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# Desert Run
- URL: https://www.jamesreeves.co/desert-run/
- Published: 2023-01-15T04:14:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-15T03:48:40.000Z
- Description: Chugging electro reverb<br> 60 minutes
- Author: James A. Reeves
- Tags: Old Mixtapes

I spent the first weeks of January cobbling together my favorite running songs because I needed some solid entertainment to keep me moving through the desert's scale and monotony.

My running life is messy: long stretches of moaning while I drag myself along, interrupted by occasional bursts of speediness. This mix reflects my style: speedy songs (Tuxedomoon, Demdike Stare), chugging songs (Thomas Brinkmann, Vainqueuer), and abrupt shifts in tempo. There are no biometric rhythms here, just peaks and valleys.

I need distraction when I run, so there's a lot of swirling reverb, mumbling AM radio voices, and trails of static. I extended a few favorite breaks, trimmed some songs in half, and added layers until the thing served my needs. It starts slow, gets going at the 7-minute mark, and if I gut it out to the end, there's a psychedelic classic to carry me home on wobbly legs.

This hour-long mix works well for a five-mile run or a couple of three-mile runs, and it includes plenty of time for shoe-tying, cursing, dithering, and even a bit of stretching if you do that sort of thing. But cheetahs don't stretch.

1. Thomas Brinkmann - VR 01 01 02 00  
*Minus, 1998*
2. Sandra Electronics - It Slipped Her Mind  
*Minimal Wave, 2014*
3. Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance  
*Virgin, 1981*
4. Adult. - Silver Screen Shower Scene (Remix)  
*City Rockers, 2001*
5. Tuxedomoon - No Tears (Continous Mode Mix)  
*International Deejay Gigolo Records, 2001*
6. Aural Indifference - Park  
*Minimal Wave, 1981*
7. Cranes - Beautiful Friend  
*Dedicated, 1994*
8. Demdike Stare - Hashshashin Chant  
*Modern Love, 2010*
9. Squarepusher - Love Wil Tear Us Apart  
*Warp, 2002*
10. The Crystals - Then He Kissed Me  
*Philles, 1963*
11. Vainqueur - Elevations II (Reprise)  
*Chain Reaction, 1997*
12. Martin Dupont - I Met the Beast  
*Lice Records, 1985*
13. Muslimgauze - Sandtrafikar  
*Staalplaat, 1997*
14. Suicide - Devastation  
*Chapter 22, 1988*
15. Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Mix)  
*Skull Disco, 2007*
16. 13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House  
*International Artists, 1967*
17. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit (Atlas Minor Loop)  
*RCA Victor, 1967*

#### [Desert Run I](https://jamesreeves.work/files/Desert%20Run%20I.mp3?ref=jamesreeves.co)

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