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The Mixtapes

If we still lived in the age of the cassette I’d lovingly put this together for you on a TDK and pop it through your letter box (if, that is, letter boxes are still a thing). Anyway, instead, mixtapes from my ears to yours are available on mixcloud, where there is no need to craft hand-written labels that demonstrate my love and affection. Mostly, these mixtapes are what I’ve been listening to during the week; new releases, tunes I’ve encountered for the first time, old favourites and stuff I’ve dredged up – you know the score, you’ve got your own music collection. Hope you enjoy. x

Timeless melodies…

A rag bag of electronica, hip-hop, guitars and whiny mofos. Includes J Dilla, Positive K, Girl Ray, The La’s, Aphex Twin, De-Tu, Blur, Art School Girlfriend, Bush Tetras and more.

Track List

  1. J Dilla – Geek Down
  2. Positive K – Ain’t No Crime
  3. Public Enemy – Caught, Can We Get A Witness
  4. Aphex Twin – zin2 test5
  5. Dustin Wong – Janus Juggles
  6. De-Tu – Air Time
  7. Noissier – Stalker
  8. Avar Garden – Luminance
  9. Art School Girlfriend – Laugh My Head Off
  10. Girl Ray – Everybody’s Saying That
  11. Rain Parade – Green
  12. Bush Tetras – They Live in My Head
  13. Margaret Glaspy – Act Natural
  14. The La’s – Timeless Melody
  15. Domenico Scarlatti – Sonate K. 455
  16. Blur – The Ballad

Cooling showers, apricots and gillyflowers…

“Hot July brings cooling showers,
Apricots and gillyflowers.”
Sara Coleridge

17 tracks to build up a sweat, with Róisín Murphy, Ben Saviour, Behind the Border, Paris Texas, Andrew Bird, Big Thief, Blur, Spencer, MJ Lenderman and more.

Track List

  1. Bufi – El Jockey
  2. Ben Haviour – All Things Aligned
  3. Behind the Border – I Am No Baby
  4. VAGABON – Do Your Worst
  5. Mother Tongues – Only You
  6. Róisín Murphy – You Knew
  7. Spencer – Cool _ Cool
  8. OK Go – This
  9. MJ Lenderman – Rudolph
  10. Blur – St. Charles Square
  11. Paris Texas – tenTHIRTYseven
  12. Greta Van Fleet – Fate Of The Faithful
  13. Fatboi Sharif – Measuring Spoon Techniques
  14. Dua Lipa – Dance The Night
  15. Andrew Bird – Festivus
  16. Big Thief – Vampire Empire
  17. Nina Simone – Mississippi Goddam (Live)

Midweek madness…

“If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.”  – George Carlin

Track List

  1. Yard Act – The Trench Coat Museum
  2. Bully – All This Noise
  3. Lifeguard – Tell Me When
  4. Sweeping Promises – Connoisseur of Salt
  5. Keg – Farmhands
  6. Witch – Avalanche Of Love
  7. Michael Chapman – Polar Bear Fandango (2013 Remaster)
  8. Olivia Dean – UFO
  9. Wayne Phoenix – Nightswim
  10. Brigitte Bardot – Bonnie And Clyde
  11. JHNN – STOP
  12. Nujumi – The Magnifying Transmitter
  13. Manu Senent – Happy Holidays (Original Mix)
  14. BT – The Turing Test
  15. Ken Aoki – Qlat
  16. Kiefer – Dreamer
  17. Penguin Cafe – Welcome to London
  18. Nujumi – Tears

Transcending reality, we fall apart sideways…

A sonic collage that transcends genres and embraces Dream Wife, Do Nothing, Bdrmm, Grian Chatten, Olivia Dean, Brigid Mae Power, The Japanese House, David James Bianchi, John Thomas, Lipphead, Erdi Irmak, John Carroll Kirby, Dome and Dome, KLBSQ1N, Milow, and Akin.

Track List

  1. Dream Wife – Social Lubrication
  2. Do Nothing – Snake Sideways
  3. Bdrmm – We Fall Apart
  4. Grian Chatten – East Coast Bed
  5. Olivia Dean – Everybody’s Crazy
  6. Brigid Mae Power – I Must Have Been Blind
  7. The Japanese House – Boyhood
  8. David James Bianchi – Radioestesia
  9. John Thomas – Be Good
  10. Lipphead – Unisax Romper
  11. Erdi Irmak – Passage of Time (Erdi Irmak Re-Interpretation)
  12. John Carroll Kirby – So So So
  13. Dome and Dome – Torrebert
  14. KLBSQ1N – DETROIT’07
  15. Milow – Transcending Reality
  16. Akin – Playful Spirit
  17. Olivia Dean – No Man

Appreciating the sun…

Superhumans walk among the flowers, appreciating the sun, out there all the waking hours, who’s to say we’re wrong? A mixed bag of tunes, including tracks by FIZZ, Bishop Briggs, Arthur Russell, Coi Leray, Ian Otta, M. Ward, Monoed, Tim French, Save The Robots and more.

Track List

  1. M. Ward – Story of an Artist
  2. Arthur Russell – The Boy With a Smile
  3. Lloyd Cole – On Pain
  4. Wye Oak – Evergreen
  5. Whim Therapy – Dreams
  6. Coi Leray – Bitch Girl
  7. Portugal. The Man – Dummy
  8. Bishop Briggs – Bad
  9. FIZZ – High In Brighton
  10. Ian Otta – Cocktail Shaker
  11. Monoed – Breathe
  12. Shadowverse – Reverse II
  13. Tim French – Veritas (Truth)
  14. Save The Robots – Love in Motion (Extended Mix)
  15. Bishop Briggs – superhuman

Extremely loud and incredibly close…

“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.” Jonathan Safran Foer – Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close.

