This mix celebrates me getting a new job as Lecturer in Digital Work and is an act of giving back to those who have given to me in life. For over 20 years, I have been scavenging music through tangible and online sources while taking sincere pleasure by the interactions forged online through niche music communities: from Soulseek to YouTube, from various forums to Instagram, there was always been a way to find amazing creatures who spend time to share and discuss about music. Folk music (that is, music since its conception) was distributed orally and through tradition before turning into a recording industry, alongside many other domains.

I always thought of music file-sharing as a folk transmission of music, from people to people, with minimal intervention by profit-making exploitation. Music industry, for several decades before the advent of the internet, wanted listeners to believe that sharing music goes against the musicians’ profit – an argument that has been proved to be wrong multiple times now. This set acts as a form of evidence. All tracks that consist it can be found and purchased via the Bandcamp platform, and in particular, I have found and purchased them on that platform. Most of these are artists I have been following for several years and have downloaded their music through torrents, having given myself the promise that once I make more stable income, I will return some of it to those who helped me survive financial difficulties through sound and I could only pay back by advertising them. Nowadays, there is much talk about post-industrial “gig work,” very short or zero-hour contracts as part of everyday life’s general fragmentation and alienation from our interests.

This mix is also exploring the variety of transitions from mental set to mental set that may happen in under an hour, with various themes interchanging on a fast pace, akin to contemporary turbo-society’s frantic rhythms in “gig work,” requiring rapid defence skills. We have to be reminded: “gig” is a metaphor that comes from the music domain – regardless of your work, it is likely that you are facing the difficulties musicians have been facing for almost a century. The message of this set is: never stop listening to music – by listening and disseminating the musicians’ work, you do them good. When time comes and resources allow, do not hesitate to find ways to support them in a financial way too. The image is a raven outside Munich, Germany, carrying food back to its nest, for its own good, or for the ones it cares for – like we should do with music. Enjoy this set.

@c_n_9x9

@onesecaftertheend

Tracklist:

Chiemi Eri – Kuroda-Bushi

GARZA - Talkin (feat. Racquel Jones)

Hoàng Oanh - Ngày Sau Sẽ Ra Sao (How Will Tomorrow Turn Out)

Hoàng Oanh - Xuân Muộn (Chiều 30 Tết)

bleubird - Another Super Mario(cart) Brothers Drive-By (Feat. Sole)

Girma Bèyènè & Akalé Wubé - Muziqawi Silt

Lotek Hi-Fi - Different Style

Doc Watson & Clarence Ashley - Little Sadie

Tuareg Music of the Southern Sahara (Women with tendi, water drum, handclapping, recorded by Finola and Geoffrey Holiday) – Azale

Daemonia Nymphe – Daemonos

Michiko Toyama - Waka (Part 2)

Sean Wolcott - With All That Is Left (feat. Lauren Santi)

Aleksey Khovalyg - Iyem Churtu

Mari Kono - Machi wa sorairo

Nata Swara, JACK Quartet -Hydrogen (Gas)

the buttress - Pilgrims by the Millions

Ouzo Bazooka Feat. Yurika Hanashima -I Dream Of Naomi– ナオミの夢

Yat-Kha – Mezhegei

Alias and Tarsier - Last Nail

Peggy Seeger - Katy Cruel

Jeanne Lee – Conspiracy

Macka B - Wet Look Crazy

Ryoji Ikeda - COUNTERPOINT

June Tyson - They'll Come Back

The Thomas Pynchon Fake Book - Vulgar Song

Lacksley Caster - Genie in a Jar

Igor Amokian & Black Saturn - Signal Noise

London Jazz Four - Death Is Near

Darnakes - Νινόν (Ninon)

Sergey Starostin - Deep

Animal Humano - Halo Lunar

Kathy Acker - The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud

Sleepy Eyes Nelson - Bellgrove Hotel

ablackstone - A Quiet One

Βδέλυγμα (Bdelygma) - Russian Roulette

Sun Ra Arkestra - Dance of The Cosmo Aliens

of Proliteariots - Blue Collar Blues - 04 320 Redemption (prod. PaulFava)

Masahiko Sato – TBSF

Ellie Wilson & Globe Ensemble - Dominion of the Sword

Kathy Acker - The Beginning of the Life of Rimbaud