#Mark Barrott

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Reverberation #419 1. Finis Africae - Zoo Zulu 2. Mark Barrott - Baby Come Home 3. Batteaux - High Tide 4. Chris Rea - If Anybody Asks You 5. IODI - Tu Sonrisa 6. Eddie Suzuki - City Of Refuge 7. Steve Hiett - Waiting By The Car 8. Ollie Halsall - Lovers Leaping 9. Reg Kingfish - Legend Of The Lost Art 10. Robert Lester Folsom - Super See 11. Cat Stevens - Was Dog A Doughnut? 12. The Boy Hairdressers - Don’t Need A Drum

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Mark Barrott | イ​カ​ロ​ス (Icarus)

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Wednesday 13 September Mixtape 369 “Safe for Dreaming” Experimental Electronic Cosmic Space Instrumental Retro Synth Wednesdays, Fridays & Sundays. Support the artists and labels. Don't forget to tip so future shows can bloom.

Castle If-Not Safe For Life 00:31

Volker Rapp-Regina regit colorem 03:16

Kösmonaut-Liquid Veil 10:04

Golden Bug, In Fields-Breath 16:47

The British Stereo Collective-Travelogue (The Journey) 22:25

Jarmodular-The impulses of everyday life 25:03

Brandon Reisig-Hawk-Wind 33:43

Lustbader-Still Dreaming 41:34

Lone Bison-Sad Ending 49:37

João Paulo Daniel-Folclore Impressionista 53:19

Liam White-Thallium 56:55

Marc Codsi-The Dance1:02:47

Mark Barrott-Yonige-Ya (夜逃げ屋) 1:05:09

Joerg Dankert-Journey to K2-415b 1:09:30

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Mark Barrott - 蒸発 (Jōhatsu) - Balearic grooves meet Japanese new age with a smattering of jazz

These days I try, whenever possible, to write like a Japanese Calligrapher - prepare the room, the ink and paper and then the make the act of creation as spontaneous as possible. I desire therefore, a release mechanism that mirrors this creative process as closely as possible, giving me the freedom to share music quickly and directly with people that care. This first Bandcamp focused release is music from a soundtrack I was commissioned to write for a Japanese documentary ‘Jōhatsu…the art of evaporation’. I have no idea if it will ever see the light of day, (post pandemic funding issues), but one of the conditions of my contract was the ability to release the music myself should the documentary remain unreleased by the end of 2021. Regardless of its origins, this is the music I wish to make, the emotions I wish to capture and share…the ideal of living simply with Kindness, Grace & Gratitude. I hope that this achieves that connection with you. All tracks composed, recorded & performed by Mark Barrott, Ibiza, Jan 2020-April 2022. Art/Design Stuart Hardie

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

Tracklist

01. UNKLE - Outro (Mo Wax) 02. Lav & Purl - All Is Breath (A Strangely Isolated Place) 03. Billow Observatory - Plains (Azure Vista Recordings) 04. Gaussian Curve - T.O.R (Music From Memory) 05. Wilson Tanner - Further Than Your Headlights (Growing Bin Records) 06. Suzanne Kraft - Roberto & Giovanni (Melody As Truth) 07. Okinawa Delays - Nariyama Ayagu (Claremont 56) 08. Chris Coco - Splash Point (Melodica Recordings) 09. Seahawks - Didn't Know I Was Lost (Black Peaches Remix) (Ocean Moon) 10. Bendith - Dinas (Aficionado Recordings) 11. Mark Barrott - Sacred Islands (International Feel Recordings) 12. Wolf Muller & Cass. - Applepie Dreams (International Feel Recordings) 13. Evenings - Babe (Late Night Tales) 14. Slow Magic - Feel Flows (Sun Glitters Remix) (LebenStrasse Records) 15. Cale Parks - 36 Questions Sunset (Throne Of Blood) 16. Farbror Resande Mac - Vardagsrummet (Horisontal Mambo) 17. Arcane - The Arc (Ninja Tune) 18. 36 - Pulse Dive (3six Recordings) 19. Telefuzz - If The Vice Is Right (Upstairs Recordings) 20. ambientsketchbook - Life In Slow Motion (Self Released) 21. Laurie Anderson - Oh Superman (Jascha Hagen Remix) (Self Released)

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Elon Musk hasn’t been sighted at the picket lines in Missouri, Ohio, or Michigan, where autoworkers are striking against the Big Three US carmakers. Yet the influence of Musk and his non-unionized company Tesla have been everywhere since the United Auto Workers called the strike last week. In some ways, Tesla—the world’s most valuable automaker by market capitalization—set the whole thing in motion.

