Side A
Artist	Song
Death Cab for Cutie	405
Sparklehorse f/ PJ Harvey	Piano Fire
Ida	Blizzard of '78
The Man I Fell in Love With	Bad Dreams
The Dismemberment Plan	The City
The Faint	Worked Up So Sexual (Death Cab for Cutie Remix)
Radio 4	Start a Fire
Aden	Dear John
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists	Squeaky Fingers
Wolfie	Mockhouse
Pinback	Crutch
Tommy Guerrero	Blue Masses
Creeper Lagoon	He Made Us All Blind
Denali	Relief
Dirtnap	Resign (Charlotte Mix)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Sunshine	New Model
Milemarker	Frigid Forms Sell You Warmth
The South of No North	I'm Glad You Can Laugh at My Expensive Loss
Alkaline Trio	Goodbye Forever
Pretty Girls Make Graves	Modern Day Emma Goldman
Dillinger Four	Super Powers Enable Me to Blend in With Machinery
Discount	Math Won't Miss You
Party of Helicopters	Slowdance
Franklin	Number 1
Burning Airlines	Tastykake
Chavez	New Room
Swords Project	Audience of One
American Football	Honestly
Flakemusic	Untitled #2
Death Cab for Cutie	405 (Acoustic)

Comment:

Okay, this is it. After this, it's all over, really. For a while now, I've had the sinking notion that my recent mixes were crappy variations on the same theme, that I was one-trick pony, that these mixes aren't going to hold up due to their saturation with newer stuff without equal representation of songs of a bit more "classic" nature.Maybe I should start over. What I'm getting at is that for about the past two years, I've been telling people I would make them mixes of some of my current favorites, which I did, but then I'm left with the feeling that the mix I gave them wasn't that special and that it didn't vary too much from the one I made somebody else a few months previous. I mean, the thought was just bubbling under for a while, but today, after catching up and submitting mixes from a while back, it's become apparent that I've only used a pool of about 50 or so records to make the majority of mixes I've done over the past three or four years, with little variation.
So the plan with this mix was to make it a kind of a "last hurrah" for those 50 or so records, a comprehensive, well thought out, well crafted "state of what I'm listening to" mix. It was made by request of one friend in particular, but I'm going to break all rules of mixing protocol and disseminate to anybody who asks for a mix of new-ish music. I figure it's better to make one really good mix than four or five so-so ones. I mean, I haven't made a mix that didn't include Death Cab for Cutie or Ida in about three years. Actually, now that I think of it, maybe I'll continue this trend...one "newer stuff" mix a year, distributed freely, to free me up to make some more well-balanced mixes.
Anyway, like I did with a mix a few months ago, I used Acid Sound Forge to crossfade and/or extend some songs, making this a mostly gap-free mix. I think I did a pretty good job of...uh...mixing it up and giving a fair representation of stuff I've had on the stereo for a while now. Side A starts off at a moderate rock tempo, goes into a couple of long/kinda-spacy epics, kicks into some keyboard heavy/booty shakin' numbers, loosens up into some mellowish beats and closes out with some atmospheric drum machine oriented songs. Side B carries over the keyboards into full on punk rock, into heavier polyrhythmic indie, then closes the circle by bringing the mix back to the sweeping drony epics, closing out with the acoustic version of the song the mix started with. The end.
The next bunch of mixes, hopefully, will mix it up a bit more stylistically and time-period-wise...Right now I'm thinking Nick Lowe's "Cruel to Be Kind" into The Grass Roots' "Temptation Eyes."
Fuh rizzul.

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