Sedgemore - Major Threat Mixtape FLAC album

Tracklist

1	–Truck Stop Strangler	Hammerhead
2	–DJ Punisher	Untitled 3
3	–Ulver	Silence Teaches You How To Sing
4	–Aaron Dilloway	Side B (Songs About Jason)
5	–Boards Of Canada	Beware The Friendly Stranger
6	–Eddie Noack	Psycho
7	–Sedgemore	Jenkins Sycamore
8	–Sedgemore	Death Under Suspicious Circumstances
9	–Metal Fang	Fury Becomes Method
10	–Marco Beltrami	Mole Asses
11	–Sedgemore	Some Things Are Better Left Alone
12	–Truck Stop Strangler	Sigil Designation Zone
13	–Skag Arcade	Pentagram
14	–Sedgemore	Flickering Light
15	–Aaron Dilloway	After The Showers (Re-2)
16	–Dual Action	Oil On Asphalt

Credits

• DJ Mix – Sedgemore
• Graphics – Sedgemore

Notes

"You danced before my eyes
We met there
Santas on trees and dolls on benches
Now you dance in the woods
The oily asphalt is my sky
Ants in the cracks
No more straw dog
Let my joy ride you
Swallowing up delicacies like the sweeper trucks
Nails eating candy canes
Now you see the boots
Metal links feeling your skin
Flickering lights will show your expression"
poetry by Sedgemore

This month, the mix coming out on our Mixcloud channel is by Sedgemore and it's called Major Threat Mixtape. It's the third episode of the Threats series, and Sedgemore is the first artist in focusing so strongly on threat-y topics (being one of them in first place). Very few infos can be actually gathered on the Internet about him. Our (digital) chats have been often difficoult and rarefied.

Major Threat Mixtape is a complete a-typical mixtape according to the most common meaning mixtape has. Differences are not about the length of the mix, type of tracks choosen or mixing techniques, yet about the aim. The focus one ought to address has to be maximum, the guard cannot be dropped (the drawback might be to get lost in the abstract music). The mix is neither about the high volumes, as the classical dancefloor mix would request to go straight to the listener: it's about imagination. Major Threat Mixtape is the soundtrack of a journey towards the abyss. However, the travel does not end in it. On the contrary, it takes all its length moving on the deep's steep sides. Sedgemore's will is to describe the feeling one would feel living forever close to the oblivion. He does that making a full-movie score, so there's no straight need to preserve the same moods all along the mix. Instead, it's important to describe a plot for it, and to define the possible scenes/scenarios.

There's a quite long list of major influences Sedgemore had been affected in doing the mix. Major Threat Mixtape sounds like the O.S.T. of a movie such Joy Ride / Lost Highway, remarkably mysterious and creepy. V/H/S was another source of inspiration, mainly because of its claustrophobic atmosphere: that's a feeling Sedgemore knows very well, and he tried to put that into music. Some movies by James Fotopoulos were important too. It's importanto to mention also Sedgemore's great interest in unsolved murders as a social mass phenomenon and as a great (TV) show of violence and macabre. To sum up, Sedgemore insisted to report as another main influemce the photography of the English artist Mac Adams.

To reach his goal, Sedgemore chose a tracklist that sees Boards Of Canada alternating with Ulver (the more ambient/drone releases), one of the noisiest tracks by Delroy Edwards, dark anthems by Aaron Dilloway and some Sedgemore productions for the occasion. A track by Skag Arcade is featured too: it's from the first record Post Tenebras Lux. All the tracks were chosen to create kind of a roller coaster of suspence and quiet moments, just like a horror movie's score would be composed for. The closing is rough and totally unexpected, such as Sedgemore is recalling the typical quizzical ending of a mistery movie. The track is a blues piece by Eddie Noack that can be inserted in the cult genre today we can label as murder ballad. The song is named Psycho, was published in 1968 and is about a psychotic murdered telling how is to face his ordinary life. The lyrics show an unforgettable sense of humour, making the whole ballad unforgettable too. Our advice is to listen to Major Threat Mixtape in the worst moment of your day, when you're feeling oppressed and hopeless, and to let the mix drag you down. It's up to you what to do once you've reached the bottom. Enjoy. (Do not) support Sedgemore.