~~Harri's Old As The Hills 2013 Mix!!

Reality. We must all face it. We're getting older, fatter (or disgustingly thinner), uglier (especially you, ugh! you!) and our taste in music is getting worse. We like things that old people like: light rock, mild jazz, TV theme songs, crap our kids listen to, etc. It is depressing and WRONG, and you should feel shame. But *I* obj still like cool stuff, so here's a 2013 mix of cool people music that I made for you and me to enjoy.:

1. Cheap Time - Spark In the Chain (3:52)
2. Pharmakon - Pitted (5:59)
3. Ben Khan - Eden (2:32)
4. Cate Le Bon - No God (4:36)
5. Psychic Ills - FBI (3:31)
6. Boards Of Canada - Cold Earth (3:42)
7. Broadcast - The Dormitory Window (0:58)
8. The New Lines - The Frog Whisperer (3:16)
9. Thee Oh Sees - No Spell (4:24)
10. Glenn Jones - Across the Tappan Zee (3:26)
11. My Bloody Valentine - If I Am (3:54)
12. Benoît Pioulard - Reliquary (3:02)
13. Bill Callahan - Ride My Arrow (4:58)
14. Yo La Tengo - Stupid Things (5:07)
15. Fuzz - What's In My Head (3:54)
16. Föllakzoid - 99 (9:05)

http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/7620009/file.html

I will try and work on a stream of some kind, but for now let's enjoy the novelty of the ancient non-Spotify "mp3 mix" that I made you.

~~Harri

P.S. head over to VLTF for some healthy, nude, sword-wielding, nostalgia.

Harri's First Half of 2011 Mix!

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I've been a little busy the last few months and haven't had the time to incorrectly tag mp3 files, upload them to hit-or-miss virus-ridden file-sharing sites, and then write up confusing meme-filled ramblings about everything except the music you're being told to listen to. What's a music?

But anyway, if you have NEVER downloaded a FIRST HALF OF XXXX mix, then now is the time to do so as this is a fine bunch of songs. Listen. Emotions will scald you like a blistering hot shower of raw sentiment and overwhelming feelings. What's left of you will be quivering in a puddle of tears, hemorrhaging confusion and overtaken with the regret that your life up to this moment has been meaningless. I promise, bro.

Tracklist:

1. The Luyas - Too Beautiful To Work (3:41)
2. Wax Idols - All Too Human (3:01)
3. Leno Lovecraft - Cybernetic (4:00)
4. Sic Alps - Do You Want To Give $$? (2:44)
5. Sands Hollow - Watch Yourself (2:25)
6. Warpaint - Undertow (Javelin Remix) (3:05)
7. Young Prisms - Eleni (3:45)
8. John Maus - Quantum Leap (2:48)
9. The New Lines - Please Fall In Love (3:21)
10. Belong - Never Came Close (4:13)
11. Golf Swingers - It Fight (2:15)
12. Rayon Beach - Death Rides a Horse (2:19)
13. Moon Duo - Fallout (5:30)
14. Vivian Girls - Death (2:46)
15. Peaking Lights - Summertime (5:13)
16. The Fresh & Onlys - Wash Over Us (3:39)

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzpshy6t0j1xakj

Before you get all uppity like "it's only MAY JEEEEZUUUSSS WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU STUPID" it's been almost exactly six months since I posted my best of 2010 mix so stop being mean to me. Listening party NEXT Saturday 14th at 7PM EST! Soundcloud stream this time, I swear (and maybe an LP this weekend if people are interested.)

~Harri

P.S.(A.): Since this blog has been hawking The New Lines til readers' ears have bled, I think that a little spam is in order: go here and buy their first 7" single (one song of which is on this mix).

Harri v. Grolsch: [Mostly] 2011 So Far Mix!

As you can tell from both the title and the picture, there is a little combativeness going on in this mix. Most of you are aware of the bitter, bitter relationship between Grolsch and I. He's wrong about things (like thinking "documentaries" aren't really "movies") and I hold silent grudges against him for this (that last for years). See? Bitter. But hey, he was like "why don't we make a mix together?" and I saw this for the opportunity to exploit that it is! So the first eight tracks are from me, some of my harsher more Mudd E. Production favorites of this year, and then 9-18 are pure Grolsch picks, full of things like "melody" and "understandable lyrics" that the editorial staff of this blog has historically shunned. What I'm trying to say is that Grolsch is good people. ♥ Now for the music:

