Artist	Song
Can	I Want More (click if you want it)
Chris Barber	Hiawatha Rag
The Monks	I Can Do Anything You Like
Jo Ann Campbell	Boogie Woogie Country Girl
Henry & Emily	Raininspain
Ugly Duckling	Journey to Anywhere
Jose Feliciano	California Dreamin
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien	Mr Bob Dobalina
Layo & Bushwacka!	Love Story
Betty Hutton	Hit The Road To Dreamland
Unknown	80 Days Around The World (cartoon theme tune)
Girls Aloud	Watch Me Go
Anna Karina	Sous Le Soleil Exactement
People Under The Stairs	San Francisco Knights
April March	Mignonette
Unknown	From CD bought at 2002 Gnaoua festival in Essaouira
Kronos Quartet & Asha Bhosle	Mehbooba, Mehbooba
Kat Flint	Anticlimax
Yellow Magic Orchestra	Tighten Up
Brazzaville	Shams
Notorious BIG	Gimme The Loot
Les Calamites	Les Velomotours
Madlib	Montara
Roger Bartlett	Fool For a Blonde
Frank Sinatra	Downtown

Comment:

Hello all. I've been out of the loop for the past 10 days or so as I've been up in Edinburgh (my university town up until a couple of years ago). Apart from the fun of seeing old friends it was nice revisiting the city itself, highlights being the Festival, of course; tap water that tastes of health and minerals and not poison; the 24 hour drinking; the sheer damn smug prettiness of the place. It was great.

I caught Daniel Kitson in his excellent one-man show C90 at the Traverse Theatre, the theme of which I thought might be of interest to this happy mixtaping community.

Here's a review from chortle.co.uk:

Our hero in this particular touching story is Henry Leonard Boden, a man who spends his day in quiet seclusion; logging and filing every compilation tape ever discarded from his robust but battered wooden desk, complete with Bakelite phone, in a fusty library where one of those ladders on wheels allows you to whiz playfully around the shelves. It's a set that perfectly suits Kitson's own professorial look.
The tapes each represent a moment of hope turned into rejection; tokens of love that used music to say what a hopeful suitor could never put into words now cruelly dumped on to the scrapheap. Henry, who believes everything in life is an 'unmitigated letdown', never listens to the tapes, just catalogues them until they become merely raw data to be processed. He once loved his job, but has long found it joyless, even before iPod technology has rendered him almost redundant.
At least, that was what he thought until he receives a mysterious tape addressed to him personally, which reawakens a spirit inside of him.


The mix itself has Edinburgh connections (for me, anyway). 5 and 18 are the work of some uni buddies of mine.
Also thanks for a couple of tracks filched off other mixers here - Cow Macy for no. 24, and Orchid for no. 3 which on this particular trip I played to friends; `poppadum' is now catchword of the week in at least one Scottish flat. The pic below is of the set; a wall of (genuine!) C90 tapes.

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