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I am super excited to post the first in this year’s guest mix project coming from the super talented Greg Herman. It’s a drummer series of sorts where Greg highlights his favorite beats of all time and guaranteed to get your toes tapping for sure. The artwork is via Greg as well, love it.
Be sure to drop Greg a line and congratulate him on his new adventures in fatherhood too with the recent birth of his son Niah.
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This next series of mixes was inspired by a post on one of my favorite blogs, A Continuous Lean, which you can see here. I started this series back in the summer of 2008 after stumbling on that post and recently revisited it and created more variants which I will share in the near future. There is something amazing about putting a mix together of classics and contemporary music and have them feel seamless. Enjoy with your favorite book.
I also wanted to inform everyone that each month this year I am having a guest mixer. January’s guest, Greg Herman, has had his handful with being a new dad so look for his mixes later in the year. Next month, Mr. Fancy-pants himself, Will Bryant, will be our guest. Really looking forward to seeing what everyone does.
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To help ring in the new year and decade I created a mix that is sure to get everyone at your party dancing. It’s a who’s who of indie electro and some of my favorites over the past couple of years. If you miss the download before the New Year’s grab it anyways and throw it on to rock out at work or for a drive home through rush hour. It’s pretty infectious. I hope you like it!
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The last 2 holiday mixes were on the gloomier side so I decided to hook everyone up with a more peppy and upbeat Xmas mix. Backdoor Santa likes to spike his eggnog with Jim Beam Red Stag Bourbon. Look at him, getting all sloppy and stuff.
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The second mix was inspired by the gloomy weather we’ve had this week in LA. It’s a mix of upbeat and hopeful songs and more somber and gloomy songs as well as Christmas specific tunes and songs I felt that relate to the time of year. I kicked it off with “Horchata” by Vampire Weekend because I recently had some horchata while at lunch with some buddies of mine. Also noteworthy, is that I based the theme and artwork around one of my favorite songs by Mazzy Star and Feist’s rendition of “Lo, How a Rose E’re Blooming.” It was a tough decision between her version and Sufjan Stevens’ version. Enjoy!
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My wife and I LOVE the holiday season. I especially love holiday music. Blue Christmas is a melancholy mix of songs to get you started. I plan on posting a new holiday mix each week until Christmas so stay posted and pour some eggnog. Enjoy!
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I recently contributed to the great online music blog The Mixtape Club. They invite artists, musicians, and all around music lovers to make 10 song mixes. The mixes live on their website for a month exactly. Since it’s the last day of November I thought I’d offer my mix here on my blog now. I decided to include my “curator’s cut” that includes 10 extra songs not included in the Mixtape Club mix. The mix itself is a very somber and chilly group of songs that capture the essence of the months of November and December.
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The last of the Heist Series mixes is another grab bag of tracks that were left over or forgotten by me when making the other mixes. Oddly enough this collection seems to be a pretty cohesive mix. This concludes the Heist Series for now. Next month will be holiday themed and I have some great ideas for 2010 which I am working on hard as we speak. Enjoy this last Heist and come back for new stuff in the near future.
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Shawn & Clutchy recently released a new album and I was eager to mix it in with a few left over tracks from the other mixes I made of theirs. As I started to compile it I noticed an Asian theme building with the instruments and collaborators they chose to work with. I complimented their tracks with songs that I felt blended in to what formed in my mind of a high profile score in Hong Kong.
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I, not too long ago, stumbled on an amazing album of covers of Wu Tang done in classic funk and soul stylings by El Michel’s Affair. I was so dumbfounded by it’s awesomeness that I tracked down a few other releases of theirs. I thought they captured the gritty southern flavor of Mississippi. I imagined a casino heist in Tunica in the hot summer nights. I thought a great climax could take place in the swamp marshes of the backwoods. Enjoy this lo-fi soulful collection.
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