with a window
May 2, 2020 • stream
A would-be road trip mix that ended up describing more stationary windows, though not entirely: I burned it to two discs just before an outing to North Mississippi Regional Park, on what remains the year's most photographable day (not the farthest from home I made it, but certainly high on the list). Belated 2018/19 faves dominate this mix, though as its catalysts I'd single out a rediscovery of Pre-Millennium Tension (while walking on Nicollet) and a most momentous ever listen to "Lloyd" (couchbound), which I'd assumed I was ten years past.
A (44:03)
1. 박혜진 park hye jin • Call Me
2. Jay Som • Crown
3. Stephanie Mills • You Can’t Run From My Love (12”)
4. Lower Dens • Hand of God
5. Mbongwana Star • Suzanna
6. Leonard Cohen • Closing Time
7. Chaka Khan • Eye to Eye
8. F.O.E • In My Jungle
9. Tess Roby • Ballad 5
B (44:03)
10. Foxes in Fiction • Antibody
11. S.O.S. Band • Even When You Sleep
12. Tricky • Makes Me Wanna Die
13. Pistol Annies • 5 Acres of Turnips
14. Grant McLennan • Haunted House
15. Roberta Flack • Why Don’t You Move In With Me?
16. Silver Jews • Open Field
17. Boyracer • Awkward Silence Is Not A Steady Diet
18. Jane Siberry • The White Tent The Raft
19. Swell Maps • The Helicopter Spies
20. Camera Obscura • Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken
Pump Up “What” Volume
Sept. 15, 2020 • stream
(78:52)
It's appropriate that I can't remember if this one was prepared ahead of anything particularly special, though I think "Daybreak" bookended a walk in Father Hennepin Bluff Park (a name I just looked up; "that secret garden we stumbled onto, two feet from the city" is just a few more syllables). This mix was supposed to more closely mirror my drives to and from work this summer, when Living Colour felt for a while like the perfect band. Their coolness, an idea I'd long ago absorbed, then dismissed, then forgot, was confirmed (at last!) because I was the only one around who needed convincing. Others followed, but instead of sequencing Hum, L7 or Fishbone, I ended up with, say, the 1-2 big soft punch of "Pines" and "Be That Easy." My mixtaping instincts have changed, I guess.
1. Drugstore • Fader
2. Deniece Williams • Free
3. Janet Jackson • Daybreak
4. Heavenly • And The Birds Aren’t Singing
5. Toy Love • Don’t Ask Me
6. Bo Diddley • Diddling
7. Aretha Franklin • You and Me
8. The Glands • Ruddy’s Waltz
9. Men I Trust • Pines
10. Sade • Be That Easy
11. Fountains of Wayne • Sick Day
12. Gene Clark • The True One
13. Gal Costa • Índia
14. Loraine James feat. Jonnine • Don’t You See It
15. Curve • Left Of Mother
16. Slant 6 • Thirty-Thirty Vision
17. Living Colour • I Want To Know
18. Patrice Rushen • To Each His Own
19. Pantayo • Kaingin
20. Swing Out Sister • Breakout
