Whenever I have to play music on my speakers for the office I’ll play one good thing and then everyone starts shouting at me. Then my mind goes blank and I’m like “… “Gorilla vs. Shark” mix?? Large-hearted boy??? Uhhhh….” So this page will be a collection of places on the internet where in a matter of a few clicks I/you can quickly find minimal-dj-talk high-rock low-skronk high-pop/low-avant all-fun mp3 mixes. If you have suggestions PLEASE MAKE THEM in the comments below. Thanks!!
- Off Chances (gay)
- Slumberland podcasts (occasionally talky, check out PEGCASTs, she is best)
- Archived WFMU shows (ffwd through dj banter, beware whale-song skronk interludes!! Hatch, Evan Davies, Cherry Blossom, Joe Belock are all safe bets)
- Mad Decent Radio (my office sometimes hates “synthesizers” and “techno”)
- Four for You, Glen Coco (by and for a friend network I’m not a member of. Occasional broken links, awesome times)
- Funky 16 Corners (counter-intuitive, possibly false observation: soul/funk in large doses deadens the senses)
- Dublab (often brilliant; sometimes outer space is boring, though)
- Soul-sides has a little player widget thing along the bottom that when you press it sweet hot butter comes out straight to your ears + dome. also their podcasts. “and plus his dancers!”
- famous robots: blip.fm, last.fm, pandora
- Mr. Hatch’s dance mix!!
- Anything that Liz Berg dug on the Free Music Archive!
- Eric Ruin’s Mix a Day!
- The Fader magazine does mp3 mixes for ever issue… I can’t find a main hub for these but here’s the latest
- Marathon Packs is always making/linking to mixes.
- Pyjamarama on Viva Radio is consistently up my alley
- You have to pay to use Rhapsody, right? ok. Has anyone ever DJ’d a party just by playing songs off youtube? I could have fun doing that for a few hours at least. If they start a college radio station in my office, that’s going to be my first show. Clever name TK
- Up-to-the-minute fun-hearted mixtapes at flux-rad!
- Musicophilia boasts 20,000 mixes??!?!
- Sporadic playlists from the impeccable Numero Group
- Stones Throw podcast!
- Molly Lambert/”Kenny Powers”/70s rock ‘splosion
- Office Naps mixes
- This Black Flag EP over and over:
- DJ Shadow Radio
- baro palma’s 3-hour LELAND-heavy/-themed mix is pretty perfect!
- None More Twee — rockin indie-pop made from real sugar [nah--too sweet]
- Grateful Dead live at Academy of Music, 3/21/72 (hat-tip al Steev). OK, and this one, later that summer!
- WHOA INTERNET ARCHIVE IS SUDDENLY A SHOWER OF GOLD!! Minutemen live on KFPK 3/9/83
- haven’t tried this yet but will
- ditto this via stvn & @djrupture
- rainy day jams courtesy the fader
- thank you coworkers for re-upping my computer speakers!! I’m back, baby!! summer.
- Scatterbrain Mixes.
- thisisafrica.me?
- tony tost’s america
- Radio David Byrne
- An important new development, seemingly tailor-made for this page: Nick’s Stubblegeese Mixtapes!
- http://chanteurs.org/
- I’m exhausted, it seems like ‘Mixtured’ makes you download or play each track individually which is annnoying, i just want to play the fucking mix straight through, you feel me
- oh, no – - Oystered!
- Don’t be an idiot, awesome tapes from africa are awesome
- wfmu’s ichiban rock n’ soul stream!!!!!!! new!!!
- NisN
- buncha classics here, less talk more rock: http://doubleplusgood22.blogspot.com/
- I no longer work in that office. there’s probably things to be found on mixcloud
- soulsides mixtapes
- streaming US death_folk somewhere in scandanavia? um
- “modcast“
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CBC Radio 3!
My friend Kelan made a series of mixes themed on different medical drugs (he’s a pharmocologist) called Apothecary Anthems. He tried to make each one progress the way a brain changes from the moment a person takes the drug, until the drug leaves the body. I can get you the playlists, if you want, or just download them and listen for yrself:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=429c8dab94cf08ab553f25e4baef9c64cd8b299922d6f921
Xo,
D.
Hello I am the producer of the peace tapes. Heres a “scoop” The Peace Tapes will be “streaming” free of charge soon.A.S.A.P. I just have to do some things first,Like get this little girl out of my life first(my Wife) She should get a shovel shes a goldiger. FREE FREE FREE!!!!!! YES THATS IT !YES ,YES,YES!
“20,000 mixes” meant 20,000 downloads (now 22,000) from Musicophilia. There are at present I think around 54 mixes–some of which contain “avant” and few of which contain much straight-ahead “rock,” but most of which I’d say are good fun.
PEACE TAPES PRODUCER SAYS,ONE THING THAT KEEPS ME ALIVE IS RE-RELEASEING “THE PEACE TAPES” AND HIS BOOK “ORDERS OF PROTECTION………….ALL ELSE IS BULLSHIT………………….
A very Happy Thanks giving to all.As we know this is a time of year when Family comes to the forfront of peoples minds.I miss my Family.Court oders(and violations of!) Have forced me to not see my wife or Son ,whos in for the Holiday.And i do not have my daughters phone number or am i a member of “Race Book”.So my friend Dave and his family have invited me to there place.We will eat,talk and watch THE PEACE TAPES.But the real bummer is my brother Mike lost his battle with brain cancer a few months ago casting a “darker Shadow”on this whole Holiday season.People,hug your kids,kids be cool with your parents,They are realy what we all need this time of year.Happy Holidays and theres a good chance i wont be arrested this day.PEACE!!!! Danny L. Donian
Weird blog, I like it. Thanks for listing #43 NisN.
