XI.

extra mixtapes!

The Monthly Mixtape Mixtaper Mix... yeah, what's in a name eh. This is a conceptual mix I've mentioned before in a previous post where I've put up my first mixtaper mix: to create a tribute mix to plenty of fellow members of the last.fm group! First I started off with making a party mix involving that concept, but here's the actual mixtape that only includes a full selection of favorite songs all appearing in other people's compilations.


(artwork by moi)

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01. Quit Your Dayjob - Look! A Dollar
02. Everclear - Nehalem
03. Architecture In Helsinki - It'5!
04. The Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (Animation 1)
05. Wavves - No Hope Kids
06. Dawn Landes - Toy Piano
07. Joe Jackson - Throw It Away
08. Times New Viking - Devo & Wine
09. Tom Gabel - Anna Is a Stool Pigeon
10. Munchausen By Proxy - Uh-huh

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01. Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)
02. Band of Horses - The General Specific
03. Can - Vitamin C
04. Bat For Lashes - Trophy
05. PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
06. Imaginary Gun - Boy Delusion
07. T.H.E.M. - There Goes My Heart Again
08. The Hold Steady - Chillout Tent
09. Lemon Jelly - Space Walk
10. Grizzly Bear - Southern Point


And at that time it was yet again the right moment for compiling my own second best of of past mixtapes I've created.
The first compilation like that consisted out of 8 tracks, and this one includes 7 songs from the following 7 monthly mixes. Why seven songs, well because it coincidentally then ended 'till my last mixtape of 2009, lol so that my next compilation like this would start off smoothly from the first month of 2010, which feels so exact that it's awesome yeah.



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01. Tristeza - Shifty Drifty
02. Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
03. Luke Slater - Stars and Heroes
04. Novastar - Wrong
05. Therapy? - Isolation
06. Daft Punk - Face To Face
07. Light Under Water - Awake

X.

Mixtape #15.

December, 2009: So 00's.

The end of the crazy year was near and the winter was starting to get harsh, thus really wanting to create a warm and fuzzy mixtape to celebrate this end. The general theme for that month was all about, indeed: compiling a best of, wether it be a collection of songs from '09, from the entire past decade, or a neat combination of both!
And because of my love for all sorts of combinations (of pizza hut and taco bell) I came up with a definite order of tracks: 2009, 2000, 2009, 2001, 2009 and so on untill I end it 'till the 20th song for this mix. Looking at this mixtape afterwards, it's really quite long, but at the same time kind of appropriate because it's a best of a decade after all. Coherently filled with my absolute favorite artists, I'm glad it turned out the way it did and that it's not exactly the same as my december mix from back in 2008, where back then it was a different kind of combination of recent and old discoveries made in that year. :)

There's also a hidden track in the last song of this mixtape performed by two friends of mine, for secretly introducing them online or so lol.


(artwork by Anorakhighst)

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01. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Hey Paul
02. Explosions In The Sky - Time Stops
03. Monsters of Folk - The Sandman, The Brakeman and Me
04. Gorillaz - 5/4
05. Matisyahu - Darkness Into Light
06. Low - Shots and Ladders
07. The Field - Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime
08. M83 - 0078H
09. Light Under Water - Awake
10. Descendents - Dog and Pony Show
11. Bon Iver - Blood Bank

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01. Yann Tiersen - 7:PM
02. dredg - Cartoon Showroom
03. The Album Leaf - Into The Sea
04. Zero 7 - Everything Up (Zizou)
05. Ulver - Solitude
06. Sonic Youth - Massage The History
07. Ef - A Tailpiece
08. Dinosaur Jr. - Imagination Blind
09. Startle The Heavens - Pearl


Mixtape #16.

January, 2010.

With a weird yet groovy mood we start off this new year. But yet again, lots of things were going on and changing, both of the good, bad, and I suppose ugly kind too. Relationships were failing, yet careers were evolving. But only the dreamers dreaming win. But instead of getting too moody, here's my first mix of this year: Individu Animal.
Sure, a furry fuzzy mix, why not. It's really one of those themes with endless and even more endless options, but that's what really makes it incredibly fun to work with. And yes I simply felt like naming the mixtape after one of the tracks appearing on it! Because that is still an awesome thing to do.


