Eat a Bag of Mix is the name of a feature here on life is noise where we get a DJ, musician, producer, industry figure or just someone with good taste in fucked-up and weird music to give us a mix of music that has influenced them, or tunes that are currently rocking their world.
This week, we’re eating a bag of mix with Travis Doom, self-described as follows:
Sometimes the inescapable becomes so inescapable you change everything around it until the inescapable becomes the escape. So it goes with the nom de plume/alter-ego for me. I often tell people I work in entertainment. It is what I try to do. I am a musician, a DJ, an event producer, party promoter, a life drawing model, a music-for-fashion producer, an alternative.
People call me all sorts of things… Mostly I love to share creativity that describes the conditions of my spirit. Adore the Genii. We’re all screaming out for those we can effortlessly orbit near. We’re stronger together. Every piece in this mixtape has gripped me in it’s own way, and I hope they get to you too.
I will continue the doomed path with… my current industrial/noise/spokenword project which aims : to physicality and liveliness to electronic music (read: punk, no fucking laptops) : to the centre sliver of the accessibility/meaningful/ego/noise-atonal venn diagram… and some music for other people, maybe a band, and a few special parties slated for the rest of this year.
So hopefully our systems merge/integrate. And what is escapable now? I am Travis Doom and I won’t write my biography in third-person. Go eat a bag of mix. xx
Tracklist
’Captain’ Tobias Hume (Performed by Susanne Heinrich), ‘Harke!, Harke!’, Passion & Division ‘Tropical Insects From Cairns Jungle At Dusk’ (Travis Doom Field Recording)
‘Unknown Conversation From Hibernian House, Sydney’ (Travis Doom Field Recording) Ourobonic Plague, ‘Connection Failed’, Post-Human Possibilities
Saul Williams, ‘Black History Month’, The Inevitable Rise And Liberation Of Niggy Tardust Death Grips, ‘Come Up And Get Me’, No Love Deep Web
Converter, ‘Deadman (Perdition), Shock Front
White Ring, ‘We Rot’, Black Earth That Made Me
BLKHRTS, ‘Tell Me Something I Don’t Know’, Death, Romance, And The Color BLK Jean Piche, ‘Rouge’, Heliograms
Soft Metals, ‘No Turning Back’, Lenses
The Smashing Pumpkins, ‘Ugly’, 1979 (Single)
The Cure, ‘Lost’, The Cure
Chiri, ‘Bereavement’, The Return Of Spring
Xiu Xiu, ‘Hi’, Always
Cold Cave, ‘A Little Death To Laugh’, A Little Death To Laugh Die Selektion, ‘Muskelberg’, Die Selektion
Youth Code, ‘Keep Falling Apart’, Keep Falling Apart
Nic Endo, ‘One Night Domination’, Cold Metal Perfection Ourobonic Plague, ‘Leaving Earth’, Post-Human Possibilities
Prurient, ‘Sugar Cane Chapel’, Bermuda Drain
I have played drums in Fait since early 2014. I have also filled in for quite a few acts in Perth as a session drummer (Hyla, Voltaire Twins) and recorded drums in LA for Husband’s latest album. I love podcasts and the format of podcasting, and I’m obsessed with opening up communication and dialogue between other creatives/artists on my podcast Mission Control. I am also quite open about consuming marijuana (everyone has a ‘party mix’ to get drunk, so why not a smoking mix?) and this is pretty much 11 tracks of what I like to vibe and reflect on.
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