Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell is now available on CD+LP with exclusive merch bundles only available at the Yep Roc Store. Bundle the Master Mix CD/LP with the official Master Mix hat and save 15% on your entire order.
Master Mix embodies the genre-defying, experimental spirit that defined Russellâs work. Living in the East Village from the â70s until his untimely death in 1992 at age 40 from AIDS-related causes, Russell moved effortlessly between the cityâs various music scenes, recording disco beats alongside Nicky Siano one night, and the next, crafting slow, haunting tracks in his apartment with his cello and idiosyncratic warbling voice. The New Yorker called his work âstranded between lands real and imagined: the street and the cornfield; the soft bohemian New York and the hard Studio 54 New York; the cheery bold strokes of pop and the liberating possibilities of abstract art.â Through his collaborations, he earned the admiration of artists like Allen Ginsberg, David Byrne and Philip Glass, who said of Russellâs music: âIt does not submit to formula, but subverts the formula.
Master Mix: Red Hot + Arthur Russell Tracklist:
1. Â Â Â Â Jose Gonzalez â âThis Is How We Walk On The Moonâ
2. Â Â Â Â Lonnie Holley â âSoon-To-Be Innocent Fun (Interlude)â
3. Â Â Â Â Robyn â âTell Youâ
4. Â Â Â Â Hot Chip â âGo Bangâ
5. Â Â Â Â Sufjan Stevens â âA Little Lostâ
6. Â Â Â Â Lonnie Holley â âIn The Light Of The Miracle (Interlude)â
7. Â Â Â Â Richard Reed Parry, Little Scream, Sam Amidon, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld â âKeeping Upâ
8. Â Â Â Â Liam Finn, Ernie Brooks & Peter Zummo â âThis Love Is Cryingâ
9. Â Â Â Â Rubblebucket & Nitemoves â âEliâ
10. The Revival Hour â âHiding Your Present from Youâ
11. Sam Amidon â âLucky Cloudâ
12. Devendra Banhart â âLosing My Taste For The Night Lifeâ
13. Phosphorescent â âYou Can Make Me Feel Badâ
14. Blood Orange â âIs It All Over My Face & Tower Of Meaningâ
15. Scissor Sisters â âThatâs Us/Wild Combinationâ
16. VEGA INTL. â âArm Around Youâ
17. Oh Mercy â âPlanted A Thoughtâ
18. Lonnie Holley â âHop On Down (Interlude)â
19. Cults â âBeing Itâ
20. Richard Reed Parry â âJust A Blipâ
21. Glen Hansard â âI Couldnât Say It To Your Faceâ
22. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down â âNobody Wants A Lonely Heartâ
23. The Autumn Defense â âOh Fernanda Whyâ
24. Alexis Taylor â âOur Last Night Togetherâ
25. Lonnie Holley â âThe Deer In The Forest (Interlude)â
26. Redding Hunter â âClose My Eyesâ
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