Friday, November 10, 2006

Music Mixes

firstly, i have a podcast that you can subscribe to by clicking that iTunes button on the left.

If you don’t like that, you can download these individual mixes below.
these span over 10 years, chronology from top to bottom is most recent to oldest

(click images for cover art and tracklists)

Life During Wartime
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file under: rock history nerds, spazz out time, loud & proud, proto frown-rock, music to talk trash to, monkey knife fight soundtrack

Tracklisting:
The Blacks “Gravitas”
Vivian Girls “Where Do you Run To”
Generation X “Your Generation”
The Misfits “London Dungeon”
The Intelligence “San Francisco”
Devo “Mongoloid”
Spoon “Don’t You Evah (Doc Delay remix)”
Essential Logic “Music is a Better Noise”
The Damned “Neat Neat Neat (Peel Session)”
Jay Reatard “In the Dark”
Pixies “Alec Eiffel”
Joy Division “Means to an End”
Glaxo Babies “Stay Awake”
Unwound “Caterpiller”
Gang of Four “At Home He’s a Tourist”
Talking Heads “With Our Love”
DMZ “Can’t Stand the Pain”
Girls At Our Best! “Warm Girls”
Television Personalities “World of Pauline Lewis”
Roxy Music “2HB”
Sonic Youth “Dirty Boots”
The Rock*a*teens “Small Town Soap Opera”
The Gun Club “Run Through the Jungle”
TFUL282 “Hundreds of Years”

Yay Summer
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retro soul and rock selection for summertime 2008

Tracklisting:
The Guess Who “Shakin All Over”
Gloria Jones “Tainted Love”
The Sonics “Money”
13th Floor Elevators “You’reGonna Miss Me”
The Doors “Take it as it Comes”
Martha and the Vandellas “Show me the Way”
The Who “Heat Wave”
Les Fleur de Lys “Hold On”
Rolling Stones “Bitch”
Iggy Pop & James Williamson “No Sense of Crime”
Led Zeppelin “Misty Mountain Hop”
The Creation “Making Time”
The Kinks “Rosie”
THEM f. Van Morrison “St James Infirmary”
The Metros “Since I found my Baby”
The Supremes “Love is Like an Itchin in my Heart”
Bobbie Smith “Walk Into My Heart”
The Move “Stefanie Says”
The Yardbirds “Heart Full of Soul”
The Kinks “Big Black Smoke”

Holy Cow
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file under: cow-rock, unrequited beef, sonic meat, religion

Tracklisting:
A Band of Bees “These are the Ghosts”
Air “Talking Heads”
The Flowers “Confessions”
Girls At Our Best! “This Train”
The Long Blondes “Madame Ray”
Snowden “Kill the Power”
The Wipers “Scared Stiff”
Joy Division “Means to an End”
Josef K “The Angle”
Felt “Something Sends me to Sleep”
The Clean “Billy Two”
Guided By Voices “Little Lines”
Thurston Moore “Wonderful Witches”
The Sonics “He’s Waiting”
The Gris-Gris “Necessary Seperation”
Misfits “London Dungeon”
2,3 “All Time Low”
The Trashies “Let it be Trashed”
Devo “Uncontrollable Urge”
Michael Yonkers Band “The Thunder Speaks”
Simply Saucer “Bullet Proof Nothing”

Paisley Gun Battle
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mix of 60s garage, freakbeat and psych rock

Tracklisting:
Yardbirds “Stroll On”
THEM “Baby Please Don’t Go”
The Millennium “The Know It All”
The Soft Machine “Save Yourself”
The Barrier “Dawn Breaks Through”
Yardbirds “Evil Hearted You”
Unknown “Flies on the Ceiling”
Kinks “Don’t Ever Let Me Go”
Chocolate Watchband “Let’s Talk About Girls”
Captain Beefheart “Obeah Man”
Blue Cheer “Fortunes”
The Pretty Things “Baron Saturday”
The Move “Weekend”
Monks “Shut Up”
The Creation “Biff Bang Pow”
Status Quo “Pictures of Matchstick Men”
Chocolate Watchband “Dark Side of the Mushroom”
The Maze “Harlem Shuffle”
The Glass Sun “Silence of the Morning”
Monkees “Last Train to Clarksville”
Kinks “Time Will Tell”
The Zombies “Whenever You’re Ready”
The Who “I Can See for Miles”
La Onda de the Survival “Old People”

Potluck Picnic
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songs i want to listen to for an entire summer

Tracklisting:
Crime “San Francisco’s Doomed”
The Flys “Love and a Molotov Cocktail”
Ramones “Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World”
Jay Reatard “Waiting for Something”
Can “Outside My Door”
Radio Birdman “Burn My Eye”
LiLiPuT/Kleenex “Turn the Table”
13th Floor Elevators “Thru the Rhythm”
Jimi Hendrix “Hey Joe”
Essential Logic “The Order Form”
Gun Club “Run Through the Jungle”
2,3 “Where to Now?”
Wipers “Windowshop for Love”
Swell Maps “New York”
David Bowie “Suffragette City”
Television Personalities “World of Pauline Lewis”
The Kinks “Big Black Smoke”
Serge Gainsbourg “69 annee erotique”
Deerhoof “L’Amour Stories”
Slits “I Heard it Through the Grapevine”
Buzzcocks “Autonomy”
Long Blondes “Giddy Stratosphere”
Cass McCombs “What Isn’t Nature”
The Clean “Billy Two”
Unrest “Cath Carroll”
Superchunk “Package Thief”
GoGoGo Airheart “So Good”
Dr. John “Jump Sturdy”
Royal Trux “Stevie (For Steven S.)”
Love “Hey Joe”
Led Zeppelin “Going to California”

Solaris
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file under: sound ordinance hours, easy listening, make-out music, soft batch cookies, debbie downer

Tracklisting:
Raincoats – Odyshape
Brigitte Fontaine – Brigitte
Bert Jansch – Poison
Bongwater – The Porpoise Song
Deerhoof – Running Thoughts
Boredoms – Arrow Up
Faust – Giggy Smile
The Chameleons – Tears
Gong – Tried So Hard
The Who – Rael 1
Deerhoof – Spy on You
Windy & Carl – Christmas Song
Dungen – Det Du Tanker Idag Ar Du Imorn
Wire – A Mutual Friend
Robert Wyatt – At Last I Am Free
Neil Young – On the Beach

A Crying Shame
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a post-punk primer

Tracklisting:
josef k – heads watch
b-52’s – 52 girls-
modern lovers – modern world
wire- a question of degree
talking heads – cities
a certain ratio – do the du
100 flowers – head, no heart
r.e.m. – wolves, lower
sonic youth – mary christ
gang of four – i found that essence rare
chrome – eyes in the center
slits -love und romance (peel sessions)
the damned – alone
the pop group – we are time

Cosmic Dust – Bedtime Mix
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quiet mix for sound ordinance hours

Gristle
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random raucous vintage sounding rock mix. lots of angular semi-obscure post-punk,garage madness and whatever random shit I could pull.But yeah, mostly underground rock gems and mostly loud n’ proud



Summer Fever
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Uptempo nonstop, non-threatening party 90s hip hop mix. No overdubs, mixed live on two turntables.”The Creator” gets cut off abruptly cause i ran out of tape.

Dark Side from Comedy Noir
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creepy half of my hip hop mix from oct 99. 45 min of dark golden era gems mixed down on thee tascam 4-track



These are fantastic.

Comment by nathalie oshare headphone — Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:27 pm

thanks!

Comment by awwwdrey — Monday, January 15, 2007 8:23 pm

Hey, just wanted to say I love your mixes, I found your site through fecal face. Thanks for putting them together!

Comment by Ian Franics — Tuesday, September 4, 2007 2:08 pm

sweet mixes.

Comment by Brandon — Monday, September 10, 2007 5:31 pm

im jonesing for a new mix
spring bike ride mix?
please satiate!

Comment by nicholas alan — Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:53 pm

thank you! i’ve been working on something but i keep getting interrupted. give me another week please.

Comment by awwwdrey — Monday, April 14, 2008 8:29 pm

can you put the image back up, for gristle. its a broken link. so i cant see the track names anymore

Comment by sonnin — Thursday, September 11, 2008 4:51 pm

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