Mountain Wedding Weekend Mix

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Hey guys. My friends are getting married in the mountains and throwing a multi-day party to celebrate so I'm gonna be gone until sometime next week. I made this mix to tide you all over until I return. I honestly have no idea what was going through my head when I made it but the tracks are culled from my insanely killer library of envy so it can't be all bad. And actually, I think it's pretty damn good. But either way, lets face it. What else are you going to do for 5 days if I'm not around to tell you what to listen to? It's not like you read any other blogs. Right? RIGHT??

Mountain Wedding Weekend Mix
1. Vangelis - Blade Runner
2. Piers Whyte - Jaque In The Barbe
3. O.Lamm - Return Of The Night Goat
4. Kraftwerk - Model
5. Fred Schneider - I'm Gonna Haunt You
6. Islaja - Pete P
7. Black Ox Orkestar - Ratsekr Grec
8. Amps For Christ - Freddie The Mockingbird
9. LSD March - Shiroi Sekai De
10. Rambutan - Wool Coat
11. Antique Brothers - Unholy Grass
12. Cassowaries - Dorsal Conqueror

Surprise!

I'm going on the yearly trip to Elise's uncle's cabin in Maine. I'll be gone for a while so, as usual, I made a mix for myself to listen to on my trip and for you to listen to while I'm partying. The "Surprise!" isn't, "Surprise! I'm going on vacation." It's more like, "Surprise Elise! I made a mix for you." She left for the cabin before me to hang with her parents, so I made this for her. And for you. Get it?

It's got some great fucking stuff on it and is very appropriate for a few days in a secluded, forested, cabin by the lake. Some banjos, Tuvan throat singing, an accapella Who cover, outsider weirdness, chill acoustic tunes, and good old fashioned garage rock. Everything should be right up your alley.

Surprise! Mix
Beach House - D.A.R.L.I.N.G.
Nathan Bell - Devil's Breath
Moondog - Chant
Hella - Biblical Violence
The Modern Lovers - I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms
Mugison - Murr Murr
Pete Seeger - Devilish Mary
The Dodos - Acorn Factory
Ilyas Ahmed - Out Again
The Monks - Higgle-Dy-Piggle-Dy
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkwayd - Good Old Pig, Gone To Avalon
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Walk, Don't Run
Huun-Huur-Tu - Eki Attar
Petra Haden - Relax
Neil Young - Guitar Solo, No. 2
Marissa Nadler - Little Hells
Manu Chao - Lagrimas De Oro

Renegades Mix (aka Vacay)

I'm going to New York for about a week or so to tour The Selznick School in Rochester to see if I want to go there for film archiving and then down to Brooklyn to sell my wife's awesomeness at Renegade. My wife Elise sells under the name Argyle Whale and we'll be there this Saturday & Sunday meeting people and making $$$$. Since there shall be an AGB hiatus until I return, I'll leave you with a sweet mix I made for our road trip. Lots of good upbeat stuff on it. If you want to keep up with me, I'll try to do the Twitter thing as long as I'm not too busy. If you're going to be in the area, feel free to stop by and say hello.


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Micachu & The Shapes - Golden Phone
Nite Jewel - What Did He Say
The Field - The More That I Do
Burial & Four Tet - Wolf Cub
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Memory Cassette - Surfin
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
Chew Lips - Salt Air
O'Spada - Time
Diamond Vampires - Lumiere
Panda Steps In Chocolate - Weekend Dad Fights The Fire
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dark Bubbles
Stegosaurus Trap - Broken Castles
Surf City - Dickshakers Union
Zola Jesus - The Way

Xmix

Just like every other blogger in the world, I'll be going home for a few days to see the family. Which means I'll be breaking my month long streak of posting at least once every day. Sad, I know. Somehow I think you'll live.

To hold you over until Sunday, though, I made a little Christmas mix. Nothing special, just lots of good songs with the word Christmas in the title. I'm a fucking genius. Since I'm lazy/don't want to plague my server with tons of songs I know no one will listen to anyway, I just made a zip file with all of the songs and the CUSTOM COVER ART and threw it up on Media Fire. Enjoy the holidays.

XMIX
1. Dev/Null - Christmas Themed Horror Movie From The 80's (from Lazer Thrash)
2. MC Chris - Fuckin Up My Christmas (from Life's A Bitch & I'm Her Pimp)
3. Kid606 - All I Wanted For Christmas Was My Braces Off (from Who Still Kill Sound?)
4. The Locust - Pulling The Christmas Pig By The Wrong Pair Of Ears (from Plague Soundscapes)
5. By The End Of Tonight - It's Christmas Time Again (from Fireworks On Ice EP)
6. The Flaming Lips - Christmas At The Zoo (from Clouds Taste Metallic)
7. Mogwai - Christmas Song (from EP+2)
8. The Walkmen - No Christmas While I'm Talking (from Bows + Arrows)
9. White Town - Why I Hate Christmas (from Socialism, Sexism, & Sexuality)
10. Medicine - Christmas Song (from Shot Forth Self Living)
11. Windy & Carl - Christmas Song (from Introspection)

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Vacay

out brainwavesin'. bbl.

Back From Maine

Yeah, I was gone for a little while. In Maine. In a cabin. On a lake. It was quite nice, except for the fact that it rained every single day I was there. It was a pleasant respite from work but the best part was what I stumbled upon in Portland on the way home. Waiting for the train ride back to Boston, Elise, her parents, and I ate at a nice restaurant called BiBo's Madd Apple Cafe, where we all ordered the safe soup and sandwich combo (very delicious). Afterwards, we were walking down the street and Elise told me she saw a record store there earlier while they were in town picking me up, so we went looking for it.

Lo and behold, there was Time-Lag Records, one of my favorite online mailorders on the east coast. I was ridiculously fucking excited to actually walk into their store and check out all of the obscure treasures. Due to the in-laws waiting outside, I wasn't able to spend the multiple hours and dollars there that I would have liked to, but I was still able to find a few cool things to pick up. I got two CDs, Quetzolcoatl's Forever Bleeding Canyon Cloud and White Light's For Your Leaves, both of which are great. I also picked up two cassettes that are amazing. I got an Adam Sonderberg and Ophibre split and (this is the best part) I found a Fricara Pacchu tape called Space Puppet for 5 bucks. I didn't even know it existed, and finding something like that it is just so fucking cool. What a great way to end the vacation. If you're ever visiting Portland, Maine, you really should take the time to visit Time-Lag. You won't regret it.

I have a lot of new music to review, I just got my copy of Belong's Same Places (Slow Version) in the mail today, and tonight I'm going to catch The Melvins and Big Business at The Paradise. So hopefully in between all of the hours I'm putting in at work, I'll be able to write some stuff that you'll be interested in reading. And if I'm ever too slow on posting, you can always go check out Forest Gospel. I fucking love those guys and they're always writing new shit.