Mixtape: Fersenstich

“Me? I’m not a drooler. I’m the assistant.”
–Jack London, Told in the Drooling Ward

This is a compilation of electronic music produced in Germany from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The tone is subdued, pastoral, and reflective. I play it for my daughter when I want her to sleep. (It never works.)

Download Fersenstich I & II
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Alternate, unreliable download link here.

Take upon’s the mystery of things, as if you were God’s spies, with my other mixes here.

Cover art: Thomas Struth.

Mixtape: ‘Sleepless Nights’

‘Don’t you know what you are to me?’ he asked.
Daisy considered.
‘I suppose I do know, Fred. To tell you the truth, a child of six would notice it.’
—Penelope Fitzgerald, Gate of Angels

This is a compilation of Italian film music from 1966 to 1973.

Download Sleepless Nights
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Alternate, unreliable download link here.

Die for love and be glad in dying with my other mixes here.

Cover art: Monica Vitti. Photographer unknown.

Mixtape: Softlock

Spring seemed to linger
in the little bunch of flowers
he pressed into my hand.
Little bunch of flowers, didn’t cost a dime;
picked them in the park in their prime.

Download Softlock
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Alternate, unreliable download link here.

Talk yourself into the noose with my other mixes here.

Cover art:ロックマン2 Dr.ワイリーの謎 [Edit]

Mixtape: Nose-to-Tail, Vol. 4

I come from space
I want to know
If I can do
My love is true

★ ★ ★ Cosmic disco ★ ★ ★
1977-1985

Download Nose-to-Tail: Vol. 4
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Alternate download link here.

Volume 1 is here, Volume 2 is here and Volume 3 is here.

Download the complete Nose-to-Tail series here.

 Wash the clouds away with my other mixes here.

Cover art: Patrick Nagel

Mixtape: Nose-to-Tail, Vol. 3

I have found it at last. This is the true blue. Oh, how light it makes one. Now I can die. And when I am dead you will cut out my heart and lay it in the blue jar. All shall be blue around me, and in the midst of the blue world my heart will be innocent and free, and will beat gently, like the drops that fall from an oar blade. Is it not a sweet thing to think that, if only you have patience, all that has ever been, will come back to you? 

– Isak Dinesen, ‘The Young Man with the Carnation’

Slow disco by the sea.

Download Nose-to-Tail: Vol. 3

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Alternate download link here.

Volume 1 is here and Volume 2 is here.

Don’t deny it to yourself—download my other mixes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Cover art: Patrick Nagel

Mixtape: Practical Snow

There’s green on the bread;
all the beautiful girls he knew
are old maids or dead.
–Robert Lowell, ‘Ear of Corn’ (1977)

Download Practical Snow.

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Alternate, unreliable download link here.

Weep and know why with my other mixes here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Photo credit: Akiko Takizawa. ‘Man in the Night Field’ (2006).