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”

Joseph Noctum - In The Pink

This was a piece of the live set from one of the legendary parties at the Pink Palace. With a later release on nurevolution studios podcast who hosted the music for the night. I figure a full explanation isn’t needed. We’ll just go with the write up from someone in attendance.
”One night a group of cyborgs took over the Pink Palace and turned it into a cabaret. Their demands were to dance and be entertained, otherwise, they would enslave the human race. Joseph Noctum arrived armed with two hours of calculated crunk and made them dance as if he was their positronic programmer. In the end, they danced until he trounced their blinking monocles right onto the dancefloor. This mix is offered in testament to his heroic actions that night, for he may have saved humanity that day… but only for the time being.”

“Tracklist:
1. K-Lab - Out The Door
2. William Breakspear - Skydive
3. Opiuo - Robo Booty
4. Vent - Lunatics
5. JPOD the Beat Chef - Crowd Control (ft. Dynamic)
6. Mochipet - Rumbunktion (Mattb)
7. Knight Riderz - Mind Riddim (ft. Juakali)
8. Jillian Ann & Love & Light - Know Us (Knight Riderz)
9. Samples vs. Ludacris - Drop Bombs (Konekta vs. Dan K) / Stand Up
10. Freq Nasty - Drum Play (FreQ’s Mash Up The Dancehall Edit)
11. Sub Swara - Bird of Paradise (ft. Stuart Bogie & Eric Biondo)”

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”

Joseph Noctum - Peace Love Crunk

This was the first mix I did with the nurevolution studios podcast in mind for the release. Between hanging at the local burns, and playing parties together at the legendary Pink Palace in Austin I found an influence to really lean into the breakbeats and to take it even further with the midtempo glitch that was the undercurrent of both EDM scenes and the “burner” scenes. I even finished this mix up at the nurevolution studios with Trey Turner. I was used to clean, studio-produced house tracks. The fun new world of digital meant that some of the most creative glitch tracks weren’t always mastered with more than some compression.

“Tracklist:
1. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. / Missy Elliot - Bad Girls Go To Hell / Work It (Acappella)
2. Subvert - Speaker Humpin’ (Glitchy and Scratchy)
3. n8chur - Juicy ft. Sweatti
4. VibeSquaD & iLL Gates - the FIRE man
5. Sub Swara - Fire It Up ft. Lyrics Born
6. Kraddy - Let Go
7. Nosaj Thing - Coat Of Arms (Boreta)
8. Opiuo - Monkey Crunk (K-Lab)
9. Love and Light - Neon Thwomp Sauce
10. Freestylers & Pendulum ft. MC Sirreal - Painkiller (Kouncilhouse)
11. Professor Green ft. Lily Allen - Just Be Good To Green (Camo & Krooked)”

Headrockaz - Live At Ambient Camping 34: The Howling

From 2008 to 2010 I was involved in a Glitch, Bass, Turntablism duo called, Headrockaz along with DJ Dubmatique. It was a great time for live performance experimentation. Not satisfied anymore with just mixing two records together I wanted to create a custom experience that would change and evolve with each show. This was the beginning of what would eventually become the basis of Libations & Oscillation's live shows. Having been no stranger at this point to performing at Ambient Campouts I knew this would be the perfect place to dive in. Sadly while many sets from earlier Ambient Campouts have been lost to the ether this special performance was preserved for your enjoyment.

“Tracklist:
1. Opiuo - Watermouth Ft. Sunmonx
2. Michal Menert - One More Year
3. Bonobo - All In Forms
4. Pretty Lights - Gazing At The Glare
5. Gramatik - Take It Back
6. Love And Light - Funkin Lovely
7. Tipper - Razor Back VS. Ooah - Tubstomper
8. Mimosa - Get ‘Em
9. Daedelus - Dumbfound (edIT Remix)
10. Mad Zach, R2 The Specialist - Soul Fire
11. Pretty Lights - Total Fascination
12. Kanye West - Stronger (A-Track Remix)
13. Joey Negro and the Sunburst Band - After Dusk (Joey Negro Extended Mix)”

Joseph Noctum - African Red Bush

This was originally recorded back in the 2008 timeframe, but like so many of my projects lost when the cheap hardware I was using crashed. What did we ever do before the cloud? While the unfinished project recording files we’re never recovered the 35 minutes of test rendering was. Originally this was a mix done for my new girlfriend, now wife, who had missed out on my DJ glory days. Having “retired” from DJ’ing in 2005/06 I was convinced to make her a mixtape, as hopeless romantics often do. She is way more of a hip-hop head than I, but we agreed on Downtempo and Trip-Hop. This idea what a holdover from the Noctum Records days when I thought it would be fun to do a series based on what a DJ would play in a coffeehouse rather than a club. The name is taken from a type of Roobios tea. Which is a play on the Tea House that my now wife ran back then, along with her nickname, “Red”. During its life it was played during an Ambient Camping event and then eventually release on the nurevolution studios podcast in 2010.

