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instrumentally mental & instrumental
01 "To Hold Down a Shadow" by Pullman from "Turnstyles & Junkpiles" 1998
all-acoustic Tortoise-related side project.
02 "In a Thimble" by Tortoise from the "Reach the Rock" soundtrack. 1998
A movie written by John Hughes, directed by his son, with music by John McEntire of Tortoise. Recommended.
03 "Empiric" by Jet Black Crayon from "Inaccuracies of the Mind Machine" 2004
Featuring everyone's favorite cube-gleaming sk8r co-star of Gleaming the Cube, Tommy Guerrero on bass
04 "Loft" by Landing from "Brocade" 2005
05 "A Cloud No Bigger Than A Man's Head" by Cerberus Shoal from "Bastion of Itchy Preeves" 2004
06 "Moon" by the Beans from "Inner Cosmosis" 2002
07 "Waves of Union" by Franz Prichard of Yume Bitsu from "Atlantian Waves" (Dolphin Festival) 2003
Originally performed in Portland at a pseudo-psychedelic-scientific "Dolphin Festival" at Holocene with Yume Bitsu
08 "Super Rocket Rumble" by Man Or Astro-man? from Deluxe Men in Space EP 1995
09 "Grab a Cab" by Øresund Space Collective from their self-titled album 2006
Infinite improvised space rock: http://www.archive.org/details/OresundSpaceCollective
10 "the Motel" by David Bowie from "Outside" 1995
https://twitter.com/#!/episod/status/172472053704822785
11 "I Wait for You" by Yume Bitsu from their self-titled album 1999
12 "Steede Bonnet" by Tarentel from "From Bone to Satellite" 1999
San Francisco band.
13 "Familiar Ground" by the Cinematic Orchestra featuring the LEGENDARY Fontella Bass from "Ma Fleur" 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fontella_Bass
14 "Reitschule" by Do Make Say Think from "& Yet & Yet" 2002
15 "Regiment" by Brian Eno & David Byrne from "My Life in the Bus of Ghosts" 1981
16 "Outer Temple" by Gong from "Angel's Egg" 1974
17 "Inner Temple" by Gong from "Angel's Egg" 1974
If you don't know about Gong: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gong_(band)
18 "Not Sport, Marital Art" by Jim O'Rourke from his tasty "Halfway to a Threeway EP" 1999
19 "Showrooms" by Sam Prekop from his self-titled album 1999
20 "Seven for Lee" by Soft Head from Rogue Element. 1978 (one of many Soft Machine off-shoots)
Featuring master of the saxello, Elton Dean; @truebe recognized this as a Soft Machine-related piece.
20 "Under the Cherry Blossom" by IQU from "Sun Q" 2004 (BONUS I'M HAVING A CONVERSATION SONG)
21 "Tandem Jump" by Jonathan Richman from an obvious favorite of mine "I, Jonathan" 1992 (BONUS GOTTA HAVE IT SONG)
22 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" from the U.S. Navy Country Current Bluegrass band 2001 (BONUS I'M OUTTA HERE SONG!)
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