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STR Mixtape – The Bright New Year

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STR Mixtape – Point Of Departure

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STR Mixtape – My Life Will Soon Come Back

1. The Small Faces – Hey Girl
2. Gandalf – You Upset The Grace Of Living (2:09)
3. Homegas – Bulldozer Blues (04:38)
4. Fifty Foot Hose – The Things That Concern You (08:45)
5. Wizz Jones – Pictures (12:10)
6. Ultimate Spinach – Pamela (16:28)
7. Six Organs Of Admittance – Lisbon (19:24)
8. Wilco – Pieholden Suire (22:12(
9. Churchills – Take A look Around You (25:17)
10. XTC – Grass (28:00)
11. Sun Kil Moon – Salvador Sanchez (30:44)
12. Procol Harum – Pilgrim’s Progress (37:04)
13. Spiritualized – Cheapster (41:29)
14. Pink Floyd – Any Color You Like (43:54)
15. Tapes’n'Tapes – Crazy Eights (47:20)
16. The Who – Won’t Get Fooled Again (50:31)

01. Eli Rozen – Can’t Write Poetry
02. The Lollipop Shop – You Must Be A Witch (02:32)
03. Leo Kottke – Louise (05:11)
04. Charlie Parr – I Dreamed I Saw Jesse James Last Night(09:06)
05. Marissa Nadler – Daisy Where Did You Go (12:24)
06. Buffalo Moon – Low Tide Moon (16:26)
07. The 4th Coming – Cruising Down Sunset(20:38)
08. Moodring – The Weasel(23:40)
09. Rosko & The John Berberian Ensemble – A Glance At The Future (27:47)
10. Nazareth Orchestra – Alf Leila We Leila (32:00)
11. George Russel – ‘Round Midnight (37:37)
12. Bert Jansch – Strolling Down The Highway (From Leather Launderette) (43:35)
13. Wooden Wand – Distance Is Free (46:37)
14. Jack Rose – Moon In The Gutter (48:08)
15. John Fahey – C Evening, Not Night, PT.1 (51:05)
16. Brian Auger & the Trinity – The Road To Cairo (55:38)
17. David Ackles – We Better Go Quick, We’re Getting Older (1:00:47)

01. Kelly Joe Phelps – Lead Me On
02. Ralph Burns – Opening
03. Henry Mancini – The Party OST
04. Mark Knopfler – Boom, Like That
05. TV-Resistori – 1yy2aa3oo elektroo
06. The Beatles – Glass Onion
07. Homegas – Wreath
08. Leo kottke – Great Big Boy
09. Fairport Convention – Dawn
10. The Royal Family and the Poor – Song For Freedom
11. Guano Padano – Jack Frost
12. Howlin Wolf – Evil (Is Goin’ On)
13. Wanda Robinson – Instant Replay
14. Rainman – Don’t Make Promises
15. Rollerball – Audodelic
16. Keyboard Choir – Tokyo All Night
17. Pierre Bensusan – Altiplanos
18. The Byrds – Here Without You
19. Henry Mancini – The Naked Sea

Hi everyone,

This week’s mixtape was pulled from my archives and dated 2007.
The songs are enternal enough to not let it bother you

STR Mixtape : Keep Your Mind Open

1. Davy Graham – Maajun
2. Donovan – Wear Your Love Like Heaven (02:38)
3. Jean Claude Vannier -le roi des mouches et la confiture de rouse (05:02)
4. Master Of Deceit – The Grand Illusion (09:32)
5. Dominique A – Motus (13:00)
6. James Yorkston – Cheating The Game (16:00)
7. Richard Thompson – Glencoe (19:41)
10. Richard Youngs – Solar In My Soul (21:28)
11. Dino Valente – Time (31:10)
12. Diane Cluck – Your Million Sweetnesses (34:16)
13. High Lamas – The Old Spring Town (37:00)
14. Tom Waits – Innocent When You Dream (40:26)
15. Spiritualized – Home Of The Braves (44:34)
16. Kaleidoscope – Keep Your Mind Open (46:15)
17. Musica Dispersa – Rabel (48:22)
18. Yair Dalal – Through The Mist Of Your Eyes (50:24)
19. Various Artists – Poor Little Alfie (57:05)

A time of many changes is here. Changes is good for ya, it’s not always easy, but in the end of it – good things are waiting. I take comfort knowing this, otherwise I’d go crazy with the current times.

