Excellent! That's exactly what I'll do today.
Dude, you rule. As it happens, we're bottling today, so this can be the soundtrack. One of your earlier mixes went over big at last fall's crush.
Awesome! I was just thinking the other day how I would like to request a new mix, because they are great.
Yay!
Despite the fact that we're all, as the Bunk might say, going to jail behind this shit, your funk mixes have been something of a phenomenon. I gave a couple to the bpl, who played them at a party she threw, and then I had to burn more for the people in her band, who loved them. Basically, any time someone hears one, they say "What is this? This is totally awesome."
There are a lot of commercially available funk mixes which would have a similar effect, ogged. apostropher presumable draws on them, but removes the songs that are only of historical interest or are less likely to be enjoyed by white people.
Anyone have good hosting for the files, or should I just tuck them on SendSpace or what have you?
I guess I'll throw up a couple poppish mixes.
apostropher presumable draws on them
All my mixes are beamed directly from the mothership.
Seriously, I called Pres. Clinton "George" half the time during his first year or two. I wasn't heavy into funk, but Mr. Funkadelic was the main Clinton in my life up to that point, ahead of DeWitt.
2: Where are you again, Marriage of Cena Jesus?
I try to avoid work these days, but I recently came out of retirement for One Last Big Score. I spent a day and a half putting together playlists for marches and rallies.
It ended up being mostly the hot rally hits you'd expect ("No Surrender", "Tubthumping", "Ain't No Stopping Us Now", "America"), but I did get a few of Apo's deep cuts into the Something To Listen To While We March playlist.
I've always wanted "Talkin Loud and Sayin Nothin" to be a politician's theme song, but it hasn't happened yet.
12: I hope you thought to include "We Will Rock You" and "Freedom".
Depending on the occasion of the rally, you might also include "The Roof is on Fire" and "Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers".
a few of Apo's deep cuts
I hope one of them was Undisputed Truth's "Poontang".
14: And of course "Sound of da Police".
Woop! Woop!
I still haven't figured out how apo got ahold of a picture of the young Beefo Meaty for the cover art.
12: Or maybe "Firing Squad," by the Subhumans.
I wish I had a fro like that.
(My mix is uploading.)
I did get Jello Biafra's Schwarzenegger update of "Kahlifornia Uber Alles" into the public sector workers' rally. Followed immediately by "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" in case it hurt people's heads.
21: Haha. Yes. Now when I hear the original, I am like, "Jerry Brown! We should be so lucky!"
New mix for you lovely people: Jet Packed!
Featuring:
West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A Child of a Few Hours is Burning to Death
Lonnie Givens - Galaxy
Zimbabwe Legit - Rhymin Wit the African Symphony
JayTram - Natures Weight
Oh No - All Over
Benga - 3 Minutes
Vijay Ijer & Mike Ladd - The Color of My Circumference II
Haswell & Hecker - Alpha
Mochipet - Get Your Whistle Wet
MSTRKRFT - Bounce
Tetine - I Go To the Doctor! (CSS Remix)
Adam Kesher - I Feel You In My Arm (Yuksek Remix)
Von Sudenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get Enough
Woodhands - Dancer
65daysofstatic - Dance Parties (Mechanised)
Holy Fuck - Super Inuit (Studio)
Casino Music - Viol AF 015
Miguel Migs - Fire (Cottonbelly Remix)
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
Panda Bear - Ohne Titel
Two Gospel Keys - You've Got to Move
Cover included!
22: We may yet be again. He's the odds-on favorite, now that L.A.'s Mayor just looks dumb.
Also, the Disposable Heroes of Hiphophrisy's Pete Wilson version is good.
I'm Pete Wilson the baddest governor to ever grab a microphone and go
BOOM! Give me a beat and I'll jack it
Give me a budget and I'll show ya how to hack it
I give the rich a giant tax loophole
And leave the poor livin in a poophole
OK, "poophole" is weak, but still, good update.
25: Oh., I love that version. And agree with you entirely as to the lameness of "poophole" *shudder*.
I'll keep cuttin' Public Education
Even though we rank 54th in the nation
I've got a plan for all the minorities
Send'em to the California Youth Authorities
From San Francisco Urban Elementary
To Pelican Bay State Penitentiary
There they can work for the master race
And always wear a happy face
and 54th is 45th. See what Cali does? See?
