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!

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