Another Pint

1. Half Man Half Biscuit - I Hate Nerys Hughes

2. Comet Gain - If I Had a Soul

3. Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

4. Felt - The Day the Rain Came Down

5. The Business - Last Train to Clapham Junction

6. Dexys Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long

7. The Fall - Rowche Rumble

8. The Byrds - My Back Pages

9. Another Sunny Day - You Should All Be Murdered

10. The Shop Assistants - All Day Long (long version)

Mechanics

1. Lush - Desire Lines

2. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Loitering

3. Felt - Evergreen Dazed

4. Asobi Seksu - Strawberries (Daytrotter Session)

5. Colleen - Summer Water

6. Cocteau Twins - Little Spacey

7. The Durutti Column - Sketch For Winter

8. The Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out of Control

9. Honey Townsend - The World Again

10. Portishead - Deep Water

The Crying Meme

1. Emo girl crying over the news

2. Aphex Twin - Wet Tip Hen Ax

3. The Human League - Being Boiled

4. Orbital - Crash and Carry

5. The Future Sound of London - Antique Toy

6. 3 year old crying over Justin Bieber

7. Autechre - Clipper

8. Aphex Twin - On [D-Scape Mix]

9. Best Cry Ever

10. Underworld - Moon in Water

Hyde Park in the Grey Drizzle, London, 1937

1. Them. My Lonely Sad Eyes

2. The Jam, The Place I Love

3. The Small Faces, Patterns

4. The Boo Radleys, Boo Faith!

5. Primal Scream, Gentle Tuesday

6. Little Insects, Horseriding

7. The Siddeleys, What Went Wrong This Time?

8. The Wedding Present, My Favourite Dress

9. Little John & The Monks, Black Winds

10. Sandie Shaw & The Smith, I Don't Owe You Anything

11. The Paragons, On The Beach

12. Stornoway, Zorbing

13. Scott Walker, My Death

Football, Football, Football

1. Diego Maradona scores against England in the 1986 World Cup

2. The Soulmates - Them a Laugh and a Ki Ki

3. Mitchell & Webb - Football, Football, Football

4. The Charlatans - Nine Acre Court (live at Delemere Forest)

5. Dexys Midnight Runners - The Teams That Meet in Caff's

6. The Pioneers - Longshot Kick De Bucket

7. Half Man Half Biscuit - Dukla Prague Away Kit

8. Morrissey - Michael's Bones

9. Liverpool Supporters- You'll Never Walk Alone

10. George Best

11. The Fall - Kicker Conspiracy

Save Him Some Cake

1. Eric Stanley - Fuck You! (Cee-Lo Green cover)

2. Adrian Munsey, His Orchestra, and His Sheep - The Lost Sheep

3. Stereolab - Laissez Faire

4. The Wake - Brit Mix

5. Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

6. Laetitia Sadier - Un Soir, Un Chien

7. Saint Etienne - Spring (Foxbase Beta)

8. Watoo Watoo - The Midnight Song, Part II

9. The Wake - Provincial Disco

10. Elizabeth City State - Year of the V-neck

11. Crescentius Mixtapes - Lake Isle of Oscillate Wildly (WB Yeats/The Smiths)

The Dawning of Worldwide Peace

1. JS Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV244, Wer Hat Dich So Geschlagen

2. Colleen - Mining in the Rain

3. CD Wright - Floating Trees

4. Julee Cruise - Floating

5. Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers

6. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Twilight

7. PJ Harvey - Broken Harp

8. Almeda Riddle - Worldwide Peace

I've Been Sending You Signals

1. Autechre - Eutow

2. Goldfrapp - Fly Me Away [C2 Remix 4]

3. Orbital - Don't Stop Me

4. the xx - Islands (Nosaj Thing Remix)

5. Ultravox - Vienna

6. esthing - enimo vagrant

7. Aphex Twin - Didgeridoo

8. Chemical Brothers - Star Guitar

9. Nosaj Thing - Aquarium

10. Flying Lotus - Massage Situation

11. Diego Bernal - Velcro Flow

12. Matthew Dear - Don & Sherri (Hot Chip Remix)

13. This Mortal Coil - Acid, Bitter and Sad

14. Dusty Springfield - Learn to Say Goodbye

Science Fair

This was my DJ set at The Artists' Laboratory Theatre's Science Fair Party. Enjoy.

