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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)