(artwork by Buckobucko)

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01. The Doors - Lions In The Street
02. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
03. Birdy Nam Nam - Violons (Part 2)
04. Anamanaguchi - Fast Turtle
05. Bullion - Long Promised
06. Celebration - Foxes
07. Sabrepulse - White Tiger
08. Nullsleep - Playful Panda
09. No Age - You Is My Hot Rabbit
10. Zita Swoon - Individu Animal
11. Jeniferever - Sparrow Hills
12. El Tattoo Del Tigre - Mambo Del Polytecnico
13. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rat Race
14. Mimas - Cats On Fire
15. Snailhouse - Witches and Snowmen
16. Frightened Rabbit - Keep Yourself Warm
17. The Ancient Tapes - Exoskeleton
18. Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
19. Seabear - Arms


Chain Mixtape I.

So at that time a lot of things were progressing and changing, just like the way things were going at the monthly mixtape forum by the way, what rulechanges such as no more mixpartners and all. Opinions were and still are divided I guess, but I go along with the flow in the end. At the same time I could look at things positively in a natural way, such as practicing with mixing in many ways. Such as this example: multiple chain mixing!

A couple of posts ago I made quite the elaborative message about it, but in conclusion it came down to this: I was inspired by the artist-linkeage theme itself, thus afterwards making a vaguely continueing chain mix every two months where the last bonus track on each mix shows what the first artist on the next chain mix will be!

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01. Jackie-O Motherfucker - A Mania
02. Atlas Sound - Borrowed Nostalgia
03. Black Lips - The Drop I Hold
04. MouseRocket - Place In Your Heart
05. Lost Sounds - Soul For Sale
06. Oblivians - Sunday You Need Love
07. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Sweet N Sour
08. Cibo Matto - Sing This All Together
09. Sonic Youth - Dirty Boots
10. The Cribs - Our Bovine Republic

IX.

extra mixtapes!!

In late 2009 there was still plenty of room for extra mixes to create, one of them is The Monthly Mixtape Party Mix Fest! A long title for a concrete conceptual mix, though.
This was based on a random mixtape I discovered in earlier threads in the monthly mixtape forum (since I mentioned before it's always healthy to look back, and to literally look back in older threads to discover themes and to see what it was like before I joined lol): the creator simply compiled a pretty big lists of tracks which were all the number one top tracks of all the member's charts!

And ever since I read that particular post, I somehow wanted to contribute something incredibly similar, to give credit so far to all fellow mixtapers in the last.fm forum. Because by that time, I tended to include more and more songs appearing in other people's compilations, thus easily wanting to creature some sort of tribute to them.
But this mixtape isn't that concept yet! I first started off with another party mix. 'Cause everyone loves a good party, and I especially loved it how I literally focused more on using tracks for this concept that have obviously appeared before in other mixes.
The difference between this party and a future "mixtaper" mix is that not all the songs come from other members' mixes. Time to dance.


(artwork by me!)

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01. Alex Gopher - The Child
02. The Mountain Goats - Dance Music
03. The Girl Next Door - Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna)
04. Frank Sinatra - I Won't Dance
05. Air - Don't Be Light (Mr. Oizo Remix)
06. Sham-Ettes - Big Bad Wolf
07. Mr. Scruff - Fish
08. Beck - Tropicalia
09. CSS - Let's Make Love and Listen To Death From Above
10. YMCK - Pastel Colored Candy
11. Tommy Burk & The Counts - Stormy Weather
12. The Clash - Hateful
13. The Octopus Project - Music Is Happiness
14. Mandalay - Deep Love (Onda Underwater Mix)
15. France Gall - Aime-La
16. Ellaine & The Shandells - Tell Me That You Care
17. The Joggers - Wicked Light Sleeper
18. Explosions In The Sky - Day Eight

