You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention: new mixtape thread

[davy]

Excited to check out this r2d2 track later

You shouldn't be. The Star Wars Christmas album is too terrible even to like ironically. And this is coming from a guy who owns and cherishes multiple William Shatner albums.

I actually sorta like the R2D2 one, though. Not even ironically.

[milly balgeary]

@milly This is vol. 3, if you'd like any of the other ones in Zips, I can upload those too

http://www.mediafire.com/file/djeg5ri4s1s3jrc/Various%20Artists%20-%20Thick%20Red%20Wine%20Radio%20Vol.%203%20(2011).zip

Excited to check out this r2d2 track later

thanks dawg! gonna stick this on my phone for the gym.

[Nick Ink]

A mix from my top 20 albums of 2011, with no attempt to knit things together, just a straight run through from #20 to #1

It's in two bits mainly because of the mediafire limit on file size

Part 1
20. Panda Bear - Last Night At The Jetty (from ‘Tomboy’) [4.40]
19. Andy Stott - North To South (from ‘Pass Me By‘) [4.51]
18. Charalambides - Desecrated (from ‘Exile’) [5.27]
17. The Advisory Circle - Learning Owl Reappears (from ‘As The Crow Flies’) [3.54]
16. Mike Shiflet - (Sufferers) (from ‘Sufferers’) [4.38]
15. Ricardo Villalobos & Max Lode Bauer - Ensenada (from ‘Re:ECM’) [10.42]
14. Chihei Hatakeyama - Renitence (from ‘Mirror’) [3.54]
13. Stephan Mathieu - To Describe Washington Bridge (from ‘To Describe George Washington Bridge’) [4.40]

Part 2
12. Robyn Hitchcock - August In Hammersmith (from ‘Tromsø Kaptein’) [4.54]
11. Zomby - Black Orchid (from ‘Dedication’) [1.34]
10. Deaf Center - Animal Sacrifice (from ‘Owl Splinters’) [4.34]
9. Nicolas Jaar - Colomb (from ‘Space Is Only Noise’) [3.23]
8. Dalglish - 3.9.2004 (from ‘Benacah Drann Deachd’) [4.17]
7. Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Horizontal Structure 3 (from ‘Horizontal Structures’) [10.08]
6. Grouper - Come Softly (from ‘AIA: Alien Observer/Dream Loss’) [4.34]
5. Bruno Pronsato - Anybody But You (from ‘Lovers Do’) [10.56]
4. A Winged Victory For The Sullen - All Farewells Are Sudden (from ‘A Winged Victory For The Sullen’) [7.36]
3. Junior Boys - Second Chance (from ‘It’s All True’) [5.35]
2. Machinefabriek - Untitled 6 (from ‘Brokstukken’) [4.17]
1. Tim Hecker - Hatred Of Music I (from ‘Ravedeath, 1972’) [6.11]

[Trousers and Pat]

Yesterday I had a very productive night on the internet so I decided to put together a new mix. I put it all in a youtube playlist- I don't think I could even find mp3s of all these songs... In any case this mix is pure gold, enjoy the streaming!

Moustiquaire

01. Τόλης Βοσκόπουλος - ΤΟ ΔΙΛΗΜΑ
02. Gérard Zadj & Jean-Pierre Decerf - A Mind Level
03. Muslim Magomaev - "Come prima"
04. Гренада Галина Беседина Сергей Тараненко
05. Denis and Denis- Gluhi Telefoni
06. Jo Lemaire et Flouze- Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais
07. Lill Lindfors (Det Är Då) Jag Känner Jag Vill Va' Hos Dig (feel like makin love)
08. Rana & Selçuk Alagöz - Atamam Ben Kalbimi Sokaklara
09. Martin Denny- Was it really love?
10. Milva- Bella Ciao
11. Johanna Group- Swomp Baby
12. Patricia- Quand on est malheueux

[davy]

Here's a link to a Spotify playlist containing my 57 favorite songs of 2011:

http://open.spotify.com/user/davygibbs/playlist/51NrPXjqEhm1mFoRdKiKZ4

[davy]

Actually, that's not quite true. It contains 57 of my 60 favorite songs of the year, since the Adele & Blitzen Trapper records are not Spotifiable.

[Good Intentions]

Some of you might have noticed that I have been doing my level best to draw our own Anne the Man into the influence of Swans, with some success, and that calls for celebration.

A mix of songs for the later career of Swans

Since they changed so much from Children of God onwards, this mix only covers that period, up until Soundtracks for the Blind. Their early career will be served by another mix in the next day or two. Their 2010 album I leave as an exercise for the reader. The mix contains two songs from each of those albums, except for Soundtracks, which has one epic-length track, and three from White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, which will beat any other album in a fight and then go into a contemplative mood about the violence that has been revealed in its soul. I have tested out the atmosphere of this mix, and ended up writing a gut-wrenching letter to an ex of mine with it playing.

