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20 June 2005

MeCha Mix Project: Your Mix in Others' Words Now that we've listened to the mixes we got (for me broken puter + download limit + torrent ignorance = not all mixes), let's descibe other people's mixes.

Mr Marx: Louche Sunday afternoon confectionary goodness.

Your turn.

post by: dame at: 12:39 | 43 comments

I don't get it.

posted by Doohickie 20 June | 13:06

Yesterday I started making some notes on mixes - but they're on the home computer and I'm at work. I'll post some thoughts on individual mixes tonight.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 13:08

Halpert: Sunny skies with little raining daggers.

posted by bugbread 20 June | 13:08

Aw let me come back later, I haven't listened to the mixes enough yet.

posted by mr.marx 20 June | 13:16

oh and, thanks dame! glad you liked it.

posted by mr.marx 20 June | 13:17

Great idea, dame!

amberglow: slighty decadent, coy, big-haired, dance lounge flirtatiousness.

posted by iconomy 20 June | 13:23

amberglow: ;> ;> :0 :/ :\

keswick: JRun. JRun? JRun! JRun, Jrun...

posted by Smart Dalek 20 June | 13:24

i'll post mine tonight...i've been sending emails, and already have a playlist of all the songs i loved from others' mixes.

Smart : O

posted by amberglow 20 June | 13:40

Keswick had a mix?

posted by iconomy 20 June | 13:47

I think some people have misunderstood, iconomy. Anyway, all you people who promise stuff this evening better live up to it, or else I'll come get you. And amber, you'll be first, because you're closest.

posted by dame 20 June | 13:51

Okay, here's another. OmnieWise: Porch-sitting Americana with some exceptions and a brief detour through my collection.

posted by dame 20 June | 14:21

Umm, I haven't had a chance to listen to them all yet?

posted by matildaben 20 June | 14:48

I started listening to your mixes but then a darn rabbit tried to fuck my veggie garden's shit up and I had to shoot it

posted by matteo 20 June | 14:58

it's not dead yet

posted by matteo 20 June | 14:58

any suggestions?

posted by matteo 20 June | 14:59

step on it's head. forcefully.

posted by puke & cry 20 June | 15:02

ice pick

posted by dodgygeezer 20 June | 15:03

This is why I can't have nice things, isn't it?

posted by dame 20 June | 15:15

any suggestions?

Read it "The Catcher in the Rye" is a bad, cartooney German accent - VERY LOUDLY. If that doens't work a tire iron may also work.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 15:18

wrap it up and send it to dame ; >

posted by amberglow 20 June | 15:46

This and a nice bottle of wine.

posted by arse_hat 20 June | 15:57

Rabbit is so tasty. Man, I want some rabbit. Where can I get a rabbit?

posted by kenko 20 June | 16:11

in matteo's vegetable garden, apparently.

posted by dg 20 June | 18:10

Okay people, I'm going swimming now. When I come back I want lots of adjectives and no more bunny-eating. Otherwise I won't do the special MetaChat shoutout I was planning for next weekend's NYC meetup.

posted by dame 20 June | 18:33

And believe me, you'll be sad, because it totally involves my ass.

posted by dame 20 June | 18:40

I'll start my comments with Capn's mix...

First off, huge props on the amazingly great MeFi borrowed / inspired liner notes. I've done something similar in the past, but nothing even close to being as elaborate as your execution.

Lots of fun stuff on the mix - many of the cuts are kitchy and could get old in lesser hands, but you pulled off a mix that'll stand up to repeated listens. Standout tracks include:

Little Milton (great way to open a mix - a song that never gets old to me)

Kleptones (I included a song from them on my mix - but I haven't heard this one)

The Silver Hearts (nice mix of tin pan alley jazz and hillbilly country - I'll be buying this album in the very near future).

RJD2 (I heard this record in a store and wasn't very impressed, but on this mix it sounds way cool).

This mix is going to get burned to disc and will be in rotation in my car. Nicely done Capn!

posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 19:46

iconomy's mix....

For some reason the first five cuts and cut 19 didn't make it, which bummed me out namely because Reindeer Section is one of those bands I've been wanting to check out for a while.

Standouts include Calexico, I Am Kloot (I almost went with the same song on my mix and in the 11th hour went with a different cut), Streets (love the 2004 album but never got the first) and Spoon (one of my favorite songs from what I think is the best album of the past decade).

Familiarity factor: I've heard most of the songs before, but it's still a damn enjoyable listen.