Part 1:

Part 2:

I'd Do Anything

1. Diana Ross & The Supremes - Nothing But Heartaches

2. The Uniques - My Conversation

3. The Pepper Pots - Dream Guy

4. Mazzy Star - I've Been Let Down

5. Langhorne Slim - Collette

6. Hope Sandoval - Sparkly

7. Opal - Northern Line

8. Mazzy Star - Look on Down From the Bridge

9. The Cat's Miaow - Crying

Rainy Season

Autechre - Garbage (bronchusevenmix24)
Oval - Reversioning
Stereolab - Contranatura (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Mix)
Broadcast - Before We Begin
The United States of America - Love Song for the Dead Ché

Where it Happened

1. Father's Angels - Bok to Bach

2. Magazine - About the Weather

3. P.P. Arnold - Everything is Gonna Be All Right

4. Clothilde - Saperlipoppette

5. Lyn Taitt & The Comets - Storm Warning

6. Stereolab - Changer

7. Robert Knight - Branded

8. The Besnard Lakes - Love You (Syd Barret cover)

9. Twin Sister - All Around and Away We Go (live@WNYU)

10. Yang Hee Eun - Na Do Mol Rae

11. Twa Toots - Love Has Got a Hold on Me

12. The Lornettes - His Way with the Girls

Ghostlight

1. The Durutti Column - Beginning

2. jj - Ecstasy

3. Sister Irene O'Connor - Fire

4. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Teenager in Love

5. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - Snowfall

6. Rocketship - People I Know

7. Comet Gain - Record Prayer

8. Lucky Soul - Meltin' Like a '99

9. The Wake - Talk About the Past (12" Version)

10. The Durutti Column - Belgian Friends

11. The National - Bloodbuzz Ohio

12. The Triffids - One Soul Less on Your Fiery List

Goingsnake

1. Bach: Meine Seele Erhebet Den Herren, BWV 648

2. Felt - Fortune

3. Electrelane - Gone Darker

4. Amiina - Skakka

5. Sonic Youth - Pacific Coast Highway

6. Camera Obscura - Other Towns and Cities

7. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - On the Low

8. The Names - Music For Someone

9. The Cure - Inbetween Days

10. New Order - Dreams Never End

11. Jacobites - Silken Sheets

12. Spiritualized - Soul on Fire (live)

13. M83 - Kim & Jesse

Eden

1. The Cat's Miaow - Firefly

2. Hope Sandoval - I Thought You'd Fall For Me

3. Tramway - Boathouse

4. Belle & Sebastian - Belle & Sebastian

5. Stereolab - Canned Candies

6. Cornershop - Sleep on the Left Side

7. Little Insects - Stop Taking Advice From Songs

8. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Alcohol

9. The Wedding Present - Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft

10. Comet Gain - You Can Hide Your Love Forever

11. Voxtrot - Soft & Warm

12. God Help the Girl - A Down and Dusky Blonde

Stop Pretending

1. Aphex Twin - IZ-US

2. Colleen - Carry-Cot

3. Nightmares on Wax - Hey! Hey! Can U Relate (DJ Mink cover)

4. Atmosphere - Feel Good Hit of the Summer II

5. Bat For Lashes - Higher Than The Sun (Primal Scream cover)

6. Françoise Hardy - Les Temps des Souvenirs

7. Slowdive - Slowdive

8. Dream Academy - Test Tape No. 2

9. Lionlove - We Have Dancing Shoes

10. The Cat's Miaow - Nothing Can Stop Us (St Etienne cover)

11. Dusty Springfield - Summer is Over

12. The Modern Lovers - Old World

13. Instrumental - Little Fluffy Clouds (The Orb cover)

14. The Creatures - Killing Time

Xylem

Colleen - Ritournele

Talvikki Ansel - Xylem

Autechre - Pir

John Tavener - The Lamb

Hi-Posi - Taboo No Jyogen

Autechre - Goz Quarter

Seefeel - Spangle (Autechre Remix)

