watching the submarine races by drudgeons

A modern surf mix for summer 2011

My dad brought me up on Jan & Dean, The Beach Boys, The Zombies, The Shangri-Las, Leslie Gore; the greats of 50s and 60s vocal pop. I love that sound and I’ll never get tired of it, so I’m glad there’s still people out there making it. Here’s some cuts to drench your days in even more sun.

(p.s.: bands with free/cheap album downloads via bandcamp are linked)

1. Tennis - Marathon
2. Chalk Talk - Wouldn’t It Be Nice
3. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
4. Lonesome Ghost - My Dear
5. Street Violence - Outside
6. The Dozen Dimes - Smart Sixth Avenue
7. The Jings - Don’t Rip My Style
8. Frankie Rose And The Outs - That’s What People Told Me
9. The Suns - Hollows Bridge
10. Deftones - Sleep Walk
11. Cults - Most Wanted
12. Triptides - Coastlines
13. We Don’t Surf - Don’t Go
14. Baskin’s Wish - Somewhere Out There
15. Vivian Girls - Dance (If You Wanna)
16. FISHDOCTOR - Hawaiian Blizzard
17. Best Coast - When You Wake Up
18. Jeff The Brotherhood - The Tropics

[ download the single mixed mp3 ]

Hella Lamia

(Lay-mee-uh)

This is pretty simple. It’s a selection of songs for and pertaining to the undead. Send it to your ghoulfriend.

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1. Say Hi To Your Mom - These Fangs
2. Beck - Bad Blood
3. Eels - Fresh Blood
4. Chad VanGaalen - Graveyard
5. Hot Lava - Ghosties
6. Bombay Bicycle Club - Ghost
7. The Unicorns - Tuff Ghost
8. Quasi - Ghost Vs. Vampire
9. Outkast - Dracula’s Wedding
10. Little Boots - Ghost
11. Islands - Creeper
12. A.A. Bondy - Oh The Vampyre
13. Heartless Bastards - Searching For The Ghost
14. M83 - Graveyard Girl
15. Shaboi - All Saints Day

upscale food court swagger

Earlier this month when I was jammin Anamanaguchi’s remix of Das Racist’s Rainbow In The Dark I got this picture in my head: scraggly high school kid, discman in backpack, window-shopping from store to store, scoping out spots outside the entrances to smoke Newports without security finding him, lifting band patches from Spencer Gifts; trying to be a badass at the least cool of all the cool hangouts; THE MALL.

The rest of the tracks fit into what I thought would accompany to a day in his life. (Imagine a soundtrack to a montage of scenes.)

So queue up Winamp to export a playlist, put it on your MP3 storage device, and re-wrap those over-the-ear headphones with a fresh roll of electrical tape. It’s time to saunter.

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1. Sleigh Bells - Tell ‘Em’
2. You Love Her Coz She’s Dead - Wizards
3. Childish Gambino - Got This Money (Runner Remix)
4. Gameboy Gamegirl - I Get In The Club
5. Anamanaguchi - Rainbow In The Dark (Das Racist Remix)
6. The Morning Benders - Cold War (Nice Clean Fight)
7. Wavves - Post Acid
8. Dom - Burn Bridges
9. Slow Club - Giving Up On Love
10. Clorox Girls - Flowers of Evil
11. Spinnerette - Ghetto Love
12. The Cool Kids - One Two
13. Winter Gloves - Tooth Fairy
14. Javelin - Vibrationz
15. Best Coast - When I’m With You’

(reblog at will)

drudgeons presents: 800m of black liquid funeral

These are all compositions that have particularly caught my attention or affections over the past few weeks. They range from the danceable to the contemplative; and almost all would qualify as being somewhere in the middle of that spectrum depending how the day is faring. (Or if your name is Rusty and you’re looking for the TVC-15)

Anyway, on to listening and I hope you like it.

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1. Man Man - Doo Right
2. Heartless Bastards - Out at Sea
3. Metric - Sick Muse
4. The Moons - Nightmare Day
5. Wolf Parade - Palm Road
6. Delta Spirit - Bushwick Blues
7. Reverie Sound Revue - The A.M.
8. Sabrepulse - Phalanx
9. Cults - Go Outside
10. Minus The Bear - Animal Backwards
11. Coconut Records - I Am Young
12. Reverend and the Makers - No Wood Just Trees
13. Late of the Pier - The Bears Are Coming
14. Mystery Jets - Serotonin
15. Bon Voyage - Honeymoon
16. We Are Scientists - Jack & Ginger
17. Delorean - Grow
18. Apostle of Hustle - Xerses

boss▲battle (part of yewknee.com’s summer mix series)

I almost feel like a hypocrite making a mix of music inspired by songs using old antiquated video game sound fonts; not having a gaming system anymore. But I don’t care. It’s summer and when I hear stuff like this, I’m always taken back to late night sessions in my friends’ living rooms and basements, playing Rush n’ Attack or Contra, tired from the day outside but glad to be in air conditioning away from the ravenous Wisconsin mosquitos.

I still like this stuff, even if it doesn’t hold the same precedence in my life as it once did. I mostly just blog about it.

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1. Adventure - Civilization
2. 8-bit Operators - Bacalao (Blackbird)
3. Anamanaguchi - Jetpack Blues
4. Yea Big + Kid Static - Bots
5. Mr. Spastic - Ichi Ni San Cuatro
6. Max Justus - Bending Space and Time
7. Nullsleep - On Target
8. Dr. Zilog - Kids
9. Crystal Castles - Pap Smear
10. Mesu Kasumai - She Verbed Me With Sentences
11. Talk To Animals - Skyfire Arcade
12. Unicorn Kid - Phantom Unicorn
13. Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish (Unicorn Kid Remix)
14. Heartsrevolution - Switchblade
15. Tugboat - Everybody’s Feelin’ Good!
16. Paza - Reminder
17. BONUS STAGE