The Lights and the March

These have been building up for a few weeks. One is purely electronic/hiphop and the other rock. Both covers are from the BBC's coverage of one of China's national holidays(I had asked for suggestions from a friend).
The Lights:





The March:




Highlights to me:
both versions of Antipop Consortium's "Volcano"
Turbo Fruits "Volcano"
Pac Div "Mayor" which i initially caught thanks to mtv 2(WOW they still play music!)
Benga melted my face with the bass in "Buzzin'"
Alan Braxe's remix of Beyonce
Real Estate
Both The Feelies tracks
The Fall(which was hard to choose as I had amassed a smattering of 10 of The Falls' albums in a matter of hours)
Boredoms
Patton Oswalt(whose latest album, My Weakness is Strong, is absolutely phenomenal!)

also, thanks to Pinkie Larue for the heads up on the Phoenix remix with Banhart

Lemme know!

GLK

Because I think it's equally crucial and excellent, I present LA dj, Gaslamp Killer's Hell and the Lake of Fire Are Waiting FOR YOU! mix.

such such such an awesome mix.

what others are saying:

"The psyche head's psyche-beat selector-of-choice follows up a terrific slash and grab selection for Finders Keepers with a more personal mix of fiery picks for his own home-brewed imprint. We're not going to dwell on it, but that first track is completely doing our nuts in here, and with no tracklisting to go on we're just resigned to pulling our hair out. But you can expect slightly more obvious elements from DJ Shadow, to Bar 9, Rustie, Jefferson Airplane, Bullion and Can lurking around in the spongy vinyl soup hidden beneath GLK's shocking locks and spilled all over this mix. Basically no one stands up to this crafty character for sheer selections, mixing prowess and overall gameplan, while actually making some sort of coherent sense of this constantly mutating and feedback looping world of music that we live in right now. The mad ones are always the best, in every sense of the word." - http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=226726


what I'm saying:

He fuses everything from kraut rock to early 90s NYC gritty hiphop to norwegian psych to bass wobbling dubstep . Well worth a listen or 10.

click the pic for DL.



bonus: if you wanna get nerdy and know everything that's on it(or as close as I've found thus far: http://www.last.fm/music/the+Gaslamp+Killer/_/Hell+And+The+Lake+Of+Fire+Are+Waiting+For+YOU%21/+wiki )

also, new mix from me coming next week.

Two Kings

I got the inspiration for the title/cover while driving past Graceland yesterday. It started out as a terrible idea for a tattoo, then morphed into this. It was also originally Jesus and Elvis. Anyhow, I hope you'll enjoy this mix. There are some fairly interesting songs on it. I quite enjoy the Atlas Sound(Bradford Cox of Deerhunter) track with Noah Lennox (Panda Bear of Animal Collective) opener. The Elvis Perkins track is a remake of one of his songs off of the "In Dearland" album. I don't know how I missed A Place TO Bury Stranger's cover of Holy Fuck's "Lovely Allen" back in May, but I did. That's definitely my favorite Holy Fuck song. I tried to place some lesser known bands on here such as Brite Lite Brite, Sweet Trip, Church, and a local favorite, The Bulletproof Vests. Ezra Furman plays the Hi Tone in November, I initially got onto the Elliott Smith track again as it was sampled in RJD2's "Ghostwriter" track. RJ fans, see if you can spot it. I am loving the Rae track. The Neil Young I'm somewhat sure you've heard before, but is off of a recent Remaster.





All around a decent mix. I never know what to say about the tracks. Form your own opinion and lemme know.

Old Man Music

The title came to me because of the initial track. Michael McDonald sounds soooooooo odd on Grizzly Bear's "While You Wait For the Others" particularly in the layered harmonies. No theme here or anything of that sort. Although a couple of the artists will be playing Memphis soon. Toro y Moi will be the initial opener at The Island's show at the Hi Tone on October 29. Dávila 666 will be playing at Gonerfest. The Beatles track is off the new stereo re-masters. I really dig that this new collab between Themselves and Why? sounds nothing like either of them individually. It also sounds naught like cLOUDDEAD. The Cody Chesnutt song is in an axe commercial, no comment.

A friend got me hooked on This Heat recently after I shared some HEALTH with him. The This Heat track is from their 1977-released Peel sessions. It's amazing for that time period as well as now. I really dig the Pantha Du Prince song, but those not loving the sounds of either clanging objects or thudding bass should probably keep away. Tyondai Braxton is the lead singer of Battles and all around weird/talented dude.





I am thinking of switching back to a bi-weekly format if time and intake allow. We'll see. For now, enjoy Old Man Music (reminds me of Old Man River).

Enjoy it? Hate it? Meh it? Lemme know what you like and don't.

singing cats

hahahahahhahaha!