Tesla’s pioneering electric vehicles kicked off a new era that has turned the entire auto industry on its head. In a scramble to compete with Tesla and make that transition, the legacy automakers targeted by the current strike, General Motors, Ford, and Stellantis, have each pledged billions in global investment and have begun dramatically restructuring their operations. For workers, the “green jobs” being created can be scarcer and worse paying. Electric vehicle powertrains have many fewer moving parts than conventional gas-powered ones, and so they require 30 percent fewer vehicle assembly hours, according to one estimate. Plants that make EV batteries are generally outside the core, unionized auto supply chain. The United Auto Workers has seen a dramatic drop in membership due to jobs moving outside the US—it lost 45 percent of its members between 2001 and 2022. A future with more electric vehicles could mean fewer union jobs overall. “This strike is about electrification,” says Mark Barrott, an automotive analyst at the Michigan-based consultancy Plante Moran.

The new assembly plants that the legacy automakers need to pull off the transition have been stood up mostly in US states hostile to union organizing, such as Kentucky, Tennessee, and Alabama. And because many of these plants are joint ventures between automakers and foreign battery companies, they are not subject to previous union contracts.

The UAW did not respond to a request for comment, but UAW president Shawn Fain told CNBC last week that the electric transition can’t leave workers behind. “Workers deserve their share of equity in this economy,” he said.

Tesla’s rise over recent years has also put ever-ratcheting pressure on the legacy automakers to cut costs. Including benefits, Musk’s non-unionized EV company spends $45 per hour on labor, significantly less than the $63 per hour spent in the Big Three, according to industry analysts.

Musk’s willingness to upend auto manufacturing shibboleths has also forced his legacy competitors to seek new efficiencies. Tesla led the way in building large-scale car casts, stamping out very large metal components in one go rather than making a series of small casts that have to be joined together. And it pioneered an automotive chassis building process that can be easily adapted to produce different makes and models.

Tesla’s Silicon Valley roots also helped it become the first automaker to envision the car as a software-first, iPhone-like “platform” that can be modified via over-the-air updates. And the company aims to automate more of its factories, and extract more of the materials it needs to build its batteries itself.

Tesla’s novel production ideas could soon lead the company to put even more pressure on legacy automakers. Musk said earlier this year that Tesla plans to build a new, smaller vehicle that can be made for half the production cost of its most popular (and cheapest) vehicle, the Model 3.

Musk says a lot of things, and many don’t come to pass. (The world is still waiting for the 1 million Tesla robotaxis promised by the end of 2020.) But Tesla has been disruptive enough to leave legacy automakers, including Detroit’s Big Three, “in a quest for capital,” says Marick Masters, who studies labor and workplace issues at Wayne State University's School of Business. Detroit’s automakers have made good money in the past decade—some $250 billion in profits—but also paid a significant chunk of it out in dividends. Pressure from Tesla and the EV transition it catalyzed has left them feeling as if they need every penny they can corral to keep afloat as the industry changes.

“They have little money to concede for union demands,” says Masters. The UAW’s wants include significantly higher wages, especially for workers who have joined the companies since their Great Recession and bankruptcy-era reorganizations, which left some with less pay and reduced pension and health benefits.

So far, the UAW has shown little patience for the idea that the automakers it is pressuring are cash-strapped and under competitive pressure. “Competition is a code word for race to the bottom, and I'm not concerned about Elon Musk building more rocket ships so he can fly into outer space and stuff,” UAW president Fain told CNBC last week when asked about pressure from Tesla. He has argued that production workers should receive the same pay raise received by auto executives over recent years.

When automakers have taken the opposite tack, insisting that they’re well capitalized and making plans to put them ahead of the electric car maker—well, that set up conditions for this strike too. The three American automakers are forecasted to make $32 billion in profits this year, a slight dip from last year’s 10-year high. “The more they toot their own horns about profitability, the more the union looks at them and says, ‘We want our rightful share,’” says Masters.

