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.
(artwork by me!)
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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
