MARGO HATES ME

My friend Margo returned to town and wanted to know what was happening in music.

I said I'd make her a mix.

She said she hated my mixes - especially because they are just one long mp3 with no track list.

Here's my round up of the first half of 2011 just for Margo (no track list available).

♫ MARGO HATES MIXES MIX (click to download)

20 OF 2010

Does what it says on the tin.
Download here:
♫ 20 OF 2010

Jog On

If you're feeling inspired, here's the mix I made for myself to soundtrack my shorter training runs. I saved it for the last 10K of the Marathon, but actually found that by then neither music, nor adrenaline, nor gels, nor spiritual enlightenment, was ever going to help me go any faster.

♫ 10KMIX (DOWNLOAD)

Fatlip - What's Up Fatlip?/Today's Your Day
Devin the Dude - What A Job
Devo - Whip It
Bloc Party - The Prayer (Does It Offend You, Yeah? Mix)
Feist - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Mix)
Caribou - Sundialing
Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Phoenix - North
Blur - Sing
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Vampire Weekend - Walcott
Hot Chip - Out At The Pictures
Graham Coxon - Freakin' Out
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
QOTSA - You Think I Aint Worth A Dollar But I Feel Like A Millionaire
(Warmdown Bonus Track)

ENJOY!

For Ana

Sorry we missed your birthday. Here's a belated gift.

♫ Nappytime 2 Mix (DOWNLOAD)

The XX - Hot Like Fire (Aaliyah cover)
Max Richter - Lullaby From The Westcoast Sleepers
Pedro - Assembled By 33
Memory Tapes - Swimming Field
High Places - From Stardust
Nosaj Thing - Quest
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsam
Caribou - Sinuses
Worrytrain - Hospitalized
Dakota Suite - The End Of Trying Part Iii (Hannu.mp3
Cocteau Twins - Cherry-Coloured Funk (Seefeel Mix)
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Johann Johannsson - The Flat
Zbigniew Preisner - Meditation
Ólafur Arnalds - 0952


kx

Melt Down Mix

♫ Melt Down Mix

Parsley Sound - Stevie
The Flaming Lips - Borderline
Pictureplane - Goth Star
Gold Panda - Quitter's Raga
Miwon - Darting Ropes
July Skies - Corinivm
Gang Gang Dance - Dust
Four Tet - She Just Likes To Fight
Akiko Kiyama / Karel Fialka - Misida Monarchy / The Things I Saw
Matias Aguayo - Rollerskate
Caribou - Jamelia
F.S.K. - My Funny Valentine
A-ha vs Songsmith - Take On Me

For Saul

First ever mix for my boy. He loves to dance for as long as mum or dad's back will take it.*

♫ Saul Loves Dancing

* - not long.

Merry Xmix

Here's a mix to soothe your port-addled brow. Press play, turn off the lights, and lie down on the bed. With best wishes.

♫ Horrid Horrid Xmas

Part i)
John Convertino - When Mass Was said in Latin
Low - Will the Night
Maria Kalaniemi & Timo Alakotila - Lappfjärd
The Innocence Mission - Follow Me
Tunde Adebimpe - Unknown Legend
Fikret Kizilok - Just As Long
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Keep Me In Mind Sweetheart
Sibylle Baier - Tonight
Erik Enocksson - The Joy of D.H. Lawrence
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie Billy - Then the Letting Go
Bruce Langhorne - Arch Leaves

Part ii)
Brian Eno & Harold Budd - The Chill Air
Paul Cantelon - Theme for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Giant Sand - Spiral
The Real Tuesday Weld - I Loved London
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - God Is In The House
Phosphorescent - Endless Pt.2
Goldmund - Marching Through Georgia
Gavin Bryars - Tramp & T.W. w/ Full Strings

A Venezia Mix

Last of these for a while.

The songs and the art of this mix have a mystery connection.

I'll send a drawing to anyone who guesses what it is. If no one

gets it I'll keep the drawing and rip it up, (with mascara

running down my cheeks).

♫ A Venezia Mix

For my fellow insomniacs

♫ Nappytime

Evan Lurie - Love Lost

Grinderman - Man On The Moon

Deaf Center - Eloy

Chin Chin - Last Piano

The Mamas And The Papas - Dream A Little Dream Of Me

Helios - First Dream Called Ocean/Vargtimme

A Small, Good Thing - Saloon Dreams

Matmos - For The Trees

A Hawk And A Hacksaw - Portlandtown

Gabor Szabo - Some Velvet Morning

Gastr Del Sol - Black Horse

Blur - Sing

Mogwai - Punk Rock

Library Tapes - Cold Leaves For the Violent Ground

The Smiths - Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me

Durutti Column - Royal Infirmary

Helios - Emancipation

Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - Crazy, Crazy Nights

Smog - To Be of Use

Jim O'Rourke - Halfway To A Threeway

William Basinski - Melancholia 3

Miserable Summer Mix

♫ Miserable Summer

Sebastien Tellier - Classic

Inara George - Everybody Knows
Kinski - Semaphore (KEXP Radio Version)
Pure Reason Revolution - The Bright Ambassadors Of Morning

Midlake - Young Bride
The Everly Brothers - I Wonder If I Care As Much
Matt Elliott - Trying To Explain

M. Craft - Sweets
Laura Veirs - Galaxies
Rogue Wave - You
El Perro Del Mar - Party
The Clientele - Ariadne Sleeping
Leila - To Tell A Lie
Shona People Of Rhodesia - Taireva
Katzenjammers - Cars

Shut happens

Currently preoccupied with un-knotting a large

ball of plot string. Here's another old mix.

♫ Shut Happens

Izzy Royal - Coronation Dub
Poni Hoax - Budapest (feat. Olga Kouklaki)
Bat For Lashes - Sarah
Jenny Wilson - Summer Time - The Roughest Time
Black - Wonderful Life
Bo Kaspers Orkester - Ett & Noll
Hanne Hukkelberg - Do Not As I Do
The Shins - Sleeping Lessons
Le Volume Courbe - Ain't Got No... I Got Life
Peter Bjorn And John - Amsterdam
Grand National - Peanut Dreams
Phoenix - North
Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
Feist - Inside And Out
Ann Peebles - I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
Alfred C. Priestley Stage Band - Cisco Kid
Ry Cooder - Chinito Chinito
The Chris Barber Band - Cat Call

For Harriet

I have a load of old mixes I made for the ill-fated iMix Club.

Hopefully I'll find time to make a new one by the time I have

recycled these. This was my first, pedestrian attempt.

♫ Melancholy Mix

Gonzalez - Overnight
Neil Young - Man Needs A Maid
Dustin O'Halloran - Opus #12
Steve Buscemi & Bronson Dudley - Korea/Career
Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage
TV On The Radio - Modern Romance [Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover]
The Earlies - Wayward Song
Dennis Wilson & Rumbo - Lady
Jeff Alexander - Come Wander With Me
Max Richter - Written On The Sky
Neil Young - Do You Know How To Use This Weapon / Organ Solo
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
Gorillaz - Hong Kong
The Boats - Jumble
Milosh - Something Good
Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree
Wilco - How To Fight Loneliness
Sigmatropic (feat. Akis Boyatzis) - Haiku 14(a)
Elliott Smith - Bye

Free music

Here's a mix I did for lovely Mia.



♫ All The Ladies

You can download it, but regretfully you can never marry me.
Sorry.

Josephine Foster - Wehmut
Soap&Skin - Brother Of Sleep
Santogold - Lights Out (Diplo's Panda Bear Mix)
Stina Nordenstam – People Are Strange
The Dø – On My Shoulders
Feist - It's Cool to Love Your Family
Joan As Policewoman - Christobel
Barbara Morgenstern - The Operator
Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone (Metronomy Remix)
Jenny Wilson - Summer Time - The Roughest Time
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Hysteric
Bat For Lashes - Daniel
Calico Horse - Idioteque
The Innocence Mission - Sweep Down Early
The Bird & The Bee (w/Sia) - How Deep Is Your Love
El Perro Del Mar - Inner Island