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01. Scissor Sisters - Lights
02. Aphrodite - Move 'n' Rhythm
03. Robert Pollard - Rhoda Rhoda
04. Stevie Hyper - Can't Stop (Aphrodite Remix)
05. The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Ballad of The RAA
06. Igorrr - Mastication Numérique
07. Bogdan Raczynski - La Baleine
08. Mr. Oizo - Monday Massacre
09. Doormouse - No Fool
10. Hellogoodbye - Here (In Your Arms)
11. Mouse On Mars - Sound City
12. Air - All I Need
13. Thee Headcoats - The Ballad of Fogbound Pinehead
14. Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Girl On Girl featuring Final Fantasy)
15. The White Stripes - Stop Breaking Down
16. The Summer Set - She's Got The Rhythm
17. Dirty Three - I Remember a Time When Once You Used To Love Me
18. Ivana Santilli - Sun + Moon = Tomorrow


In my previous Extra Mixtapes post here I included my own remixes of my second and third mix I made for the forum. And even later on I was sort of fascinated by the weird remixing thing. I continued it a little step further by making alternate versions of my first and second mix I made.
The difference between this and a remix is that the original tracks aren't present anymore, but there's often a link between tracks and/or artists, though. New and improved I'd say, !


(artwork by me!!)

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01. The Simpsons - We Do (The Stonecutter's Song)
02. Sabrepulse - Famicom Connection
03. DAAU - Gin & Tonic
04. Zerlina - A Secure Place
05. Borokov Borokov - A Borokov Man
06. The Locust - One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation
07. No Age - Never Not Beaten
08. Descendents - Jean Is Dead
09. Mirah - Telephone Wires
10. Goose - Low Mode
11. Ulver - Waltz of King Karl
12. Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
13. Scarling. - Like a Killer
14. The Demo Saou - Shorts Songs
15. Bobby Richeson - Rainbow Road (Super Mario Kart)
16. Amps For Christ - Tethered Ball
17. DAAU - Oliphant
18. dEUS - Wake Me Up Before I Sleep
19. Nullsleep - Say Its Not The End
20. Zita Swoon - Remember To Withold


(artwork by me!!!)

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01. M83 - Teen Angst
02. Pixies - Dig For Fire
03. Hanatarash - Ultra Tired
04. Pixies - Alison
05. The Demo Saou - Today!
06. Frank Zappa - I'm The Slime
07. CDOASS - The Correct Use of Failure
08. Morphine - Early To Bed
09. Qua - Devil Eyes
10. cKy - Promiscious Daughter
11. Snailhouse - Dead Air
12. Zita Swoon - Josiesomething
13. Mile Me Deaf - My Mother Is Proud of Me
14. Hot Chip - And I was a Boy From School
15. Roph - Glaze
16. 16 Bitch Pile-Up - They Buried The Dead Boy... But Not Deep Enough
17. Millionaire - You're Mine
18. DAAU - Piano Dub
19. Scarling. - Band Aid Covers The Bullet Hole
20. Sam Amidon - All Is Well
21. Zero 7 - End Theme

VIII.

Mixtape #12.

September, 2009: After Summer.

The end of the summer finally arrived, and it all came down to a collection of summer bummers: a pretty big anti-climax to a wonderful time. Almost sounds so typical yet I pretty much never experienced that much misery in one pile. BUT, instead of dwelling deeper into that misery, I simply had to express myself into a mixtape! By chance the theme that month was about summertime, so I was bound to be one of the few with a fitting melancholic mix, and I'm very glad how the creating of it turned out (especially how it somehow worked therapeutic lol).

Two extra things to mention: I've also put this mix into a King Crimson frame, since my mixtape partner that month had a Crimson avatar, so I adapted parts of the Moonchild song in the beginning and end of the compilation.
The artwork's yet again done by one of my best friends, since he's pretty much my household illustrator for the majority of all my mixtapes, and he experienced a similar summer bummer at pretty much the same period in time, thus we were supporting eachother that month as much as we could.
Yes, I did find it necessary to type out a story/summary for this mix 'cause it's rather essential lol.