~Harri
1. Seefeel - Airless (5:41)
2. Trust - Candy Walls (4:40)
3. Krang - Speed of Tent (3:41)
4. Dead Gaze - Somewhere Else (4:11)
5. Fungi Girls - Velvet Days (3:18)
6. Girlfriends - Cave Kids (2:30)
7. Wett Nurse - Imperial Reaction (2:04)
8. Sun Araw - December (6:29)

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9. James Blake - I Never Learnt To Share (4:50)
10. Braids - Plath Heart (4:26)
11. Ben + Vesper - Understruggle; Yay, Win (3:26)
12. PJ Harvey - On Battleship Hill (4:05)
13. Kurt Vile - Peeping Tomboy (4:24)
14. Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside - Not an Animal (3:01)
15. Crystal Stilts - Precarious Stair (3:11)
16. Tune-Yards - Gangsta (3:58)
17. Dry The River - New Ceremony (4:14)
18. Young Galaxy - Peripheral Visionaries (3:36)

http://www.mediafire.com/?vfpdo2abn3v7l1f

Listening party planned for this Sunday @ 5PM EST, 10PM GMT! There will be a stream up by then, I promise.

~Harri "Scareface" Pachino

Morr Mix ('99 to '05)!

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For those five years Morr could do little wrong in my eyes (after, the story isn't so much the same, meh). For an IDM music label that's mostly known for instrumental stuff, this mix is heavy on vocals because -> it's heavy on the Blue Skied and Clear compilation which is -> heavy on vocals cuz it's mostly Slowdive covers.

1. Future 3 - Alison (3:11)
2. Solvent - Discontinued Parts (Instrumental Mix) (4:02)
3. Opiate - For Brian Alfred (4:16)
4. Lali Puna - Call 1-800-FEAR (3:24)
5. Populous - Ent-The Dexo (4:42)
6. The Notwist - Scoop (3:28)
7. Styrofoam - Altogether (3:57)
8. Ms. John Soda - By Twos (5:49)
9. Isan - Fullen Brimm (3:25)
10. Manual - It'll Be Fine (4:51)
11. Múm - Please Sing My Spring Reverb (5:20)
12. Kevin & Paul - Tonka Truck Rmx (5:12)
13. B. Fleischmann - Slope (4:26)
14. Ulrich Schnauss - Wherever You Are (6:38)
15. Phonem - War By Other Means (4:37)
16. Komëit - When The Sun Hits (3:04)
17. Herrmann & Kleine - Dagger (4:43)

http://www.mediafire.com/?2zn1o2wkenn41p6

The woman up top is Stefanie Bohm who is all over this mix, just so you know. Hope you like it. Listening Party hopefully this Saturday night, November 13th @ 8PM EST!

~Harri

crossposted from Deadly Boars

Harri's Live Broadcast Mix!

Someone once said to me "you really like Broadcast" and this was true. To show this appreciation I put together a compilation of some of my favorite live material (mostly FM or Soundboard quality) of theirs and thought I'd share it. Broadcast brings a lot of spazzy synth energy to their live performances especially for the first decade (this mix covers from '96 to '05). Anyway, enjoy! [ATP = All Tomorrow's Parties.]

01. Long Was the Year (ATP, 2001) (6:22)
02. Come On Let's Go (ATP, 2001) (3:01)
03. Papercuts (Queen Elizabeth Hall, 1998) (5:33)
04. Interlude 1 (Black Session, Paris 2000) (1:45)
05. Forget Every Time (Peel Session, 1996) (4:06)
06. Accidentals (Highbury Garage, 1997) (3:35)
07. Minim (Peel Session, 2003) (2:51)
08. Tender Buttons (Music One, 2005) (4:31)
09. Unchanging Window (Black Session, Paris 2000) (6:32)
10. Lights Out (Knitting Factory, CA 2000) (4:31)
11. Interlude 2 (Knitting Factory, CA 2000) (3:19)
12. I Found the F (KEXP, 2005) (4:46)
13. City In Progress (Peel Session, 1996) (4:07)
14. Dead The Long Year - Look Outside (ATP, 2001) (7:22)
15. Hammer Without A Master (Café de la Danse, 2003) (9:41)
16. 60 40 (Peel Session, 2003) (4:21)

http://www.mediafire.com/?gju7t34s5zk4si6

No listening party time decided yet, when's a good time for you? Listening Party tonight OCT 31 @ 8PM EST!

Harri