Jai Paul [Mixtape] Tracklist:
01. Jasmine
02. Feist Beats
03. Flip Out
04. Baby Beats
05. BTSTU
06. 100,000
07. Str8 Outta Mumbai
08. Chix
09. Genevieve
10. Emiliana Torrini – Jungle Drum (Jai Paul Remix)
Jai Paul – Jai Paul [Mixtape]
☳ GRIMES ☳ Know Phase Mixtape
Download: ☳ GRIMES ☳ Know Phase Mixtape
While Grimes spent the better part of this past Tuesday sharing upcoming artists she likes, this mix reaches back in time a bit further to bring to light where she has drawn influence and inspiration from for her own songwriting. Allow the sonorously enigmatic Claire Hamill to start it off:
SUMMER’S OVER // A Know Phase Mixtape
This is a great mix to get out of town to. It’s best listened to in a late 80s white corvette or if you don’t have one you can substitute your dads old hi-fi system from the same era and just imagine being there. All I know for certain is that it’s a great time to be digital and this mix tries to capture that feeling. It’s important to remember that despite teetering on the edge of another great depression we can still vicariously escape through the imagery and melodies of those sweet pre-flesh eating white nosed days of yore. Some swoosh-tinged psychedelia, italo-crooned jams, macabre surf, and other space wandering tracks will meet you on the road as you throw this on. Go now:
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To whet your apetite:
The Times – Confiance
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Essential end of summer jam
Shoc Corridor – My Secret in the East
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It gets so epic by the end, classic track and mostly unheard of.
To set the pace:
Full tracklist to come:
The Times
Maria Minerva
Selva Oscura
Grimes
Golden Gloom
Gerry Rafferty
Widowspeak
Ava
Pete Bardens
Jef Barbara
Blue Night
Fred A.
Crime and the City
Morrissey
Julia Holter
John Maus
Shoc Corridor
KP 1 // John Maus Phase Mix
I’ve been working on this mix for awhile now. A collection of songs that may, may not or most assuredly have influenced John Maus. Parallels, paths, phases abound trying to trace an influence wherever it can be found. A task I’ll readily admit is difficult with an artist like John Maus who carries such a distinctly unique sound. Enjoy (it at night).
KP 1 // John Maus Phase Mix by Know Phase
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3 highlights from KP 1:
Peter Davison – Shadow [1986]
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Peter Davison is a world. This song from 1986 (and really his entire incredible discography) feels like it had a pretty profound effect on Maus’ own music.
John Maus – (Untitled) [1997]
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An early John Maus demo that is such a revelation. Had to throw it on this mix.
Experimental Products – Sweet Rejection [1982]
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When the chorus kicks in this song gets so infectiously heavy.
Cold as always, 1 and 1 will make 3…
KOKOMA // Summer Nights Mix
Bodies in the sand
Tropical drink melting in your hand
That’s where we wanna go
Way down to Kokoma
Download: KOKOMA ▼ §ummer Nights mix
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I guess in other parts of the country peoples summers are winding down. In San Francisco summer nights are just beginning to crawl into the picture. This mix is a bit dark, dare I say, quite goth? But good goth, like melodic Belgian coldwave goth not cheesy eyeliner industrial goth. I feel like that’s the way things are going, or at least that’s what I’ve been drawn to lately. It’s also mostly new songs, which is pretty exciting to me since I’ve also been pretty stuck in the early eighties and nineties scouring tapes for another upcoming mix.
The vignette I imagined it to score would be something along the lines of:
Haunted summer night spiraling outward from a shitty party in the city, stumbling to car in pursuit of better places outside of places, city skyline increasingly in distance, cold light, making it to coast and passing out as fog clears and the sand glows under the pale light of the moon. Etc, etc. You know, an average San Francisco night.
Anyways, this is it from me for a bit. Well, until I drop the other sunnier side to this mixtape, Golden Gloom, my mixtape embassy to the west later next week. I am off to Belgium and France and anywhere else I decide to visit on whim while in Europe for the better part of the month. Eventually upon my return I plan to make my home out in NY. Any readers interested in putting me up along my European trip let me know. Or if you recommend I visit anywhere that these songs might fit nicely into?
