375 Shoegaze-ish mix 1

The next four mixes I made for myself guessing around 2010, and likely gave my wife a copy.  Mostly shoegazer stuff here, with some post-punk thrown in for good measure.  Had this playing in our car last week and my wife said she loved it all over again and remembered it from 10-15 years back.  I remember going on a shoegaze spree when I was compiling this.  Trying to find new (at the time) and underground tracks that I wasn't familiar with.  

00:00  800beloved - The Skeleton Collection

04:11  The Meeting Places - Now I Know You Could Never Be The One

08:09  Air Formation - It's Over Now

12:42  Alcian Blue - A Fading Smile

16:58  Sad Day For Puppets - Little Light

20:07  Strawberry Whiplash - Factory Girl

23:10  Asobi Seksu - Thursday

27:22  Monster Movie - Vanishing Act

31:19  Malory - Sleeper

35:25  She, Sir - I Love You, Blowtorch Eyes

38:53  Silver Screen - Won't You Ever Know

42:00  The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Higher Than The Stars

45:40  Adorable - Submarine

50:00  The Boo Radleys - Time Fades Fast

53:01  Mojave Three - Breaking The Ice

57:01  The Leisure Society - A Short Weekend Begins With Longing

60:05  Sigur Ros - Hljomalind

64:47  Alt-ctrl-sleep - Ghost

67:32  Asobi Seksu - Strawberries (Ulrich Schnauss remix)

71:01  Slowdive - When The Sun Hits

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374 An Old Dub Mix featuring me

Fairly certain I made this mix in 2008 because of the inclusion of DubXanne.  

Some shameless self-promotion here, probably the first time I've shared my own music on this blog.  I was remix swapping with API  (a good friend I made on the Cloud Zero email list, for fans of the Legendary Pink Dots) at the time I made this mix CDr, and my dub mix caught the attention of Frankie Bones on myspace (that should help solidify the date).  There are two or three versions of this track that were floating about the internet; my original demo which I sent to API - and he shared with others not realizing I wasn't done.  He responded back to me by adding about another minute of his touches/additional remix to the track.  I felt that he had taken it away from the dub I had intended, and made it into more of a dub-house track.  I then stripped some of his additions, remixed a couple of his added samples and extended my demo into the track heard here.

The rest of this playlist comes from tracks I was really excited to find in my constant search for great dub music.  Pretty sure I only had the free sample of the Itch-E and Scratch-E track, which is one of Andy Rantzen's aliases.  I struck up a friendship with him based on my unyielding adoration of the Pelican Daughters.  That isn't THE Sonic Boom on this mix, I was confused by that for many years and recently found out it is actually a pseudonym of Victor Axlerod.  He should be known to anyone into Daptone records, and was a longtime member of Antibalas and The Dap-Kings.  The His Name is Alive tracks are quite fantastic, "Cinnamon Sound System" is from the Friendly Science 7" they put out, and is one of my most cherished pieces of vinyl.  As I mentioned on a previous mix, I am likely to include Twilight Circus on every future dub mix, applies to ones I created 15 years ago as well.

00:00  Tino - Sunday Dub

05:27  The Dub Project - Smokey

10:34  Linval Thompson - Jamaican Colley (Version)

14:16  Jah Wobble & The Chinese Dub Orchestra - Dragon and Phoenix Dub

16:35  Sly & Robbie - Jah In Dub

19:57  Big Youth - Dub is What We Need

23:56  Sonic Boom - The Dub and The Restless

28:24  Earth and Stone - False Rulers Dub

31:46  Mykal Rose - No Burial

36:40  His Name Is Alive - One Year Dub

40:34  His Name Is Alive - Cinnamon Sound System

44:19  The Aggrovators - Dub on My Pillow

47:28  Doreen & Soul Vendors - Sugar (Version)

50:12  Lloyd's All Stars - Dread Dub (It Dread Out Deh Version)

53:26  Ranking Joe - Don't Follow Babylon

57:38  DubXanne - Walking on the Moon (Walking on the Dub)

63:26  Pablo Moses - Dubbing Is A Must

68:05  The Clash - Robber Dub

72:40  Itch-e & Scratch-e - Creepydub

73:13  API - Left Hand Dub (by m00zl3r)

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373 Chris' second mix

Only slightly less diverse than then last offering from Chris.  This is a solid late 90's punk mix aside from the first two tracks on side B.  It was a running joke that I hate NOFX, and my friends would always put one of their tracks on a mix just to spite me, or in their words "trying to covert me."  Despite being out of place, it is nice to have Portishead and the Dream Syndicate as a break in the flow here.  Some more hardcore/metal incorporated in side two.  Rather surprised to find Incubus in the mix, as I don't remember that track or Chris ever being a fan of theirs.  However, Chris was the biggest Faith No More fan I can remember, until this one girlfriend of his, and when they broke up I don't think he listened to them anymore.  I'm sure I don't have all the pieces to that story.  Part of the fun of being friends with a band is having bootleg copies of their rare tracks that didn't make it on a CD.  Sadly that Los Villains track is lost to the ages...or until I hook up a cassette player and rip it from this mix.  I swapped out another song from them to close this mix.

00:00  Naked Raygun - 12XU

01:49  Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster

04:30  The Beltones - Fuck You Anyway

06:31  Hot Water Music - Incisions

10:49  The Dread - Chaos

12:18  Citizen Fish - Experiment Earth

14:32  The Clash - The Guns of Brixton

17:30  I-Spy - Sixty Billion Served

19:40  Swingin Utters - Movers & Morons

22:45  Youth Brigade - Violence

24:53  The Misfits - Las Caress

26:48  NOFX - The Bag

29:28  Bad Religion - You

31:31  Dropkick Murphys - Boys on the Docks

34:00  The Templars - Land of the Morning Calm

36:55  Guttermouth - Just A Fuck

38:06  Propagandhi - Utter Crap Song

39:32  88 Fingers Louie - Inside Myself

42:10  Dead Kennedys - Government Flu

44:13  Portishead - Roads

49:14  The Dream Syndicate - Someplace Better Than This

52:45  aMiniature - Singer's Strut

55:41  At The Drive-In - Mannequin Republic

58:41  Snapcase - Bleeding Orange

61:53  Ignite - Pay To Cum

65:06  Nailbomb - Blind and Lost

66:58  Sepultura - Policia

68:27  Inside Out - Sacrifice

70:53  Gorilla Biscuits - Two Sides

72:48  Fugazi - Five Corporations

75:14  Incubus - Version

78:41  Faith No More - Be Aggressive

82:18  Quicksand - Unfulfilled

85:40  (missing) Los Villains - This is You / Marked Card 

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372 Mark's fourth mix

More from my late high school days.  I call this the "Slipping Fishbone in four times" mix for obvious reasons.  Nothing significant here, just a good mix of stuff likely would have appeared 120 minutes on MTV back in the day. 

00:00  Jane's Addiction - Rock & Roll

04:04  Jane's Addiction - Sympathy

09:22  REM - The One I Love

12:32  Babes in Toyland - Bruise Violet

15:18  Fishbone - If I Were A...I'd

16:08  Sunny Day Real Estate - In Circles

20:55  My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow

25:04  Smashing Pumpkins - Siva

29:21  Fishbone - Servitude

34:35  PJ Harvey - Sheela-Na-Gig

37:44  Lush - Untogether

41:04  Chapterhouse - Pearl (edit)

45:46  Blind Melon - Dear Ol' Dad

48:49  Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Capital Letters

51:32  Fishbone - If I Were A...I'd 

51:58  Smashing Pumpkins - Window Paine

57:32  Jane's Addiction - Ain't No Right

61:03  Fishbone - They All Have Abandoned Their Hopes

65:52  Dinosaur Jr - Green Mind

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371 Mark's third mix

I think this was from around 2002, when I would visit San Diego often.  All hip hop and turntablism.  Some fun tracks in there, and a few tracks that were found in those early days of file swapping on the web.  Couldn't figure out what track this is from Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and based on the time I made this mix it really could've been any turntable crew doing a crazy track.  Omitted the last Funkdoobiest track as in hindsight I don't like it or the message it sends.

00:00  A Tribe Called Quest - Luck of Lucien

04:27  Jurassic 5 - Unified Rebelution

08:45  The Black Eyed Peas - one Way (Karma remix)

12:52  Cypress Hill - Illusions

17:16  The Beatnuts feat Method Man - Se Acabo

20:31  Funkdoobiest - Who's The Doobiest

23:17  Automator - A Better Tomorrow

29:08  EPMD & Charlie 2na - Freestyle

33:40  ? - Invisibl Skratch Piklz - ?

