Mixtapes! do you make them, what do you think about them etc.
 

i myself do mixtapes. they are called Kool Songs and for now i have created nine of them for now:

Kool Songs Vol. 1:
1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - A God Called Hubris
2. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Nuclear Fusion
3. Kurt Vile - Loading Zones
4. Kurt Vile - Lost my Head there
5. Tame Impala - Expactation
6. Tame Impala - Sundown Syndrome
7. Sonic Youth - Making The Nature Scene
8. Sonic Yputh
- The Diamond Sea
9. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - The River
10. Jimi Hendrix
- Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) Live

Kool Songs Vol.2 :
1. The War on Drugs - Under The Pressure
2. Mac DeMarco - Another One
3. Ariel PInk - Another Weekend
4. Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing Live*
5. Tame Impala - Patience
6. Temples - Shelter Song
7. Kurt Vile - So Outta Reach
8. Coutrney Barnett - Avant Gardener
9. Wild Nothing Only Heather
10. Beach Fossils - Out in the Way (ft. Wild Nothing)
11. Pond - Tasmania
12. Sonic Youth - I Dream I Dreamed
KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD - PLANET B**
*- i haven't found the track that is used on the original mixtape
**- doesn't appear on the cassette version

Kool Songs Vol.3 :
Spotiy Link there is just fuckin too much stuff to find and write

Kool Songs Vol.4*:
SIDE 1
1. Kurt Vile - Hunchback
2. Sonic Youth - Candle
3. Sonic Youth - Shadow Of A Doubt
4. Pearl Jam - Even Flow
5. Tame Impala - Jeremy's Storm
6. Kurt Vile - Check Baby
SIDE 2
1. Sonic Youth - Shoot
2. King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - The River
3. Tame Impala - Expectation
4. Eddie Vedder - Society
*- it was a first experimental mixtape on a cassette only. long story short: while i was tidying up the attic with my mom we found two boxes of casstettes and i started recording

Kools Songs Vol. 5 :
1. Sonic Youth - Burning Farm
2. Sonic Youth - Ca Plane Pour Moi
3. Sonic Youth - I Am Right
4. Sonic Youth - Clippers (Peel Session)
5. Sonic Youth - Coca Camera Neon Sutra
6. Sonic Youth - Come Amd Smash Me, Said the Boy With the Magic Penis
7. Sonic Youth - Compiloation Blues
8. Sonic Youth - Eyeliner
9. Sonic Youth - Eyes & Teeth
10. Sonic Youth - Hallowed Be Thy Name
11. Sonic Youth - Magic Wand
12. Sonic Youth - Out and In
13. Sonic Youth - The Eternal montage
14. Sonic Youth - The Simpsons Theme
15. Sonic Youth - Noisefest live recording

Kool Songs Vol.6 :
Temple of the Dog - Haunger Strike
Queens of the Stone Age - No One Knows
Mother Love Bone - Stardog CHampion
Green River - Swallow My Pride
Dinosaur Jr. - Out There
Gruntruck - Crazy Love
Mudhoney - Suck You Dry
Sonic Youth - Eliminator Jr.
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Scarymother - Who Are You
Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple
Hole - Teenage Whore
Soundgarden - Jesus Christ Pose
Foo Fighters - Wattershed
Screaming Trees - Lonely Girl
Collective Soul - Shine

Kool Songs Vol.7 :
Jon Hopkins - Singularity
Sonic Youth - Hey Joni!
Kurt Vile - The Finder
Pye Corner Audio - Northern Safety Route
Home - Tides
Tame Impala - Runway, Houses, City, Clouds
The War on Drugs - An Ocean In Between the Waves
Deerhunter - Helicopter
Slowdive - Slomo
Mac DeMarco - Treat Her Better
Foo Fighters - Another Round
Tame Impala - Skeleton Tiger
Kurt Vile - Laughing Stock
Sonic Youth, I.C.P., The Ex - X
Ought - Beautiful Blue Sky
Kurt Vile - Songs For John In D

Kool Songs Vol. 8 :


spotify Link not recorded yet!