(artwork by Buckobucko)

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01. Mountains In The Sky - Wait
02. Mr. Wednesday - The Cargo Doors Have Requested Our Cooperation
03. Ozark Henry - Rescue
04. Feeder - Piece By Piece
05. Xploding Plastix - Comatose Luck
06. K's Choice - Ol' 55
07. The Beach Boys - Shut Down
08. The Album Leaf - TwentyTwoFourteen
09. M83 - I Guess I'm Floating
10. Sam Amidon - Saro
11. The Dandy Warhols - The Last High
12. Mirah - Don't Die In Me
13. Mercury Rev - Goddess On a Hiway
14. Borokov Borokov - Loving Laslo
15. Novastar - Wrong
16. The Magic Numbers - Forever Lost
17. Electrelane - The Lighthouse
18. Sun Kil Moon - Exit Does Not Exist
19. Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television - Flower of The Rarest Hue


Mixtape #13.

October, 2009: Dive For Cover.

After recovering from the heavy summer time it was time for a cover mix. At first I wasn't very keen of that theme, I always thought it would almost be a drag to listen throughout a whole compilation of covers. Yet slowly but surely I convinced myself that it's not so bad at all lol.


(artwork by Gyprocs and Buckobucko)

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01. Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Daniel
02. Eric Clapton - 32-20 Blues
03. Nina Simone - I Shall Be Released
04. Jake Shimabukuro - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
05. Gipsy Kings - Hotel California
06. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love
07. The Offspring - Feelings
08. Señor Coconut - Smooth Operator
09. Beck - Diamond Dogs
10. A Perfect Circle - Imagine
11. Gregorian - Hurt
12. My Morning Jacket - Rocket Man
13. Therapy? - Isolation
14. Macha & Bedhead - Believe
15. The Horrors - Jack The Ripper

October 2009: extra mixtape.

At that time one losing theme was a huge favorite as well: a halloween mix! Now, where I come from a festivity such as Halloween still isn't that big over here as it logically is in all of the US. I am, however, a huge horror fan, thus making this theme a big favorite one too!
And on top of having made this extra mix at the time, the last track from my cover mix makes it coincidentally rather fluent, since it's both a cover and a horror(s) track, so three cheers for linkeage lol.


(artwork by Karlientjeuh)

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01. The Kovenant - Mirror's Paradise
02. The Panda - Panda Problem
03. The Advantage - Castlevania - Stage 3
04. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Tombstone Shadow
05. Sleater-Kinney - Ironclad
06. CDOASS - Clockwork
07. Birdy Nam Nam - Engineer Fear
08. Stade - Anatonal
09. Bad Brains - F.V.K.
10. Less Than Jake - Ghosts of You and Me
11. The Lillingtons - Codename: Peabrain
12. Gnarkill - Skeletor/Beastman
13. Santana - Evil Ways
14. Orbital - Tootled
15. M83 - Graveyard Girl
16. 16 Bitch Pile-Up - Into The Air
17. Renegade Android - Your Smile Makes Me Smile
18. The Emersons - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde


Mixtape #14.

November, 2009: Once Twice Thrice.

And that month a theme ocurred that was yet again quite simple yet very very awesome: one to ten. Yes, it means that the first track's one minute long, the second two minutes, and so on 'till the tenth song which should be ten minutes. The really hidden challenge within this is of course selecting tracks that are the exact length of the supposed amount of minutes, but: I reached 54.9 minutes in total for this compilation, not 55. Which confused me way too much afterwards, but in a fun and good way.


(artwork by Buckobucko)

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01. Animals of Farthing Wood - Animals of Farthing Wood
02. The Lawrence Arms - The Devil's Takin' Names
03. Television Personalities - My Dark Places
04. Daft Punk - Face To Face
05. Xploding Plastix - Treat Me Mean, I Need The Reputation
06. Filter - Take a Picture
07. The Stooges - Dirt
08. múm - Awake On a Train (Peel Session)
09. Akufen - Skidoos
10. Capulet - Champ

VII.

extra mixtapes!

