Mixtape: She Was a Vision

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01 Active Child “Wilderness”
02 jj “Let Go”
03 The XX “VCR” (Matthew Dear Remix)
04 Spoon “Mean Red Spider”
05 Grizzly Bear “Boy From School” (Hot Chip)
06 Conifers “Legs and Arms”
07 Zelienople “All I Want Is Calm”
08 Neon Indian “Deadbeat Summer” (Afghan Raiders Remix)
09 Absolute Body Control “Figures”
10 Kenny Rogers “Love Will Turn You Around” (Richard Danger Extended Edit)
11 Melting Season “The Cliffs”
12 Sun Araw “Bump Up (High Step)”
13 Arch M “Cple Outside Park With Me”
14 White Mountains “Trails”
15 Beach House “Silver Soul”
16 Active Child “She Was a Vision”

Mixtape: Ocean of Lips

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01 Golden Ages “Be Cool”
02 Spirit Spine “Flashes”
03 The Ruby Suns “Cranberry” (Radio Edit)
04 Keepaway “Yellow Wings”
05 Pure Ecstasy “Easy”
06 Small Black “Despicable Dogs” (Washed Out Remix)
07 Lawrence Arabia “The Undesirables”
08 The Silent League “When Stars Attack!!”
09 Expensive Looks “Living Scene”
10 Memoryhouse “Sleep Patterns”
11 Seams “Nightcycles”
12 Holiday Shores “Air-Glow”
13 Dam Mantle “Grey”

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:
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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”

Flux-Rad Mixtape: Strangled By the Radio

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01 Night Control “West Side Birds”
02 His Clancyness “Mystify the Ocean”
03 Active Child “Voice of an Old Friend” (Summer Camp Bedford Falls Remix)
04 Nite Jewel “We Want Our Things”
05 Julianna Barwick “The Highest”
06 Milinal “Fluxes”
07 Unbunny “In a Way”
08 Xiu Xiu “Gray Death”
09 The Besnard Lakes “Albatross”
10 Fur “Black Castles”
11 The Shining “Fisheye”
12 The Knife “Colouring of Pigeons”
13 Eluvium “Leaves Eclipse the Light”

Mixtape: Fade Dub

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01 Nite Jewel “Weak for Me”
02 Borrowed Beams of Light “Kids Are Great!!!”
03 Dios “Ojay”
04 Meth Teeth “I Was Wrong”
05 Moon Duo “Stumbling 22nd Street”
06 Philip Seymour Hoffman “Duckfangs Tickle My Ankles”
07 Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin “I Wear Black”
08 Eternal Summers “Safe at Home”
09 Northern Portrait “Crazy”
10 The Concretes “Miss You”
11 Washed Out “Feel It All Around” (Toro y Moi Remix)

Mixtape: Made In the Dark

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01 Tune-Yards “Hatori”
02 Dick Diver “Walk for Room”
03 Crocodiles “Hollow Hollow Eyes”
04 MIcachu “Golden Phone”
05 Tanlines “S.A.W.”
06 Wild Harem “Talurah-Tom-Tom”
07 Harlem “Friendly Ghost”
08 Yukon Blonde “Wind Blows”
09 The Soft Pack “C’mon”
10 Past Lives “Strange Symmetry”
11 Art Museums “Sculpture Gardens”
12 The Answering Machine “Another City, Another Sorry”
13 Toro y Moi “Human Nature”
14 Linstrom & Christabelle “Baby Can’t Stop (Idjut Boys Remix)”

Mixtape: Summerlong Moonraker

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01 Blakroc “Hard Times”
02 Lindstrom & Christabelle “Lovesick”
03 Toro Y Moi “Minors”
04 The Notwist “Boneless” (Grizzly Bear Remix)
05 Aaron Martin “Climbing Into Water”
06 Beak> “Ears Have Ears”
07 DM Stith “Abraham’s Song” (Bibio Remix)
08 Isbells “Reunite”
09 Vetiver “More of This” (Neighbors Remix)
10 Brian Harnetty & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Sinclair Serenade”
11 Beach House “Norway”
12 CFCF “Summerlong”
13 Future Trends “Moonraker”
14 Small Black “Pleasant Experience”
15 Final Fantasy “Lewis Takes Action”
16 Ancient Crux “Pressure”
17 Ted Leo & the Pharmacists “Even Heroes Have to Die”
18 Tindersticks “Black Smoke”
19 Lambchop “Up With People”
20 MillionYoung “Chlorophyl”

Mixtape: No Mirrors, No Masters

I’ve been terrible about keeping up with my Top 100 lately, so to appease you as I get back to it (sometime next week), here’s an offering. A mix! Woo hoo.

