Harrison Ford & the Disciples of dOOOOm

Good to be back to normal posting. I had a lot of free time on my hands over the last month(hence 4 mixes instead of 2). That's all over with now. I really like this mix a lot. It's actually been ready, in a basic structure, for about 3 weeks, but I've tweaked it slightly over the past week(featuring a new discovery in the form of Polyrhythm Addicts thanks to sam.). As for the rest, it came from here and there. As always, I've tried to incorporate a good, healthy mix of lots of differing types of craptasm. Fap to this, Blog boy! Sorry if some of this is "dated", as it has been around on my computer for 3 weeks[see above](note: this message pertains to music addicts on the dick of everything new and hyped, such as myself). Some of the names are old familiars for readers of Fuck a GL, others are new. Finally, as I generally do, I will hype a band that is playing in Memphis soon. This time it's the Lymbyc System. Signees of Mush Records(who have grandfathered many an ungerground footnote) and all around good music makers(if you like instrumental soundtrackish keyboard music). They'll be at the Hi-Tone tomorrow(May 21) for 8 fish and a loaf of bread.

note: this is my tribute/mockery of an old ass Ford playing Indiana Jones





Jesus Christ, that was a lot of () used.

Speaking of JC, I want to apologize for the lack of good covers recently. I was inspired to make the mixes, but not present them with decent covers. Hopefully, this is a return to form. Thank you, Nick, for helping me come up with alternate jobs and career paths for the Lord Savior(such as wing walking).

Happy Days!

I had never heard Wire before this past week. Got the first three albums and the early incarnations of this mix held about 6 songs of theirs. I narrowed that down some(as seen). I highly recommend their album, Chairs Missing. The Angels' track is so messed up. The lyrics, I mean. I like the Justice remix more than I like the original. Same with the Her Space Holiday. Blah blah blah Hands of Time are excellent.



enjoy!

A Colors

Bah: Themed mixes.
I woke up restless today, so I decided to post this early. I've had an intensely shitty week, but as always will refrain from getting personal. I hope you'll enjoy some of these tracks, as I've tried to go all over the board(although, I did cheat by using 3 huge songs from the onset of it all). I'll have a real mix up for Tuesday. These themed mixes seem to have more downloads than most of the others though. If it's what people prefer, then why not? Whatever. I miss a girl, a close family member died, my back hurts. on the bright side, (like a fortune cookie) new prospects on the horizon. All I can picture by saying that is a meager redneck kid standing on a forest ridge ala Where the Red Fern Grows. Anyway, what the fuck am I talking about? Colors? oh yeah.


as always, click the pics for DL.

enjoy this. possibly. If not, I'll return to normal posting next week.

The Honeysuckle Years

I feel like there are a lot of vibes going on with this mix. I guess I could say that about most of them, but I feel it more so on this one. I feel strongly about the songs though and hope that you'll enjoy them. I acquired some "lost soul cuts"(4 discs worth) and some of the tracks here are from those discs. Two of the tracks here, by The Dodos and Born Ruffians, made me want to make a Colors mix, so that will follow later this week. I'd like for this mix to get some circulation first before pumping out The Colors. 44 tracks is a good bit to take on all at once...



Anyhow, hope you enjoy this.
As Always, let me know what you think.

The Powers

Sorry again for the delay. It's been a decent enough few weeks for music acquisitions. Not too terribly much to report on this mix. I love the Metronomy remix and the way the synths sound on "European Gangsta". Danger is great. I dunno if that track is a live rip or a studio mix though. Hard to tell. The Reatard track is from one of his upcoming 7 inches for Matador. Not too much else to say really. Hope you enjoy it. As always, feel free to comment and let me know what you enjoyed and what you didn't.





Hope you enjoy it. As always, feel free to comment and let me know what you enjoyed and what you didn't.

sorry, i'm a day late. i was in nashville for the evening last pm, so the new mix will be up either tonight after i get off from work or tomorrow. Until then...go download the old ones.

Conquering the Hibernation

Well winter is officially done by now. Started this one off strong and I feels it says pretty strong the whole way through.