A mixed bag of tunes that probably have very little to do with Father’s Day – but I’d like to see the old man sat in the garden, turning his nose up at all of these due to the lack of Glenn Miller and Acker Bilk, while having his annual bottle of Mackeson stout. Includes tracks by Django Django, Bruno Major, Coach Party, Goat, Gustavo Mota, Hand Habits, Marc Mosca, Meshell Ndegeocello, Minimal Schlager, Porij, Paul Baule, Sparklehorse and more (you might notice I’ve been watching The Gallows Pole).

Track List

  1. Meshell Ndegeocello – Georgia Ave
  2. Nick Mulvey – Fever To The Form
  3. Sparklehorse – Evening Star Supercharger
  4. Hand Habits – Something Wrong
  5. Coach Party – All I Wanna Do Is Hate
  6. Goat – Gathering of Ancient Tribes
  7. Django Django – Gazelle
  8. George FitzGerald – Venera
  9. Overmono – So U Kno
  10. Marc Mosca – Tanz
  11. Gustavo Mota – House High
  12. Visage – Music Toy
  13. Porij – Can’t Stop
  14. Minimal Schlager – Three
  15. Grand Soleil – Terre
  16. Bruno Major – Tell Her
  17. Goat – Let it Burn
  18. Paul Baule – Illusionist

Hot fun in the summertime…

It’s getting hot out there so here are some sweaty tunes to rub in your Factor 50 to, with tracks from Keg, This Is The Kit, Squid, Youth Lagoon, Ghost of Vroom, feeble little horse, BT, Paul Baule and more.

Track List

  1. Sir Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations – Nimrod
  2. Youth Lagoon – Rabbit
  3. BT – k-means clustering (Producer’s Cut)
  4. Paul Baule – Oortic Clouds
  5. Anz – Clearly Rushing
  6. Gemini – An Earthly Groove
  7. Fila Brazillia – Throwing Down A Shape
  8. Ghost of Vroom – Still Getting It Done
  9. Squid – Undergrowth
  10. Keg – Kids
  11. feeble little horse – Freak
  12. This Is The Kit – Goodbye Bite
  13. Baby Rose – Go
  14. Kilder – What I Won’t Do
  15. Sir Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations – Nimrod

The future is real. The past is all made up…

As Logan Roy said, “The future is real. The past is all made up. Meeting over. F**k off.” A mixed bag of tunes including Nicholas Britell’s strings and 808 version of the Succession theme, Neutral Milk Hotel, Loyle Carner, new tracks from Dominik Eulberg, Bully, McKinley Dixon, Aisha Badru, W.I.T.C.H., Jaun Wauters and more.

Track List

  1. Nicholas Britell – Strings + 808 + Beat
  2. Lazy Salon – Deutzia
  3. W.I.T.C.H. – Waile
  4. Kölsch – Goldfisch
  5. Dominik Eulberg – Gelbspötter (Etapp Kyle Remix)
  6. Michael Mayer – For You (Solomun Morning Version)
  7. McKinley Dixon – Run, Run, Run
  8. Loyle Carner – The Isle Of Arran
  9. Juan Wauters – Milanesa al Pan
  10. Bully – Hard to Love
  11. Neutral Milk Hotel – Aunt Eggma Blow Torch
  12. Aisha Badru – Inside
  13. Neutral Milk Hotel – Marching Theme
  14. Lazy Salon – Freesia
  15. Aisha Badru – Move
  16. Ben Folds – Kristine From The 7th Grade
  17. Nicholas Britell – Andante in C Minor (Solo Piano Variation)

Drawing from the well of conclusions…

“The past is not for living in; it is a well of conclusions from which we draw in order to act.”John Berger

A sack of tunes including GHEIST, Gia Margaret, Aikon, Audion, Leaving Laurel, Hudson Mohawke, Clark and more.

Track List

  1. GHEIST – Impala (Original Mix)
  2. Greg Spero – Rising
  3. Gia Margaret – Ways of Seeing
  4. Little Dragon – Gold
  5. Aikon – Come Together
  6. Trilucid – Cheyenne
  7. Kastis Torrau – Menace
  8. Leaving Laurel – better days will come
  9. Audion – The Return of Losing It
  10. Dominik Eulberg – Grauspecht (Acid Pauli Remix)
  11. Hudson Mohawke – Demuro
  12. Clark – Alyosha

A pattern that continuously changes…

A sack of tunes, mostly new releases, including Aja Monet, Big Hands, Alex Lahey, Leaving Laurel, Genesis Owusu, KAYTRAMINÉ, YBU and Morpheus.

Track List

  1. Aja Monet – Why My Love
  2. Thought Trails – With U
  3. Big Hands – A square, a circle
  4. dodie – Special Girl
  5. Alex Lahey – Good Time
  6. Tanlines – New Reality
  7. Sir Chloe – Salivate
  8. Kieran Hebden – Darkness, Darkness
  9. Leaving Laurel – and those guardian angels carried you away
  10. Clemente – Now I’m Fucked Up
  11. Morpheus – No Hustle
  12. James Harcourt – Refraction
  13. Ke$ha – Only Love Can Save Us Now
  14. Genesis Owusu – Leaving The Light
  15. KAYTRAMINÉ – Who He Iz
  16. Roisin Murphy – The Universe
  17. YBU – Alma de Bruja