The Missing Mix

Why the missing mix? Why, because I was missing! On this particular Friday I had abandoned my co-workers for an Arts conference, and so in my absence they decided that "missing" would be my inspiration for the week. At first it seemed daunting, then I realized that there were lots of songs about missing people, then I remembered that I don't like those songs, then I struggled. In the beginning I came up with a lot of goofy rap songs ("I missed the Bus", I Left my Wallet in El Segundo", "Tune From the Missing Channel"), but when I heard Chris Clark's song "Absence", I knew I needed to find songs that complemented this amazing track. It wasn't until the night before that I realized I could use untitled tracks because they were missing titles, and so the mix was beefed up with a classic song from Gas' Pop album, and some dancefloor glitch from Saskatoon (Knar).

This is a much warmer electronic mix than the Silence mix of two rotations back, mainly because most of these characters are using real instrumentation as their source (even Oval now!). This is also the first mix where every track came from my existing collection (with the exception of the Clark track):

01 Marc Bolan - Untitled Poem

02 Fennesz - Herbert Missing

03 Odd Nosdam - Untitled One

04 Piano Overlord - You stole my stereo outro

05 Dylan Group - An Indolent Appreciation of What You Left Behind

06 Secret Mommy - Surgery (Medieval Rural Denture Rmx) by Piers Whyte

07 Knar - untitled (knar’s pop quiz theme)

08 Christopher Willits - order (no blueprint)

09 Oval - Emocor

10 blunderspublik - glimse

11 F.S. Blumm - Ohne Orte

12 Savath y Savalas - Untitled

13 The Books - Motherless Bastard

14 Clark - Absence

15 Gas - Untitled #01

16 Tujiko Noriko - Endless End

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I Don't MIND GAMES

I never liked playing Mastermind, because I always lost.
I like playing 20 Questions, although I quickly get bored.
I won't play chess because I get too impatient to stick to any strategy.
Do I Like Mind Games? Yes, I do. And I hope you do too.

1) What You Think Will Happen? - Heather Perkins
2) What Think You? – Walt Whitman
3) Paul Cries – Think About Life
4) Her Psychology Today – Guided By Voices
5) If We Don't Make It We'll Fake It - Death From Above 1979
6) Hypnotize – The White Stripes
7) Courtesy Laughs – Phoenix
8) Going Against Your Mind – Built To Spill
9) Familiarity / Manipulation - unknown
10) Use The Same Old Song – Mighty Mike
11) Your Silent Face – New Order
12) Death - White Lies remixed by Crystal Castles
13) 10 Month Psych Out - Megaheadphoneboy
14) Fake Away – Transistor Sound and Lighting Co.
15) It’s All In Your Mind - Beck

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The White Out Mix

In honour of the first snowfall (although I don't know if I agree that such an event should be honoured) I was given the theme "whiteout". It turned out to be a doozey! (Both the first snow and the mix!) Thematically, I went with songs that deal with snowy or cold subject matter, or have a tie in to snow and cold in some way. In addition, I added some tracks that deal with the colour white. So, although I'm sure no one was really excited about the first snow fall, I hope that listening to this mix (perhaps while curled up in front of a blazing fire while sipping a brandy or maybe just stuck in your car on your way to work with the heat cranked up) will help keep you warm!

The Whiteout Mix

1. Take Off - Bob and Doug McKenzie (with Geddy Lee)

2. White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

3. A Whiter Shade of Pale - Procol Harum

4. A Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel

5. White Room - Cream

6. White Wedding - Billy Idol

7. Play that Funky Music (White Boy) - Wild Cherry

8. Snow (Hey Oh) - Red Hot Chili Peppers

9. Girl with a Problem - The Northern Pikes

10. Prairie Town - Randy Bachman

11. Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground - White Stripes

12. Ob La Di, Ob La Da - The Beatles

Put on your toque and head out into the cold!

