My idea for the mix was a fairly loose concept. I don't know if it will succeed or fall flat on its pretentious schnozz, but here goes.
You know how summers aren't always a barrel of laughs? Granted, there are halcyon memories from childhood where it seems that you did nothing except spend months on end forming gangs with the lads, eating He Man bars, and running through the blurred foregrounds of memory-polaroids of the fields beyond the town. Well, that's for another mix. This one is a little more inspired by a sadder side.
A tiny twitching fly in the nuclear green remains of a loop the loop whupped from your hand. Sunburned men in Celtic Jerseys - down at the Bundoran amusements to escape the marching season - nutting each other in front of their bawling kids. The first thistle burdock floating across your field of vision in August; innocent harbinger of another shadowy September to be spent growing up. And those long days in musty schools containing the odd 'belligerent ghoul' of a teacher from Morrisey lore.
Download-Compost Mix: Requiem for Dying Summers
Tracklisting
Grandaddy: Non-phenomenal Lineage
Kurt Vile: Freeway
The Boo Radleys: Does this Hurt?
Jim O'Rourke: Prelude to 110 120 women
Woods: Gypsy Hand
Adem: Everything You Need
Mercury Rev: Something for Joey
Patrick Kelleher*: Wonder
Robert Pollard: Subspace Biographies
Built to Spill: Else
Guided by Voices: Jar of Cardinals
The Lesuire Society: It's a Matter of Time
All the songs are crammed into a 45meg zip file and should come springing out with the correct tags and in album format.
*saw him and his gang at an odd collective-type gig under a block of flats on Clarendon St. Exciting, exciting time. More of these types of things in Dublin please!!
EDIT: here is one more of these types of things - hooray... I would encourage anyone who will be around next Saturday and who has a taste for adventurous Irish music to pay the flyer below very close attention.
Finally, a mini prize for whoever first recognises the mix picture!
5 comments:
That's the cairn at Loughcrew!
God i loved He-Man bars!
I actually posted about Built to Spills 'Else' the other day - fantastic song and album
Nice one, this is a good mix, more than the sum of its parts and the parts are pretty nice. The Leisure Society hadn't popped up on my radar until now, and I really like that Jim O'Rourke track which I hadn't heard before.
Anonymous...correct and right. But you didn't leave a url so I can't give you a prize. I'm going to blog about the cairn soon.
Ronan going to check out your built to spill post...i've been pretty bad at visiting blogs of late.
Cahony thanks...the Leisure society are ace, they used to count actor Paddy Considine and his director mate Shane Meadows among their ranks.
cough, the box social, cough.
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