It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Marcus Whale played saxophone as a kid. The Inland Sea musician and member of Black Vanilla, Collarbones, Scissor Lock and Tennis Boys has clearly always been cool. Looking back at his brief brass-stage he remembers, “playing the saxophone really happens in the diaphragm, or even lower, at the pelvic floor, which empowers all that idle air hanging out in your lungs. I think what appealed to me was how playing a wind instrument sonifies your guts.” Hearing his muscles wrestling air through an instrument appealed to him, long after he put down the sax.
With his new mix for i-D he melds his past and present self, blending a tenor sax quartet with dance tunes. Not that it’s all serious, “Look out for the hilarious mashup I made of a Friendships track and 2003 chart dance hit Just Won’t Do”.
Music to shift your mood from staying in to staying up all night…Let It All Out 2012, Mike Q
Music for fiery arguments and emotional goodbyes… Get Gone, Fiona Apple
Music to kiss and make up to… Sorry, Ciara
Music to heal a broken heart… flickering, serpentwithfeet
Music to get high to… The Drop, The Haxan Cloak
Music to change your night from mediocre to magnificent… Rewind (Air Max ’97 More Uptempo Remix), Kelela
Music to take a long drive to… Drive By, The Necks
Music to walk down the aisle to… the entirety of The Disintegration Loops, William Basinski
Music you’d like played at your funeral… Fly Like A Bird, Mariah Carey
Music to have sex to… Soon, My Bloody Valentine
Music to celebrate your birthday to…Landslide, Fleetwood Mac
Music guaranteed to give you serious swagger… Black Quarterback, Death Grips
Music to make even the wallflowers dance… Can’t Get You Out of My Head, Kylie
Music to play at the afterparty when it’s 6am and the sun is beginning to rise… complete silence, ideally.
Music that could put even an insomniac to sleep… Grain Loops, Austin Buckett
Tracklist
Battle Trance – Blade of Love I
Bulma – Innocence
Jikuroux x Abra – Slow Pressure Big Boi (Cache One Blend)
The Body – Two Snakes
Fortunes – Bomber (friendships in tune death remix)
Scattered Order – Full Metal Rubic
Sharaya J – Big (DJ Plead Edit)
WWWINGS – EXODUS FEAT. JEREMIAH JAE (E-TERNITY REMIX)
Friendships X Tim Deluxe – When It Just Won’t Do I Murder (MW Smash)
Embaci – Frecuency (Imaabs Remix)
Fraxinus X Mariah Carey – Butterfly Resistor (MW Smash)
Strict Face – White Rovers
Princess Nokia – Mine (Prod. Sammy)
Hyde – Halen
Fifty Grand – take the ocean, and keep it (ft. drew the architect)
Dj MacKeeper – Pipe PSI
Fis – Independently Together
serpentwithfeet – penance
Marcus (Not Singing) – Doomboy
Marcus will be playing Good Island in Melbourne Saturday, February 4. To win tickets email your full name to aucomps@vice.com. Good luck!
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Photography Jarred Beeler