Some other motherfuckers better be posting mixes, soon.
Unfunkked 5 is downloaded, and Sifu's is next up. Can't wait to listen to them.
CERTAIN THINGS HAVE COME TO LIGHT.
1. The Skins (Scissor Sisters)
2. I Heard it Through the Grapevine (The Slits)
3. Everybody's Going Wild (The Detroit Cobras)
4. I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor (The Arctic Monkeys)
5. Shitty Future (The Bronx)
6. Rocket Me Home (The Visitors)
7. Death or Glory (Social Distortion)
8. Lost Highway (Hank Williams)
9. Glory Bound (Martin Sexton)
10. Fidel Castro (The Skatalites)
11. Come Around (Collie Buddz)
12. Childhood (C-Rayz feat. Matisyahu & Kosha Dillz)
13. Innerlight (Zion I)
14. Hip Hop Heaven (One Be Lo)
15. Inside Outsider (Atmosphere)
16. You Got It & I Want It (André Williams)
17. You Shoulda Treated Me Right (Ike & Tina Turner)
18. Mercy Mercy Mercy Me (Marvin Gaye)
19. Dark End of the Street (Oscar Toney, Jr.)
20. Born To Be Blue (Chet Baker)
21. Lyubo, Brattzy, Lyubo (Zhanna Bichevskaya)
i remember Janna Bichevskaya TV appearances, don't remember any of her songs now, i think she sung folk songs
great mixes, thanks
Born to be Blue is a heartbreaker. I was working on that with my vocal instructor at around the time that my wife was leaving me, and it worked out well for the song.
I guess I'm luckier than some folks
I've known the thrill of lovin' you
And that alone is more than I was created for
Cause I was born to be blue
I'm uploading, slowly, a mix that is, for me, rather strange.
Are you folks going to leave these mixes up for a bit of a while? I've resolved to, uh, resolve my low-/high-speed internet connection issue, finally.
People using sendspace may have to re-up them. Apo's and mine will still be available.
Okay, thanks. My education commences.
Hey hey, so a couple of mixes that actually feature recognizable, accessible music! Whoopee! It was pretty fun finally making mixes where I really didn't pay attention to whether the songs would be passé or already known, and just made a nice flowing mix of really great music.
Strongest Sister in the City Middle
1) Apparat - Holdon
2) Hot Chip - No Fit State
3) Goodbooks - Leni (Crystal Castles Mix)
4) Menomena - Strongest Man in the World
5) The National - City Middle
6) Rock Plaza Central - SexyBack
7) Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
8) Working for a Nuclear Free City - Rocket
9) Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
10) Asobi Seksu - Thursday
11) Voxtrot - Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives
12) The Changes - The Machine
13) Junior Boys - In the Morning
14) Cut Copy - Saturdays
15) Spoon - The Way We Get By
16) The Unicorns - Les Os
1) TV on the Radio - The Wrong Way
2) The Beta Band - Brokenupadingdong
3) Ebony Rhythm Band - Drugs Ain't Cool (Instrumental)
4) Jamie Lidell - When I Come Back Around
5) Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
6) Annie - Heartbeat
7) Lamb - Lusty
8) Imani Coppola - Legend of a Cowgirl
9) Cosmo Baker - Papa Was a Rolling Stone vs Applause
10) Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat
11) The Futureheads - Hounds of Love
12) Stars - Your Ex-Lover Is Dead
13) The Wrens - Happy
14) Tap Tap - 100,000 Thoughts
15) The Mo-Dettes - White Mice
16) Echo and the Bunnymen - Do It Clean
17) Fine Young Cannibals - Good Thing
18) Caribou - After Hours
19) Herbert - The Audience
I call this mix some thrown-together shit. Note that it is plenty dated, and that I don't necessarily endorse track 9:
1. Good Good - Clouds
2. Why? - Sanddollars
3. Peeping Tom - Sucker (feat. Norah Jones)
4. Fiery Furnaces - Asthma Attack
5. Man Man - Hurly/Burly
6. Dirty Projectors - Imagine It
7. D'Angelo - One Mo' Gin
8. U.S. Maple - Lay Lady Lay
9. The Aimless Never Miss - The Bright Side
10. Cardiacs - Two Bites of Cherry (live)
11. Fog - What a Day Day
12. Dodo Bird - Trades & Tariffs
13. Head of Femur - Science Needed a Medical Man
14. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & Tortoise - Thunder Road
15. Interférence Sardines - Speos
I'm really liking Sifu's mix. The first track has me racking my brain for where I've heard that guitar part before, and the Mark E. Smith guest vocals or imitator on the Von Sudenfed song is cracking me up.
