Since Muxtape borked itself the other day and lost a bunch of data, and since it still doesn't sport search or tagging, I thought I'd take the excuse to relaunch the muxtape trade thread.
Have you created a new Muxtape? Link it up, we want to hear it.
Here's a slightly abbreviated version of my spring playlist for this year. "Atlas" by Battles should be the third song, but muxtape doesn't like my file. Feel free to pop that in there if you own it. Overall it's an upbeat happy mix of songs I really like and a few guilty pleasures.
I just made one of Americana: jazz, swing, blues, funk, etc.
It includes the Ella Fitzgerald singing Mack the Knife when she forgets the words halfway through and starts scatting/improvising instead, the song that convinced me that Lou Rawls has the Sexiest voice ever, a couple songs by The Whitefield Brothers (who are actually German, and the side project of The Poets of Rhythm), as well as two local favorites: Seth Walker and the White Ghost Shivers. WGS is what happens when a bunch of punk musicians turn to hot jazz/hookum/dirty blues. Incidentally, they're touring Europe right now, and if you get the chance to hear them, I HIGHLY recommend it - they put on a raucous show and play some damn good music.
I don't know how likely it is that people here like jazz, swing, etc., but if you like what you hear, let me know. I love this stuff.
By the way, LBA, the song Higher and Higher is great, but it always reminds me of Ghostbusters 2 and the Statue of Liberty walking through New York.
This one is basically a showcase of my favourite bands around at the moment. Most of it is punk with a twist but I think there's something in there for everyone.
I created a list to help me finish a piece of fiction I'm writing about a couples fight to survive against a ruler gone mad. This covers the couple from first meeting at a bar, to the decision of the survivor to continue the fight. Booyah!
So, I have been reading Freakangels since I found out about it an Warren Ellis has been very informative, emphasis on formative, in my political and social development. Add that to the fact that I have a passionate love of music which drove to not only a degree in ethnomusicology, from City University in London (which is a school across the street from the Islington Bloomsbury Library, housing my first Warren Ellis writings--which I will keep to myself because I'm like that), but also a love of Muxtape.
Now that those two very disparate and ever so connected realms have touched here, I cannot but post.
So, songs that make me smile, make me laugh, and end the night. Hence the name.