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”

Mixtape: Death & Texas

My submission for Yewknee’s Summer Mix Series includes songs that are about or mention Texas. I tried to steer clear (forgive the pun) of country music. Enjoy!

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01 ZZ Top “La Grange”
02 Roxy Music “Prairie Rose”
03 David Pajo “Bullet”
04 Spoon “Anything You Want”
05 AJ Croce “Texas Ruby”
06 Big Black “Texas”
07 Fiery Furnaces “Drive to Dallas”
08 Pavement “Texas Never Whispers”
09 Mountain Goats “The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton”
10 The Church “Texas Moon”
11 Silver Jews “Dallas”
12 7 Seconds “4 A.M. in Texas”
13 Unwound “Go To Dallas & Take a Left”
14 Hermeto Pascoal “Santo Antonio”

Mixtape: Where Was My Mind, Pts. 1-4

For a couple years now, I’ve been saying that I’m going to make some mixes of everything I really loved in the ’90s. I came of age in that decade: discovered classic rock with my dad, went to my first show, fell in love with my first radio station, and became punk rock’s underage love child. This is a four part mix, featuring songs and bands that helped define my formative listening years. Naturally there’s a bunch of stuff I listened to that isn’t here – I’m focusing on the dirty, gritty, pre-emo and loud this time. I cheat just a bit with a couple of softer tunes, but they belong here. Shoe-gazing depression mix comes next. Follow the jump for the rest of the discs.

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Disc One
01 Men’s Recovery Project “Domestic Phone Call (Artificial Leg Remix)”
02 Christie Front Drive “Dyed on 8″
03 Seam “Berlitz”
04 Manumission “Guillotine”
05 Ordination of Aaron “Parthenon”
06 Home “Bad Vibrations”
07 Hoover “Breather Resist”
08 Hum “Isle of the Cheetah”
09 Fingerprint “Liberation”
10 Policy of 3 “Jet Black”
11 Boys Life “Golf Hill Drive”

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Mixtape: I Am the Black Gold of the Sun

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01 The Stranglers “Peaches”
02 Mew “Repeater Beater”
03 Abe Vigoda “Wild Heart”
04 Spiral Stairs “Maltese Terrier”
05 The Monks “Pretty Suzanne”
06 Indian Jewelry “Health & Well Being”
07 Robert Wyatt “Kew Rhone”
08 White Denim “I Start to Run”
09 International Waters “Salt & Sea”
10 The Feelies “Dancing Barefoot”
11 Jim Ford “Love On My Brain”
12 Final Fantasy & Ed Droste “Possibly Maybe”
13 Rotary Connection “I Am the Black Gold of the Sun”
14 Public Enemy “Welcome to the Terrordome”

Ghost Science: A Flux-Rad Mixtape

There’s quire a bit of variety on this mix, and I have to say it does reflect the corresponding listening moods I’ve had in recent weeks. After a thrilling Trash Talk show at Chaos in Tejas this week, a handful of random MySpace gems (Paper, Reading Rainbow) and a serious retro / post-punk habit, I’m fluctuating between needing a Xanax and a beach nap and beating cabin fever (and lots of looming deadlines) with sheer volume and musical density. There’s something for everyone here, and if you miss Iron Maiden, you’ll thank me for Mantic Ritual later. Though to be fair, I have Mondo Salvo to thank for that find.

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01 Mount Kimbie “Maybes”
02 The Bony King of Nowhere “Everything I Like”
03 Jacuzzi Boys “I Fought a Crocodile”
04 Wildildlife “Shining Son”
05 Random Patterns “Corruption in the Licorice Den”
06 Pink Mountaintops “Holiday”
07 Head of Wantastiquet “Mortange”
08 The Paper Chase “The Common Cold”
09 Eve Risser “Line”
10 Paper “Out of It Into It”
11 Reading Rainbow “In the City”
12 Teeth Mountain “Ghost Science”
13 Zombi “Cosmic Powers”
14 Wilco “Bull Black Nova”
15 Pajo “Angelfuck”
16 Mantic Ritual “Death and Destruction”
17 Trash Talk “Revelation”

Lonesome, On’ry & Mean: A Flux-Rad Mixtape

Here’s what I listened to while getting ready to go out of town.

01 Caddywhompus “This Is Where We Blaze the Nuggz”
02 Abe Vigoda “House”
03 David Bowie “Word on a Wing”
04 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Theme for the Young at Heart”
05 James Chance & the Contortions “Contort Yourself”
06 Pavement “False Skorpion”
07 Queen “All Dead, All Dead”
08 Pterodactyl “First Daze”
09 The Nation of Ulysses “The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm”
10 Paul Westerberg “Born for Me”
11 Unwound “Go to Dallas and Take a Left”
12 Waylon Jennings “Lonesome, On’ry & Mean”
13 Wu-Tang Clan “Shame on a Nigga”

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Mixtape: 30 Ton Press

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Mixtape: I Want to Believe

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01 Sholi “All That We Can See”
02 Bibio “Over the Hills & Far Away”
03 Takeo Toyama “Bobbin”
04 Corto Maltese “The Kiss Off”
05 Prefuse 73 “Preparation’ Kids Choir”
06 Elvis Perkins in Dearland “I Heard Your Voice in Dresden”
07 Mountains “Sheets Two”
08 Deradoorian “Weed Jam”
09 Blk Jks “Lakeside”
10 Akron/Family “Everyone Is Guilty”
11 Prefuse 73 “Sexual Fantasy Scale”
12 The Veils “Sit Down By the Fire”
13 John Stewart “July, You’re a Woman”
14 Wetnurse “Life at Stake”

Mixtape: You Look Like a Kitty

I’m burning this one for the car – it’s that much fun. The kitty mix includes a couple tracks from the upcoming HIV/AIDS awareness compilation by 4AD Dark Was the Night, two incredible songs from Austin upstarts (Corto Maltese, Leatherbag), a pinch of flashback (Richard Swift, Thom Hell), a dash of Seattle (J Tillman) and a hop across the pond for the Hot Chip collaboration that didn’t involve Peter Gabriel, the Geese-remixed EP with Robert Wyatt. Oh, and make it all the way through for a special treat from David Byrne, covering Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” Just perfect.

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01 The Books & Jose Gonzalez “Cello Song”
02 Thom Hell “A Day and a Half”
03 The Middle East “Fools Gold”
04 Here We Go Magic “Everything’s Big”
05 Leatherbag “Autumn Leaves”
06 Hot Chip w/ Robert Wyatt & Geese “Whistle for Will”
07 Richard Swift “Lady Luck”
08 Big Star “Morpha Too” (Rough Mix from Ardent Session)
09 DM Stith “Just Once”
10 Dirty Projectors & David Byrne “Knotty Pine”
11 Vetiver “More of This”
12 Andrew Bird “Master Sigh”
13 J. Tillman “New Imperial Grand Blues”
14 Corto Maltese “Answer, Answer”
15 Koen Holtkamp “You Mean the World to Me”
16 Scott Tuma “Heeler”
17 David Byrne “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”
18 Eric Copeland “Untitled 5″