Juno Daily: In The Mix – John Sellekaers

Canadian-born, Belgium-based producer John Sellekaers joins us for a mix session that centres in on what he calls his love of “slightly disquieting music”, taking in everything from Pye Corner Audio to Mica Levi and much in between.

Sellekaers operates under a dazzling array of different aliases – Feral Cities, Night Sky Pulse, Meeple, Xingu Hill, Concrete Garden – but has also dropped two albums in recent months under his own name, the tape/digital release Foilum for the always fascinating Oreille Gardee label a couple of weeks back, preceded by Observer Effect on Juno Daily faves Glacial Movements at the end of July.

“I’m often attracted to slightly disquieting music;” he says of the mix, “not dark but uncanny, mysterious. This mix oscillates between acoustic and electronic, with living, moving, textures. There are almost no proper beats, but it’s full of rhythms… I’ve included some soundtrack pieces and the work of three essential artists who died recently: Harold Budd, Jon Hassell and Richard H. Kirk. This is a mix for late night, to let the mind wander into uncharted territories… Enjoy!”

Track Listing:

01 Pye Corner Audio – Theme Number Five
02 Colin Stetson, Sarah Neufeld – Blue Caprice
03 Arve Henriksen – Saraswati
04 Jon Hassell – Reykjavik
05 Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch – Night Visit
06 Ryuichi Sakamoto – The Staggering Girl
07 Richard H. Kirk – Confession
08 Andrew Pekler – Description of Rain (Over Frisland)
09 Deaf Center – Undone
10 Deru – The Future Never Comes
11 Keda – Hwal
12 Mica Levi – Andrew Void
13 Pinkcourtesyphone – Another Interior
14 Ben Frost – Higgs Field
15 Patrick Graham – Breathing
16 Jonathan Fitoussi – Continent blanc
17 Sofie Birch – Slow Piru
18 Eraldo Bernocchi, Harold Budd, Robin Guthrie – Entangled