summer mixes

27Jul07

All summer, I’ve had a constantly evolving playlist on my iPod that I listen to almost exclusively. I find some new song I like from eMusic, a blog or a friend, and it gets incorporated into the mix, along with some old favorites and a few oddities. I thought I’d share mine if you are willing to share yours. Deal?

01 Dirty Three, “1000 Miles”
02 Department of Eagles, “Sailing By Night”
03 Nina Nastasia & Jim White, “The Day I Would Bury You”
04 Animal Collective, “Fireworks”
05 Bappi Lahiri, “Jimmy Jimmy Jimmy Aaja”
06 Prinzhorn Dance School, “Eat, Sleep”
07 The Answering Machine, “Silent Hotels”
08 Sham the Guard, “Track 10″
09 A Tribe Called Quest, “Award Tour”
10 No Age, “Everybody’s Down”
11 Pussy Galore, “Rocks Off”
12 Verbena, “The Song That Ended Your Career”
13 M.I.A., “Paper Planes”
14 Battles, “Leyendecker”
15 Tokyo Police Club, “Your English Is Good”
16 Unwound, “Envelope”
17 Shellac, “Disgrace”
18 Darondo, “Didn’t I”
19 Clipse, “Ain’t Cha”
20 Method Man, “Bring the Pain”

Some notes:

Favorite song on the mix: “Fireworks” by Animal Collective. That new album — which will not be on eMusic — is sick.

Sham the Guard is a rapper from the Lower East Side. I play ping-pong with his manager/promoter. Really good stuff in the Dipset vein. (PS: I love ping-pong more than almost anything.)

Upcoming Nina Nastasia/Jim White album (which the song above is from) is very, very good.

That Dirty Three track is classic.

Unwound is a reason to exist.

Anyone who likes Southern rock absolutely must grab that Verbena record. It’s a standby of mine.

Anyway, enough of me. What are you listening to?

yancey.

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1 Daniel, Esq. on Jul 27th, 2007 said:

I am seriously in need of an editor on this list. But (a) I love this question, (b) I am in a particularly relaxed mood (being on a two-week vacation for the first time in years), (c) my wife and I just have very, very strong Pina Coladas. With that in mind:

1. Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
2. XTC — Summer’s Cauldron/Grass
3. Kathy Diamond – All Woman
4. Beck – Strange Apparition
5. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Caravan
6. Annie – My Heartbeat
7. Augustus Pablo – Frozen Dub
8. Beach House – Master of None
9. Ken Boothe – Ain’t No Sunshine
10. Calexico – Not Even Stevie Nicks
11. Raul Seixas – Metamorfase Ambulante (City of God soundtrack)
12. Cobblestone Jazz – Dump Truck
13. Cocteau Twins – Bluebeard
14. Cut/Copy – Future
15. Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey
16. Desert Sessions — Subcutaneous Phat
17. Destroyer – Watercolors Into The Ocean
18. The Congos – Solid Foundation
19. Herman Baumann – Concerto for Horn in E-Flat Major (Mozart)
20. M.I.A. – Amazon
21. Espers – Tomorrow
22. Flying Colors – Crossing By Your Star
23. Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
24. The New Pornographers – Failsafe
25. The New Pornographers – Loose Translation
26. Charles Mingus – Haitian Fight Song
27. Gui Boratto – It’s Majik
28. Meshell Ndegeocello – Fantasy (Earth, Wind & Fire Cover)
29. Lindstrom – I Feel Space
30. Louis Philippe – Born Beautiful
31. Pernice Bros. – No. 2
32. Spoon – Lines In The Suit
33. Spoon – You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
34. Studio – West Side
35. Sonny Rollins – Kiss and Run
36. The Sadies – Why Would Anybody Live Here? (Feat. Robyn Hitchcock)
37. Horace Andy – Spying Glass
38. Wilco – Handshake Drugs
39. Wilco – Impossible Germany
40. Beach Boys – Caroline No
41. Depeche Mode – Never Let Me Down Again
42. Toto – Africa
43. Toto – 99
44. Robyn Hitchcock ‘n’ the Egyptians — Madonna of the Wasps
45. The The – Uncertain Smile
46. Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill
47. Dukes of Stratosphere – Vanishing Girl
48. Commodores – Easy
49. Olivia Newton John – Magic
50. Olivia Newton John – A Little More Love
51. Climax Blues Band – I Love You
52. Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen

I also badly need some sequencing; much of this list is arranged purely alphabetically. Still, with another Pina Colada on the way, here it is.
2 Ed Horrox on Jul 28th, 2007 said:

an edit …

Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen
Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
Beach House – Master of None
Deerhunter – Fluorescent Grey
Charles Mingus – Haitian Fight Song
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill

i intend to try this w/ some cuervo gold …
3 xtrev on Jul 28th, 2007 said:

…but no fine colombian I hope Ed?

