Last night Nic and I consumed what will inevitably go down as a top ten Los Angeles burger. The “Dry Age Burger” at Oaks Gourmet Market on the border of Hollywood and Los Feliz is quite good. Theirs is (obviously) dry-aged, topped with Taleggio cheese, smoked bacon and a sweet-tasting jalapeno-pineapple compote. I don’t know if it will crack the top five, but it will be close. I still have at least three more hamburgers to taste that have won “Best of LA” honors on other blogs. Then I have to begin the process of re-eating most of the finalists to arrive at my conclusion. It’s going to be a delicious but arduous process. I refuse to slack off on this list. The “Best Pizza in Los Angeles” competition had its faults. I want this list to be faultless.
Tonight’s mix tape has absolutely nothing to do with hamburgers, but given some time I might somehow find a way to connect each of these artists or song titles to a delicious burger. That’s an idea for a future mix tape!
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. This week doesn’t really have a theme, but almost every track has a cool experimental/noise/drone aspect to it. 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 175
Abandon Home All Ye Who Desire Melody
01. Woodsman – Bow And Arrow
02. Richard Skelton – Noon Hill Wood
03. Lau Nau – Ruustusuu
04. The Goslings – God Is A Bird
05. Darwinsbitch – Induction Cuts
06. Sunburned Hand Of The Man – A Red Rag To A Bull
07. Black To Comm – Musik Fur Alle
08. Zelienople – Trees And Sparks
09. Hamza El Din – Song With Tar
10. Oren Ambarchi – The Strouhal Number
11. Uton – We’re Only In It For The Spirit (Track 4)
12. Ginnungagap – Guenevere Of The Ganges
13. Eternal Tapestry – Cathedral Of Radiance
14. Henry Flynt – Violin Strobe
15. Axolotl – Of Bonds In General (Track 3)
