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Mixed Genre
1/29/2006
Willfully depraved; witness a tape which, rather than merely hopping genres, seems to exhibit a contempt for the notion of genre itself. The "AAAA" series is made to fulfill something of a linchpin rol …
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Mixed Genre
12/5/2005
What is one to do when someone who shares a "working relationship" with you requests a mix? Try to remain innocuous? Stick to dated techno and quirk-rock? Also: why does it includes no less than FIVE c …
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Theme - Romantic
4/11/2005
The listener runs the gauntlet of perversion, drugs, chaos, anger, tedium, derangement and melancholy until finally arriving at Charles Mingus.
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Theme - Narrative
4/9/2005
Made without an established recipient or theme, to be stockpiled for the day when certain flaws in the banking system become too apparent to ignore and mixtapes become the new currency.
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Theme - Break Up
3/20/2005
Made for a friend in a city I've moved away from. Possible themes: all patterns are optimistic, or the deus ex machina rescue from overpowering darkness (constant drear leads to inevitable conflict, re …
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Mixed Genre
3/20/2004
This summer I found myself without a place to stay and requiring immediate improvisation re: living space - long story short, I gave this tape to a man who pretended to be my relative so I could sleep …
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Mixed Genre
2/13/2004
A little idiosyncratic as far as these things go, the only real undercurrent is the new wave pop that keeps showing its face and an extended downtempo period on the second side. Gershwin's "Rhapsody in …
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Mixed Genre
2/13/2004
A little idiosyncratic as far as tapes go, I think that was maybe the point ? New wave pop seems to be the only undercurrent really drawing anything together. "Rhapsody in Blue" is included in its enti …
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Mixed Genre
2/3/2004
This tape remains pretty mid-tempo the whole way through, and has no particular emotional undercurrent; maybe that's how it should ideally be, though, it was made for a stranger ! Within the mid-tempo …
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