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extra mixtapes!

In the first couple of months of 2009 I was also really starting to experiment more with mixing. Thus, this is a post involving other mixtapes I created at the same time. Most of the themes still involved the last.fm mixtape group, though.

Before February started off, I launched a thread for party mixes, and this is my first one.


(artwork by Skibord)

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01. The Demo Saou - Intraou
02. Capcom - Stage Select
03. Anamanaguchi - Sting Operation
04. Capcom - Stage Start
05. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
06. Pixies - Rock Music
07. Golden Girls - Thank You For Being a Friend
08. Sleater-Kinney - The Fox
09. Sam White - Truth
10. The Demo Saou - Electrologic
11. Clazziquai Project - Fill This Night
12. The Rapture - The Devil
13. Gonzales - Take Me To Broadway
14. Planet Funk - Chase The Sun
15. The Kinks - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy
16. Soulwax - KracK
17. Pre - Drool
18. Hans Zimmer - Two Hornpipes (Tortuga)
19. Vive la Fête - Schwarzkopf
20. Zita Swoon - My Bond With You and Your Planet: Disco!

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01. Jazzanova - No Use (Lensco Remix)
02. The Intelligence - Cheer Up Switch
03. Free The Robots - Listen To The Future
04. Jeffrey Lewis - No LSD Tonight
05. DAAU - Nix
06. Luke Slater - All Exhale
07. Aphrodite - Stalker (Benny Page Remix)
08. Rascal & Klone - Europa
09. Aphrodite - Lava Flows
10. ILS - 6 Space (Next Level)
11. Akufen - The Dragonfly Who Thought He Was a Mockingbird
12. Seabear - Good Morning Scarecrow
13. ADULT. - Turn Your Back
14. Four Tet - No More Mosquitoes
15. 69db - Rich Kids On Ketamine
16. Sunset Rubdown - Up On Your Leopard, Upon The End of Your Feral Days
17. DJ Scotch Egg - Pin-Pon
18. Jamie Lidell - You Got Me Up
19. Tim Hecker - The Work of Art In The Age of Cultural Overproduction
20. Thee Headcoats - Cowboys Are Square

In the meantime I quickly became a fan of other mixtapers in the monthly mixtape group, such as cthulubelle. Many of his previous mixtapes I checked out were just so wonderful, together with a style of artwork, which really defined him.
Through members like him I discovered quite a lot music. Especially weird noise and lo-fi tunes from the 90s and early 00s.

So I made a mixtape for him, themeless. :D


(artwork by Buckobucko)

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01. Big Sexy Shaq - Intro
02. The Advantage - Batman 2
03. Bardo Pond - #3
04. Raphael Saadiq - Big Easy
05. Free The Robots - Lonely Traveler
06. Moscow Olympics - Cut The World
07. Combat Wombat - Corruption Dub
08. Help She Can't Swim - Boy Toy
09. ¡Forward, Russia! - Thirteen
10. The Dismemberment Plan - I Love a Magician
11. Holigays - Interlude
12. Akufen - Heaven Can Wait
13. Moccasin - Tudor Moon
14. DAAU - A Rain Song
15. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - This Love Is Fucking Right!
16. Mountains In The Sky - Coalesced
17. Colour Haze - Silent
18. Triggerfinger - What Grabs Ya?
19. Hanatarash - Call Me Sea
20. DJ Scotch Egg - Scotch Out

Next up ('cause it was February and all), indeed, a valentine mix. Baww. The funny thing is, though, that I compiled this mixtape together with Buckobucko, we've been dating for a very long time a couple of years ago, but at the time we created this, we were both getting into a new relationship. But since we're both extremely mellow about a lot of things in life, we just thought it was very comical to make something valentine-related together. Gotta love a background story like this lol.


(artwork by ikke!)

