Anthony Di Franco (Ramleh, ex-Skullflower), aka JFK, presents his absorbing Divine Invasion Mix - drifting from noise and techno to jazz and new wave.

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Anthony Di Franco is a British musician, producer, and sound designer. He has been making captivating noise music since the late ‘80s - nerds (and I use this term most-affectionately) will recognize him for his solo work as JFK, Ax, or Ethnic Acid. Meanwhile, others will know him as a member of legendary UK power electronics/noise rock outfit Ramleh or former member of the mighty Skullflower. Much of his work is associated with such labels as Cold Spring, Broken Flag, Freek Records, or, more recently, Chondritic Sound and Fourth Dimension records. The latter is where his latest album came out a mere month ago. This bellicose LP is titled Weapon Design and offers a great demonstration of the JFK/Anthony Di Franco sound. His signature patient, slow-paced compositions, thick layers of lush, electric noise, built around effective, blunt rhythms are what this vivid noise album is all about. You can get it here, and that’s exactly what you should do, too.

JFK’s Secret Thirteen Mix 266 is titled Divine Invasion Mix and was made entirely from records physically owned by Anthony. As such, it features a real mix of genres, eras, and ideas, going from Varg to Miles Davis or from Roland Kayn to Abdulla Rashim. Despite containing quite a lot of techno, rhythmic noise, and other abrasive sounds, the overall feel of JFK’s mix remains pensive and almost mellow throughout, softening the metallic turbulence through softer synth melodies, organic jazz passages, ambient soundscapes or spoken word excerpts - perhaps one reason why this invasion is divine. This is certainly one of the more diverse sonic journeys in our series - it’s structured as a collection of extraordinary vignettes, all with their own internal logic, but fitting neatly into the whole. I couldn’t help but smell the color blue when listening to it, thus naturally Yves Klein’s work came into the mind’s eye, particularly his 1960 Untitled anthropometry. Don’t miss this one - it will change you, if only slightly.

Tracklisting

01. Krökta Rum – Att Tala Utan Språk [Järtecknet, 2014]
02. Vermonster – Grease of the Yak (Intro) [Twisted Village, 1990]
03. U.K. – Danger Money [Polydor, 1979]
04. Gabi Losoncy – Part Two (Excerpt) [Recital, 2017]
05. Female – Untitled (Regis Mix) [Sandwell District, 2010]
06. Mark Perry – A&M Meeting In Police Tent – Reading – August 28, 1979 [Nice Label, 1983]
07. Coby Sey – Shields [Not on label, 2016]
08. William S. Burroughs – We See The Future Through The Binoculars Of The People [Dais Records, 2015]
09. Merzbow – Flare Gun (Part 2) [Ten Bob Swerver, 1994]
10. VARG – Stroboscopic Observations On Ecstasy [Posh Isolation, 2016]
11. Miles Davis – Interlude (Excerpt) [CBS, 1975]
12. Stockhausen – Prozession (excerpt) [Deutsche Grammophon, 1975]
13. Basic Rhythm – Slewage [Type Recordings, 2016]
14. Russell Haswell – 03 1999, Posthof, Linz [Mego, 2001]
15. Surgeon – Remnants of What Once Was-The Hollow Men-Ice [Tresor, 1998]
16. Roland Kayn – Rhenit [Colosseum, 1984]
17. Abdulla Rashim – Vestal Witness [Northern Electronics, 2016]
18. Christian Zanési – Grand Bruit [Recollection GRM, 2018]
19. Helm – Silencer [PAN, 2013]
20. Silvia Kastel – Air Mob [Blackest Ever Black, 2017]
21. J. TIJN – MOR [Bedouin, 2017]
22. Jaap Vink – En Dehors (1980–1985) [Recollection GRM, 2017]
23. The Worried Well – Don't Dub AIDS [Lonely Boy Records, 1988]
24. Steely Dan – Haitian Divorce [MCA, 1976]

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