Mixtape Madness
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Taevis
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I’ll have it up in 30 minutes! Thanks for reminding me!
Taevis
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Hey everyone! Here's my mixtape! I'm an Apple Music user, so if you want this on Spotify let me know.
I centered my playlist around a certain type of music that has become one of my favorites. It's not confined to one genre. It is music to drive at night to. Driving at night presents a very special mood for me that can't be achieved elsewhere, and it's where many songs have their greatest impact.
The playlist begins with Ttrabul by Slauson Malone, which acts as an intro. Sampling is something that can be heard quite a bit in my playlist, and this is no exception.
Some of the songs are meant to be felt more than heard. If you try concentrating too much on them, then you're doing it wrong. Let your mind wander and feel the textures rather than the meaning.
Towards the end, there are some hip hop tracks. This is when you can pay attention to the lyrics. Lyricism and mood are highlighted in this section.
Of course, you can play this anywhere at anytime, but I created it with the purpose of listening while driving at night.
I hope you enjoy. Please share your thoughts or provide any feedback. I'd love to hear it!
I centered my playlist around a certain type of music that has become one of my favorites. It's not confined to one genre. It is music to drive at night to. Driving at night presents a very special mood for me that can't be achieved elsewhere, and it's where many songs have their greatest impact.
The playlist begins with Ttrabul by Slauson Malone, which acts as an intro. Sampling is something that can be heard quite a bit in my playlist, and this is no exception.
Some of the songs are meant to be felt more than heard. If you try concentrating too much on them, then you're doing it wrong. Let your mind wander and feel the textures rather than the meaning.
Towards the end, there are some hip hop tracks. This is when you can pay attention to the lyrics. Lyricism and mood are highlighted in this section.
Of course, you can play this anywhere at anytime, but I created it with the purpose of listening while driving at night.
I hope you enjoy. Please share your thoughts or provide any feedback. I'd love to hear it!
Taevis
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Tracklist:
1. Ttrabul (feat. Methane) by Slauson Malone
2. Svefn-G-Englar by Sigur Ros
3. Just A Little Boy (For Chester Burnett) by Swans
4. How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead
5. Homeless by Burial
6. Sometimes by My Bloody Valentine
7. Untrue by Burial
8. Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand by Primitive Radio Gods
9. 30 Hours by Kanye West
10. A Day in a Week in a Year (feat. MOTHERMARY) by Billy Woods and Kenny Segal
11. Sorry by Future
12. Saint Pablo by Kanye West
Teeeee
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This is such a flashback! Wow, I hadn't thought of this song in a long time.
Taevis
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I’ll have it up tonight or tomorrow!Can we get a Spotify link?
olfashioncowboy
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Looks like a great list. Looking forward to the spotify link!
TheLoopDigga
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Driving at night and listening to music is one of my all time favorite pastimes. Can't wait to give this a listen
Taevis
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I managed to remember my Spotify password, so here's the link!
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Mixtape Madness, a playlist by Taevis on Spotify
A playlist featuring Slauson Malone, Sigur Rós, Swans, and others
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RowBearToe
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I managed to remember my Spotify password, so here's the link!
Follow me on there why'll you're at itMixtape Madness, a playlist by Taevis on Spotify
A playlist featuring Slauson Malone, Sigur Rós, Swans, and others
Perfect timing, I'll have a 4+ hour ride back home tomorrow night to check this out!
Taevis
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Lemme know how it goes!
zomgbear
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Hey N&G Fam! Welcome to another week of Mixtape Madness! Excited to share this mix with you:
The following is a lengthy description about the mix and the concept behind it. You need not read to enjoy, but may want to for discussion purposes.
So for my Mixtape Madness, I thought I’d do something a bit different than previous curators. Instead of a well-thought out amalgamation of genre-specific or mood-specific music that has a carefully selected ebb and flow, I made an attempt to be a bit more educational in my Mixtape. Therefore, it’s ordered more chronologically as we examine influences and stylistic innovators that end in a particular album. So let’s dive right in.
22, A Million by Bon Iver is not only Vernon’s best work, but an album carefully created on the backs and influences of so many predecessors. It is an album that could not exist in its current form without the impressive innovations of so many pioneers in so many different genres that come before it.
We start with a brief 4-song look into the development of the key saxophone player, Colin Stetson. The tape begins with tracks by Earl Bostic and John Coltrane, two accomplished 70’s sax players. As you listen to these two, note the altissimo— the uppermost register of the instrument—and how they reach it despite very different styles. From there we go to two tracks of Stetson himself. Note his similar ability to reach this upper register as well as his ability to incorporate multi-phonics (several notes at once).
After this quick and dirty intro to jazz, there’s a nice lull as the folk song Jubilee from 1952 plays. There is notable influences in this Appalachia type music in both style and themes in all of Bon Iver’s works.
Following this track, there begins our journey through the technological influences of 22, A Million. “Believe” by Cher is one of the first songs to use the technology known as auto-tune, as the technology was launched just 1 year before the song debuted.
