Sound artist and barista James Brewster presents a mix based around his ‘Electro-acoustic café’ project – a combined espresso-bar and sound installation. He uses contact microphones on espresso machines and other coffee equipment and processes the sounds, so that his actions as a barista making coffee for the audience become a sound performance. His Circle mix is bookended by two live recordings of processed milk frothing, from performances in Malmö, Sweden a few months apart. Inbetween these two appearances Brewster took the project to various festivals around Europe, and the tracks in the mix are selections from the music he was listening to during these trips. Electro-acoustic café was recently featured on one of Swedish national TV’s culture programmes, and has also made the front page of one of the country’s main newspapers.

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1. Electro-acoustic Café – processed milk frothing (live at Inkonst, Malmö, March 2011)
2. Islaja – Joku toi radion
3. Arthur Russell – Keeping up
4. A Guy Called Gerald – The track
5. Kate Bush – All the love
6. James Brewster – field recording of frogs in Kungsparken, Malmö, summer 2011
7. B J Nilsen – Viking north
8. Scott Walker – Big louise
9. Seefeel – Industrious
10. Nico – My only child
11. Men Diamler – Emily
12. Ben Frost – Killshot
13. James Brewster – The great dominions (Teardrop Explodes cover)
14. Steel Island – AnimalslaminA
15. The Walker Brothers – The electrician
16. The Durutti Column – Don’t think you’re funny
17. The Durutti Column – Favourite descending intervals
18. Three Cornered Moon – Hand on the horizon
19. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa – Surfing on steam
20. Megafaun – Guns
21. Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto – Moon
22. Electro-acoustic Café – processed milk frothing (live at Moriskan, Malmö, August 2011)

download: http://media.libsyn.com/media/arcticcircle/51jamesbrester128.mp3