33:42  The Beatnuts feat Cubank Link and Common - Slam Pit

37:06  Funkdoobiest feat Daz Dillinger - Papi Chulo

41:23  Zach De La Rocha, KRS-One & Last Emperor - C.I.A. (Criminals In Action)

45:54  Jurassic 5 - Action Satisfaction

49:41  The Beatnuts - Psycho Dwarf

53:16  QBert - Dr Octagon Showcase in LA - Live on Tour Hip Hop Turntablism

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369 Claudia mix 2

Second mix from Claudia in the early 2000's.  Similar to the last one I posted from her, this is a solid mixed bag of tracks.  Not as much history to share as I don't remember this tape as well as the other.  Though I do remember playing this on several trips up to Denver for concerts.  Obviously the first track on side B was a joke, and no clue what this is.  If I ever dust off and plug in my cassette deck I will likely get it sorted.

00:00  Bob Dylan - Motorpsycho Nightmare

04:29  The Wailers and Lord Brynner - Where's Sammy Gone

07:35  James Brown - Super Bad

12:31  Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

16:10  Willie Nelson - Black Night

21:26  Dave Hillyard & The Rocksteady 7 - The Fool

24:30  Talib Kweli - Blast

27:36  Jackson 5 - I Want You Back

30:29  Ol' Dirty Bastard - Got Your Money

34:20  Accumen - Pure Element

37:58  Tricky - Overcome 

41:39  ? - MC Pimp Poop Daddy Dee

41:41  Portishead - Only You

46:34  Link Wray - Rumble

48:51  The Beastie Boys - Instant Death

51:58  Swingin Utters - Playboys, Punks and Pretty Things

54:50  The Pharcyde - Runnin

59:36  Porno for Pyros - Pets

63:05  Radiohead - Kid A

67:35  Duane Eddy - Rebel-Rouser

69:53  The Bouncing Souls - All of this and nothing

70:46  Jughead's Revenge - Inside of You

72:47  Unsung Heroes feat J-Live and L-Fudge - Dummy

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368 Chris' mix

Chris is still a very close friend of mine.  Back in high school and early college years when we hung out 5 days out of every 7, he was the most open to what everyone called "that crazy Mooz music."  Yeah, I liked what no one else in my friend group could stand, except for Chris.  He'd always give my mixtapes a good honest full listen before heaping on any criticism.  He also would show that he did find some stuff he liked as reflected in his mixes back to me.  This one shows that in abundance.  

I'd have never given Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould that much attention if it weren't for Chris.  He was a big fan, but not too pushy.  There was always a conversation to be had on the subject, and I credit him for taking me from a casual listener to avid fan of his work.  I returned the favor by exposing Chris to Mission of Burma, and he's still as big a fan of their works as ever.  

Side A runs the gamut from the Cure to Sick of it All and Citizen Fish.  Early Helmet tracks are great, before they really got too polished in their execution.  I remember the Citizen Fish show at the Mercury Cafe in 1996 was probably the wildest and most violent show I've been to.  Chairs thrown, people pushed down two flights of stairs, a fight between every song. 

On Side B there are two tracks that I just couldn't track down the songs for this rebuilt mix.  I think I found one, but it was mislabeled on my hard drive so not 100% on the Circus Tents song.  The Gain being the other track I couldn't find.  Knowing my dislike for the Grateful Dead, my friend slipped in this Jane's Addiction cover thinking I wouldn't notice.  Then the Subhumans, which every punk should love. The Queers are always good for a juvenile chuckle.  This was the time we all found out about the Templars and were in a rush to see who could buy all their albums first.  Nice seeing early AFI on here, before they became what they used to protest - like the song High School Football Hero, or I want a mohawk but my mom won't let me get one.  Great punk after this track though, and Chris ended with some more nod's to my taste with Shelter, DRI, and of course Miles.

Still loving this mix, it has enough variety and only a couple tracks that I skip when listening now.

