Part one of a series of music mixes! Learn more here!
No proper cover for this exists but the tracklist remains, although it is just a handful of artists.
Highlights? It kicks right out of the gate with DeVotchKa’s ‘The Enemy Guns’, of whom we were introduced to by a friend when they were touring with DITA VON TEESE and yes, she did the martini strip to close the act. (See above. That is an actual thing.)
An aside! Revisiting these mixes has reminded me that I have lived quite the life. Not as much as some, but probably more than others. Do as much as you can with the time you have and throw fingers at fear, y’all!
GOGOL BORDELLO is …complicated. We saw them at the now-kinda-musty Chicago venue The Vic that? Ironically? Smelled a lot better when they allowed smoking. Amazing show. At the end of the night my hands were swollen by my own applause.
MARTIAL? Yeah, my Vermont is showing. Since the hometown I grew up in was so close to Montreal, we were taught French at an early age — literally part of the curriculum — so I have a predilection for this sort of thing and between this and the string work? It lights me the fuck up.
Bookending matters, yes, DeVotchKa’s ‘How it Ends’, and it did find its way into our wedding playlist, this playlist that vastly predates our wedding. So, while there’s a lot of repetition here, this mix? All of it is quite foundational.
As with all of these posts, I’ll attempt to include a Spotify playlist but some of the tracks are simply not available via ’em, so I’ll try to find other ways to include them one way or another sooner or later but? If one isn’t available? Please excuse their absence and try to hunt ’em down yourself!
(Artist / Album / Song):
- DeVotchKa / How it Ends / The Enemy Guns
- DJ EARWORM / null / Just Let Go in L.A.
- DeVotchKa / How it Ends / Charlotte Mittnacht (The Fabulous Destiny Of…)
- DeVotchKa / How it Ends / How it Ends
- m83 / before the dawn heals us / a guitar and a heart
- TOM WAITS / Real Gone / Hoist that Rag
- GOGOL BORDELLO ~ J.U.F / GOGOL BORDELLO ~ J.U.F / Last Wish of the Bride
- JUNO REACTOR / Labyrinthj / Conquistador II
- LO-BAT vs BENETBENE / null / document1
- MARTIAL / Premier pas / Pour une vie bien différente