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The above image (apart from having the text added and a little cropping) is unedited. It is an aerial view of New Jersey from someone who I can only imagine was on their way to or from Newark Airport. What you’re seeing is the blanket of haze that rests over my beloved Garden State June to September every year. Pretty much all throughout July and August, you can’t see the sky except through the humidity. It is miserable and sopping.

The purpose of audiObelisk Transmission 007 is to honor (or perhaps, like a ritual sacrifice, appease) the summer itself. I’ve chosen tracks that embody different aspects of the season: sunny days (Unida, Fu Manchu, The Atomic Bitchwax), warm nights (Angels of Light, Six Organs of Admittance, Los Natas, Colour Haze), and some that just sound like they’re as wretchedly soaked through with sweat as I am these several months each year (Snail, Loop, Dead Meadow).

You’ll find a lot of the desert rock discussed in the last Where to Start post, new music from the likes of Fatso Jetson, Yawning Man, Backwoods Payback and Brant Bjork, and, true to the title, some Blue Cheer and a little blues from Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker and Blind Lemon Jefferson. As always, all are my rips from physical sources.

Click the picture up top to download or stream it above. Full list of tracks is after the jump.

Blue Cheer, “Summertime Blues” from Vincebus Eruptum (Mercury)

Mammatus, “Dragon of the Deep Part One” from Mammatus (Holy Mountain)

Nebula, “So Low” from To the Center (Sub Pop)

Blind Lemon Jefferson, “Ramblin’ Blues” from The Best of Blind Lemon Jefferson (Yazoo)

Brant Bjork, “Little World” from Gods and Goddesses (Low Desert Punk)

Wino, “Smilin’ Road” from Punctuated Equilibrium (Southern Lord)

The Atomic Bitchwax, “Kiss the Sun” from The Atomic Bitchwax (MeteorCity)

Positiva, “Waiting in Vain” from Prodigal Songs (Odio Sonoro)

Greenleaf, “Alishan Mountain” from Agents of Ahriman (Small Stone)

Masters of Reality, “Why the Fly?” from Flak ‘n’ Flight (Brownhouse)

Pearls and Brass, “1,000 Cities” from Pearls and Brass (Doppelganger)

Backwoods Payback, “Day to Day” from Use Magic to Kill Death (Creep)

Colour Haze, “All” from All (Elektrohasch)

John Lee Hooker, “Untitled Slow Blues” from Jack o’ Diamonds (Eagle)

Dead Meadow, “The Whirlings” from Three Kings (Xemu)

Loop, “Head On” from Heaven’s End (Mute)

Snail, “Confessions” from Snail (Big Deal)

Firestone, “Nigel Mansel” from Stonebeliever (Self-released)

Goatsnake, “Knucklebuster” from I + Dog Days (Southern Lord)

Los Natas, “La Tierra Delfin” from Toba Trance (Ektro)

Queens of the Stone Age, “Mexicola” from Queens of the Stone Age (Roadrunner Europe)

Unida, “King” from El Coyote (Self-released)

Amplified Heat, “Rambler” from How Do You Like the Sound of That? (Arclight)

Fatso Jetson, “Jet Black Boogie” from Archaic Volumes (Cobraside)

Robert Johnson, “Me and the Devil Blues” from The Complete Recordings (Sony Legacy)

Angels of Light, “Promise of Water” from We are Him (Young God)

Six Organs of Admittance, “Strangled Road” from Shelter from the Ash (Drag City)

Yawning Man, “Camel Tow” from Nomadic Pursuits (Cobraside)

Fu Manchu, “Regal Begal” from In Search Of… (Mammoth)

Truckfighters, “Majestic” from Mania (Fuzzorama)

Click here to download audiObelisk Transmission 007

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