Been mostly using my ipod shuffle for a few weeks now (warmer weather = less pocket space available) and these are the tracks accumulating in an ongoing ‘winner stays on’ competition…

eMu:
End Of The World - Nancy Sinatra (been used on BBC TV a lot in a trailer for Heroes)
We Winter Wrens, Beachcomber Blues, What One Bottle Can Do - Dolorean (easily 3 of my favourite tracks of the year)
Julia, Sunshine Lady, Lost & Found, Hours Pass Like Centuries, Too Young - Taken By Trees (rest of the album’s good too, but these were the standouts for me)
Tonight I Have To Leave It - Shout Out Louds (another of my fave tracks of the year)
Going To Switch The lights On - Grand National
You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb - Spoon
Another Day To Waste - The Concretes (from the Kid single)
Melody Day & the Four Tet remix - Caribou (excellent, can’t wait for the album)
My Darling - Ralph Myerz (summery!)
Rej - Ame (an oldie, but still really good)
Summer Song - Karminsky Experience
Just You - Sylvie Lewis (a freebie - thanks!)
Deserter (four tet remix) - Matthew Dear
Country Gang - Dutch Dub (another freebie!)

Non-eMu
Alas My Love - The Bony King Of Nowhere (from a Wired magazine cover disc, haven’t found anything else available yet)
How’s The World Treating You? - Alison Krauss & James Taylor
Until You Said I’m Gone - Patrick Cleandenim
Atlas - Battles
Starry Eyes - The Records
Seven Day Weekend (with Jimmy Cliff) - Elvis Costello
Tears Dry On Their Own - Amy Winehouse
Spider Pig - Homer Simpson (acquired via a good quality clip on youtube and the excellent Audio Hijack Pro software)

…the rest of the limited space taken up with rolling selections from my latest eMu downloads and tracks from assorted others - particularly Interpol, The Editors, The Go Find, Broken Family Band, Thomas Fehlmann, Bees.

Right, had enough of summer now, let’s have some proper weather again
4 CaptWhiffle on Jul 29th, 2007 said:

Here are some tracks that have been showing up on mixes I’ve made this year:

01 Grizzly Bear - “Knife” (Girl Talk Remix)
02 Battles - “Atlas”
03 A Sunny Day in Glasgow - “Our Change into Rain Is No Change at All (Talkin’ ’bout Us)”*
04 Beirut - “Scenic World” (Version)*
05 Feist - “Sealion”
06 Mavis Staples - “99 1/2″*
07 Mark Ronson [feat. Amy Winehouse] - “Valerie”
08 Busdriver - “The Troglodyte Wins”*
09 Cool Calm Pete - “Get with the Times”
10 Spoon - “The Ghost of You Lingers”*
11 Kings of Leon - “Knocked Up”
12 Of Montreal - “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal”*
13 New Young Pony Club - “Hiding on the Staircase”
14 Coin-Op - “Favourite Subjects”
15 Patrick Wolf - “The Magic Position”
16 Dan Deacon - “The Crystal Cat”*
17 Apparat - “Limelight”*
18 Stars - “Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” (Final Fantasy Remix)*
19 Amon Tobin - “Bloodstone”*
20 LCD Soundsystem - “All My Friends”

* = on eMu
5 flamgirlant on Jul 29th, 2007 said:

I love summer burns. I recently finished by 2007 Summer Burn for a mixaholics trading group. Always willing to share with others, if anyone wants to make a swap.

