I am pleased to announce my 2008 Summer mix podcast (1hr05min, 74.9Mb MP3) of original music for your consideration. It’s equal parts reflective, chilled-out, lazy. A suitable soundtrack for your morning cuppa, yard and crafting projects, reading on the couch, afternoon coding sessions and breezy evenings on the front porch.

Track order:

1. Lost Things (Cascade dub)
2. La Palma (1984 CIA Factbook mix)
3. BASIC language
4. Departure Lounge, Pan-Am
5. 3mb (2008 Tabla revisit)
6. Circular Object (Sunset Island dub)
7. Dexu (2008 defenestration)
8. Aguadulce

I have uploaded a mix of recent original music (1hr19min, 90.61 Mb MP3) for your consideration.

Track order:

1. Book of Morvern
2. Chthonic (min)
3. Meshed
4. Agmatist (S&S dub)
5. Loaded (acid vs. mix)
6. Little iniquities
7. Disco drift
8. Electrum
9. Helial II
10. Paths of Unintention

Bonus outtakes (13.8 MB zip archive):

1. Tight house - has more variation in the original that didn’t export
2. Untitled (2008-02-03) - didn’t fit well in the overall mix

Third, Portishead’s first new music in more than ten years, is being released on April 28, 2008. If you’re industrious, you can preview an advance copy that’s floating around. Portishead cornucopia: Homepage, MySpace, Wikipedia, iTunes, Amazon MP3.

1. Amina - AnimaminA EP (iTunes, Amazon) and Kurr (iTunes, Amazon)
2. Dubmood - Atari-Ska L-Attack (Internet Archive)
3. His Name is Alive - Detrola (iTunes, Amazon) and Xmmer (iTunes, Amazon)
4. Ida - Lovers Prayers (iTunes, Amazon)
5. Keren Ann - Keren Ann (iTunes, Amazon)
6. Miles Davis - The Peacocks (Amazon)
7. Miss Kittin - Batbox (iTunes, Amazon)
8. Pole - Steingarten Remixes (iTunes, Amazon)
9. Ras Amerlock - Farther East (Internet Archive)
10. Samantha James - Rise (iTunes, Amazon)
11. Sia - Some People Have Real Problems (iTunes, Amazon)
12. Various - The Dub Club Night (Amazon)
13. Various - New (dub) Excursion (iTunes)
14. Various - Resume (iTunes, Amazon)
15. Vector Lovers - A Field EP (iTunes) and Piano Dust (iTunes)

I have uploaded a mix of recent original music (65 minutes, 107.93 Mb MP3) for your consideration. Lots of ambient, granular, drone and chill this time around.

Track order:

1. Dub V-Dub
2. Slow Dance
3. Fineness
4. Untitled (2007-11-25)
5. Deep Time (parts 1–3)