Mux154: September 2014

I rather like this one.

Boom.

1. Wye Oak - Two Small Deaths (Civilian)
2. Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better (Run Run Run)
3. Katy B - 5 AM (Little Red)
4. Daft Punk - Around The World (Homework)
5. The Flaming Lips - Buggin' (The Soft Bulletin)
6. Boris - Taiyo No Baka (Noise)
7. Vampire Weekend - Diane Young (Modern Vampires of the City)
8. Fleet Foxes - He Doesn't Know Why (Fleet Foxes)
9. Phantogram - Bill Murray (Voices)
10. Dirty Projectors - Impregnable Question (Swing Lo Magellan)
11. A.C. Newman - 35 In The Shade (The Slow Wonder)
12. Todd Terje - Inspector Norse (It's Album Time)

TRT 47:11

2014 music: Boris, Katy B, Phantogram, Todd Terje

Mux126: Porkchop Sandwiches

You can never go wrong with closing on a Justin Timberlake cover.

Boom.

1. Zwan - Lyric (Mary Star of the Sea)
2. Marnie Stern - Noonan (The Chronicles of Marnia)
3. The Hold Steady - Massive Nights (Boys And Girls In America)
4. Foals - My Number (Holy Fire)
5. Cloud Nothings - Forget You All The Time (Cloud Nothings)
6. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old GIrl (You Forgot It In People)
7. Midlake - In This Camp (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
8. Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers (Modern Vampires of the City)
9. Chromatics - Cherry (After Dark 2)
10. Baths - Earth Death (Obsidian)
11. !!! - Infinifold (Myth Takes)
12. Klaxons - My Love (Justin Timberlake cover) (Live)

TRT 47:11

Rookies: Zwan

New(ish) music from 2013 albums: Baths, Chromatics, Foals, Marnie Stern, Vampire Weekend

The Year in Music: January 2010

Pointless, but everybody loves lists. Pitchfork's Best New Music My favorites of this fledgling year, thus far:


1. Four Tet - There Is Love In You


2. Spoon - Transference


3. Beach House - Teen Dream


4. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast


5. Vampire Weekend Contra

Mux044: January 2010

Two new tracks and a lot of old favorites.

Download or stream off drop.io.

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (EP version)
3. The Joggers - Wicked Light Sleeper
4. Jay Reatard - I Know A Place
5. Radiohead - Bones
6. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
7. Spoon - Out Go The Lights
8. The Kills - Black Balloon
9. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
10. Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
11. Cut Copy - Bright Neon Payphone
12. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country

Mux006: September 2008, the reissue

One. More. To. Go.

But despite my more-than-usual muxing compared to, say, when Muxtape first came around and I did just one per month, I should point out that September 2008 takes the record with four muxes.

And here is the second of said four.

1. Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow and Blue
2. Oxford Collapse - Featherbeds
3. Vampire Weekend - Bryn
4. Pavement - Gold Soundz
5. Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks
6. Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem Cover)
7. Broken Social Scene - New Country (Live at KRVX)
8. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
9. Joy Division - Shadowplay
10. A Place To Bury Strangers - Ocean
11. Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers
12. Jonathan Mak / Everyday Shooter - So Many Ways

Early Shooting / Another September Mux

My three time chunks of shooting Transmissions are fast approaching, and my daily pre-pro has kicked into medium-high gear. I'm pretty far down the film's own rabbit hole, and it's strange to think the genesis of the project only began after I finished something else in early July; only two and three-quarter months of this thus far, while all my other projects and stories have been measured by years.

A few things snuck up on me: a major shooting-schedule change; and then another; and another. Another came the other day, and my four days in early October has turned into three. This vagueness warrants a simple explanation: I'm shooting at my parents' house, and for sound and continuity and whatnot, I need to have the house under my exclusive control, e.g. they need to be somewhere else. In early October they're going to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to visit my grandmother, but the four-day trip was downgraded to three and, well, I don't blame them. Yes, the Upper Peninsula is quite picturesque, but said picturesqueness can only sustain interest for a maximum of about thirty-six hours.

So tomorrow, said parents are shooting a wedding all day, and it looks like I have to turn my planned day of Test Shoots #3 into a partial day of Real Shooting. Nothing major, only some inserts and close-ups of inanimate objects. But having to adapt my finely-tuned scheduled this close to the shoot really rattled me, and I had to rethink my whole strategy. I'm not exactly gunslinging this; it's still as planned and well-coordinated as any one-man film can be.

But still, tomorrow I start shooting and will probably shoot whenever I have a spare hours on hand instead of my original plan of going hardcore for a few select days. So if there was any time to justify my upcoming/relative reclusiveness, now would be that time. But I feel good about the project, and unlike the abandoned Old War and a bunch of other stuff that never got off the ground (a few shorts, a few ideas, a few scripts), I have the confidence to see this one through.

So: Shooting randomly now; shooting not-so-randomly through most of October and early November; then finishing it sometime before February. Considering I'm doing the brunt of the post-production sound work now, the picture editing shouldn't take very long.

And oh yeah here's another muxtape. The tracks before you take the potential dive:

1. Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow, and Blue
   
2. Oxford Collapse - Featherbeds
   
3. Vampire Weekend - Bryn
   
4. Pavement - Gold Soundz
   
5. Okkervil River - Because It's Kicks (special JDK edit)
   
6. Franz Ferdinand - All My Friends (LCD Soundsystem cover)
   
7. Broken Social Scene - New Country (Live at KRVX)
   
8. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles)
   
9. Joy Division - Shadowplay
   
10. A Place To Bury Strangers - Ocean (JDK edit)
    
11. Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers (JDK edit)
    
12. Everyday Shooter - So Many Ways