449 Vinyl Rips - Mix 3 Dark Ambient

Despite the title, this isn't really that dark.  In my opinion these are accessible entry points to several of these artists.  

00:00  Andreas Martin and Christoph Heeman - Untitled (Robot Records 20)

03:52  Andrew Liles - 2662002 (33rpm version)

05:13  DJ Spooky - B08 (Presents Haunted Battle Breaks)

07:43  Cyclobe - Replaced by His Constellation

15:18  irr. app. (ext.) - Hypothetical Tardigrade Resurrection #1

21:06  Mimir - Side A (Brainwashed)

25:07  Muslimgauze - Kaliskinazure

27:44  Wermut feat His Divine Grace - Sandkreuz 

29:57  Beequeen - Fab!

33:02  Pantaleimon - Trees Hold Time

37:13  Andreas Martin - Untitled remix (Robot Records 29)

40:00  Ora - The Sun Sheds a Golden Tear

49:30  Songs of Norway and Earth Trumpet - Hubbard

53:27  Seefeel - Tied

59:20  Greymachine - We Are All F*%king Liars (version)

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449 Vinyl Rips - Mix 2 Punk

The second mix is nearly all punk, a couple hardcore/metal tracks at the end.  A lot of 7" in this set, because that is pretty much a staple for the genre.  

00:00  Warzone - Face Up To It (Live)

02:11  Dropkick Murphys - I've Had Enough (Live) (Slapshot)

03:47  The Bruisers - Police Oppression (Angelic Upstarts)

06:06  Pines of Nowhere - Soul is Sould

08:05  FYP - Untamed and Useless

09:50  Motards - Yo Tengo Mexico

10:59  Four - Punkest Way To Die (live)

12:24  Naked Aggression - Right Now

15:12  The Starvations - Bloodshot Eyes (Because of You)

17:31  The Diplomats - Change Your Ways

19:54  Swingin Utters - Almost Brave

20:59  FYP - Out of Range

22:20  Teengenerate - Out of Sight

23:43  Nobodys - God Is Dead

25:06  Falling Sickness - Out of Line

26:33  Dropkick Murphys - Boys on the Docks

28:53  Tsunami - Courage (Minutemen)

31:09  Motards - Crazy

32:44  Pretty Girls Make Graves - Liquid Courage

36:04  The Rapture - The Chair That Squeaks

38:08  Stars as Eyes - Important Youth Movement

41:56  Jawbox - It's Expected I'm Gone (Minutemen)

44:08  The Budos Band - Medley Ince Ince You Keep Me Hanging On

47:58  The Convocation Of - Beyond the Beyond

52:03  Crackerbash - The World According to Nouns (Minutemen)

54:35  Youth Brigade - Spies for Life

57:34  Noisem - Skull Full Of Maggots (Cannibal Corpse)

58:47  Riwen - Karlsgrundet 

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449 Vinyl Rips - Mix 1 Dub

The next eight mixes are all my vinyl rips.  Expect all the cracks and pops and nostalgia that comes from this format.  I've not made any effort to EQ or clean up the tracks in post so that this retains all that natural charm as when I play these slices of vinyl at home. 

I buy a lot of vinyl, either albums I love so much I want them in this format or albums/EPs that are rare and scarce on Spotify, YouTube or the blogosphere.  There are several tracks in these collections that have never been re-released on CD or digitally, though most of them have been.  Also, there are a couple tracks from the same album, usually a compilation like BSI Docking Sequence or the Minutemen Tribute "Our Band Could Be Your Life," mostly because those comps are amazing and I couldn't limit myself to just one song.

This first mix focuses on my passion for Dub.  

00:00  Prince Fatty - Got Your Money (Dub)

03:20  The Inversions - Conscience is Heavy (Lover like me version)

06:25  Charles Bradley - Strike Three (The Inversions)

10:09  Bob & Gene - I Can Be Cool (version)

13:50  The Frightnrs - Dispute (Version)

17:22  Al Cisneros - Version

20:57  Antibalas - Tattletale pt2

23:37  Prince Fatty feat Horesman - Gin N Juice

27:16  Messenjah - Jah Come

30:47  Alpha and Omega - Wicked Man Drop (BSI Dubplate)

34:50  Tino - Elegant Dub

39:51  Hollie Cook feat Prince Fatty and Horseman - Sugar Water (Look at my face)

43:30  Al Cisneros - Levitation Dub

46:40  Muslimgauze - Untitled (BSI)

48:30  Badawi - False Dub

51:14  Dub Specialists - Silence

56:43  Sound Secretion - Perpetual Next

59:59  Laswell Co Produced by Scotty Hard feat - Checkpoint 0.1

63:36  The Orb feat Lee Perry - Fuzzball (Deadbeat's Champions League Dub)

71:26  Lustmord - Dub Awakening (JKB remix - test pressing)

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448 More Covers

Thus wrapping up my selection of cover songs.  Hope there was something of interest in this series.  More to come once I compile some more tracks and build more mixes.  