00:00  The Cure - The Caterpillar (Flicker Mix)

05:06  Pixies - Allison (live)

06:18  Sugar - Running Out of Time (live)

08:40  At The Drive-In - Speechless

12:07  Helmet - Distracted

15:07  Black Sabbath - Paranoid

17:52  The Pist - The Customer Is Always Right

19:47  Sick Of It All - Soul Be Free

22:18  Mission of Burma - Singalong

25:44  Channel 3 - Manzanar

27:49  The Menace - GLC

30:04  Pink Lincolns - Monsters

31:38  Citizen Fish - Face Off/Youth

36:59  Soulfly - Prejudice

43:50  The Feds - People Think

45:28  Jane's Addiction - Ripple (Grateful Dead)

49:56  Subhumans - New Age

51:36  ? - The Gain - Sick of You

51:37  The Queers - Half Shitfaced

53:38  Good Riddance - 21 Guns

55:33  The Templars - You'd Better Beware

58:49  White Kaps - NRA

60:40  AFI - Love is A Many Splendored Things

62:01  Circus Tents (?) - Open Your Eyes

65:06  Union 13 - Over The Hill

66:51  Reagan Youth - No Class

68:22  The Bruisers - Lunatic

71:04  Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Radio Radio

74:06  Parasites - Die Trying

76:02  Operation Ivy - Someday

77:39  Swingin Utters - Nothing to Rely On

78:44  Face to Face - One Way or Another

80:35  Chain of Strength - Through These Eyes

82:14  Shelter - Chance

83:25  DRI - Commuter Man

84:21  Miles Davis - Boplicity

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367 Mark's mix 2

Another one of mine, with a lot of doubles in here.  Maybe I was making that the theme, or maybe I couldn't decide between the two tracks.  Who knows, it was over 20 years back.  Not as separated by the sides as the last one, this is a good mix of alternative, industrial, reggae, punk, some jazz and my personal heart-warming genre of classical guitar.  Starting it with "those songs" and quickly moving along to the Clash's iconic track.  Then switching gears heavily to the Tear Garden before moving to some alternative rock with Dinosaur Jr and my favorite of their early tracks.  Lush's punkier side from their first few EPs, and reusing this Jane's addiction medley of the Doors, X, and The Germs.  Early Pixies is the era I like most, they're one of those bands where its my opinion they started out strong, and started to wane a little with each subsequent release.  I don't know, Dootlittle is pretty solid of an album, but after that I only liked a couple tracks off each subsequent album.  Jesus and Mary Chain easily leads into some punk via the Misfits and The Stitches.  Four is a local Denver band, and they must have opened for nearly every concert I went to for about 3 or 4 years.  I remember running from the tear gas with a member of their band after a riot broke out at a Propagandhi show which foolishly was held in a DAV.  Hmm, next notable track is Verve, I really liked their early works, then completely lost interest overnight and don't remember why.  Sarah McLachlan was interesting before her true calling as the one making you cry at all those ASPCA commercials.  The 12" with the Rabbit in the Moon remixes is solid gold, easily one of my favorite singles in my collection.  RevCo and Fred just for fun, then Wire makes an appearance as this was the time when I struggled to get my friends to give them a chance.  I touted Pink Flag as the punk juggernaut it was, yet my friends all chose later albums as their entry point and couldn't figure out what I was talking about.  Then my friend Tony got a copy of the Dot Dash 7" and everyone else in our group was converted.  Just have to find that right track to change someone's mind.  Billie Holiday brings in the final genre shifts, before the flamenco infected Coil track, and Elliot Fisk performing two of the classical guitar pieces I was working on at the time. 

00:00  Sublime - Smoke Two Joints

02:53  Sublime - Lets Go Get Stoned

06:30  Peter Tosh - Legalize It

10:58  The Clash - The Guns of Brixton

14:00  The Tear Garden - Tasteless

18:46  Dinosaur Jr - Freak Scene

22:14  Lush - Bitter

24:08  Jane's Addiction - L.A. Medley

27:46  Pixies - Isla De Encanta

29:25  Pixies - Nimrod's Son

31:34  The Jesus and Mary Chain - Head On

35:35  The Misfits - Horror Hotel

36:59  The Stitches - My Baby Hates Me

39:04  Artificial Peace - Wasteland

40:57  Four - Omar's A Hippie

43:25  Descendents - I'm Not A Loser

44:48  Mazzy Star - Blue Flower (Slapp Happy)

48:17  Verve - Slide Away

52:10  Sarah McLachlan - Fear (Luna Sol Remix)

