HUMAN UNITY

MP3: Zonotope™ - Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds

Speaking of Silent Running and what not here's Zonotope™ again with some more of his sci-fi pop, this time a lovely and ultra-soft cyborg Eno-brained slant on what is actually a "reject song from the album [he's] working on now (working title is Human Unity), paying homage to Arthur C. Clarke and prominent 11th dimension mystic Diane Kensington.

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Guest Mix: ZONOTOPE™

MP3: Zonotope™ (aka Jerry Plane) - Gliese 581d Radio Mix (65mb / mediafire)

You know from the get go that this mix from our fav synthetic ambient chiller Zonotope™; some demoroled-out fake DJ introing a spacious psych pop jam before dropping into some slightly pitchshifted hip-hop and lite & smooth lounge/R&B, just the kind of stuff you might accidentally tune into from yr space station in the late 70s (or maybe that's just the "about 2 run out of air" pastoral 60s pop). I think he struggled to get it down from the two plus hours of music he initially had; his "ideal mix" would be "like, every song from that Graffiti record (you know that record? it's this one) in sequential order, but I figured that wasn't appropriate. So anyways, here is a special "earth music" themed transmission from Gliese 581d Radio". Real "earth music" for sure, beamed in:

TRACKLIST:
Psychothartic - House of Nimrod
Definition Of A Dirty - Tha Murda Weapon
Rockin' You Eternally - Leon Ware
Pools of Blue - Barclay James Harvest
Hairbraider - R. Kelly
Moontalk - Tommy Roe
I'm Better Off Without You - The Main Ingredient
Islands in Space - Lightdreams
I Can't Let It Happen To You - The Walker Brothers
9-Trey - ESG (Chopped & Screwed by DJ Screw)
Under Skys - Lazy Smoke
Swangin (feat. Darrien and the S.O.S. Choir) - G-Side
Every Time I Hear That Song - Complex
Dealer - Scott Walker

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Premiere: ZONOTOPE™

MP3: Zonotope™ - Under That Building

Been hanging for some more prescription zen from Brooklyn's Zonotope™ whose second record (out on the perennially weird and rad Curatorial Club) came just in time for my Los Angeles to San Francisco flight which was heavy on the Stratocumulus and what looked like a lot of resort-centric coastal towns down below. These synthetic ambient tracks tap into some of the resort/cruise ship notions of voyage and relaxation as explored by say Dolphins Into The Future only with a more narcotic and bewildered sense of beauty. Excellent Realms is right; these lilting jams always inhabit healing and welcoming cosmic spaces.

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