Lana Del Rey VS Congi - Sonmium of the Young and Beautiful (L&O Cocktail)

A bit of a throwback but seven years ago we made a Cocktail (mashup) of Congi and Lana Del Rey. I had made a video mashup for the two based off of Lana Del Rey's music video and the trailer for the Great Gatsby but had done it in iMovie and didn't quite know what I was doing. So it was never posted, I found the old file and cleaned it up the best I can and so now here it is for fun and enjoyment.

Congi:
soundcloud.com/congi-music

Lana Del Rey:
lanadelrey.com/

Video Clips:
Lana Del Rey
youtube.com/watch?v=o_1aF54DO60
The Great Gastby:
youtube.com/watch?v=rARN6agiW7o

cock·tail
ˈkäkˌtāl/
noun

1. An alcoholic mixed drink that contains three or more ingredients, at least one being a spirit, one sweet/sugary, and one sour/bitter.

2. An intoxicating sonic concoction consisting of a delicate blend of various tracks and samples, then cut with a fine layer of supplemental sound design.

So what happens when you invite L&O to play a Great Gatsby party? You get a jazzy fusion of retro melodies blended into a more modern framework that compliments that martini in your hand. While the whole set was a left-field trip through the lounge sound of the 1920s, we felt that the opener stood out as something our larger internet audience would enjoy.

Congi's track Somnium (Latin for "The Dream") provided a perfect noir backdrop to Lana Del Rey's somber lyrics on nostalgia, and the desperation of youth. The product of their tonal marriage is something we're happy to share with you today.

Joseph Noctum - Summer Gold

Released initially somewhere in early 2015 under different artwork and the mix title, “All The Gold”. This was a set I put together for an ambitious art project’s fundraiser. I’m always down for a good art project, and this one was extra cool, so I wanted to do my part even though I wasn’t able to make it out to Flipside that year. A few years later I revisited this mix and changed both the name and the artwork for it. I was working on developing a “grime art” style and this seemed like a fun project to work on. I don’t think I even promoted the original very much but this is one of my favorite mixes I’ve ever done.

“Tracklist:
1. Whatsonot - Touched (Slumberjack Remix)
2. Hermitude - Through The Roof
3. DJ Snake & AlunaGeorge - You Know You Like It
4. Wet Paint - Showstoper
5. Corporate - Culture Shock
6. Dillon Francis & DJ Snake - Get Low
7. Mogaui - ACIIID (Whiiite Remix)
8. Slumberjack - Horus
9. MUST DIE! - Imprint
10. Dillon Francis - Beautician 2.0 (Just a clip to transition)
11. Henry Fong - Stand Up (Milo & Otis Remix)
12. Major Lazer - Wind Up (Donkong Remix)
13. K1ngCole - Time That Never Was mashed up with Kayzo & Jordan Alexander - Recoil (Donkong Rmx)
14. Libations & Oscillations - Drama Rhythm (a mash up of Two Fingers - Vengeance Rhythm (KOAN Sound Remix) and Bro Safari & UFO! - Drama with some of their own production mixed in)
15. ETC!ETC! x Snails - RUBBR
16. Bassnectar & Jantsen - Lost In The Crowd (LOCOJA Remix)
17. James Blunt - Limit To Your Love (Cazzette Bootleg)
18. Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding - Outside Tisoki remix
19. Yolanda Be Cool - A Baru in New York (GRMM Remix)
20. Keys N Krates - Are We Faded”

Libations & Oscillations - Young & Beautiful

This is a live set for a private party that was never really made for release. It was made for the magic of one night. In October of 2013 a Great Gatsby party happened and it was the social event of the season. Everyone was there dressed to the nines, cocktails, and cigars between the pool and rotunda. Hors d’oeuvres of canapés, crudités, and patisserie by the grand foyer. A photo session in the drawing-room, and plenty of action in the ballroom. The creation of a proper mood for this event was crucial and began with crafting a new cocktail (mash-up) of Lana Del Rey’s song from the Great Gatsby soundtrack. Everything else was built from there using lounge, future jazz fusion, and a touch of hip hop. The cocktail was released on November 5th of that year but the setlist was lost to a cocktail napkin and found again inside a smoking jacket. Eventually to be released as a full the full mixset in Feb of 2014.

