Mixed Messages

I forgot that I never actually uploaded this mix, even though I made a page about it. I got an email a couple days ago asking "Where's The Beef?" The beef is here, my friends - thirty minutes of uptempo silliness from myself and the Willyest, circa 2007, I think? More old mixes to come (and hopefully some new ones, too.)

Caps & Jones - Smoky Shuffle (Mediafire)

bone thugs: creepin on ah come up
debonair samir: computer horns
ada: living it up
cloud one: spaced out
radioactive man: do the radioactive
nelly furtado: do it
nightcrawlers: push the feeling on
capleton: fireman anthem
sylvia: loving you
702: get it together (bass mix)
sally shapiro: by your side
teki: electronic
ellen allien & apparat: do not break (c&j cassie re-smok)
diamond k: go down
dj unk: do the matrix
orbital: halcyon & on & on
tatu: nas ne dgonjat (Нас Не Догонят) (hardrum remix)

Ace anthropomorphic animal artist Redacteur drew an alternate cover to the mix, which sort of stands the original "critters at the beach" concept on its head. The fox looks like he's having second thoughts, no? Embrace the splendor, dude!

For more animal-related art, music, comics, videos, and cultural flotsam, check out my fledgling furball of a blog: rruffurr.tumblr.com  

Lastly, a couple folks (okay, one) expressed the desire to have the mix divided into individual songs, as the first two were. HERE IT IS!

Somewhat late but somewhat great (I certainly enjoy it, anyway,) here's the third installment in my series of year-ending mixes. As always, it's warm and fuzzy to help you endure slings and arrows of Seasonal Affectedness Disorder and salty slush. It's a great soundtrack for snowy dogwalking. That's my pup on the right! Also suitable for sipping scotch to. Tell yo' friends!

Pandemonium Jones - Splendid Moments 2010
Available as one lump sum or twenty-four easy payments.

Wavves - Baby Say Goodbye
Surfer Blood - Take  It  Easy
Tame Impala - Make Up Your Mind
Caribou - Sun
Pantha Du Prince - Lay In A Shimmer
The-Dream - My Black Everything
Sufjan Stevens - I Walked
Active Child - Wilderness
How To Dress Well - Ready For The World
ceo - No Mercy
Twin Shadow  - Slow
Wild Nothing - Live In Dreams
James Blake - I Only Know What I Know Now
Sam Amidon - I See The Sign
Avey Tare - Laughing Hieroglyphic
The National - Blood Buzz Ohio
No Age - Glitter
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Bright Lit Blue Skies
The Drums - Me And The Moon
Washed Out - You And I
Twin Shadow - Forget
Toro Y Moi - Minors
Woods - Death Rattles
Girls - Carolina
Destroyer - Chinatown
The War On Drugs - Comin' Through

My friends at Black Sheep Skate Shop in Charlotte asked me to make them a mix for their website. Two years ago. Whoops! What can I say, I got distracted. They didn't mind much, and neither do I, and neither should you, cuz it's a rad mix of funky rock and psychedelic soul that makes you want to strut confidently in rhythm to your local head shop and buy a blacklight poster and a feathered roach clip. I'm presuming it would be good to skateboard to, as well.

Major thankage to Chase and Josh at Black Sheep, Chris Goodwin for the awesome cover art, and Allison Reed and Mike Famous for production assistance on the forthcoming hardcopy, which will feature silk screened sleeves and handstyled CDs. Details on that project as they emerge. Also, gratitude to Cosmo Baker, Chris Lemon-Red, Jess Burns, Patrik North and the Ultimate Breaks And Beats for introducing me to some of these awesome songs, and to all who wrote back with constructive crits on the rough draft.

Black Sheep Skate Shop Presents: Pandemonium Jones - Skull Candle
Available as one long MP3 or 26 Short Ones, via zShare.

Sly & The Family Stone - Underdog
The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
The Jackson Sisters - Miracles
Budos Band - Up From The South
The Seeds - Can't Seem To Make You Mine
Smog - Bathysphere
Wreckless Eric - Whole Wide World
Syl Johnson - Different Strokes
The Doors - Changeling
Coke Escovedo - (Runaway) I Wouldn't Change A Thing
Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
Idris Muhammad - Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count
Brian Protheroe - Pinball
Earth Opera - The Red Sox Are Winning
Frank Zappa - Sharleena
Black Mountain - Angels
Muddy Waters - Tom Cat
The Beatles - Helter Skelter
Graham Nash - Chicago
Ohio Players - The Funky Worm
Map Of Africa - Bone
Johnny Jenkins - I Walk On Guilded Splinters
Brain Ticket  - Places Of Light
Azitis - The Prophet
Ugly Ducklings - Gaslight
Poppy Family - There's No Blood In Bone
Yo La Tengo - Nuclear War (Version 2)