Autre Ne Veut Shares "CD-Collection-Circa-2006 Mix: Or, Shopping the Tower Records Liquidation Sale"

Autre Ne Veut, aka Arthur Ashin, has released a 70 minute mix he’s calling the “CD-Collection-Circa-2006 Mix: Or, Shopping the Tower Records Liquidation Sale”. Below, you can check out the tracklist. It was made for Downtown Festival, which happens in multiple cities; Ashin will perform at the New York edition, which takes place October 2-4. Other artists at the NYC fest include Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks, Atlas Sound, Kiesza, Jungle, Tobacco, Mas Ysa, Iamsu!, Tink, and Zebra Katz.

Ashin also wrote a note about the mix’s origins:

At some point in 2004 or 2005 the Tower Records in downtown Manhattan closed its doors following a massive liquidation sale. Could absolutely be wrong by a year or two. It wasn’t the best shop in town. Even the Virgin in Union Square tended to carry deeper cuts, Other was around the corner. Kim’s still existed, and forgive my memory, but Bleecker Bob’s was probably still around at that point. Is it still? Regardless, I stumbled across the Tower sale almost completely accidentally and bought a ton of shit that they were basically giving away. I only remember specifically picking up what turned out to be, essentially, a bargain-bin comp of Canadian Hi NRG throwaways and various alternate versions of disco records. I had been tangentially into Italo disco stuff so it checked some box. This was part of being a CD collector. Purchasing shit in bargain bins and hoping that a track or two would pique your interest.

Anyway, this is too much obvious extrapolation. I’m sounding nostalgic, a thing that I don’t particularly like to do. At some point in 2007 or so I was moving apartments and packed all of my CDs away. They’d been culled down many times depending on my current tastes or moods. A lot of my top spinners were lost to scratches and friends or simple foolishness. Only a previous self knows why the CDs that are still around are around, but when a few weeks back, I unboxed them for the first time in 7 years or so, it was a pleasure to try and reconstruct what exactly I was thinking or feeling at the time regarding archiving musical objects.

So I decided to make a mix CD sans the actual CD itself. No mixing, beat matching, DJ magic (well maybe a liiittle), just one song at a time. The rules are: one song per CD only, nothing boringly obvious, things that I’m feeling like listening to right now, played in order of how they were ripped, and that’s it. Bonuses include entire mix played at once, and entire mixed played at once, but in reverse.

CD-Collection-Circa-2006 Mix: Or, Shopping the Tower Records Liquidation Sale:

01 Jeffrey Skidmore and Ex Cathedra: “Anonymous: Hanacpachap Cussicuinin – 1. Verses 1-5″
02 Virginia Astley: “Broken”
03 Amanda Ambrose: “(I Ain’t Singing) No More Sad Songs”
04 Bryan Ferry: “Where Or When”
05 Vic Ruggiero: “Papa Told Me”
06 Bob Marley & The Wailers: “It Hurts To Be Alone” [Alternate Take]
07 Judee Sill: “There’s A Rugged Road”
08 Róisín Murphy: “Sow Into You”
09 Ekkehard Ehlers: “John Cassavetes (2)”
10 Low: “Laser Beam”
11 Derrick Harriott: “The Loser”
12 Chris Bell: “You And Your Sister”
13 Brian Eno & John Cale: “Cordoba”
14 Kate Bush: “Houdini”
15 Autechre: “Vi Scose Poise”
16 Mannie Fresh: “Lady Lady”
17 Lime: “Babe, We’re Gonna Love Tonight”

Watch Ashin perform “Counting” at one of the final 285 Kent shows:

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