58:01  Revolting Cocks - Attack Ships on Fire

62:46  Fred - Rosebud: Miss X

68:43  Wire - Mannequin

71:12  Wire - 1 2 X U

73:01  The Smiths - How Soon is Now (12" Version)

79:33  Billie Holiday - Comes Love

83:29  Sunny Day Real Estate - 48

88:05  Coil - Lorca Nor Orca

90:07  Elliot Fisk - Julio Sagreras El Colibri

91:17  Elliot Fisk - Antonio Lauro Carora

 

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366 Mark's Mix 1

A mix of my own devices.  I likely make this for a friend, and then made a copy for myself.  Pretty certain this was late 90s as I was pretty excited to get the Wire tribute album "Whore."  Typical for the era, I made one side alternative and some industrial, and that slowly gets more punky until you get to side B which is mostly punk.

00:00  Snowpony - Easy Way Down

03:59  aMiniature - Peddler's Talk

07:00  Lush - Undertow

11:53  Band of Susans - The Pursuit of Happiness

17:05  Sonic Youth - 100%

19:31  Skinny Puppy - Far Too Frail

23:06  Skinny Puppy - Brap

24:15  The Germs - Lexicon Devil

25:53  The Nation of Ulysses - Spectra Sonic Sound

28:11  Smashing Pumpkins - Slunk

30:55  Mazzy Star - Blue Flower

34:21  Tori Amos - Precious Things

38:46  Pale Saints - Under Your Nose

41:34  Snowpony - 3 Can Keep A Secret (If 2 Are Dead)

45:05  Catherine Wheel - Kill Rhythm

48:55  Catherine Wheel - I Confess

52:38  Sonic Youth - Stereo Sanctity

56:20  Black Sabbath - Paranoid

59:04  Helmet - Repetition

61:57  Tool - Cold and Ugly

66:00  Napalm Death - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Dead Kennedys)

67:18  Sepultura - Drug Me (Dead Kennedys)

69:01  Mata Ratos - Expulsos Do Bar

71:19  Fudge Tunnel - Lowdown (Wire)

74:45  Petty Tyrant - Our Swimmer (Wire)

78:22  Jane's Addiction - L.A. Medley (The Doors, X, The Germs)

81:59  Joy Division - The Kill

85:04  State of Alert - Girl Problems

85:49  The Teen Idles - Deadhead

87:07  Red C - Pressure's On

88:35  Youth Brigade - No Song

90:50  Youth Brigade - No Song II

90:53  I-Spy - More Than A Joke

91:41  The Clash - London Calling

94:58  Peter Tosh - Legalize It

99:25  English Beat - Twist & Crawl

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365 Claudia mix tape from 2000

A few weeks ago I was feeling nostalgic and while rummaging through my stock pile of boxes from previous eras of my life, I found all my cassette tapes.  Hundreds of them.  Then I found a box within a box that had a dozen or so mixtapes that friends had made me in the late 90's early 2000's.  I really miss that era of swapping physical media with friends: the effort of making a mixtape, artwork and tracklist by hand, careful selection of tracks that you think your friend will like and those that will push some boundaries, and others that are there for pure comedy.  

Over the next couple weeks I'll be sharing several of these, with as much backstory as my old brain can remember.

The first is from my good friend and former roommate Claudia.  She has gone on to much greater things in the Pacific Northwest, but when this tape was made she was the manager of Independent Records and we had many thorough and enlightening conversations about music.  This tape in particular was on heavy rotation for years, I remember loving it more that most of the others I had at the time.  Side A was the alternative selection, and side B was hip hop and rap.  Two sides to both our personalities at the time, though we were both avid punk and reggae fans.  I recall that Claudia included many of these side A tracks because she knows how much I loved these groups; specifically Mazzy Star, Breeders and the Sundays.  The Deee-Lite track was chosen because we both had the same a-ha moment together recognizing the Clash sample at the beginning.  Elastica is there because I recall telling Claudia that I thought Elastica was unoriginal and could only copy riffs from Wire.  The next two Deee-Lite tracks were from that era where there were hidden songs at the end of a CD, making excessive use of the fast forward button to get through several minutes of silence.