Oh, and on Capn's mix the familiarity factor was about 50/50.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 20:08

I'm too lazy to do real reviews, but these are the songs i've pulled out of some of them--so far--for a special playlist--if you see any songs of yours, know that i really liked it. (i have more to listen to and pull songs from, still tho) : >

LetsPoledance, 100,000 Fireflies, All This Love, Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl, Be Mine!, Between the Lines, Beyond Belief, CDOASS_-_Speak_To_Me, Clark Gable, Cloudbusting (Organon Mix), Deliverence, Don't Call Me Baby, Eric Copeland - Waiting for Wednesday, Find Yourself Alone, I'm From Further North Than You, ignition_(remix)-cm, Is There Anybody Out There?, Keep It Clean, Lesser Hamster No Yuutsu, Love What You Do, Night Nurse, No One Takes Your Freedom, Other Girls, Piazza, New York Catcher, Please Please Please, Poor Leno Silikon Soul Rmx, Pop Life, Really Rappin' Something, Run Runaway, Saturdays, Smile Around The Face, Soaky in the Pooper, Song For Myla Goldberg, Sullivan (Acoustic), Summertime, The Method, The Sporting Life, Toby Take a Bow, True love waits, Turn A Square, Unighted, Visible Breath - Too much Information, What A World, Wonderful Night, You are the light, You Can't Spend Too Much Time at the Library, Zoetrope

posted by amberglow 20 June | 20:29

I'm not at home and don't have my mixes here, but I have been so uniformely happy about them. They're really really good, and even the ones that are not quite my taste are well-put together and basically sell me on their merits.

Kudos all around.

(Night Nurse might be my new favorite song.)

posted by omiewise 20 June | 21:02

Thanks Slack (can I call you Slack? I think we know each other well enough for that now). I really haven't have time to digest all the mixes yet, so I'll refrain from comment except to say that the Amon Tobin track, "Verbal" on everichon's BLEW MY MIND.

It's these English phonemes, and they're always just on the knife edge of understanding. It's like synestesia, it puts my brain in a very neat place.

posted by Capn 20 June | 21:48

I love Oslodum from everichon's too

posted by amberglow 20 June | 22:01

Did someone say torrents? Can I get a link please? I haven't been paying attention. [/bad wonderchicken]

posted by stavrosthewonderchicken 20 June | 22:15

next up, kenko's weird ass avant garde / free jazz mix....

I'm a big fan of Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Ornette coleman, and Ken Vandermark, but haven't veered much further into the world of free jazz and it's many offshoots, so this mix is a great primer for more stuff to check out. For me the genre is so hit and miss (more often miss) so I don't take as many chances on new artists as I do with other genres.

Standout tracks: Egg (way fucking cool - it's not often something with such bizarre time signatures can still be so hypnotic - a band I've wanted to check out years), Epsilon Acrux (Albert Alyler and Renaldo & the Loaf in a car crash), and Samla Mammas Manna (I cannot get a gauge as to what decade this is from - production wise it sounds modern but the arrangements make me think it's early 70's prog).

This isn't an every-day-listen mix, but this one has gotten the most studious listen from me so far and will most likely influence at least a few buys (and might have resparked an avant garde listening jag).

Familiarity factor: I've only heard 2 of the 16 artists - the Luttenbachers and Fred Frith (who I became a fan of once I got my first Ralph Records comp in high school).

posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 22:30

I'm pining for the next round, and seriously bummed that I missed out on the first one. I'm having pre-emptive "way too mainstream" worries, though. (note I am worrying about Belle and Sebastian being too mainstream for this group, so don't get too scared that I'm gonna send out some matchbox 20 on y'all asses)

posted by gaspode 20 June | 22:54

One more "review" tonight. This time it's arse hat's mix...

The first half of this mix is cool, but I'm in much too hyper of a mood to chill and groove, so I'm gonna have to come back to this soon (and I sense headphones are in order).

Standout tracks: the Higher Intelligence Angency (my first musical loves were garage and punk rock so I've always loved short songs, but I actually wish this lasted more than seven minutes), Mt Everest Trio (what a great build on the groove - it's on the buy list), and Neenah's take on "Summertime" (great disc closer - love how she stretches those notes!).

Familiarity factor: it was all new to me

Great mixes so far, and lots more to listen to.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 20 June | 22:55

stavros, see here, here and here. Too late for a link, but not too late for next time.

posted by dg 20 June | 23:02

stav, i can seed for you...email me with the ones you want...

arse_hat's i already reviewed : >

posted by amberglow 20 June | 23:17

Yeah, Yeah... Well... Yeah But, I notice all the people with names starting with letters close to the beginning of the alphabet are all being reviewed. Hey. You *Know* what I'm saying here!
::whines:: what about my mix. Did anyone like my mix?

posted by seanyboy 21 June | 06:28

of course!

posted by amberglow 21 June | 07:41

Hmm. I'm not going to critique or review the mixes.

I will tell you that I liked yours very much, seanyboy, since you ~~whined~~ asked ;) Definitely a favorite.

posted by iconomy 21 June | 08:12

My work/downloading computer has been dead - power supply, not hd - but from what I heard before it went belly-up the mixes were pretty good. I've generally been getting some excellent stuff from tips here and in Mefi.

posted by carter 21 June | 10:20

Going through these mixes pretty slowly, and in a more-or-less random order, so here we go:

amberglow: lounge around music I should have been listening to already

Capn: dance hall remixes and mashups. Favorite song: "Don't Call Me Blur" since it caused my friend to say "WTF is this?"

mr.marx: swedish pop is too new wave not to enjoy. I'm dancing around in my chair. Very nice.

posted by muddgirl 22 June | 00:55

I am currently burning all of the mixes, to listen to on my upcoming 2-day train trip (starting in 4 hours)...when i'm able, I'll post descriptions here...

I'm not sure the next time I'll be seen around here or mefi...could be days, could be months...until then, eat many pancakes and be merry!

bye...

posted by Schyler523 22 June | 16:25

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