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March 29, 2017 11:43 PM

Matthew Kent’s Blowing Up The Workshop Mix Series has often run towards slightly outside sounds; in a 2014 “best of” list for Pitchfork he spoke of “the art of mixtape” (ostensibly contra “DJ Mixes”).
The series arrived on the map in 2014 with Galcher Lustwerk’s critically-acclaimed 100% GALCHER mix of original material, and has lately been lauded for a jungle mix by Ben UFO and an eclectic and introspective set from DEBONAIR.
The most recent mix comes from Jen Monroe of Listen To This!. It follows the blog’s own focus on esoteric world music LPs and was inspired by “escapism, cinematic déjà vu, anime, hyper-optimistic fantasy about the experience of tourism, courtyards, commercials, and ruins”
posted by Going To Maine (3 comments total)

In the Pitchfork article there's a shout out to Vancouver based http://www.libramix.org/ which "features" a similar web aesthetic to the Blowing up the Workshop - which is to say examples of the brutalist design school. For some ambient noise you should spend some time on LM052: Total Stasis - Taurean Steam Garden
posted by zenon at 6:47 AM on March 30, 2017 [5 favorites]

YUSSS. Music for tomorrow days! Thanks!
posted by filthy light thief at 8:43 AM on March 30, 2017

Thanks for posting this! I loooove BUTW's mixes!
I got into them from that amazing 100% Galcher mix a few years back and they have not disappointed since.

My other faves:
http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/lukid (Piano music!)
http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/mashworth
http://blowinguptheworkshop.com/project/minorscience (I actually heard Meredith Monk's Gotham Lullaby for the first time on this mix and was :O)

Other mixes people might be interested in are:
- Kit Freund's Cold Wine Series: 1 2 3 4 They're a bit like "easy listening" for snobs.
- Woo's Metron Music Mixtape More ambient, dubby, fancy chill music as above

Anyway, that's probably plenty. Yay mixes! They're the best!
posted by musicismath at 2:20 PM on March 30, 2017 [3 favorites]