Side B starts off with a fun and funky remix that I keep getting stuck in my head.  The rest is hip hop, and some solid late 90's tunes here.  Black Eyed Peas way before their super stardom changed everything about them.  Probably my favorite Redman track up next, supplemented by the incredible Busta Rhymes.  Then the Beatnuts, which I had totally forgotten about until I dug up this tape and remembered, yeah I used to listen to them A LOT.  Outkast, also before their mega hits changed their sound completely.  Jay-Z, ok yeah still not a huge fan of his though it is nice revisiting some classic tracks like this one.  Another wonderful Black Eyed Peas track, an earworm for the workday for sure.  Then taking a bit dirty and raw with Goodie Mob and Lil Jon.  Not my style, though I do bump these very hard when they come on.

00:00  Omark Faruk Tekbilek - Shashkin

06:40  Mazzy Star - Disappear

10:39  The Breeders - Drivin on 9

13:55  The Sundays - Here's Where The Story Ends

17:41  Deee-Lite - Apple Juice Kissing

20:48  Letters to Cleo - Dreams (Fleetwood Mac)

25:11  Elastica - Stutter

27:32  Deee-Lite - Funky Chunky Bonus Beats

30:39  Deee-Lite - Bring Me Your Love (Johnny Vicious Cosmic Isness Remix 1)

36:17  Dean Martin & Julie London - Sway (The Rip-Off Artist Remix)

40:59  Black Eyed Peas - Joints and Jams (remix)

44:20  Redman feat Busta Rhymes - Da Goodness

48:29  The Beatnuts - Watch Out Now

51:24  OutKast - Rosa Parks

55:29  Jay-Z feat Mariah Carey - Things That U Do

60:19  Black Eyed Peas feat Macy Gray - Request Line 

64:05  Goodie Mob - Get Rich To This

68:15  Lil Jon & The Eastside Boys - I Like Dem Girls

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364 Things got weird in the 80's dubs

Here is a mix that starts off with some solid gold classic tracks (not from the 80's), and then moves into weird 1980's "dub" territory, then back to some more standard fare dubs.  80s Dub in a loose sense of the term, as this is not reggae.  Mostly dub production techniques applied to 80's pop hits.  I love the Beat, or the English Beat as they're known this side of the Atlantic.  It surprises me that there aren't more dub tracks as I think their music lends itself quite well to the style.  This Ziggy Marley remix jumps out thanks to the inclusion of the most recognizable sample, "Genius of Love" by Tom Tom Club.  Bruce?  The Boss in Dub?  Nah, though I included it here as it fits the theme. Bananarama reminding people they sang about a cruel summer long before the Swifties picked up on it.  This one is a pretty good dub mix to be honest.  The Sugarcubes, sure not a big surprise here.  Modern English is another that tries to make it work, though I don't think it quite makes it.  Chapterhouse, ok I left the 80's for a moment because this fits in well and I do like the mix overall.  Massive Attack reminding us why their collaboration with Mad Professor was a highlight in their otherwise excellent discography.  Another track from the Beat, this given a much more modern and updated remix which I rather like.  Panda Bear, Sonic Boom and Adrian Sherwood taking us back to recent times on this solid track.  Prince Fatty paying homage to Kraftwerk.  Now this is where it gets weird(er), Venetian Snares dubbing up Black Sabbath.  Don't know anywhere else you'll hear Bananarama and Venetian Snares in the same mix, so I'll share a smug grin to that.  Twilight Circus because, yeah why not, I'm likely to include them in every dub mix that I make.   Blackfilm is here as I had just ordered a replacement CD when I was making this mix.  Jah Wobble and Laswell are always welcome in this style and help to shed that weird 80's stuff from earlier.   Future Pilot in a slightly edited form before having some whiplash and throwing back to the 80's for Boy George's solid track - also curious why there aren't more dub versions of the Culture Club, a missed opportunity in my opinion.

