Other Mixes By SwankQueen
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Nature's Way Taxidermy Studio
| Side A | ||
| Artist | Song | |
| Strafe | Set it Off (extended remix) | |
| Thomas Truax | Full Moon Over Wowtown | |
| Buck 65 | Le 65isme | |
| Tubeway Army | Down in the Park | |
| The Bad Plus | Iron Man | |
| The Donut People | Summerville | |
| The The | Perfect | |
| Fear | I Love Living in the City | |
| The English Beat | Jeanette | |
| Mood Ruff | Rocketship | |
| Biz Markie | Just a Friend | |
| Jon Spencer Blues Explosion | Rocketship | |
| The Tubes | White Punks on Dope | |
| The Monks | Drunken Maria | |
| Combustible Edison | Punch Drunk | |
| Blondie | Heart of Glass | |
| Neko Case | Deep Red Bells | |
| Nina Simone | My Father | |
| Side B | ||
| Artist | Song | Buy |
| Bob Dylan | Ring Them Bells | |
| Sister Rosetta Tharpe | Sit Down | |
| Apostle of Hustle | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? | |
| Eden Ahbez | Nature Boy | |
| Mavis Staples | We Shall Not Be Moved | |
| The Clash | The Crooked Beat | |
| Combustible Edison | Headshake Rhumba | |
| Celso Machado | Lamento Andino | |
| Oliver Schroer | Santiago Street Sounds (field recording) | |
| Oliver Schroer | In Memory of Friends Past | |
| Thai Elephant Orchestra | Heavy Logs | |
| Colin McPhee | Gambangan | |
| Barry Truax | Bamboo, Silk & Stone | |
| Thomas Truax | Hornicator on the Orient Express | |
| Boards of Canada | Diving Station | |
| Mr. Bungle | Chemical Marriage | |
| Captain Beefheart | Big Black Baby Shoes | |
Comment:
Two-disc "for-the-hell-of-it" mix, a sort of housewarming present to myself after moving back to the city (hence the obnoxiously good Fear track) from the suburbs. Barry Truax is not related to Thomas Truax. I thought Barry's musique concrete would make for an intriguing juxtaposition with the ultra-cephalic utterances of the Thai Elephant Orchestra (with Colin McPhee as a palate-cleanser). As for Thomas Truax, I highly recommend that you hepcats get on the ball and buy his CDs, whether his solo work or as Like Wow (which Teapin once used on his "AotMic Power" best-of mix). Many thanks to my benefactor from the CBC for fulfilling record library requests. Thanks to my favo(u)rite Donut Person, as usual, for tech support, filling in the blanks on my wishlist, for the last-minute suggestion of "Heart of Glass", and for turning me on to The Monks!Title palmed from a local business.
Feedback:
I know I'm technically biased, but this mix is absolute genius. I'll be uploading it for the privileged masses within the next 24-to-36 hours. I'm especially fond of the T. Truax-The The, Mood Ruff-Monks, and Dylan-Clash sections, as well as those phenomenal tracks by Blondie, Neko Case (thank you for alerting me to its existence when I was ambivalent about Neko and thank Christ you finally used it, as it's one of the 100 best songs by anyone and I've been bursting at the seams to include it on one of *my* mixes--see my soon-to-be-posted new mix for confirmation), Barry Truax (thanks again for turning me on to him), Thai Elephant Orchestra (ditto), Boards of Canada and Beefheart tracks. Come to think of it, "Punch Drunk" by Combustible Edison songs is pretty great, as well, and I'd never heard that before.... You never cease to amaze me, dear, and you need to post mixes (particularly FTHOIs) more often.
Yeah, that Dylan-Clash bit is a beauty, looking forward to the download...thanks Rob
you guys must have a wonderful time, cool stuff both of you picked
this looks like the yin to rob's yang - nothing could be more fitting! fantastic
Very cool. Not enough The The or Apostle of Hustle around here for my money.
Very nice, especially love the Mavis Staples track.
That's a great title (although I'm slightly disappointed that it's not culled from a song lyric--not that that makes it a lesser title, obviously, but I'd love to hear such a song), for a great mix.
Great looking stuff (what I know), including what is probably my favorite (English) Beat track.
So THAT's what you too were doing all week. Love the Buck 65, the Donut People (of course), The Tubes, Neko, Dylan, Mavis and Clash tracks and I've been dying to get that Thai Elephant disc for three years now.
the bad plus' "iron man" is possibly one of the best covers of all time. i don't know a lot of this, but darn if it doesn't pique my curiosity.
I love every thing on here that I know, I imagine the rest is great as well. Nice going. Nature's Way Taxidermy Studio...thats simply brilliant.
Here sits a beautiful collection of friends. Love the title...Viva La Sanborn!!!
So much. So good. And how did I miss "Set It Off" first time around? I listened to this about 25 times in one week.