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IS IT PREMATURE to compare mix-making to dying arts like blacksmithing or millinery? Probably. But when Barrett proposed an old-fashioned mix-trading club a month ago, I was giddy. I bombed friends with comps back when they took hours to create. Now it’s appallingly cheap—sequencing and burning a CD takes less than 60 seconds; there may be love there, but not much labor.
For old-school skills to survive, you have to make sport of it. I got a turntable with a USB output, so I can eat up time converting vinyl tracks to include. There are little challenges like repping music from five or more decades, going for gender balance (if not equity), and floating some highly improbable juxtapositions. Here’s what I came up with: Download Adult Contemporary Mixtape Club #1: Vegan Safari.
01 Nobody But Me – The Human Beinz
02 We Are the Men You’ll Grow to Love Soon – Let’s Wrestle
03 Feet and Bones – Trampled By Turtles
04 Is It True – Brenda Lee
05 Dixon’s Girl – Dessa
06 Work – Gang Starr (R.I.P. Guru)
07 Action – Oh No
08 Academy Fight Song – Mission of Burma
09 Die Right Now – Lemonheads
10 Mambo Sun – T. Rex
11 Subtractions – Dosh
12 Tortoise Pace – Memory Tapes
13 I’m So Green – Can
14 Getting Nasty – Ike Turner & His Kings of Rhythm
15 I Can’t Stand The Rain – Ann Peebles
16 Balcony Beach – Latyrx
17 The Style You Haven’t Done Yet – Boogie Down Productions
18 Half of Two Times Two – Barr
19 Mother of Pearl (edit) – Roxy Music
20 Paris 1919 – John Cale
21 Love Rules – Pens
21 Anyway You Like It – Holly Golightly
22 Old Enough – Nelly McKay
23 Golden Apples – Country Teasers
Downloading now. Thanks for sharing!
Spectacular. Copyrights be damned.
FOR REVIEW PURPOSES ONLY
Thanks for kicking this thing off in style. It’s on constant rotation in my car right now.
^ Nice. I’m really looking forward to future installments.
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