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01 OOIOO “OOIAH”
02 Cold Cave Theme From Tomorrowland
03 On No Ono “The Wave Ballet”
04 Viernes “Sinister Love”
05 Dirty Projectors “Ascending Melody”
06 Burywood “Northward”
07 Lake “Breathing”
08 Wild Nothing “Summer Holiday”
09 Young Buffalo “Catapilah”
10 Pissed Jeans “False Jesii Part 2″
11 Karl Blau “Song for Kevin”
12 Local Natives “Wide Eyes”
13 Field Music “Measure”
14 Washed Out “It’s Kate’s Birthday”
15 Yeasayer “Ambling Alp”
16 Sleigh Bells “Crown on the Ground”

Mixtape: The ’90s Revisited

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01 Papas Fritas “Live By the Water”
02 Seam “Hey Latasha”
03 Sebadoh “Not a Friend”
04 Wilco “Far, Far Away”
05 Built to Spill “Some Things Last a Long Time”
06 Pavement “Summer Babe (Winter Version)”
07 Smog “Left Only With Love”
08 Guided By Voices “Yours to Keep”
09 Jawbox “Whitney Walks”
10 Yo La Tengo “I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long”
11 Superchunk “For Tension”
12 Sugar “A Good Idea”
13 Elliott Smith “Punch & Judy”
14 Modest Mouse “Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset”
15 Palace Brothers “Wither Thou Goest”

The Chain Drive Mixes

I did a DJ set the other night at an awesome bar in Austin called the Chain Drive. My set was post-punk, proto-punk and general punk rock awesome. I decided to make my set available for download. Here’s to hoping Taylor and the nice folks at Chain Drive invite me back sometime. I had more than fun (they bought Bugles). Follow the jump for all four volumes.
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Mixtape: Holy Holy Holy

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01 Trevor Guiliani “Big Decisions”
02 Mayer Hawthorne & the County “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”
03 Ola Podrida “The Closest We Will Ever Be”
04 Tonstartssbandht “Andy Summers”
05 Baja “Kitten (Chaos & Numerology)”
06 The xx “Islands”
07 Nurses “Caterpillar Playground”
08 Stephan Mathieu & Taylor Deupree “Largo”
09 TV Torso “Over the Edge”
10 Borah Bergman Trio “Candela”
11 Alec Ounsworth “Holy Holy Holy Moses”
12 Glass Ghost “Like a Diamond”
13 Soulsavers “You Will Miss Me When I Burn”
14 Lou Barlow “Take Advantage”

Mixtape: Mockingbird Diet

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01 Wild Beasts “Hooting & Howling”
02 Wheat “Changes Is”
03 Kings of Convenience “Mrs. Cold”
04 Kurt Vile “Overnight KV”
05 Ramona Falls “I Say Fever”
06 Unrest “Bavarian Mods”
07 The National “Ashamed of the Story I Told”
08 Bad Veins “Crosseyed”
09 Volcano Choir “Island, IS”
10 The Entrance Band “Sing for the One”
11 The Halo Benders “Mercury Blues”
12 Trevor Giuliani “Big Decisions”
13 Taken By Trees “Greyest Love of All”
14 Karl Blau “Mockingbird Diet”

Mixtape: I’m Your Dolly

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01 NOMO “Waiting”
02 Paper “Out of it Into It”
03 We’ll Go Machete “All at Sea”
04 Fruit Bats “Primitive Band”
05 Fontan “The Bridge”
06 Tyondai Braxton “Uffie’s Woodshop”
07 White Denim “Regina Holding Hands”
08 The Big Pink “Dominos”
09 Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros “Carries On”
10 Mew “Repeater Beater”
11 Mother’s Auxiliary “A Short Crescendo”
12 The Flaming Lips “Convinced of the Hex”
13 Highlife “F Kenya Rip”
14 Musette “2 Mars”
15 Crocodiles “Refuse Angels”
16 Patrick Wolf “Hard Times”
17 Other Lives “The Partisan”