Summer Burn 2007
01 - Listen Up! - The Gossip
02 - Apply Some Pressure - Maximo Park
03 - Hedonistic Me - Born Ruffians
04 - Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper
05 - Forts - The Boggs
06 - So Sick of the Sun - Paul Duncan
07 - Good Weekend - Art Brut
08 - Stroker Ace - Lovage
09 - Evil Son - The Willowz
10 - Massive Nights - The Hold Steady
11 - End of Actress - Baby Teeth
12 - Lotion - Greenskeepers
13 - Wet Sand - White Denim
14 - Keep A Friend - Dr. Dog
15 - I Used To Complain Now I Don’t - White Rabbits
16 - Me And Mr. Jones (Fuckery) - Amy Winehouse
17 - First Love - The Maccabees
18 - North American Scum - LCD Soundsystem
19 - Too Drunk To Fuck - Nouvelle Vague
20 - Don’t Call Me Whitney, Bobby - Islands
21 - ‘Cause You Can - Birdmonster
22 - Trampoline - The Grates
23 - While You Were Sleeping - Elvis Perkins in Deerland
6 Daniel, Esq. on Jul 29th, 2007 said:

Yancy, will the Nina Nastasia/Jim White disc be available on eMusic?
7 yancey on Jul 30th, 2007 said:

yeah, daniel, it will be.

also i LOVE these mixes, people. capt whiffle, yrs is eerily similar to some others i rotate pretty regularly, especially “valerie” and “all my friends.” i hate the new kings of leon, tho. (big fan of aha shake…)
8 Mike on Jul 30th, 2007 said:

‘I love ping-pong more than almost anything’

I thought people only said that in French class…
9 Joe on Jul 30th, 2007 said:

Maximo Park “Girls Who Play Guitars”
Mark Ronson ft. Amy Winehouse “Valerie”
Lucky Soul “One Kiss Don’t Make a Summer”
St. Vincent “Paris Is Burning”
Joni Mitchell “All I Want”
The Bees “Listening Man”
Sarah Shannon “City Morning Song”
My Teenage Stride “To Live and Die in the Airport Lounge”
Blitzen Trapper “Wild Mountain Nation”
Miranda Lambert “Dry Town”
Charlotte Hatherley “Very Young”
Judee Sill “The Lamb Ran Away with the Crown”
The Move “Flowers in the Rain”
The New Pornographers “Adventures in Solitude”
10 CaptWhiffle on Jul 30th, 2007 said:

“Knocked Up” is the only track I play off that new Kings of Leon. It’s a “Papa Don’t Preach” for gloomy guys. My response to it is admittedly maudlin. I think it’s because all my siblings are having babies this year.

Am a little nervous today, as I’m supposed to be interviewing Mark Ronson by phone for the station where I DJ. I’ve done, like, one broadcast interview before, and what can you ask Ronson that he hasn’t already been asked over and over again? Wish me luck.
11 JasonW on Aug 6th, 2007 said:

Sheesh, another post that makes me wish I had more EMusic downloads. Lots of great recommendations.

List from my Summer Mix CD:

1.The Songs That We Sing Charlotte Gainsbourg
2.Apache Michael Viner \ Bongo Rock
3.Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives Voxtrot \ Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, and Wives
4.For The Widowers In Paradise, For The Fatherless In Ypisilan Sufjan Stevens \ Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State
5.The Night Stars Here Stars \ In Our Bedroom After the War
6.Sticks and Stones The Pierces \ Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge
7.You Are Never Alone Socalled \ Ghettoblaster
***Ghettoblaster gets special recognition. It’s inventive and completely original hip-hop. Most of the songs are great, and each one is different.
http://www.salon.com/ent/audiofile/2007/06/13/socalled/index.html (free single, may have to watch and ad)
http://www.emusic.com/album/Socalled-Ghettoblaster-MP3-Download/11034419.html

8.Robert Onion Frank Black \ Dog in the Sand
9.Fingerbib Alarm Will Sound \ Acoustica
10.The Way We Get By Spoon \ Kill the Moonlight
11.People In Love Art Brut \ It’s A Bit Complicated
12.Heart It Races (DJ Rupture remix) Architecture In Helsinki \ Heart It Races
13.Your Ex-Lover Is Dead (Final Fantasy remix) Stars (Original) \ Do You Trust Your Friends?
14.Danger! High Voltage Electric Six \ Fire
15.Wipe That Sound Mouse on Mars \ Radical Connector
16.Satchelaise Mice Parade \ Mice Parade
17.En Casa Del Trompo No Bailes Orquesta Riverside
18.Shame Avett Brothers \ Emotionalism
19.Fly Nick Drake
12 Dirk on Aug 19th, 2007 said:

For anyone’s who’s interested: the Bony King of Nowhere (mentioned higher on this site) has just issued a CDR demo with 5 songs on it (Maria - My Favourite - Losing Gravity - Alas My Love - Jack Tar). I guess you can order it through Bram (aka Bony King) himself) through bramvanparys@hotmail.com. Enjoy

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