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WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE EAST — Mixtape Before I started blogging about music, I always assumed that all of the ‘good music’ was made in magical faraway places like California and New York and that Virginia and DC were only good for country music or hip hop, neither of which are my favorites. As I began to explore the music blog-world, I began to discover that there was actually a lot of great music coming out of places very nearby — Richmond, DC, even Blacksburg and Charlottesville. So the aim for this mixtape is to shine a little light on all my favorite artists making really great music in my own backyard. Anyway, the name of the mixtape is a little bit of a play on the location from which all of this music comes from, somewhere in the middle of the Eastern seaboard - Virginia. So without further ado… WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE EAST Manta Rayz - Intro Climbers - Firehead Darker Daze - Monoxian Hoop Dreams - XCPR The Potomac - November Nash Smith & Ganges - Black Cadillac Spacemonster - DeVille True Womanhood - Dark Rift (Pictureplane Cover) Everybody Yay - Meaning Boas - Spring Fireball ~ DOWNLOAD & ENJOY ~

WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE EAST — Mixtape

Before I started blogging about music, I always assumed that all of the ‘good music’ was made in magical faraway places like California and New York and that Virginia and DC were only good for country music or hip hop, neither of which are my favorites. As I began to explore the music blog-world, I began to discover that there was actually a lot of great music coming out of places very nearby — Richmond, DC, even Blacksburg and Charlottesville. So the aim for this mixtape is to shine a little light on all my favorite artists making really great music in my own backyard.

Anyway, the name of the mixtape is a little bit of a play on the location from which all of this music comes from, somewhere in the middle of the Eastern seaboard - Virginia. So without further ado…

WELCOME TO THE MIDDLE EAST

  1. Manta Rayz - Intro
  2. Climbers - Firehead
  3. Darker Daze - Monoxian
  4. Hoop Dreams - XCPR
  5. The Potomac - November
  6. Nash Smith & Ganges - Black Cadillac
  7. Spacemonster - DeVille
  8. True Womanhood - Dark Rift (Pictureplane Cover)
  9. Everybody Yay - Meaning
  10. Boas - Spring Fireball

~ DOWNLOAD & ENJOY ~

20 April 16 Permalink
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AWD CASTLES & NEON WAVES PRESENT…

George from AWD CASTLES contacted me a while ago asking if I wanted to help with a mixtape he had dreamed up. I contributed a few songs, we bounced some ideas back and forth, and this is the excellent playlist we ended up with. It’s a journey on a cloud of musique noir through the 80s. I’m honored to have been a part of this great mixtape and I highly encourage you all download and give it a listen!

awdcastles:

AWD CASTLES and NEON WAVES present…

A mixtape, harmony-driven, that has taken on a decade which has been increasingly becoming the center of influence around many up & coming artists. At first, the idea came from a show that built its entire performance on an a certain atmosphere and if this atmosphere wasn’t reached, the performance wouldn’t be complete. The idea led into this influence, expanding it past this atmosphere and into this concept.

Abstract:
Satisfyingly adrift, nowhere to be found, and soon to grow tired of this wayward way. Beginning to dig away through every trace, we are led into circles, intangible, and so we never cross paths. Paths that bridge a familiarity and so it seems there’s no need to worry. That’s it though, we aren’t here for the paths, only our harbor. Stringing it all together, we’ve come up with this and once it’s connected, there’s a moment where it’s as if we have finally been found. Maybe if we listen again, we’ll be able to find our way for good.

DOWNLOAD — Direct Link

Tracklist:

01. Summer Camp — I Want You
02. Blouse — Into Black
03. Com Truise — Cyanide Sisters
04. Phone Tag — Let It Go
05. DannielRadall — Fleeting Romance
06. Hoop Dreams — Home Alone
07. Die Jungen — In The End
08. Saskatchewan — Nice Daze
09. Foreign Nights — 1
10. Brahms — Add It Up
11. W-H-I-T-E — Go On With The Gong
12. Keep Shelly In Athens — Hauntin’ Me

Thanks to Jaime Martinez for the original photograph!

