Good Morning Friends! Welcome to the start of a brand new week and with it comes another episode in the Mixtape Mondays series. For those who might be finding my blog for the very first time, each Monday morning I post a brand new Mixtape full of songs available through both Spotify and YouTube. The concept is that as a youngster I used to love making Mixtapes for my friends and I’ve not really had an equivalent to that for years. Now that I have gotten heavily into Spotify, I am once again constructing mixes and sharing them around. This morning represents the twelveth Mixtape in this series.
Explorations in Syncopation
I am going to be brutally honest with you. This Mixtape came about because I was trying to craft something that included Information Society, The Shamen, and Jesus Jones. After that, the entire structure took on a life of its own as I seemingly filled in other songs with syncopated rhythms that I was either listening to at the same time or remind me of that same sort of era. I am not entirely certain if it works as well as I think it does, but I am sharing this creation with you so that you can be the judge of it. I am not sure if I landed on a proper theme, or if I just shared a bunch of songs that I enjoy. Whatever the case, we once again have a Monday and a Mixtape, and this particular one came out of a binge where I crafted something like seven Mixtapes in a single weekend.
- Peace and Love, Inc. – Information Society
- Divine Thing – The Soup Dragons
- Love Spreads – The Stone Roses
- Rush – Big Audio Dynamite
- Hippychick – Soho
- Right Here Right Now – Jesus Jones
- Your Only Joke – Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
- Breathe – The Prodigy
- Connection – Elastica
- Girls & Boys – Blur
- Unbelieveable – EMF
- Ready to Go – Republica
- Ebeneezer Goode – The Shamen
- Groovy Train – The Farm
- A Little Respect – Erasure
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That brings to a close Mixtape number Twelve in this series. As always please let me know your thoughts below and if you are tuning in late to the series, you can find the entire sequence over on the archive page. I hope you have a successful and fulfilling week, and if it is your jam please check out the informational post about Blaugust 2021 that will be starting soon.
I didn’t comment on last weeks because a) it seems a bit over the top to comment on every single mixtape and b) there were quite a lot of bands on it that I thought I didn’t like. Then I listened to it and found that I did at least like some of those particular tracks by some of those bands (first kings of Leon track I ever heard that I liked, for a start), which is exactly the point of mixtapes, after all. Still never going to listen to Cage the Elephant willingly, though.
This week’s mix is another of those I don’t even need to listen to (although of course I am – I have it on as I write). I can hear almost all of them in my head. Information Society are completely new to me, though. Interesting you chose to describe the style as syncopated. Which, of course it is. You’ve drawn in key acts from at least four separate, named movements, which is very interesting. You’ve got some Madchester/Second Summer of Love stuff in there, some Britpop, some Grebo, some early Rave… BAD stand out as really far ahead of their time, as I’ve mentioned on my blog before.
I really hope you’re not running out of dteam with these mixtapes ‘cos they’re getting better and better.
So funny enough I have three more mixes more or less finished in the bag just waiting for more Mondays to share them. Then I have a couple that are partially built, I have a general concept and just need to work on them a bit longer.
Good stuff. I had forgotten about the Stone Roses.