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)