“Tracklist:
1. Lana Del Rey vs. Congi - Somnium Of The Young And Beautiful (L&O Cocktail)
2. Author - In The Sky Feat Jehst & Stig Of The Dump
3. Bonobo - Sapphire
4. Blockhead - Farewell Spaceman
5. Moca - Latein
6. Ella Fitzgerald - Wait Till You See Him (De-Phazzed Remix)
7. Esthero - Melancholy Melody
8. Chinese Man - Saudade Feat Femi Kuti and Liliboy
9. Waldeck - Addicted
10. Caravan Palace - Star Scat
11. Thievery Corporation - A Gentle Dissolve (Shawn Lee Ping Pong Orchestra Remix)
12. Wax Tailor - Only Once Feat Ali Harter
13. Michal Menert - Top to Bottom
14. Blockhead - Triptych Pt. 3
15. Chinese Man - He Said
”

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)”

Libations & Oscillations - Cadavre Exquis

So this is the fifth mix chronologically but the story this mix takes place after our duo Dr. Dirigible and The Outlaw Saint have left Professor Seaglitch's Isle. In this arrangement, we hear the newfound musical techniques of Dr. Dirigible and The Outlaw Saint. The former title could be, "The Exquisite Corpse of My Former Self," however that is a touch extravagant. Instead "Cadavre Exquis" describes both the technique and emotion that was put into this mix. This was put together and performed for the 38th Ambient Campout and lead to one of our favorite remixes we’ve ever done. The Portishead remix here was something that happened. There was a point in Cadavre Exquis where we thought, "Man, it would be nice to drop some Portishead right here, but it doesn't quite fit." So we remixed it. You have to be careful when remixing something as timeless as Portishead. The original is so beautiful, we didn't want to change that much but rather just amp up the groove a bit to fit the context of the mix.

“Tracklist:
1. AMB - Skyway 2011
2. Hecq - With Angels (Trifonic Remix)
3. Massive Attack - Teardrop (Knight Riderz Remix)
4. Florence & The Machine - Cosmic Love (Seven Lions Remix)
5. Bird Of Prey - The First Step
6. Portishead - Roads (Libations & Oscillations Lori Petty Remix)
7. The Flashbulb - Teeming Disconnected
8. Phaeleh - Afterglow (ft. Soundmouse) (Akira Kiteshi Remix)
9. Phaeleh - In The Twilight
10. Bird Of Prey & Chillax’n - Pipe Dream
11. Made in Heights - SKYLARK INTERABANG?!
12. Kid Beyond - I Shall Be Free
13. Kaiori Breathe - I Have Ruined Everything I Care About
14. Kraymon - Slick Tricks
15. The Nomad - Devil In The Dark (Opiuo Remix)
”

Libations & Oscillations - The Cracked Chronometer

Typically during the burning of an effigy at a burn event there is no music. Not that it’s a law written in stone but it’s something that people had come to think of like a tradition. At the request of the effigy designer, Dottie Spearman, we challenged this line of thinking. Several things happened here the first being one of the most complicated mixsets either Tonebreaker or myself have ever put together and an L&O Cocktail at the end. Which is one of the strangest things I’ve ever put together. However, I still love it for it’s dark and cinematic feel.

In this tale, Dr. Dirigible (Tonebreaker) and The Outlaw Saint (Joseph Noctum) have affixed an ancient Duergar chronometer to their airship, the S.S. Discord. According to legend, this device will allow them to sail the temporal seas firsthand. However, upon entering the tesseract, the chronometer cracks and sends our band of ne’er-do-well’s skittering through the fabric of spacetime. The resulting adventure through past, present, and future is transcribed in sound for your listening enjoyment. We used all of our skills mixing, sampling, remixing and producing this arrangement to make a cinematic tour that spans a myriad of musical styles. Marrying the world of acoustic and electronic music, we hope you enjoy this auditory accompaniment to the stunning visuals, performances, pyro and ultimately, our 2012 burn

“Tracklist:
1. Miroslav Losonsky - Neanderthal
2. Griff - Improbability
3. Great Scott - Looking Good (Instrumental)
4. The Glitch Mob - Beyond Monday
5. Mongoose - Dragon Slayer
6. Kalya Scintilla - Caravan Planet
7. Birds Of Paradise - Lucid Dream
8. Cassette Culture - We Once Had An Empire (Jungle Fiction Remix)
9. Daft Punk - Rinzler (Kaskade Remix)
10. Akira Kiteshi - Iron man
11. Bassnectar - Boombox (Bassnectar & iLL.Gates Remix)
12. The Glitch Mob - Animus Vox
13. Muse - Knights of Cydonia (Gramatik remix)
14. Great Scott - Mad Hydraulic Bounce
15. Kalya Scintilla - Way Of The Tarot
16. Emancipator - Rattlesnakes (saQi Remix)
17. Pretty Lights - Something’s Wrong
18. Bird Of Prey - Pathfinder feat. Ryan Johnson and Robert Rich
19. Trifonic - Growing Distance Pt. 2 (Instrumental)
20. C2C - F-u-y-a
21. Benn Jordan - Sunrise In Blue Skies
22. Massive Attack vs. The Bug - Catch A Fire Sam (Libations & Oscillations Cocktail)”