DS's mix has an amazing beginning set of songs, but I haven't heard any more of it yet.
38: Ah yeah, severely dated. That Man Man album's been out for what, a whole week?
That's like a year in indie oneupsmanship time, PMP.
OMG Po-Mo's mix looks awesome! I'm pumped.
I am the rankest of amateurs and I'm sure you've heard them before but a conglomeration I've put together tonight and am uploading right now:
Xenophilia, Relaxation, Volume, Paranoia and Stereotypes
Tank! - Yoko Kanno
Disco Cammata - Kalyanji-Anandji
Sredni Vashtar - Faith & The Muse
Song Of Hope - William Parker Quartet feat. Leena Conquest
Posed To Death (The Calculators) - The Faint
Take Me I'm Yours - Glenn Tillbrook And Chris Difford
We All Die Alone - Clearlake
The Math Song - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
Parallax Barrier - Bit Shifter
Green - Mark Nicholas
The Hong Kong Triad - Thievery Corporation
Music For Driving - Scuba
Zeina - Petrol Bomb Samosa
The Blood (La Sangre) - Fulano De Tal
Sugar Daddy - Frank Black
Get Busy - Sean Paul
The Cloning Device - Billy Nayer Show
In-Flight - Cosmicity
Under The Gun - Supreme Beings of Leisure
Your Disco Needs You - Kylie Minogue
Operation: Get the Hell Out of Here - The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
Lots of good mixes above. Downloading to listen now.
I am the rankest of amateurs and I'm sure you've heard them before but a conglomeration I've put together [this morning] ditto.
No attempt to use only little-known tracks (apart a few bits of 'Brit' jazz).
01. Cidadão Instigado - Os Urubus Só Pensam Em Te Comer
02. Basquiat Strings - Double-Dares
03. Rachel Unthank & The Winterset - Blue Bleezing Blind Drunk
04. Graham Collier Music - Down Another Road
05. Boris Kovac - Tango Apocalypso
06. Aluminium - Aluminum
07. John Barry - The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair
08. Elmer Bernstein - Thinking Of Baby
09. Lambchop - I've Been Lonely For So Long
10. Shuggie Otis - Aht Uh Mi Hed
11. Thom Yorke - Black Swan
12. Spike Jones New Band - Harlem Nocturne
13. Roots Manuva - A Haunting
14. Tatiana Nikolayeva - Aria
The Rachel Unthank track, like the Rachel Unthank track I put on an earlier mix, is a blinder.
Ooh track 7 explains an Orbital reference I've wondered about for years.
re: 45
I've always assumed the the Barry title is a reference to Debussy's La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin ... but I'm probably way off.
46: beats me, but there's an Orbital track called "Girl With The Sun In Her Head"
You know there's a Beatles song with a line referring to a girl with the sun in her eyes, right?
My guess is: it's a fairly common sort of image.
re: 47
Yeah, I know the Orbital track. Given their 'thing' about soundtrack music, and John Barry in particular [hence their theme for 'The Saint', etc.], the Barry track is probably the reference for theirs, yeah.
I find that girls with the sun in their hair are as common in the country as flowers in the city, doncha know.
It's times like these that I remember that's it's not just DSL, it's *A*DSL... Waiting for my mix to upload is painful. (But not as painful as setting it to upload right before going to bed, then waking up to discover that my machine crashed overnight.)
Okay, finally. It's far far more mainstream than most of the stuff people post here. (The last track, though, isn't what you think it is.)
play it LOUD (Stupid name, but it was 2 AM when I finally finished it.)
Anthrax - Got the Time
The Hi-Fives - Tainted Love
Matthew Sweet - Do Ya
Semisonic - Singing In My Sleep
Magneto U.S.A. - Jenny (867-5309)
The Smithereens - A Girl Like You
Hard-Fi - Gotta Reason
The Toasters - Gimme Some Lovin'
Information Society - I Like The Way You Werk It
Elastica - Stutter
Screeching Weasel - You'll Be In My Dreams Today
Chixdiggit - Where's Your Mom?
