Category Archives: Mixes

It Was a Beautiful, Burned-out Town – A Mix

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  1. Hey Nineteen – Steely Dan
  2. Wichita Lineman – Glen Campbell
  3. Macarthur Park – Jimmy Webb
  4. Free Man in Paris – Joni Mitchell
  5. Berliners – The Court & Spark
  6. Afraid of Everyone – The National
  7. Somebody Else – John Parish
  8. Here to Fall (RJD2 Remix) – Yo La Tengo
  9. We Taking Over – Del The Funky Homosapien & Tame One
  10. Blue Girl – Q-Tip
  11. Hana – Asa-Chang & Junray
  12. Pearls – Sade
  13. No Rm. 9, Kentucky – Shudder To Think
  14. Quick Canal – Atlas Sound w/ Laetita Sadier
  15. 25 or 6 to 4 – Chicago
  16. Brain Stew/Jaded – Green Day
  17. Hot Cake – The Fall

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Art of the Mix and Zen Running Order.

Mo Knows – A Mix

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  1. The Reason – Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
  2. Contusion – Stevie Wonder
  3. African Blues – Larry Young
  4. Hilo – Antibalas
  5. Asheville To Abidjan – Toubab Krewe
  6. Ceddo End Title – Manu Dibango
  7. Respect – Rotary Connection
  8. Hit ‘Em Up Style – Carolina Chocolate Drops
  9. My Favorite Things – OutKast
  10. Arkestry – Flying Lotus
  11. Rocket Number Nine – Sun Ra
  12. Bloops, Bleeps, Bongos & Brass – The Coconut Monkeyrocket
  13. Franco – Stewart Copeland
  14. Message in a Bottle – Andy Milne
  15. Ugly Beauty – Andy Summers
  16. Roxanne – Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson
  17. Blue Yodel No. 9 – Louis Armstrong
  18. Sweet Georgia Brown – Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli
  19. I’ll Never Be Free – Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Jordan
  20. Manhattan Minuet – Raymond Scott
  21. After the Ball – Uri Caine Ensemble
  22. Lobster Leaps In – The Microscopic Septet
  23. Lester Leaps In – Slide Hampton
  24. A Hard Day’s Night – Count Basie
  25. Prince of Wails – Bennie Moten’s Kansas City Orchestra
  26. Trumbology – Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer

A mix that I made for a friend’s surprise birthday party, the centerpiece of which was a super secret surprise command performance by the Microscopic Septet.

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Zen Running Order.

It’s a Sickness – A Mix

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  1. The Bad Catholic – Black Lipstick
  2. The Letter Four – The Curtains of Light
  3. Schmerzensschreie – Coldworld
  4. Silver Soul – Beach House
  5. Ghosts – Cant
  6. Sometimes Things Don’t Work Out – Dominique Leone
  7. (Don’t Go Back to) Rockville – R.E.M.
  8. Ana Ivanovic – Tin Hat
  9. Needn’t Say a Thing – Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore
  10. Goodbye Sweet Dreams – Roky Erickson with Okkervil River
  11. Goodnight Sweetheart – Sparklehorse + Fennesz
  12. Procession of Golden Bones – Barn Owl
  13. Om – Heaven And
  14. Percées de Lumière – Alcest

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Art of the Mix and Zen Running Order.

The Hacienda is Dark – A Mix

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  1. Sandy Denny – Mark Olson
  2. The Optimist – Sandy Denny
  3. Who Knows Where the Time Goes [excerpt] – Nina Simone
  4. In My Time of Dying – Led Zeppelin
  5. The Long Black Veil – Lefty Frizzell
  6. Fearless – Mary Lou Lord
  7. Crystal Park – Vanishing Voices
  8. Colorado – Grizzly Bear
  9. Satta Massa Gana – Cedric IM Brooks
  10. Cirkus Impala – Samla Mammas Manna
  11. End of Time – Oneida
  12. No Way – The Breeders
  13. Vaya con Dios – Connie Francis

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Art of the Mix and Zen Running Order.

Like Lines of Clean Dangling Limbs – A Mix

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  1. If Not Now, Whenever – The Books
  2. In Crowded Rooms, On Empty Streets – Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
  3. Bending Spoons – Jasper TX
  4. The Drum Also Waltzes – Max Roach
  5. Installation 1 – Seaworthy
  6. Those of the Void Will Re-Enter – Absu
  7. Pink Lady Lemonade You’re from Outer Space (Part 2) – Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno
  8. Ghost of Karelia – Mastodon
  9. Only Shallow – Nadja
  10. Haxanic Stairway – Wrnlrd
  11. Verdrinkwater – Machinefabriek

 

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Art of the Mix and Zen Running Order.

My Champion Marble – A Mix

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  1. Billy the Kid [excerpt] – Jack Spicer
  2. Middle Cyclone – Neko Case
  3. Port Authority – Opsvik & Jennings
  4. Star Fruits Surf Rider – Cornelius
  5. Meh No Mae – Asobi Seksu
  6. The Chain – Fleetwood Mac
  7. Petits son appétissants – Faust
  8. Prédications – Ulan Bator
  9. Rubidoux – Kristin Hersh
  10. Offend Maggie – Deerhoof
  11. Kalimba – Suí Vesan

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes and Zen Running Order.

But for Their Thoughts, They are Innocents – A Mix

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  1. My Gospel Song for You – Mark Olson & Gary Louris
  2. I’m Not in Love – 10cc
  3. Alone On Piano – Colin Newman
  4. Fonograf – Machinefabriek
  5. Not a Robot, But a Ghost – Andrew Bird
  6. Woa – Zazou/Bikaye/CY1
  7. No Name Tune – Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos
  8. Africa Anteria – Magma
  9. Egypt Strut – The Sun Ra Arkestra
  10. Long Distance Runaround – The Bad Plus
  11. Go Rest High on that Mountain – Frank Newsome

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

Massage Music for a New Age – A Mix

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  1. Arve Henriksen – Ascent
  2. Robert Fripp/Brian Eno – Ankaa
  3. Naked City – Fleurs du Mal
  4. KTL – Game
  5. Günter Müller/Toshimaru Nakamura – …..tint
  6. Roscoe Mitchell Quintet – For Now
  7. Gavin Bryars – Last Hymn (from The Sinking of the Titanic)
  8. Vladimir Spivakov/Sergej Bezrodny – Spiegel im Spiegel – 1 [Arvo Pärt]
  9. Philip Jeck – Residue
  10. Aphex Twin – Lichen

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

And This is What the Blank Stare Conjured – A Mix

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  1. Thom Yorke – And it Rained All Night
  2. Apparat – Birds
  3. Terre Loves Robin (a.k.a. Scanner & Terre) – Terre Loves Robin
  4. Theo Bleckmann – An den kleinen Radioapparat
  5. The Bowed Piano Ensemble & Victoria Hansen- Evening on Como (Stephen Scott)
  6. Necronomicon – Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären
  7. Einstürzende Neubauten – U-Haft-Muzak
  8. Jackie-O Motherfucker – Native Einstein
  9. Muslimgauze – Extract 2
  10. Sightings – The Last Seed
  11. Fennesz/Dafeldecker/Brandlmayr – Mi Son
  12. Robert Horton – Requiem for Padma
  13. Fit & Limo – Haga’s Painting
  14. The Ex – Morning Star
  15. So Takahashi – PMS 1235C (M15, Y60)

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.

Mementos Won’t Change a Thing – A Mix

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  1. Adrian Sherwood/Doug Wimbish – Karma-Cola
  2. Luc Ferrari – Place des Abbesses [excerpt]
  3. Firewitch – Villain
  4. KK Null – 7 (from ERG per GALAXY)
  5. Robert Black – Look She Said: IV (Christian Wolff)
  6. Davy Graham – Better Get Hit In Your Soul (Charles Mingus)
  7. The Jazztet – Blues March (Benny Golson)
  8. Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do the Killing – Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons)
  9. Barnacled – Rattles
  10. Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos – Yeso
  11. Gudrun Gut – The Land

The mix can be downloaded here.

Also posted at Making Mixtapes.