Still Love the Old World

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Indietracks Compilation 2012

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50 songs for 1 GBP. Always a good mix.

Tracklist:

Standard Fare - 51107
Young Romance - Swollen Hearts, Bitten Tongues
The Hobbes Fanclub - Your Doubting Heart
Veronica Falls - Come On Over
Liechtenstein - Fast Forward
ballboy - The National Trust (Pumpkinfield Session)
Bart & Friends - There's No Place I'd Rather Be
The Birthday Kiss - Starting to Come Back to Life
Evans the Death - Telling Lies
Joanna Gruesome - Pantry Girl
September Girls - Hells Bells
Colour Me Wednesday - Holiday From Your Life
Allo Darlin' - City All to Himself
Go Sailor - Last Year
Stevie Jackson - Dead Man's Fall
Doggy - Quand Tu Dors
The Rosie Taylor Project - For Esmé
Electrophönvintage - Siq
The Monochrome Set - On My Balcony
Darren Hayman & The Long Parliament - Vinegar Tom
Echo Lake - Even the Blind
The Sunbathers - Round and Round
Orca Team - Resolutions
Golden Grrrls - Beaches
Tigercats - Limehouse Nights
T.O.Y.S - Fun Time for the Love Shy
Mikrofisch - Let's Kiss and Listen to Bis
White Town - Cut Out My Heart
Love Dance - Skisse #3
Gold-Bears - Something to Think About
Vacaciones - Ahora sí!
The School - Never Thought I'd See the Day
The ABC Club - Scattered Light
Language of Flowers - Where You Belong
Jasmine Minks - Poppy White
Sea Lions - I Never Stopped Missing That Girl
Werewandas - Nytol
Velodrome 2000 - Charity Shopping
Cosines - Winter A-Go-Go
Minibar - La Extrana Pareja
The June Brides - Just the Same
The Smittens - First Bus
The Just Joans - Nobody's Ever Called Me Baby
The 10p Mixes - My Monster
Markie Plays Girlpop! - Robot Man
Themakingof - Everything is Fine
Tender Trap - Love is Hard Enough
The Silver Factory - The World May Bring Us Down
This Many Boyfriends - How is This Even a Job?
Robberie - I Look Back on This City and Fall in Love with Her Again

Friday, May 18, 2012

The Intangible Newness of Doing the Same Old Thing

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A mixtape by rapper, Milo.

This is a playlist that should help people deal with reality. It seems like there is a really weird Digital Age trend of focusing on planet-transcendence and making life “magical” or whatever. That’s much older than the Digital Age but you get the point. All the Lady Gaga enthusiasts who are making appeals to who knows what, Kid Cudi’s insistence on being from the Moon, Wayne’s insistence on being from Mars, etc. This playlist focuses on the mundane, the ordinary, the normalcy of everyday life and trying to grapple with that in authentic ways. Ultimately realizing this life we have has enough to explore and keep us busy for much longer than Teen Moms 2 will be on TV.

No appeals to being from planets outside this giant blueberry, or having a million dollars to buy a laser beam equipped yacht or any of those hullabaloos; primarily because that cannot be honest. And you’re selling yourself short every time you subscribe to these stale notions of The Ideal. Hopefully this can spark some thought into more elaborate and unique daydreams. This is the playlist for the every-person, the idealistic pragmatist who recognizes the beauty in struggling with, what Reggie Watts calls, “binary existence.”

Tracklist:

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young- “Almost Cut My Hair”
Joni Mitchell- “California”
Solander- “Flight”
Open Mike Eagle- “Dishes”
Busdriver- “Mr. Mistake (Bested By The Whisper Chasm)”
Why?- “By Torpedo or Crohn’s”
Fleet Foxes- “Blue Spotted Tail”
Sage Francis- “Best of Times”
Yes- “Yesterday & Today”
Bobby McFerrin- “Drive”
Neil Young- “Pocahontas”
Serengeti- “The Whip”
The Roots- “Hall & Oates”
They Might Be Giants- “Dr. Worm”
Junip- “Sweet & Bitter”
Talking Heads- “This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)”

Thursday, May 17, 2012

Open Mike Eagle: Rent Party Extension (2012)

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nice rap EP. if you only listen to one try Boss Fight

Everybody Taste: Why don't we take the day off?

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This guy, Matt Carr, has a nice blog called Everybody Taste. He also makes mixtapes like a professional of which this is one. If you like, check out his others via the link in the "mixtape pros" section.

Tracklist: