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Victoria, Canada

Rants about things, usually music, sometimes for money. Bylines seen in PopMatters, Bandcamp, Georgia Straight and Exclaim! Longtime juror for the Polaris Prize and Juno Awards.

Mixes & Musings: https://linktr.ee/alanranta

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Trippin' Travel Beats '76 (10+ hours)

A 10+ hour journey around the world of instrumental Japanese jazz, krautrock, Afrobeat, Argentine tango, French prog, Turkish psych, and all sorts of other soundscapes. Can you guess where you are listening to at any moment?

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Trippin' Travel ESL '76 (8+ hours)

This is an 8-hour mix that focuses on non-Western artists who are singing in English, showing how far the disco psychedelic influence of Western culture had spread by the mid-70s. The lyrics are life-affirming.

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Proto-House '76: 12+ hours of instrumental disco from 1976

This is a 12+ hour mix arranged by tempo, music that isn't actually house music. Rather, this mix focuses on instrumental disco and uptempo funk, the seeds for what would eventually become house. This is a SFW mix, for sure.

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Library Music '76: 11+ hours of instrumental production music from 1976

An 11+ hour, 6-part survey of 1976's finest library music, far out sounds intended for industrial use such as TV commercials, low budget movies, training films, pornos, whatever needed cheaply-licensed background music.

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Freaky Deaky Funk '76: 17+ hours of vocal up-tempo funk & soul from 1976

FREAKY DEAKY FUNK '76 is basically a companion to the DISCO BISCUIT MIX, as this is very dance-oriented, while downtempo vocal breaks can be found on the HIP-HOP SOUL mix and funk instrumentals are on the BEAT TAPE. Groovy.

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Disco Biscuit Mix '76: 18+ hours of vocal disco from 1976

Nothing but the funkiest vocal disco tracks from 1976. It's split into nine different moods as arranged by tempo from lento (88-104BPM) to prestissimo (132-147BPM).

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THE YEAR OF THE DEIR: 21 Mix Tapes from 1976

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