00:00  Michael Prophet - You Are No Good

03:12  Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Throw Some Water In

06:50  Walking Boys - Leave You Alone

10:02  The English Beat - Too Nice To Talk To (Dubweiser)

14:51  Ziggy Marley and The Melody Makers - Tumblin Down (Dub)

19:17  Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark (Dub mix)

24:29  Bananarama - Summer Dub (Special C.B. Mix)

29:36  The Sugarcubes - Birthday (Justin Robertson Dub)

36:25  Modern English - I Melt With You (Carl Dubs The World)

41:12  Chapterhouse - Mesmerise (The Mesmerising Vocal mix)

45:26  Massive Attack - Angel (Mad Professor Vocal)

51:27  The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (Adelphi Remix)

56:05  Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood - Gettin to the Popint Dub (Adrian Sherwood 'Reset in Dub' Version)

59:35  Prince Fatty feat Shniece - The Model Dub (Kraftwerk)

62:46  Snares - Black Sabbath

67:48  Twilight Circus - Electric Africa

71:55  Blackfilm - Roadblocker Dub

77:08  Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Orion

84:48  Future Pilot AKA vs Cornershop - Teri Mitti Bani

91:25  Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? (Dub Vision feat Pappa Weasel)

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363 Punk's Not Dead

Nostalgic, solid punk rock.  Not that pop-punk stuff, which I could hardly stand.  Just angsty, raw, energetic and fun.  My take on the genre was that the more polished and produced it sounded, the less punk it really was.  

00:00  The Exploited - Punk's Not Dead

01:36  Gorilla Biscuits - High Hopes

03:58  Inside Out - By A Thread

06:14  Descendents - Myage

08:12  Citizen Fish - Refugees Go West

10:44  The Clash - Career Opportunities

12:33  X - Los Angeles

14:53  Evil Stig - Sign of the Crab

17:12  Vivian Girls - All The Time

19:04  Lush - Downer

21:36  The Darling Buds - It's All Up To You

23:53  Madder Rose - Lay Down Low

27:13  Siouxsie and The Banshees - Love In A Void

29:39  Godzuki - Gleason Rocket

32:04  Bunnygrunt - I Dated A Zombie

32:37  Devo - Recombo DNA (demo)

34:39  Eater - Lock It Up

36:29  Slant 6 - What Kind of Monster Are You

38:29  The Wipers - Don't Know What I Am

41:23  The Saints - Nights in Venice

46:58  The Damned - I Feel Alright

51:11  The Teen Idles - Sneakers

52:37  Warzone - Parasite

53:23  Youth Brigade - No Song

55:41  Subhumans - Parasites

58:16  Youth of Today - I Have Faith

59:55  Negative FX - Chunks

61:47  The Bruisers - Overthrow

63:38  Fishbone - Deep Inside

64:58  Red Hot Chili Peppers - Punk Rock Classic

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362 Hip Hop Down Other

A chill mix with plenty of variety, well chill after the bombastic opening and slightly out of place ending.  Came from digging up The Earthlings CD, and aching to revisit all those rare mixes from Portishead (maybe not so rare anymore).  The rest I filled in the gaps with some similarly themed songs.  I was happy to find those two guest appearances from Butterfly with Digable Planets, under his other monikers.  Love the Stereo MC's remix, but its Steve Hillage so what's not to enjoy there?  This Jah Wobble track has quickly become my daughter's favorite.  She loves chanting Om Namah Shiva, and likes telling the story of the white python she saw at the zoo named Shiva.  The Jack Danger's track from the Ginsberg tribute is quite a standout there, and harkens back to the Subliminal Sandwich era, where he still threw in fun tracks on his albums.  Found a great odd track from Modern English that I never would've suspected was theirs.  Then more Earthlings with a great track including Lemmy Kilmister and the Violent Femmes. Ending with Faithless, just because the song is like my name (real and alias).

00:00  The Earthlings - Active Programming

02:56  Twilight Circus - Highway (Meat Beat Manifesto remix)

08:27  All India Radio - Street Conversions (Remix)

12:08  Portishead - Lot More

16:28  Tek 9 feat Cheewa(Butterfly)- Gettin Down Again 

19:48  Stereo MC's - Fever (Steve Hillage Remix)

24:30  Jah Wobble - Om Namah Shiva

29:07  Jack Dangers - Holy Ghost on the Nod Over the Body of Bliss (Ginsburg)

32:48  Portishead - Still Numb

36:28  4 Hero feat Ish(Butterfly) - The Action (Shawn J Period remix)

39:57  All India Radio - Vega

44:41  Modern English - Film One

48:04  Portishead - Glory Box (Scorn)

