JamesPhoenix

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Member Since: 1/20/2007
Total Mixes: 22
Total Feedback: 46

Other Mixes By JamesPhoenix

CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
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CD | Mixed Genre
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CD | Alternative - Indie Rock
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What We Do...is Secret?

Artist Song
Micah P. Hinson  Yard of Blonde Girls  
James Yorkston  Summer Song 
Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory  The Seed 
J.B. Lenoir  I Feel So Good 
Ellen McIlwaine   Higher Ground 
RJD2  Ghostwriter 
Delaney & Bonnie  Comin' Home 
Grizzly Bear  The Knife 
Caetano Veloso  Tropicßlia 
Alfie   People 
P:ano  Clapping Hands 
Beirut  Mount Wroclai (Idle Days) 
Iggy Pop & James Williamson  No Sense of Crime 
Alexander "Skip" Spence  Little Hands 
Bat For Lashes  Tahiti 
Grant Lee Phillips  Under The Milky Way 
Beck  Things Last A Long Time (Daniel Johnston cover) 
Arcade Fire  My Body Is A Cage 
Dan Rossen  Deep Blue Sea 
Richard Hawley  Tonight 
Elvis Perkins  While You Were Sleeping 

Comment:

I make mix-CDs for a friend of mine, usually every 2 months, to catalogue the things I've been listening to and hopefully turn him on to a few things he hasn't heard. I went travelling for most of last year, so since returning I agreed to play catch-up and make two discs for him, putting more effort into the enterprise than I ever had beforeI started working on this at the end of December, selecting what tracks would go into what disc, working out the momentum, mood, etc. and spending a torturous week (!) finalising the tracklisting alone, which was more difficult than normal given the slightly ecclectic mix.
Some of the tracks have been edited in one way or another (usually clipping out silence, but in some cases I have played God and altered it wherever I felt appropriate) for the sake of the overall flow and to make it fit snugly onto an 80 minute CD.
The entire thing is available for download and hope someone out there might give it a listen and enjoy it.
Part Two will follow soon.
Thanks...
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Feedback:

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locovinagre
Date: 3/29/2007
Seems very nice. MediaFire won't allow me to download, tho.
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tornadoZ
Date: 3/30/2007
fortunately, MediaFire let me through... and this is one fine mix. some of my favorite recent music is by artists at tracks 3,8,11 (in fact, I just put "Knife" on a mix I made last night) - and I dig the Micah P. Hinson, Caetano Veloso, Bat For Lashes too. The organs backing the Arcade Fire track are wonderful, as is that Church cover by Grant Lee Phillips, and especially that amazing version of "Higher Ground" by Ellen McIlwaine. thanks for sharing this; I'm looking forward to volume 2.
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reno dakota
Date: 3/30/2007
I just used that P:ano track on a mix I made a few days ago. Excellent choice there, and not too shabby on the others (though, there are a few I haven't heard).
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Love the Alfie, P:ano and Beirut songs.
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JamesPhoenix
Date: 4/6/2007
Thanks for the kind comments!
The download seems to be still working perfectly fine - I've tried it out on two different computers, so I'm not sure what happened there!
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sammyg123
Date: 4/9/2008
Great mix and great cover. Nice to see Alfie on AotM. Love the 'Hands' tracks, Caetano Veloso and Ellen M. Fantastic opener as well..