Tesla did not respond to a request for comment, but Musk has, in typical fashion, chimed in. He posted on X last week to compare working conditions at his companies with the competition, apparently seeking to turn the dispute he helped foment into a recruiting pitch. “Tesla and SpaceX factories have a great vibe. We encourage playing music and having some fun,” he wrote. “We pay more than the UAW btw, but performance expectations are also higher.” A UAW attempt to organize Tesla workers in 2017 and 2018, as the company struggled to produce its Model 3, failed. The National Labor Board ruled that Tesla violated labor laws during the organizing drive; the carmaker has appealed the decision.

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Chance Encounters #001

Thomas Martin Nutt, Francesco Fabris and Ben Frost, Taku Unami, Guy Vandromme, Luciana Elizondo, Adriaan Severins, Fabio Gionfrida, Niko-Matti Ahti, Ruth Anderson, The Caretaker, Christian Marclay, Unknown Recordist, Wendy Carlos, William Shatner, Mark Barrott, Denis Dufour, Jaimie Branch, Mabe Fratti, Clint Mansel, Morton Subotnik, Laurie Spiegel, Olivia Block, Kronos Quartet, Jean Luc Godard, Fred Frith, Max Eastley, Graham Halliwell, Evan Parker & Mark Wastell, Ensemble

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Deep love drifting on the tide forever

Soshi Takeda - Hidden Wave Downhill2k01 - Wafer Clark - Com Touch Broadcast - Black Cat Hundred Water - Murmurs 佐藤博 - イヴニング・シャドウズ FM Skyline - On the Promenade (George Clanton Remix) 储昌信 - 累累 Runners Club 95 - Carrie Bradshaw Software - Island Sunrise The Black Dog - 4PO Eagle Eye d Tiger - Drive You Home Evenings - Babe Mark Barrott - 9月のある金曜日 24-2 Буерак - Sigma (Slowed + Reverb)

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Moments In Love #28 with Tom Belte

Space Ghost / 4am

Held By Trees / Next To Silence

Guy Cuevas / Quiereme Un Poco (instrumental)

Ben Watt & Robert Wyatt / Aquamarine

Alyson McNamara & Yusu / Afterhours (Yusu mix)

Adrian Swerts / Still

Joe Dassin / Homemade Ice Cream (Ole Smokey edit)

Arthur Russell / This Is How We Walk On The Moon (live)

Mark Barrott / Icarus

The Zenmenn / Invisible Landscape

Tan Cologne / Citrus Beach

Molly Lewis / The Miracle Fruit

Seahawks / Beams Of Love

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Mark Barrott - Arcade Scene

[elysianarmada]

Sketches from an Island by Mark Barrott is such a lovely album! I didn't know what to expect when I began listening to it, per usual, but I'm in love with it.

[knightofleo]

Favourite Songs of 2023

abracadabra, Actress, Aïsha Devi, Ali Sethi, Ana Tijoux, ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Aphex Twin, Arthur Russel, Art School Girlfriend, Avalon Emerson, Baby Queen, Baltra, Bayonne, Belén Aguilera, Bendik Giske, Björk, Black to Comm, Blawan, Bleary Eyed, boygenius, Brimheim, Brutalismus 3000, Carly Rae Jepsen, Caroline Polachek, Carmen Villain, Caterina Barbieri, Chelsea Wolfe, Christine and the Queens, Complete Mountain Almanac, crushed, Daniela Pes, Decisive Pink, Deradoorian, Dj Karaba, Eartheater, Earth Trax, Feist, Fever Ray, Floating Points, Forest Swords, Gossip, GRETA, Gus Dapperton, Kate NV, Haley Blais, Hania Rani, Hannah Jadagu, Hannes Kretzer, Hayden Pedigo, Helena Deland, Hilary Woods, How To Disappear Completely, How To Dress Well, Ichiko Aoba, James Holden, Jenny Owen Youngs, JFDR, John Roberts, Jonah Yano, Julie Byrne, Justin Walter, Katie Gately, Kelela, Khotin, KISS OF LIFE, Kristin Hersh, Kumo 99, Laura Groves, Laurel Halo, Lawrence English, Loscil, L'Rain, Lucinda Chua, M83, Mandy, Indiana, Mark Barrott, Mary Lattimore, Matthew Herbert, Maya Jane Coles, Metteson, Militarie Gun, Mitski, Model/Actriz, Montañera, Naomi Sharon, Nathan Fake, Nick León, Nicolas Jaar, Nico Paulo, Nina Kinert, Ólafur Arnalds, Palehound, Pangaea, Parannoul, Park Hye Jin, PJ Harvey, Rosalía, Runnner, Ruth Radelet, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Salamanda, Sampha, Searows, Shalom, Shygirl, Sigur Rós, Siv Jakobsen, Skeleten, Slowdive, Sofia Kourtesis, spill tab, Stephen Steinbrink, Sufjan Stevens, Susanne Sundfør, TENGGER, 'T Geruis, Tim Hecker, Tinashe, Tsunaina, Two Shell, Tzusing, Underworld, U.S. Girls, Vanishing Twin, Willow Avalon, Yerin Baek, yuné pinku