54:05  The Earthlings - Sample Providing

56:05  The Beatnigs - Jazzy Beats

57:53  Faithless - Woozy

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361 Indie Folk covers

A lighter mood than the last two sets of covers.  The first track is admittedly ripped from  YouTube as there hasn't been a proper recording of it by Hannah Rarity, its such a fantastic rendition I couldn't resist including it.  Then a solid cover of Cat Stevens by Father John Misty.  Pretty sure I've shared this one before, its Antony covering Fleetwood Mac, making their music tolerable for me.  Another Frightened Rabbit cover, that was released before their recent tribute album "Tiny Changes."  J Mascis makes another appearance here, with a less noisy cover than his Cure one.  Marissa Nadler is a favorite, and honestly I prefer her sets of cover songs more than some of her albums.  My Morning Jacket doing an oldie the justice it deserves.  When I heard this about 10 years back, it made me nostalgic and I rewatched the movie with Corey Feldman and Jason Robards, which isn't the best but still enjoyable.  Next up is a perennial favorite, and even more enjoyable hearing the man in black team up with Joe Strummer.  Another Dinosaur Jr song?  It was listed as Dinosaur Jr, but its actually J Mascis solo.  Yeah, cause this one is so fantastic it had to be included here.  Following that gem up with another solid Smith's cover done with the thick accent from the Twilight Sad.  

I listed the next song by the artists names, as it wasn't officially a Monsters of Folk song or appearance, and yes I did truncate the ending because they keep going on and on, which I felt detracts from the rest of the great song.  I saw this track on Khayem's blog recently, doing a Suzanna Hoffs overview, and here it is again.  I never thought I'd see a Broadcast cover, but here it is from Of Montreal nonetheless.    Bonnie Pink doing a great service to another of my favorite bands, The Sundays.  Sturgill putting his country twang on a Nirvana classic which works very well in this style.  I had a hard time deciding between this and his cover of "The Promise."  Yo La Tengo had to make an appearance somewhere, I mean come on, they do the marathon of covers for WFMU's pledge drive every year and they can pretty much nail any song.  Bonnie Dobson from a Shirley Collins tribute album, which is one of those things where Shirley just arranged songs, so is it really a tribute when the artists are doing their own arrangements of traditional songs?  Still, love anytime I can give props to Shirley Collins, the secret Queen of England.  

I previously shared a lot of songs from Faye Wong on the Cocteau Twins posts here, and this time she's doing a pretty faithful cover of the Sundays.  As we near the end, I included Seu Jorge from the Life Aquatic soundtrack, which if you don't know is all Brazilian acoustic covers of David Bowie for the entire film.  Jose Gonzalez appears here with his emotional cover of Massive Attack.  Naevus, a neo-folk post-industrial group, gives their respect to Pink Floyd showing their influence spans genres.  Ending it with Kate Walsh (not the actress), I had to look it up to be sure) and her cover of Lush which I like a lot.  

00:00  Hannah Rarity - Poke (Frightened Rabbit)

03:21  Father John Misty - Trouble (Cat Stevens)

06:28  This Mortal Coil - You and Your Sister (Big Star)

09:41  Antony - Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)

13:06  Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Swim Until You Can't See Land (Frightened Rabbit)

16:35  J Mascis - Fade Into You (Mazzy Star)

21:09  Marissa Nadler - Sunday Morning Coming Down (Kris Kristofferson)

26:24  My Morning Jacket - Dream a Little Dream of Me (Andre/Kahn/Schwandt)

30:48  Joe Strummer & Johnny Cash - Redemption Song (Bob Marley)

34:08  J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr) - Boy with the thorn in his side (The Smiths)

35:59  The Twilight Sad - Half a Person (The Smiths)

39:27  M Ward, Conor Oberst & Jim James - Girl From The North Country (Dylan)

42:51  Rainy Day - I'll Keep It With Mine (Dylan)

46:10  Of Montreal - Color Me In (Broadcast)

47:58  Bonnie Pink - Through The Dark (The Sundays)

52:01  Sturgill Simpson - In Bloom (Nirvana)

56:00  Yo La Tengo - Take Care (Big Star)

58:27  Bonnie Dobson and The Lords of Thyme - Hares on the Mountain (Shirley Collins/trad)

61:13  Faye Wong - Wai Fei Jok Dai (The Sundays)

65:09  Seu Jorge - Quicksand (Bowie)

69:38  Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop (Massive Attack)

72:40  Naevus - Green is the Colour (Pink Floyd)

75:37  Kate Walsh - Monochrome (Lush)

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