8 March 17 awdcastles Permalink
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20 February 3 Permalink
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ENDLESS HORIZON — Mixtape If you’re anything like me, now that Christmas, New Years and all the other winter holidays are over, you’re probably tired of the cold weather already and starting a count down to summer. To help provide some relief, I’ve put together this little mixtape of warm, summer songs to shine a little sunlight on your bleak, winter blues. Hope it helps! ENDLESS HORIZON Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys Bombay - El Guincho Erasers - Blackbird Blackbird Germs - Yalls Falling Asleep - PAINTED PALMS Nerve Damage! - Unknown Mortal Orchestra Soda - Range Rover metaPhysical - Long Walks On The Beach Photojournalist - Small Black Last Night at the Jetty - Panda Bear Listening - Everybody Yay Mingus and Pike - The Ruby Suns Let’s Fall Asleep Together - Teen Daze Screens  - Animal Collective ~ DOWNLOAD ~

ENDLESS HORIZON — Mixtape

If you’re anything like me, now that Christmas, New Years and all the other winter holidays are over, you’re probably tired of the cold weather already and starting a count down to summer. To help provide some relief, I’ve put together this little mixtape of warm, summer songs to shine a little sunlight on your bleak, winter blues.

Hope it helps!

ENDLESS HORIZON

  1. Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
  2. Bombay - El Guincho
  3. Erasers - Blackbird Blackbird
  4. Germs - Yalls
  5. Falling Asleep - PAINTED PALMS
  6. Nerve Damage! - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
  7. Soda - Range Rover
  8. metaPhysical - Long Walks On The Beach
  9. Photojournalist - Small Black
  10. Last Night at the Jetty - Panda Bear
  11. Listening - Everybody Yay
  12. Mingus and Pike - The Ruby Suns
  13. Let’s Fall Asleep Together - Teen Daze
  14. Screens  - Animal Collective

~ DOWNLOAD ~

6 January 71 Permalink
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September 2010 Mix   This is a mix I made for a friend, part of our new letter-writing thing - I’m posting it here for you to enjoy as well, if you wish. I wanted to make my letter a little more interesting and naturally the first thing that came to mind was to include a CD full of songs, old and new from a wide array of genres, that I love. I wanted some sort of theme so that the mix would seem cohesive and flow, and given the time of year and how it’s my favorite season and all, I ended up deciding on a Fall theme. My first thought was to go 100% folk but then I realized I have certain songs and artists that aren’t folksy at all but I definitely associate with these orange and red months coming up. However, these songs also happen to be a little more electronic-based, which I consider to be more Winter, so I thought, “Why not put them at the end, like a natural progression from Fall to Winter?” So that’s what I did. Sorry for a less than original name. :( September 2010 Mix Tracklist: Epilogue - Patrick Wolf Wolf Song - Patrick Wolf Sprout and the Bean - Joanna Newsom Keep the Dog Quiet - Owen Pallett Futile Devices - Sufjan Stevens Storm - Jose Gonzalez Stick With Me Baby - Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Keep It Quiet - Ra Ra Riot Screens - Animal Collective House of Cards - Radiohead Home - Glasser Despicable Dogs - Small Black Chinatown - Wild Nothing Mercy Street - Fever Ray You Can Count On Me [Live] - Panda Bear Everything should be tagged correctly, so just unzip and drag-drop into iTunes and you’re ready to go! I hope it sounds as much like Autumn to you as it does to me, but most importantly I hope you enjoy! Download the mix. Also remember that all of the songs here are for your entertainment, but if you do enjoy them, think about supporting the artists somehow!  

September 2010 Mix 

 This is a mix I made for a friend, part of our new letter-writing thing - I’m posting it here for you to enjoy as well, if you wish.