All of the skits are taken from Rhymefest's latest mixtape with Mark Ronson. They've taken samples of Mike JAckson from past interviews and recorded their own segments. It's very amusing. Try not to be put off too much by the Hercules and Love Affair. My roommate hates it so much, but there's something about it that I can't help but to like.(the vocals remind me of whoever it was that sang on Cassius' "The Sound of Violence"...too lazy to look it up currently). I love the new Tapes n Tapes album and chose this one for length and quality. It reminds me a lot of my favorite track off of their previous album which was "Ten Gallon Ascots". Saw Fleet Foxes recently and was blown away by their live show. Love the album as well and look forward to seeing them again some day. Lykke Li's album was produced by Bjorn Yttling from Peter, Bjorn, and John. You can definitely hear his presence of this track. I love the Portishead track because it sounds like Portishead with the melancholy howling still present, but the song behind her sounds much more drony or kraut rockish. Anyhow, hope you enjoyed the winter slumber. Now let's wake up and go outside. Put this on your ipod and go make love to the sun(and by that I mean go stand outside under it).

Number Whatever

A real mix of the craziness that's been on constant rotation in my car. Some of these tracks just didn't make Savage Lifestyle,, but a majority are fresh cuts. I love the video for the Sheek Louch track. Was only recently introduced to Chris Clark, so for this mix I cut down from 5 songs to what is seen here. I went crazy when I heard him. The Icy Demons track is so simplistic, but it immediately made me want to call a friend in Miami. The Snowglobe song is available on their Myspace page and nowhere else. You may also recognize it as an intro used on Doing the Distance. I don't really have much more to say. If there are any questions, comment. Enjoy.





see you next time.

Savagery

30th post. Hard to believe(mind you, not the 30th mix), but here we are. I've had a lot of time to compile this one, since the last couple were themed. Thusly, it's gone through many edits and changes as I've found new things to add(and grown tired of others). I started out this week with a song from ? & the Mysterians. It was a song that I loved in my childhood, and I was delighted when I found out that they are playing the Hi Tone in May. I know they are dinosaurs by now, but I'd still like to see them perform. I'm sorry if you do not like Daedelus, because there's a double dose this week. Both tracks are pretty laid back (with the first track having a background of frenetic energy running rampant and the second remaining calm). Most listeners will probably delete the HEALTH and Disfear tracks, which is why I put them together at the end. I don't usually use interludes, but I decided to use "crap 1-3" on this one. I don't really know what else to say...well that's a lie. I feel that an American producer could have made the Gonzalez track and made it tighter. I like the song, but it's production could be stronger.





I came up with the idea for the cover while I was doodling in my job training last week. I drew a guy being chased by a bunch of flaming matches. The tiger says "bullshit" because that's how I feel their Saturday game was. Anyhow, hope you enjoy.

Happy Love day

I feel that this explains itself(given the date). This is my last themed blog for a while(thankfully). I'm ready to return to normal posting. :)

The Questions

This week is a theme mix. Bahaha, how silly is that. Next week's Valentine's mix will also be themed. This week I imagined a short conversation between 2 people carried out in song title. check it. Not all of the songs are amazing or mindblowing, but it's a cute little idea. So give it a shot. The Liars track is a couple of albums old, but still excellent. Same with the El-P.




Next blog, we'll deal with love and more love. Tonight I'm going to see Band of Horses. I missed most of their set at Pitchfork 2 years ago, so I'm excited to see them now.

Space Case

Lately, I've felt like one. I started to call this shot in the dark and try to make a black background like Metallica's black album with a black outline of a corpse with stark red blood flowing out...but i got lazy and did this. check my chupacabra.


Anyhow, I start out this week with The Cool Kids who have had a revival on my LAst FM charts. when the hell is their full length coming out? Then slip into a little known nugget from about 3-4 years ago, the Daedelus track is from a split 7 inch between D and Boombip and features both of them remixing Donnie Darko score songs. Admittedly five of these tracks were pre-sourced(like that?) from another mix. I'll be amazed if any of you can tell me whose mix(unless of course your next step is just to google the tracks enough to figure out...even then I'd still be amazed that you gave that much of a shit lol) anyhow, my standouts:

Midnight Juggernauts-such a weird sound. The distorted drums of the likes of Justice with subdued vocals leading into a soaring chorus

Mancino-Brooklyn nerd rock ala I don't have a clue. It's catchy, but not trashy. A nerd's Vampire Weekend with all the pop sensibilities but lacking the sound that makes the panties drop(what the hell am i talking about anymore?)

Alan Braxe and Friends- This track is nuts. I love it for what I feel like it should be...an afterhours coke jam. strung out people hugging.

