Grrr

8th May 2006
The Mixtape #24: We Can Always Use More Electrical Equipment
Or so I paraphrase The Mountain Goats. The studio Internet was broken so this didn't go out - but oh! It was mighty fine. Just myself Helen, blathering on - mixed with many acoustic guitars, a few epics, and reading an NME not realising it was from February.

1. The Mountain Goats - Letter from Belgium
2. Fruit Bats - Slipping Through the Sensors
3. Joy Zipper - Check Out My New Jesus
4. Erlend Oye w/ Morgan Geist - Ghost Trains
5. The Webb Brothers - I Can't Believe You're Gone
6. Delicatessen - Monkey Suit
7. Calla - Stumble
8. Spearmint - The Weather Forecaster
9. Magnet - Dead Happy
10. Secret Machines - What Used to be French
11. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Upon this Tidal Wave of Young Blood
12. Pony Up! - Marlon Brando's Laundromat

...To a halt

1st May 2006
The Mixtape #23: These City Lights are Burning
Almost the end! Run, run, to your computers and savour the goodness. Two shows left I do believe... We're bringing out the Makes Us Feel Better music. Oh it's shocking.

1. Blink 182 - Emo
2. Boy Kill Boy - Susie
3. SnuggleUps - Fold Me Up
4. The Indigo Girls - Closer to Fine
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
6. The Maccabees - Latchmere
7. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
8. Bob Dylan - Hurrican
9. Justice vs. Simian - We Are Your Friends (note on this: they changed the title not me. Annoying pandering.)
10. Basement Jaxx - Breakaway
11. Architecture in Helsinki - Do the Whirlwind
12. Bis - Lie Detector
13. World Party - All the Young Dudes
14. NERD - Rockstar

Start again

Back! Back! For the end of our Mixtape lives. Sob. We're still on air though, and there's still goodness to come. This week's tracklisting:

The Mixtape #22: We'll Travel to Infinity!
Yay new music, new term, forgetting how to work the microphone.

1. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
2. Help She Can't Swim - Midnight Garden
3. The Spinto Band - Did I Tell You
4. Battle - Tendency
5. The Flaming Lips - This Here Giraffe
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out
7. iForward, Russia! - Eight
8. REM - Nightswimming
9. Broken Social Scene - 7/4 Shoreline
10. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Some Candy Talking
11. James - Destiny Calling
12. These New Puritans - Chamber
13. Blur - Oily Water
14. Park Attack - Delta Smelter

Easter take me

13th March 2006
The Mixtape #21: He's into Sin, She's into Contrition
It was the last Mixtape of the Spring term. Hurrah, etc. I did this show on my own - and something about this tracklisting tells me I had other things on my mind...

1. Good Shoes - Small Town Girl
2. Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
3. Suburban Lawns - Mom and Dad and God
4. Thunderbirds are Now! - Better Safe than Safari
5. The Departure - All Mapped Out
6. The Young Knives - Here Comes the Rumour Mill
7. The Smiths - This Charming Man
8. Stellastarr - Somewhere Across Forever
9. The Stills - Let's Roll
10. The Hives - Main Offender
11. Drugstore - Mondo Cane
12. Au Revoir Simone - Hurricanes
13. Bolt Action Five - Gurl Howl

Ohhhhh dude!

Like, whoops. A whole three shows' worth of goodness that we somehow mislaid, now put to rights in all listed glory. A long time 'go so I can't really remember much, but just FYI...

14th November 2005
The Mixtape #14: That One
Like, y'know.

1. Girls Against Boys - Super-Fire
2. Tom Vek - Nothing but Green Lights
3. Les Rythmes Digitales - Hey You What's That Sound?
4. Smashing Pumpkins - I of the Mourning
5. Patti Smith Group - Dancing Barefoot
6. The Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop
7. Art Brut - Formed a Band
8. The Rapture - Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks
9. Gomez - Get Myself Arrested
10. Devendra Banhart - Heard Somebody Say
11. Presidents of the USA - Video Killed the Radio Star
12. Ben Folds Five - Song for the Dumped
13. Clor - Good Stuff
14. Radio 4 - Absolute Affirmation

21st November 2005
The Mixtape #15: Oh Yeah! And that One
'Cause, um, yeah...

1. MC5 - Kick Out the Jams
2. Franz Ferdinand - Take me Out
3. The Sugar Cubes - Birthday
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Miles Away
5. The Datsuns - Harmonic Generator
6. Interpol - Say Hello to the Angels
7. The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
8. LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
9. Beastie Boys - Hold it Now, Hit It
10. The Rakes - 22 Grand Job
11. New Rhodes - She Said No
12. The Departure - All Mapped Out
13. The Strokes - Juicebox
14. The Soviettes - Ten
15. New Order - True Faith

28th November 2005
The Mixtape #16: Christmas Calls
I do actually remember that this was the last Mixtape before festive delight, so full to the brim with, um, not much on the theme. Harder to see in print, but that Mekon cover does have jingle bells in it. Yup yup.

1. The Strokes - Juicebox
2. The Von Bondies - C'Mon C'Mon
3. Weezer - El Scorcho
4. Modest Mouse - Float On
5. Gomez - In Our Gun
6. Radio 4 - Nation
7. Hirameka Hi-Fi - Gellar
8. Green Day - The Last Ride In
9. Beck - Totally Confused
10. Dead! Dead! Dead! - Build a Better Day
11. Blur - Turn it Up
12. The Dandy Warhols - I am a Scientist
13. The Doors - Wintertime Love
14. Mekon - Please Stay
- an untitled reggae Christmas song... true! -

Is it gettin' heavy?

Oh efficiency! Finally realising the delights of updating whilst IN the studio, and saving ourselves a bit of useful essay-writing time (hmmm) in the process...

27th February 2006
The Mixtape #20: I've no mind for titles!
Oh yeah, we're concentrating on this work-a-day life for now, just a truckload of good music and a minimum of brainwork. Hurrah!

1. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
2. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
3. The Smiths - How Soon is Now?
4. Tiga - 3 Weeks
5. The Flaming Lips - Waitin' for a Superman
6. The Movies - Scary Footsteps
7. Placebo - Every Me and Every You
8. Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
9. Amusement Parks on Fire - You Made Me Realise
10. Blood Brothers - Peacock Skeleton with Crooked Feathers
11. Bolt Action Five - Spring Heeled Jack
12. Mathemathiques Modernes - Disco Rough
13. Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
14. Wire - Kidney Bingos

You look good when you wear it well

Gosh darn-it, another two shows per post. This third-year lark ain't easy...

Twenty-fourth of October
The Mixtape #12: Gotta get out of this satellite town

1. Zoot Woman - Grey Day
2. Fugazi - Smallpox Champion
3. The Flaming Lips - Race For the Prize
4. Doves - Black and White Town
5. Felix da Housecat - Ready 2 Wear
6. The Dandy Warhols - We Used to be Friends
7. Blur - Coffee and TV
8. Levy - Rotten Love
9. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
10. Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back in Town (for Leah's ma!)
11. Wheat - Don't I Hold You
12. The Faint - Agenda Suicide

Thirty-first of October
The Mixtape #13: Scared Yet?
Of course it was Halloween this Monday, so we brought out a few tenuously 'spooky' songs. The rest? Just as scary as you want it to be...

1. Freaks - The Creeps
2. Pulp - This is Hardcore
3. The Young Knives - The Decision
4. Beck - Get Real Paid
5. Alter Ego - Rocker
6. Supergrass - Lose It
7. KaitO - ASA to Accuracy
8. Smashing Pumpkins - Perfect
9. The Cure - A Forest
10. Moldy Peaches - On Top
11. Nico - These Days
12. Bloc Party - Little Thoughts
13. Franz Ferdinand - Shopping for Blood
14. Bob Dylan - Baby Blue
15. The Rain Band - Knee Deep and Down
16. Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye