mixtape for september

side a

Jay Z (feat. Alicia Keys) - Empire State Of Mind
TV On The Radio - Love Dog
Jamie T - 368
Mayer Hawthorne - Maybe So, Maybe No
Monsters Of Folk - Dear God (Sincerely M.O.F.)

side b
Grizzly Bear (feat. Michael McDonald) - While You Wait For The Others
Archer Prewitt - Way Of The Sun
Death Vessel - Mean Streak
Judee Sill - Jesus Was A Crossmaker
Justin Vernon - Hazelton

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best albums of the year (so far!) mixtape*

Inspired by a blog I read the other day here's a mixtape of songs from my favourite albums released so far this year.

side a

Grizzly Bear - All We Ask (from Veckatimest)
Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Bitch, I Love You (Tell 'Em What Your Name Is!)
Micachu - Curly Teeth (from Jewellery)
Asher Roth - La Di Da (from Asleep In The Bread Aisle)
Mos Def - Quiet Dog Bite Hard (from The Ecstatic)

side b
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move (from Bitte Orca)
White Rabbits - Rudie Fails (from It's Frightening)
The Joy Formidable - The Last Drop (from A Balloon Called Moaning)
Animal Collective - No More Runnin' (from Merriweather Post Pavilion)
jj - Are You Still In Vallda? (from jj N^o 2)

and here's a .rar file of the whole tape

*now a slightly remixed version!

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mixtape for (alt) glastonbury

side a
Eagles of Death Metal (Saturday, Pyramid) - San Berdoo Sunburn
The Aliens (Sunday, Queen's Head) - Sunlamp Show
Animal Collective (Friday, Park) - My Girls
First Aid Kit (Saturday, Park) - Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
Low Anthem (Friday, Queen's Head & Saturday, Park) - Charlie Darwin

side b
Cold War Kids (Sunday, Park) - God, Make Up Your Mind
Micachu & The Shapes (Sunday, Park) - Golden Phone
Jesca Hoop (Sunday, Rabbit Hole) - Murder of Birds
Metric (Saturday, Other) - Help I'm Alive
Slow Club (Friday, Guardian Lounge) - I Was Unconscious, It Was A Dream

and here's a link to a .rar file of the entire tape

Going over the Glastonbury lineup this year doesn't fill one with a sense of artistic excellence and excitement; it's pretty dull stuff (I know Glastonbury is much more than just music!). However, there are a few highlights - Bon Iver, Neil Young, M Ward, Q Tip, Fleet Foxes and Jamie T to name pretty much all of them!

This tape is filled with some other artists that might be worth checking out (First Aid Kit, Micachu, Animal Collective) and a few that would be certainties in my book (Low Anthem, Eagles of Death Metal, Jesca Hoop, Cold War Kids).

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mixtape for june

side a
Mos Def - Supermagic
Magic Arm - Bootsy Bootsy
Cryptacize - Tail & Mane
The Joy Formidable - Austere
The Phenomenal Handclap Band - I Been Born Again

side b
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Just War (w/Gruff Rhys)
Oasis - (Get Off Your) High Horse Lady (Devendra Banhart Remix)
Holler, Wild Rose! - Peace Lily
Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft

And here's a link to a neatly packaged .rar file of the entire mixtape

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sampled by... mixtape

side a

Sly & The Family Stone - Trip To Your Heart
(used in Mama Said Knock You Out by LL Cool J)
Brothers Johnson - Strawberry Letter 23
(used in Ms. Jackson by OutKast)
Gwen McCrae - Rockin' Chair
(used in Danger by Blahzay Blahzay)
Camille Yarborough - Take Yo' Praise
(used in Praise You by Fatboy Slim)
Mtume - Juicy Fruit
(used in Juicy by Notorious BIG)

side b
New Birth - Honey Bee
(used in Clan In Da Front by Wu-Tang Clan)
Leon Haywood - I Wanna Do Something Freaky With You
(used in Nuthin' But A "G" Thang by Dr. Dre)
Chaka Khan - Through The Fire
(used in Through The Wire by Kanye West)
The Charmels - As Long As I've Got You
(used in C.R.E.A.M by Wu-Tang Clan)
Bobby Byrd - I'm Not To Blame
(used in U Don't Know by Jay-Z)

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mixtape for march

side a
King Biscuit Time - Kwangchow
Empire Of The Sun - Standing On The Shore
Peter Doherty - Last Of The English Roses
Notorious B.I.G. - Party and Bullshit
Margot & The Nuclear So and So's - Skeleton Key

side b
Jon Brion - I Believe She's Lying
The Middle East - Blood
Grizzly Bear - Fine For Now
My Morning Jacket - El Caporal
Women - Black Rice

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mixtape for february

side a
Josh White - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed
16 Horsepower - Brimstone Rock
Dogme 95 - Summon My Baptist Ways
Holler, Wild Rose! - Captive Train
M.Ward - For Beginners (AKA Mt. Zion)

side b
Norma - Waste
Blind Melon - No Rain
Phoenix - Everything Is Everything
Air France - Beach Party
The Joy Formidable - Cradle (Kyte Remix)

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mixtape for january

side a

Doves - Jetstream
The Daredevil Christopher Wright - The East Coast
Grizzly Bear - Deep Blue Sea
Asher Roth - The Lounge
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle (Mr Dan's Magic Wand Mix)

side b
N.A.S.A - The Mayor (feat. The Cool Kids, Ghostface Killah, Scarface & DJ AM)
Eli 'Paperboy' Reed & The True Lovers - (Doin' The) Boom Boom
Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
Mumford & Sons - Liar
Bon Iver - Bracket, WI

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