We break from auto-tune overload to look into dissonance with “Idioteque” and “Melancholia I”. Note the grating electronic tones at the beginning and at approximately 3:12 of “Idioteque” as well as the way Radiohead utilizes technology and electronica influences in this song—and all of Kid A for that matter. There is similar overt dissonance at the beginning of Basinski’s “Melancholia I,” but a different type of dissonance is also present. Throughout the whole piece, we get the feeling something is…off. Many of the tones seem just a slight step out of tune, even of a minor key, best heard in some of the basal tones around 1:28. (Note: I’m almost positive there's a term for this, but I cannot remember it for the life of me). Sorry for bumming y’all out with that one, let’s have some FUN!
T-Pain is up next with “I’m Sprung” and “Buy U a Drank.” There is no way we can have a discussion about the use of Auto-Tune in the musical industry without talking about Pain. The man is an absolute legend for taking a technology and using it to truly pioneer a musical style. Instead of being another R&B/Hip-Hop guy who uses his natural voice (see his Tiny Desk if you don’t believe me or you’ve been living under a rock), T-Pain developed a signature style that made him a platinum-certified recording artist by the age of 25. His signature is all over auto-tune’s usage and sometimes I personally wonder how long it would’ve taken artists to utilize AT to its full potential without T-Pain’s commitment to it.
Finally we start to bring it all together over the back third of the playlist. “Woods” is Justin Vernon’s first recorded usage of incorporating technology like Auto-Tune into his folk style. Note how his Appalachia folk influences still manage to come through even with the tech. Then we move onto Sufjan. Age of Adz is essentially Sufjan’s version of 22, A Million, only it came out about 6 years earlier. In “I Want To Be Well” and “Age of Adz” note Sufjan’s use of auto-tune, electronica influences, and dissonant tones—undoubtedly influenced by some of the previous artists and styles.
At last, we come to the crowing work of Justin Vernon, 22, A Million. The two songs I selected both feature auto-tune and electronic influences, similar to Age of Adz. Both have themes and tones of folk that people have come to love from Bon Iver. “21 Moon Water” is more dissonant—take careful listen around 2:25—while “____45_____” starts with the auto-tune being applied to a sax, played by, you guessed it, Colin Stetson. Again note the multiphonics at the beginning and altissimo around 1:12. All in all, 22, A Million is one of the best albums of the decade for the way it is careful to incorporate so many different styles of music—jazz techniques made famous in the 70’s, technology invented in the 90’s, and even dissonance pioneered by years of electronica.
I saved this playlist a few days ago but getting into it now! I like the concept! It was a nice listen & dig that this is kinda chronological & also like the read! I never really dug into Colin Stetson but I guess i've heard his work on other's albums. I may need to dig more into his solo stuff
zomgbear
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Ah this is the first playlist that I'm familiar with like 75% of it!! And I love all of the ones i recognize! Will check it on the way to work tomorrowI managed to remember my Spotify password, so here's the link!
Follow me on there why'll you're at itMixtape Madness, a playlist by Taevis on Spotify
A playlist featuring Slauson Malone, Sigur Rós, Swans, and others
zomgbear
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So most of my day + morning commute belonged to Madgibbs (which is fire btw). So my evening commute was listening to this. Which is more fitting for a day winding down. The only songs I've never heard was Slauson Malone, Swans, and billy woods.I managed to remember my Spotify password, so here's the link!
Follow me on there why'll you're at itMixtape Madness, a playlist by Taevis on Spotify
A playlist featuring Slauson Malone, Sigur Rós, Swans, and others
All of which was pretty cool. I actually dig A day in a week a lot.
I also have to say... eerie enough, I actually just added Primitive Radio Gods on my personal shuffle playlist last wednesday after probably not hearing it for like over 20 years... EIther we're mentally linked or there's some huge coincidence. I actually did add it after hearing it in the JQBX room - so maybe someone checked out your playlist then played it in there orrr it was you that played it??
Anyways, such a throwback! That Sigur Ros song actually almost went into an earlier incarnation of my playlist. We have very similar tastes so I approve this playlist!
MadLucas
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I actually own most of these, a first for me from one of these mixtapes!
I love, love, loved the flow of one song into the next, worked really well.
Biggest revelations for me were the Billy Woods track (never heard before, want to hear more) and The Swans (I don't know that I have ever heard them this instantly listenable, I usually find them rather confrontational).
Thank you for this, this mix is going to find repeated listens here
Taevis
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Thank you! Flow between songs was one of the things I focused on when I was making this.I actually own most of these, a first for me from one of these mixtapes!
I love, love, loved the flow of one song into the next, worked really well.
Biggest revelations for me were the Billy Woods track (never heard before, want to hear more) and The Swans (I don't know that I have ever heard them this instantly listenable, I usually find them rather confrontational).
Thank you for this, this mix is going to find repeated listens here