Kool Songs Vol.9 :

it consists of 5 parts (1 part = 1 cassette) and on every cassette is one song from every cd i have and also mixtapes.

wow this took me to much time to make. if there is the same thread already i'm going to jump out the fucking window :fuckyou: :fuckyou: :fuckyou:

I mailed out two avant-psych mixtapes to separate individuals on December 31st. One to United Kingdom and one to Portland.

Most of the time when I’m making a mixtape, I allow no silence once the mixing begins. Notice: Burden Of Friendship (half). Each side of that cassette is 30 minutes long. On this mix, I used about 15 minutes worth of the side and had two or three things playing at the same time as I weaved in and out of the track.

Here is part of my mixtape setup:




Nazi Marching And Goose Stepping

La Mancha Pecado - Live At Neon Rose (11-19-18) Young Turks
Morher - Soothsayer
Vernal Crush - 8:53 (Disk One)
Burden Of Friendship - Side B (half)
Jana En Bertin - English Spoken

MVM - Reflections
Jan Schellink - Robosapien En De 6 Baby Poppetjs
Derryl Parsons - Floating Landscapes
Arvo Zylo - Six & Seven
Gong - Dynamite
Chuck Talks - The Girl Who Screams



The Roaring Fleur

Mini-Mutations - Track 3
Muzak - Madness From The West
Michelle Mercure - A Little Piece / Ghost Before Breakfast
Jesus Penis - God Has Everything Under Control
The Jonx - The Scent Of Earth
Earthmonkey - Moonstah
Vox Populi! - Samourai

Orbit Service - As If It Were An Accident
Watch Repair - Far Asleep
Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall (Live)
Volcano The Bear - Cassettes Of Berlin
Illicit Relationship - Concise Relaxation
Sacred Cows - Virtual Fantasy
The CJ Boyd Sexxxtet - And Indeed There Will Be Time



......why is this thread in non-sonics?

Two boxes of bank cassettes or cassettes by other artist that you are recording over?

Any idea how long the cassettes has been the attic?

I have a couple of cassettes of recorded Houston noise radio shows that are now 30 years old and they still play and sound good.

Here is a thread where i solicited tracks re: Sticks Woods Trees Forest and the tape that resulted.

Ummm......don’t pull your hair out

Mixtape culture appeals to me, but I realise that if I was suddenly transported back to the days where it existed, I'd lose my fucking mind.

I've tried to make some physical cassette mixtapes in the past, but I don't have the equipment to do anything. I think I have one portable player that kinda worked, but I couldn't do it consistently and anyway I don't have enough blank tapes.

hah! i remember glueing bits of broken cellophane, and rolling the tape back with a pencil

romantic illusion. do not miss

a playlist is a playlist. i have some giant ones for various occasions. one is a whole bunch of new orleans music. another is a pomodoro one for work. another is for driving. etc. i constantly edit them.

I have a decade of my annual favorite songs of the year for the last ten years up on mixcloud

https://m.mixcloud.com/2chainz1cup/

I'm still working on 2019. I'm trying to keep it under 3 hours.

Some cassettes are various 80s artists and some are recorded so i record over them. I prefer the iron ones more than chrome ones. It adds the vibe.

I think they were there for 19 mayby 25 years and some of them were really great quality.

What it does? The cellophane thingy

What do you think about my mixtapes?

I don't think I made many mixtapes in the form of compilations back when I still had a tapedeck. I usually prefer to hear the complete album rather than various songs. What I did do about 12 years ago is to create a compilation for my sister, 3CD's in total before I got too bored with it. It was really fun to make, but very time-consuming. I'll just copy/paste the original notes to save myself from writing it all down again in some other way that basically still states the same.




and these were the three compilations:


I've played with the idea of some other compilations, especially live versions of one particular song, e.g. Pissing by Low, or Sonic Youth' Diamond Sea but never gotten around to actually do it.