Glenn Gould - Bach: Italian Concerto BWV 971 - II. Andante

µ-ziq - Scaling

Stereolab - Daisy Click Clack

Higgs & Wilson - Hurt My Soul

Helden

David Bowie - Warsawa

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

David Bowie - Five Years

The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms (Path 4)

David Bowie - Starman

The Sabres of Paradise - Smokebelch II (Beatless Mix)

Reload - Mosh

Autechre - Doctrine

David Bowie - Cactus

Kraftwerk - Computerwelt 2

Prospero

Cecilia Bartoli - Vivaldi: Guistino - Sventurata Navicella

...

Autechre - Silverside

Björk - Venus as a Boy

Glenn Gould - Bach: Italian Concerto BWV 971 - 2. Andante

The Parley of Instruments - Monteverdi: Iste Confessor Domini Sacratus

Hi-brid - Daniel in a Forest

Kronos Quartet - Body: Long-Ge

Rolf Lislevand - Ricerata prima

Orbital - The Box

Michael Nyman - Miranda

Mark Bradshaw - Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

Swans

William Butler Yeats - Leda and the Swan

Tindersticks - Introduction

François-Etudes Chanfraults - Harbour Part 1

Philip Glass - Floe

William Butler Yeats - The Fiddler of Dooney

The Future Sound of London - Everyone in the World is

Doing Something without Me

Domenico Scarlatti - Missa Breve ("La Stella"): Agnus Dei

Björk - Öll Birtan

Rachel Grimes - Bloodroot

Seefeel - Time to Find Me (Come Inside)

Rachel's - NY Snow Globe

Patti Smith Group - Easter

What Went Wrong?

1. Swell Maps - New York

2. Hawkwind - Motörhead

3. Gil Bateman - My Daddy Walked in Darkness

4. The Psychedelic Furs - Flowers

5. Jacobites - When the Rain Comes Down

6. Annie Lennox - You Have Placed a Chill in my Heart

7. Bogoss - Belles, Belles, Belles Don't Cry

8. X - The World's a Mess; It's in my Kiss

9. Basia Bulat - The Hem of His Garment

10. The Rolling Stones - What To Do

11. Mazzy Star - Bells Ring

12. Them - My Lonely Sad Eyes

13. Slim Smith & The Uniques - Girls Like Dirt

14. The Beatles - Slow Down

15. Only Ones - City of Fun

16. The Buzzcocks - Boredom (Live at the Roxy)

17. The Fall - How I Wrote Elastic Man

18. Joy Division - Sister Ray (Live at the Moonlight Club, London)

All-time Favorite Mixtapes (Part 2: Blog Posts)

1. Castles in Space - Breezeblock

An icy Björk DJ set broadcast in 1996. She mixes Arvo Part with Public Enemy!

2. Tony Tost's America

TT is a writer currently working on a book about Johnny Cash for the 33 1/3 serious. As part of his research, he’s created these hourlong mixes of the surreal back end of the American South. Essential listening.

3. Funky 16 Corners – S.O.S. Heart in Distress

He popcorns for fun and is second to none. Probably the greatest soul blogger to ever grace the internet

4. The Black Dog – One Hour with Krautrock

Compiled by the legendary 1990's electronic musicians.

5. Consolation Prizes - Favourite Shirts

For those who fetishize Indiepop 7” singles, this site is going to make you very happy.

All-time Favorite Mixtapes (Part 1: Commercially Available)

1. Coldcut – Journeys by DJ (70 Minutes of Madness)

This is the mother of them all. Released in 1995, this is more or less an expansion of their ground-breaking 1987 “7 Minutes of Madness” remix of Eric B & Rakim’s Paid in Full, which single-handedly created the sample-heavy genre of dance music which would dominate the 1990’s. I absolutely adore this mix—there’s not a single second in which there aren’t at least two songs (sometimes three or four) playing simultaneously.