Blink-182 - Waggy
Supersuckers - Stuff 'n' Nonsense
The Killjoys - Today I Hate Everyone
The Cult - Love Removal Machine
The Veldt - Soul in a Jar (The Drug Store Mix)
MC Solaar - La Vie Est Belle
Lyrics Born feat. Evidence and KRS One - Pack Up (Remix)
Panjabi MC - Jatt Ho Giya Sharabee
The Beta Band - Squares (Bloah Mix)
Underworld - Born Slippy
Information Society kept scrolling back in front of me and being considered when I was making mine; there ain't nothing wrong with any mix tape that includes Information Society.
Sweet, someone else who remembers InSoc! I wish I could find my copy of "Hack".
Who doesn't remember Information Society? Classic!
Oooh, as always the mixes look interesting. I swear when (not if, now) I actually get set up to listen to deal with mp3 music the unfogged mixes will be the cause.
If I have time later today, I will try to install LAME and post something.
ttaM was right about that Unthank track.
Who doesn't remember Information Society?
Loathe as I am to say it, Generation Awesome. I doubt they live large in the club-going memories of the destroyer <--> teofilo age continuum.
"What's On Your Mind", right?
I always figured the band responsible for that song was just an anonymous studio creation and that it was pointless to know their name anyway.
This has inspired me to make a mix for a female friend. However, my adamant opposition to including songs that appear to send any hidden emotional message has led me to be unable to include any songs by Crooked Fingers, though I know she would like them a lot.
I'll have to just recommend Crooked Fingers in word but not in deed.
Surely Crooked Fingers have some songs that would send overt emotional messages.
The songs themselves contain overt messages, but including them in a mix would be a less overt message on my part.
Smartarse.
I'm sure these are all great, but some of the file distribution sites are horrible. Rapidshare's capcha has defeated me completely -- spot four letters with a squashed kitten wrapped round them, my arse.
I was thinking just the same thing about RapidShare. What the fuck is that all about?
I've only managed to download about two-thirds of the mixes so far and I'm just now getting to listen to the Unfunkked, which thus far has me thinking it might just be the strongest outing yet.
Um, you mean that you have to retype some numbers and letters (this being known as a "capcha") which are virtually indecipherable?
One has to "manage" to download because one is otherwise occupied?
If Unfunkked 5 is great I will find a way to access it!
I somehow managed to divine the necessary keystrokes on my third attempt. So, on the assumption that ttaM won't mind:
Sunday Morning, Sunday Afternoon Repost.
Tango Apocalypso is great! i downloaded all mixes, skimmed through the songs, alas, there is no 'my' coffee day song
66.2: I am ashamed.
But 66.3: "if" Unfunkked 5 is great? Doubter! Unbeliever! Heretic!
(I'm especially tickled by the presence of The Family Stand on that mix; I owned and lost a copy of Moon in Scorpio back in HS and haven't thought about them in ages, but "Plantation Radio" takes me back.)
My mix is still uploading, but in the meantime I thought you might like to know that South African dockworkers and police have refused to unload a shipment of arms for Mugabe.
Wrongshore, do you still have your blues mix around somewhere? I never managed to download that one...
"Rhymin' With the African Symphony" is wikkid.
(I'm just going to liveblog the mixes for as long I'm sitting here listening to them.)
re: 67
I don't mind!
re: 58
The album is a thing of wonder. There's nary a bad track on it. Lots of wonderful NE dialect stuff, too.
I think that particular track might be Unthank's sister singing lead. They both take the lead on tracks on the album.
I hope the backstory here makes up for the fact that this is not a new mix.
In May 2006, my wife moved out. In June of that year, I sent her one song per day, starting just before midnight of the 2nd with "Good Man" by Josh Ritter and following that up with "No Children" by The Mountain Goats. Those two made it onto Take Knecht Back which has a number of other songs from that month.
