Christmas 2012 Mix

Songs:

1. Sufjan Stevens - Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!
2. Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
3. Tracey Thorn - In The Cold, Cold Night
4. Bat for Lashes - Winter Fields
5. Low - Just Like Christmas
6. The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
7. Beach House – I Do Not Care for the Winter Sun
8. Elvis Presley - O Come, All Ye Faithful
9. The Decemberists - January Hymn
10. The Bird And The Bee - Carol Of The Bells
11. Gordon Lightfoot – Song For A Winter's Night
12. The Honey Trees - It came upon a Midnight Clear
13. Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas
14. Sufjan Stevens - Auld Lang Syne

xmas mix from tune_driver on 8tracks Radio.

Small City

Finally! My friend Damien had sent me this mix a long, long time ago. At the time I had minor technical issues and then it fell through the cracks. I am greatly sorry. 

This great mix reminds me of something Plato once said, “Music is a moral law.”

Songs:

1. Bonnie Prince Billy- I am Goodbye
2. Nick Cave - Opium Tea
3. Da Lench Mob - Lord Have Mercy
4. Too Much Trouble - Family
5. Songs Ohia - Being in Love
6. Yeasayer - Red Cave
7. Here We Go Magic - Fangela
8. Bushwick Bill - Fuck a War
9. Belle and Sebastian - Desperation Made a Fool of Me
10. Willie D - Guess My Religion
11. Tom Waits - I'll Be Gone
12. The Birthday Party- Rowland Around in that Stuff (Peel Session)
13. Geto Boys - We Can't be Stopped
14. Band of Horses - Window Blues

Small City from tune_driver on 8tracks Radio.

Alyssa's May Mix

This mix was given to me by the talented and lovely Alyssa and is too good not to share.

Songs:

1. In Red - Azeda Booth
2. The Purple Bottle - Animal Collective
3. Littletrees - Miracle Fortress
4. Everyone can tell - Gigi
5. She's in Love - Fourth of July
6. The Gardener - Tallest Man on Earth
7. I love to see you - Paul Baribeau
8. Spill yer lungs - Julie Doiron
9. Alameda - Dragonzord
10. Laminate factory - Emperor X
11. No time and no age - Rejouissance
12. Second spurth of growt - Guided by Voices
13. Primitive (The way I treat you) - Ambulance Ltd
14. Beetles - War Paint
15. Hi-Fi - M Ward
16. Lay lay off, faselam (reverse) - Avey Tare & Kria Brekkan
17. I speak because I can - Laura Marling

Download: Alyssa's Mix...

(please note this is one 60.3 mb mp3 file, running time: 65'16")

Heart Attack

A new mix ...

submitted by sheila o'brien ...

Songs:

1. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart -Wilco
2. Sinking Hearts-The Organ
3. My Government Heart-Said The Whale
4. Hungry Heart-Bruce Springsteen
5. The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be-The Magnetic Fields
6. In Every Dream Home a Heartache-Roxy Music
7. Pain In My Heart-Otis Redding
8. Give Back The Key To My Heart-Uncle Tupelo
9. Sentimental Heart-She & Him
10. Dyslexic Heart-Paul Westerberg
11. Take A Look At My Heart-John Prine
12. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted?-Jimmy Ruffin-Soul!
13. Piece Of My Heart-Erma Franklin
14. Epitaph For My Heart-The Magnetic Fields

Download: Heart Attack...

(please note this is one 51.02 mb mp3 file, running time: 51'02")m

Music to Fuck to...

A new mix ...

contemplation: a friend wrote me this today: "I find people unwilling to allow themselves emotion more needy than those who do... unable to sense the very substance of their being out of fear, embarrassment at themselves... in need of shelter, numbing, sterilization"...

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Songs:

1. Dance Dance Dance :: Lykke Li
2. Music Is My Hot Hot Sex :: CSS
3. Seventeen :: Ladytron
4. Succexy :: Metric
5. L.E.S Artistes :: Santogold
6. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger :: Daft Punk
7. I Was A Lover :: TV on the Radio
8. Glory Box :: Portishead
9. Lover I Don't Have to Love :: Bright Eyes
10. Cherry Blossom Girl :: Air
11. Willie :: Cat Power

Download: Music to Fuck to...

(please note this is one 45.82 mb mp3 file, running time: 49'12")

If Left Unrequited...

Another mix, this time inspired by that most dangerous of feelings.... as Plato says: "Love is a grave mental disease."

Songs:

1. The Smiths - I’m so Sorry
2. Belle & Sebastian - Sleep the Clock Around
3. Another Sunny Day - I'm in Love With a Girl Who Doesn't Know I Exist
4. Antony & The Johnsons - Hitler In My Heart
5. The Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need a New Heart
6. Daniel Johnston - Impossible Love
7. Sambassadeur - Between the lines
8. Gregory And The Hawk - Boats & Birds
9. Lisa Germano - Lovesick
10. Death Cab For Cutie - Someday You Will Be Loved
11. Fryderyk Chopin - Éetude No.4 - Op.10
12. Tilly and the Wall - I Always Knew
13. The Smiths - I Know It's Over

Download: If Left Unrequited...

(please note this is one 40.57 mb mp3 file, running time: 44'19")

First post - first mix

inspired by (or perhaps a shameless copy of) Erika's mixtapes, Steven's holiday CD mixes, and Marc's album mixes, i have decided to create this new blog to post various musical mixes... and perhaps also a forum to share some ideas and writings...

anyway, here is my first mix, aptly named, So Long to the City... enjoy.

Songs:

1. Girls - Hellhole Retrace
2. Neko Case - I wish I was the Moon
3. Smog - I was a stranger
4. The Magnetic Fields - Two characters in search of a country song
5. The Handsome Family - Weightless Again
6. Yo La Tengo - Nothing to Hide
7. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars
8. Editors - No Sound but the Wind
9. Dirty Projectors and David Byrne - Knotty Pine
10. The xx - Islands
11. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Don't Haunt This Place
12. The Organ - Memorize the City
(Hidden Track: Beach Boys - Heroes and Villains)

Download: So Long to the City

(please note this is one 41.12 mb mp3 file, running time: 44'54")