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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