the World Cafe!). It was so hard to narrow down the playlist since every record is so great, so I decided that this will be just the first of several podcasts to feature these bands. Here are 14 mellow acoustic amazing songs that you’re going to love. Buy these records and support these bands so they can continue making such great music.

This collection has been archived. Send me an email if you are interested in hearing it (mike@6forty.com).

640.018 playlist

Tara Jane ONeil – You Rats Are
The Ida Retsin Family – Sad Song Wisconsin
Retsin – The Moon Fickle
Retsin – Money Song
Elizabeth Mitchell – Little Wing
Liquorice – Keeping The Weekend Free
Tara Jane ONeil – Known Perils
Sonora Pine – Long Ago Boy
Nanang Tatang – Booster Shot
Daniel Littleton – Stared and Laughed
Elizabeth Mitchell – If You Listen
Retsin – We Are The Rings
Ida – Encantada
Ida – Don’t Get Sad

Title: Encyclopédie d’histoire naturelle; ou, traité complet de cette science d’après les travaux des naturalistes les plus éminents de tous les pays et de toutes les époques
Authors: Chenu, Jean Charles, 1808-1879; Desmarest, E. (Eugène), 1816-1890
Publisher: E. Girard et A. Boitte (Paris)
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

All of the songs on 640.016 were either purchased legitimately or were offered for free. For more information about the music featured on this collection, please click on the band names in the list below.

Moonlit Sailor – 1994 (0:00)
Gifts From Enola – Lionized (4:20)
Gifts From Enola – Dime And Suture (12:35)
Exilym – One More Step Before The End (18:36)
Goonies Never Say Die – This One Took Forever (24:29)
Moonlit Sailor – Waterfall (30:40)
Saxon Shore – Isolated By The Secrets Of Your Fellow Men (35:06)
Caspian – ASA (42:16)
Beyond This Point Are Monsters – It’s Beige (49:33)
Kinski – That Helmut Poe Kid’s Weird (58:39)

640.016 playlist.pdf