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01. Sumner McKane - Hello Harriet or Charlotte, We Love You
02. Art Tatum - The Man I Love
03. Bad Brains - Sacred Love
04. The Dismemberment Plan - The Love War
05. Polysics - My Sharona
06. Chef & Meatloaf - Tonight Is Right For Love
07. John Lee Hooker - I Love You Baby
08. Etta James - I Just Want To Make Love To You
09. Frank Zappa - Dirty Love
10. The Kills - Love Is a Deserter
11. Phil Collins - Easy Lover
12. The Hangman's Beautiful Daughters - Love Is Blue
13. The Demo Saou - Baby Blue Harmonics
14. Akufen - My Way
15. Hooverphonic - Out of Sight

Another idea for an extra mix from the last.fm group: to compile a 20-track mixtape where the last word of the first songtitle is the first word of the second songtitle, etcetera etcetera. I really wanted to try it out 'cause it sounded very hard to actually accomplish a whole mix like that. Indeed it was harsh, and I must admit I'm not a huge fan of this mix ultimately lol.
But I did it, and at that time involving experimenting, that's what kinda mattered.


(artwork by ikke!!)

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01. Low - Just Like Christmas
02. Mogwai - Christmas Song
03. Nobuo Uematsu - Song of Memories
04. Nobuo Uematsu - Memories of That Day
05. Yum - Day One
06. Zero 7 - One Arm Break
07. The Doors - Break On Through
08. Brian Eno - Through The Blue
09. Men At Work - Blue For You
10. El Tattoo Del Tigre - You and The Night and The Music
11. Kent - Music Non Stop
12. Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out
13. Enigma - Out From The Deep
14. Frank Sinatra - Deep In a Dream
15. Moby - Dream About Me
16. Zita Swoon - Me & Josie On a Saturday Night
17. Amarna - Night Rain
18. Apeiron Flux - Rain Falling Like Data From a Child
19. The Demo Saou - Child's Party
20. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard


Duyster Mixtape II.

Hiking For Health.
But in those mellow pretty cold months it was also yet again time for a Duyster mix. This time it was based on another illustration. Not quite steampunk like the previous one, but still rather cryptic in a way.


(artwork by Buckobucko)

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01. The Album Leaf - On Your Way
02. The Herbaliser - Sensual Woman
03. Xploding Plastix - Funnybones & Lazylegs
04. Blue Sky Black Death - Forgive Me
05. Archers of Loaf - Web In Front
06. Voxtrot - The Start of Something
07. Bearbot - Two Bunnies, One Field
08. The Aliens - Magic Man
09. Michael Mills - The Beatles
10. A Perfect Circle - Imagine
11. Enigma - Second Chapter
12. Great Big Sea - The Mermaid
13. John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters
14. Snailhouse - Daylight (Alternate)
15. Tristeza - Building Peaks
16. J. Tillman - When I Lightened Your Darkened Door
17. Guided By Voices - Pimple Zoo
18. Mirah with The Black Cat Orchestra - What Keeps Mankind Alive?
19. Deerhoof - Sunny Side

And finally, another extra mix: to put together a story with songtitles. Not as tough as the theme where the last word had to be the first word of the next track and so on and on, no. But it was very fun, nonetheless.


(artwork by (ikke means me, obviously))

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01. Tortoise - Dear Grandma and Grandpa
02. Ween - I Got To Put The Hammer Down
03. Arid - You Are
04. The Lucksmiths - Dignified and Old
05. The Alan Parsons Project - Don't Let It Show
06. Mr. Gnome - I'm Alright
07. Say Anything - Surgically Removing The Tracking Device
08. Laïs - After The Goldrush
09. dEUS - Nothing Really Ends
10. The Cardigans - For What It's Worth
11. Feeder - Come Back Around
12. The Album Leaf - Another Day
13. Concrete Blonde - Someday?

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01. Novastar - The Best Is Yet To Come
02. K's Choice - Try To Get Some Sleep
03. Belle and Sebastian - For The Price of a Cup of Tea
04. The Beach Boys - All Summer Long
05. Creedence Clearwater Revival - It Came Out of The Sky
06. Dog Eat Dog - Expect The Unexpected
07. té - Courtesy Is Considered As a "Farce" If There Are No Honesty and Reality
08. Xploding Plastix - Behind The Eightball
09. The Locust - We Have Reached an Official Verdict: Nobody Gives a Shit
10. Tunng - It's Because... We've Got Hair
11. John Zorn - You Will Be Shot
12. Basement Jaxx - Good Luck
13. Corinne Bailey Rae - Call Me When You Get This