 1. Love of Life
 2. Children of God
 3. I am the Sun
 4. See No More
 5. Love Will Save You
 6. Failure
 7. Mind/Body/Light/Sound
 8. In the Eyes of Nature
 9. Jane Mary, Cry One Tear
10. I'll Swallow You
11. Helpless Child

After downloading, just check that the included playlist has the tracks in the right order. I accidentally uploaded a version with 'I am the Sun' moved to near the bottom of the playlist, and I'm not sure if it got updated properly.

[edison]

Here's part one of the Lambchop mix I promised in the recent purchases thread:

Something's Bound To Break Inside: Lambchop 1994-2000

1. The Man Who Loved Beer
2. Whitey
3. The Saturday Option
4. Your Fucking Sunny Day
5. Smuckers
6. Soaky In The Pooper
7. The Old Gold Shoe
8. We Never Argue
9. Up With People
10. Hey, Where's Your Girl
11. Hickey
12. The Militant
13. Bon Soir, Bon Soir
14. Suzieju
15. The Book I Haven't Read
16. Superstar In France
17. Life's Little Tragedy
18. The Distance From Her To There
19. Cowboy On The Moon

Tracks 6, 11, 13 and 19 from I Hope You're Sitting Down (1994)
Tracks 1, 5, 8, 12, 14 and 17 from How I Quit Smoking (1996)
Track 2 From Whitey/Playboy, The Shit 7" (1997)
Tracks 4 and 10 from Thriller (1997)
Track 3 from What Another Man Spills (1998)
Tracks 7, 9, 15 and 18 from Nixon (2000)

I'll gladly send a CD-R copy to anyone interested! Part 2 (2002-2012) will be coming probably on Friday or Saturday...

[jm]

good picks, edison!

[YojimboMonkey]

I ain't know shit about Lambchop but I can't not download a mix that starts with a song called "The Man Who Loved Beer"

It better not be some kind of cautionary tale 

[edison]

Thanks, jm!
Jim - I've loved that song for many years but am still not entirely sure what it's about. Pretty sure it's not a cautionary tale against drinking beer anyway...

Here comes volume 2 now, with more songs referencing beer (and which actually starts with one of my favorite Kurt Wagner lyrics: "We hold these truths/to be self-evident/We drink beer in bars/and act irreverent"):

A Study In Stagnation: Lambchop 2002-2012

1. The Gettysburg Address
2. Slipped Dissolved and Loosed
3. Paperback Bible
4. The New Cobweb Summer
5. Sharing A Gibson With Martin Luther King Jr
6. Beers Before The Barbican
7. Is A Woman
8. 2B2
9. My Blue Wave
10. I Would Have Waited Here All Day
11. Buttons
12. National Talk Like A Pirate Day
13. Caterpillar
14. Kind Of

Track 1 from Treasure Chest of the Enemy Tour CD (2002)
Tracks 4, 7, 9 and 13 from Is A Woman (2002)
Tracks 3, 6 and 10 from Damaged (2006)
Track 7 from Kurt (Kurt Wagner solo album, 2007) (band version on OH (Ohio))
Tracks 5 and 12 from OH (Ohio) (2008)
Track 11 from Daytrotter Session (2010) (studio version on Mr. M)
Tracks 8 and 14 from Mr. M (2012)

I thought it would have been neat to include at least one song from each album, but when the time came to make difficult choices, it seemed obvious that the only selection from Aw C'mon/No You C'Mon ("Nothing But A Blur From A Bullet Train") had to go...

[Good Intentions]

God help me, I made a mix of early Swans. last.fm tells me I've listened to 350 Swans songs in the past month.

If you can last the first track, you can last all the way through. This isn't easy listening, and in the end I went with the strongest opening, but goddamn, this mix front-loads the alienation.

http://www.mediafire.com/?e15s5v5v58kvx3b

1. Time is Money (Bastard)
2. Weakling
3. Stupid Child
4. Your Game
5. Job
6. Power for Power
7. I Crawled
8. Another You

All the full albums and most of the other releases from this era are represented. In chronological order:
#2 and #6 are from 'Filth'
#4 is from the 'Body to Body, Job to Job', and is from before 'Cop' (where the riff re-appears)
#6 is from 'Cop'
#7 is from the Young God EP
#1 is a single released just before 'Greed'
#3 is from 'Greed'
#8 is from 'Holy Money'

[Trousers and Pat]

but goddamn, this mix front-loads the alienation.

I am looking forward to listening to this on my way into work

[fishjim]

Downloading now, GI. Jesus help me!

[Nick Ink]

Downloading those Lambchop mixes now, edison - thanks!

Sorry GI - I remember a few of those early SWANS records from when they first came out and I may need another 25 or so years before I'm ready to hear them again. I suppose my alienation expresses itself in different musical forms too.

I'm working on a little mix of a few things I've quite enjoyed from the first couple of months of 2012, in case anyone fancies that later.

