CPI live mixes

I put some live mixes online since everyone's all deep in their bunkers.
Some of these have never been available before.  Some were online for a short window of time in the past and only linked to in certain places.  Some had their links hidden in http://thetastates.com

Some party, some chill.  Hope you like them.

2009-05-22 live at Certain Sort, @ Shanghai for VEBF (party mix)

2010-11-20 live at Once In A Blue Moon, Oakland 10:30pm set (IDM)

2010-11-20 live at Once In A Blue Moon, Oakland 3am set (ambient)

2011-03-26 live Gathering Music @ Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens' White Wedding to the Snow (ambient/IDM)

2013-03-09 live retro set in Toronto (70s/80s/90s)

2013-07-19 live at Stefan Thompson's vernisage @ Wallspace Gallery (varied)

2015-01-31 live Venus Envy 14th anniversary party @ Babylon (party mix)

CPI - dark mix 2003

Here's a special holiday gift for everyone:  I was cleaning up and found an old backup disc that had a WAV file titled "dark mix" from 2003, so here it is for you.  13 years ago I recorded this mishmash of breakbeats and experimental sounds, with dashes of noise and speedcore.

download: CPI - dark mix 2003

It's a bit overblown, it's got a bit of line noise, it's a bit rough, but it's also kind of lovely to discover something I haven't heard in over a decade.


Please note the "unlisted" tag on this post.  I have tagged the random mixes I've put up on the blog that DO NOT APPEAR on http://thetastates.com/
Also there is another technically "unlisted" mix hidden on the page  at
http://thetastates.com/

the 2005 demos

CPI - 2005 demo 1
CPI - 2005 demo 2


I found 2 old demos on an external hard drive. As my days of relevancy as a DJ slow to a halt, I wanted to share them to give some perspective.
Go back and look at my output circa 2004. GO AND LOOK. I had started buying a few dancier records in 2003 and 2004, and 2004 saw releases of mixtapes for both Venus Envy and The Decypher Cru. I was hot shit, on a roll. I was playing dancey vinyl, feeling good, and decided I should go get a regular booking at a club. What could go wrong?


After passing around a tonne of these demos, no one called me back. Maybe they didn't like the music, maybe they didn't want a fat queer woman on display, whatevs. In retrospect a lot of my dance favourites did not exactly inspire the same rush of feelings in the rest of the world. YMMV


Honed by many years of eclectic queer parties, I repeated a similar thing in 2012, with much greater refinement: Q-Bounce 1.1 and Q-Bounce 1.2 were my statements of how I wanted to have a dance party.  They were demos of exactly what I wanted to bring to the table.


The reactions from my hometown Ottawa crowds were mostly stares, gawks, and confusion, thus effectively ending my viability as a dance DJ. (though apparently it went over well in Toronto and Montreal.)

These are a bit sloppy, but for me, endearing.  Maybe it's the nostalgia.  I once thought I could get Ottawa clubs to dance along to Squarepusher and Mu. Oh god the needle even jumps at one point.
I made them each under 20 minutes so they could fit on one of those nifty 3" CDRs, or on either side of a 40 minute cassette.

CPI LIVE RETRO SET

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/CPI_-_2013-03-09_live_retro_set.mp3

A special little something something for everyone this Friday!
I was asked to perform an all retro set, and I recorded it for your listening pleasure.
All tracks from late 70s to early 90s, and instead of posting the tracklist I will just let you discover it yourself.

Please share widely, as I might pull down the link in a month.  This will NOT be linked on the main http://thetastates.com archive.

Act now, supplies are unlimited!

~Caitlyn / CPI

CPI - Gathering Music for Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens' White Wedding To The Snow, 2011-03-26

 CPI - Gathering Music for Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens' White Wedding To The Snow, 2011-03-26

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/CPI_-_Gathering_Music_for_Annie_Sprinkle_&_Beth_Stephens%27_White_Wedding_To_The_Snow,_2011-03-26.mp3



Recorded live at St. Bridget's Cathedral in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
genres: water sounds, idm, ambient

01) Andrew Chalk - Three Rivers
02) Mountain Stream
03) Alva Noto - Garment
04) Jacaszek - Rytm To Niesmiertelno
05) Ocean Surf in a Hidden Cove
06) Murcof - Marmol
07) Edith Progue - 5 Am
08) Alio Die - The Flight of Real Image
09) Xela - You Are In The Stars
10) Baths - Rain Song
11) Tanya Tagaq - Tategak
12) The Notwist - No Encores (Console Version)
13) Thunderstorm in the Big Sur Mountains
14) Saycet - Opal
15) Shuttle 358 - Finch
16) Snd - 00039 a
17) Belong - Beeside
18) Edith Progue - 12 Am
19) Heavy Rain With Rolling Thunder
20) Piano Magic - There's No Need For Us To Be Alone (Future 3 Remix)
21) Terry Riley - Crucifixion Voices
22) Saycet - Kien-Lang


Available online for a limited amount of time, so act fast.

CPI - Live at Once In A Blue Moon, Oakland CA, 2010-11-20

Previously if someone asked me what my dream setup would be I would always semi-seriously describe a room that was basically a huge speaker, filled with blankets and pillows, and that was basically this place Iwas in.  I was experiencing my favourite tracks in a way in which I never had before, and probably will never be able to replicate again.

I performed 2 sets, and I recorded them both.  I am not releasing them officially on my website, but they will be online until the end of 2010, so grab them now if you want them.
They contain some familiar songs, as I was hired by someone who was a fan of specific mixes.  I will often agree to perform in a different country if you are able to cover all expenses, so take note.


