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The Mixtape Thread!
StaedlerMars:
Do radio shows count? If so, here's my friends' radio show about video game music:
http://www.mixcloud.com/highscore/high-score-world-2-1-episode-1/
KvP:
oooooooOOOOOooooo I can make a Halloween Mix toooOOOOooooooo
So I was a bit late this year in curating this particular mix, but I figured it would be a good idea to make one while waiting for the official Novembermix tracklist to congeal. As per the title, lots of post-industrial music in this one! Goth-type synth music seems to be making a comeback, what with Witch House and Zola Jesus and the like, but I find that it lacks potency in comparison to the drug-addled experimentalism of old. Just 8 tracks, but plenty to give you gooseflesh. Pretty sure that’s Scott Walker on the Vindicatrix track.
01. Coil - Moon’s Milk or Under An Unquiet Skull (Part Two)
02. Angelo Badalamenti - Laura Palmer’s Theme
03. Vindicatrix - Insulinde
04. Swans - Her Mouth Is Filled With Honey
05. Coil - Strange Birds
06. Mark Morgan - Underground Trouble
07. Aphex Twin - Tree
08. The Threshold Houseboys Choir - Ikoreek
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KvP:
October was an astoundingly fat month for new music, at least for me. It was hard to choose songs that would fill a single 80 minute disc, so I broke it up into two discs. The first is 17 tracks long, and the tracklisting is thus:
John's Novembermix of 2010 (First)
01. Jamie Woon - Night Air
02. Slugabed - Donky Stomp
03. Om Unit - The Corridor
04. Raffertie - Horse Flesh
05. Fulgeance - Chopped & Screwed
06. Policy - Emotional
07. Matt Whitehead - Tuff City
08. +Verb - Fragile Come Down
09. Nosaj Thing - Voices (Dorian Concept Remix)
10. Jacques Renault - Marilyn's Gold
11. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Star Garden
12. Rockwell - Reverse Engineering
13. Bestboygrip - Fonck (Architeq Version)
14. Think - Scraps
15. Lonan - Aurora
16. Jodey Kendrick - Track A2
17. The Artificial Arm You've Been Messing with my Mind
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The second disc is composed of 15 tracks, arranged thusly:
John's Novembermix of 2010 (Second)
01. Thread Pulls - How to Talk
02. Peverelist & Hyetal - rrrr
03. Christoph Andersson - Tuxedo
04. Cubic Zirkonia / Bok Bok - Reclash (Give It To Me)
05. Coco Bryce - Ill Yuykb
06. Orson Bramley - Portraits of the Invisible Man
07. Spatial - 100402
08. Space Dimension Controller - Transatlantic Landing Bay
09. Jauzas The Shining - My Beauty
10. Girl Unit - Wut
11. Lazer Sword - Agrokrag
12. Goliath - Gilgamesh
13. Arp.101 - Dead Leaf
14. Space System - Sorrow Show
15. dBridge - ZX81
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Of all of that, only the last dBridge song is more than a month old. Overall it seems to be pointing towards a new period of House music appreciation on my part, in large part due to the gradual encroachment of House into dubstep-ish forms in the UK (Raffertie, Om Unit, Cubic Zirconia). It also showcases a newfound love for hard electro in the 80's vein (Space Dimension Controller, Matt Whitehead).
The cover art is stuff I took from an online archive of old war photos, and messed around with in GIMP. Nothing approaching professional or even competent, I just hope they're not too garish. They're really the product of my gradual learning process vis a vis how GIMP actually works.
blaha 41:
My "old" (she's 34) friend said she wants to get back into music after a 10yr plus hiatus so I made her a mix to help get there. I was armed w/ the knowledge:
- She'd seen My Bloody Valentine and Beck in *tiny* clubs in the early 90s.
- She's heard Interpol and Modest Mouse and liked them b/c they "stole all the best parts from my favorite bands."
- The last album she liked enough to listen to w/o skipping songs was Built to Spill's Perfect from Now On.
- She has Funeral, and likes "one or two songs on it."
- She really hates music that sounds "precious."
I would love additional song recommendations.
Here's the d/l:
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Here's the song-by-song explanation I gave her:
--- Quote ---THE CANON - i'll have missed things. i tried to leave off things you said you knew already, too. i didn't capitalize much. and maybe you should listen to it a couple times before you read the commentary that comes next. i'm jealous of and excited for you for getting to hear some of these for the first time. some of them i included just because so many other people like them, but almost all of them are there because they really are great music.
Such Great Heights - this is out of order chronologically, because I couldn't get it to change the year. it kind of sums up the last twelve years though.... everyone actually discovered good music, but they called it indie so that it didn't seem popular eventhough it was slash started to be.
king of carrot flowers - a record store clerk actually told me "this song saved my life," and in the song's defense, it really does stand as the break bketween the time when good music was found on the radio and when good music just said "f*ck you we don't care if anyone ever plays outside of their bedroom."
caring is creepy - the Natalie Portman of music for so many reasons.
since I left you - this is what smart girls ask you to play when they're drunk so you both feel cooler than you really are.
a good man is easy to kill - this song made a roommate cry once... once she listened to the lyrics.
a movie script ending - death cab for cutie used to be an amazing band. i had a hard time transitioning to a lot of music because "none of these guys can sing."
jacksonville skyline - f*ck.
jesus, etc. - one of the few songs where I can remember exactly where I was the first time I heard it.
secret santa cruz - a bit of a waste since the group's work is all completely intertwined with a enormous running narrative. the narrative is really beautiful.
turn the page - their second album, A GRAND DON'T COME FOR FREE, is actually their best, but this song is an introduction.
to hell with good intentions - pure rock.
one big holiday - for a second it looked like country ROCK was going to work. it didn't, but this song did.
so alive - ryan adams deserves his own disc compilation.
one with the freaks - this record is what all the small-voice, big blip indie rock wants to be but isn't
heartbeats - this record is what all the indie dance rock wants to be but isn't.
your ex-lover is dead - one of the last "three perfect songs" and "nine throwaway songs" sort of album bands.
the rat - would be the best song ever if it weren't for "to hell with good intentions."
smile like you mean it - went on a date w/ a girl in cambridge. in the middle of it she bragged to me very casually that she went to harvard. I replied, "even the bartender here went to harvard." this song makes me want to say, "even the girl in sales and marketing likes 'indie rock.'"
take me out - the first big win for assymetric song structures. also, hearing this on the radio was the best part of my day when i was working for wells fargo.
like eating glass - if it weren't so popular, it would be better.
not about love - not released for two years because the record company thought it wouldn't sell... this happened JUST before people learned how to monetize w/ the interent and withOUT physical records.
7/4 shoreline - the takeover of real musicians, who just happen to play rock music. try to count it.
maple leaves - the confluence of cleverness, poignancy, and samples.
Oh, Well - same story as "not about love," but with a really perfect string of chord progressions.
dear sons and daughters of hungry ghosts / i'll believe in anything - 1) they go together on the album and are hard to separate. 2) they opened for the arcarde fire and are never described as this since the arcarde fire are "the most important band ever" but imagine wolf parade as "what if the arcade fire grew a pair."
the geese of beverley road - picking a song by the national was the most impossible thing ever, and now that i've done it, i'm panicking. should I have gone more rock/ should i have gone fmor more soft? should i have been more of a "single"/ these are things I can't answer so instead here is a song that made me very excited in a bret hart graham greene sort of way
stuck between stations - give his voice 10 listens before judging. listen to the lyrics. also they wrote this in their late 30s so excuse the springsteen keys.
arctic monkeys - north country kids... try to imagine yourself drunk on cheap beer and surrounded by chavs trying to impress artsy girls and being really annoyed but really happy the band you're all seeing is good.
painter in your pocket - my french guitar teacher hated this so much, and that makes me so happy.
young bridge - the least gloomy song by the gloomiest band in the world. the album is a concept album about frontier families, and they actually pull it off.
atlas - at some point weird dance music became a thing. i stay up nights wondering which part of this song came first and what compelled them to keep going. so glad they did.
you'll need those fingers for crossing - the least twee song from the most twee band ever.
two weeks - this is what boring people who want to appear less boring always tell me is their favorite song. probably could have said that shorter by mentioning brooklyn industries sooner in the description.
young hearts spark fire - 2 kids. guitar and drums. too much cheap wine.
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Vuk:
You guys make awesome mixes. Hate to derail, but speaking of mixes, the new J.Cole mixtape is fucking sick.
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