Things over here have been pretty busy lately. Both Austinist and WOXY are in the middle of SXSW planning, I’ve got an addition being built on the house, the better half is on tour with his band, Shearwater, and I recently had a root canal. All of the above have kept me away from the blog more than I’d like. I anticipate posting and mixtapes to return to normal sometime in March. Until then, you can expect the links, the occasional mp3 and hopefully a few more mixtapes before the end of winter. This mix is one that I’m really pleased with. One band that I’m really excited about right now (as you can probably tell from their appearance on this mixtape twice and previous ones too) is Active Child. Pat Grossi’s voice is completely captivating – I can’t seem to get enough of his stuff. I really wish he was coming to SXSW, I would have booked him for a day party in a heartbeat. He has a 7″ out now and a cassette tape on Mirror Universe. Hopefully there’s a full-length in the works as well. Read more about him here. The rest of the mix kind of follows that same vibe, with a little punk rock and smooth hip hop vibes as well. Hope you enjoy it!

DOWNLOAD: VA – Hush (zip)

01 Psychobuildings “Birds of Prey”
02 Tanlines “Real Life”
03 Active Child “Body Heat (So Far Away)”
04 How to Dress Well “My Body”
05 Hard Mix “One Thing”
06 Mount McKinley “Rainsand”
07 Phantogram “Mouthful of Diamonds”
08 Japandroids “Art Czars”
09 Twin Sister “Ribbon Bow”
10 Glasser “Apply” (Tanlines Remix)
11 Toro y Moi “Timed Pleasure” (Body Language Remix)
12 Active Child “Voice of an Old Friend”

DOWNLOAD: VA – She Was a Vision (zip)

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”

DOWNLOAD: VA – Ocean of Lips (zip)

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”

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”

DOWNLOAD: VA – Strangled By the Radio (zip)

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”

DOWNLOAD: VA – Fade Dub (zip)

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)

DOWNLOAD: Made In the Dark (zip)

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)”

DOWNLOAD: VA – Summerlong Moonraker (zip)

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”

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.

DOWNLOAD: No Mirrors, No Masters (zip)

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”

DOWNLOAD: VA – The 90s, Revisited (zip)

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”