Thank Jehovah For Walken & It's All In Good Fun

It's been a while, as always... Anyhow, I present the latest batch of crap that's been on my itunes. Some of it is new, and some just new to me. I had to go out with a bang on "Fun" with some fantastic metal. There's no real theme between either mixes. They both contain equal parts everything, although "Walken" does lilt toward more rockishness. "Fun" has a lot more noise, but I knew in order to get certain people to listen to it, I would have to add some dance... /cough Anyhow, Hope you enjoy. Hate/Love it? Tell me!


If you're in Memphis(8-21 and 8-22), come out to Rock For Love 3 at The Hi-Tone Cafe.


Thank Jehovah For Walken





It's All In Good Fun







end.

Happiness Abounds/Communist Dander

hello all, hello wall,

I can't believe it's been 2 months. As per usual, most of these tracks have been sitting around on my hard drive since early June. I've been gone a lot and will be gone a lot in the near future too. In happy news, I will finally be able to see one of my heroes, Doseone, with my favorite incarnation of his music, Themselves, in Portland next week. YAYAYAYAY! anyhow, on with the music:

Happiness Abounds
This mix feels more light hearted and joyous. There are moments of depth and melancholy, but for the most part this thing is joyful!






Communist Dander
This mix is 40% garage rock new and old, 10% old anti communist country, 20% dancey electro/dubstep/hiphop, 5% funk, 15% classic rock, 10% random. I challenge you, the lsitener, to tell the difference between the old and new garage rock(without allmusic, wiki, etc.). It shouldn't be that hard. I just want you to think about what you're listening to.





I'm very pleased with both of these and feel that filler is at an all time low. Of course this could be from my lack of posting mixes regularly. I apologize for that, to the regular downloaders especially. Sorry for the slowdown. As always, thanks for stopping by and checking it all out. Please feel free to leave comments of rejoice, hatred, pleasure, whatever.

P.S. Yes, that is Hil Clinton

P.P.S. That weird face on the second mix's cover is bologna. Yeeeeeaaaaaah

yikes, dudes

here comes a slew of s***. It's been a while and as always I've been lazy. I've had these ready for a few weeks now and thusly some of the newer tracks might already be played out. Hey, let's hope not. Anyhow, no more talkie.

additionally, i've switched to a new uploading format with my webspace. What does this mean for you? No more mediafire!

Chess!




Wild Westerners




Animal Farm





enjoy!

as always, comments/hate mail enjoyed!

Oh Savage Delight/We Live Here Now

I started making a mix about 3 weeks ago. It was a mixture of the two. I got fed up with it and decided to seperate them into electronic/synth and rock/whatever. The covers were inspired by a recent camping trip to Reelfoot Lake in northwestern Tennessee.

Favorites for me are Correcto, Xylos, Golden Silvers, Bill Callahan, Grandpaboy, and Warpaint on Oh Savage Delight.



Regarding We Live Here Now, both Jogger tracks, HEALTH, Au Revoir Simone, and "Seaweed" from Clark.



I generally like all the tracks, but those are merely my faves. As always, lemme know what you like/dislike/meh.

I love you all. Goodnight.

P.S. I f*cking love spring. I didn't catch a single fish while at Reelfoot, but I really loved the weather/camping/fire building.

P.P.S. If you have some 3-d glasses(which I don't), check out the Creature from the Black Lagoon on the Oh Savage Delight cover and let me know if the 3-d imagery works.

Ciao.

Lady Face & Me

I made this mix weeks and weeks ago(same old story, i know) and even upped an early version of it. I just never made art for it. Finally I did so today and while upping the revamped version, I began making a new one. I know this is not a good trend for me to be getting in to. Putting out multiple mixes at one time isn't fair to you, the listener. So, I apologize. This may be the last time haha. Maybe not. We'll see. anyhow, I present

Lady Face




and

Me




enjoy

and as always, comments are enjoyed and appreciated.

Dem For the Win or Truck in a Tree(oh shit)

A double dose. I had a mix all prepped, but then quit my job and left town for about 10 days. Went to DC and got a new president there. Got back and promptly got ill. I threw out the old mix that I had ready and made 2 whole, new ones.
They're dandy. Hope you like. Plenty of new and old artists to feast on and derive pleasure from.

Without further typing, Dem For the Win and Truck in a Tree(oh shit)









I came really close to not including the Animal Collective song, as almost everyone and their cousin has been talking around it. I'm excited to say that I'll be seeing them in June, finally. I feel these are two strong mixes. Find out for yourself. As always, comments are adored.

The Three(as promised)

Well, I promised a bevy of mixes and here they are. As always, click the pictures for the link download.

The First is a gratuitous mix based off of the word "Fuck". It's called For Those About To Fuck(We Salute You). I think you(the viewer/listener) will enjoy it as much as I have. It's a mixture of raucousness and rap.





