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When I was invited to submit a 100% vinyl mix for Vinyl Factory in 2015, I knew it’d be the perfect occasion “to go back over some favourites that I can connect to very specific periods of my life in terms of what I was listening to and where I was at in my own music-making. Some of them I discovered in the past few years, but I would like to tell you about five songs that are particularly relevant to the birth of my Colleen project back in the early 2000s.”

Read my musings on the following songs here at Vinyl Factory: Holger Czukay “Boat-Woman Song” which acts like a connecting thread throughout the mix, Wu-Tang Clan “Bells of War”, Autechre “Cipater”, Mulatu Astatke “Wubit”, Can “Vitamin C”.

Also, as you’ve probably noticed, this mix retrospective which is nearing its end also served as a live show retrospective of sorts. Here is my pedal setup in all its Captain of None glory with its 3 different sampling points.

Chain goes like this: Art Tube Preamp + Octabass EBS octaver + Boss Loopstation RC-30 + Line 6 DL4 + Moog MF-104 + Line 6 DL4. Sampling occurs on Loopstation (viola and voice) and the two DL4s, which are also used for delay. Art Tube preamp for treble viola da gamba, Octabass used for bass lines.

Holger Czukay – Boat-Woman-Song

Wu Tang Clan – Bells Of War

Autechre – Cipater

Holger Czukay – Boat-Woman-Song

Space Lady – Domine, Libra Nos /Showdown

Confetti – It’s Kind Of Funny

Family Fodder – Der Leiermann

The Fallout Club – The Beat Boys

Isolee – Beau Mot Plage

Reina De Cumbias – Conjunto Miramar

Can – Vitamin C

Holger Czukay – Boat-Woman-Song

Kaa Antelope – Rise Up Helicopter, Like A Bird

Mulatu Astatke – Wubit

Barong, A Balinese Musical Drama – Dance And Fight Of The Barong, Men’s Trance

Holger Czukay – Boat-Woman-Song

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