Totally offtopic, but reading about Bytor's tape mixing technique, it reminded me of this album that was made in the seventies by a German guy named Günter Schickert. The album is called Samtvogel and you can read about it here (see especially the last paragraph), and listen to it here on YT. Especially the last song (that lasts 20 minutes) is very cool, ultra-trippy krautrock [edit: it's even on bandcamp]

that’s the tape itself? the material that holds the magnetic particles together? it’s some kind of plastic. feels like cellophane when it’s all entangled and fucked up. i think it’s actually a polyester... just so crinkly when you least need it.

it breaks, you have to glue it... uufffff.... not no more. life is short.

I've made CD-compilations here and there. Did one to celebrate my event series existing for five years and handed five copies out to people who answered a simple quizz question in time. Might do it more often, it's fun. But time consuming. So I do have a lot of respect for people that go through the process of doing this with actual cassette tapes.

Why do they only have 10 tracks? that probably doesn't even fill up one side

Why?

The thing about mixtapes is you never really knew if the songs you selected would fit on the tape. Then you would end up with either minutes of silence at the end or a song that had the end chopped off.

In 2020, I've got you guys (and many other sources) to point me towards good music, and Spotify to enable me to listen to it all.

In 1990, I'd have 'whatever I can find from my friends' and 'whatever's on sale at JB Hi-Fi, where I can blow a full shift's pay on a shit record'.

yep. don’t believe the analog hype. shit was for the moneyed. that included people traveling internationally for shit you couldn’t buy at home

but then again cassette piracy was rampant so you could manage in other ways. still very limited but they were there.

now you don’t need permission from gatekeepers, douches, mafias, anyone.

paradise is here. follow your tastes.

It was recorded on a CD. I record on CD then to cassette.

A CD can fit 80 mins, the average tape 45 mins each side. 10 songs is about 30 mins or 35 mins. So there.

Records were a lot cheaper back in those days, also there was mail order. Although i suppose if you're in Australia or wherever I imagine a lot of stuff would only be available as import, i.e. expensive.

Actually the songs on the first mixtape were pretty long (i hlgave links to the songs you can count yrself). the second one has less songs becuz i didnt knew what songs to put there.

another horrible curse before digital streaming was high dependence on local radio stations, which could be great if you lived in a great town, could be awful if you lived in a hick town, could disappear or change format, etc

e.g. the university of the district of columbia has a jazz studies program to this day, but up until 1997 they also ran a radio station, “jazz 90”, which was a beautiful thing because they wouldn’t just play great jazz, they would also tell stories and explain things and theory in a way you could not know before wikipedia and they played great great music and brought amazing guests. dc is still a jazz town.

then one day due to city budget cuts the university was forced to sell the fucking radio station! and dc got... cspan radio [insert suicide emoji]. could have been worse because a religious station wanted to buy the frequency. cspan is boring as fuck but makes sense in what’s basically a government town. still... huge loss.

now, thank fuck, not only do you not need radio per se, but you can listen to radio stations from around the world without having to operate a shit-ass shortwave set.

Thanks for sharing the Günter Schickert album. I’ve listened to it three times since you posted BandCamp link and I find it fantastic!

And very cool approach to making your sisters mix......


This caused me aggravation when I was younger and eventually led to my technique/mix being live. Even when keeping track of song lengths, you can’t always have it work out perfect. But when you end with thunderstorms, mandible chatter or whatever, fading out or abrupt endings are okay......and sometimes preferred.




Way back then and even today, this was why mixtapes were so important. Receiving a mixtape from someone from another city or somewhere around the world, being exposed to local music and bands you would otherwise never hear about: remixes, demos or alternate takes, live versions or a unreleased track not available everywhere......that’s the power of a mixtape!

Since actual physical parties/events might not be thing for a while and because I wanted to ward off the daily blues, I decided to create a few playlists representative of the type of stuff I'd play during my events. Not exactly mixtapes in the conservative sense of the term, but similar in spirit. If anyone's interested: Scary Monsters: Remote Comforts vol.1



It's pretty post-punky/gothy, but I tried to keep it as eclectic as possible.

thanks for this! im in quiet hours right now but i’ll attend this virtual party ASAP

You're welcome. I uploaded Volume 2 yesterday if anyone's interested.