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On this day in 2022. This mix happened.

Iguana Moonlight-VI

Bernard Fevre-impressionism

The Heartwood Institute-Striding Edge

Natureboy Flako-Crystals

Tom Elliot-Image Maker

Correlations-Recall

Craven Faults-Deipkier

Pye Corner Audio-Exhumed

Sam Prekop-The New Last

Basil Kirchin, John Coleman-Assignment K 3

Freedom Power-Metropolis Notte

Maston-Evening

Monoton, Konrad Becker-Ein Wort

Folclore Impressionista-The Illusion of Freedom

THE DANDELION SET & ALAN MOORE-Cosmic Variations

Domenique Dumont-Quasi Quasi

The Twelve Hour Foundation-Through Violet Perspex/5-6-7-Go!

The Heartwood Institute-Stock Ghyll Force

The Twelve Hour Foundation-Hundreds, Tens & Units

Keith Mansfield-Staying Power

Folclore Impressionista-Shadow and Dark

B. Kaufman-Jingle 1

Cate Brooks-Econoparc

The Twelve Hour Foundation-Elastic Limit

Mark Barrott-Baby Come Home

Correlations-Alonso

Mo Foster-Times Square

The Twelve Hour Foundation-Coquillages

Menahan Street Band-Midnight Morning

Listening Center-T-Group

Café Kaput-Cells In Action

A. Frydman & M. Cannone-Sylphides

Roger Roger-Sounds Industrial N°2

Jonathan Snipes-Flashing Lights in Unison

Correlations-Mount Hood

Jonathan Fitoussi / Clemens Hourrière-Vague

V. Geminiani-Ophis Le Serpentaire

Stellarays-Trish's Toy Rocket

The Heartwood Institute-Honister Pass/ The Druids Circle

[twistedsoulmusic]

Mark Barrott bathes listeners in the glorious sounds of Balearic chillout and Japanese new age on his new album. A director hired Barrott in 2019 to compose the score for their upcoming documentary, ‘Jōhatsu (蒸発) … the art of Evaporation’. The movie hasn’t been released yet, (post-pandemic funding issues), but Barrott has gifted us the music. Overall, ‘Jōhatsu (蒸発)’ is a masterful fusion of traditional and modern sounds that captures the unique essence of Japan. Barrott has once again proven himself a talented and innovative artist unafraid to move in new directions.

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

Tracklist

Akis - Biofields (Into The Light Records) Cass. - Your Beautiful Look Is Looping Endlessly In My Head (Emotional Response) Suso Saiz - The Hiding Place (El Escondite) (Music From Memory) Vangelis Katsoulis - Liquidity (Utopia Records) Jonny Nash - Lime (Melody As Truth) Mood Hut - Late Mantra (Snaker) Susumu Yokota - Azukiiro No Kaori (Leaf) Steve Cobby - Arvan (Out Take) (Throne Of Blood) Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau's Dream (We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records) 36 - Poekhali (3six Recordings) Mark Barrott - Over At Dieter's Place (International Feel) Lord Of The Isles - Obar Liobhaite (ESP Institute) Talaboman - Midnattssol (R&S Records) Vermont - Ki-Bou (Kompakt) D - City Boy (Ambient Mix) (P&D) Jonny Nash - Retreat (Melody As Truth) Sad City - Limbo (Emotional Response)

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