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napolean born-ta-par-tay
korean and japanese mix
9/22/06

1 rollercoaster . triangle . after the tone
2 rain [bi] (feat. epik high, lim jeong hee) . it's raining . my groove
3 rain [bi] . it's raining . i
4 clon . one more time . ... hajima! [stop it!]
5 clon . one more time . gibun joteun nal
6 hyun young (orig. o-zone) . noona's dream
7 kim hyung joong . self-titled (vol. 2) . dareun uri
8 kim hyung joong . self-titled (vol. 2) . lucky
9 cibo matto . viva! la woman . apple
10 cibo matto . viva! la woman . birthday cake
11 mayu kitaki . japan for sale (vol. 2) (compilation) . nakanaide
12 cornelius . matador at fifteen (compilation) . drop
13 towa tei . last century modern . butterfly
14 towa tei . sound museum . everything we do is music
15 fantastic plastic machine . beautiful . beautiful days (reprise)
16 pizzicato five . antique 96 (import) . this can't be love
17 pizzicato five . made in usa . baby love child
18 pizzicato five . happy end of the world . it's a beautiful day

august 2006 mix
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:56 AM

i generally prefer to do more thematic mixes, but this month i just couldn't get anything together in my head. so in the end i went with a "currently listening" mix, although i don't think i've ever done one quite as literal as this: i took the last 20 CD's I've listened to and picked a track off of each of them. i ended up w/ slightly less than 20 tracks b/c there were a few albums i've listened to lately that were just terrible (namely a michael mcdonald CD, yo la tengo's painful, and a cast album of this tony kushner musical called -caroline or change- that made me want to puke). and i left a couple others out (e.g. from heather's mix) b/c i'm saving them for next month's mix. in general though this is an overview of what i've been listening to this summer, which has been generally upbeat stuff to counter the rainy weather we had and being overworked. also i've been really into video games lately and as a result been into video game music. something about it is deeply satisfying to me, maybe b/c it takes me back to the innocence of childhood (haha). last note: a couple of DV tracks b/c that's what i've been listening to. i just found out that eileen rose is from boston, and when i looked up that accendi track online (from carl's mix) it seems it wasn't done by ry cooder -- although maybe i just missed it and he can shed some light on that. hodge-podgy, but hopefully still listenable.

july 2006 mix
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:08 AM

i've been playing around w/ this mix for a long time, but finally got around to doing it. the definitions of "camp" and "kitsch" are a bit debatable, but a lot of pop from the 60's, 70's, and 80's seems to qualify (and def. anything disco). instead of going for obvious choices (e.g. the village people) this was one of those mixes where i looked through the piles of stuff i've had lying around and put together a mix from them. of particular note: i love putting random quotes from movies, etc. in mixes but don't do it nearly often enough. i managed to fit in some good ones for this though. also, the o-zone song reached #1 in numerous countries ... including #3 in the UK. a fun song. also, the madonna track, from the dick tracy soundtrack, has surely got to be one of the more bizarre things she's ever done.

hopefully a fun, albeit fairly fluffy, summer mix.

june 2006 mix
nothing too much to say about this one. the weather has been cold and rainy, so this was some good downer music. generally darker, electronic-tinged, and tracks with ambient noise on this one. not really any big surprises, although i should mention that i got the forward russia! track from a mix from sid and the books, national, and imogen heap tracks from winnie. turned out pretty well i think. and that sufjan track makes for a nice closer i think.

april 2006 mix
Date Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:25 AM

since i knew this mix was going to winnie i decided to do a classical mix since i'm not sure how others in the group feel about it. of classical music i listen to mostly vocal music (e.g. opera and art songs), so i thought i'd go with instrumentals this time around. the last classical instr. mix i'd done was solo instruments (either w/ an orchestra or without) and looking over my collection i realized that i actually listen to very little orchestral music. and when i re-listened to tracks i thought i liked, i realized i like very little of what i've listened to, so this was a bit of a challenge. but after some digging i eventually put together a full 80 minutes of stuff i quite like, and i'm more motivated to listen to more of this stuff.

february 2006 mix
Date Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:17 AM

when you're friends with a fellow music-lover for any length of time, you're bound to exchange a lot of your favorite music. and about ten times more so when you're dating. i like how certain songs and certain artists get linked in your mind w/ certain people. this mix is compiled almost entirely of tracks from mixes my bf andy has made me, and the rest are artists he's introduced me to (although a lot of it is probably not at all unfamiliar to people who are british like he is). at first i was planning on making the first half andy tracks and the 2nd half winnie tracks (the person who has made the second biggest number of mixes for me over the years), but the two sets were so dissimilar that it just didn't work. but i like how this turned out, and it coincidentally makes for a good valentine's day mix.

january 2006 mix
Date Tue, 10 Jan 2006 9:36 AM

since heather (a fellow american) was going to be receiving this one, i thought i would do a mix i've been wanting to do highlighting two of my relatively recent loves, kate bush and kylie minogue. all you brits are prob. bored to death w/ the latter and prob. know a lot of the former, but 99% of us yankees don't know much about either. in particular i wanted to look at how people have evolved, and included ani difranco, a long-time fav of mine, whose evolution is particularly easy to trace. in thinking about which artists to include, i realized that a lot of people (like bjork or pj harvey for ex) are less linear so it makes it harder to see the evolution. for this mix i purposely picked artists and tracks (oftentimes not my favorites) that make the evolution more apparent. i find it interesting to see 20 years compressed into 6 or 7 tracks, although the musical cues that i can hear from knowing all the other stuff may be lost on a newbie. in any case, hopefully it'll be a good intro mix to someone not familiar w/ these 3 artists. ... bonus points to anyone who can name which kylie song the title comes from ;)

april 20, 2006 mix
Date Wed, 19 Apr 2006 7:10 PM

through another coincidence the old mix i dug out to send to gordon is also from the same month (april). not too much to say about this one, although this was a fairly sunny mix and i really enjoyed re-listening to it. the chill acoustic EBTG opening track really sets the mood (if you only know their electronic stuff you're really missing out). this mix feels like it was put together around a pretty good time, although in reality being the last month of my last semester at school it was prob. more a really, really bad case of procrastination. not a lot of surprises here (for me at least), but there's something nice and comfortable about having so many of my old favorite people all together.

one last comment: it's always interesting to listen to stuff you liked x years ago. i found that 4 years later i still like pretty much all of this stuff. the mixes from 8 years ago and 12 years ago (geez i feel old) are rather sketchier though, but then i suppose you have to count the nostalgia factor more and more.