anyway, i'm going to try to update my meowymix consistently, and when i do i'm going to write a little blurb about the songs i chose and why. since i'm still like a teenage boy who overthinks each song, song placement, song transitions, etc., these meowymixes mean a lot more to me than they should. and since they matter to me they should mean a lot to you too.
aside: this is my third mix i've made on muxtape. maybe i'll resurrect the first and second mixes in weeks to come.
meowymix 3.0: when folk and electronic music meet, sometimes they have illegitimate children.
this mix is a half-hearted attempt to marry folk and electronic music. it starts the way most failed relationships start - with a third party. the mutual friend invites the unlikely pair to the bars and conveniently leaves to watch the awkward conversations and forced laughter. or, like gilbert arenas, the he'll round up some homeless people and invite himself over to his buddy's house, where his family is having dinner. then in the middle of dinner, he'll get up and go, leaving the homeless guys at his friend's house.
here, the third party is the first two tracks, and they initiate a cascade of experimental folk and electronic music with an incredible track from The Books. this might be my new favorite band of the moment. they're a duo from new york that combines voice clips, natural sounds and acoustic rhythms to create a disjointed, primitive sound. enjoy your worries, the track is titled. you may never have them again. an atlas sound track slips in next. the natural transition into this song, titled "Cold as Ice" contradicts the warmth of of the previous three. the idea of cold separation pervades in the electro-pop song "take it easy (love nothing)" by bright eyes.
the next song was a problem. i really wanted to put in "ms jackson" by outkast, but for some reason i chickened out. instead i put in some filler song that sounds nice but really makes no sense - shift by grizzly bizzle. the next track, 2 sisters drunk on each other by califone, reminds me of the books i've been reading. in 100 years in solitude, incest is repeated after each generation forgets the mistakes (and incest) of the previous generation. this chance meeting of folk and electronica is in the same vein... something's just a little off in their meeting, and it's as awkward and taboo as incest. ok maybe it's not that awkward. anyway...
the two have an illegitimate child that they leave in a train to be cared for by a scary man, which is all taken as a bad dream by the folkster who, of course, is the one to sit back and recount her tales in song. and so the story ends. enjoy!
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"best new-music-finding site... better than pandora, lastfm and imeem..."
muxtape is nice, but as soon as it get sued it's going to have to block illegal content and start paying the artists. So, once muxtape gets popular it'll be covered with ads and every beatles track will be blocked.
Thankfully imeem still has 100 times as many users, so it might be a while before muxtape gets castrated by the record biz.
who is this, and why would u write such a downer comment? :(
lol you sound so hurt.
maybe you should've stuck with "ms. jackson"... because that's where your story gets kind of disjointed. i don't understand your "filler." it has no place in your story.
and you're gonna have to tell me why The Books is your favorite band of the moment. first 28 days later, and now this!
and finally you should do this with your first two mixes, too.
a revisit of your first or second mix is gonna be a must. i only went through one of them...and i'm not too sure if it was the first or second.
muxtape is awesome. but kris, listening to the books gives me a headache, especially while trying to work. when is the best time to listen to the books? while reading? while working out? while chillin at a cafe?
and yes please bring back teen angst mix #2.
books - best listened to when reading a book at a cafe. or, with headphones, alone in ur room in the dark.
"with headphones, alone in ur room in the dark."
lol dude.. are you ok?
(need i even ask?)
if i listened to the books while reading a book, i would get really confused and just stare into space.
kristof rue, i like!
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