Hot & Cold

Because I received a double theme this week, I decided to split my mix into a Hot side and a Cold side...and as if that wasn't limiting enough, I added the restriction that each side would feature the same artists. I was inspired by the realization that The Cure have a lot of hot and cold themed songs. Here's what I came up with:

I was also motivated by a complaint that a co-carpooler made last year that I had "forgotten my roots" - meaning that I wasn't putting much electronic music in my mixes, so this mix is predominantly electronic, and occasionally peppered with guitars. I had to throw Witchypoo into the mix because it was the first song I thought of when I heard the theme, and I love anything Sid and Marty Krofft.

This one's also mixed - enjoy!

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Tricks or Treats!!

Hey all.

I was given the honour of creating the Halloween themed mix this year. (I think mostly because it was my turn during the week of Halloween) For this mix I decided that I would pick songs that were either tricks or treats. Some may even play tricks with your mind. Also, I picked some songs that were by some "creepy" type artists. To top it all off I book-ended the mix with a couple of Scary Soundtrack items. I hope you enjoy!

P.S. the image in the cover is my pumpkin from this year. It took a long time to carve that...

1. Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.

2. Sweet Jane - The Velvet Underground

3. Candy Store Rock - Led Zeppelin

4. Surrender - Cheap Trick

5. The Garden - Guns N' Roses

6. Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper

7. Fly the Orient - Tricky Woo

8. Paranoid - Black Sabbath

9. Monster Mash - Bobby "Boris" Pickett

10. Werewolves of London - Warren Zevon

11. (Don't Fear) the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

12. Time Warp

Got your costume? Begin your Trick or Treating here!

In the Beginning... the Bible Mix (parts 1 & 2)

So, as a Christian I wanted this mix to be special, inspirational even. But as a music snob I wanted this mix to be infectious and hook-filled. The end product is two equally rad mixes... and a little boasting too.

Part 1 - Books of the Bible

1. Genesis - Tangerine Dream
2. Exodus - DJ Ray (remix)
3. Beast Life - Numbers
4. Six and Seven Books of Moses - Toots and the Maytals
5. Only God Can Judge Me - 2Pac
6. Extra Kings - The Avalanches
7. Death To The Feelers - Matthew Dear
8. A Question Mark - Elliot Smith
9. Prick Tat - Luke Vibert
10. Instant Karma - John Lennon
11. Remember The Romans - Boat
12. Titus Andronicus - Titus Andronicus
13. Start To Melt - Peter, Bjorn & John
14. Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
15. Hey Jude - Mutato Muzik


Part 2 - Religious Mixed Baggage

1. Love Defined (the Bible) - Daniel Johnston
2. God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
3. Jesus The Mexican Boy - Iron & Wine
4. I'm In Hell - The Microphones
5. Heaven Is A Truck - Pavement
6. Angel Hair - Hockey Night
7. Do You Believe In Rapture? - Sonic Youth
8. Lord, Help The Poor & Needy - Cat Power
9. Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
10. Jesus Don't Want Me For A Sunbeam - Nirvana
11. Support Our Troops Oh! (Black Angels Oh!) - Xiu Xiu
12. The Incarnation - Sufjan Stevens
13. How I Beat The Devil - The For Carnation
14. Ono Soul - Thurston Moore
15. Oh My God, Oh My God, Everybody, Oh My God - North of America


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Feeling Thankful

As a way to ring in the Thanksgiving long weekend, I took on the challenge of creating a mix in which I displayed thankfulness. This undertaking turned out to be a bit more difficult than I had expected, but thankfully I am very happy with the final results. I did manage to blend in two guilty pleasures from my youth, and my challenge to you will be to spot them.

So, for your listening pleasure...

Thankfulness

1. Thank You - Duran Duran (cover)
2. I Will Be Grateful for This Day - Bright Eyes
3. Thanks A Lot - Third Eye Blind
4. Thank You For Your Love - Antony and the Johnsons
5. The Reasons - The Weakerthans
6. Thanks to You - The Flaming Lips
7. Thank Your Lucky Stars - 311
8. Be Thankful for What You've Got - Massive Attack
9. I Wanna Thank You - Sloan

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Linds xo