Paolo Xz live set at The Melt in L.A. last weekend, 2-11-12. Minimal wave/zombie trax/etc.
tracklist:
1. suicide – cheree
2. vox edit ?
3. paolo xz – thug posse
4. sizike – svemirski cistac
5. neon judgement – please release me
6. paolo xz – black mass
7. paolo xz – sixteen candles
8. ami marie – der seemann und die rose
9. nessun artista – unknown
10. g.a.n.g. – incantations
11. vida slann – squalor motel main titles
12. splash band – das philadelphia experiment
13. paolo xz – motorboat
14. propaganda – frozen faces
15. paul hertzog – kumite
16. stu phillips – knight rider theme
17. white car – no better
18. section 25 – looking from a hilltop
19. l-vis1990 – here with you
20. deux – felicita
21. bam bam – where’s your child
22. robert owens – your mind (passion) (ron hardy edit 1)
23. exterminator 2 liquor store scene
Continuing our recent streak of ATL-based artists doing Astrocasts, Moist Ghost brings in #21 with sub-driven grime that will paint the walls of wherever it’s being played black. Known to circles of post-dubstep and dirty southern trap music as the club rattling Taste Taster, this project is wetter and more rhythmically bold, taking notes from the frenetic polyrhythms of footwork trax, future bass and water. Shoot this mix into your bloodstream and keep an eye out for a Moist Ghost release on Astro Nautico in 2012.
The second Ghost we’ve had participate in this series, and the second ATL based artist in a row to do an Astrocast, Featureless Ghost hits hard with the most relentlessly upbeat and intense mix we’ve had since Howse’s juke blaster (Astrocast 13). No track plays on its own for more than 30 seconds, and the bpm hovers just over a cool 160 for most of the mix. If you’re having an unproductive day, press play on this one and we guarantee you’ll start getting something done.
Featureless Ghost is a guy/girl duo whose previous output is compelling, slightly deranged synth-based pop music. With punchy kicks and attention-grabbing David Byrne-esque vocals acting as the nucleus for most of the tracks, these songs bang equally hard in the club, the bedroom or the whip. It’s some of the most refreshing music I was exposed to last year (bigups Ian @ Friendship Bracelet). Lately, Matt from FG has been making some footwork type instrumentals in the same vein as what you will find on Astrocast 20, which we will be exposing in some form or another on Astro Nautico in the months to come.
check out Featureless Ghost’s website and bandcamp.
Although this is slightly late, I recently had the pleasure of contributing a mix to LuckyMe‘s renown mixtape series. I’ve been listening to these mixes for years now, so to be able to have my name up there with the rest of the talented contributors was a huge honor for me.
It was posted a couple of weeks ago, but if you haven’t checked it out yet, scroll down on this page to #97 and give it a listen. If you really dig it, you can even download it. Made sure to represent Astro Nautico heavy in the mix, so tracks from myself, Kuhn, RAJA, Paul Jones and The Range are all in attendance.
Tracklisting:
Aeroplane – Mountains Of Moscow
Inc. – Heart Crimes
Beaty Heart – 2Good (Jam City Remix)
L.V. – I Am L.V.
$1 Bin – This Is A Melody
Gwen Stefani – Luxurious (Lapalux Bootleg Remix)
SBTRKT & Sampha – Evening Glow
Machinedrum – TMPL
Kon – Earthbound
123Mrk – Unrest
Look Like – Buggin (Sinjin Hawke Remix)
Obey City – Radio Rah
Starkey – Lost In Space (Kuhn Remix)
Raja – Big Guns And Coke (Can’t Ace Me)
Obey City – Intrigue
The Range – A Solitudinous Diptych
Todd Rundgren – Prana
Knxwledge – Dukshun
Chris Clark – Lord Of The Dance
Bobby Brown – I’ll Be Good To You
Bobby Nunn – Do You Look That Good In The Morning?
L-vis 1990 – One More Day
Paul Jones – Supermax (feat. Puff Daddy & Cassie)
Hyetal – Beach Scene
Rustie – Surph
Obey City – Melted Magic
d’Eon – Tongues
James Pants – Plain To See
Thanks & stay tuned, cause there’s always more to come 
Every year between the late hours of Christmas Eve and the early hours of Christmas Day, something very special happens. That something is this annual mix.
Here at Astro Nautico we believe in the Christmas Spirit. But we also believe in the joyful perversion of that spirit.
This is a mix for lots of people. People who get sick of the straight-faced candied pop winter wonderland. People who have generally good families but several weird or objectionable relatives. People who didn’t get what they wanted under the tree. Orphans, porn stars, drug addicts.
Astro Nautico proudly presents an alternative holiday mix, full of weird one-off tunes from your favorite Astro Nautico artists under preposterous aliases. Realer than real, occasionally dark, less occasionally triumphant, this is a cosmic yuletide journey.
As my Mom just said, Astro Nautico is ruining Christmas. Again.
1. Dipset – X-Mas Time
2. 10 K.A.N.’s – Whatchugot4Xmas
3. James Pants – This Christmas Girl
4. The Range – Mewithoutyou
5. Al Gates – Nightmare Before Christmas
6. Anya Marina – I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas (Syrup Edit)
7. Lindstrom – Little Drummer Boy Edit
8. Gucci Mane feat. Young Jeezy & Boo – Icy (Shark Attack Merry Mix)
9. Yuletide Children’s Chorus of Xiang Piu – Stocking Shrooms
10. DJ Sloppy Joe – Get Acquainted
11. Yuletide Children’s Chorus of Xiang Piu – Stocking Shrooms (Remix)
12. Lil’ B – Santa Claus Is Coming BASED FREESTYLE
13. DJ St. NY Knicks – Trap Under The Tree (Thank You Based RAJA)
14. Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas (Al Gates Juke Edit)
15. j marley esq – knelt
16. Sandy Marton – Merry Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
17. Justin Bieber feat. Busta Rhymes – Drummer Boy (Syrup Edit)
UXO is one of the most respected and artistically mature beatmakers in Italy. His aesthetic is deeply spacey, influenced by free-jazz, Kosmische Musik, raw psychedelia and J Dilla instrumental hip hop. He produces cuts that goes from minimal dub, to greasy brown funk, to aethereal psychedelic ambient. He runs a personal web-label, Queenspectra, through which he releases mixtapes, singles, remixes based on his solo work or collabo like Go Savant! (with Grillo), or (((VERSUS))) a remix album with a lot of guest to check out. He’s working right now with Digi G’Alessio on a split album which is going to be released very very soon.
