avant gardening

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Member Since: 3/26/2004
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your scene sucks (a seattle based indie anthology) 1 of 5

Artist Song
kinski  floundering & fluctuating 
sun city girls  electoral termites 
popular shapes  xmas, yeah 
the pale  start/stop 
764-hero  calendar pages 
tagging satellites  waiting to come down 
this busy monster  3d'd 
aveo  laughter leaves you 
voyager one  slower california 
jeremy enigk  carnival 
the postal service  the district sleeps alone tonight 
cobra high  black boomerangs 
hint hint  wiping the blood from our teet 
hidari mae  anonymous 
jessamine  your head is so small it's like a little light 
heather duby  love you more 
critters buggin  beaver builds a dam 
microphones   the moon 

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okay, so i love seattle, a lot, and i love the music scene, a lot, so this mix is my dedication to seattle, and western washington musicians.
i've been wanting to do something like this for awhile, and i've finally done it. it's a five disc set of my favorite "indie" bands from seattle. there's a good mixture of genres, experimental, post-rock, emo, instrumental, electronica, indie-pop, indie-rock, trip-hop, singer/songwriter, garage rock, some harder stuff, though i did shy away from the more hardcore bands, for continuity purposes. also, if you're like, "hey, why isn't so and so on here", it's because it's my mix, and i don't like them, so i left them off on purpose. the point of these mixes is to educate people on some cool bands from seattle, hopefully many of which you haven't checked out yet. (olympia, tacoma, and anacortes are also represented). i tried to not put too many older, defunct bands on there, but i did anyways. there is also a wealth of new, up and coming bands over the course of the mixes, so it's a relatively good mix or new and older bands. i hope you like the series.
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troutmask
Date: 5/2/2004
i always thought that Sun City Girls were from Tuscon....i guess i was misinformed. Looks like a very good mix based on the stuff i've heard from it, i'll have to grab the rest (and the rest of the series) when my dl queue dies down a lot.
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avant gardening
Date: 5/3/2004
yeah, they're originally from tuscon, but they've been in seattle for the past 10 years...
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IMTEHAXOR!
Date: 5/31/2004
Awesome. I can rally appreciate this mix cause I'm from Seattle too. Amazing music, shitty people (imho).
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IMTEHAXOR!
Date: 5/31/2004
forgot to mention that I particularly salute your inclusion of th popular shapes and the microphones
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robot action boy
Date: 8/20/2004
i thought jessamine moved to portland? or did they move back again? these mixes of yours make me realize how out of touch i am with the bands in seattle since i left...