I also started doing a lo-fi podcast with a (probably) weekly theme. If anyone wants to hear me ramble about music, here's your chance. And don't mind my flub about the extent of Eno's involvement on "Souvlaki", I already put out a correction in the description :D

Anyway: Nocturnal Transmissions: Spring Is Upon Us

I’m finishing up Nocturnal Transmissions as I type. A nice variety and a few bands I’m unfamiliar with. The New York NoWave and the track before you played, Clan Of Xymox (?) were my favorites......looking forward to your themes!!!

That would be "Homebled" by Ut and "This Side Of Nowhere" by Lydia Lunch, respectively. The Clan Of Xymox track was "After The Call".

Now episode out today:

Nocturnal Transmissons: About Time


This time, there's a blend of different kinds of 90s Alternative Rock, a few gothy Post-Punk tracks, some Art-Pop, a minimal Wave track, a bit of Neo-Psychedelia and a dash of Avantgarde Jazz. Spent a few hours on the recording sessions in the very late night hours after quite a few lengthy phone conversations throughout the day, hence I sound a bit hoarse from time to time.

i am a little behind on this but listened to vol1 thursday evening and it was excellent! i really liked it because while every track is different they all fit into your aesthetic.

any chance to get a playlist? because it wasn’t available in the thing (web version)

will catch up with rest this weekend or as time allows

funny thing is, i have less time with quarantine than before...

Sure thing (song titles listed first):

1 Chrysanthèmes - Oberkampf

2 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun - Trance To The Sun

3 Skyscraper - The Grinning Plowman

4 Ostrich - Danielle Dax

5 Fats Terminal - Bone Orchard

6 The Yo Yo Man - Echo & The Bunnymen

7 Drop Dead/Celebration - Siouxsie & The Banshees

8 Camera Girl - Material Girls

9 Me, Myself & I - Dark Day

10 Around The Room - Blank Dogs

11 Gravesand - Cyan Revue

12 Black Juju - Lydia Lunch & Rowland S. Howard


Glad you liked it.

I dropped out of the analog lifestyle and use a Numark NS6. I haven't made a mix in about a year though. A minor mishap between four tracks of mixed sound at 35 minutes in is usually enough to trigger me into never letting anyone else listen to it.

Out now:
Nocturnal Transmissions: "Sounds Of The Big City"

This week's transmission is dedicated to the bustle, the hustle and the rumble of the big city. Get ready for an eclectic blend of Post-Punk, Funk, Mutant Disco, Jazz-Fusion, Trip Hop, Hip Hop, New Wave and a bit of 90s Alternative Rock.

Do virtual mixtapes count or does a cassette tape need to be involved? Years ago I made a virtual mixtape to a friend who turned 44. I set myself a number of rules:

—One song per each year of his life. The song had to have been released on that year, evidently.
—No repetition of artists (there's some slight cheating, though - see if you spot it).
—Each song had to be part of my physical collection and be absent from his.
—The sequence had to be wicked bitchen and suggest a natural flow, or a necessary break to cleanse the palate, or some kind of link/contrast - anyway this was kinda subjective ;), but there was a reason behind it.

It went like this:


