20091003
EAGLE ROCK LINK MIX
I just got home from the Eagle Rock Music Festival, which was definitely the most interesting cultural event I've been to all year. Here are two pieces of ecidence to support this outlandish claim.
1) I & I Sound Ice Cream Truck
2) The Mormons
I'll post a new mixtape very soon. The links below won't work for now, but there are some great tracks and artists listed, so go find them.
PR#00002 (2009-05-05):
"MIX POR CINCO DE MAYO"
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H1N1 paranoia is rampant, everyone has bad credit, spring's over in a few weeks, and this summer's going to be brutal hot. Let's get frisky.
TRACKLIST:
Severed Heads -- "Twister"
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- "Credit"
Bill Calahan -- "The Breeze My Baby Cries"
Closer Musik -- "Closer Dance"
Das Racist -- "Pizza Hut Taco Bell"
Ghislain Poirier feat. Mr. Slaughter -- "Get Crazy"
Charles Hamilton -- "Loser"
Los Joao -- "Vamos a la Playa"
Jerry Goldsmith -- "Fatal Games/Sanctuary"
Neil Landstrumm feat. Ragga Twins -- "Reverse Rebel"
Mahogany -- "Supervitesse (Robin Guthrie Remix)"
Naughty Rascal feat. Professor Kibble -- "Egyptian Batman (Horns Remix)"
Crystal Castles -- "Alice Practice"
Nodzzz -- "Is She There?"
Royksopp -- "Happy Up Here (Holy Fuck Remix)"
Telefon Tel Aviv -- "Helen of Troy"
Vibracathedral Orchestra -- "Rainbow"
PR#00001 (2008-12-31):
"IT'S OVER!"
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Happy new year, everyone! This is my first attempt at making a mixtape since the summer of 2007, and while I was assembling it I made the decision to start sharing tracks I'm excited about with anyone who wants to listen. It's really fun, and if I keep it up maybe I'll start calling this a podcast.
Since it's the end of 2008, I tried to include a lot of music (new and old) that hooked me this year, for whatever random reasons. There's a lot of gritty mathy emo guitar stuff; there are two obvious blasts from the past; and there's way more dance/electronic music than I ever thought I'd find myself listening to.
I'm going to try to post these mixes every time the music I download or rip or record coalesces into a critical mass and I have to pull it off the laptop hard drive. I'll take the most exciting stuff and string it together into a program like this. I don't know when the next one will be ready, but when it is I'll let you know by e-mail or Facebook or something.
Until then, have a great 2009 and KEEP IT PROPER.
TRACKLIST:
00:00-04:00
KILLING JOKE
"CHANGE"
The Obama campaign should've used this one as a theme song. I listened to it nonstop around election time. Anyone recognize the beat?
04:01-07:28
CSS
"MOVE"
I know this is unjustifiable and pretentious, but the harmonies in the chorus sound SO BRAZILIAN for some reason.
07:29-11:32
NEW ORDER
"REGRET"
This is the third song in a row to have a one-word title, but at least this one has two syllables. This was my favorite song for a few months in early high school.
11:33-15:11
JAMIE T
"IKE AND TINA"
I'm having a hard time expressing what it is this track does for me, but it's got something to do with exhiliration and something to do with this incomprehensible lyric that I might be mishearing: "with the high spit-licker." If you're not sold on this, check out this live version.
15:12-18:08
ATARI TEENAGE RIOT
"NOT YOUR BUSINESS"
Anarchist-sounding Berliners shriek shrill anti-capitalist demands over absurdly fast distorted breakbeats and hard rock samples at a club in Philadelphia in the late '90s.
18:09-20:38
RIGHIERA
"NO TENGO DINERO"
Tower of Eurobabel: Two fey Italians sing in Spanish about psychic energy and not having any money. Oh, and don't forget the fact that this is a recording from an '80s German pop music television show. Watch it.
20:39-23:23
AIR MIAMI
"WORLD CUP FEVER (MAC MCCAUGHAN REMIX)"
That's Mac from Superchunk.
COpy. 23:24-26:40
AT THE DRIVE-IN
"PATTERN AGAINST USER"
This is the loudest-sounding song on one of the loudest records I've ever heard, and it will make anyone listening to it while biking increase their speed by at least 50%. "HEY!"
26:41-32:14
ESCAPE MECHANISM
"WHAT'S GOING ON?"
This one falls into the cheesy- but- I- can't- stop- listening- to- it category. The song is assembled, not recorded; you're hearing nothing but out-of-context samples. I think the main reason that I like this as much as I do is the fact that it's built on an Adorable loop, and that it ends with what sounds like a bucktoothed young lady contradicting herself with the phrase "You don't really know what's going on, but you kind of do."
32:15-36:47
FINGER BANGERZ
"VI-R-US"
This track is from a Billy Jams show on WFMU in which these guys did an awesome a capella cover of L. Cohen's "Hallelujah". The next three tracks were grabbed from this show, too.
36:48-40:40
JUSTICE
"DVNO"
Play this when you're getting ready to go on a boring Internet date. You'll have this in your head the whole time and will feel cool no matter how awkward things get.
40:41-42:20
DJ QUEST
"QUESTOLOUS"
42:21-45:29
FAT HEAD
"WHAT DO WE NEED TODAY?"
This guy's delivery...I don't know what to say. He's an underwearground rapper, I guess.
45:30-47:04
DIG SHOVEL DIG
"AOWIEFJASDLFKJ AOWEIFJ"
These guys are frightening.
47:05-52:29
GARDEN VARIETY
"???"
A legendary 1990s emo group's epic-length b-side found in a pile of 7" singles I was sifting through at Mark and Matt's Harvest Records in Asheville, NC.
52:30-56:58
NAVIES
"SEEING HANDS"
I only got to see this defunct D.C. band play live twice and they were jaw-droppingly great both times.
57:00-60:45
TIGER
"DRIFT BACK"
I'm not sure about the title of this one, but that makes sense, I guess. This comes from a scratchy 45RPM record with a Jamaican address on the label.
60:46-63:55
????
"NA TEK TALK"
Ditto above, but I don't have the artist's name for this one. "Na tek talk" is Jamaican Patois for something close to "not going to take any flak."
63:56-70:11
PINEAPPLES
"COME ON OVER"
Thanks for putting this on a mixtape for us in 2005, Jen!!! Italo Disco is a massive subworld of electronic music that I know very little about other than that it includes this hilarious song. The singer's not a native speaker but he still manages to come off sounding like a Las Vegas crooner. The track's producer was 18 at the time of this recording. Impressive.
70:12-72:54
PASSION PIT
"SLEEPYHEAD"
I heard this on an eMusic comp entitled "Fiscal Apocalypse" and it makes me feel like any kind of crisis will be alright.
72:55-77:00
THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282
"LULLABY FOR A SAVIOR"
This beautiful experimental/hard rock chorale is either:
1) a thinly-veiled deicidal threat, or
2) a deeply-felt sympathetic description of the vulnerability of the baby Jesus, or
3) A little bit of both.
And with that unsettling but somehow uplifting conclusion I'll leave you to enjoy the winter. Happy new year!