CP Challenge - Construction

I thought this mix would be a lot easier than it was. There are so many words you could associate with construction: building, concrete, cement, bricks, sledgehammer, etc., but finding songs that aren't corny (read: Pink Floyd & Peter Gabriel) or so corny they're awesome again, proved to be difficult.

I also like some consistency in the mixes, so this one is kinda chunked into electronic, library electronic, then library, 60s rock, then current stuff/Rob Crow. The song titles definitely tell a story though.

01. Mars Production Library - New Homes

02. Maddalena Fagadini - Ideal Home Exhibition

03. Marcel Turkowsky - Another Dreamhouse

04. Pastels - Attic Plan (Mouse on Mars rmx)

05. Phil Young - Science and Industry

06. Ron Geesin - Industrial Jungle

07. Teddy Lasry - Economy

08. T&G Sadler - Metal (full)

09. Davies & Ried - Muscle and Heat

10. John Scott - Rock Breaker

11. Dave Gold - Manpower

12. Group 1850 - Steel Sings

13. Collectors - We Can Make It

14. The Left Banke - Men are Building Sand

15. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Lists, plans

16. Thingy - Blueprint

17. Other Men - Kind of Off to the Side a Bit

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Plagiarism? I Wrote And Performed Each Of These Songs!

"Inspired" by a number of recent copy/paste indiscretions around our workplace this week's mix is focused upon plagiarism.

I personally would define plagiarism as "the wrongful appropriation, close imitation, or purloining and publication, of another author's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions, and the representation of them as one's own original work."[1][2] The modern concept of plagiarism as immoral and originality as an ideal emerged in Europe only in the 18th century, while in the previous centuries authors and artists were encouraged to "copy the masters as closely as possible" and avoid "unnecessary invention."[3][4][5][6][7]

The 18th century new morals have been institutionalized and enforced prominently in the sectors of academia and journalism, where plagiarism is now considered academic dishonesty and a breach of journalistic ethics, subject to sanctions like expulsion and other severe career damage. Not so in the arts, which have resisted in their long-established tradition of copying as a fundamental practice of the creative process, with plagiarism being still tolerated by 21st century artists.[8][9]

Plagiarism is not a crime but is disapproved more on the grounds of moral offence.[3][10]

I googled "indie rock blog mp3" and gave myself no more than 20 clicks of the mouse to "create" this "original" piece of "work".

I Wrote And Performed Each Of These Songs.

1. Braids – Lemonade
2. Shigeto – Bakers Blunt Basics
3. A-Trak – Trizzy Turnt Up
4. Twin Tigers – Everyday(Bear In Heaven Remix)
5. Lali Puna – Fast Forward
6. Kaki King – 2 O’Clock
7. The Tallest Man On Earth – King Of Spain
8. Jason Lytle – Yours Truly, The Commuter
9. Wavves – So Bored
10. Kaiser Chiefs – Never Miss A Beat (Yuksek Remix)
11. Tapes ‘n Tapes – Freakout
12. Local Natives – Sun Hands
13. Salim Nourallah– Western Hills

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The Senses of Our World

Here's my "senses" mix. I'm pretty proud of the cover...ain't it slick? This mix coincidently has a "Film & TV" theme, which I didn't notice until after the fact.

We begin with a general introduction by The Bugaloos, then progress straight into the sixth sense (yes, that's Haley Joel Osment on the cover). Next we have the sense of hearing, followed by touch. After that we have two stellar jams about eating - be forewarned, the Kobayashi and Yoshino track from the film "Hausu" will be stuck in your head for days. Also, see that movie, it's amazing (not just for it's climactic ending). After that there's a single song that's vaguely related to the sense of smell, then a whole whack of sight songs. The whole mix is pre-80s, with the exception of the last track; but I couldn't resist putting this Dead Milkmen track on, as it's one of my favourite songs of all time. Out of curiosity I googled this song and found Joe Jack Talcum's website (the singer from DM). He has an INSANE amount of mp3s available for download in his bootleg archive.

...but you can get MY mix here.

01] The Bugaloos - The Senses of Our World

02] Ramases & Selket - Mind's Eye

03] The Dovers - The Third Eye

04] The Move - I Can Hear The Grass Grow

05] Harper’s Bizarre - I Can Hear the Darkness

06] Jackpots - I Hear Trumpets Blow

07] BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Scene & Heard

08] Dave Richmond - Fingers & Thumbs

09] Mood Mosiac - A Touch of Velvet - A Sting of Brass

10] Kobayashi & Yoshino - Cherries Were Made For Eating

11] Tomorrow’s Keepsake - Eat Your Hotdog Boy

12] Les Fleur de Lys - Gong With the Luminous Nose

13] Act of Creation - I've Just Seen You

14] Those Rogues - Wish I Could See You Again

15] One in a Million - Double Sight

16] Honeybus - Delighted to See You

17] The Left Banke - Nice to See You

18] Tintern Abbey - It's Just That the People Can't See

19] Glazer & Tripp - Why Can't I See in the Dark

20] Capt. Paul & The Seafaring Band - I'll Be Seein' Ya in the Movies

21] Dead Milkmen - Dollar Signs in Her Eyes

An attempt to make up for my tardiness.