Libations & Oscillations - Invasion Of The Soul Snatchers

It’s hard for me personally to pick-out a favorite Libations & Oscillations set. Tonebreaker and I made a lot of magic together in the studio piecing together songs from friends, remixing, and editing extremely avant-garde tracks. This mix would be up there at the top though. This was our set from Ambient Camping 36. We decided to construct a blend of haunting downtempo that creeps along and stitches together beautiful, yet somber melodies. In addition to being hauntingly beautiful, this places in some of our favorite artists and allowed us to really start putting our own flavor into those tracks through remixes and edits.

“Tracklist:
1. KiloWatts - Interlude
2. The Flashbulb - A Raw Understanding
3. Frank Riggio - Tryk Alimba
4. Eskmo - Moving Glowstream
5. Ill.Gates & MiM0SA - Never Alone
6. Two Fingers - Moth Rhythm
7. Beats Antique - Siren Song
8. Florence & The Machine - Heavy In Your Arms (C Berg Remix)
9. Phaeleh - From a distance
10. Emancipator - First Snow (Ooah Remix)
11. The Flashbulb - Kirlian Changes
12. Mercan Dede - Istanbul (L&O’s Two Broken Edit)
13. Beats Antique - Alto
14. See - I - Blow Up
15. THIEVERY CORPORATION - Is it over?
16. Bluetech - Three Worlds
17. Zero 7 - Ghost sYMbOl (L&O’s Finalflash Edit)
18. Leftfield - Swords”

Libations & Oscillations - Bridge Burner

This is the second in the Libations & Oscillations mixtape saga. Tonebreaker and I both decided to play our various sets at various sound camps throughout the Flipside event. The close however was a joint L&O set that we performed after the effigy burned at the Amalgam Coast camp. Well, here it is... Another twisted construct from us to you. As always we have a story to go with the audio. This one starts in the waste of a crushed empire and ends elsewhere. We are but the poets who tell the story in between.

“Tracklist:
1. The Flashbulb - Undiscovered Colors
2. MiM0SA - Stairway
3. Karton - Play Our Game
4. DJ Mutiny - Responded (Under This Remix)
5. Andy Page - SERPENT
6. Bjork - Joga (Matta refix)
7. Cassius - The Sound Of Violence (Tha Trickaz Remix)
8. Love & Light - Squish City Feat. Chestshure Von Scribbles
9. Pretty Lights - Finally Moving (remix)
10. B-Complex - Beautiful Lies
11. Karton - The Only One
12. Culture Shock - Bad Red
13. Sub Swara - Scheme Feat. Shamik
14. Blunt Instrument - TURTLE sLAP.
15. Gramatik - Stairway To Hip Hop Heaven”

Libations & Oscillations - Professor Seaglitch's Isle of Aural Decadence

The very first Libations & Oscillations mix. This one is a special mix as it cemented my longest-running musical partnership. It started with Tonebreaker wanting my help in a remix project he was working on. It then moved to us finishing an original track he was working on. That track became “Going Baroque”. The next thing we knew we were working on a live set to play together. This first one was not played as a duo as he had a DJ reunion show in Dallas to play and I had a show on the beach for Ambient Campout to play. So separated by 550 ish miles on the opposite ends of Texas we played this set. Later we released it on the nurevolution studios podcast. This marked the beginning of the journey by Dr. Dirigible (Tonebreaker) and the Outlaw Saint (Joseph Noctum).

“Tracklist:
1. Of Porcelain - Signal The Captain
2. The Glitch Mob vs. Le Roux - Bad Wings (Castle) / In For 3. The Kill (Acapella)
4. Ill-esha - Smoke and Mirrors
5. The Glitch Mob - Between Two Points ft. Swan
6. M83 - Skin of the Night (Of Porcelain)
7. Eskmo - Cloudlight
8. Fever Ray - I’m Not Done (R/D)
9. VibeSquad - Empower the Wallflower
10. R/D - Ballad of Melted Rapture
11. Truth - Perfect Combination
12. Nico Luminous - Speaker Box ft. Reva Devito
13. Ill-esha & Kitsch Palace - Shiki Miki
14. James Zabiela - Human (Stephan Jacobs Late Night)
15. Love & Light - You’re the Reason Why
16. Libations & Oscillations - Going Baroque”