http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia6.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThe concept behind this mix was very simple and concrete in my head, but hard for me to articulate coherently for whatever reason. Here’s some ways I tried: “organic futurism” “rainforest cyborg” “greenhouse A.I.”… uh hopefully one of those makes sense. Anyway here it is, enjoy! Visible Cloaks – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/ecstasy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadThis is the third Halloween mix by Scholastics, the follow-up to The Shadows Are A Mercy and Lies are Cheaper than Thrills, but departs from the horror disco & synthwave template of those two mixes for a sound that’s a bit noisier. Phoenix Chorale – Ola Gjeilo: Serenity (O …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia5.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scholastics – Marginalia № 5 1. David Wenngren & Christopher Bissonnette – Their Hunted Expression 2. Gailes – Requiem for an Airport Television Newsreader 3. Gregg Kowalsky – Maliblue Dream Sequence 4. Christina Vantzou – And Instantly Take Effect 5. Bing & Ruth – What Ash It Flow …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia4.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Marginalia № 4 by Scholastics 1. Lusine – Two Dots (Pezzner remix) 2. Sasha – Cassette Sessions E (Rival Consoles remix) 3. Roy Blues – Pyramid 4. Jonas Rathsman – Wolfsbane 5. Tunnelvisions – Umai’s Dance 6. Pale Blue – You Stopped Dying 7. Kink – Chorus 8. …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scholastics – Marginalia № 3 1. Argoman – Chimicalissimo 2. Affkt – San Diego 3. Todd Terje – Ragysh 4. Roland Tings – Who U Love (12″ version) 5. Ara Koufax – Natural States 6. Leno Lovecraft – Princess (Yan Wagner remix) 7. Bufi & La Royale – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Marginalia No. 2 1. Tourist – Tonight 2. Björk – Pagan Poetry (acapella) 3. Symmetry – Magic Gardens 4. Saint Cava – Forget (Scholatics Reprise Edit) 5. Havenaire – Brute Camp 6. Merely – Limestone Corridor 7. White Sea – Cannibal Love (School of Seven Bells Remix) 8. …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/wasa_ii.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is the sequel to 2013’s Wakanda Astronautics and Space Agency, and follows a Wakandan world ship through a wormhole and into uncharted reaches of deep space and beyond. Like its predecessor, WASA II is half footwork/juke and half other stuff, but everywhere focused on rhythms. Turn on …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Marginalia.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is the first in a new series of mixes. The general idea is to be a little more free than the Live for the Library series, which turned out to be pretty house-focused. 1. Tafi All Stars – Outside Rhythm 2. Red Axes – Me And Abra …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-Live_from_the_Library_Volume_X.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The last Lampshade mix of 2017 is also the final volume in the Live from the Library series. It’s afrohouse. 1. Haloed – Human 2. Batongo – Aguirre (Mano Le Tough Remix) 3. Manoo, Raoul K, Ahmed Sosso – Toukan (Dixon Rework) 4. Skinnerbox – Gender (Auntie Flo’s …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-The_Shadows_Are_A_Mercy.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The sequel to Lies Are Cheaper Than Thrills. 1. Felicia Atkinson – Valis 2. Steve Moore – Intro & Credits 3. Rafael Anton Irisarri – Fear And Trembling 4. Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart (Live In Lulea) 5. Makeup And Vanity Set – Ono Sendai …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/LFTLIX.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download 1. Siavash Amini – Dusk 2. Seahawks – Islands (Mike Simonetti Remix) 3. Cubicolor – Down The Wall 4. Pional – In Another Room (Reduxed) 5. Khidja – Looki (Africane 808 Live Dub) 6. Von Party – Cobra Kush (Peter Power Remix) 7. Pollyester – Voices (Baris K …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/LFTLVIII.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download 1. Todd Terje – Snooze 4 Love (Luke Abbott Remix) 2. The Ancient Moons – Vermillion (Agoria Remix) 3. Zeké Africa – Dr. Ctrl 4. Leon – Bloosh (Zeb Zito Remix) 5. Courtney Tidwell – Palace (Michel Cleis Its Too Late Remix) 6. Lane 8 ft. Lulu James …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-Live_from_the_Library_Volume_VII.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download We are still here. Love you all. 1. Maalem Mahmoud Guinia & Floating Points – Mimoun Marhaba 2. Vessels – Elliptic (Barker & Baumecker Remix) 3. Nils Frahm – Peter (The Drifter Edit) 4. Kevin Griffiths – Acid Splash (Leon Vynehall Translation) 5. Avatism – Serpentine (Clockwork Remix) …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-Watershed.