STR Mixtape – Love Me, Tender

1. REM – Star Me Kitten
2. My Second Surprise – If This Ain’t Love (03:08)
3. Uzi and the Styles – Daytime, Nightime (07:43)
4. Rockfour – One Side Of An Egg (11:04)
5. EMA – Mouth Like The Sun (15:10)
6. Beck – We Live Again (18:37)
7. James Yorkston – Woozy with Cider (21:30)
8. Mike Patton (as Mundo Cane) – Scalinatella (25:17)
9. Rat City Brass – The Third Man Theme (live) (28:20)
10. Velvet Underground – Who Loves The Sun (30:39)
11. Lions Of Judah – I’ve Got Sunshine (33:14)
12. Robyn Hitchcock – Ordinary Millionaire (35:53)
13. Swans – How They Suffer (39:34)
14. Robert Wyatt – At Last I’m Free (45:25)
15. Itamar Ziegler – The Drunk (49:38)
16. June Tabor – The Great Valerio (53:17)
17. Greg Malcolm – Bone (58:07)

STR Mixtape : Malfunction

1. Gordon Bok – The Beaches Of Lukannon
2. Peggy Young – Body Breaks (03:23)
3. Calexico – Si Tu Disais (06:26)
4. Scott Walker – Psoriatic (09:32)
5. Donovan Quinn – Your Wicked Man (14:18)
6. Jean Claude Vannier – Mort Du Roi Des Mouches (18:22)
7. John Fahey – Night Train Of Valhalla (21:52)
8. Tony Da Gatorra vs Gruff Rhys – In A House With No Mirrors (You’ll Never Get Old) (23:55)
9. Jim O’Rourke – Trains and Boats and Planes (28:46)
10. Albert Beger – Point Of No Return (32:44)
11. Nels Cline – Yokada Yokada-The Rumproller (36:10)
12. Ty Segall – Mike D Coke (40:51)
13. The Octopus Project – Wet Gold (42:14)
14. Woods – Suffering Season (44:33)
15. Electra – Leaving Graceland (47:34)
16. The Stranglers – Strange Little Girl (51:26)
17. Rockfour – Menat Yeter (Overdose) (54:04)
18. Jean Claude Vannier – Petite agonie de l’enfant as (59:33)

Free Music Archives (FMA) is an amazing website that hosts hundred thousands mp3 files from any musical genre you can imagine, that are allowed for a free download under Creative Commonce License.
It is the creation of the fabulous people of WFMU radio (aka – the best radio station in the world), and it’s a collaboration with other radio stations that contributes to the archive.

I strongly recommend all of you musicians out there to register to the website, enjoy the music available and contribute some free tracks to the archive. You get a wonderful exposure to your music and help the archive to evolve.

This week’s mixtape is assembled only from tracks I found there, some of them are live radio sessions, some are rarities you can find only through music experts like the ones in WFMU. Enjoy.

STR Mixtape – FMA Sessions

1. Vesta Victoria – Man Man Man
2. Abdoulaye Alhassane – Waina Bibiyo (02:50)
3. Big Blood – Oh Country (Skin & Bones) (09:05)
4. Kyle Gann – Custer: “If I Were An Indian…” (14:16)
5. P.G. Six – Cover Art/Curragh of Kildare (22:45)
6. Bombay Laughing Club – Workin Boy Blues (30:16)
7. Smokey Hormel – French Water (32:20)
8. Polka Dot Dot Dot – Cherry Blossoms (36:21)
9. The Dirtbombs – Candy Ass (39:02)
10. The Fresh and Onlys – Invisible Forces (42:19)
11. Reigning Sound – If Chrsitmas Can’t Bring You Home (45:06)
12. Liechtenstein – All At Once (47:17)
13. Michael Chapman – Kodak Ghosts (49:50)
14. Roger McGuinn – St. James Infirmary (55:43)

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1. Total Slacker – Crystal Necklace
2. Sunglasses – Stand Fast (4:14)
3. TV-Resistori – Voi Ei Ei Voi Olla Totta (07:41)
4. Amo Joy! – The Sane Design (10:52)
5. Secret Cities – Vamos A La Playa (13:52)
6. Swell Maps – Read About Seymour (17:25)
7. Robyn Hitchcock – Propellor Time (18:49)
8. My Morning Jacket – Rocket Man (23:55)
9. Kathy Smith – Seven Virgins (28:44)
10. Roy Buchanan – Hey, Good Lookin’ (32:27)
11. The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band – A Child’s Guide To Good and Evil (34:33)
12. Wire – I Am The Fly (36:40)
13. Hideo Shiraki – Etude (39:45)
14. Sam Sadigursky – Gardener and Flower Too (43:47)
15. Menomena – Bote (49:19)
16. Alejandro Jodorowsky – Mice And Massacre (54:57)
17. Jaques Dutronc – Les Petites Annonces (57:23)