Yikes, I have truly been a negligent blogger! So, I'm going to go all out here and post my last three (that's right, three) mixes. Perhaps the second semester will see me taking my blogging responsibilities more seriously!

Brogger's Mix #3 - The Hangover Mix (Beginning, Middle, End, and Regrets)
This particular playlist was inspired by an incredibly unpleasant morning brought on by, what else, too much alcoholic indulgence. In an attempt to have all of the listeners experience my pleasure and pain along with me, I structured the mix in chronological order according to the events of the night and following morning:

1. Let's Have A Party - Wanda Jackson
2. Eat That Up, It's Good For You - Two Door Cinema Club
3. Drunk Girls - LCD Soundsystem
4. Hurricane Drunk - Florence & The Machine
5. Time Stand Still - Cut Copy
6. Yasahisa - Chatmonchy
7. Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys
8. Puke & Cry - Dinosaur Kr.
9. Sick Muse - Metric
10. Today Will Be Better, I Swear - Stars
11. I Feel Better - Hot Chip

Live vicariously here.

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Brogger's Mix #4 - Looking Back: The Mix to End 2010

To ring in the New Year, I was commissioned to create a mix about reminiscing. Sometimes it is difficult not to spend too much time looking back at what choices and mistakes we've made in the past, especially at the end of the calendar year, but I hope this mix provided its listeners with some happiness and started their year off right.

1. With Every Heartbeat - Robyn ft. Kleerup
2. Don't Look Back - Teenage Fanclub
3. Don't Look Back in Anger - Devendra Barnhart
4. Take It Back - She & Him
5. Look Back In Anger - David Bowie
6. In the Backseat - Arcade Fire
7. Never Turn Your Back On Mother Earth - Neko Case
8. Night Windows - The Weakerhans
9. Come Back Home - Two Door Cinema Club

Remember the New Year here.

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Brogger's Mix #5 - The Terminal Mix


This particular creation was inspired not by "the end" or "death" as the theme might suggest, but by a music venue in New York's Hell's Kitchen. This club - Terminal 5 - is somewhere I have longed to go for a very long time. Terminal 5 features performances from folk and indie bands, many of which I have desperately wanted to see. So, in honor of their incredible schedule over the next few months, I present the Terminal 5 Mix:


1. New York, New York - Ryan Adams
2. Fancy Footwork - Chromeo
3. Kathleen - Josh Ritter
4. Good Arms vs Bad Arms - Frightened Rabbit
5. Heart it Races - Dr. Dog
6. For Nancy - Pete Yorn
7. Upon Viewing Bruegel's Landscape With the Fall of Icarus - Titus Andronicus
8. Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) - Crystal Castles
9. Heart On Fire - Cut Copy
10. Barely Breathing - The Hold Steady
11. Love You Madly - CAKE
12. Total Life Forever - Foals

Take a trip to NYC here.

xo
Linds

3-mix

So, in honor of this being my last mix before the birth of my first child, I was awarded the theme 3 to signify that my family will now consist of three members. This mix was a little more difficult than I thought it would be. Perhaps I felt compelled to make it a good one as it does carry a certain significance with it. The mix consists of some songs simply with the number three in the title or in the song, some songs from albums titled simply three, some matchbox 30 (specifically for Brown! Wink!) some songs that were thrice titled, a "triple play" of sorts and lastly a trio of songs that sing of a new child. I hope that you enjoy the mix. I gotta go soon. Wish me luck!!

3-mix

1. Three's Company Theme
2. Three Cool Cats - The Silver Beatles
3. ABC - The Jackson 5
4. That's the Way - Led Zeppelin
5. 3 AM - Matchbox 20
6. 3 dressed up as a 9 - Trooper
7. Three Pistols - The Tragically Hip
8. Wait, Wait, Wait - Joel Plaskett
9. Say Say Say - Paul McCartney
10. Shambala - Three Dog Night
11. Triple Trouble - Beastie Boys
12. Three Minute Song - Grady
13. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
14. Daughters - John Mayer
15. Beautiful Boy - John Lennon

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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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