Columbus Mix Xchange

calling all collaborators!

2010-02-26T16:19:00.000-08:00

apparently some friends are having issues with posting rights here so this is me, inviting you guys to submit your tracklist and link for download in the comments!

Jenny Sigler - Best of 2009

2010-02-19T22:04:00.000-08:00

EDIT: a few of, if not all of, the cds I gave out at the party went all gobbledigook towards the end of the tracklist. so pretty please download this if yours did that. the best songs are at the end in my opinion. :)

jenny.

>>>>> DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<<<<

Here is my Best of 2009 mix

01. Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
from the album Weathervanes

02. Seabear - I Sing I Swim
from the album The Ghost That Carried Us Away

03. Old Canes - Little Bird Courage
from the album Feral Harmonic

04. Hello Seahorse! - Won't Say Anything
from the album Hoy a las Ocho ("Tonight at Eight")

05. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Home
from the album Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

06. Cold Cave - Life Magazine
from the album Love Comes Close

07. Kael Alden - Where you Belong
this song was on a Lexus commercial I understand

08. Animal Collective - My Girls
from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion

09. Passion Pit - Sleepy Head
from the album Pretty Penny

10. Faded Paper Figures - North By North
from the album Dynamo

11. Sharam (feat. Kid Cudi) - She Came Along
from the album Get Wild

12. The Notwist - Boneless
from the album The Devil, You + Me

13. Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
from the album White Water, White Bloom

14. Broken Social Scene - Love Will Tear Us Apart
from The Time Traveler's Wife soundtrack

15. The Middle East - Blood
from the album The Recordings of The Middle East

16. Lake - Don't Give Up
from the album Let's Build a Roof

17. Architecture in Helsinki - Like a Call
from the album Fingers Crossed

18. Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies
from the album First Days of Spring

Andy Whitman's 2009 Mix

2010-01-20T09:54:00.000-08:00

Here's my 2009 mix. All songs from last year.

California On My Mind – Wild Light (Adult Nights)

A bright, summery Beach Boys pop song to start the proceedings. Except they’re singing:

Give me a lake that I can dive into
Bury my head in the shit at the bottom
Fuck today
Fuck San Francisco
Fuck California

Hey, who hasn’t wanted to harmonize along with those sentiments while cruising down the freeway with the windows rolled down? I hate California, too.

Try This At Home – Frank Turner (Poetry of the Deed)

Winner of The Clash/Billy Bragg Soundalike Award for 2009, Frank Turner writes short, angry odes that are sure to deflate whatever his target happens to be at the moment. Plus, I’m pretty sure he’s right when he sings “There’s no such thing as rock stars/There’s just people who play music/And some of them are just like us/And some of them are dicks.”

The Heartbreak Rides – A.C. Newman (Get Guilty)

A.C. (Carl) Newman is best known as the leader of power pop supergroup The New Pornographers. He has an effortless melodic gift. The latent pirate in me also appreciates a chorus that starts out “Yo! Ho!.”

Canned Food Demons – Boston Spaceships (Planets Are Blasted)

Bob Pollard is one half-assed dude, and he starts another band about every other month. But this one sounds the closest to his old band Guided By Voices. That’s a good thing, in my opinion.

In Babylon – Aaron Strumpel (Elephants)

Aaron Strumpel puts the “lament” back in the Psalms of Lament. Most CCM music (which this is not) treats the psalms as Broadway/American Idol schmaltz. Strumpel sounds like his head is ready to explode.

French Navy – Camera Obscura (My Maudlin Career)

Sweet ‘60s girl group pop music the way Phil Spector used to make it. That wall of sound is spectacular.

Bitch, I Love You – Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears (Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears)

A tender love ballad, sung the way James Brown might have sung it.

Kiss With a Fist – Florence and the Machine (Lungs)

A bit like Chrissie Hynde fronting The Ramones. This is another tender love ballad, and what I like to think of as the answer song to the previous tune.

Cooperstown – The Felice Brothers (Yonder Is the Clock)

I love baseball. I love Bob Dylan. I love surrealistic poetry. So when you find a band that sounds like Bob Dylan, and sings about baseball in a surrealistic, poetic kind of way, you know you’re onto something. I’m on first, and you’re on third, and the wolves are all between, and everyone’s sure that the game is over.