So long West Coast ((())))))))))\\
Download: KOKOMA ▼ §ummer Nights mix
Highlights and Tracklist:
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I played this track at the Naturalismo Presents: Sleep Over & Pure Ecstasy show and had a few people come up asking who it was. This is an earlier (and much better take) of the song from an early E.P. by them before they became the Clan of…it’s some serious Maus-level type addictiveness. From 1984ish.
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Something so sweetly sinister about this track. I haven’t really listened to much Brian Wilson this summer, but the Beach Boys tinged guitar licks in this dark track satiate on a similar level.
The Reekers – The Girl Who Faded
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Incredible acetate demo cut by some lost Bethesda 60′s band, super brooding and catchy.
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Lawrence is god.
Tracklist
1. Airbird – Part Of The Game
2. SLEEP ∞ OVER – La Rose
3. The Antlers – When You Sleep
4. Balam Acab – See Birds
5. Wicked Fag – Spiky Sharp + Needle Belt (Long Version)
6. Sisters Grimm – Tar Baby
7. Cocteau Twins – Pearly-Dewdrop’s Drops
8. Tamaryn – Love Fade
9. Minks – Our Ritual
10. The Crystal Set – fool
11. Xymox – No Words
12. John Maus – Bennington
13. Fanuelle – Order
14. Anna Domino – Everyday I don’t
15. Sharon People – Wilderness
16. Pigeons – Envie
17. Suzanne – Shendah
18. The Reekers – The Girl Who Faded (acetate)
19. The Cure – Pirate Ships (RS Solo) (Rough Mix) (Vocal)
20. Biff Bang Pow! – It Happens All The Time
21. Felt – Ferdinand Magellan
nick nicely mixtape for naturalismo
I keep catching myself questioning the reality of every letter typed as I write this out, but nick nicely has graciously sent me over a mixtape this week. I could pretty much quit writing after this post because that has to be one of the most amazing things to come out of writing for Naturalismo. If you haven’t spent any time with his album psychotropia, stop what you’re doing and go buy it now. Psychotropia is a masterpiece of aurora borealis sparked psychedelia that really is quite unlike anything that came before (or after) it. It’s criminally underrated and just about everyone that I’ve played any of the songs for has immediately become a rabid fan. His music influence reaches far and more recently artists such as Ariel Pink, John Maus and Holy Shit have channeled some of his sonic innovations. As always, I’d so much rather have an artist convey where they’re at musically with music instead of words. So without further ado, nick nicely’s mixtape for naturalismo:
Download: nick nicely: mixtape for naturalismo
(Link has been updated and the tracks are better labeled)
Have a listen to the serene alternate mix of one of my personal favorite tracks by nick nicely that is at the midpoint of the mix:
nick nicely – on the beach (alt. mix)
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Tracklist
1. Olivia Tremor Control….Tropical Bells
2.Paul Giovani……………..Maypole (from the Wickerman)
3.Phoenix…………………. Countdown (sick for the big sun)
4.Olivia Tremor Control…..Sleepy Company
5.nick nicely……………….On The Beach (alternate take)
6.Shangri-las………………Remember (Walking In The Sand )
7.The Eels.………………..Susan’s House
8. John Maus…………….. Do Your Best
9.Spiritualized……………. Do It All Over Again
10. Caribou………………. Bowls
11. Neil Diamond………… Solitary Man
Space 三 Hymns 三 Spring Mix
This is a spring mix that’s pretty well suited for a blissful stretch of Highway 1 (hint hint, east/west coast people buy your tickets and make it out to the most beautiful drive/venue in the world for what looks to be a fairly epic line-up). I’ve been pretty set on these long, sprawling melodic tracks for the past few weeks and have finally whittled them down to a romantic thirteen. Born as an aside from the end of the left coast; it’s also just where the weather has been.
Download: Space Hymns 三 Spring Mix
↑now a mediafire link ↑
Full tracklist below, some selected tracks:
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I think Blind Melon owe a debt of gratitude to this rad sunwashed and stoned 60′s San Francisco band whose riff off this track sounds nearly indistinguishable from “No Rain’s.” I like where Kak take it. Something about this song makes so much sense again, it was one of my first discoveries when I first moved to San Francisco and captures that similar quixotic wave of optimism. They recorded one album in ’68 which was never promoted, played a few shows around San Francisco then called it quits.
