Mixed Tape Project: progress report

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Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Snotty nosed punkxxx

I am a recent joinee of 8tracks. And you really do need to wade through the 15 year old indie hit mix tapes and dubstep mixes to find gold.
Man. SO MUCH DUBSTEP!!!!
Anyhow my favourite mix I have found is titled 'Punk Songs with Saxophone'. I love mix tapes with a very clear and direct theme. And you know this tape has actually changed my mind about the saxophone and has alerted me that the sax is alright.
Here is the link....
http://8tracks.com/singlesgoingsteady/punk-songs-with-saxophone

And while we are on the theme of favourites....
I have had the cassette for UK Squeeze 'Cool for Cats' on display on my bedroom side table for about a year now. I have been putting other tapes on the top of the pile for months now but the aesthetic pleasure this tape oozes is undeniable I tell you. It always makes it way back on the top of the pile.
Here it is in all its geometric glory (and yes that is cat fur this tape is resting on...)

And and finally we are in the process of reformatting the be-jebus out of this project. Watch out world a cassette may be completed in the near future!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Post out today!

Just put together a packaged and posted out the 1997 tape to a lucky lady!

Monday, March 7, 2011

Gold Star

A gold star goes to our latest mixed tape collaborator who posted the tape back in the speediest of time! Amazing! He kept to the time limit! Ahhh it has restored my faith in the project....
He added this song to the 1997 tape and doubly put a smile on my face

So next round of posting will happen tomorrow with 1997 and open theme hitting the postal system and possibly your postal box. I am also going to re-enter the Winter themed tape, as sadly, it is upon us.

Farewell summer you were rad! I will always remember the time I was on a rooftop and el guincho played. And when Beach House came to town and I fell in love again. Oh and when we smashed pinatas on a rooftop and sat in the park and reached ultimate chill levels.
xx Love you summer xx

Thursday, August 26, 2010

progress report: nineties jammin' but no Pearl Jam

This came in the mail today as a supplement to the '97 mixtape. Apparently the author of this tape was responsible for a similar mix-tape-projectesque experiment years earlier. What do you know.

side A

morning glory - oasis

i want to be there when you come - echo and the bunnymen

elevate me later - pavement

in bloom - nirvana

invisible man - the breeders

blow out - radiohead

unwind - sonic youth

olson - boards of canada

side B

0x4 - ride

held - smog

sometimes - my bloody valentine

softer softest - hole

ignoreland - r.e.m

feel the pain - dinosaur jnr

mars - television

The song chosen for the 1997 tape itself is "You're So Great" by Blur, and came with this thoughtful little note:

In other news, Wintersongs has made it's belated return, and now sounds like this

Monday, August 9, 2010

Progress report: August

It's been about a month or so since the first blank tapes were sent out to be sullied by wicked tunes. Here is the first progress report:

TAPE 1 "open themed" has been lost in the post.

TAPE 2 "Wintersongs" Kicked off with Aztec Camera's cry, Walk Out To Winter. However, the second track was taking such a stubborn long time to get taped that "Wintersongs" has been cancelled. A replacement Spring/Summer line is expected in time for paddlepop lick-a-prize season.

TAPE 3 "1997" is coming along nicely. Who doesn't love '97? The first track is Avalanches Rock City.

TAPE 4 "open theme" Is a secret until I can work out how to upload songs, words don't really do justice. A clue is: early 80's new-wave eccentricity.

and now...

another mixtape for grimey creepy chills. If in doubt, ask yourself, "what would Casper do?"

ALL TAPES COME WITH BAD QUALITY CASSETTE THEMED FAKE-TATTOOS! SEE IMAGE ABOVE!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Another 'un

Flooding the market. Because who can be blessed waiting for a turn?

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

1997!!

Why 1997? Well that was the year I got seriously into music and became a sullen angsty teenager that is why.
I had very few friends in the town of Woy Woy on the NSW Central Coast and would watch Recovery every Saturday morning and sit by the radio every night listening to triple J with my fingers at the ready to record the latest track I was into onto a cassette.
I had a very crude catalogue system for each tape. They were all numbered and I had the corresponding track listings typed and printed and filed into a folder.
Sigh. If only I still had that folder.....
A comment on the 1997 musical number above
The Avalanches - El Producto came out in 1997. I only saw them live once at a Sydney Big Day Out and the sound was really bad and they kept on having major technical difficulties. After a few tracks they had to stop the show because nothing was working. Sad times.

Monday, June 28, 2010

It's begun

Finally, finally after much wait the first tapes are out there. They follow three fine themes:

TAPE 1 - OPEN THEME

This needs no explanation, it is the mixed bag of compilations. Mints, jubes, licorice - it's all a matter of taste, right?

TAPE 2 - WINTERSONGS

For the songs that you can't get out of your head this winter, listened to endlessly on repeat over the hum of a fan-forced heater. For songs that remind you of July, through mention of snow or chill or cold-blooded killers. Songs for listening to indoors, with windows shut and the volume turned up. But please - no Frosty The Snowman.

TAPE 3 - 1997

The year the Spice Girls numbed the minds of primary school girls world-wide. Also the year of The Titanic, The Castle, Stuart Diver and Tony Blair. Princess Diana passed away and left us to contend with Elton John's Candle In The Wind. But lots of good things happened, too. See Michelle's list below.

(ps, I did know every word of Wannabe. Even the faux-rap section.)

Monday, June 7, 2010

The beginning...