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download With Watershed, Scholastics mines the effects left on the universe by late-period Talk Talk. Gorgeous and haunting, this delicately-structured mix is dense with sounds that evoke feelings and ideas that may have been lying dormant. I’m not saying this might make you cry or anything, but, you know. It might …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/LFTLIV.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The long delayed 4th edition of what’s become a series rooted in house music. For this one, I wanted something rawer, freer, more organic, groovier, jazzier, less mannered, less atmospheric, less melancholy. Summer’s starting and the heat is permeating further than just the temperature. Let Scholastics cool …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/LFTLVI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download We start off season 2 of LAMPSHADE with a haunting and gripping edition of the Live from the Library series. Scholastics has compiled a selection of tunes to prove that a group of disparate songs, played in sequence, can move you beyond in a dance-floor sense. We’re here, in the 21st century. …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/LFTLV.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Live from the Library V is an oncoming storm. It begins with the oppressive atmosphere of a low pressure system rolling in as the sun sets, and never loses that low ceiling of melancholy. It takes a few tracks for the rhythm of the rainfall to take …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Live-Library-Three.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download A proper tribute to Frankie Knuckles, Live from the Library, Volume 3 starts meditatively and never loosens its grasp on that emotional thread, even while delicately punching its way up to a workout. It’s pure house and pure heart that crescendos into a classic, often leaving you breathless …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-Hollowtongue_Hymnal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scholastics has taken the feeling of existential dread that can be experienced at 4 am in a dead town and has transmuted it into an hour and a half of chills-up-your-spine bone-rattle music. A spiritual cousin to Golden Ghost Forest. 1. Rachel’s – Cypress Branches 2. Castanets – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Live-Library-Two.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The second mix in the Live from the Library series is a lot brighter and more sprightly than the first. It’s also about 15 minutes longer, clocking in at just over an hour. Scholastics – Live from the Library, Volume Two 1. Philip Jeck and Jacob Kirkegaard – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Live-Library-One.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download As much as I love doing heavily plotted, extensively planned concept mixes, they take me a pretty long time to do. And I haven’t had as much free time on my hands recently, so I’m starting the Live from the Library series. The concept of this series is …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/lies.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download I started playing this in the car and my two-year-old son said “Scary music!” but when I asked him if he wanted me to turn it off, he said no. Scholastics has put together a little over half an hour of Halloween slasher music that uses synthesizers instead …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/WASA.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download I was gonna write a big thing about this, but I think the thing speaks for itself. Dancing about architecture, etc. Three things you need to know: 1. Wakanda is a fictional African country from the Marvel Universe. The mix follows W.A.S.A. from its tribal origins to deep …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-You_Have_Been_Our_Dwelling_Place.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is a mix designed around gospel house music. Although there’s a lot of the wonderful soulful vocal house sound that’s associated with that phrase, it draws from other traditions in house music as well, dipping into 90s deep house and bass-influenced house music. I tried to create …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/30000-is-the-New-8.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Inspired by the BBC Radio One Essential mix, this is a wide-ranging 2 hour dance mix designed to work in your headphones or on a dance floor. It starts off with some weaponized pop sugar, but quickly becomes more complicated, blending together afrobeat, nu-disco, rap, post-punk, and deep …