Waterlogged and loving it

Hey Mixologistas!

Gasp! I've only just emerged from my underwater wonderland and into the O2. And it's ...Friday?

Blow me down. This was such a good week for mixes, mixers. We had a tie! Both Jeff and Graham had evoked coral and clown fish and deep sea submersibles so effectively I could feel the pull of surf! A Mixtape Mix-up! Do you know what this means? Neither do I ! Oh wait yes I do. Dun dun duunnnnn... Dice Decider.

The Winner is... Jeff Morisano! Full track list below!

"Aquarium Music(ak)"

01. A Dead Fish Gains the Power - The Books
02. Cluster One - Pink Floyd
03. Open The Kingdom [Liquid Days Part II] - Phillip Glass
04. Alien - Aoki Takamasa & Tujiko Noriko
05. Aquarium - Casino Versus Japan
06. Circling - Four Tet
07. Paddington - Hauschka
08. Sea Urchins - Yo La Tengo
09. Someone To Watch Over Me - Chet Baker
10. Let My Fish Loose - Nobukazu Takemura
11. Re: Stacks (Tomas Barfod Remix) - Bon Iver
12. Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft -Langley Schools Music Project

Pick it up here: With artwork! ->
http://www.mediafire.com/?2ejwdywlntj

Holy Moley. Guys, you are pretty great. In fact, I'm going to have to stress that you also give Graham's mix a listen if you have not already done so. Great stuff from Isotope 217, Autechre, and Tortoise. His mix is available here:

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2fdn2vhy2mt/GrahamAquarium.zip

Without further Postponement , this week's Theme - unanimously chosen, is :

"Monsters!"

Post your 12 track listings and new themes! Send your Votes! New round begins on Friday, March 5th!

If you require the rules , Check the first note. If you want out, just untag yourself.

Ears cower in fear! The Mixmaster cometh! Thanks for all the goodness, but please Mixmasters, can I have some more?

Commencer à mélanger! Le plus terrifiant des vampires!
-Colin

Art Link of the week ->
http://www.justintimberlake.com/uploads/assets/0000/2852/cassette3.jpg

Film Faves

Hey Geniuses!

So this week's Mixmaster mix , via vox populi, is the product of ...Brandi Cahill! I'll be honest, as soon as I saw the track list I could see this mix was something special, (scroll down and see for yourself) and it won by one vote! Ah, Edward Scissorhands, before Danny Elfman was formulaic. Full disclosure though- I think his formula is pretty good. Also Phillip Glass? Errol Morris? Sign me up. Check out the full list;

"Soundtrack Favorites (Film)"

Side A (Instrumentals)
01. La Valse D'Amelie - Yann Tiersen (Amelie)
02. Odessa Medley - Paul Cantelon Score (Everything is Illuminated)
03. Edward Meets the World: Beautiful New World/Home Sweet Home - Danny Elfman (Edward Scissor Hands)
04. The Fog of War - Michael Riesman, composed by Phillip Glass (The Fog of War)
05. The Winner Is - Mychael Danna (Little Miss Sunshine)
06. Jean de Florett - Jean-Claude Petit (Jean De Florette)
Side B
01. Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
02. Fly - Nick Drake (The Royal Tenenbaums)
03. Mad World - Gary Jules (Donnie Darko)
04. Life On Mars? (Album Version) - Seu Jorge (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
05. La Vie on Rose - Louis Armstrong (WALL-E)
06. God Bless the Child - Billie Holiday (Enron: the smartest guys in the room)

Thanks for the wonderful work again this week , everyone! You had me swimming in movie memories! Mikey Q, I'm looking at you (jurassic park theme...) Also, that rhymed. Blake, bringing some "A" game with the childhood hits. Zack, vulcan-mind-meld aside, showed up with some great tunes. And last, but not least, Graham with that good old zither music. I'm in a dither... over that zither.

With no further flim-flam, this week's Theme -big winner with only one vote, is :

"Aquarium Music(ak?)"

Post your 12 track listings and new themes! Send your Votes! New round begins on Tues, February 23rd!

If you require the rules , Check the first note. If you want out, just untag yourself.

Ears rejoice! More mix to come! As always, Happy Mixing!
-Colin

art link of the week ->
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2009/04/03/cassette-art-robert-smith-ian-curtis-iri5-ghost-machine/

Music To Counteract Rainy Day Doldrums

Hey Hey Hey!

Hey guess what?

No Votes, No votes, (sung in the style of Cake, to the tune of their hit, "No Phone")

Do you know what this means? It means I leave it to Fate. Fate, in the guise of that most unfeeling of randomization tools, the six-sided die. I have attached a numerical value to each of this week's mixes by rolling the die, and I shall roll to determine the outcome.

Drum-roll....

This week's Mixmaster mix is the product of ... Matt Lefferts!
All hail this weeks Mixmaster! Keep up the good work Matt!

Matt chose a heck of an opener, Stevie Wonder's "I Believe When I fall In Love"
which takes hope and turns it into jubilant funk. I might have swore at myself for leaving it out of my mix, but it appears we were of like mind on "Jungle" by Electric light orchestra. Great minds, truly. Here's the rest of the mix;

"Music To Counteract Rainy Day Doldrums."

01. I believe When I Fall in Love - Stevie Wonder
02. Jungle - ELO
03. Pick Up The Pieces - Average White Band
04. I Zimbra - Talking Heads
05. Close Behind - Calexico
06. Walk Of Life - Dire Straits
07. Once Chance - Modest Mouse
08. Lasso - Pheonix
09. Pillar of Salt - The Thermals
10. Little Cream Soda - The White Stripes

Only ten you say? What about the rules? Well, tough noogies, the fates have spoken!

I had a lot of fun listening to the mixes you all suggested. In my music nook. With my steel headphones plugged into the Hi-Fi . In my bean bag chair. On the shag... moving on. I hope some listening was done on your end somewhere, to something, preferably some of the previously mentioned tracks.

Another week of Mixing and listening is yet to come! Are you excited? Heck, I just wet myself!

Without Further hubub, this week's Theme (with one vote) is :

" Soundtrack Favorites (film) "

Post your 12 track listings and new themes! Send your Votes! New round begins on Tues, February 16th!

If you require the rules , Check the First note. If you want out, just untag yourself.

Thanks again for the mixes this week guys! YOU ARE NOT FINISHED!
I HUNGER FOR MORE MIX!
(chex mix?)

-Colin

Then, at last, they lifted up the sky and let the roaring starlight in

Hey Folks! So this week's Mixmaster mix is the product of ... me. It's a dreamy little stretch of 12 songs by good people. It gets chaotic at times, but I can imagine sitting on a picnic blanket under a yawning expanse of twilight, maybe in a letterman jacket, with these tunes flowing out of my...let's say...Camaro, and feeling like my experience was musically enriched. That's something, I guess.

"Then, at last, they lifted up the sky and let the roaring starlight in."

01. Men Together Today - British Sea Power
02. Home Life - Shearwater
03. Night Walks - Black Mountain
04. Dark Matter - Andrew Bird
05. Bird Gerhl - Antony & The Johnsons
06. Hellhole Ratrace - Girls
07. Of The Mountains - Dan Deacon
08. Apocalyptic Friend - Eef Barzelay
09. Phantom Anthills - Chad VanGaalen
10. Army Of Ancients - Dr. Dog
11. Static/Diamond Bollocks - Beck
12. Woods - Bon Iver

If you feel like downloading, -> http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8bb16be02c90f0a3d2c76222fad229a2703929c4f4713beb77b784fef9ed9be3 Enough useless babble. Let's get down to it. Since there were no mixes or themes suggested this past round, I have to find some way of generating a random theme. With the help of Google. Or my bookshelf. Or Headlines.

Without Further hoodo, this week's Theme is :
"Music to counteract rainy day doldrums"
Post your 12 track listings and new themes! Send your Votes! New round begins on Tues, February 9th!

If you require the rules , Check the previous note.

Hope Everyone is great! Happy Mixing! -Colin