While mix tapes may no longer involve chromium dioxide passing over magnetic heads, there are still many heads who appreciate the music streams of others, and find them particularly useful when engaged in plant shamanics.

To this end, mixtape enthusiast and Arthur editor Jay Babcock has teamed up with recording engineer Bobby Tamkin to bring us Blackout, a fundraiser mix for the magazine with a "pay what thou wilt" link.

The tracks:
1. MOON DUO "Into the Trees" (from the Escape LP on Woodsist)
2. WHITE HILLS "Three Quarters" (from the White Hills LP on Thrill Jockey)
3. WHITE NOISE SOUND "Sunset" (from the White Noise Sound LP on Alive Naturalsound)
4. LORDS OF FALCONRY "Osiron" (from Lords of Falconry on Holy Mountain)
5. ENDLESS BOOGIE "Pack Your Bags" (from the Full House Head LP on No Quarter)
6. MASTERS OF REALITY "Johnny's Dream" (from the Pine/Cross'd Over LP)
7. MESSAGES "Tambura" (from the After Before LP on De Stijl)
8. ENUMCLAW "Harmonic Convergence" (from the Opening of the Dawn LP)

All available for preview at Arthurmag.

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Winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is technology and media commentator for CNN, and has taught and lectured around the world about media, technology, culture and economics. His new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation. His last book, an analysis of the corporate spectacle called Life Inc., was also made into a short, award-winning film.

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DukeThomson

I just picked this one up. Fantastic music to just zone out to
insatiableatheist

Not the sort of thing I’d have on whilst indulging in some ‘plant shamanics’.
Too grate-y. I prefer big, bloopy psytrance bubbles.
- Anonymous
  
  #6 – You might dig the second half of the mix. The thing has an arc, ya know. But yeah, there’s no electronica machine stuff on here.
sing it, baby

Man, that download should be renamed “The Moon landing? Fake! Think About It, Dude.”
Anonymous

i remember receiving good heads after giving a good mixtape…

think about it.
scifijazznik

Wow…The only band I’m familiar with there is White Hills and their latest is an excellent space rock record. I’ll definitely give it a whirl. Thanks for posting this!
Nash Rambler

I’m tempted to give this a try, but this post also makes me nostalgic for “Dark Side of the Moon,” and “Ready to Die.”
jaybabcock

#6 – The thing is designed to be full-on, peak and then mellow into air. Did you get to the second half? Maybe that’s more what you’re looking for. But yeah there’s no Tangerine Dream on there, if that’s what you’re craving…

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