Colatron is my bro’ from Birmingham, my home city, and he’s also one of the guys behind the brilliant DAVID LYNCH mash up album, MASHED IN PLASTIC.

His new work “TENEBRISM” is finally completed and we already gave you an “xclusive” sneak preview of the WIP earlier this year HERE.

I’ve been listening to this all week and it really helps to unwind me and makes me very chilled, it’s one of my fave free releases of this year.

It covers an AMAZING number and diversity of tracks in each mash up which are then all segued together in one plaintive yet uplifting, hollow yet deep, bleak but beautiful mix.

Here’s what Colatron says about it all:

Is it an album? Yes. Is it behind you, reading these words over your shoulder? Yes. Will there be blood? Yes.

Jim Reeves welcomes you…but does he mean it? Yes.

Something’s in the sky, something reflected in the soul. Is it a contradiction? Yes. Is it true? Yes.

There is something, something in the color, something in the black, something in the air. You can’t touch it, only sense it. Can it be within and without? Yes. Is it life and death, the beyond and the just-behind-you? Yes. And it wears a wide-brimmed hat.

Are we adrift? Yes. Now float on into the black, into the white…into living tenebrism.

Go? Yes.

Alan Black, Dec’09
1086 Productions

The sequel to this year’s Welcome to My World, this journey will take you through dubstep, ambient, downtempo, IDM, computer games, horror soundtracks, requiems and Catholic Mass, my beloved Louise, sci-fi movie trailers, the sounds of the planets, astrophysicists, Shakespeare, and somehow…..Miles Davis . Only the brave need apply. Extremes of light and dark.

Tracklistings:-

Welcome to the Light (and Dark)
Jim Reeves – Welcome To My World
The Prodigy – Weather Experience
Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky
Burial – In McDonalds
John Carpenter – This Is Not a Dream (from “Prince of Darkness” OST – 1987)”
The Black Hole” (movie trailer sample – 1979)
The Voice of Vrillon
The Voice of Colatron
The Voice of Korton
Burial – Night Bus
Sample from “There Will Be Blood” – 2007

A Light Lunch
Grim on Mbient – Mans Roygbiv
Boards of Canada – Roygbiv
Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner
Boards of Canada – Roygbiv (Cardamar Remix)

Rachael’s Lost
Vangelis – Rachael’s Song (from “Blade Runner” OST – 1982)
Sample from “Inland Empire” – 2006
Akira Yamaoka – Lost Carol
Sample from “Mulholland Drive” – 2001
Akira Yamaoka – Alessa’s Harmony
Sample from “Silent Hill” – 2006
Beyonce Knowles (spoken word sample)
Burial – Pirates

Ghost In The Machine
Sample from “Poltergeist II: The Other Side” – 1986
Burial – Ghost Hardware
Morcheeba – Blue Chair
Sample from “Halloween” – 2007
Pink Floyd – Nobody Home
Sample from “2010: Odyssey Two” – 1984

No Woman No Chill
John Carpenter – The Alley Nightmare
Benga and Coki – Night
Bob Marley (interview sample)
Jeff Pearce – Sudden Light
Bob Marley – No Woman No Cry
various sounds from Seven Mile Beach, Negril, Jamaica
Burial – Prayer

A Prayer for Sadness
Krzysztof Penderecki – Quid sum miser – Rex tremendae
Akira Yamaoka – Find the Holy One
John Carpenter – This Is Not a Dream (from “Prince of Darkness” OST – 1987)
Burial – Prayer
John Foxx – Shifting Perspective
Massive Attack – Teardrop
The Lord’s Prayer

God – Intermission #1
sample from “There Will Be Blood” – 2007
John Carpenter – This Is Not a Dream (from “Prince of Darkness” OST – 1987)
DJ Shadow – Transmission 1

Incest
M83 – Sister (part 1)
Eric Clapton – Wonderful Tonight
Helen Vendler – Shakespeares Sonnets – 01 1
M83 – Sister (part 2)
Vangelis – Rachael Sleeps (from “Blade Runner” OST – 1982)

Dedication
Mako – Avec La Tech
REM – The One I Love

Nyctophobia
Rooflight – Between Darkness and Daylight
Harold Budd and Brian Eno – Lost in the Humming Air
Louise Annette Smart – Nuzzle
Radiohead – Iron Lung

Crowley’s Condition
We Have Built Jerusalem (from “Glastonbury: The Film” OST – 2006)
Tycho – Human Condition
Aleister Crowley – The Pentagram
Ozzy Osbourne – Mr. Crowley
Aleister Crowley – The Fingernails
Aleister Crowley – Intro
Aleister Crowley – The Poet

The Nation (and off to the Cosmos) – Intermission #2
Angelo Badalamenti – Haunting and Heartbreaking (from “Lost Highway” OST – 1997)
DJ Shadow – The Outsider
EP Thompson – An Alternative Nation (from “Glastonbury – the Film” OST – 2006)
Harold Budd and Brian Eno – The Pearl
John Carpenter – This Is Not a Dream (from “Prince of Darkness” OST – 1987)
Carl Sagan – Cosmos Introduction

Sleeping in Space
Vocal excerpts from the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery for the STS-120 mission
Morcheeba – Sleep On It
David Bowie – Space Oddity
John Foxx – Return to a Place of Remembered Beauty
NASA radio recordings from Saturn’s Rings
NASA Voyager radio recordings from Uranus
NASA radio recordings of Earth
Sounds from Sputnik 1 satellite (1957)
Sounds from Oscar 1 satellite (1961)
Carl Sagan – God, The Universe & Everything Else
Carl Sagan – Pale Blue Dot

We Could Be Happy (But Something Happened That Day)
Snow Patrol – You Could Be Happy
Miles Davis – Flamenco Sketches
DJ Shadow – Triplicate (Something Happened That Day)

Rapturous Once More
Sample from “21 Grams” – 2003
Autopilot – Once More (Echodub Edit)
Jeff Pearce – Doubt on Dark Waters
Imogen Heap – Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley (spoken word sample)

Losing the Dinosaurs (from “Glastonbury – the Film” OST – 2006)

The Bigger Picture*
DFRNT – Surface
“Starcrash” (Movie Trailer Sample – 1979)
Pink Floyd – Is There Any Body Out There
Burial – Pirates
Burial – Untitled
Burial – Etched Headplate
Boards of Canada – A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
The Shamen – Explanation of a Shamen
Burial – Untitled
Sample from “Bubba Ho-Tep” – 2002

*previously heard on Alan Black’s Orson IX

Available in single MP3 mix format (61min 39sec) with artwork (RAR archived files)

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Once again, a thousand thanks to Alan, Gavin and Tom for continued inspiration and for providing one hell of a crazy year. Looking forward to 2010 guys.

Is there finally and really, anything to life other than food, shit and sex

COLATRON is somebody who came to my attention with the brilliant DAVID LYNCH tribute mash up album, MASHED IN PLASTIC.

After digging around for more info about the guy, I discovered much to my surprise that he lived a stone throw’s away from me in Birmingham, UK!

He is one of the leading mash up artists on the chilled mash up front for sure, just check his excellent backlog of work, sheer brilliance.

Anyway, lucky for me and you,  as I’m also a Brummy (people who originate from Birmingham, UK-you should have gathered that from the AUDIO DAKOOS post), he has provided me with a SNEAK PREVIEW of something he is currently working on:

“TENEBRISM” (Extremes of Light & Dark) is a pure DUBSTEP MASH UP and his follow up/sequel to “Welcome to My World”.

Colatron says this EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW is a very, very rough WIP with loads of work still to be done to it and that it’s probably 6 months away from being finished!

But we have the first 15 minutes (4 tracks) of this excellent work in progress which is ideal for a Monday Morning Chill-Fest and also provides us with an insight to where Colatron is heading with it all, a very exciting place, I think !

I’m really looking forward to the finished article, it’s sounding great mate.

Grab it below:

TENEBRISM – UNFINISHED WORK IN PROGRESS DEMO VERSION

Tracklistings so far are:

Experience Light and Darkness (intro)

Jim Reeves – Welcome To My World
The Prodigy – Weather Experience
Pink Floyd – Goodbye Blue Sky (sample)
Burial – In McDonalds
Prince of Darkness OST – This Is Not a Dream
The Black Hole (movie trailer sample)
The Voice of Vrillon (sample)
The Voice of Colatron (sample)
The Voice of Korton (sample)
Burial – Night Bus
Positive Light and Darkness (sample)

Ghost In The Machine

Poltergeist 2: The Other Side -The Reverend Henry Kane
Burial – Ghost Hardware
Morcheeba – Blue Chair
Halloween – Was That The Boogieman
Pink Floyd – Nobody Home (excerpt)
2010: Odyssey Two: If You’d Like to Hear It, I can Sing It For You

The Science of Telephony

Mike Lennon – When Science Fails (Rusko remix)
Various calls to 911 (sample)
Blondie – Call Me
Customer services from British Telecom (sample)
Ella Fitzgerald – Putting On The Ritz

Rentokil

Michael Jackson – Thriller (video excerpt)
Rusko – Terminator
Michael Jackson – Ben
Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love (excerpts)
Michael Jackson – This is It (press conference excerpt)

BONUS:

Here’s Colatron’s Michael Jackson Dubstep mash-up that he did for his ‘Welcome to My World” mix earlier this year -

“Where Is Diana’s Home?” comprising

Bloc Party – Where Is Home (Burial Remix)
Sabres Of Paradise – Haunted Dancefloor
Michael Jackson – Dirty Diana
Princess Diana – Martin Bashir interview