Tribute to Breaking the Set by Abby Martin on Mixcloud

This musical mix of epic proportions is dedicated to a show that smashed news paradigms and taught us to embrace love instead of fear.

Track Listing:

“Space Art – Speedway
o9 – Terminal Pink
Babe Rainbow – Things That Were Not
Joker – Love
Ben Frost – Venter (Evian Christ TF 12” mix)
Arca – Lonely Thugg
Clark – The Grit in the Pearl
Tim Exile – Quander
Suicideyear – Remembrance
HOLOVR – IV
Ital – Coagulate
Jel – Breathe
Lorn – Negative Jumpsuit
NHK’Koyxen – 768
Kelela – Keep It Cool
Claude Speeed – Traumzeuge
Wire Nest – Inna Dub Gaze
Ethereal and The Queer Show – Naturalle
Inventions – Luminous Insects
Greg Fox – It’s OK

Love,

ATOP, Akkad the Orphic Priest

All the featured music on the mix can be found through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].

Artwork by Abby Martin

MEDIA ROOTS – This set is dedicated to people working to gain happiness in their lives. Hopefully those who suffer from anxiety, stress and trauma will gain peace of mind through trying times. 

Love,

ATOP, Akkad the Orphic Priest

All the featured music on the mix can be found through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].

Track Listing:

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MEDIA ROOTS – This set is dedicated to a real person emerging to lead the world’s resistance against imperialistic hegemony–a person not caught up in materialistic ideals or selfish desires. Hopefully this leader will be able to bring the world peace for centuries to come.

Love,

ATOP, Akkad the Orphic Priest

***This mix wasn’t made by Fluorescent Grey

All the featured music on the mix can be found through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].

Track Listing:

Nathan Fake – Old Light
Team Doyobi – The Luminous Image
Holy Other – Tense Past
Blue Daisy X Unknown Shapes – Bedtime Stories (Don’t Stop)
Throwing Snow – Perca
Slugabed – Mountains Come Out of the Sky
Outer Space – 11:38
Hautlle – Feel Good Track of the Year
Yeasayer – Henrietta
Tinariwen – Tenere Taqhim Tossam (Four Tet rmx)
Lil Silva – Quest
Jam City – How We Relate to the Body
Keyboard Kid 206 – Live Righteous
Rustie – After Light (featuring Aluna George)
M Geddes Gengras – Air Solo
Tubeway Army – Praying to the Aliens
Animal Collective – Monkey Riches

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MEDIA ROOTS – This set is dedicated to humanity: the establishment of peace and the eradication of intolerance. I believe this can be achieved once we have taken away the power from elite politicians and CEOs that have the most influence over this world. Once we reclaim our power as free human beings, we can make this world as amazing and as hospitable as it should be toward every living thing. 

Love,

ATOP Akkad the Orphic Priest

All the featured music on the mix can be found through searching discogs.com or by emailing me: [email protected].

Track Listing:

Gavouna – Three
Clams Casino – Angels
Keyboard Kid 206 – Burn One, Pass it
Lorn – Ghost
Cloaks – #00148 (Dead Fader rmx)
Radioactive Man – Flying F**k
The Hundred in the Hands – Faded
Nathan Fake – Sense Head
A Produce & Loren Nerell – String Theory feat. Robert Anton Wilson
Third Eye Foundation – I’ve Lost that Loving Feline
Yppah – Never Mess With Sunday
S U R V I V E – Omniverse
Lofty305 – Cybrpunk Police Killr
Can – Millionenspiel
Protect-U – Lawndog

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MEDIA ROOTS – With famous Italian producer Giorgio Moroder (who also produced Blondie and Nina Hagen), Donna Summer created some of the most ground breaking proto techo music that came out of the 70s.  New Order even sampled the beat for ‘Blue Monday’ off the track ‘Our Love’.

Donna Summer is mainly unassociated with electronic music history, but she should be. The album ‘Bad Girls’ in particular, has some of the catchiest and ahead of their time electronic dance music productions that Moroder was ever part of.  When America heard her hit single ‘I Feel Love’ it was probably the first time the general public heard ‘electronic music’  in pop form. Kraftwerk was pioneering electronic music before Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer, but their music never achieved mainstream success like Donna Summer, which by our estimates catapulted electronic sounds into the world of popular music. 

‘Sunset People’ especially is a fantastic energetic fast tempo dance song and one of the best electronic music rarities from the late 70s.  Most historical overviews of electronic music only mention her single ‘I Feel Love’ while neglecting to mention the excellent double LP ‘Bad Girls’ which ends with 3 completely electronic proto techno/house songs.  The album also features inside cover art of Summer posing as a street walking prostitute, and even reaching inside a flashing man’s overcoat (who happens to be moroder) alluding to his penis size, a far cry from the ‘born again’ Christian image she cultivated later in her career.

Please enjoy this sampling and remembrance of the greatness of Donna Summer. We include the last 3 songs off ‘Bad Girl’ as well as  ‘I Feel Love’ her most popular single.  May she rest in peace.

Robbie Martin for Media Roots

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