Part three of an array of CD mixes I made for my wife over a long number of years! Read more about it here!
Gotta admit, this is one of my favorites mix CD cover designs, both back and forth. I love me my structural neon pink + minimalism, to the point where it has made some folks very angry at me.
(When I redesigned one of my sites to feature a similar hot pink — this was over a decade ago — and wow, readers were pissed to the point where I gave in and added an aqua blue theme toggle. Fuck ’em! No regrets! Love the pink!)
I do wish I had thought of the phrase ‘The Joy of Repetition’ as I’ve harped on the virtues of repetition in prior posts while discussing videogames many moons ago, but no: I 100% stole it from the featured HOT CHIP track ‘Over and Over’.
Not to back-pat myself too much, but I love this mix. I could listen to this for days, even weeks on end. JAMES FIGURINE’s 55566688833 is the stand-out here; an absolutely emotionally brutal slice of electronics that is very, very much of its texting-time in ways that is incredibly exacting.
When we disagree? We fight in capital letters.
I have to type a lot of numbers into my cellphone, just to make it spell LOVE so I usually don’t.
Track list (Artist / Album / Song):
- JM / [plpl000] Various – Hello World / The Circle Machine
- ZIGGY KINDER / Akrobatik / Paarartistik
- ELLEN ALLIEN & APPARAT / Orchestra of Bubbles / Do Not Break
- WAX TAILOR / Tales of the Forgotten Melodies / Que Sera
- HOT CHIP / Over and Over EP / Over and Over
- I AM THE WORLD TRADE CENTER / The Cover Up / Future Sightings
- RODRIGO Y GABRIELA / Rodrigo Y Gabriela / Tamacun
- DATA / Trop Laster EP / Master Level
- JAMES FIGURINE / Mistake, Mistake, Mistake, Mistake / 55566688833
- INKLEIN QUARTET / Brave New World / Lonely Whale Song
- (Somehow the Sigur Ros track went missing.)
- GODSPEED! YOU BLACK EMPEROR / Yanqui U.X.O. / Motherfucker=Redeemer (Part Two)
- AKIRA YAMAOKA / SILENT HILL 4 OST / Room of Angel
- ALIAS & TARSIER / Brookland/Oaklyn / Dr. C