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

Download Link (Part 2)

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!)

Download Link (Part 1)

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