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The production on this song really makes it. This track has been on constant rotation since I first heard it a bit back. Better than the original.
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Can’t help but feel a bit nostalgic when the beat kicks into this track. Cruiser just conjures up some oddly formative days spent watching generic alt., house, hip hop and grunge music videos ad infinitum while your older sister tried on chokers and you increasingly felt slightly sick to your stomach staring at the Brass Plumbs poorly contrived sign. What? Only adding to the perfection of the track are the barely audible vocals carrying an early JAMCesque melody.
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I find it pretty difficult to really define Peter Greens musical output for Fleetwood Mac and his solo material in a single genre as his songwriting was so diverse in style and changed so quickly between song and album. As big of a travesty as it was that for much of the 70′s Green’s music was absent (bad acid trip sent him along a similar path as Barrett), there is still a few later gems from the rough (and I mean rough, some of his later material saw him recording his brothers disco songs). This track from 77 is one of those tracks that is subtle on first listen but by the end builds to something tiptoeing in on what made Albatross so incredible.
三 Tracklist 三
| . | 01 – Kak – Lemonaide Kid |
| . | 02 – Yo La Tengo – Nowhere near |
| . | 03 – Disco Inferno – At The End Of The Line |
| . | 04 – Mark & Suzann Farmer – Dreams |
| . | 05 – Speculator – Cruiser |
| . | 06 – The Turtles – You Showed Me |
| . | 07 – Alexander Skip Spence – War in Peace |
| . | 08 – Fleetwood Mac – Thats All For Everyone |
| . | 09 – Sagittarius – Will You Ever See Me |
| . | 10 – Wool Fed – Way Under |
| . | 11 – low sea – Sweet Jane |
| . | 12 – Paul McCartney – Summer’s Day Song |
| . | 13 – Peter Green – Little Dreamer |
Pure Ecstasy: 7 Songs for Naturalismo Mixtape
Nate Grace of Pure Ecstasy has generously put together an awesome 7 song mix today for us here at Naturalismo. Pure Ecstasy’s most recent release, ‘Easy’ hasn’t really left my record player since I picked it up two weeks ago at his show here in Aquarius records and that’s saying a lot since it’s only a 45! It was actually during the performance of his last song Easy that I caught myself dying to know what music had caught his own ear recently. The result: a rad mixtape that should take over your playlist for the afternoon. So without further ado, here’s Pure Ecstasy’s Mixtape for Naturalismo. Thanks again to Nate for putting this together, while you’re listening go grab his new 45 here.
Download: Pure Ecstasy’s Mixtape for Naturalismo
Update: Nearly forgot that Nate had sent over a 7th song for it that I think is my favorite track on the mix. You can grab the full mix above or download any of the individual songs on the mix below.
Stream:
SLEEP ∞ OVER – World is Night
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The tracklist is as follows:
Video: SILVER PINES/AMASA GANA – invitation to surf :
April Mixtape from J. Emery Blatchley
April’s halfway over but the spring has barely begun. We’ve only scratched the surface on the wonders that this most hopeful month has to offer: birds chirping, grass growing, crickets calling. It’s all here, it all smells good. Today, we’re lucky to have another mix from J. Emery Blatchley. This time ’round, we’re taking a trip through time and towards the Southern regions of our country. We’re staring down the sunset with our eyes all squinty and hopeful, anxious for summer to come. It’s hot and humid, full of fiddles and sorrow, banjos and cicadas. In the world of this mix, though, summer’s here. Enjoy.
[ download ] J. Emery Blatchley’s April Mix
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Seven Songs Shaping the Summer
Tag, we’re it. Our good friend Jody over at When You Awake just tagged us with a type of blog chain letter called the “Seven Songs Shaping Your Summer.” Here’s the deal:
“List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they’re not any good, but they must be songs you’re really enjoying now, shaping your summer. Post these instructions in your blog along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they’re listening to.”
Here are mine: