Hey Friends! It is that time again, time for another mixtape. This seems to be the only thing I can actually manage to do right now on a regular schedule. Over the weekend we once again failed to record AggroChat in part because I just couldn’t handle human interaction. Work is still in a really bad state and I am not handling the chaos terribly well. The grind has been over a month long at this point and I don’t really see an end to it. During this time however, listening to music has acted as a bit of a solace to everything going on. If this is your first MixTape Monday, the idea is that I used to share mixtapes with my friends and since that is no longer terribly practical… I am doing the next best thing by creating some custom curated playlists available through Spotify or YouTube.
Hack The Gibson
I was not terribly certain what I would actually choose this morning, so I rolled a die and it chose for me. I love the movie Hackers. It is this campy vision of computer hackers that came out at exactly the right time for it to gain traction in my brain. I was a wannabe warez and script kiddie at the time… managed to gain some traction but we won’t talk about that right now. Even then I knew everything that was on the movie screen was pure nonsense… but delightful nonsense. The thing that made the movie really stand out however was the soundtrack. While there is very little overlap between my MixTape and the actual soundtrack… it is more crafted to give the same overall feeling of the movie. How do you represent something like this? With Matthew Lillard as the face of Emanuel Goldstein of course!
The challenge however is while I set out with this goal… the MixTape itself developed a life of its own.
- From Your Mouth – God Lives Underwater
- 6 Underground – Sneaker Pimps
- Fools Gold – The Stone Roses
- Block Rockin’ Beats – The Chemical Brothers
- Purple Haze – The Cure
- Your Woman – White Town
- Ava Adore – The Smashing Pumpkins
- Numb – Linkin Park
- Voodoo People – The Prodigy
- Human Behavior – Bjork
- Sour Times – Portishead
- Teardrop – Massive Attack
- White Flag – Dido
Listen On Spotify
Listen On YouTube
Listen On Tidal
This MixTape is quite a bit different from what I have generally shared, which I guess makes two weeks now in a row where I have popped out of my general traditional comfort zone. Since I now have several of these created, it is starting to get to the point where I really need to collect them all in one place. Over the weekend I did precisely that and now each time I post a new one of these I am going to close things out with a link to the archives. That way if you started this process late and you are so inclined, you can catch up and listen to the entire series.
My favorite of your mixes so far, by a mile. This is one side of my ’90s right here. Well, it’s more Mrs Bhagpuss’s ’90s but I had to share it! I love the Six Underground, Teardrop, Sour Times, White Town. I remember the first time I heard Block Rocking beats on the radio. A lot of the videos were new to me because back then I neither watched this stuff on TV or the internet – I heard it on the radio and went out and bought the records.
Thanks for still doing these mixtapes, what with all the stuff you’ve got going on. It’s much appreciated. Hope it allcalms down for you soon.
I appreciate your comments when I post one of these. I don’t always respond but I always read them. Largely the responses are delayed by the fact that I can’t really access my site during the day right now other than through my phone… and typing a long comment on a phone is miserable. I have one more mixtape in the bank, but I have a few more kicking around in my head. I do wonder however if I will reach a point where they don’t flow quite so easily heh.