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
”

Joseph Noctum - Merry Fucking Twrksmas

A mix that has nothing to do with the holiday. It’s no secret I’m not much of a “Christmas” fan. I originally had pieces of this mix set up for my Pyropolis 2013 set but I was taken out of Flipside in an ambulance before I even got to play one song. So I kept using the pieces of the set to play my solo shows around town for part of the year, changing songs and mixes to suit the occasion. I was really digging the experimentation that was happening in the early 2010’s. Producers we’re digging through world wide genres like Baile Funk, Tribal Guarachero, Guaracha, Cumbia, Kuduro, Kwaito, Kizomba, Zouk, Moombah, Juke, and Trap and I wanted to play as much of that out as possible. I recorded this and put it on a shelf for a few months but decided to dust it off and give it out as some sort of Christmas Present since Santa won't give presents to the naughty children who shake their booty too much. So put this on and TWRK around your Christmas tree.

“Tracklist:
1. P.O.S - Weird Friends (Noctum Edit)
2. DaB - Bert On Beats
3. Tom Minor - Calle Oua (Ear Jerker Remix)
4. SYMBIZ - Six Feet Under
5. Ceelo Green - Bright Lights, Bigger City (Tommie Sunshine & Gianni Marino Edit) (Noctum Re-edit)
6. MUST DIE! & Sazon Booya - Dropper (Noctum Edit)
7. Bro Safari & Sazon Booya - Danger
8. Donkong - Turn It Up
9. Diplo - Set It Off feat. Lazerdisk Party Sex (The Fat Rat Remix)
10. K1ngCole - Time That Never Was
11. Amon Tobin & KOAN Sound vs Bro Safari & UFO - Drama Rhythm (Libations & Oscillations Cocktail)
12. Das Kapital feat. Louis Blaise - BrainBang
13. Major Lazer - Get Free feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors (Yellow Claw Get Free Money Remix)
14. Dillion Francis - Bootleg Fireworks (The Rebirth)
15. Bro Safari - THE DROP
16. PantyRaid - Sixteen & Free
17. Diplo & Swick - Keep It Gully (EntransiK & Macrohard Zook Booty Remix)
18. Colin Dornigan - Across The Pond (Two Sev’s Zouk Bass Remix)
19. Die Antwoord - Fatty Boom Boom (TYR Remix) (Noctum Edit)”

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)”

Joseph Noctum - Pyropolis 2012: Phuture Perreo

The third and last installment in my Pyropolis series. In 2009 Dave Nada changed electronic music while DJing a high school house party when he slowed down Afrojack's dutch house remix of 'Moombah' to 108bpm. I was instantly hooked and over the next few years, I collected the slow beginnings of Moombahton tracks as they came out. The year before I experimented one lazy afternoon at Flipside with a Moombahton set and I watch as people we’re subconsciously drawn in to dance and enjoy the beats. This is the set that I played for the Amalgam Coast's Dance Dance Like There Is A Gypsy In Your Pants / Tiki Happy Hour party because I wanted to bring something new. It was a great success as the music, crowd, gourmet drinks and atmosphere melted together to make a magical night.

“Tracklist:
1. Nadastrom & Heartbreak - Church
2. Alex Clare - Too Close (Nadastrom Remix)
3. Graffiti 6 - Annie You Reset! Me (A-Mac Moombahton Edit)
4. N.A.S.A. Ft. Kanye West, Lykke Li, and Santogold - Gifted (Mattb remix)
5. Pickster One and Chrizz Luvly - Dem Bow Is The New Amen (Edit)
6. Milo & Otis - Luck
7. Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (Guxxi Vump remix)
8. Fuss - US Bass Anthem (Noctums More Moombah Edit)
9. Oh, Beats! - On Fire
10. Sazon Booya Featurning Anna Yvette - Secret Heart
11. Clockwork - Squad Up (Torro Torro Remix) (Noctums More Moombah Edit)
12. Twinz Beatz - Get em high
13. Paul David - Nova
14. Mackai - I.D.T.O.R.
15. The Heavy - How You Like Me Now (Wick-it the Instigator Remix)”

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”

Joseph Noctum - Pyropolis 2011: The Bad Boogie

The second in my Pyropolis series. This time instead of looking to my past I had by this point had set up a new live performance method. Instead of DJ’ing with vinyl, or USB’s as I had learned for last year. Now I was armed with a laptop, and MIDI controller to string together a DJ set with more control over the tracks, EQs, and FX than ever. While the sets were live and raw and filled with additional live chops and layered effects I would still make a studio version for release. Not the same as the live version but a pleasant memory for those who were there. This mix also includes two of my “Calculated Crunk” mash-ups I was known for during this time in my performances.

“Tracklist:
1. Lokid - Bad 2 Be Good
2. Who Cares - Lucky Larry (Samples)
3. Probiotik - Say It Then ft. Emotionz
4. J.me.J vs. Ying Yang Twins - Tigershaker / The Anthem (Noctum Mashup)
5. The Glitch Mob - Drive It Like You Stole It (Mixtape Version)
6. Mr. Rogers vs. Rick Ross - Dynamite / Husslin (Noctum Mashup)
7. Love and Light - Good Vibes
8. Zen Death Squad - Cyber Lazer Dojo Training
9. Who Cares - These Three Words (Ill-esha)
10. Zen Death Squad - Awesome Patrol
11. MC2 - MC Slicing
12. JPOD & The Root Sellers - Medicon
13. JPOD & The Root Sellers - Stop Drop and Roll
14. VibeSquaD - Sleaze Me
15. K-Lab - Grimewarp
16. King Fantastic - Westcoastsynthesizerbeachbumgangstermusic (Knight Riderz)”

Trey Turner & Joseph Noctum - The New Sound

Ok, this is just a fun mix. It holds the test of nearly a decade and still sounds great and new. Trey Turner approached me with a concept for a CD to pass out at the upcoming Flipside. He already had a start with a fantastic set of tracks and sound clips from The Mighty Boosh. (I mean… Noel Fielding, how could I not be on board). All Trey really needed was someone who could add to the “leftfield-ness” and eclectic tone of this mix. So I was instantly on board and it was a hit. I still have one of the albums in my studio, with the ridiculously good artwork created by Cate. This mix still holds a special place in my heart, and if I never need to be in a better mood, I can always pop this on.

“Tracklist:
1. The Mighty Boosh - The New Note
2. Mix N Blend & Narch - I Got... (Beats Antique)
3. The Mighty Boosh - El Sonido Nuevo
4. Panzer Kunst - Halo Around The Sun Or Moon
5. Bird of Prey - Walkabout
6. Hybrid - I’m Still Awake
7. The Mighty Boosh - Let Us Begin Our Quest
8. Danny Breaks - The Sound
9. Modeselektor - Monkeyflip
10. Ash Trey Jinkins - Yodaz Brain (Monk Fly)
11. Sket1 - Robopimp
12. An-ten-nae - Get Low
13. Senz Beats - Beautiful Life ft. Megabusive
14. The Mighty Boosh - That New Sound
15. Moderat - Rusty Nails
16. Doshy - 3ws
17. Rustie - Hyperthrust
18. Rustie - Dragonfly
19. Pixelord - Cybernator (PXLRD)
20. Bird of Prey - Stargazer
21. Diplo vs. Sunday Girl - Four Floors
22. DCarls - When Everything Is Over
23. Doshy - 2086
24. Modeselektor - Art & Cash (SBTRKT)
25. The Mighty Boosh - A Long Journey”