Tonebreaker & Noctum - America's Ghostwriters

If you notice between the last mix and this one was a five-year gap, six years from the last Libations and Oscillations mix. It’s not that the duo of Tonebreaker and Noctum split, or that I attempted to “retire” from music again. It’s just that sometimes life happens. During lockdown orders in this extremely unusual year, Tonebreaker reached out to me with an idea. A mixtape to raise funds for charity. I was completely down with this idea. The charity we found was Music by Black Composers, a project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation.

On a personal note as we explored this mix we also decided to lay the Libations & Oscillations moniker to rest. So much had changed since the last time we touched that moniker. This time we released this simply as Tonebreaker and Noctum.

Music is one of the tapestries by which humanity tells its stories. From Congo Square in New Orleans to CBGB in New York, personal expression and culture have always been socialized to a soundtrack. As contemporary electronic musicians ourselves, we wanted to raise money for this charity to honor the rich and diverse musical roots that came before.

“Tracklist:
1. DJ Shadow - Rocket Fuel (feat. De La Soul)
2. Gramatik - Halcyon
3. GRiZ - PS GFY feat. Cherub (Opiuo Remix)
4. DJ Shadow - C.O.N.F.O.R.M (feat. Gift of Gab & Lateef The Truth Speaker)
5. Barbatuques - Baiana (CloZee Remix)
6. Skrillex & Boys Noize - BREAK LAW
7. Lin-Manuel Miranda - Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) (feat. K’naan, Snow tha Product, Riz MC and Residente)
8. BRONSON - DAWN feat. Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
9. Flume - Jewel
10. DROELOE - OATH (TWO LANES Remix)
11. Edamame - Kishi Kaisei (Tor Remix)
12. ODESZA - Memories That You Call (feat. Monsoonsiren)
13. Childish Gambino - This is America (WHITTE Remix)
14. The Glitch Mob - Saikuron (The Glitch Mob Remix)
15. Diamans - Egypt
16. Skrillex - Mumbai Power (feat. Beam)
17. BAAUER - REACHUPDONTSTOP
18. DJ Khalil - Elevate (feat. Denzel Curry, YBN Cordae, SwaVay & Trevor Rich)
19. Gramatik & Galactic Marvl - Voyager Twins
20. Run the Jewels - JU$T (feat. Pharrell Williams & Zack de la Rocha)
21. 1991 - The People
22. Flume - Let You Know (feat. London Grammar) (Nathan C Remix)
23. Orbital - PHUKU”

theWaxhole.com - Weekly Wax Vol 17 Mixed by Joseph Noctum

So what do you do when you are working with a kickass music blog and the DJ who is supposed to be dropping a guest mix for the blog drops an email the night before saying it won’t be done? You step up to the plate. That’s what this is a pinch-hit. With nothing really in the pipeline because my sets hadn’t really been in line with the Future Bass sound The Waxhole and crew had been pushing I decided to grab tracks the blog had recently posted and do a quick 30 min studio mix for the team. It worked and brought me into a new mindset to work more Future Bass into my sets. This was also a catalyst for a weekly feature I started with Waxhole called “Fourplay Fridays” which featured four new sexy and chilled-out Future Bass songs every week. I even eventually returned in Volume 27 of the Weekly Wax and did a whole hour set tunes featured on Fourplay Fridays.

“Tracklist:
1. What So Not - Touched
2. Minnesota - To The Floor
3. Lorde - Tennis Court (Flume Remix)
4. MØ feat. Diplo - XXX88 (Joe Hertz Remix)
5. Jagwar Ma - Uncertainty (Charles Murdoch Remix)
6. Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
7. Froxic - Floating Point
8. Tom Aspaul - Indiana (Bronze Whale Remix)”

theWaxhole.com January Mix Mixed by Libations & Oscillations

This was a fun promotional mix for theWaxhole.com. Our good buddy Hypo, then Editor-In-Chief for Waxhole was organizing mix series with various artists to weave the music featured on the blog into Mixtapes. This was a using November and December 2012 tunes as the palette which lead to some interesting choices for tracks, but ones that lead to some great audio moments.

“Tracklist:
1. Crywolf - Please Don’t Stop The Music (Rihanna Cover)
2. Trifonic - Santa Rosa
3. CloZee - Toulouse By Night
4. CloZee - Raging Strings
5. Tor - Moon II
6. Tor - Heikki
7. RIT - Terminal Illness
8. Rumtum - Birdeyes
9. Luxar ft Milo Mills - I Don’t Love Her
10. Tours - I Need U
11. Minnesota - Indian Summer (Feat G Jones)
12. Yuna - Lullabies (Adventure Club Remix)
13. Flume - Sleepless (PRFFTT & Svyable Remix)
14. Bondax - Gold
15. Chris B & jOBOT - Sevens on the Out
16. Ill.gates - The Demon Slayer Part 1
17. Trifonic - Baalbek (Hecq Remix)
18. Seven Lions - Days To Come (Culture Code Remix)
19. Draft - Vanish
20. Wanderhouse - Use Me Up (Ianborg Remix)
21. Neon Hitch - Gucci Gucci (VILLΛGE Edit)
22. The Weeknd - Twenty Eight (Ianborg & Bronze Whale Bootleg)”