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Mar 05

Kevin Barnes - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover)

Crashing and burning onto our personal mixtape memory lane, I, at this ungodly hour, am stuck.  Thanks, Delacroix.  Definitely not light. Absolutely not tight.  It’s thick and creamy, as well as hot and steamy.

Anyways, as the sickly sadistic fools of sentiment that we are, here’s another diddy for that special Cuddlepalooza mixtape.

Kevin Barnes, the Bowie-esque frontman to the exceedingly theatrical band Of Montreal, is captured here performing a live cover of Neil Young’s “Harvest Moon.”  His acoustic presentation of this 1992 classic creates a beauteous lull that’s worth wrapping your cheesy heart around.

So, bleed the rest of the evening with this.

Download: Kevin Barnes - Harvest Moon (Neil Young Cover).mp3

- ramos  

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Family of the Year Psyche or Like Scope the Mixtape Files Download Mp3

Mar 19

Family of the Year - Psyche or like Scope

Since releasing their 2010 LP Our Songbook (a collection of their prior self release and EPs), Los Angeles-based band Family of the Year has generated quite a buzz, as they’ve toured with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and stormed with them through Europe and the UK acquiring enthused notoriety wherever they go.

Generally, their work, or moreso Our Songbook, is a collection of gentle, quirky Americana suggesting them as a befitting opening act for the sing-song, jingle-jangled performances of  Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, which works fine if you’re into double-fisting that schwiz. Yet, this track …

“Psyche or like Scope” is a synth-laced disco track, clearly deviating from their obvious folkish leanings and venturing into territory that suggest a little exploring. 

Download: Family of the Year - Psyche or like Scope.mp3

- ramos

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Mar 20

Sigur Ros -Staralfur (Heima Version)

In 2006, Sigur Ros (translated “Victory Rose) returned to their native Iceland and performed a series of free unannounced concerts in varying intimate, sometimes breathtaking, settings.  Documented in their 2007 video release Heima (meaning “home”), this delicate performance of “Staralfur” is one of the film’s key moments, expertly capturing the band’s cathartic wistfulness and redolence.

So, here’s a pretty thing to start this chilled Sunday morning …

Download: Sigur Ros - Staralfur (Heima version).mp3

- ramos


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Mar 21

Song: Space is Only Noise if You Can See-Nicolas Jaar

I remember the first time hearing Nicolas Jaar at my friend Eduardo’s night VOODOO. It was pure magic. He did a special set for us that were there that night in where he sung live over his dj set. He truly is a musical chemist of sorts in a sense. It didn’t hurt that Michel Gondry was amongst us that night. Pretty sweet for a 120 capacity person party in an intimate downtown loft I must say.

Eduardo Castillo, Nicolas Jaar, and Andrei Osyka of Droog

Twenty-year-old electronic savant Nicolas Jaar is how you say…a prodigy? His compositions are warm, with various instrumentation incorporating piano, haunting groans, and austere field recordings. If he makes “house music,” it’s downright agoraphobic. Tempos are set for those who are patient and likes a good royal kick in the ass right WHERE it NEEDS it.

Jaar is the answer for chillwave escapists. Jaar’s eclectic range of influences go from Ricardo Villalobos, the spacious minimalism of Eric Satie, to the Ethio-jazz of Mulatu Astatke.

Cannot, cannot…I cannot stress enough, how excited I am to see him again (on multiple occasions) live…with his band….in MIAMI this week! Stoked bears!

-delacroix

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A Sunny Day In Glasgow A Violet Mary Haunts Me or Loss of Forgetfulness on Renfrew Street Autumn Again the Mixtape Files Download Mp3

Mar 22

A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Violet Mary Haunts Me or Loss of Forgetfulness on Renfrew Street

The noise pop band known as A Sunny Day in Glasgow has, since their official inception in 2006, gone through several lineup changes in the last couple of years- losing their original vocalists, twin sisters Robin and Lauren Daniels; the dropping out (due to an accident) of bassist Brice Hickey; the recruitment of Annie Frederickson and subsequently Jen Goma on vocals; and the additions of new bandmembers Ryan Newmyer on bass and Adam Heardon on drums.

Having followed this Philly band since their original 2007 debut Scribble Mural Journal, these sad, but necessary, changes of late had left me skeptical in regards to their sound and production.  Yet with the release of 2009’s Ashes Grammar and 2010’s Autumn, Again, it’s clear that Ben Daniels, the band’s “founder”, has a clear vision and masterminds the shoe gazed musings of A Sunny Day in Glasgow, marking themselves alongside such indie pop darlings as Asobi Seksu and Radio Dept.

Tipping their experimental noise-pop aurals and harrowing harmonies to early Magnetic Fields and Jesus and Mary Chain, A Sunny Day in Glasgow creates pop songs laden in memory and lovelorn sentiment.  It’s not exactly the kind of tunes you play through your car with the top down, but the kind necessary to let that girl know you have feelings too, just so you can slip her expertly out of her jammy-jams, or what have you.

Best of luck.