Buy it here.

Read more here.

2. The KLF – Chill Out

It’s hard to separate the myth from the facts about this one. The wiki page is about as accurate as can be expected, considering I’ve heard about five different stories about the creation of this album over the last twenty years. In any event, it’s a bizarre mixture of the radio; songs by Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Presley, Boy George, and Tuvan throat singers; keyboard riffs; and solo pedal steel guitar melodies. I really can’t imagine a life without it.

Buy it here.

Read more here.

3. Booka Shade – DJ-Kicks

Seamlessly mixing house, synth pop, John Carpenter film scores, and French pop music, this is one of the most consistent DJ mix CD’s I’ve ever heard. Although it’s all over the map stylistically, it still has a really nice bittersweet atmosphere throughout.

Buy it here.

Read more here.

4. Air – Late Night Tales

It has Maurice Ravel, Black Sabbath, Scott Walker, and The Cure on it. What more do I need to say?

Buy it here.

Read more here.

5. Jesus’ Son (soundtrack)

Although it’s technically a movie soundtrack, really this sounds more like a mixtape from a really bizarre friend. It manages to create a poignant mood in spite of the silliness of some of the song selections.

Buy it here.

First Make Eye Contact

1. Cabaret Voltaire - Low Cool

2. COIL - Windowpane (12" Mix)

3. Depth Charge - Daughters of Darkness

4. Bill Laswell featuring DJ Rob Swift - Reanimation

5. Aphex Twin - Ventolin (Carharrack Mix)

6. Photek - The Hidden Camera (Static Mix)

7. De La Soul - View

8. Public Enemy - Can't Truss It (Instrumental)

9. Fun-Da-Mental - New World Order

10. Cymande - The Message

11. µ-ziq - PHI*1700 (U/V)

Walk Through the Streets of the City

1. Ellis Marsalis - Creole Love Call

2. Marcus Roberts - Crossroads Blues

3. Mahalia Jackson - His Eye is on the Sparrow

4. Sidney Bechet - Nobody Knows the Way I Feel This Morning

5. Bunk Johnson - Sometimes My Burden is So Hard To Bear

6. Preservation Hall Jazz Band - Walk Through the Streets of the City

7. Jelly Roll Morton - High Society Rag

8. Jelly Roll Morton - Tony Jackson's Naked Dance

9. Jelly Roll Morton - Maple Leaf Rag (Morton Style)

10. Jelly Roll Morton - The Pearls

11. Louis Armstrong - Potato Head Blues

12. Dr Michael White - Canal Street Blues

13. Wynton Marsalis - Local Announcements

14. Nicholas Payton - When the Saints Go Marching In

15. Marcus Roberts - In a Southern Sense

16. George Lewis - Just a Closer Walk with Thee

Sinister Influence

1. Plastikman - Spastik

2. Miles Davis - Black Satin

3. Polygon Window - Quoth (Hidden Mix)

4. Jeff Mills and The Montpellier Philharmonic Orchestra - The Bells

5. Electrelane - If Not Now, When?

6. Pram - Beluga (Grandmaster Gareth Mix)

7. The Grid - Crystal Clear (Crystal Clearwater Revival Mix)

8. Polygon Window - Quoth

9. Meat Beat Manifesto - Radio Babylon (Beach Blanket Bimboland Mix)

10. Comparsa San Agustin - Con Su Pin, Pin, Pin

11. Polygon Window - Quoth (Wooden Thump Mix)

12. Jeff Mills - The Bells

13. Felt - Templeroy

14. Seefeel - Time to Find Me (Come Inside)

Songs Arrive

1. Josephine Foster - Little Life

2. Northern Picture Library - Love Song for the Dead Ché #2

3. Tindersticks - Factory Girls (live)

4. Erika Wilhite - Rip Tide

5. Trespassers William - Vapour Trail (Ride Cover)

6. Bridgewater Band - Porchlight

7. American Music Club - Johnny Mathis' Feet

8. Lee Perry - The Upsetter

9. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Around My Smile

10. X - Motel Room in my Bed

11. Bob Dylan - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down

12. Beat Happening - I Love You

13. Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me in the Kitchen at Parties