In the midst of the summer of 2009 I could still easily manage to somehow maintain my activities within mixtaping outside of a monthly theme, a good example of a sort of exercise in a mixing process was this: looking back at old themes that were used right before I joined the monthly mix group. One peculiar theme from back in 2008 caught my eye, which was a chain mixtape.
It's a fun and often challenging exercise 'cause it's meant to find a link between 10 artists or bands. And indeed, more difficult at times than it sounds but a very good exercise for learning more about certain bands and so. One mix I noticed was even done so well that the tenth artist was again connected to the first track! I simply chose not to go that far 'cause I knew the effort putting into wasn't present, or something.

How I chose the first and last song for my chain mix: the starting track is the first song that appeared on a personal recommendational mixtape I received, the last track is actually the same ending song used in the forementioned mix where the chain is totally complete!
In this extra mix I also included a pretty big bonus track at the end. This was basically 'cause of lengthy songs such as that: I barely use them in any mix at all, therefore finally simply putting them there as a grand finale, although the music isn't related at all to the chain itself.
Quite a summary for an extra mix eh lol.


(artwork by Woet
and Buckobucko)

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01. The Mae Shi - Heartbeeps
02. Gowns - White Like Heaven
03. Amps For Christ - AFC Tower Song
04. Man Is The Bastard - Moloch
05. Born Against - Well Fed Fuck
06. Team Dresch - Freewheel
07. Screaming Trees - Troubled Times
08. Dinosaur Jr. - Out There
09. Sebadoh - On Fire
10. Sonic Youth - In The Mind of The Bourgeois Reader

As I mentioned earlier in this blog, in early 2009 I started to get the hang of mixing in the form of creating transitions and similar things, thus easily making me to even make remixes of mixes. Sounds wacky enough to do it, so I did do it. My second and third mix in newer forms, that's what it's basically all about, a couple of original tracks didn't survive it, though (but then again, those two particular mixtapes were pretty long to begin with, so it all could make sense in a way).


(artwork by Buckobucko and me!!)

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01. Beast, Please Be Still - The Guys At The Bar Served Murder For a Nightcap
02. Sonic Youth - Unmade Bed
03. DAAU - Waltz Delire
04. Morphine - Super Sex
05. By The End of Tonight - Stop, Drop, and Roll Does Not Work In Hell
06. Ne Zhdali - Rhino II
07. Test Icicles - Catch It
08. Death In Vegas - Aisha
09. Professor Murder - Champion
10. DAAU - A Radical Chinese Duke
11. Hanatarash - How To Use My Hole
12. Four Tet - A Joy
13. Sebadoh - As The World Dies, The Eyes of God Grow Bigger
14. Reigning Sound - I'll Cry


(artwork by Buckobucko and me!)

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01. Triggerfinger - First Taste
02. MGMT - Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
03. Loser Superhero - Patriote 3
04. noppes - vier uur en een kwart
05. Naikaku - Tautrogy
06. The Demo Saou - Fall In Love
07. Snailhouse - Twenty One Years
08. Panther - You Don't Want Yr Nails Done
09. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
10. Gameboy/Gamegirl - Sweaty Wet/Dirty Damp
11. Mile Me Deaf - They Eat My Body!!!
12. The Sky Drops - Sentimental

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01. Ne Zhdali - Rhino 2
02. Fragile Vastness - Little Red Riding Hood
03. Steak Number Eight - The Other Side
04. Novo Combo - Sorry (For The Delay)
05. Sam Amidon - Wedding Dress
06. Trent - Pirate
07. Alela Diane - The Pirate's Gospel
08. Mr. Gnome - Pirates
09. Pete and The Pirates - Mr. Understanding
10. Ndi - Pulp Fiction
11. Captain Ahab - Ride
12. Foals - Electric Bloom (The Demo Saou Remix)

VI.

Mixtape #09.

June, 2009: "DANCING NAKED!"