[Nick Ink]

Okay, just a few things from 2012 that I've been digging - links behind the mix titles


Down The Path (37.14)

1) Belbury Poly – Now Then (2.27) from Belbury Tales (Ghost Box)
2) Zammuto (ex-The Books) – F U C-3 P O (3.30) from Zammuto (due in April on Temporary Residence)  
3) Demdike Stare – Mnemosyne (5.25) from Elemental (Modern Love)  
4) Monolake – Toku (5.42) from Ghosts (Imbalance Computer Music)
5) Celer & Machinefabriek – Maastunnel (4.13) from Maastunnel/Mt.Mitake (self-released/bandcamp)
6) Gareth Dickson – Noon (4.38) from Quite A Way Away (12K)
7) Orcas (Benoit Pioulard & Rafael Anton Irisarri) – Arrow Drawn (5.16) from Orcas (due in April on Morr Music)
8) Windy & Carl – Remember (6.04) from We Will Always Be (Kranky)



And Into The Asylum (35.26)

1) Marcus Fischer – Constant (4.54) from Collected Dust (Tench)  
2) Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services – Building Obscured By Mist (1.35) from Black Mill Tapes Vol. 3 (self-released/bandcamp)
3) Orcas (Benoit Pioulard & Rafael Anton Irisarri) – Until Then (Broadcast cover) (4.10) from Orcas (due in April on Morr Music)
4) Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services – Memory Wiped (1.35) from Black Mill Tapes Vol. 3 (self-released/bandcamp)
5) Keith Fullerton Whitman – Issue Generator (For Eliane Radigue) (17.35) from Generators (Editions Mego)
6) Kane Ikin (of Solo Andata) – Short Wave Fade (5.32) from Contrail (12K)

[edison]

I haven't heard any of this - downloading now, thanks!

[edison]

This Zammuto album seems to be shaping up quite nicely, doesn't it?

[Nick Ink]

This Zammuto album seems to be shaping up quite nicely, doesn't it?

Yes. excellent! It's still in keeping with The Books, but taking it in a new direction.

[Good Intentions]

I'm curious about the reactions of the people who listened to the early Swans mix. It's music very deliberately designed to be uncomfortable. I went to quite some effort to change up the tempo during the mix and in general add some variety, largely because the albums are surprisingly good at this, but there is only so much that can be done.

[milly balgeary]

Some of you might have noticed that I have been doing my level best to draw our own Anne the Man into the influence of Swans, with some success, and that calls for celebration.

A mix of songs for the later career of Swans

Since they changed so much from Children of God onwards, this mix only covers that period, up until Soundtracks for the Blind. Their early career will be served by another mix in the next day or two. Their 2010 album I leave as an exercise for the reader. The mix contains two songs from each of those albums, except for Soundtracks, which has one epic-length track, and three from White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, which will beat any other album in a fight and then go into a contemplative mood about the violence that has been revealed in its soul. I have tested out the atmosphere of this mix, and ended up writing a gut-wrenching letter to an ex of mine with it playing.

 1. Love of Life
 2. Children of God
 3. I am the Sun
 4. See No More
 5. Love Will Save You
 6. Failure
 7. Mind/Body/Light/Sound
 8. In the Eyes of Nature
 9. Jane Mary, Cry One Tear
10. I'll Swallow You
11. Helpless Child

After downloading, just check that the included playlist has the tracks in the right order. I accidentally uploaded a version with 'I am the Sun' moved to near the bottom of the playlist, and I'm not sure if it got updated properly.

I'm just aghast at no great annihilator. That song is KEY sonnnn

[Thermofusion]

I've never heard the Swans but "music very deliberately designed to be uncomfortable" is all the convincing I need to check your mix out.

[Good Intentions]

I'm just aghast at no great annihilator. That song is KEY sonnnn

I'm sorry to have disapointed you, milly, but I did put on two songs from that album: Mind/Body/Light/Sound and I am the Sun. Those, I submit to you, are also songs which could be seen as small devices that allow you to open large barriers.

[milly balgeary]

That was my first Swans album, almost 16 years ago sonnn! I just love that shit.. the way the song slithers down,

"and in your hands time was made... and through breathing, you'll erase it. and we can see forever, before love and hate, and we will fall right through the walls of the place where we were made, right into the open mouth...of the great annihilllllllaattorrrrrrr".

it's unreal. i think that caps his whole ouvre with that sort of ts elliott universe ending with a whimper deal, combined with some chthullu shit, and i dunno, it's a super fragile dark universe that gira ends with that song, and i'm in, man, i'm popping the top of a cold one, sitting in a gas station while the whirling vortex speeds outside in the desert, slathering wind, and sucking up all life. that shit is GANGSTA!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI5ua3SOKrY

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I'm putting together a mix. I haven't done this in a long time. Some of the MP3's won't allow me to edit album title or track number. On most I can go in through properties-details and make changes. What am I missing here?