compiled & mixed by JENUS
mix tracklist [artist – title (label, year of release) – start time]:
- Bola – Vespers (SKAM, 2000) – 00:00:00
- Dynamo – Außen Vor [Arovane – AMX] (DIN, 1999) – 00:06:33
- SND – -3,100 (SND, 1999) – 00:16:24
- Norken – Motor Breeze (Numbers, 1998) – 00:19:47
- Mouse On Mars – Funky Tiste (Bubble Core Records, 1997) – 00:25:17
- The 7th Plain – Surface Bound (GPR, 1994) – 00:31:54
- Coil – Nasa Arab (Eskaton, 1994) – 00:39:59
- Autechre – Corc (Warp Records, 1998) – 00:49:44
- Arovane – Thaem Nue (DIN, 1999) – 00:55:11
- Push Button Objects – Untitled [Ischemic Folk Song] (Schematic, 1999) – 01:01:52
- The Remote Viewer – The Sound Of A Finished Kiss (City Centre Offices, 2002) – 01:07:19
- Balil – Rosery Pilots (Rising High Records, 1993) – 01:12:40
- As One – The Priestess (Applied Rhythmic Technology, 1993) – 01:19:39
- Aphex Twin – Mookid (Warp Records, 1995) – 01:25:17
- Red Cell/B12 – Bio Dimension (Applied Rhythmic Technology, 1992) – 01:29:21
- Metamatics – For Brother (District Six, 1999) – 01:34:43
- Pub – Lick (Ampoule, 1999) – 01:40:31
- Global Communication – Incidental Harmony (Evolution, 1992) – 01:47:01
- Alter Ego – Tanks Ahead (Harthouse, 1994) – 01:54:27
- Flextone/Atom™ – Rather Abstract (Rather Interesting, 1994) – 02:03:23
- Michael Fakesch – Surfaise [Boards Of Canada – The Trade Winds Remix] (Musik Aus Strom, 1997) – 02:11:17
total: 02:17:18
(many of these records have been reissued over the years, sometimes on other labels, listed here are the labels where the tracks were first issued)
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about this mix
I recorded this mix in a dream in February in the year 2000. I had just bought the new Bola Mauver 12“ EP and my world had been struck down by the new millenium bug. There was no tomorrow and so I looked back at the last decade and picked some of my favourite 90s tracks and assembled an apocalyptic mix of artificial intelligence dance and listening music to walk the wastelands and ride the ghost trains in eternal nights, then I woke up.
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The world was bliss during the early years of the last decade of the twentieth century, but in early 2000 events for me in London went from bad to worse, eventually I got very sick and nearly died. I was saved by modern medicine, surgical intervention and blood transfusion, but ultimately this rescue and the related scars pushed me into a hell hole of disability and depression for the next couple of years. I didn’t hold much hope for my life when I moved to Berlin in 2006, but things got better for me and the city turned out to be my saviour. I took this music with me into my new chapter of life, a fond memory of a different, easier time.
I hope you will enjoy sharing these memories of another decade with me as a younger soul. All of these songs are over 20 years old (with the exception of The Remote Viewer, who seems to have time travelled back into this mix from 2002, I wonder how he did that…). I bought almost all of the records or CDs that included these tracks in the week they were first released, since then they have become cherished old friends. Those years were a wonderfully vibrant time for modern electronic music and thanks to the many record stores in Soho, Covent Garden, Camden Town and later also in Shoreditch, every new week was a journey of discovery as I was trailing through the music stores, purchasing records like milk. Sadly most of these shops are now long gone. What a fantastic time we had in the 90s.
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This is a nostalgic trip back to that time, it’s the kind of music that played on my minidisc player in 1999 as I walked the streets of London, full of excitement about what the new millennium would bring after such a promising decade. Now that we know what happened, we need to remember the things that mattered then and still matter now. You can build a house, but without life it‘s nothing but a shell.
In this mix full focus is put on the individual songs and mixing is kept to a bare minimum (unlike in my recent mixes, where I work a lot with layering different tracks for a more immersive atmosphere). This is more like the mix tapes we used to record on cassettes for our walkmen when we were young, a jukebox of treasured personal likes. I hope you will enjoy this glimpse into my past.
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Thank you for listening.
Remember your past and your last kiss.
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other mixes in the A G E M O W O R O S mix series:
A G E M O W O R O S mix IV
JENUS – THE FAWN AND THE YEARLING
A G E M O W O R O S mix I
JENUS – AS I DESCENDED WITH THE RED DOG
A G E M O W O R O S 