This week’s Isolation Mixtape was the most difficult letter of the alphabet to work with. My usual plan of featuring two fabulous tracks from the last decade initially proved impossible regardless whether i was focusing on the artist or the track beginning with that letter, which i suspect says more about X than it does the paucity of my music collection. i’ve therefore thrown the net a little wider, to include any artists, groups or composers whose name includes the letter X. Even that was something of a challenge but it did turn out to be possible, so once again there are two tracks from each of the years 2010 to 2019, featured in chronological order. i’ve actually allowed myself one extra from 2019, simply because i wanted to end the mixtape with the two final tracks that bring xin’s album Melts Into Love to its exhilarating conclusion.
Here’s the tracklisting in full, together with approximate timings and links to obtain the music.
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- 00:00:00 Xenia Beliayeva – Dumpfe Träume (WSDN REMIX) (from Wir sind die Nacht (Original Soundtrack))
- 00:03:00 Ex Confusion – To Know Who You Are (from Something To Remember)
- 00:06:33 Hecq & Exillon – Spheres Of Fury (original mix) (from Spheres Of Fury)
- 00:11:33 Vortex – Persistence (from Rockdrill)
- 00:15:07 Phlex – Rost Beef (from Atta Atta – free download)
- 00:20:12 Son Lux – Wither (Live) (from Son Lux (BreakThru Radio Session) – free download)
- 00:24:47 Xopher Davidson & Zbigniew Karkowski – Processor 4 [excerpt] (from Processor)
- 00:30:07 eX – Music Makes Me (from Possessed)
- 00:33:14 Opal Onyx – Evaun (from Delta Sands)
- 00:37:02 Alexei Borisov & Jelena Glazova – Morning (from Macbeth – free download)
- 00:46:13 Alx Broken Toy – Blip Core (from Breaks Of Massive Deconstruction – free download)
- 00:53:22 Gabriel Ledoux – « He’s wounded, fuck » (from Le vide parfait)
- 00:55:52 Xiaogang Ye – Symphony No. 3 ‘Chu’ – VI. Xiling Gorge (from Symphony No. 3 ‘Chu’/The Last Paradise)
- 01:01:27 Xarah Dion – Derive (from Fugitive)
- 01:06:22 Max Corbacho – Soul of the World (from Source of Present)
- 01:13:25 Hortlax Cobra – I’m Ready (from Lightworks)
- 01:18:01 Mika Vainio & Franck Vigroux – Un peu après le soleil (from Ignis)
- 01:24:42 Floex & Tom Hodge – Machines Are Dancing (feat. Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra) (from A Portrait Of John Doe)
- 01:31:59 Allie X – Science (Digital Concert) (from Super Sunset (Analog))
- 01:35:47 xin – Virtually Asocial / No Relief, No Perspective, No Vanishing Point (from Melts Into Love)