14. Close To Scrubs

15. Imitation Electric Piano - For the Best

16. The Beatles - Every Little Thing

17. The Go-Betweens - Bachelor Kisses

18. David Bowie - Kooks (live at the BBC)

19. The Pooh Sticks - Susan Sleepwalking

Canaries

1. Orange Juice - Wan Light

2. Little Insects - Burn the City

3. Time Unlimited - Men of Wadodem (Orbital Mix)

4. Tracey Thorn - King's Cross (Hot Chip Remix)

5. Morrissey - Suedehead (Sparks Remix)

6. Heaven 17 - Geisha Boys & Temple Girls

7. New Order - World (Perfecto Edit)

8. Heaven 17 - Penthouse & Pavement

9. The Field Mice - Five Moments

10. Orbital - Out There Somewhere

11. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (Extended 12" Mix)

Canaries

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Grace

1. Meat Beat Manifesto - Love Mad
2. Lionlove - Long-awaited Love
3. Beach House - Zebra (Daytrotter Session)
4. Dusty Springfield - Breakin' Up A Happy Home
5. The Beatles - What You're Doing
6. The Original Greeno - Eye Know (De La Soul cover)
7. Saint Etienne - I Buy American Records
8. Suede - Daddy's Speeding
9. Hope Sandoval - Lose Me On The Way
10. Marianne Faithfull - Last Song
11. Kate Bush - Oh To Be In Love
12. Real Estate - Fake Blues
13. Mojave 3 - Where is the Love?
14. Lovage - Strangers on a Train
15. Supergrass - Grace

Grace

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Our Love is Like the Earth

1. Julee Cruise - Summer Kisses, Winter Tears
2. Doleful Lions - White Lotus Day
3. Alarm Will Sound - 4 (Aphex Twin cover)
4. Orbital - Halcyon (live)
5. Coldplay vs Opus III - It's a Fine Day
6. Wu-Tang Clan vs Buffalo Springfield - CREAM is what it's worth
7. The KLF - Elvis on the Radio, Steel Guitar in my Soul
8. Primal Scream - Inner Flight
9. New Order - The Village
10. Blondie vs The Doors - Rapture Riders
11. Kim Wilde - Kids in America
12. Lil Wayne - Drop the World

Our love is like the Earth

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Here is my advice to you

1. The Wake - Crush the Flowers

2. Action Painting! - These Things Happen

3. The Orchids - How Does That Feel?

4. Gentle Despite - Shadow of a Girl

5. The Orchids - Something for the Longing

6. Ivy - Wish You Would

7. Even As We Speak - Straight as an Arrow

8. The Orchids - Farewell, Dear Bonnie

9. The Field Mice - When Morning Comes To Town

10. Heavenly - So Little Deserve

11. Gentle Despite - Bittersweet Kiss

12. The Sweetest Ache - If I Could Shine

13. 14 Iced Bears - Sure To See

14. The Orchids - Tropical

15. Gentle Despite - Torment to Me

16. Gentle Despite - Summer in Me

17. Even As We Speak - Bizarre Love Triangle

18. Tramway - Boathouse

19. The Harvest Ministers - Six o'clock is Rosary

20. St Christopher - Say Yes To Everything

Pop Life (part II)

1. Strawberry Fair - I Can't Do Anything

2. White Shoes & The Couples Company - Tentang Cita

3. Watoo Watoo - Tuesday's Secrets

4. Eleanor Rigby - I Want To Sleep With You

5. The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Noise and Fury

6. The Tidy Ups - Dizzy Heights

7. Diana Ross & The Supremes - When The Lovelight Starts

Shining Through Your Eyes

8. Jacqueline Taieb - 7 Heures du Matin

9. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

the real weepy and right tragic part of the story beginning

10. Friday Club - Window Shopping

11. God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night

Pop Life (part I)

1. The Ballistic Brothers - Peckings

Alex feels a bit shagged, fagged, and fashed...

2. Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man

3. Tiny Yong - Le Sauvage

4. The Shop Assistants - Train From Kansas City

5. The Pepper Pots - Take A Chance

6. Camera Obscura - French Navy (live on BBC 6)

7. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Sometimes Always

8. Blondie - The Tide is High

9. Stereolab - Margerine Melodie

10. The Cat's Miaow - I Fall To Pieces

Streets of Klezmer

1. God is my Co-Pilot - Hora

2. Yiddish Swingtette - Oriental Hora

3. Lhasa - El Parajo

4. Joseph Moskowitz - Doina

5. New Klezmer Trio - Feedback Doina

6. DNA - Not Moving

7. God is my Co-Pilot - Sex is for Making Babies

8. John Zorn's Naked City - Den of Sins

9. Abe Elenkrig & Orchestra - Nit Ba Mitin

10. FAROFF - House of Klezmer

11. God is my Co-Pilot - Little Red Moon

12. James Chance & The Distortions - I Can't Stand Myself

13. New Klezmer Trio - Distiller

14. Dave Tarras - Pas D'Espan

15. Eminem vs Dukes of Dixieland - Down by the Riverside

16. Audio Two - Top Jeebin' (Magick Moar Remix)

17. John Zorn's Naked City - A Shot in the Dark

18. God is my Co-Pilot - Tantsukolena Yid

19. Naftule Brandwein - Firn di Mekhutonim Aheym

20. David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness - The Streets of Klezmer, NY

Strange Interlude

1. The Orb - A Huge, Evergrowing, Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Center Of The Ultraworld

2. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivitaet (William Orbit Remix)

3. Orbital - Are We Here?

4. Matmos - Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan

5. New Order - Touched By The Hand of God

6. Alexander Robotnick - The Dark Side of the Spoon

7. The Glove - Like an Animal (12" Club Mix)

8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1995 Arthur Baker Remix)

9. Black Science Orchestra - New Jersey Deep

10. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust

11. Antena - Spiral Staircase

12. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me

13. The Reegs - These Days

14. 808 State - Pacific State 707

15. Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

John Mitchell's Folly, Eureka Springs, AR

Uncharacteristically, I'm going to provide a little context for this one. John Mitchell's Folly is an antique store/art gallery housed in a skinny, tall Second Empire townhouse off the proverbial beaten path, far up in the hills of the Ozarks. Mr Mitchell specializes in early Ozark Primitive painting, such as Ernest "By Golly" Schilling. Almost everything in the store is priceless, battered, and inspires in me a mixture of wonder and terror.

I hope that this mix does justice to spooky eclecticism of this national treasure of a junk store. The above picture of the storefront is borrowed, but below are some of my wife's pictures of Mr. Mitchell's stock.

1. Boyd Rice & Frank Tovey - Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (Extraction 4)

2. Scott Joplin - A Real Slow Drag

3. The Bassies - River Jordan

4. Zez Confrey - Kinda Careless

5. Björk - Öll Birtan

6. JS Bach - Viola de Gamba Sonata #1, BWV 1027, III. Andante

7. Philip Glass - Women in White

8. Wagner - Tannhäuser, Dich, teure Halle

9. Aphex Twin - Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)

10. Duke Ellington - Shout 'em, Aunt Tillie

11. Javier Navarrete - A Book of Blood

12. The Tiger Lillies - The Struwwelpeter Overture

13. Salut de la veille des O let les 7 O suivant le romain

14. Edith Piaf - Correqu' et Reguyer

15. WC Handy - Farewell Blues

16. Marlene Dietrich - Assez

17. Frank Sinatra - You Forgot All the Words