Download: A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Violet Mary Haunts Me or Loss of Forgetfulnes on Renfrew Street.mp3

- ramos

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Apr 04

Porcelain Raft - Tip of Your Tongue

“I know that I’m about to explode
why don’t you stop wasting my time
and say what you gotta say
say what you gotta say
it’s on the tip of your tongue.

on the tip of your tongue …”

Mario Remiddi’s, mastermind behind the Labrador band Porcelain Raft, creates a swooning guitar pop ballad from their latest 7’ Tip of Your Tongue/ Despite Everything” single.  From the first notes of that guitar to that initial heart pounding of the tambourine, Porcelain Raft creates a sound that’s instantly familiar and utterly sparkling.  Remiddi’s voice stretches the word “tip”, among others, so beautifully bringing with it a sweet sense of loving frustration.   It’s just too warm of an anthem and too intimate of a track to not share.  Happy Morning.  

Download: Porcelain Raft - Tip of Your Tongue.mp3

For that extra earful, here’s an edit from Blood Diamonds, a project from Vancouver producer Mike Tucker.  His dancier, techno-infused rendition retains Remiddi’s heartfelt lyricism but adds some playful vocal distortions. Consider it somewhat Delorean-esque with some slight Starslinger silliness to top. 

Download: Porcelain Raft - Tip of your Tongue (Blood Diamonds Remix).mp3

- ramos


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Apr 07

Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn

When your post-Coachella tan starts to peel and you’re up iTuning all the bands you never knew you liked, or even existed, be sure to not forget all the other incredible releases slated to come out this month.

Though appearing at the Coachella Polo Field alongside bandmates Avery Tare, Geoligist, and Deakin as Animal Collective, Noah Lennox under his solo project Panda Bear will be releasing his fourth solo album Tomboy April 19th (or 12th? depending on who you ask), following his critically lauded LP Person Pitch.  As poly-melodic and multi-faceted as his work with Animal Collective, Lennox produces progressive acid folk that is beautifully ethereal and otherworldly.  With his distorted Gregorian vocals, Lennox detaches and, in his latest creation, saves.

Thankful to get this preternatural release prematurely, here’s a taste of what lies ahead.

Download: Panda Bear - Alsatian Darn.mp3

- ramos

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the Mixtape Files download mp3 Painted Palms Falling Asleep Canopy

Apr 09

Painted Palms - Canopy

Remember Garden State in 2004? You know, that time when you lost the feeling that no one knew about the guitar pop magnificence of the Shins but yourself?  Were you also of the ilk of indie afficionados that, soon after, flocked to bands like Irving and Roguewave hoping to find respite and discovered that everyone else felt the same way?

Though such sentiments of ownership and exclusivity are as silly as they are fleeting, we here at Mixtapes can relate.  There’s nothing comparable to that feeling you’ve found something special as if stumbling about a shimmering seashell on the beachfront or that shiny penny on the sidewalk.  There are certainly millions out there but that single one somehow stands out and holds a steady significance.

Painted Palms, the collaborative creation between cousins Reese Donohue and Christopher Prudhomme, is one such find.  Respectively working cross state lines (one in Louisiana, the other in California), Painted Palms, last November, released their first EP Canopy, a charming sunshine-pop work drizzled with bedroom production psychedelics with cheery undercurrents of guitar strumming.  Vocally reminiscent of James Mercer and Noah Lennox, Painted Palms creates blissful indie pop that certainly captures attention.  

So, stuff it in your pocket and savor it before some cheesy movie swipes it from you.  Thanks, Natalie.  Gorgeous though you are, you lost points for sharing our secrets.

Download: Painted Palms - Canopy.mp3

Download the free Canopy EP from bandcamp, here.

- ramos

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Apr 09

Morning Benders - Excuses (Yours Truly Session)

Working alongside an array of mutual friends and notable San Francisco musicians dubbed the Big Echo Orchestra, Morning Benders collaborated with Yours Truly and filmed a series of big band performanaces at Different Furs Studios in SF. A huge musical conglomerate of “guitar pickers, string ticklers, drum kickers and ooh ahh singers”, Big Echo and Morning Benders provide a phenomenal session that, though floating on the interweb since February last year, had to make it’s way to our humble pages.

Filming this fantastic session is web documenters Yours Truly. Also based in the Golden State, their mission is “to discover and document, celebrate and interrogate, capture and catapult the singers, screamers, writers and rhymers whose craft without question demands our affection.”

I feel the same way. Watch. Reap. and enjoy.

Download: Morning Benders - Excuses (Yours Truly Session).mp3

To check out more from Yours Truly, including live performances from Sin Bang Bous, How to Dress Well, Dirty Beaches, and Twin Shadow, click HERE.

- ramos


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Apr 13

Asobi Seksu - Perfectly Crystal (Mirrors’ Un Autre Monde Remix)

Nu-gaze, dream pop duo Asobi Seksu (translated “playful sex”. yum!) is better known for a sound that is all together - pretty.  Released this year is a remix by the band Mirrors and the track takes a new life that retains the all round beauteous tones and plugs layer after layer of whimsical instrumentation.  If the initial Balaericism of the drum beats don’t catch, everything else from complex synthesizing to the hand-claps will.

Download: Asobi Sesku - Perfectly Crystal (Mirror’s Un Autre Monde Remix).mp3

- ramos

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