Originally written by Sean Adams · 9 December 2011
Something for the weekend...a mix by Kate Wax, maker of a glistening cauldron of bewitching beats that many - including me - are calling one of the albums of the year (if you skip to the end, you can try to win yourself a copy of it...). Here's the verykatewaxesque intro to her mix...
“"She has come with a little gun The beast is beauty A war inside, I have a friend Fears lead an army She has come with a little gun The beast is clever A war inside, I have a friend Fears lead a fighter””
I'm a pagan prayer, I'm no butcher or Wayne Gacy. But my voice is smallpox, an anthropophage creature that erases the living in my fairy song country, and when the war is over, who else is there? The Badlands are empty. God is a mess and I don't have a TV.
The pain is compulsive as corrupted priests, so i croon with a bunch of bloody prophets, Tom Waits, Syd barrett and I must have forgotten a few pairs of Jim and Jimmy. Don't ask me more, that music is just an escape, a troubled zone, were Kate meet Bonnie, voices melt in a doomed alchemy, it's a walk in the bruises, a run in the dust, a monolith for the Blues, a relief in other's emergency.
K A T E W A X
PS: Free Tibet.
The Mix
Kate Wax - Monolith For the Blues by Drownedinsound on Mixcloud
You can also download this mix from Soundcloud, here.
The Tracklisting
01 Tom Waits-Earth Died Screaming 02 The Soft Moon-Tiny Spiders 03 Plaid-Tokyo Drive 04 Notwist-Neon Golden 05 Kangding Ray-OR 06 Farah-Law of life 07 Maserati-Who can find the Beast? 08 Pink Floyd-Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun 09 Fairmont-Velora 10 Hot Chip & Bonnie Pince Billy-I Feel Bonnie (Club Version) 11 Kate Bush-Under Ice 12 The KLF-Dream Time in Lake Jackson 13 Kate Wax-Green Machine
Competition
Fancy winning her record? Kate Wax's label Border Community have provided us with three packages to give away, which include her new album on CD + td. 12" of the Holden edits (echoes and the light / holy beast). To enter, all you need do, is comment below answering the following question: What is the name of Kate Wax's new album? (Clue: Here is the review of it.) We'll pick a winner from the correct entries at lunchtime on Wednesday 14th December.
Seeing as it's DiSmas, here's one of those James Holden edits/remixes...
And here's 'Human Twin' from the album...