In that month we had a tie between that theme and "SONGS FOR WHEN YOU ORDER A HOT CHOCOLATE IN A CAFE AND THE GUY ASKS IF YOU WANT WHIPPED CREAM AND YOU SAY NO THANKS AND THE GUY LOOKS YOU UP AND DOWN AND NODS A LITTLE TO HIMSELF"...
Of course, knowing me and realising both themes are extremely wonderful, I simply combined the two into one. A big collection of songs to dance naked to or the other option lol.


(artwork by me)

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01. Holigays - Intro
02. Magnus - Summer's Here
03. Brakes - On Your Side
04. Evil Superstars - (Nothing But a) Sluthead
05. The Rapture - Don Gon Do It
06. Vive La Fête - Déjà-vu
07. Love Is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up
08. Pig - Head Like a Hole
09. Mr. Gnome - Thief
10. Dave Brubeck - I'm In a Dancing Mood
11. Triggerfinger - Is It
12. Orbital - Illuminate
13. Vitamin C - Smile
14. Corinne Bailey Rae - Trouble Sleeping
15. Borokov Borokov - Madonna (The Eyes of)
16. DAAU - Lost Souls
17. This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb - Hot Diggety

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01. Tristeza - Shifty Drifty
02. Skatalites - Malcolm X
03. El Tattoo Del Tigre - Manfreds Mambo
04. Tunng - Jay Down
05. DJ Morgoth - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up
06. The Locust - Tower of Mammal
07. Frank Sinatra - They Can't Take That Away From Me
08. Enigma - The Cross of Changes
09. DAAU - More Lost Souls
10. Kimya Dawson - My Rollercoaster
11. The Unlovables - Crazy Tonight
12. Feeder - Seven Days In The Sun
13. The Flaming Lips - Goin' On
14. Yume Bitsu - Truth
15. Scout Niblett - New Beat Part 1 (Raking)
16. The Intelligence - This Is a Gift
17. Holigays - Outro


Mixtape #10.

July, 2009: The Interrogation Tape! Yes! A question & answer mix. Of course you could easily go diverse with a theme like this, but the most fun part of the whole thing was putting it all together in a somewhat obscure interview-form.


(artwork by Serar and Bucko)

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01. Amps For Christ - Been To The Rock?
02. Bill Withers - Oh Yeah!
03. Sven Van Hees - What Do You See?
04. Ween - The Rainbow
05. Chicago - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
06. Dinosaur Jr. - Yeah We Know
07. Panther - How Well Can You Swim?
08. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Meet Me By The Water
09. The Unlovables - Have You Ever?
10. Frank Sinatra - Not As a Stranger
11. Yum - What's Your Secret?
12. Al Jolson & Cab Calloway - I Love To Singa
13. Air - How Does It Make You Feel?
14. The Boy Least Likely To - I'm Glad I Hitched My Apple Wagon To Your Star
15. The Dismemberment Plan - What Do You Want Me To Say?
16. té - Break The "Heart" To What Is Actually Being Told Instead of Asking Who Said That.

July, 2009: extra mixtape.

A losing theme I also simply had to use for an extra mix was The Jabberwocky. This came down to a compilation of tracks in any language other than English. It's a rather weird mix, but I did feel weird at the time, so it's kinda natural.


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01. Nazia Hassan - Aap Jaisa Koi
02. Praga Khan - Tausend Sterne
03. De Brassers - En Toen Was Er Niets Meer
04. Think of One - Paleto
05. De Mens - Lachen en Mooi Zijn
06. Buena Vista Social Club - Pueblo Nuevo
07. Tröckener Kecks - Zestien, Toen en Nu
08. Os Mutantes - Panis et Circenses
09. Flip Kowlier - In De Fik
10. Paban Das Baul & Sam Mills - Dil Ki Doya
11. Zebda - Tomber La Chemise
12. Sacred Spirit - Yeha-Noha
13. Vàli - Shumringens Omfavn
14. Tujiko Noriko - Mugen Kyuukou
15. The Beatle-ettes - C'est Grâce à Toi


Mixtape #11.

August, 2009: Surfaces.

