You’re probably going to laugh at me, but I ate pho for the first time today. It was delicious. Super-spicy and weird and great. When you carry out from this local Vietnamese place they put raw beef in a little plastic baggie, and it is your job to very quickly transfer the beef into the piping hot soup so that it can cook all the way through. Somehow it works. It goes great with fresh spring rolls filled with pork, shrimp and herbs, too.
Sunday is here again. It is time for another mix tape. I’m pretty sure you will not recognize a lot of these names, because I made a conscious effort to dig up some new and exciting sounds for this compilation. Leonard Cohen, Machinefabriek, Eric Dolphy and Nick Cave are mix tape stalwarts. I cannot simply forget about my favorites and leave them in the dust. That said, thank you Mark for the Thin White Rope recommendation, thank you Nick for the You Fantastic recommendation, and thank you Sam Shalabi for recording such an awesome new album under your new Land Of Kush moniker. That one is magnificent. As good as On Hashish and as weird as Osama. Nothing can touch The Trial Of St. Orange, though…Nothing.
RULES for uninitiated noobs: With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I’ll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. I’ve already explained this week’s mix. The goal of this endeavor, as always, is to pique your interest in these artists so you’ll support the artists and buy their albums.
Sunday Mix Tape – Number 136
The End Revolt
01. Land Of Kush – Rue du Depart – (buy this album)
02. Toto Blanke – Lady’s Bicycle Seat Smeller – (buy this album in MP3)
03. Calexico – Slowness – (buy this album)
04. Guitar Wolf – フジヤマアタック – (buy this album)
05. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – We Call Upon The Author – (buy this album)
06. Machinefabriek – Engineer – (Dekorder, 2008)
07. Gandalf – Golden Earrings – (buy this album)
08. Abner Jay – Cocaine Blues – (buy this album)
09. Yatsura – Black Hole Love – (buy this album)
10. The Cramps – Human Fly – (buy this album)
11. Pierre Henry – Virevoltage – (Philips, 1973)
12. Eric Dolphy – South Street Exit – (buy this album)
13. Nebula – To The Center – (buy this album)
14. Zu – Orc – (buy this album)
15. Time – Lily Has A Rose – (buy this album)
16. Franco Battiato – La Convenzione – (d’Autore, 2002)
17. Leonard Cohen – Suzanne – (buy this album)
18. George Harrison – Beware Of Darkness – (buy this album)
19. You Fantastic – Pals – (buy this album)
20. Thin White Rope – Take It Home – (buy this album)
