Artist	Song
Olivia Tremor Control	Love Athena
Olivia Tremor Control	A Sunshine Fix
Olivia Tremor Control	The Princess Turns The Key To Cubist Castle
Olivia Tremor Control	Gypsum Oil Field Fire
Olivia Tremor Control	I'm Not Feeling Human [Peel Session]
Olivia Tremor Control	Jumping Fences
Olivia Tremor Control	Define a Transparent Dream
Olivia Tremor Control	No Growing
Olivia Tremor Control	Holiday Surprise 1
Olivia Tremor Control	Courtyard
Olivia Tremor Control	Memories of Jacqueline 1906
Olivia Tremor Control	Can You Come Down With Us?
Olivia Tremor Control	Marking Time
Olivia Tremor Control	Green Typewriters (Opening)
Olivia Tremor Control	Green Typewriters (Cathedral)
Olivia Tremor Control	NYC-25
Olivia Tremor Control	Green Typewriters (Wake Up) [Peel Session]
Olivia Tremor Control	A Peculiar Noise Called 'Train Director'
Olivia Tremor Control	Hideaway
Olivia Tremor Control	A Sleepy Company
Olivia Tremor Control	A New Day
Olivia Tremor Control	I Have Been Floated
Olivia Tremor Control	A Place We Have Been To
Olivia Tremor Control	The Sylvan Screen
Olivia Tremor Control	California Demise 3
The Circulatory System	Yesterday's World
The Circulatory System	Waves Of Bark & Light
The Sunshine Fix	Age Of The Sun
The Sunshine Fix	That Ole Sun
The Sunshine Fix	30. Statues And Glue 31. Face The Ghost

Comment:

I posted an OTC mix a couple years back; this one doesn't change the general tracklist all that much, but I ended up remaking it with some judicious editing to weed out some of the studio effect weirdness before/after certain songs, which always bugged me when I listened to the original mix. Which, fortunately, cleared up some room for a few additional tracks.
One of my favorite bands of the '90's, OTC had a shamefully brief career that spanned a handful of lo-fi homemade singles and ep's (later compiled on the Singles & Beyond cd), two proper albums, and some odds & ends, followed by a splintering of the group into two camps (Bill Doss' Sunshine Fix, and Will Hart's Circulatory System), neither of which recaptured the unique OTC magic, definitive proof that these guys were definitely more than the sum of their parts.
The mix kicks off with a few early tracks, cherry-picking the more straightforward pop tunes and ignoring their experimental stuff which, frankly, I've always found too self-indulgent and musically questionable to merit repeat listens. Then we get into the jaw-dropping greatness that is 1996's Dusk at Cubist Castle (tracks 6-16), where they (mostly) abandon the lo-fi weirdness of early ep's and deliver a near-classic work of ambitious psychedelic pop that, to this day, remains one of my favorite albums. More great, catchy tunes than you can shake a stick at, albeit with enough of an experimental edge to keep things from becoming too routine. Picture Smile-era Brian Wilson, Revolver-era Beatles, and Guided by Voices' Robert Pollard sucking down a few tabs of acid, hiding away in a low budget studio and trying to come up with some kind of twisted pop masterpiece. Not everything works -- after the non-stop hook-laden psyche-pop of the first half, and the twisted headphone extravaganza of the "Green Typewriters" suite, things start to flag a bit (up until the album-closing Beach Boys-revering harmonic orgy of "NYC-25") -- but there's more than enough entertainment here for your music dollar.
Follow-up album Black Foliage/Animation Music was nearly as good, if some of the charm had worn off. On the plus side, they finally have a production budget to match their recording ambition, giving the album a more solid, professional feel (but still not overly slick); you've also got another half-dozen works of psyche-pop perfection, some particularly radio-friendly, some still out on the edge. On the down side, the experimental side that they'd kept in check on (most of) Cubist Castle returns with a vengeance, and the good tracks are alternated with meandering studio doodlings that might be fun with the right chemical enhancement but really tend to kill the momentum. Still, culled down to the melodic pop moments (as I've done on this mix), and it's still pretty amazing work.
None of the post-OTC work is at the same level. The Circulatory System sounds a lot like OTC (and their lone album to date includes some OTC leftovers), mostly trippy pscyhedelia, only a bit muddier-sounding and lacking the pop side of OTC's brighter moments. On the other hand, Sunshine Fix has a fair amount of chiming pop to mingle with the psyche bits (particularly on their second, power-pop oriented cd), but, again, that OTC magic is largely absent. Still, a couple of stand-out tracks by each of these acts merit inclusion here.

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