00:00  Los Aggrotones - Spooky (Classics IV)

04:06  Devendra Banhart - Forget About Him (Kath Bloom)

07:18  Richard Cheese - Gin & Juice (Snoop Dogg)

09:39  Bjork - Its Oh So Quiet (Hutton/Reisfeld)

13:12  DubXanne feat EASED from SEEED - Roxanne (The Police)

18:47  Easy Star All-Stars feat Sluggy Ranks - Speak To Me / Breathe (In The Air) (Pink Floyd)

22:20  311 - Love Song (The Cure)

25:40  Sly & Robbie feat Ambilique - Walking On The Moon (The Police)

29:43  Prince Fatty and the Mutant HiFi feat Little Roy - Come As You Are (Nirvana)

33:42  Kirsty MacColl - A New England (Billy Bragg)

37:21  Johnny Cash - I See A Darkness (Bonnie Prince Billy)

40:55  Sturgill Simpson - The Promise (When In Rome)

45:10  Marissa Nadler - My Proud Mountains (Townes Van Zandt)

49:52  Soccer Mommy - Dagger (Slowdive)

54:08  Luna - Fire in Cairo (The Cure)

57:29  Concrete Blonde - Everybody Knows (Leonard Cohen)

61:59  Antony and the Johnsons - Soft Black Stars (Current 93)

66:25  Nick Cave - Helpless (Neil Young)

70:45  Lucy Dacus - In The Air Tonight (Phil Collins)

76:11  Julie's Haircut - The Tarot (Jodorowsky)

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447 Harder Covers

A mix my mother would've enjoyed, or at least told me she did.  Today is her birthday, and it is now eight years since she passed.  She was very supportive of me and my musical endeavors.  I have great memories of her sneaking off to independent record stores to find those really obscure and hard to track down albums I was always searching for.  I shared a good story about her on this mix.  I have tried many times to make a mix just for her, and every time my heart starts to hurt and I cannot finish it. 

00:00  Pixies - Head On (Jesus and Mary Chain)

02:08  Husker Du - Eight Miles High (The Byrds)

05:52  Ramones - Do You Wanna Dance? (Bobby Freeman)

07:44  Descendents - Wendy (The Beach Boys)

09:56  Mariachi el Bronx - Love Sick (Bob Dylan)

13:31  The House of Love - Pink Frost (The Chills)

16:51  Calexico - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division)

21:06  Primus - Making Plans for Nigel (XTC)

24:29  New Order - Turn the Heater On (Keith Hudson)

29:26  Peter Murphy - Final Solution (Pere Ubu)

34:09  Soccer Mommy - Soak Up The Sun (Sheryl Crow)

39:05  Fontaines DC - Cello Song (Nick Drake)

44:03  Our Broken Garden - Breathe (Pink Floyd)

47:36  Sonic Youth - I'm Not There (Dylan)

52:21  R.E.M. - Superman (The Clique)

55:07  Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam (The Vaselines)

58:16  Minutemen - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

60:38  Primus - Have A Cigar (Pink Floyd)

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446 Quirky Covers

00:00  Bunnygrunt - Love Theme From MST3K (Best Brains/MST3K)

01:40  The Cardigans - Das Model ('00) (Kraftwerk)

04:24  The Bouncing Souls - Don't You (Forget About Me) (Simple Minds)

09:01  The Legendary Pink Dots - Super (Neu!)

13:17  Iron Horse - Renegade (Styx)

17:16  Calexico - Corona (Minutemen)

20:31  Mexrissey - El Primero Del Gang (Morrissey)

25:32  Johnny Aloha - Vacation (Lindsey Buckingham)

27:57  Faith No More - Lets Lynch the Landlord (Dead Kennedys)

30:49  Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

33:27  Mars Volta - Birthday (Sugarcubes)

37:41  Marsha Qrella - Pink Frost (The Chills)

42:12  Piney Gir - I Want To Touch You (Catherine Wheel)

46:22  Prince Fatty - Got Your Money (O.D.B.)

49:42  The Limianas - Mother Sky (Can)

55:23  Melvins - Trackfive (Throbbing Gristle)

62:27  Primus - Hello Skinny/Constantinople (The Residents)

67:08  The Guitaraculas - Love's Secret Domain (Coil)

70:24  Of The Wand and The Moon - Untitled (Der Blutharsch)

73:36  Jesu - The Funeral Party (The Cure)

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