Broken Walkman

Now That's What I Call Music!

2011-02-24T00:35:00.000-07:00

And this beast lives again! Sorry about the year off. Enjoy this mix of various ill fitting parts. This is probably the closest mix I've made to my own personal listening habits.

Steven Wright - Bohemiath (Dialog)
Burial - Ghost Hardware
The Chromatics - Running up that Hill
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
Grizzly Bear - Colorado
Mogwai - Punk Rock
DJ Shadow - Dark Days
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Sonic Youth - Providence
Aphex Twin - W32.Mydoom.AU@mm
Jah Division - Transmission Dub
Steven Wright - Keep on Truckin' (Dialog)

Download. (37.5 minutes, 50.4mb)

Update: All Non-Xmas Mixtapes have been Restored

2011-02-07T19:04:00.000-07:00

And reup'd to Megaupload this time. Enjoy.

Happy July 4th

2010-07-04T07:00:00.001-06:00

Happy St. Patrick's Day

2010-03-17T07:00:00.001-06:00

The Pogues - Thousands Are Sailing

Please don't listen to Flogging Molly this year.

Did anyone else ever...

2010-01-04T15:38:00.000-07:00

put a death metal tape into your younger sibling's Teddy Ruxpin and spend an afternoon laughing at it?

Mix by Shitrobot

2010-01-04T12:53:00.002-07:00

Found this looking for a website about shitrobot, the techno/neu disco artist with my favorite name:

http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2009/07/shit-robots-simply-shit-mix

Enjoy The Color of Television?

2010-01-04T12:18:00.000-07:00

Here's some hilariously dated documentaries to go with it:

"CYBERPUNK"

"FUTURESHOCK"

And a Happy New Year

2010-01-01T07:00:00.001-07:00

The Walkmen - In the New Year

Tape Culture

2009-12-30T18:30:00.000-07:00

The Color of Television: An Odyssey of Detroit Techno, Italo Disco and Beyond

2009-12-30T17:38:00.004-07:00

The Color of Television: An Odyssey of Detroit Techno, Italo Disco and Beyond by jessek

Suggested consumption before consuming this mixtape: Neuromancer by William Gibson, Futureshock and The Third Wave by Alvin Toffler, Omni Magazine, Escape from New York, Blade Runner. Break out the parachute pants, fingerless gloves and mirrorshade Ray-Ban aviators, it's time for a trip back in time to the future the 80s promised but never delivered. A heady mix of Detroit Techno, Italo Disco and some more modern stuff.

Dopplereffekt - Hyperellyptic Surfaces
Clock DVA - The Hacker
Crystal Castles - Knights
M|A|R|R|S - Pump up the Volume
Shit Robot - Chasm
The Juan McClean - Give Me Every Little Thing
Delia Gonzalez - Rise
Model 500 - Vessels in Distress
Crystal Castles - 1991
Cyber People - Void Vision (Radio Version)
K.S. Experience - Electronic Dance
808 State - Bond
Model 500 - No UFOs
Giorgio Moroder - Chase
Cybotron - Alleys of Your Mind
Dopplereffekt - Sterilzation
Ladytron - Evil
Cybotron - Clear

Download. 101 megabytes, 75 minutes. Might take a while on your Commodore 64. Midi version not coming anytime soon.

Happy Kwanzaa

2009-12-26T07:00:00.001-07:00

Merry Christmas

2009-12-25T00:00:00.001-07:00

The Junky's Christmas by William S. Burroughs

A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector

2009-12-24T14:30:00.000-07:00

Download here.

A John Waters Christmas

2009-12-24T14:28:00.000-07:00

Enjoy A John Waters Christmas. Download from here.

Let it Snow: An Indie Electronic Xmas Mixtape

2009-12-24T12:25:00.000-07:00

Indie rock and electronic music to sooth the pain of christmas with your family. Best enjoyed with a stiff glass of egg nog or hot buttered rum. Merry Christmas!

The Cocteau Twins - Winter Wonderland
Sonic Youth - Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope
Mogwai - Christmas Song
Sally Shapiro - Anorak Christmas
The Knife - Christmas Reindeer
Tiny Tim - Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
The Walkmen - No Christmas While I'm Talking
The Cocteau Twins - Frosty the Snowman
Tom Waits - Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
The Pogues - The Fairytale of New York

Download. 62 megabytes, 45 minutes.