Here are most of the rest: A Bad June
1. I Wish You Love - Blossom Dearie
2. Ruin My Day - Jon Brion
3. The Cold War - The Bruces
4. Cheat - Franklin Bruno
5. Time After Time (feat. Sarah MacLachlan) - Cyndi Lauper
6. Your Ex-Lover Is Dead - Stars
7. One More Night - Stars
8. Jealous Guy - Donny Hathaway
9. Anywhere Anyone - dnTEL
10. Evil vs. Good - Clem Snide
11. Desire As - Prefab Sprout
12. Come Down Now - The Negro Problem
13. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall and Oates
14. Since U Been Gone - Ted Leo
15. I Feel So Good - Richard Thompson
16. Good Weekend - Art Brut
17. Travelin' Prayer - Dolly Parton
Enjoy! (Postscript: I'm happily engaged.)
74: I could re-up it. Recall, however, that it is the whitest blues mix ever imagined.
I'm guessing that my honkitude is equal to it. Only if it's not a bother, though.
It's not a big bother, and I'm pleased that there's demand, but I can't do it today. Send me an email and I will do it this week. I'm glad the internet has permitted our honkitude to reach out and touch politely.
72 regarding arms for Mugabe: this is excellent.
the internet has permitted our honkitude to reach out and touch politely
High five!
In fact, the Jetpacked mix in general has some strong kung fu. I'll have to check out the others later.
Tango Apocalypso
Hmmm, in the book I started reading today, A Handbook for Visitors from Outer Space by Kathryn Kramer (not Cramer), the most popular song of the day "Apocalypse" inspired a parody "Apocalypso".
the Jetpacked mix in general has some strong kung fu
Indeed it does.
spot four letters with a squashed kitten wrapped round them, my arse.
I read this, laughed because it was a funny sentence and I assumed it was hyperbole, and then clicked over to the tab with ttaM's mix waiting for me only to find that jesus christ you really *do* have to decipher squashed kittens.
Must give the RapidShare folks their due: that's a pretty entertaining, if stupid-as-fuck, captcha.
Pmon, do you want someone to just burn cds for you? Because I could do that, probably.
I read this, laughed because it was a funny sentence and I assumed it was hyperbole, and then clicked over to the tab with ttaM's mix waiting for me only to find that jesus christ you really *do* have to decipher squashed kittens.
Huh. I didn't have to complete any captchas, just click on a link and then wait a couple of minutes for my "download ticket" to be enabled.
the most popular song of the day "Apocalypse" inspired a parody "Apocalypso"
There is a Jimmy Buffet song by that name.
Liar. YOU LIE.
What can I say? The system clearly recognizes and rewards the virtuous.
Btw, I feel bad because I always take, take, take with these mixtape threads, and never give. I apologize; Im not enough of a music buff to have stuff of my own to mix up for yall.
But I do want to say that ttaMs mixes, in particular, always really make me happy. Im listening to the Sunday morning mix right now, and its completely awesome.
(Also, ffs, why the fuck has Firefox decided of late that after half an hour or so its going to start deciding that the apostrophe key means "find"? Grrrrr.)
90: [Apocalypso] There is a Jimmy Buffet song by that name.
Yes, seems to have been written by Matt Betton. It was 1993, book was written in early 80s, but probably an independent "rediscovery" of the pun.
There's also a National Health tune called "Apocalypso", a rewrite of a different National Health tune called "Collapso", which Selwyn Baptiste said was "not bad for a white band".
DS, that ninth track is nothing short of a revelation. Holy fucking fuck. I am forever in your debt.
95 is exactly right.
Also, the first few tracks of Xenophilia made me jump up and down gleefully.
And my fi has requested Happy Hound be loaded onto her iPod for the gym.
Still to listen to the others -- thanks all.
Btw, DS? Your genre labels are fucking hilarious.
Also, as I am *finally* playing your mix, Mr. B. says "ooooooooooh! Who is that?" (The Slits, Heard it through the Grapevine).
What a fat fucking haul of a mixtape thread.
Sweet!
97: Cheers!
Glad people are liking the Sexton. I think it's a sin that he's not better known.
98: Played that song like fifteen times in a row the first time I heard it.
Is this where we register our deep love for that Grapevine cover? Christ yes.
Glad to hear I'm not alone.
Po-Mo's mixes are pimpin'. Love that Cosmo Baker track and the Ebony Rhythm Band especially, and Working For a Nuclear Free Society (whom I'd never heard before). I'm going to work my way through all of these eventually.