“Tracklist:
1. Roland Klinkenberg - Dusty Horizon Interlude
2. Miika Kuisma - Trying My New Wings
3. Thievery Corporation - Facing east
4. Jef Stott - Funky Nawari (Drumspyder’s Midnight Snack Wrap Up)
5. Zeb, Sabo - Con Chill
6 . Nightmares On Wax - I Am You (Negghead Remix)
7. Mo´Horizons - So Ma Guisee
8. Dezaarate - The 79 Years
9. Culprit 1 - Strings Outro
10. Stac - Balls Bounce (Bonobo Remix)
11. Urban Myth Club - Breathe”

Joseph Noctum - Pyropolis 20X: Texas Tango

2010 Was a busy year for shows and performances. As the build up came from a few years in “retirement” once I was unleashed there was so much music to catch up on it became one of my busier years. In preparation for my first Burning Flipside, a BurningMan offshoot event in Texas, I learned the hard way to transition from vinyl to USB DJ’ing. The result was my first outing in the city of Pyropolis and throwing down set after set for the Texas Tango. It is a compilation of a weeks worth of shows played. With plenty of sound camps to play at including, Carpe Noctem, Alpha Rhythms, and Winners Circle. Every track here was dropped at some point although maybe not in this order.

“Tracklist:
1. Chemical Brothers Featuring The Flaming Lips - The Golden Path (Ewan Pearson Heaven Remix)
2. Moby - Raining Again (Ewan Pearson Vocal)
3. Basement Jaxx - Raindrops (Funkagenda & Paul Thomas Re-dux)
4. Miike Snow - Silvia (Hook N Sling & Goodwill Remix)
5. Classixx - Cold Act Ill (Wolfgang Gartner Club Mix)
6. Moby - I Love to Move In Here (Seamus Haji Remix)
7. TV Rock - Flaunt It (Main Room Mix)
8. Studio B - I See Girls (Tom Neville Crazy Legs Mix)
9. Cortinas & Wade - You Got It
10. Audio Bullys - Only Man (RESET! Remix)
11. Sharam Jey feat. Cornelia - Army Of Men (Dirty Disco Youth Remix)”

Joseph Noctum - Changes

Originally released in late 2004 / early 2005 this mix was a point of stepping outside the box. No longer was I just a Deep/Progressive House DJ, but this was stepping out into other genres that would pave the way for sounds today. We have remastered this mix to bring it up to today’s dancefloor standards.

“Tracklist:
1. Amillionsons Presents 21st Century Planet Smashers Featuring Eddy Temple Morris - Underground Night Music [Renisance]
2. Shmuel Flash - Merc (J-Groove Remix) [Release Grooves]
3. Black Atlantic - No Need To Hide [Forensic]
4. Fluke - Slid (King Of Cool Redub) [White]
5. Cirrus - Beatrix (Joseph Noctum Remix) [unreleased]
6. Phunk Police - Falling Stars [Looq]
7. Deepsky - Talk Like A Stranger (Burufunk Remix) [Yo]
8. Lee Coombs & Dylan Rhymes - All Night All Right [Fingerlickin]
9. Craig Obey And The Electrik Force - Coolin @ The Bar (Aviators Remix) [Hussle]
10. Eric Prydz - Lesson One [Pryda]
11. Client - Radio (Rex The Dog Remix) [Mute / Toast]
12. Starkid - Crayons 2004 (Leama & Moor In Loving Memory Remix) [Release Elements]”

Joseph Noctum - Uprooted

This was a result of travels in Europe and picking up the early ElectroClash records which was the precursor to Electro House. Also during this time influence of a tribal house crew, two prolific progressive house producers, and the punkish feelings of youth. The result is a cross-section of my early twenties in a mix. It’s gritty, drum-heavy, and one big party.

“Tracklist:
1. DJ Tocadisco - Nobody Likes The Records That I Play (Nobones Drum Dub) - [superstar]
2. Kwirky - Loose It - [binary]
3. Neurotic Jock vs. Cam Farrar - Tribal Beats (Luke Bowditch remix) - [sondos]
4. Peace Division - No More subliminal Shit - [Low Pressings]
5. Heavy Rock - I just Wanna Be A Drummer - [superstar]
6. Infusion - Girls Can Be Crule - [Audio Therapy]
7. Alex Neri - Club Element - [Tenax]
8. Silver Sonic - Electric Disco Tease - [Azuli Black]
9. The Chemical Brothers - Get Your Self High (Noctum Drum Dub) - [Astralwerks]
10. Santos - Too Fast - [Mantra Vibes]
11. Michael Jackson - Scream (Troia Remix) - [White Lable]
12. Hujja and Pufo - Fire (Marco Bellini & Val Weller Remix) - [Plastica Red]
13. The Mud Men - Mud Chant (Ba Digga Dub) - [Renaissance]
14. Locodice - Phat Dope Shit (Saeed Remix) - [FourTwenty]”