Norman Bleik – I Was a King (I Was a King)

Power pop from Norway, with help from Sufjan Stevens and Daniel Smith from Danielson Familye. This one is a thinly disguised homage to the lead singer/songwriter of Teenage Fanclub, one of the power pop greats.

Shreveport – The Gourds (Haymaker!)

A Cajun hoedown, with lyrics about Geddy Lee, truck drivers, and spandex, and with a lead vocalist who sounds like Levon Helm from The Band. Just your average band from Austin, Texas.

Tidal – Immogen Heap (Ellipse)

Swooning laptop pop. There’s a bit of Bjork here, a bit of Kate Bush. It was difficult to pick a favorite from this album. It’s stacked with great pop tunes from front to back.

Channel – Joe Henry (Blood from Stars)

Joe Henry, in my opinion, is the best songwriter going. I take this as a parable about marriage, and it’s the truest and most poetic encapsulation of that peculiar dance I’ve heard in a long time. “I love you with all due desperation and disarray.”

We Sing In Time – The Lonely Forest (We Sing the Body Electric)

These four kids from Seattle remind me of the early Who. They make a wondrous racket, but they still remember things like melody and hooks.

Halfway Wrong – Lucero (1372 Overton Park)

Lucero are a glorified bar band, but that’s alright. I love rowdy roots rock sung by guys who sound like they gargle with Drano. That’s what this sounds like to me. It’s just about the best sound in the world.

United States of Eurasia – Muse (The Resistance)

If Freddie Mercury had grown up reading George Orwell and Franz Kafka, he would have sounded like the paranoid wanker from Muse. But over-the-top, operatic, paranoid pop sure sounds great, doesn’t it?

Preacher Blues – Dave Perkins (Pistol City Holiness)

My buddy Dave Perkins has played with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, and about 2/3 of the CCM establishment in Nashville. But his first love is the blues. On his first solo album, released in 2009, he absolutely rips it up. Plus, he’s funny. “I would hang with the Baptists if they could get that girl for me.” Those are some serious blues.

Party to Survive – No Through Road (Winner)

The Strokes live! Okay, they’re not quite dead, but this Australian band does The Strokes, circa 2001, better than The Strokes.

Fear – Benjy Ferree (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee, Bobby Dee)

Nihilistic doo-wop. I’m not sure what to say about this. Benjy Ferree multi-tracks his vocals, and sounds like four guys standing around an oil drum fire in Philly, harmonizing about the impending apocalypse.

America’s Wives – Watermelon Slim (Escape from the Chicken Coop)

Watermelon Slim is an old coot who drives a truck. And that’s what he sounds like. He’s real country, and he’s got more soul than all the Nashville models in Stetsons put together.

Wet Wings – Dan Deacon (Bromst)

This is an old shapenote hymn, suitably bent by electronica wizard Dan Deacon. He creates an eerie drone/howl that I dearly love, and it perfectly suits the ominous lyrics: “The day is past and gone/The hour of death is near.”

Don’t Get Hung Up In Your Soul – Richard Hawley (Truelove’s Gutter)

A closing hymn for 3:00 a.m. The former Pulp guitarist/songwriter Richard Hawley has headed in an entirely new direction in his solo career, pursuing the ineffable Sinatra middle-of-the-night blues. He’s found ‘em, too. Plus, there’s theremin! Goodnight.

2010-01-02T08:22:00.001-08:00

are we doing a mix exchange this year?

The Dekker's 2008 Mix

2009-04-20T19:53:00.000-07:00

Andy Whitman's Favorites of 2008 Mix

2009-02-02T07:22:00.000-08:00

Thanks for the mixes. I'm slowly making my way through them. This could take a while. So far I've listened to Nick's and Jenny's, and enjoyed both. Here's what's on mine, with added commentary, because I like to babble online.

1) Frightened Rabbit -- Head Rolls Off

U2 arena bombast with a Scottish brogue. From the album "The Midnight Organ Fight," which sounds like an extended metaphor for combative lovemaking, and is.

More detail here.

2) TV on the Radio -- Golden Age

If Prince did political commentary, this is what it would sound like.