Coach And Four-yes, I want this album to sell,s o go buy it. This song is about the Memphis Tigers 1985 NCAA team, so if you're a tigers fan like moi...well...it doesn't disappoint.

Back to the briefs...Beck covered Korgis' track for the Eternal Sunshine Soundtrack. Another awesome track from local producer/DJ, The Sky Patrol. Bill Callahan plays the Hi-Tone on February 28, so if you haven't heard him, HERE'S YOUR CHANCE. Same with Mr. Quintron and Miss Pussycat. They play the Hi-Tone with the Black Lips on March 21. Fuck, I love the 8-bit keys from crystal castles. They're crazy. that's all i can say. I'd have to upload many more songs for you to understand. Speaking again of Boombip, he and doseone's track has always been a favorite from their album, circle(their one and only together).

And of course, where would I be without a Fourtet remix? Have a nice afternoon.

Bonus Round Memphis

What I've done here is take some of my local picks and made a special mediafire folder for them. The first few albums featured here consist of 2 from The Lost Sounds(the self titled is my preferred...tell me yours) and Jay Reatard's Blood Visions. Reatard was also in the Lost Sounds... If you've been on this blog for a while, I've posted tracks from both camps in the previous. Also of note, Reatard has signed on with Matador Records for a series of singles(AWESOME!!! YAY MEMPHIS MUSIC!!)

anyhow, enough talk...the music


click on either picture for the mediafire folder



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also, new mix tomorrow

New Yearworks

I apologize for being behind on releasing this. It's been a busy few weeks. Hope everyone had a good new year. I had too good of one and woke up drunk the next day and couldn't complete sentences properly until the sun had gone down again. SO, anyhow these tracks...how about them...




If you're a regular then you've heard the Kate Bush track before, as I posted the Chromatics' version some weeks ago. I apologize if you're not a Feist lover, all of the Feist tracks are remixes(so maybe you'll still enjoy). The Amplive track is off the soon to not be released Radiohead remix disc. This past week, he was ordered to desist from making the album(bummer, since the included remix of nude is pretty grand). blah blah happy new year. enjoy my fireworks. Lots of dancy music on this one. I dunno why.

Everything's Fine

yes, everything is fine.



All of these tracks were co-opted from other blogs muahaha. Enjoy them all. This mix is somewhat hap-hazard and rushed, as I have been pretty busy lately. I went to the Zoo for free today and saw the Polar Bears swimming. Love. I'm new to most of these people. The Ris Paul Ric is a couple of years old and is a definite standout. The Diplo remix of Spoon is from this past week. The Fagget Fairys track has been on constant in my car.

Also, I'm enjoying the new Beach House quite a bit, and am excited because they're palying the Hi-Tone in MArch. I wanted to go see them when they came this past Fall/Summer whenever it was, but they were opening for the National...boo...now they're headlining, yay! Plenty of great shows coming up at the Hi-Tone...Band of Horses, Black Lips, Beach House, High On Fire, Jason Isbell...

Later

Whatever You Want

Well, Pimp C died this week. It's been a good couple of weeks, but this isn't the place for me to talk about that.




Anyhow, the music this week starts off with The Monks, a band that I am just now getting into. I'm glad that I have though. Their Black Monk Time album from 1966 is flipping amazing proto-punk/rhythm driven kraut rock. I was immediately in love and if you look under this post, you'll find a video of theirs.

A new Wu track is included from the 8 Diagrams album. The rest is standard fare. I mean, I'm here to supply this music, not write about it too much. I like it because I do. Maybe you'll like something in it as well, but I find it pointless to just list reasons why I like the songs. haha just enjoy. Contradicting myself, in "Roberta C" from casiotone, I love the lyric "scrabble high score 409". Recently, I've been playing a lot of scrabulous on facebook and I'm still trying to beat that 409. I keep hovering between 310-350 range. Also, I'm going to go ahead and apologize for the Andy Kim song. It's been in a commercial lately and has been in my head a good deal.

Yall take it easy. The holidays will be here soon.

The Monks on German TV in 1966

Yeah Baby

The Pirnce

This week I was unable to devote much time to the art, as you can tell. I did this in about 4 minutes from finding the picture of the Mach, to transferring my face to it. Whatever. I had to write a paper comparing the role of fear in Hobbes' Leviathan to Mach's The Prince, so I had it on the brain. Anyway, what's important.

The music:
I'd already completed an early of this mix about 1.75 weeks ago, but with trying to keep a consistent release schedule, I held it off. Glad I did, in those 1.75 weeks, I added new music to the hard drives and kept changing this mix. This is version 5.



