The Sky Above the Port Was the Color of Television, Tuned to a Dead Channel

I've been loving the mixes being posted, so I've decided to throw one into the lot. Here is a dreampop/shoegaze mix, mainly focused on Cocteau Twins, Wild Nothing, Asobi Seksu, and The Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Other gems are included as well.

The title and picture for the post (first line of Neuromancer and artwork from Akira) are in line with the glossy, technological sheen of the mix while also pointing to some of its melancholy overtones. You can download the mix here, which includes the .m3u playlist. Enjoy.

Tracklist:

Slowdive - Alison
Wild Nothing - Golden Haze
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - The white witch
California Wives - Tokyo
Best Coast - Wish He Was You
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes -
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – Contender
Memory Cassette - Asleep At a Party
Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Colored Funk
Wild Nothing - Chinatown
Asobi Seksu - New Years
Sun Airway - Infinity
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
California Wives - Purple
Lush - Etheriel
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Failure
Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard
The Radio Dept. - Heaven’s on Fire
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
Asobi Seksu - Transparence
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Wild Nothing - Vultures Like Lovers
Memory Tapes - Swimming Field
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Gentle Sons
Asobi Seksu - Exotic Animal Parade

A Good Man Is Hard To Find

not to post over bens' latest mix, but i've beed inspired.

for your listening pleasure: a good man is hard to find. it started out with some slower songs that i really liked and morphed into basically a list of a lot of music that shuffles through my most played list.

also, i'm not really good at saying 'no'--consider this a two-disc set.

but again, similar to ben--this mix is probably more for myself. i hope you enjoy.

you can download the tracks here, with cover art and the .m3u list as well.

track list

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1. The Antlers - Kettering
2. The War On Drugs - Baby Missiles
3. Tom Waits - A Good Man Is Hard To Find
4. Okkervil River - Piratess
5. Bright Eyes - At The Bottom Of Everything (jj edit)
6. The Arcade Fire - Half Light II (No Celebration)
7. LCD Soundsystem - All I Want
8. Roky Erickson With Okkervil River - For You
9. Destroyer - Savage Night At The Opera
10. Handsome Furs - All We Want, Baby, Is Everything
11. Future Islands - An Apology
12. Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse - Star Eyes / I Can’t Catch It
13. Local Natives - Airplanes
14. The Mountain Goats - Never Quite Free
15. Titus Andronicus - To Old Friends And New
16. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
17. Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan
18. Future Islands - Long Flight
19. The War On Drugs - Brothers
20. The National - Ada
21. Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo
22. Lcd Soundsystem - Someone Great
23. Handsome Furs - Radio Kalininbrad
24. Radiohead - Codex
25. Tom Waits - Hold On
26. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
27. The War On Drugs - Taking The Farm
28. TV On The Radio - Killer Crane
29. The National - Geese Of Beverly Road, The
30. Dolorean - 33-53.9 Degrees N/118-38.8 Degrees W
31. The Mountain Goats - High Hawk Season
32. Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
33. Roky Erickson With Okkervil River - True Love Cast Out All Evil
34. Titus Andronicus - Albert Camus
35. Beach House - Real Love
36. Radiohead - Separator
37. The Antlers - Epilogue
38. Tom Waits - Picture In A Frame

wild ox moan: a beat-the-heat mix

I promise, I'm not trying to take over this blog! I make these things for myself anyway, and I'll just keep copying them here as long as you guys don't care. I just hope they are up someone's alley...


Finding a lovely tune in a stack of all-too-easily forgotten old records is something fantastic. It is also overwhelming when you realize that you could probably spend the rest of your life completely ignoring new musical output, and use all of your free time mining the past for hidden gems. Even then, there will always be some out-of-print vinyl tucked away in a thrift store in Milwaukee that you won't ever hear.

And since I don't spend much of my free time scouring record stores for these rarities, I rely on people like Wes Anderson, Andy Cabic, Robin Pecknold, Matt Morelock, Amanda Petrusich, and the wonderfully eclectic Justin Gage over at Aquarium Drunkard to do some of the scouring for me.

For this mix, I stuck with tunes from 1975 or before. Most of them fit the bill of the rare obscurity or obscure rarity - some more than others. And a few just fit that sound of a hot afternoon full of kamikaze cicadas turning into an evening full of fireflies as you daydream of an old European countryside. I can already hear the vinyl crackle... Cheers!
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1. Sally Goodin (Long Version) / Heron [1970]
2. Katie Cruel / Karen Dalton [1971]
3. Sunlight Shadow / Linda Rich [1969]
4. The Hills Of Isle Au Haut / Gordon Bok [1970]
5. Iris's Song For Us / Vashti Bunyan [1970]
6. The Tall Tall Grass / John Hartford [1967]
7. Buckeye Jim / Burl Ives [1944]
8. Kings And Queens / Loudon Wainwright III [1975]
9. Take It From A Friend / Janey & Dennis [1970]
10. Cast The First Stone / Tom Fogerty [1972]
11. Play With Fire / The Rolling Stones [1965]
12. Don't Forget Me / Harry Nilsson [1974]
13. So Long, Marianne / Leonard Cohen [1967]
14. The Way I Feel Inside / The Zombies [1965]
15. I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire / The Ink Spots [1941]
16. You Always Hurt The One You Love / The Mills Brothers [1944]
17. Love / Nancy Adams [1972]
18. As We Go Along / The Monkees [1968]
19. Wild Ox Moan / Taj Mahal [1969]
20. Houses / Elyse Weinberg [1968]
21. Where Is My Wild Rose? / Chris Thompson [1972]
22. I've Been My Own Worst Friend / Sandy Denny & The Strawbs [1967]
23. Lopin' Along Thru The Cosmos / Judee Sill [1971]
24. The Lady With The Braid / Dory Previn [1971]
25. If I Knew You Were The One / Richard Twice [1970]
26. Lon Chaney / Garland Jeffreys [1973]
27. The Good Book / Melanie [1971]

Download the full mix HERE.

yankee hotel foxtrot demos

This post is aimed at Wade, but is definitely worth looking at even if your name is something other than Wade!

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is my favorite 52 minutes of sound ever recorded to tape. And after watching I Am Trying To Break Your Heart 1,000 times during my freshman year of college, I began looking for ways to get my hands on some of the demos and other recordings that didn't make the record. A few years ago, these files circulated the interwebs and my itch was scratched. One is a collection called the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Demos, and the other is called the Engineer Demos.

So, if you haven't heard them and you are a fan of Wilco, then you definitely need to download them by clicking below.
--YHF DEMOS
--ENGINEER DEMOS