The following two are based on a 3 day span including Yesterday and Today, then Tonight and Tomorrow. It's dumb, but I wanted to try it out. :P

Here is Yesterday and Today. I feel that you'll know at least some of the artists if you frequent my blogs.





and finally, here is Tonight and Tomorrow!





Enjoy! I robbed the images from http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/ which is truly fantastic. Scroll down and find the Panda! Aaaaaaah

as a late christmas/happy new year gift I'll be upping 3 new mixes over the course of this week. All three are themed(it's been a while).

No Funny Business

To anyone hating rock music before 1970, sincerest of apologies for the first handful of tracks on this mix. One day last week, I had a huge day of rock flashbacks from my childhood and felt the need to download as much 50s and early 60s rock as I could remember. I actually made a mix of nothing but that, but then wondered who would download it..(although if any of you want it, shoot me a message). Beyond there I extend into a Breeders track taken from another failed mix of mine. It was to be a "Divine" mix with all of the songs being about, having within the title, or referencing God or Satan. I scratched that idea. I do have 2 themed mixes that will be coming out soon though. Another divine track being the Violent Femmes track. The Bird track is from his forthcoming album. AS yet only terrible rips have made it to the internet without being shut down. Hope you can get past the crappy quality to hear the beauty(if you like old an. dr. ew anyhow...name split for fear of being shut down by the web marshal...i shit you not. there is an entity out there pa[trolling] the net that is actually called such). New Bon Iver, as well as new music from a crew of others(some new to me, some not so). Anyhow, as always, I hope you enjoy this.





lemme know what you think.

The Snelste

Snelste means quickest in Dutch according to babelfish, which has failed me often. I'll accept it though. I'm releasing this mix faster than I regularly would because I feel the need to make up for lost mixes of yore. I hope you enjoy it. I like the first track quite a bit. The Rosebuds are an odd little band from NC. The mix starts off strongly with rock music before dipping into more electronic zones, then re-emerging into obscurity through public image ltd and pere ubu(justin inspired me to re-listen to these 2 bands), then into newer bands once more. The final track from Dinamoe was ripped from Matthew Dear's much longer Body Language mix. I find it very relaxing and beautiful though. It helped me overcome a serious hangover one afternoon. Anyhow, without further jawing...




Hope you enjoy!

The Not So Incredible Hulk

The Not So Incredible Hulk that could.





Welcome back, folks. I present a mix of magnificent proportion. A much better return to form than my previous endeavor. Enclosed within, one will find mystic wonders to shake the dreariest of asses, to the rock the deadest of socks, and cheer up people like, well, me. African pop covers, coked out barbies, bands you've never heard of! and some you probably(maybe?) have! Check out "Brooklyn" and try not to smile. I dare you. anyhow, hope you enjoy. It's spastic and wonderful, as per usual. *starts off slow and then head butts you with happiness/sheer terror at the guttural growls of Alicja Trout(Black Sunday) and beyond*

Love,
Team FAGL(really only one dude, but every other blog says team this or team that, so why can't I be a team too?)

The Giant One

It's a big return. It really is. Been a long time since I posted a mix. I've had it ready. Just needed some pushing from a friend to get it the hell out. Since my hospital stay, I've enjoyed several affairs with varied artists' discographies and wanted to reflect as such here. This final version has gone through about 9 changes in draft. Enough of the side talk.





every track is standout(except some of the electronic ones...I doubt they stand out to me after 3 or more months). I hope you think so too. Comments are always loved, even if they're lambasting ones.
To show some bias though, my favorites are Fucked Up, Compulsive Gamblers, J-Live, Women, Gang Gang Dance, Wax Fang, and Hot Chip. I laughed at myself for presenting 3 totally differing kinds of hiphop tracks side by side by side.

The Six

dear Friends, countrymen, strangers, internet fiends, and lovers,

I apologize for the wait on the next mix. I have it ready, but...I am making you wait. I was in the hospital for a while but am now back at home. Anyhow, I present 6 albums that I feel more people should hear. Additionally, I feel a few of them are hard to find on the internet. I had trouble when I did searches for them over the past year or so. Without further ado, I present the Six.

click on album covers to be redirected.

1. David Byrne and Brian Eno-Everything That Happens Will Happen Today


info link: http://www.everythingthathappens.com/


2. Cats In Paris-Courtcase 2000


info link: www.myspace.com/catsinparis


3. Compulsive Gamblers-Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing


info link: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:dnfuxqekldae


4. Fucked Up-The Chemistry Of Common Life


info link: http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:fpfuxztkld0e


5. The Monks-Black Monk Time


info link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monk_Time


6. Sixto Rodriguez-Cold Fact


info link: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/145294-rodriguez-cold-fact

i hope you enjoy any and all that you get. cheers! mix coming soon...