As part of Mysteries of the Deep’s weekend broadcast on 9128.live, Stephen Baker and I stitched together two hours of brand-new material along with a few ambient classics circa 1994, a touch of Connie Francis, and a recording of New York City’s nightly cheer for the essential workers who are carrying us through this dark season.

I’m grateful for the sense of community that Mysteries of the Deep and A Strangely Isolated Place created within a weekend: forty hours of mixtapes, live sets, and album premieres from artists around the world. There was even a disarmingly pleasant chatroom that felt like the halcyon days of the information superhighway. It’s been ages since I’ve joined so many people in listening to the same thing at the same time—and it’s a vital image right now: heads around the world bowed before their personal speakers, hearing the same song.

• New York City’s 7pm cheer
  Cheering for the essential workers, April 2020
• Fluxion – Aviation
  Vibrant Forms II | Chain Reaction, 2000
• Daniel Avery & Alessandro Cortini – At First Sight
  Illusion of Time | Mute, 2020
• Detroit Escalator Company – The Inverted Man Falling
  Soundtrack 313 | Ferox, 1996
• Seefeel – Air-Eyes
  Starethrough EP | Warp, 1994
• Connie Francis – Siboney
  MGM, 1960
• Brinkmanship I
  Live Set, April 2020
• Autechre – VLetrmx21
  Garbage EP, Warp, 1996
• Pole – Fahren (Pitched Down Edit)
  2, ~Scape, 1999
• Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumental Wish
  Distance | Domino, 1994
• Brinkmanship II
  Live Set, April 2020
• Kali Malone – The Sacrificial Code (Live in Hagakyrka)
  Ideal Recordings, 2019
• Basic Channel – Q Loop (Pitched Down Edit)
  Quadrant Dub | Chain Reaction, 1994
• Brinkmanship III
  Live Set, April 2020
• Richie Hawtin & Pete Namlook – A Million Miles to Earth
  From Within | Fax, 1994

Brinkmanship I, II, and III features original music by Stephen Baker and occasional broken loops and unholy amounts of reverb by James A. Reeves.