New Mix from Alberto

1. Black Horse - Chingges Khaanii magtaal (with huumii) (3:12)
2. The Kinks - A Well Respected Man (2:43)
3. Four Tet - She Moves She (4:42)
4. The Beach Boys - I Should Have Known Better (1:40)
5. Leftfield - Song Of Life (3:27)
6. The Monkees - Porpoise Song (2:52)
7. Type O Negative - My Girlfriend's Girlfriend (3:46)
8. Donovan - Oh, The Rivers Flow (2:14)
9. Dan Deacon - Lion with a Sharks Head (demostration version) (2:40)
10. Atmosphere - 16 - One Of A Kind - One Of A Kind (3:29)
11. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (3:59)
12. Orb - Toxygene (Way Out West remix) (4:15)
13. Gotan Project - Queremos Paz (5:18)
14. Beirut - Postcards From Italy (4:17)
15. System of a Down - Snowblind (Black Sabbath cover) (4:39)

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First Mix from Brooklyn (The Fuck Muxtape edition)

Fuck them for only allowing 12 songs and fuck them for having a 10 meg limit on individual mp3's. And for their upload not working no matter what I try.

1 Lamb - All In Your Hands
2 Clipse - Keys Open Doors
3 El-P - The Overly Dramatic Truth
4 5ive - Gulls
5 Bauhaus - Passion Of Lovers
6 Muslimgauze - Sarin Odour
7 Kidz In The Hall ft. El-P - Drivin' Down The Block (El-P Final Block Bounce Remix)
8 Battle Of Mice - Bones In The Water
9 Neko Case - Margaret vs. Pauline
10 Silver Jews - My Pillow Is The Threshold
11 WS Burn - Thread

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Mix for April 3

Today a mix from me. Been sitting on this one for about a week now. Apologies to Anna for including the first song.

1. Sally Shapiro-I'll Be By Your Side
2. Sia-Day Too Soon (Tom Neville rmx)
3. Trentemoller-Moan (Vocal Rmx Radio Edit)
4. Portishead-Machine Gun
5. Beach House-Gila
6. Slowdive-Morningrise
7. Cocteau Twins-Blind Deaf Dumb
8. The Wipers-Doom Town
9. Red House Painters-Funhouse
10. Agalloch-Sowilo Rune
11. Arthur Russell-Hop on Down
12. Xiu Xiu-No Friend OH!

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Guest Mix v. 2

This week, a mix from my friend Alberto (Tito). Some hot shit on here.

1 Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra - Che Che Colo
2 Aphex Twin - Avril 14th
3 At the Gates - Cold
4 Bone Thugs feat 2 Pac - Thug Luv
5 The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman
6 GG Allin - Carmelita
7 M.I.A. - 20 Dollar
8 Mr. Bungle - Goodbye Sober Day
9 Nina Simone - See-Line Woman
10 Prefuse 73 - Pagina Seis
11 Raul Seixas - Metamorfose Ambulante
12 Reggie and the Full Effect - Doot Doot Pause Doot Doot
13 Rodrigo y Gabriela - Orion
14 Roots Manuva - Witness Dub
15 Sofa Surfers - Sofa Rockers
16 Soundgarden - 4th of July

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Guest Mix v.1

So we've got our first guest mix from my friend Brian Ashby! A very varied selection on here, including Chicago jazz and an awesome U of C band called Health & Beauty. Also, bonus points for including the Kayo Dot song that this blog is named after. Check out Brian's photography blog too.

Sidenote: if anyone wants to contribute a mix, feel free, just send me a link and a tracklist!

1. Extra Life- I Don't See It That Way
2. Binges- Track 2 from "Flame of the Millennium"
3. Németh- Via L4-Norte
4. Lil Wayne- I Feel Like Dying (screwed but not chopped)
5. Four Tet & David Shrigley- Don'ts
6. Kayo Dot- The Manifold Curiosity
7. Churner- Fields of Many
8. Radioclit ft. David Banner & Twista- On Everything
9. Health & Beauty- Too Boring
10. Mawja- S 1.3
11. Peter Brötzmann, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, & Mike Zerang- Blessed Assurance

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Repurposing

Seeing as how I lost interest in music reviews pretty quickly, this blog will now be a vehicle for bi-weekly (or so) mp3 mixes. Here is the first one. Enjoy!

march 4, 2008

1. D1-Mind and Soul
2. Alcest-Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
3. Yeasayer-Forgiveness
4. Underworld-Beautiful Burnout
5. Goldfrapp-Tiptoe
6. Nada Surf-Killian's Red
7. Electrelane-In Berlin
8. Clark-Penultimate Persian
9. Fovea Hex-Long Distance
10. Pluramon-Border
11. Black Mountain-Heart of Snow
12. Amesouers-Bonheur Ampute
13. Down-Nothing in Return
14. Gescom-C1

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Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401: A User's Manual(4AD)

Picked up a promo copy of this used for $4 at a store in Arlington I happened to stop by riding around in the snow after buying my new bike (yay!). For how much hype this album has gotten and the high concept of it all, I sort of expected a little more. Johannsson used the Prague Symphony Orchestra on this, apparently the go-to orchestra for people who don't want to pay a lot, esp. metal bands such as Dimmu Borgir. This is funny because the style of writing reminds me a lot of another composer who recently used the services of that orchestra, Angelo Badalamenti (on the Mulholland Drive sdtrk). The music is mostly less dark than that Badalamenti's (more melancholy like Godspeed), but has a similar level of melodic and rhythmic complexity (low). There is of course much more emotional resonance to this album being that it's a requiem for a computer that Johannsson's father worked on, and yet I wonder if it couldn't have all been done more interestingly. Because really, there's not a whole hell of a lot here besides Track 2 with its pre-recorded IBM instructions (which get very annoying after the first minute or two) to indicate that this is what the album is about. Apparently Johannsson also used samples of music his father made on that computer, but fucked if I can find those elements in the recording, meaning that its effect is almost entirely an impressionistic one, which doesnt exactly go very far, as far as conceptual music goes. In short, this album is pleasant enough, but its almost like Godpseed without the intensity. There are crescendoes, sure, but there's never that cathartic payoff you get with really good post rock (Mono for example).