More detail here.

3) Alabama 3 -- Mao Tse Tung Said

This song was recorded in 1997, but re-released last year, when I heard it for the first time. So it qualifies as a 2008 release for me. That's Jim Jones, the Peoples' Temple guy from the late '70s, ranting at the beginning of the song. He's scary. The rest of the song is pretty funny, IMO.

4) Beaujolais -- Contemptual You

One-man band from Chicago goes through a divorce, feels bad about it, writes a batch of angry/sad songs, and tries his best to sound like Brian Wilson. Most of the time he does.

5) Son Lux -- Stand

Probably my favorite song from 2008. You get Radiohead blips and beeps, hip-hop beats, classical piano, and a guy who repeats biblical passages like rosary beads. And who samples Maria Callas operatic arias for good measure.

More detail here.

6) Watermelon Slim -- Archetypal Blues #2

The blues, and nothin' but the blues. More detail here.

7) Blind Pilot -- I Buried a Bone

A couple of Portland, OR folkies sing a folk song. With mariachi trumpets.

8) Centro-Matic -- The Rat Patrol and DJs

I'm a sucker for dirty, distorted guitars and sweet pop singing. More detail here.

9) Bon Iver -- Re: Stacks

Sensitive, bearded folkie retreats to wilderness cabin and soothes his wounded heart by shooting moose and writing lovelorn tunes. More detail here.

10) Darrell Scott -- American Tune

This is a bluegrass version of an old Paul Simon tune, which in turn was cribbed from a J.S. Bach chorale. The path from J.S. Bach to bluegrass is a winding one, but Darrell Scott covers this song beautifully, and the lyrics remain some of my favorites, ever. More detail here.

11) Ezra Furman and the Harpoons -- Take Off Your Sunglasses

He's a smartass, and he can't really sing. Kind of like Bob Dylan in that way. Well, actually in a lot of ways. What's not to like? More detail here.

12) Jacob Golden -- Out Come the Wolves

Another sad divorce song. I don't know what it is. I'm happily married. I swear. More detail here.

13) Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit -- Shore to Shore

Royal Shakespearian actor goes slumming, adopting a Dickensian raggamuffin persona, sounding like a singer from Merrye Olde England, but writing lyrics like Billy Bragg. That's a pretty great combination. More detail here.

14) Bob Dylan -- Red River Shore

Now, I've heard of a guy who lived a long time ago
A man full of sorrow and strife
Whenever someone around him died and was dead
He knew how to bring 'em on back to life
Well, I don't know what kind of language he used
Or if they do that kind of thing anymore
Sometimes I think nobody ever saw me here at all
'Cept the girl from the Red River shore

Who else writes songs like this? More detail here.

15) Plants and Animals -- Bye Bye Bye

They're Arcade Fire imitators, but they're good Arcade Fire imitators.

16) Sun Kil Moon -- Harper Road

This guy (Mark Kozelek) writes the prettiest and saddest songs in the world. He's the King of Mope, and he did nothing to loosen the grip on his crown on his 2008 album "April." More detail here.

17) Vampire Weekend -- A-Punk

Evrybody has this album. Everybody likes this album. Me too. It's mindless fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. Ay-ay-ay-ay.

18) White Winter Hymnal -- Fleet Foxes

Everybody has this album. Everybody likes this album. Me too. It's not mindless fun, but it sure is pretty.

19) Anathallo -- The River

In the absence of a new Sufjan Stevens album in 2008, this one will do quite nicely. More detail here.

Nick's 2008 Mix

2009-02-01T13:55:00.001-08:00

Mystery Mix CD

2008-11-02T16:24:00.000-08:00

Does anyone know whose Mix CD this is? It was given to me around Christmas time but, alas, there's not a name to be found on the track list or CD itself.

Don't be bashful!

Nathan Smart's Yo! 2007 Was Rad!

2008-06-29T20:32:00.000-07:00

1. Abdominal - Breath Later

2. Private - We Got Some Breaking Up to Do

3. Chromeo - Out of Sight

4. Architecture in Helsinki - Heart it Races

5. Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running

6. Paul F. Tompkins - Jazz

7. Flight of the Conchords - Not Crying

8. The New Pornographers - Challengers

9. Sufjan Stevens - Ring Them Bells

10. Field Music - Working to Work

11. The Shins - Girl Sailor

12. Jens Lekman - I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You

13. Dana Gould - Frank Still Loves the Ladies

14. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.