00 — 1967 — Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels — "I'd Rather Go To Jail" (Rev Up: The Best Of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels)
01 — 1968 — The Velvet Underground — "White Light/White Heat" (White Light/White Heat)
02 — 1969 — The Rolling Stones — "Monkey Man" (Let It Bleed)
03 — 1970 — The Stooges — "1970" (Fun House)
04 — 1971 — Can — "Mushroom" (Tago Mago)
05 — 1972 — Neu! — "Negativland" (Neu!)
06 — 1973 — Roxy Music — "Do The Strand" (For Your Pleasure)
07 — 1974 — Brian Eno — "Third Uncle" (Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy))
08 — 1975 — Patti Smith — "Break It Up" (Horses)
09 — 1976 — Friction [Peter Laughner] — "Don't Take Your Love Away (Take The Guitar Player For A Ride)
10 — 1977 — David Bowie — "Be My Wife" (Low)
11 — 1978 — Wire — "I Am The Fly" (Chairs Missing)
12 — 1979 — The Slits — "Instant Hit" (Cut)
13 — 1980 — The Only Ones — "Telescopic Love" (Darkness And Light: The Complete BBC Recordings)
14 — 1981 — Lester Bangs and the Delinquents — "Kill Him Again" (Jook Savages On The Brazos)
15 — 1982 — Richard Hell and the Voidoids — "Lowest Common Dominator" (Destiny Street)
16 — 1983 — R.E.M. — "Sitting Still" (Murmur)
17 — 1984 — The Verlaines — "Joed Out" (You're Just Too Obscure For Me...)
18 — 1985 — Johnny Thunders — "I Only Wrote This Song For You" (Que Sera Sera)
19 — 1986 — Prince and the Revolution — "I Wonder U" (Parade: Music From The Motion Picture 'Under The Cherry Moon')
20 — 1987 — Dinosaur Jr. — "Little Fury Things" (You're Living All Over Me)
21 — 1988 — Sonic Youth — "The Sprawl" (Daydream Nation)
22 — 1989 — The Vulgar Boatmen — "Drive Somewhere" (You And Your Sister)
23 — 1990 — Neil Young & Crazy Horse — "Farmer John" (Ragged Glory)
24 — 1991 — Matthew Sweet — "Divine Intervention" (Girlfriend)
25 — 1992 — Television — "Call Mr. Lee" (Television)
26 — 1993 — Barbara Manning and the San Francisco Seals — "Joed Out" (No Alternative)
27 — 1994 — Sugar — "Gee Angel" (File Under: Easy Listening)
28 — 1995 — Kevin Salem — "In A Whisper" (Soma City)
29 — 1996 — Tommy Keene — "If You're Getting Married Tonight" (Ten Years After)
30 — 1997 — Built To Spill — "Made-Up Dreams" (Perfect From Now On)
31 — 1998 — Spiritualized — "I Think I'm In Love" (Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 Live)
32 — 1999 — The Spells — "Octaves Apart" (The Age Of Backwards E.P.)
33 — 2000 — Morphine — "Slow Numbers" (The Night)
34 — 2001 — Bob Dylan — "Sugar Baby" ("Love And Theft")
35 — 2002 — Jimmy Scott — "Jealous Guy" ('Chelsea Walls' Original Soundtrack)
36 — 2003 — Yo La Tengo — "Don't Have To Be So Sad" (Hear Music Volume 10: Reveal)
37 — 2004 — Wilco — "I'm A Wheel" (A Ghost Is Born)
38 — 2005 — Sleater-Kinney — "Entertain" (The Woods)
39 — 2006 — The Hold Steady — "Chips Ahoy!" (Boys And Girls In America)
40 — 2007 — Stephen Malkmus and the Million Dollar Bashers — "Ballad Of A Thin Man" ('I'm Not There' Original Soundtrack)
41 — 2008 — Cat Power — "Song To Bobby" (Jukebox)
42 — 2009 — St. Vincent — "Marrow" (Actor)
43 — 2010 — Spoon — "Trouble Comes Running" (Transference)
44 — 2011 — Wild Flag — "Glass Tambourine" ("Future Crimes" b/w "Glass Tambourine" 7")


Considering what I've learned in the subsequent nine years, perhaps today the list would be richer, less predictable... but all in all it came out pretty decent, I think. Comments are welcome.

nice mixtape!

A new podcast will be up tonight, will post it when it's on Mixcloud. This week's theme is "Collect Call" - a tribute to the telephone in musical pop-and-subculture.

I will give you two recommendations:)

Telephone - un autre monde
Philippe Katerine - Telephone

Thanks for the recommendations. I had the podcast pre-recorded already, so there's not much I could have changed. But I'm thinking about doing followups to certain themes in the future. Philippe Katerine certainly fits the bill (my choices were based on the song-content and song-titles) and if I do a follow-up, I'll make sure to include the song. Thanks again. Must spread some rep around, you know the drill... :)

So, without further ado: Nocturnal Transmissions: Collect Call