8 Tracks: To Listen To Alongside A Witch With Cold Hands With Maoupa Mazzocchetti

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Now, there's a title for a selection feature right? Who even knew that a witch might have cold hands.

Anyway, Maoupa seems to think that they do and he has very carefully crafted a playlist for us which is packed with intrigue and mood galore. He has selected tracks from across a forty year period which take us on a winter's journey through spookiness and ambience. Maoupa will this month release an EP on Unknown Precept titled 'Infinite Glance Court'. See his selections below…

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Jimmy Smack - Death Or Glory E.P. (1982)

Yes, you’re hearing well, it’s a bagpipe sound. I found out about this artist on YouTube back in 2013. Thanks to Death Vaults Records I was able to buy their reissue last month. It’s the kind of artist that contributed in building and changing my music’s perception to a certain level. There’s some sort of mental mysticism in this song. It’s very obscure but also full of light and still, I find it very funny. I’d say the « Hating Life » track is the most story-driven one in comparison to his other productions. Jimmy Smack and Roger Trammell’s (the poet who wrote these depressive lyrics) work is definitely the biggest U.F.O. from the early 1980’s.

Jimmy Smack - Death Or Glory E.P. (1982)

Yes, you’re hearing well, it’s a bagpipe sound. I found out about this artist on YouTube back in 2013. Thanks to Death Vaults Records I was able to buy their reissue last month. It’s the kind of artist that contributed in building and changing my music’s perception to a certain level. There’s some sort of mental mysticism in this song. It’s very obscure but also full of light and still, I find it very funny. I’d say the « Hating Life » track is the most story-driven one in comparison to his other productions. Jimmy Smack and Roger Trammell’s (the poet who wrote these depressive lyrics) work is definitely the biggest U.F.O. from the early 1980’s.
Genetic Plans - Balance - Everybody Moves Out

I have to say this one is my spare tire as soon as the dance floor turns empty… I made an edit in order to make it a bit more « DJ friendly » one might say. It works really good, the guitar, saxophone and voice samples are just incredible; this band was very innovative. Also, their beautiful track « Launch Time and Scientific Control » was released on the « Alien Galaxy Builder » compilation on the Light Sounds Dark label.
Pseudo Code - Fascination (1981)

Belgium = Insane Music = Pseudo Code = Alain Neffe = God as soon as we speak about Belgian electronic music from that era. Last year I had an epistolary correspondence with him and he told me that he was also a member of all the bands featured in the « Home Made Music for Home Made People » compilation that he produced for his label. Insane Music is one of my biggest influence in Belgium.
Nimrod 33 - Barbed Bed

It’s just two famous tracks in one but I can’t find where these come from originally. Nimrod 33 destroyed both of them with a bunch of effects and it’s absolutely beautiful. I found out about Nimrod 33 only a few months ago. I really like their approach using exaggerated effects, but also the melody switching… It’s very crystalline with a moody pimp touch.
Attrition - Redoubt Of Light (Remix)

Huge track halfway between Goth, Cold Wave and Industrial music but still very melodic. The 808 makes it timeless to my ears. It was released on the « Qu’est ce qu’il y a » tape compilation by the Requiem Productions label back in 1983.
Laurent Pernice - Plan De Coupe

Intense, poetic and strong material. It was first released on the « Ethniques Urbaines » tape compilation by Vox Man Records in 1988. It fits this sort of mental ritual I have in order to keep in mind that good music doesn’t necessarily have a particular style.
Ted Milton - Love Is Like A Violence

I found out about this track last Spring thanks to Mata Hari and Luca’s DJ set at the Strange Sounds from Beyond Festival taking place in Amsterdam. I was so stone but this music made me jump up! How could that be impossible?
Daniel Johnston - An Idiot's End

Because I can’t find any track from him I don’t like, I agree to say that I’m a fan. Daniel Johnston uninhibited me as much on the technical level as the artistic one. Singing complex soul feelings with a staggering ease Mr. Loner will be the king forever.