MAY I BE SO BOLD AS TO SUGGEST THE HIT IT OR QUIT IT PODCAST!?
All sing along,THEPEACETAPES are returning very soon as i have nothing to do but put the “tapes” out ,one more time.And shove a major stick up the ass of WAR!
“Hell comes to court”: A. R. D. C. Washington D.C. You can run,but you cant hide,i will terminate your sorry lawyer ass.”I’be back”!
Is-int a pity, is-int a shame: Well the Government stayed open,thats good,the powers that be scaring some of the more gullible persons in the world is a outright shame! Now we all know that Japan,the middle east (everywhere)is a “firecracker” and of course the “ivory coast” .What will be the next BIG STORY?We live in a world/country that we all relax,or most of us relax on Sunday,watching and waiting for a friend to play with,wait thats a Moody Blues song!My weekend was so very strange,no need to tell about it,was like taking LSD with Oswald and going to Dallas.So forget about it.Whats the next BIG story?I have swolled enough Valium as i can FEEL one BIG story on the way.Now it maybe just breaking now in some remote hellhole in this globe we are on,or it could be right outside my door(make a note to call security!)As they(security has a call into me)I CAN wait.What ever it is from the tornadoes up just North of here to the IRS looming over me one things for sure,i am worried so fucking sick about my wife,that i am petrified.Thats what 27 years do to you.She does not even remotely like me anymore,and all i can think about is her comfort and safety.Girls loud Pink Floyd music blaring,pictures of where i used to share a home with my Aunt and wife,and Son,thats all i can vaguely recall from the last few days and a jam session or two.So lets all calm down and face the brave new week with extreme caution. Mercury retro grade and all.Dan
WISH YOU WERE HERE:”So you think you can tell heaven from hell,blue sky’s from pain”" “HOW,HOW I WISH YOU WERE HERE” “Were just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowel year after year,running over the same Ole ground of how we found, the same Ole fears,Wish you were here”BYE…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..stupid fucking world.
“ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL”: Make a note of this,i don’t like being threatened.I am erasing most all of my files of the past 786 days(and nights).”ALL YOU ARE IS ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL”ME.
PINK FLOYD: “So let me in from the cold,turn my land into gold.” “Cause theres a chill wind blowing in my soul,and i think i growing old” “Flash the red is Wot’s the deal?,got to make into the next meal,try and keep up with the turning of the wheel” “Now i am the man on the inside looking out” “Here me shout come on in,wot”s the news where you been,cause theres NO wind in my soul and iv’e grown old………………………WOT’S…..UH THE DEAL? From: Obscured by clouds,Pink Floyd.Harvest records, copyright1972
ON THE TURNING AWAY: Light IS turning to shadow,but at least for me things are just plain strange!As i took a walk through town,past the post office where i had several posts going out,i decided to go past the lake and sit.I pondered my decision to finally give in to my situation.As i leaned back on the old wood bench,doing a moral inventory of my life now a very different felling to hold.I have all aways disliked rich, pampas people,and still do.I looked around and saw family’s,a little jealous silent rage took a hold of my mind,time for meds and a change of music.But not a BIG change.From a sad Pink Floyd to Dark side of the moon live!Good call there!So as i smoked a few cigarettes i started hearing voices.Voices in MY HEAD! No must be the Floyd,sure thats what it is!I slowly got up and headed back,it was then that i looked behind me and saw two old hippy’s who own a Tye dye business.A LARGE ONE.Take that shit off your head Danny! my headphones had created a barrier to the world of which i was so thankful for.Now these dudes wanted to give me some cool samples of their new designs.Cool,a few other people yelled at me,”what the hell, we’ve been chasing you for two to three blocks!’It was at that exact moment that i realized that i always wanting to go home,that i WAS home.Dan
SITTING IN:Tonight i am sitting in.Why would a guy like me stay in on a Friday night.Well first off its raining and it is COLD! Second there is quite nothing to do,nowhere i have to be and its been a hell of a week.Third, i have no money, having reached a deal with the IRS!A payment plan,much like many of you poor bastards out “there”.The thinking,or mindset that one haves to go out,to be around people is most easily explained.Most people do not like being alone on a weekend.That is VERY true for allot of people.But just knowing you CAN be alone is a great virtue.For example,there is a bar near where i am today,not just a bar,a “tourist bar,could be in the south of France,could be in Ireland,could be in L.A. or New York or a million places that cater to the “lonely” crowd from out of town(s). These places are chalk full of “friends” one night(or two at the most) Lady’s of the night.And somewhere over the rainbow when i was younger i might have gone to a place quite like this one to sit back and relax.Once you have had a life as full as mine,both bad and great these kinds of places well they are to easy to be true.Me i would rather be “in” and play guitar,watch T.V. and eat foods that i have ready for such an occasion.I miss a certain person,and to “go out” to a person like me is a BAD thing on such a night as this.So have fun,take care,party hearty.I will be watching.Peace!!!! Me.
CODE RED RAIN MED:The rain in Spain falls, hell man its a record wind/rain thin gee happening now,45 mph sideways wind and rain.Never seen this strange weather. Phenomenal .Major sirens and medication for ALL!!!! 1024
ECHOES: OVER THE WALL,I WOKE UP BEHIND THE WALL,I AM NOT EVER GOING TO SEE LIFE ANYMORE,”THE WALL WAS TO HIGH”.DAN
A “search and rescue team” is headed to retreave The Peace Tapes tomorow.Then TH Peace Tapes will be extreamely close to “streaming” and the world will once again have a chance to get involoved with helping our planent survive and end war forever.The “tapes” were lost once for ten years but they have ben foind a quite a strange crew is going to “retreave them” Dan