Tracks


Standouts and general info:

The Holy Fuck track is pretty cool. They're an organic rock band that makes music that emulates electronic music. heh
Another Justice DANCE remix, but this one is special considering who is on it. or maybe that's what makes it not so special. I like Spank's initial verse, but the rest is ehhhh...
Elzhi is amazing, nothing new there.
The Fink track is enjoyable. He sounds very similar to Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing fame.
I was rewatching the first season of Curb Your Enthusiasm recently and "Still Crazy..." was featured in the ep and made me want to download it. Did so and it's been on repeat ever since.
The Burial track is insane to me. I can't describe what I love about it, but whenever it comes on in the car I can't go to the next track without listening to it about 4 times in a row(unless someone else is in the car). I only recently discovered that the vocal samples are from Ray J's "One Wish" and my mind was blown. How the hell...?

The Album Leaf track is beautiful. Who would expect less?

and the final track from Avey Tare(of Animal Collective) and his wife, Kria Brekkan(formerly of Mum) is indeed a strange one, but a good one to end on.

I feel confident about this mix. It's all over the place, as usual, but enjoyable. I hope you feel the same.

Jack the Bear and a fat man on a fake bull

I apologize that it's been a little longer than 2 weeks since my last post. I've been trying to remain consistent with these posts, but it's hard sometimes. I've been out of the house a lot and got fed up the first time that I tried making some art for this beast. I finally got the patience to sit down and cut out way too many joggers and just get it over with. Around this time, I was sipping some White label Dickel and ice and started having fun with the bear/jogging pictures. Anyway, enough about the image(as is my standard, click the pic for the mix):



the music:


I had heard the Chromatics' Plaster Hound album and really couldn't believe that this was the same band as I heard doing "Running Up That Hill"(which is a Kate Bush cover and I'm going to go out on a limb here and admit my own ignorance of who that actually is). Anywho, that's my favorite track off of the (new) Chromatics album, Night Drive. I was only recently introduced to Say Hi To Your Mom by a good friend and "Prefers Unhappy Endings" was the first track that I heard. I really enjoy it and it's sure to get lodged in your brain(as in drunk humming it at the international house of pancakes at 4 in the morning).

The Frankie Valli track is really stand out to me. I don't know it's initial release date, but I know it's old(somewhere in between 62 and 67). I love love love the drums/bass in it. love them. seriously. Good movement there. Way to go, frankie.

I had a few Apparat tracks a few mixes back. I had never come across his collab with Ms. Allien until last week and immediately I dropped the Fugazi track that I had initially put on here and put this on instead. B/c who out of my readership has never heard Fugazi? Seriously, comment if you haven't and I'll upload a whole mix of just Fugazi.

Yeasayer is cool and I thought I was cool for hearing them first until I picked up a Fader and BAM there they were, all up in my face. I included the sage-like advice track of Dan Le Sac as a means of passing it on to those who've not been graced by his preaching. The video is better, go find it on YOUTUBE. Backtracking a moment, go listen to a young ass Jay-Z on "Can I Get Open?" Dan(not Le Sac), if you read this, you'll recognize the beat on that track, I promise.

The Annie Lennox track was in American Beauty and I watched it again recently
and the track moved me. blah blah blah unwarranted sentimentality.

Ugly, Calla, and m## are all throwback tracks spanning the past few years. If unfamiliar, Ugly Casanova was a short spanning side project of Modest Mouse frontman, Isaac Brock. It's grand. The m83 track may get on your nerves.

The Hangar track is depressing and you'll probably only want to hear it once in your life(think an aural version of Requiem For a Dream, but not quite as deep/dark...more so full of regret)
. I liked it as a closer though.

Also, I tried my best to keep this mix under 100mb so I could upload it all in one go. I succeeded at 99.5mb=yeah!

take it easy and see you again soon.

a dark day(Monday November 5 2007)

Rest in Peace albumbase.com

you provided me with so much internet love. You'll be missed with your multi-linking system. If ever my Rapidshare limit was exceeded, you were always there with a sendspace one to rub me on the back and make me feel like I could still find that Beat Happening S/T. Damnit, I miss you so much already. You were always so much better of a friend to me than Shareminer.com could ever hope to be. It'll be hard to fill your vast library shoes. RIP indeed.

(read also, this is not a direct confession of my online piracy, RIAA)