The end of the summer was almost nearing yet surprisingly I continued having enough time for making a monthly mix and even more every, you know, month. In August the official theme was a crash course, where my mixtape partner could choose any artist from my last.fm charts and request a compilation involving that single band or artist.
I, however (being stubborn enough I guess!), yet again went for one of the losing themes where my heart went to at the time being. More than a month later though I did make the crash course eventually.
But the theme I did use was a space mix. Not typically filled with overwhelming psychedelics, but a pretty good fusion eitherway.


(artwork by Buckobucko and me!!!)

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01. The Panda - Space Pandas
02. Yume Bitsu - Surface I
03. K's Choice - God In My Bed
04. The Album Leaf - Window
05. Orbital - Doctor Who
06. Xploding Plastix - 6 Hours Starlight
07. Babe Instinct - Disco Babes From Outer Space
08. Luke Slater - Stars and Heroes
09. The Advantage - Bubble Bobble
10. God Is An Astronaut - Tempus Horizon
11. The Flaming Lips - Vein of Stars
12. Man Or Astro-Man? - Escape Through The Air Vent
13. YMCK - Milky Blue
14. Frank Zappa - Cosmik Debris
15. Mountains In The Sky - Rupture
16. Sam Amidon - Prodigal Son
17. Yume Bitsu - Surface II
18. Evil Superstars - It's a Sad, Sad Planet

August, 2009: extra mixtape.

Thus, here is the extra crash course I eventually did make for my partner that month: dEUS and The Demo Saou! Both bands from Antwerp, Belgium. The extra similarity between the groups besides being from the same city: the collective factor, which is even bigger with The Demo Saou: lots of artists coming and going and lots of side-projects and new bands originating from the, eh, original band.
So the first part's about dEUS and the second disc involving The Demo Saou and its many similar projects.


(artwork by me!!)

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01. dEUS - Put The Freaks Up Front
02. Yum - Day One
03. dEUS - Fell Off The Floor, Man
04. Vive La Fête - Stupid Femme
05. Magnus - Summer's Here
06. dEUS - What We Talk About (When We Talk About Love) (Acoustic)
07. Mauro - A Faint Smile
08. Daan - Swedish Designer Drugs
09. Zita Swoon - My Bond With You and Your Planet: Disco!
10. DAAU - King of The Garlic
11. Magnus - Jumpneedle
12. Evil Superstars - Holy Spirit Come Home
13. dEUS - Everybody's Weird
14. Zita Swoon - Selfish Girl
15. dEUS - Suds & Soda
16. Triggerfinger - Soon
17. dEUS - Disappointed In The Sun
18. Mintzkov Luna - Copper
19. dEUS - Hotellounge (Be The Death of Me)
20. Absynthe Minded - My Heroics, Part One
21. dEUS - Instant Street
22. Millionaire - Champagne
23. dEUS - Nothing Really Ends
24. dEUS - Dream Sequence #1
25. Evil Superstars - (Nothing But a) Sluthead

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01. The Demo Saou - Life At 61
02. Dinobutt - Tyranobutt
03. The Demo Saou - Alfred's Bad Trip
04. Borokov Borokov - Our Baby Will Be a Genius
05. The Demo Saou - Fall In Love
06. AlmanzA - Let Go
07. The Demo Saou - Dead Sex
08. Skibord - Midi Fleisch
09. The Demo Saou - Laura
10. Johnny and The Caveman - The Jellyman
11. Zerlina - Carol
12. The Demo Saou - Press The Fourth Breast
13. Holigays - Interlude
14. The Demo Saou - The East Girl Enjoyed
15. AUTO - Commeinh
16. The Demo Saou - You Always Seem To Miss Out On The Right Moments
17. Bellevue Vision - Lonesome Window View Blues
18. Pop Pop Riot - Stop
19. The Demo Saou - Hardcore 1987
20. An Apple - Sibyl Vane
21. Zerlina - Holding Hands
22. The Demo Saou - Portablism
23. The Demo Saou - Child's Party
24. Foals - Electric Bloom (The Demo Saou Remix)
25. Tom Devadder - Start Button

V.

extra mixtapes!!

