Ruin Radio 6: Night Busing (12/15/2014)

 smoking's our only friend tonight
--"sleeping city," by intelligence dept.

this episode's named after something i find myself doing often, as well as a track from burial's first album. following the clamor of recent weeks, what you'll find will be the least noisy edition of ruin radio yet -- all breathy ambiance, cold rain, warm interiors.


there are a couple things i didn't do for this mix. i didn't record an hour of riding inside a bus and mix that beneath all the tracks, or exclude songs that take place in cars, or incorporate a lot of 2-step and garage music in keeping with the burial reference. i didn't do those things because i'm trying to stop being such a tight-ass. instead, it's got some mellow techno to dance to in your seat; a song off the magnetic fields's second album, back in the days when susan anway sang and they made the most beautiful and moving music i've ever known, before stephin merritt's cynical baritone took that away; and other eclectic dreamscapes to play while huddled in your winter layers, looking through a rain-speckled window.

i bet it's all appropriate for morning busing, too.

mixcloud

tracklist

Forgive	Burial	London	00:00
Ruin Radio 6 - Night Busing 1	The Hamburglar Lady	Seattle	03:02
The Roots	SHXCXCHCXSH	somewhere in Sweden	03:23
SFTCR V	OOBE	Torino	06:35
If (We)	Jeff Mills	Chicago (by way of Detroit)	11:22
Ahnongay	Inner City	Detroit	14:47
Arise	Shake	Detroit	21:46
Ruin Radio 6 - Night Busing 2	The Hamburglar Lady	Seattle	28:31
36A3	John Bender	Cincinnati	28:51
Silence And Echoes	Noir Deco	Newcastle upon Tyne	33:49
Sleeping City	Intelligence Dept.	Ferrara	36:30
Intro 2	Elite Gymnastics	Minneapolis	42:49
Lovers From The Moon	The Magnetic Fields	Boston	43:37
It’s Getting Late	Galaxie 500	Boston	46:27
Ruin Radio 6 - Night Busing 3	The Hamburglar Lady	Seattle	49:58
Little Things 2	Elite Gymnastics	Minneapolis	50:20
Perpetual	Thomas Leer & Robert Rental	London	53:54

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