Bonus Mix- the Best of US

A special Xmas bonus for all of you Mix-a-day believers. Not an official Mix-a-day mix but i just uploaded a mix of recent US underground stuff as part of an exchange with Howie of the AMAZING Scottish ensemble Tattie Toes and i figured i might as well share it here. Entirely made up of music by friends and friends of friends. Luckily my friends make pretty great music. Some overlap with previous mixes and certainly some w/ mixes to come. No track list here- like i said, unofficial! Big thanks to Greg Harvester for the County Z & Red Herring tracks.
Download it here.

THE Return of Mix-A-Day! Mix #32- Closing Night

SGNLS playing my closing reception/going-away party

While a hand injury is preventing me from making too much art right now, I decided to temporarily(?) revive this project after the encouragement of a few friends. I can't believe it's been almost a year since I abandoned this project to the desolate wastes of the internet. I can guarantee postings will be sporadic and unpredictable from here on out, so if you care to keep up on 'em, i suggest you "follow" me with the "Join this Site" button on the left. Or check back often.
This mix is based on the music i played between bands at my going-away party (for those who don't know, I moved from Philly to Providence this summer), which also doubled as the closing reception for the installation Staring at the Cracks. I asked a few friends to play- Sgnls, Color Is Luxury, & Geb the Great Cackler- and had a big spread of food & beverage and an epic print sale.

Unfortunately, I didn't remember I had a camera on me until the end of the night! Yes, it was held in a disused office complex which added an extra element of surreality to the evening.
Anyway, I included songs from each of the acts that played that night, along with edited versions of the smooth segues I played between them. A lot of psychedelia, as that seemed like the common thread that bound them all, plus there was a kickass sound-system set up for the install that really showed off kooky stereo effects nicely.
Get it here.

TRACKLIST-
1. Larkin Grimm- Going Out
2. Geb the Great Cackler- Bes the musical Dwarf God
3. Brute Heart- Eclipse
4. Mother Of Fire- Deaths Apprentice
5. Emmanuelle Parrenin- Topaze
6. New Age Steppers- Private Army Dub
7. Color Is Luxury- "June Preview"
8. Kevin Ayers- The Confessions Of Doctor Dream - A. Irreversible Neural Damage
9. Dickens- Genocide
10. Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes- Le Petite Fille Aux Fraises
11. Inga Rumpf & I.D Company- Bum-Bum
12. Parson Sound- 10 Minuter
13. Amon Düül II- Henriette Krötenschwanz
14. SGNLS- Through the Looking Glass/Hold

WELCOME

I will be creating a mix of music & other auditory ephemera every day for the month of January 2010. They'll be posted here in downloadable form. This project is a part of Art Clash's annual Fun-A-Day project.
If you listen, please leave a comment & let me know what you think. If you are one of the musicians/groups featured within these mixes and wish not to be included, please drop a line and I'll edit you out.

Mix #31- Last Chance

Well, here we are at the last day of January, and the last official mix of Mix-A-Day. This project has been met w/ a surprising and gratifying amount of enthusiasm. It feels like everywhere I go people want to talk with me about it. I appreciate all the positive feedback and it really makes me want to keep the whole thing going in some way, shape or form. I'm not really sure what that should be- obviously, making a mix every day is a lot of work if you're going to put some intention into it, and I'm fairly burnt out at this point. But I would like to keep sharing the music I love with people....
So I thought I'd throw the question out to you out there, my largely anonymous & silent internet audience. Should I keep things going as Mix-a-Week? Mix-a-month? get a radio show? figure out what the hell a podcast is? or just go back to hanging out w/ bands and making friends mixes?
Anyways, here's the last official mix of Mix-a-Day, and I dug out some old favorites for it. I hope you enjoy it, and if you've appreciated the project, please leave a comment!
Download here.
TRACKLIST-
1. Those Lovely Hula Hands- Menevät Miehet
2. The Holy Modal Rounders- The I.W.W. Song
3. Henry Flynt- Violin Strobe
4. Ju Suk Reet Meate- untitled
5. Kazuki Tomokawa- unknown
6. Katherina Ex with Iva Bittova- unknown
7. Kampec Dolores- Levitacio(levitation)
8. Už Jsme Doma- Mu Je Ha
9. Pere Ubu- Go
10. The Girls- Jeffrey I Hear You
11. Steve Lake - Dancin (version)
12. Colin Potter- Power
13. The Homosexuals- My Night Out
14. Scritti Politti- Is and Ought the Western World
15. The Slits- Man Next Door
16. Dr. Alimantado- I Shall Fear No Evil
17. Prince Jazzbo- Crime Don't Pay
18. Vivien Goldman - Private Army Dub
19. The Mekons- Another Set Of Teeth
20. The Clash- Lose This Skin

Mix #30- Science Fiction

This is a belated response to a request for a "sci-fi" mix some anonymous person requested a while back. I was excited to make this mix, as I love science fiction, and in fact had a hard time whittling it down to a CD-length mix. I even avoided some more obvious classics- I mean, a sci-fi mix with no Chrome, Hawkwind or "Flying Saucer Attack" by the Rezillos? I also realized that most of the science-fiction oriented songs I have & enjoy focus a lot more on kitsch and cheezy synth sounds, while in literature I tend to favor more serious dystopian/utopian speculative fiction.
Download here.
TRACKLIST-
1. Utah Smith- Take A Trip
2. Sun Ra- Outer Spaceways Incorporated
3. Ornette Coleman- Science Fiction
4. Bernard Sjazner- Bene Gesserit
5. Rita Lee- Superficie Do Planeta
6. Inner City Sound- Watching the Grass Grow
7. Lesser Known Neutrinos- Warm December Day
8. Take It- Man Made World
9. Len Liggins - Sandwiches
10. Spizz Energi- Where's Captain Kirk?
11. Sparks- In the Future
12. Suburban Lawns- Jam the Controls
13. Clikitat Ikatowi- Science Fiction Reality
14. A-Frames- Nobot
15. Meltdown- Alien Autopsy
16. Metalux- Radioactivating Foam
17. The Scissor Girls- Atomic Boys / Love-Sick
18. Androids Of Mu- Lost In Space
19. Conceputol- The Space Invaders
20. Radio Free Europe- Alien Day
21. Plastics- Robot
22. Metal Urbain- Futurama
23. Simply Saucer- Here Come the Cyborgs (Part 1)
24. Red Krayola- Transparent Radiation

Mix #29- Kitchen Window

I'm getting tired of this. Are you getting tired of this? Maybe I'm just tired...
Get it here, if you want it.

TRACKLIST-
1. Big Star- Stroke It Noel
2. Arthur Russell- Nobody Wants A Lonely Heart
3. Silver Jews- Random Rules
4. Bob Dylan- Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
5. Mayo Thompson- Good Brisk Blues
6. Buffy Sainte-Marie- He's a Keeper Of the Fire
7. Old Time Relijun- The Door I Came Through Has Been Closed
8. Michael Yonkers Band- Smile Awhile
9. Egor I Opisdanevshie- Sem Shagov Za Gorizont
10. Mizutama Shobodan- A Loving Frog On A Shopping Block
11. Sandra Bell- Chord
12. Stereolab & Nurse With Wound- Exploding Head Movie
13. Clothilde- La Queue Du Chat
14. Vashti Bunyan- Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind

Mix #28- Modular Clouds

It makes sense to me, but I can't explain it.
Download here.
TRACKLIST-
1. Erik Satie- Gnossienes No. 1
2. Gastr Del Sol- Eight Corners
3. Joe Maneri- Mountains
4. Black Ox Orkestar- Violin Duet
5. Rosa Eskenazi- Ime Prezakias
6. Naftule Brandwein- Der Ziser Bulgar
7. Dagmar Krause- German Miserere
8. Jewlia Eisenberg- Bed/café
9. Schizmatics- Vazen Vol
10. Fred Frith- Lelekovice (for iva bittova)
11. Steve Reich- Different Trains: After the War
12. Sufjan Stevens- They Also Mourn Who Do Not Wear Black (For The Homeless In Muskegon)
13. Pascal Comelade- La Malédiction du Pharaon