CPI - Live at Once In A Blue Moon, Oakland CA, 2010-11-20, 3am
genre: ambient
174 minutes, 397 MB
http://thetastates.com/mp3s/CPI_-_Live_at_Once_In_A_Blue_Moon,_Oakland_CA,_2010-11-20,_3am.mp3

01) John Zorn - Dark River
02) Terry Fox - Lunar Rambles
03) Thomas Koner - Ilira
04) Terre Thaemlitz - Aging Core, Aging Periphery
05) Bass Communion - Wide Open Killingfield
06) Deathprod - Dead People's Things
07) BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa - Skuggbild Skuggamynd
08) Meryn Cadell - Knitting
09) Fennesz - Saffron Revolution
10) Mick Harris - There
11) David Lynch - Curtains Up
12) Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Dead End Angels
13) Moljebka Pvlse - Daiji
14) Tortoise - Lurning Curve (Markus Popp Remix)
15) Belong - Beside
16) Klimek - Ruined In A Day (Buenos Aires)
17) Simon Scott - Under Crumbling Skies
18) Richard Skelton - Remaindered
19) Thomas Koner - Teimo, Schluss
20) Tom Heasley - Where The Earth Meets the Sky
21) Drum Komputer - E.P.L. (Terre Thaemlitz Remix)
22) Full Swing - [~] (Kit Clayton Edit)
23) Divination - Aum
24) Microstoria - Remix by C-Schulz & Hajsch
25) Vidna Obmana - In The Mouth Of The Reptile
26) Hood - Horse Opera Remix
27) Wolfskin ft Objekt4 - Axes In The Twilight
28) Elegi - Fandens Bre
29) James Plotkin - Chemstiks (Speaker Phasing)
30) Greg Davis - Happy
31) AGF - Letsmakeourmovies
32) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Gore Musik
33) Bill Laswell & Lori Carson - Nothing
34) Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays John Cassavetes A
35) Slow Dancing Society - ...and to the dust we shall return
36) Microstoria - NAMM Weekend Pass (Jim O'Rourke Remix)
37) Seefeel - Lux1
38) Oren Ambarchi - This Evening So Soon
39) Janis Mattox - Soli Deo Gloria
40) Seefeel - Utreat
41) Cornelius - Kling Klang
42) Ishq - Daisy
43) Death Cube K - Disembodied
44) Lustmord - Exit
45) Naono - Untitled Merrow
46) Robert Rich & Lustmord - Hidden Refuge
47) Tomasz Bednarczyk - Sawako Sun
48) Steve Roach - At The Edge Of The In-Between (Anima)
49) Freescha - Smoke Stack
50) Thomas Koner - Firm
51) Denzel + Huhn - Senet
52) Thomas Koner - Nieve Penitentes 3
53) Greg Kowalsky - X-XI
54) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Staub
55) Jasper TX - Sleeping Rivers
56) Thomas Koner - Kaamos 3
57) Robert Rich & Lustmord - Synergistic Perceptions
58) Oval - Kardio V
59) Freescha - Vapoured
60) Klimek - New Deal
61) Richard Skelton - River Song
62) Steve Roach - Magma
63) Lull - Found
64) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Weltern
65) Thomas Koner - Nuuk (end)
66) Golden Palominos - No Skin (Terre Thaemlitz Remix)
67) Lustmord - Of Eons
68) Xela - I Drowned Her In A Dreamless Sleep
69) Thomas Koner - Nuuk (Harbor)
70) Cezary Gapik - 0461
71) Deathprod - Tron
72) The Notwist - Lichter 1





CPI - Live at Once In A Blue Moon, Oakland CA, 2010-11-20, 10:30pm
genre: idm
128 minutes, 292 MB
http://thetastates.com/mp3s/CPI_-_Live_at_Once_In_A_Blue_Moon,_Oakland_CA,_2010-11-20,_10.30pm.mp3

01) Lull - Slow Fall Inward
02) Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked (intro)
03) Michael Fakesch - From Crocut
04) Hirokazu Tanaka - 1986 Metroid Title Background Music
05) Mount Kimbie - Taps
06) Mum - Don't Be Afraid, You Have Just Got Your Eyes Closed
07) Moderat - Rusty Nails
08) CocoRosie - Werewolf
09) Vector Lovers - Melodies & Memory
10) Chronomad - Do
11) DNTEL - Rock My Boat ft Mia Doi Todd
12) Borko - Chloorvrij
13) Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
14) Deru - Din (Lo Grey Beam Remix)
15) B. Fleischmann - Chad F.
16) B. Fleischmann - Chad F. (The Tick And Sax Mix)
17) Piano Magic - There's No Need For Us To Be Alone (Future 3 Remix)
18) Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl
19) B. Fleischmann - Nightly
20) aus - Moraine (Bracken rmx)
21) Donato Wharton - Is That Why Yr Still On Earth
22) Laurie Anderson - Born, Never Asked
23) Borko - Pale Hand
24) Chronomad - Sard
25) Clickits - No Clickedy
26) Bichi - Layers Of Generation Without Number
27) Seven Ark - Sixteen
28) Pulshar - Nospheratu
29) Piano Magic - The Canadian Brought Us Snow (Opiate Remix)
30) Mum - Green Grass Of Tunnel
31) Solvent - A Panel Of Experts
32) Christian Kleine - Today's Mark
33) Boards Of Canada - Happy Cycling
34) Seefeel - Time To Find Me (AFX Fast Mix)
35) Crunch - Karot
36) Ulrich Schnauss - Blumewiesse Autobahn
37) Boards Of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun