Summer update

Hello loyal fans,

You may have already guessed that we carpoolers are carpooling to a school, which is why there hasn't been a mix since the end of June. If you are reading this and are NOT a teacher, you should consider changing professions.
As a result of my heat-induced lethargy, I just noticed that my mediafile links are dead, so if you run across this blog and are interested in any of the mixes, just ask us to "re-up" the files in the comments section, and we will gladly do that with all of this spare time that we are burdened with.
We are also losing a carpool member in the fall, but we may be adding a female perspective, so stay tuned!

See you in september!

Gearbox

Let's hope it's an Endless Summer mix

So, for the final installment of the inaugural season I was given Summer as my theme. Surprisingly, this was a more difficult mix to put together than the other two. In the end, I was pleasantly surprised at the outcome of this mix although, I'm a little biased and I did include a few tracks that I could only qualify as being self indulgent. However, you also can't have a Summer picnic without a little Cheese whiz. Let me just close by saying that it has been fun, and I look forward to continuing the great carpool challenge in the fall. Thanks to my other carpoolies for their efforts as well. I have thoroughly enjoyed all the mixes! I hope you've all enjoyed mine as well. Enjoy the Summer!

1. Summer Song - Joe Satriani
2. Patio Lanterns - Kim Mitchell
3. Centerfield - John Fogerty
4. Summertime Blues - The Who
5. All Canadian Surf Club - The Tragically Hip
6. Summer Nights - Van Halen
7. Behind the Sun - The Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Hot Fun in the Summertime - Sly & the Family Stone
9. Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
10. Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
11. Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins
12. Summer of '69 - Bryan Adams
13. (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding
14. School's Out - Alice Cooper

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competition

"all getting sliced and diced, competitions paying the price."

sorry to tease, no there's no LL cool J here folks. i'm a competitive kind of person when in a competitive context, but this car pool challenge gig is no monday night rec hockey or tier 9 ultimate. while others may boast of their winning mixes, to me it's success for all listeners. enjoy what i put together, and there's no lil wayne either (unless that's what you call wayne coyne).

1. Guided By Voices - Game of Pricks
2. The Cribs - Learning How To Fight
3. The New Pornographers - My Rights vs. Yours
4. The Boy Least Likely To - The Battle of the Boy Least Likely To
5. The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
6. Broken Social Scene - Canada vs. America
7. Sloan - Pillow Fight
8. Death From Above 1979 - Losing Friends
9. Blonde Redhead - Futurism vs. Passeism
10. Caribou Remixed by Short Bloom - Sun (Remix Competition)
11. Beulah - Matter vs. Space
12. Boats - Summercamp vs. The Fake Moustache Tree
13. Chords of Canada - The Queers vs. The Who
14. Cat Power - Paths of Victory

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NUMBERS

Last installment of the GCC for me. It was a lot of fun finding tracks about numbers. I wanted to take the mix in a totally different direction focusing on telephone numbers but choose to scrap it for "flow" and "emotion" which is a common element in my mixes.

There are a couple of cherries in this mix and one serious guilty pleasure. Enjoy.

TRACK - ARTIST
Gr-500 - Christian Fennesz
3 - Mice Parade
One Step Inside... - The Notwist
Two Steps, Twice - Foals
Sixteen - Sebadoh
fourteen - beat happening
It is 5 - Architecture in Helsinki
High Fives - Four Tet
Formula One - Potuznik
Two Hands Clapping - Takahiro Kido
One Minute - The Album Leaf
10 Mile Stereo - Beach House
Polygon Medpack 2.0 - Oval & Christophe Charles
55566688833 - James Figurine
14 Zero Zero - Console
3cp - Fuxa
Eleventh! - Arovane
i’m 9 today - Múm
100% - Chromeo

Mix is one long track in MP3 format. Run time 1:03 mins.
GET IT HERE!

Punishment

The theme of punishment was foisted upon me thanks to my cockiness and constant assertion that the mixes were in fact some sort of contest (which I, of course, was winning).
I could have taken it in several directions. I COULD have lived by the rule that "turnabout is fair play" and made a mix of punishing tracks by Ryoji Ikeda, Maryanne Amacher, Masonna, Merzbow, Aube, etc. ...and everyone would have vetoed it (except maybe Colourways). I COULD have made a mix of punishing black, doom, speed, or grindcore metal...and everyone would have hated it. So, I made a mix of happier songs that deal with punishment of some form. Admittedly, it does get dark at the end, but I couldn't resist adding some trad folk, even if it doesn't make for good morning carpool listening. As it turns out, some of my favourite songs of late are on this mix.
INTRO
01] HAPPY CATS - DESTROY THAT BOY
02] THE BEATLES - RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
03] KASENETZ-KATZ SINGING ORCHESTRAL CIRCUS - QUICK JOEY SMALL
04] MANFRED MANN - MY NAME IS JACK
05] COOKIES - WOUNDED
06] TIMON - BITTER THOUGHTS OF LITTLE JANE
07] CHRYSALIS - DR. ROOT'S GARDEN
08] THE ZOMBIES - CARE OF CELL 44
09] DAVID BOWIE - BARS OF THE COUNTY JAIL
10] JASON CREST - BLACK MASS
11] HARPER'S BIZARRE - SIT DOWN, YOU'RE ROCKING THE BOAT
12] LEE HAZLEWOOD - I HAD A FRIEND
13] JOHN JACOB NILES - THE MAID FREED FROM THE GALLOWS
14] SHIRLEY COLLINS - THE OXFORD GIRL
15] ALASDAIR ROBERTS - THE CRUEL WAR

Get the mix here

p.s. I've written an guitar arrangement for "The Oxford Girl"; ask me to play it for you sometime. I'll probably refuse out of crippling shyness.

p.p.s. The illustration on the cover is by s.britt - isn't he great?

The Weather Mix

Hey again. For this mix, my theme was weather. Initially I thought that there would be an abundance of "rain" songs (there were by the way) and that they'd all be depressing. I think that this mix is kind of a happy little mix instead which was a pleasant surprise. As a side note, I was originally going to put on some favourites of mine (Rain Song: Led Zeppelin, Riders on the Storm: The Doors etc.) but these tracks were all 8 minutes plus. As we've tried to keep these mixes to under an hour, I would have been limited to only a few songs. So, I've opted to pick only tracks around 5 minutes or shorter. I think this mix has more surprises. Enjoy!


1] One Fine Morning - Lighthouse
2] Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra
3] The Wind - Cat Stevens
4] Dust in the Wind - Kansas
5] Thunder Road - Bruce Springsteen
6] I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt
7] Midnight Rain - Wide Mouth Mason
8] Still Rainin' - Jonny Lang
9] Naked in the Rain - Red Hot Chili Peppers
10] Couldn't Stand the Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan
11] No Rain - Blind Melon
12] Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
13] Cold Day in the Sun - Foo Fighters
14] Beautiful Day - U2

Get the Mix Here

Doubles Your Pleasure

So I figure a nice mix is really just supposed to be about making a good musical path to follow. You start somewhere cool, you end up somewhere cool and hopefully you enjoy the way you got from point A to point B. Maybe you even learn something along the way, who knows? I've been rather busy at home the past while, so this week's mix is just really an enjoyable musical path for me. There may be some obvious mile markers along the way, but as the title implies, this mix is all about pleasure. Enjoy.

1. Why? – Sick 2 Think

2. Why? – The Vowels Pt. 2

3. Hymie’s Basement – American Won

4. Hymie’s Basement – American Too

5. Gorillaz – Double Bass

6. The Roots – Double Trouble

7. Junior Boys – Double shadow

8. The Ponys – Double Vision

9. I am the Dot – Double Vision

10. Eric’s Trip – Secret For Julie

11. Shotgun and Jaybird – Secret

12. Pavement – Two States

13. Pavement – Stereo

14. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy

15. Neutral Milk Hotel – Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2

16. Sonic Youth – Do You Believe in Rapture?

17. Sonic Youth – JC

Get the mix here.