15. Of Montreal - A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger

16. Junior Senior - I Can't Rap, I Can't Sing, But I Would Do Anything....

17. Andrew W.K. - I Want Your Face

18. Hanger 18 - Where We At?

19. Todd Barry - Grammy Awards, Band With Orchestra, Boxed Sets, Behind Stage

20. Midlake - It Covers the Hillside

21. Hard 'n' Phirm - Rodeohead

22. The Polyphonic Spree - Section 22 (Running Away)

Muxtape

2008-03-31T09:29:00.000-07:00

Carl tipped me off to a cool new site:Muxtape. You can make your own digital 12 track mix to link for people to listen to. Saves a disc and isn't stealing from the artists. Go ahead and post links to your new Muxes.

-Nick

hokeMix 2007

2008-03-17T07:03:00.001-07:00

butchered spanish . . .

2008-03-04T16:44:00.000-08:00

models from left to right: gretska von vonavich, solomon III

2007 mix exchange) '?quien dejo salir los perros?' kel and kev

01) 'mixed bizness' (beck remixed) cornelius

02) 'rumors of the faithful' moviola

03) '2-4-6-8' the jackson 5
04) 'got your smoke' (odb remixed) dj stv slv
05) 'stravinsky' the forms
06) 'you are mine' eddie ray
07) 'keep it movin' hi-tek feat. q-tip, dion, and kurupt
08) 'paul simon' the russian futurists
09) 'under mi sleng teng' dj spooky and wayne smith
10) 'the freed pig' cassettes won't listen

11) 'think long' mates of state

12) 'how long do i have to wait for you?' sharon jones & the dap kings

13) 'look where he brought us from' apostles of music

14) 'shakey dog' ghostface killah

15) 'again and again' the bird and the bee
16) 'the traffic jam' stephen marley feat. damian marley
17) 'take the lord along with u' king britt and sister gertrude morgan
18) 'over/run' arto lindsay
19) 'the marble sweet' test planet

20) 'the sidewinder sleeps tonite' rogue wave

2008-02-25T04:29:00.000-08:00

1. Your Kisses Are Wasted on Me - The Pipettes, from We Are the Pipettes, 2006

2. Butterflies and Hurricanes - Muse, from Absolution, 2004

3. Loved One - Benny Goodman, Bix Beiderbecke, Ray Lodwig, Jack Teagarden,
Min Leibrook, Joe Venuti, Matty Malneck, Frank Signorelli, and Gene Krupa,
recording under Irving Mills and His Hotsy Totsy Gang (1930), from Benny
Goodman and Jack Teagarden: B.G. and Big Tea in NYC (1992)

4. Thank You (Featuring Manchild and Othello) - John Reuben, from Hindsight,
2002

5. The Midnight Choir - The Thrills, from Teenager, 2007

6. Winter's Sky - The Pipettes, from We Are the Pipettes, 2006

7. First Day - The Futureheads, from The Futureheads, 2004

8. Climb the Ladder - Of Montreal, from Satanic Panic in the Attic, 2004

9. Everyone's a V.I.P. to Someone - The Go! Team, from Thunder, Lightning, Strike,
2005

10. Snow In Sun - Scritti Politti, from White Bread, Black Beer, 2006

11. Please Read Me - The Bee Gees, from Bee Gees' 1st, 1967

12. Tinderbox - Elton John, from The Captain and the Kid, 2007 (note: please ignore
bad '80s-style guitar work)

13. Take The Dance - Deux Process, from In Deux Time, 2006

14. Driving Rain - Paul McCartney, from Driving Rain, 2001

15. Mrs. Hughes - Scritti Politti, from White Bread, Black Beer, 2006

16. There's Joy To Be Found/The Boy Who Caught All the Breaks - The Thrills,
from Teenager, 2007

maybethisyear

2008-02-24T12:01:00.001-08:00

robin oatts - 2007
001 the magic position : patrick wolf
002 save your scissors : city and colour
003 tune out : the format
004 no lighted windows : sean watkins
005 call it off : tegan and sara
006 world spins madly on : the weepies
007 i am zero : iko
008 i found a reason : cat power
009 guess it may : rosie thomas
010 sew you up : scott parsons
011 shiney bruise : the damnwells
012 cathedrals : jump little children
013 this woman’s work : kate bush
014 look at miss ohio : gillian welch
015 tonight will be fine : teddy thompson
016 chicago x 12 : rogue wave
017 recovery : new buffalo
018 baby, it’s fact : hellogoodbye

JohnnyZemo's Best Kept Secrets 2007

2008-02-20T17:36:00.001-08:00

John Warren--2007

1. XTC--This Is Pop? (White Music, 1978)

2. Swirling Eddies--the midget, the speck and the molecule (the midget, the speck and the molecule, 2007)

3. Dr. Dog--My Old Ways (We All Belong, 2007)

4. Of Montreal--Suffer For Fashion (Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, 2007)

5. Vampire Weekend--A-Punk (Vampire Weekend, 2008)

6. Deerhoof--+81 (Friend Opportunity, 2007)

7. The Fratellis--Henrietta (Costello Music, 2007)

8. They Might Be Giants--We Live in a Dump (The Else bonus disc, 2007)

9. They Might Be Giants--Why Did You Grow a Beard? (The Else bonus disc, 2007)

10. The Hives--You Got It All... Wrong (The Black and White Album, 2007)

11. Covenant--He's the Man (Testify! original music from The Simpsons, 2007)

12. Sondre Lerche--My Hands Are Shaking (Dan in Real Life Soundtrack, 2007)

13. Godley & Creme--Cry (The History Mix, Vol. 1, 1985)

14. Super Furry Animals--Run-Away (Hey Venus!, 2007)

15. The Weakerthans--Civil Twilight (Reunion Tour, 2007)

16. Ringo Starr--Weight of the World (Time Takes Time, 1992)

17. The Eels--Flyswatter (Daisies of the Galaxy, 2000)

18. Duran Duran--Dirty Great Monster (Red Carpet Massacre, 2007)

19. Gomez--Chicken Out (Split the Difference, 2004)

20. The Futureheads--Broke Up Time (new, 2007)

21. Fountains of Wayne--This Better Be Good (Traffic and Weather, 2007)

22. Swirling Eddies--This Is the Title/The Old Hitchhiker (the midget, the speck and the molecule, 2007)

Nick Fancher- The Best I Heard in 2007

2008-02-20T08:21:00.000-08:00

Nick Fancher- 2007

In chronological order

Postlude to a Happy Ending- The Lonesome Organist
Solar System- The Microphones
Tomato Morning- Page France
Before I Leave- Fennesz
Waverly, Ohio- Jordan O’ Jordan
Knife- Grizzly Bear
Comfy in Nautica- Panda Bear
What They Want- Inspectah Deck
Pulling Our Weight- Radio Dept.
What a Nigga Know- KMD
Saddic Gladdic- Wagon Christ
Yennicita- El Michels Affair
Me & Mr. Jones- Amy Winehouse
Mother’s Whistler- Moondog
O Leazinho- Caetano Veloso
Diamond Heart- Marissa Nadler
Half Moon- Sarah Asher
Reckoner- Radiohead
Into You- The Cinematic Orchestra
You and Me- Penny & the Quarters
Sua Estupidez (live)- Gal Costa
So Nice So Smart- Kimya Dawson
Objects of my Affection- Peter Bjorn and John

Welcome to the Mix!

2008-02-20T07:41:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the official blog of the annual Columbus, Ohio mix CD exchange. I want this blog to be a place where you can see trades from the past as well as be a forum for people to arrange mix trades throughout the year and also comment on people's mixes. Email me at fancher8@yahoo.com if you want to post on this blog. I urge you to please post your mix track list as well as your album art so you can receive feedback. The goal is to share and discover new music and to meet new people. Invite your friends. Do trades throughout the year. Be creative!

 Ideas for other mix trades:

-Desert Island Mixes
-Soundtrack to Your Life
-Best Track 1 Songs
-Best Spring/Summer Songs
-Best Fall/Winter Songs

Have fun!

-Nick Fancher