Mixes Are Fun

I'm the type of person that is always making mixes, whether they are for others or not generally doesn't matter as I end up listening to them way more than the recipient probably ever could. This mix is a fairly typical one. I take a bit of everything I have been listening to and cater to a friend in particular(of course weeding out what they may hate). I love this mix. It's a greatest hits of my late winter to now. The artists are a mix up and some have already appeared in this blog. Hope you enjoy what you've not heard.

In the last post, I inserted a Lost Sounds' track. Well, on this mix, I've upped the take, adding in two more tracks from Lost Sounds related folks. The first track is by Mouserocket(fronted by LS's Alicja Trout) and is remixed by Jay Lindsey aka Jay Reatard. Also featured later on is a track by Lindsey himself. I really like both, as Lindsey shows his aptitude on both ends of the mic cord.

Also of note, the Beach House track. I am sad that I missed them when they played the Hi-Tone a few months ago. very sad. This track is my relaxation piece. There's nothing superb about it. At all. Really. I just love it for whatever reason. It sounds whole/complete and most things these days do not. Plenty of air to breathe in what sounds like an insecure track.

I like to augment the Beach House track with the Mice Parade song. I spaced them out on the cd, but they're great back to back.

I found the Oh No! Oh My! track on a Kitsune Maison compilation. I had heard them before through their myspace page, after learning that Tim of Snowglobe was to be joining them temporarily on tour, which then turned into a full time stay. I was unimpressed with the myspace songs and wrote them off completely until i heard this track. (Of note: I still remain unimpressed with all else I have heard.../sigh...why can't Snowglobe be bigger and better?).

It was hard to place the Lost Sounds track, seeing as how it is so abrupt at the inset.

The Caribou song should be lsitened to on headphones. This should also be applied to the Low track. I love their organ sound. We have one similar at the studio and I love the bass hums that resonate from it.

The Heart Attack= 1 Part Cee-Lo Green + Plantlife This track has been floating around the internet for a good while, but in case you have not heard it...

LOL The In Living Color piece is wtfdelicious(to me anyhow, not so much Soph). I found it on the mad decent(Diplo) page.

The rest is pretty much your standard fair of pretties and delights. Enjoys!

Cover Art by me:


TraX:



The mix itself!!

P.S. The Matthew Dear track is sexy and fabulous and excellent. I wish the rest of his album held up like so. [flat trumpet sound]


Also, my cover was chopped off. If you open the image in a new window, it should open properly.

Loud

The term "Lazy Sunday" generally describes my sundays. These songs, however, will inspire everyone and anyone to be unlazy, if not by merely putting you in a haste to turn the volume knob down, in the case of the Lost Sounds' track, or by making you shake your ass/get a headache in the case of the dDamage track. :) Either way, shit is loud.

Lost Sounds:
Lost Sounds were a group from Memphis, TN(hometown overdue love), who "disbanded abruptly yet not unexpectedly in 2005" and were comprised of Jay Reatard(just now getting love on Pitchfork) on synth, guitar and vocals, Alicja Trout(who is in more Memphis bands than any other front person that I know of...they include Mouserocket, Black Wave, River City Tanlines,et.al.)also on synth, guitar and vocals, Rich Crook on drums, and the later added bass player, Patrick Jordan.

I only recently got into them after relistening to the Makeshift 2 compilation and really enjoying their track on there. Maybe I'll post it later. Visited their Myspace page and found "I Get Nervous". It was around 6 am and I hadn't yet been to sleep. I spent the next four or five hours trying to find info on them and releases available.

dDamage:
I know little of them. I just got into them last night after a Last FM friend recommended them to me. Their latest album Shimmy Shimmy Blade features a crazy mix of indie rap's finest from Bigg Jus to TTC to Doseone. Apparently, they're a duo comprised of brothers. Based out of Paris, they make crazy headsplitting music.

To be honest, there are only a handful or tracks that I really like from this vein of hiphop. I love the creativity(and album art), yet hope that one day there'll be a wunderkind rapper that gets in front of a group like this. An example of such would be that I like Dalek's music, but hate the rapper himself.

anyhow, hope you enjoy these.
Lost Sounds "I Get Nervous""

dDamage "Punkture"

underrated?

In this age of Atmospheres and Amy Winehouses, it's important to get noticed, yes, but it's also important to have talent. :D This trio from Bushwick consisting of Cool Calm Pete, DJ Pre, and Jaymanilla do the deed on their 2003 album "Mechincal Royalty" released on Embedded Music. Pete's namesake calm flow matches well with the gruffness of Jaymanilla. Uploaded for your listening pleasure is "Birds", a gem about women with loose morals. The rest of the album isn't generally like this track, yet I feel a concept track like this comes along rarely and needs to be shared. I think these three are fairly underrated and deserve a bit of your busy schedule.

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Babbletron - Birds

Hello!

Hey readers!

if there are any here yet....


I'm Sophia one of the writers of this blog. I also keep a personal blog- The Sweetest Pea. Feel free to visit me there!

I created this blog partly because I was bored, but moreso because I've always wanted to start a music blog. I could never run it alone , so that's where Jeremy comes in! He'll be contributing to the blog as well. The name, Bring Back Pluto, was inspired by the Aesop Rock track of the same name. The track is off of his upcoming album, None Shall Pass which will be released on August 28th. Jeremy recently acquired the promo copy and I've been listening to it pretty much non stop. The entire album is awesome! Heaven to my ears! I may be a little biased. Afterall, I do love Aesop Rock(seen him 4 times!) and can count on one hand the tracks of his that I don't like. Bring Back Pluto is definitely my favorite song off of the album thus far. But the others are just as head bobbingly addictive! The album was produced by Blockhead, El-P, and Rob Sonic so I guess I shouldn't have expected anything but awesome from it. Here's a preview of what to expect from the album. The title track, None Shall Pass. Bet you can't listen to it without nodding along :)


None Shall Pass-Aesop Rock

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