Altered Zones

Last week, Emeralds' Steve Hauschildt made a guest mix for No Conclusion focusing on the beginning stages of an artists development. Hauschildt writes:

“It is something of a study in both new and old musics, often synthesizer-centric, covering many types of media (compact disc, vinyl, film, video game, training video). Regionally it is mostly American, although some French, Japanese, and British tracks are included as well. Stylistically not ‘really’ bound, except by certain structural conventions across popular and rhythmic musics. Rather, it is biographical in a sense, many of the songs are more obscure tracks by well-known artists/public figures... I am interested in that embryonic moment before stardom, an impulse that may or may not culminate into ‘success’ and how it may be sublimated in the music, itself a contour of a personality and life events. There is a kind of glaze over some of the songs here, they are imbued with meaning that unfurls after repeated listens.”

Peep the tracklist featuring "Jim Ferraro", Madonna, and Dam Funk at No Conclusion, download the mix here