I wanted to make my letter a little more interesting and naturally the first thing that came to mind was to include a CD full of songs, old and new from a wide array of genres, that I love. I wanted some sort of theme so that the mix would seem cohesive and flow, and given the time of year and how it’s my favorite season and all, I ended up deciding on a Fall theme.

My first thought was to go 100% folk but then I realized I have certain songs and artists that aren’t folksy at all but I definitely associate with these orange and red months coming up. However, these songs also happen to be a little more electronic-based, which I consider to be more Winter, so I thought, “Why not put them at the end, like a natural progression from Fall to Winter?” So that’s what I did.

Sorry for a less than original name. :(

September 2010 Mix Tracklist:

  1. Epilogue - Patrick Wolf
  2. Wolf Song - Patrick Wolf
  3. Sprout and the Bean - Joanna Newsom
  4. Keep the Dog Quiet - Owen Pallett
  5. Futile Devices - Sufjan Stevens
  6. Storm - Jose Gonzalez
  7. Stick With Me Baby - Robert Plant, Alison Krauss
  8. Keep It Quiet - Ra Ra Riot
  9. Screens - Animal Collective
  10. House of Cards - Radiohead
  11. Home - Glasser
  12. Despicable Dogs - Small Black
  13. Chinatown - Wild Nothing
  14. Mercy Street - Fever Ray
  15. You Can Count On Me [Live] - Panda Bear

Everything should be tagged correctly, so just unzip and drag-drop into iTunes and you’re ready to go! I hope it sounds as much like Autumn to you as it does to me, but most importantly I hope you enjoy!

Download the mix.

Also remember that all of the songs here are for your entertainment, but if you do enjoy them, think about supporting the artists somehow!

 

30 September 4 Permalink
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Neon Waves’ 1st Mixtape: Gradient Summer So this mixtape was born out of a playlist I made for a road trip last month and eventually kept adding and removing from… So some of the songs are a little old, some are very old, and some are new. Some are popular, some not so well known. Ignoring all of that, it’s just a collection of songs that have become the soundtrack to my summer so far. Click through to download. GRADIENT SUMMER Someone’s Missing - MGMT King of the Beach - Wavves Holiday - Vampire Weekend Listening - Everybody Yay Stay Close - Delorean Africa (Toto) - Golden Ages New Theory - Washed Out Brought It Out - BRAHMS Foolin’ - Devendra Banhart Boyfriend - Best Coast So Insane - Discovery No Reasons - VEGA Yellow Wings - Keepaway [Missing for some reason…] Go Outside - Cults Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective Ambling Alp - Yeasayer Diplomat’s Son - Vampire Weekend Heaven’s On Fire - The Radio Dept. Hope you enjoy it.

Neon Waves’ 1st Mixtape: Gradient Summer

So this mixtape was born out of a playlist I made for a road trip last month and eventually kept adding and removing from… So some of the songs are a little old, some are very old, and some are new. Some are popular, some not so well known. Ignoring all of that, it’s just a collection of songs that have become the soundtrack to my summer so far.

Click through to download.

GRADIENT SUMMER

  1. Someone’s Missing - MGMT
  2. King of the Beach - Wavves
  3. Holiday - Vampire Weekend
  4. Listening - Everybody Yay
  5. Stay Close - Delorean
  6. Africa (Toto) - Golden Ages
  7. New Theory - Washed Out
  8. Brought It Out - BRAHMS
  9. Foolin’ - Devendra Banhart
  10. Boyfriend - Best Coast
  11. So Insane - Discovery
  12. No Reasons - VEGA
  13. Yellow Wings - Keepaway
  14. [Missing for some reason…]
  15. Go Outside - Cults
  16. Summertime Clothes - Animal Collective
  17. Ambling Alp - Yeasayer
  18. Diplomat’s Son - Vampire Weekend
  19. Heaven’s On Fire - The Radio Dept.

Hope you enjoy it.

8 July 7 Permalink
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