Apiary vs Flux-Rad: The Austin Mixtape Showdown

My friend Adam and I have been talking about Austin music, and decided that we’d both make mixtapes including our favorite bands that aren’t a) already on the Matador issued Casual Victim Pile compilation or b) huge and well-known. I’m not sure who wins and who loses or what that might mean, but we both put together really incredible comps and there’s only one song shared between us both (a really incredible tune by Austin’s Pure Ecstasy). Both mixes are offered for download below, and you’re more than welcome to leave your opinion on which rates higher in the comments.

Adam’s Mix:
DOWNLOAD: Epic Vocal Stimuli (zip)

1. Leisure Tourniquet – “Aid”
2. Nick Moulos – “Only Difference”
3. Gay Science – “Black President”
4. Cowabunga Babes – “Lydia Lunch”
5. Soft Healer – “Souer”
6. Hearts of Animals – “Sit Right Here”
7. How I Quit Crack – “ooo”
8. Sunset – “Sunshine Hair”
9. Midget and Hairs – “Your Aim is the Same”
10. Pure Ecstasy – “Easy”
11. No Mas Bodas – “Show Me”
12. Geoff Reacher – “Almost Moved to Brooklyn”
13. Literature – “The Prime Meridian”
14. The Hot As Shits – “Hot Bitches”
15. Pillow Queens – “Original Bad Boys of Crime”

Paige’s Mix:
DOWNLOAD: Apiary (zip)

1. Way No Way “Too Late”
2. My Milky Way Arms “Fillenium Malcon”
3. Beautiful Supermachines “Conical Ash”
4. Burywood “Northward”
5. Bear Claw “Warm Winter / Cold Fall”
6. Jet Horns “The Circle”
7. Iron Age “Arcana, Pt. II”
8. Brackett & Co. “Dark Fire”
9. Lost River / Old River “Thunder”
10. International Waters “Flashes”
11. Damage Pants “The Hands of Paolo Rocco”
12. Pure Ecstasy “Easy”
13. The Ghost Songs “You Gotta Move”