“Savant Ain’t Idiot” is his livemix for Astronautico through which he will share with the listener his Cosmic Vision made of Scifunk and Spacebass.
Listen Up
RDBN (pronounced “Red Bone”) is a mysterious beat-maker & visual artist based in Brooklyn via Philadelphia. He makes crunchy experimental beats using only an SP-303, stacks of vinyl & some sparse synthesizers. They are full of off-kilter drums, fuzz, and raw energy – sort of like this mix.
For this mix, which is entitled “Shoot Your Television,” RDBN selects a diverse & eclectic, yet uniformly raw and exciting, blend of tunes ranging from hip-hop, no-wave & psychedelic to Based God himself.
Additionally, he recently released a little four-track sampling of some of his styles that you can stream over at his bandcamp.
Stay tuned for more music from RDBN in the near future via Astro Nautico.
Another mix from ya Astro boyz – just whipped this one up for my dude SOTR in affiliation with Vane for their Vanity Jukebox mix series.
Obey City is that white boy we’ve all encountered in our neighborhood with too much soul to contain. He’s similar to other modern blue-eyed producer & performers such as Javelin, Onra, and Machinedrum, who keep it electric and weird yet so funky and accessible at the same time. He’s got an ear for classic R&B and hip-hop to accompany his love for progressive house, juke and future garage music. Obey’s DJ sets are typically bright and on the obscure side, as if space travel was open to explore by the public without proper training & certification. Obey City just wants to have fun at his own pace by teasing you with various smooth tracks for any joyous occasion. Buckle up, enjoy the ride and try not to spill your drink or your ice cream!
TRACKLISTING
1. Endgames – Ecstacy (Jam City Edit)
2. Obey City – Boom Boom Carz (Bootleg)
3. Canblaster – Air Totem
4. Myrryrs – Paradis Parka
5. MORRI$ – Affairs
6. 123Mrk – Invisible Colors
7. DJ Funeral – Bounce Dat
8. Addison Groove – Make Um Bounce
9. Mosca – Bax
10. Solid Groove & Sinden – Overbooked
11. Young L – Beating Up That Block
12. Salva – Obsession (feat. B Bravo)
13. Dro Carey – Much Coke (Cedaa Remix)
14. DJ Jay Hood – High School Anthem
15. Obey City – IDID (Dub)
16. xxxy – Bodymoving (VIP)
17. LOL Boys – BANG THEM
18. DIstal – Grape Donut
19. Joker – Electric Sea (Instrumental)
20. A$AP Rocky – Wassup
Stream it first & then download it if you’d like here
New Kuhn mix up on London-based bass blog Hyponik today featuring unreleased tracks from Astro Nautico artists under hidden monikers, historic jungle tunes as well some dubs from London and West Coast brethren such as Young Montana? and Matthewdavid.
“Young talent abounds on our latest mix, as we’re welcomed into the multi-faceted world of young Brooklyn talent Kuhn, a man who’s deeply colourful take on world bass looks set to blow up in 2012.
Following a number of self-released free EPs that explored the outer realms of the current bass sound with a sound that took influence from the likes of early jungle, deep South hip-hop and the twisting rhythmics of dark garage, 22 year old Bennett Kuhn is currently sitting on a slew of tracks that push the 2011 template even further. His current ‘Slime Beach’ EP, released via London’s Civil Music, is the first in a series of new EP’s from the young producer, which is winning him fans across the global bass spectrum, from San Franciscan tech-house don Claude Von Stroke, through to the likes of Om Unit and Rinse FM’s Alexander Nut.
His Hyp mix is a sprawling, beat heavy affair that takes in great work from some of our very favourite new artists, whilst tipping its hat that classic jungle sound with tracks from Phillip D. Kick and Ray Keith. Don’t sleep…”
Tracklist:
01. Kuhn – Railroad (Intro)
02. Blank & Kytt – Same Old
03. Rimar – World Drop
04. Shoulda – On My Roost
05. Raja – Go Back To Sleep
06. Dreams – OooOooo
07. Miami Jungle Vice – In Dreamz
08. Ray Keith – Renegade Terrorist
09. Remarc – R.I.P. (Phillip D. Kick Edit)
10. (Derrick May Interview)
11. Kuhn – U Can’t
12. Phanes – Lucky Woman
13. Matthewdavid – stealing_sahara_1
14. Young Montana? – Bonsoir
15. Kuhn – Bombing Oyster Bay (Outro)
Stream/Download on Soundcloud:
Space Ghost is an Oakland-based producer with a mountainous collection of unreleased beats, each with a very unique vibe but consistently featuring drums that simply crack and thump on under emotionally charged ethereal texture/synthscapes.
Representing the On Task Family, Space Ghost has collaborated with vocalists such as AHYVE, featured on ‘Tha Trip’ (in this mix).
Keep a vigilant eye on Space Ghost’s Soundcloud. New tracks appear there every day only to disappear a week later. Beats as ghosts.
http://space-ghost.bandcamp.com/
