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Not all of my old mix tapes were distributed out to friends, I did manage to hold on to several that documented many of my 7″ singles and my EP collection. There are 42 excellent songs represented on 640.030 – the soundtrack of our 1990’s.

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640.030 playlist.pdf

Jessamine – Your Head Is So Small It’s Like A Little Light
Jessamine – Soon The World Of Fashion Will Take An Interest In These Precedings
Polvo – Fractured
Polvo – Tragic Carpet Ride
Magic Hour – Heads Down Part 1
Magic Hour – Heads Down Part 2
Flying Saucer Attack – Standing Stone
Flying Saucer Attack – Soaring High
Jessamine – Cellophane

Windy & Carl – Marble Dream
The Spiny Anteaters – Shut Up!
Hood – The Treacherous Mytholm Steeps
Magnog – Waiting To Remember
Flies Inside The Sun – A Spy In Your Love
Hood – Forehead
Hood – Crow Blown West
Hood – Beware! Falling Ox
Hood – I’m Turning Into A Cart
Hood – Further Woodland
Hood – 20X
Hood – Visions Of Old Machinery
Hood – Sometimes Doomed
Hood – You Should Never Feel Alone In This World
Hood – Crushed By Life

Flying Saucer Attack / Roy Montgomery – Goodbye
Flying Saucer Attack / Roy Montgomery – And Goodbye
Flying Saucer Attack / Roy Montgomery – The Whole Day
Hood – Eyes
Azusa Plane – Eric Gaffney
Furry Things – Odd Shaped Silence
Amp – Moontree

Hovercraft – Zero Zero
Hovercraft – Zero One
Fuxa – City & Metro
Fibreforms – Ecru (Shift)
Owl Eye – Memory Trigger
Fibreforms – April
Waterwheel – The Ice Floes
Roy Montgomery – Trajectory 1
Roy Montgomery – Trajectory 2
Flying Saucer Attack – For Silence
Flying Saucer Attack – Still Point

This playlist was prepared the other day while I was deep into the final chapters of George R.R. Martin’s “A Clash of Kings” (Book 2 of the Song of Ice and Fire series). It’s an amazing and epic adventure – highly recommended.  The songs were working really well in the background while I finished the last 150 pages. And they made an excellent mix for a new 6forty release, so I fired up Audacity and a few hours later, 640.028 was live. I really enjoy this collection – it’s on a lot in the office these days…

As always, please support these bands by buying their records and attending their concerts. Join me on twitter and facebook, or send me an email (mike@6forty.com) if you need any additional information about any of the bands or records included here.

This collection has been archived.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

640.028 playlist.pdf

Félperc – And Then They Pushed The Button
52 Commercial Road – 24
Sky Architects – Reflections (Intro)
Sky Architects – This Day On Our Side
Yeti Island – Lifelight
Sey Hollo – World Trade Center
Her Name Is Calla – Pour More Oil
417.3 – -3
The End Of Science – The Day Began Like A Fish
The Picturesque Episodes – The Still Silent Years (Hydrocodone)
Sleepmakeswaves – I Will Write Peace On Your Wings And You Will Fly Over The World
MinionTV – Yardsticks

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?!

Join me on twitter and facebook for more discussion. Or send me an email if you need any additional information about any of the bands or records included here.

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