After I finished the Bizarro Shopping mix in May 2009 I made this small compilation which is supposed to be a sort of best of. In other words, it consists out of eight tracks, the first song originally appearing in my very first mixtape, the next song from my second mix and so on. It's to create a sort of overall view of all my monthly mixing so far. :)



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01. Brakes - Porcupine or Pineapple
02. By The End of Tonight - Stop, Drop, and Roll Does Not Work In Hell
03. Fragile Vastness - Little Red Riding Hood
04. The Album Leaf & Bright Eyes - Hungry For a Holiday
05. Richie Kotzen - The Feelin's Gone
06. Descendents - Kabuki Girl
07. Valet - Blood Is Clean
08. Yume Bitsu - Team Yume

Another extra mix was a recommendational mix I made in early March, 2009. This was compiled for OneForAll, to partially convince him to check out more Japanese music artists. I have no clue at all wether I actually convinced him or not lol.


(artwork by Buckobucko)

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01. Boris - Electric
02. Ex-Girl - Tofu Song
03. HALCALI - One Two
04. Envy - Ability
05. Boredoms - B For Boredoms
06. Boom Boom Satellites - Bump Over Hills
07. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Coro
08. Acid Mothers Temple - I Wanna Be Your Bicycle Saddle
09. Maruosa - Muscle Spark
10. YMCK - Pastel Colored Candy
11. EeL - Cherry Pie
12. Melt-Banana - Third Attack
13. Macdonald Duck Eclair - Nyanko

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01. Bogulta - Poizen
02. Afrirampo - I Am Bird
03. Cibo Matto - Sugar Water
04. The Aprils - The Bathroom Symphony
05. Doddodo - Dodadakone
06. Atom - White Car
07. OOIOO - Right Hand Ponk
08. Masayuki Nakano & Tetsuya Takahashi - Exposed
09. Miaou - Anything Goes
10. Hanatarash - Space Is Meat
11. BeForU - PEACE (^^)v
12. Emi Jackson - Namida No GoGo (GoGo of Tears)
13. Boredoms - (star)

Since I was pretty much content with my first party mix, later on also in March 2009 I made a second one! In this mixtape I focused a bit more onto dance music, though. I also created this together with my partner in crime Bucko, 'cause he had a good selection of remixed songs to use for this collaboration mix.


(artwork by both of us, naturally)

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01. Modjo - Chillin'
02. The Demo Saou - Alfred's Bad Trip
03. C-Mon & Kypski - Bumpy Road (NBTD Remix)
04. Underworld - Two Months Off (The Demo Saou Mix)
05. Nitin Sawhney - Sunset (KV5 Remix)
06. Ladyhawke - Dusk Till Dawn
07. The High Llamas - The Space Raid Mix (Kid Loco Remix)
08. Calexico - Ballad of Cable Hogue
09. Daedelus - Touchtone (Kypski Remix)
10. Gameboy/Gamegirl - Pumps & Rumps (Zombie Disco Squad Remix)
11. Air - Don't Be Light (Neptunes Remix)
12. Ian Pooley - Coraçao Tambor (Needs Remix)
13. Yoshimoto - Do What U Du (Trentemøller Remix)

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01. Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month (Josh Homme Remix)
02. Gameboy/Gamegirl - Sweaty Wet/Dirty Damp (Ooh-Eeh Remix)
03. Underworld - Cups (Salt Lake City Orchestra Remix)
04. Heavy - Wonderlove (For Minnie) (Jazzanova Remix)
05. Air - People In The City (Modjo Remix)
06. Jazzanova - Day By Day
07. Nuspirit Helsinki - Honest (Jazzanova's Honestly Yours Remix)
08. Soulwax - Much Against Everyone's Advice
09. Gameboy/Gamegirl - I Get In The Club
10. Calexico - Black Heart (Jazzanova's White Soul Dub)
11. Björk - Show Me Forgiveness (The Demo Saou Mix)
12. Siriusmo - Wow (Yuksek Remix)
13. Björk - Innocence (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)