LAMPSHADE

The 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 – Lex Raime – Some Things Can ...More →

This 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 Mangum Mysterium) John Luther Adams – ...More →

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 Up 6. Nested – What A Beautiful ...More →

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. Kelly Lee Owens – cbm 9. The ...More →

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 – Watch Out 8. NTEIBENT and Stella – ...More →

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. Hundred Waters – Murmurs (Brandt Brauer Frick ...More →

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 your subwoofer. Scholastics – Wakanda Astronautics and ...More →

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 In Ruanda 3. C.P.I. – Sacrifice to ...More →

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 Marimba Jam) 5. Hugh Masekela – Don't ...More →

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 6. Protector 101 – Vision 7. Lost ...More →

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 Remix) 8. Nicola Cruz – Espiritu De ...More →

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 – Loving You (Moon Boots Remix) 7. ...More →

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) 6. Patrice Bäumel – Lowrider 7. Alma ...More →

A fall-oween mixtape for 2016. 1. Aaron Roche – Giganova 2. Akron/Family – I'll Be On The Water 3. Castanets – No Voice Was Raised 4. Danielson – Jokin' At The Block (Dymaxion remix) 5. Vapor Lanes – Mary 6. Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory – Music of the Spheres [Portal 2 Soundtrack] 7. Broken Spindles ...More →

From Ore I Labored You is at once crisp and dreamy, nestled halfway between an arid autumn and a sharp winter. It's full of small, delicate moments which are rendered grand by the intimacy with which they are viewed, a drama in miniature that grows in scale as it draws itself to its full height. ...More →

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 make you cry. Or laugh. Or sigh. ...More →

Like a lot of people on the internet, I was enamored with Mad Max Fury Road from the moment the film started. Elements of it crawled up into my brain and began leeching weird feelings, all shiny and chrome, into my body. Weirdly enough, this mix, its name an obscure reference to an in-show video game ...More →

  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 you down. SIDE A 1. Shur-i-kan – ...More →

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. ‘Remix culture' is old hat at this ...More →

  Moon Cities takes you to outer space and inner space, playing Pied Piper with a mix that's by turns hazy and sharp, woozy and swaggering. You won't know where you are or how you got there, but you'll be happy to be there. 1. The Bobby Fuller Four – Let Her Dance 2. Richard ...More →

  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 hold, softly and hesitantly at first and ...More →

Sylvan Summer Spectre, Moon Cities' long-awaited proper follow-up to Golden Ghost Forest, has arrived in its proper timing, on the fall equinox. Like the mix it follows, it's full of perfect, moody segues that move fluidly and unselfconsciously between genres without being showy, distracting or disturbing the spell it carefully weaves. The mix lies in ...More →

The first volume of Moon Cities' live mix series is here, and it's a slab of amped up, genre-agnostic electronic dance music. His mixing's got a raw immediacy to it that's thrilling – my favorite moment is when a the bassline from a significantly sped up “You're Nasty” slams down over Daft Punk's acidic french ...More →

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 with tears—or stars, or both—in your eyes. ...More →

“Feels”, that piece of post-Tumblr Millenial slang, is as much misunderstood as it is derided. But let's get to that later. Pure Feels (the name chosen as a homage of the iconic Pure Moods compilation) draws from ambient music, not the genre proper, but the music that was going on while other things were happening. ...More →

Just in time for summer, Moon Cities' Direct from the Caribbean is a warm breeze of tropical mood music. It starts in a sort of woozy 60s California nostalgia, but quickly becomes blissfully unmoored from both time and space, effortlessly leaping across decades and international borders alike. Just as its fraternal twin Direct from the ...More →

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 – Into The Night 3. Scott Tuma – ...More →

The third in the ongoing Chapter of Seas ambient mixtape series ventures out into deepier, choppier waters. But the brutality of the opening third gives way to an ocean of celestial drone. Salvation is reserved for those who endure. Tracklist: 1. Superstorms – Part 1 2. RxRy – Cetus 3. therefore – Free Soundtrack 4. ...More →

This is something of a primer on that mid-90s Japanese melting pot sound, shibuya-kei. Drawing equally from Brazilian bossa nova, French nouvelle chanson, electronic experimentalism, synth-pop and twee, this sound exploded into life in the early 90s and was heavily influential through the late 90s and early 2000s. These few songs are from key players ...More →

Twenty minutes of thoroughly modern electro-disco woven together into a dense mat of beats and crazy synthesizer hooks. And Karen O. 1. Metronomy – Heartbreaker (Discodeine remix) 2. Rafale – Everglades (Voyou remix) 3. Dragonette – Mixin To Thrill (Villains remix) 4. Hot Chip – Ready for the Floor (Soulwax dub) 5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs ...More →

This is an old (December 2009) collaborative mix from both of us. We traded songs back and forth in an attempt to make a coherent whole. This mix is much more pop-focused than the previous two. Tracklist: 1. DM Stith – Pity Dance 2. Celestine Ukwu & His Philosophers National – Okwukwe Na Nchekwube 3. ...More →

An instrumental mix of sylvan reading music for the December Adventure Hobbit book club. (decemberadventure.tumblr.com) 1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Title 2. Jim Guthrie – Dark Flute 3. Ombre – Cara Falsa 4. Clams Casino – Wizard 5. Bibio – Saint Christopher 6. Candy Claws – Warm Forest Floor 7. Monster ...More →

This is an hour long exotica mix, mixing classics and rarities, Golden Age and modern era. If you're not familiar with the “genre” of exotica, there are a couple of great primers here (www.ambientexotica.com/aboutexotica/) and here (exoticaproject.com/about.php), but the basic idea is that it's white people making an ersatz, romanticized version of “ethnic”, often tropical music, ...More →