Big ups to Ulf and mob01d for turning me on to pretty much all of the bands represented in this mix. This one should give you a solid 56 minutes and 56 seconds of ass-shaking.

1. Ratatat - Shempi
2. MSTRKRFT - She’s Good For Business
3. Bis - Protection (Nude Mix)
4. Depeche Mode - Photographic (Rex The Dog Dubb Mix)
5. Justice Vs Simian - We Are You Friends (Milke “Heavy Friends” Remix)
6. The Presets - My People
7. Matmos - [Hidden Track]
8. Does It Offend You Yeah? - Weird Science
9. Justice - Dvno (Surkin Remix)
10. DAT Politics - This Way
11. Crystal Castles - Love And Caring
12. Lo-Fi-Fnk - The End
13. Cut Copy - Out There On The Ice
14. Midnight Juggernauts - Shadows

This one’s a mix I made for an 80s-themed birthday party. T’was my present to the birthday girl.

1. Grand Master Flash - White Lines
2. David Bowie - Fashion
3. Talking Heads - And She Was
4. Madonna - Material Girl
5. Cindy Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
6. Limahl - Neverending Story
7. Art of Noise - Kiss (feat. Tom Jones)
8. Limahl - Neverending Story (reprise)
9. The Smurfs - If You Come To Smurfing Land
10. The Kleptones - Listen
11. Club Nouveau - Lean On Me
12. The Knife - Heartbeats
13. Senor Coconut - Beat It
14. Cindy Lauper - She Bop
15. Andrew Milosevic - Sex Dwarf
16. The Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)
17. Madonna - Like A Virgin
18. Yaz - Situation (US 12″ Remix)
19. Prince - Starfish and Coffee

Recently went to Ignition. I made this mixtape for it.

While riding in the car the other day, I had this idea to make a mix tape revolving around the word “star” and, on the back of a business card, jotted down a few songs that came to mind. One song was “Cripple and the Starfish” by Antony and the Johnsons, which later lead me to think I should try to incoporate as many songs with the word “starfish” in them as I could manage. However, all I could come up with was a song called “Starfish and Coffee” by Prince (a song that was apparently written for his appearance on The Muppet Show) and one called “Starfish Print” (a song submitted to the very first Remix Fight). A suggestion from moboid to check out the Austin band Starfish yielded nothing usable (party because the mix had already morphed by the time I got hold of the mp3s).

Yes, a morphing mix. Starfish led me to the sea and Star led me to the sky. So, this mix is more or less a journey from celestial songs to underwater ones. It turns out, within music I am familiar with anyway, that there are a lot more songs about the sky than there are about the sea. I hope to remedy this situation sometime in the future. Meanwhile, enjoy the mix.

1. Air - New Star in the Sky (Chanson Pour Solal)
2. Freezepop vs. Hideki Tobeta - Plastic Katamari Stars
3. Stars - Counting Stars on the Ceiling
4. Man … or Astroman? - As Estrelas Agora Elas Estão Mortas
5. Beck - Sunday Sun
6. Radiohead - Sail to the Moon
7. Tom Waits - Fish & Bird
8. Art of Noise - Island (Remixed by Youth)
9. Nassau Ringers - The Water Is Wide
10. Belle & Sebastian - Ease Your Feet in the Sea
11. Antony and the Johnsons - Cripple and the Starfish
12. Björk - Oceania
13. Future Bible Heroes - She-Devils of the Deep
14. Debussy - La Cathedrale Engloutie

This one’s called Recent Acquisitions. Here’s the track list:

1. Dat Politics - Go Pets Go
2. DJ Elephant Power - AAA vs AAAREUU
3. The Books - Be Good To Them Always
4. Fannypack - Keep It Up
5. Daft Punk - The Prime Time of Your Life
6. Phoenix - Everything Is Everything
7. Andrew Bird - Lull
8. Stars - Reunion
9. Xiu Xiu - Clowne Towne
10. Her Space Holiday - Japanese Gum (Dntel Remix)
11. Prefuse 73 - We Got Our Own Way (feat. Kazu)
12. American Analog Set - Aaron & Marie (Her Space Holiday Remix)
13. Alarm Will Sound performs Aphex Twin - Cock / Ver 10
14. American Analog Set - The Postman (Styrofoam’s Just The Nineties Never Happened Mix)

For those of you who enjoyed the first installation, here’s the second one.

Track Listing:

1. High Density - More Than Soup
2. Brad Sucks - Borderline (Fantastic Vamps 8-Bit Mix)
3. Figurine - Heartfelt
4. Carol Cleveland Sings - So Kind Stacey
5. Soviet - Breakdown
6. Freezepop - Bike Thief (Kryptonite Remix)
7. Joy Electric - Courage (Someday I’ll Be Heard)
8. Tom 7 - Wall Jump
9. Dat Politics - Pie
10. Mouth Reliant - The Gutter
11. Forty Second Songs Sings Carol Cleveland - Less Of You
12. Casio Choir - When It Snowed

Tracks 1, 4, 10, 11, and 12 are Songfight! songs.

Inspired by an entry this week at Songfight!, I’ve created a new mix tape. I think the title is pretty self-explanatory.

Here’s the track listing:

1. Freezepop - Science Genius Girl (robotkid’s lameboy mix)
2. R. Mosquito - Sarah Vowell’s Motto
3. Fanny Pack - Hey Mami
4. Fischerspooner VS The Postal Service - Fucker VS The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
5. Kompressor - You Have To Synthesize
6. Joy Electric - Joy Electric Land
7. Komputer - Valentina
8. Tree Wave - Sleep
9. The Moog Cookbook - Born To Be Wild
10. Figurine - IMpossible
11. Stereo Total - Ushilo Sugata Ga Kilei
12. Carol Cleveland Sings - I Want To Get Better
13. Casio Choir - Ninja Gang