Wreck the Halls: A Punk Xmas Mixtape

2009-12-24T11:39:00.000-07:00

Nothing says punk like... celebrating the birth of Christ? Also note: Oi to the World by The Vandals, fuck No Doubt. Anyway, enjoy:

FEAR - Another Xmas Beer
Bad Manners - Christmas Time Again
Descendents - Christmas Vacation
Stiff Little Fingers - White Christmas
Bad Religion - The First Noel
The Ramones - Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight)
Joan Jett - Lil Drummer Boy
Satan's Cheerleaders - Christmas Time is Here Again
Anti-Nowhere League - Snowman
Man... Or Astro-Man? - Frosty the Snowman
Face to Face - Merry Xmas
Butthole Surfers - Good King Wenceslas
Mojo Nixon - Christmas Christmas
The Dickies - Silent Night
The Vandals - Oi to the World

Download. 55.1 megabytes, 40 minutes.

Yay, hardware issues resolved, let the mixing continue

2009-12-22T01:30:00.001-07:00

yay hooray. I fixed my pee see and all I had to do was downgrade my Geforce 7600 to a 5500. :( oh well, it's not like I play games. This card will run firefox, notepad++, photoshop and most importantly, Mixmeister just fine!

Expect an xmas mix or two before the holiday is over and then maybe some fresh new mixes for the new year. I'm thinking Italo Disco or songs about cocaine may be some ideas I might want to explore soon.

No mixtapes for a bit

2009-12-20T15:42:00.002-07:00

So my main workstation is having issues that maybe related to the graphics card. As soon as I resolve them I'll be back to mixing ASAP. Until then I'll be trying to post links to good mixtapes that I like by other people and posting the usual mix of awesome topical music videos.

Ruckus Robiticus: A Very Merry Daftpunk Xmas

2009-12-20T15:40:00.000-07:00

Found this on reddit today, not the most christmassy of music, but definitely very, very Daft Punk:

A Very Daft Punk Christmas (DJ Mix) by Ruckus Roboticus

Christmas with the Devil - A Very Metal Xmas

2009-12-11T19:39:00.000-07:00

No better way to celebrate the birth of Christ than a bunch of satanic heavy metal music.

Bob Rivers & Twisted Radio - I Am Santa Claus (Iron Man parody)
King Diamond - No Presents for Xmas
Dio - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
The Trans-Siberian Orchestra - Carol of the Bells
Alice Cooper - Santa is Coming to Town
AC/DC - A Mistress for Christmas
Twisted Sister - Heavy Metal Christmas
Lemmy Kilmister - Run Run Rudolph
Type O Negative - Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
Spinal Tap - Christmas with the Devil

Download. 39 minutes, 54 megabytes.

Xmas Rappin' - A non-stop Hip Hop Xmas Mixtape

2009-12-11T17:55:00.000-07:00

Santa Claus is goin' to the Ghetto. Enjoy these lovely hip hop selections about everyone's favorite christian holiday.

Run-DMC - Christmas in Hollis
Snoop Dogg - Santa Goes Straight to the Ghetto (ft. Ice Cube)
Kurtis Blow - Christmas Rappin'
Jim Jones - Ballin' on Xmas
Westside Connection - Holidaze
Eazy-E - Merry Motherfuckin' Christmas
69 Boys - What do you Want for Christmas
Run-DMC - Christmas is

Download. 32 minutes, 45 megabytes.

FUCK CHRISTMAS! A mixtape of crappy holidays and people who hate the xmas season

2009-12-11T16:52:00.001-07:00

A mixtape of holiday disasters, consumer disillusionment and sad stories of drunken loneliness. A perfect counterpoint ot all the the crappy sugar pop xmas muzak heard while shopping. This is my own personal war on christmas:

Fear - Fuck Christmas
Captain Sensible - One Christmas Catalog
Timbuk 3 - All I Want for Christmas (is World Peace)
The Damned - There Ain't No Sanity Clause!
D.I. - Mr. Grinch
TVTV$ - Daddy Drank Our Xmas Money
The Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Wall of Voodoo - We Shouldn't Have Given Him a Gun for Christmas
Rocket from the Crypt - Cancel Christmas
Prince - Another Lonely Christmas
The Kinks - Father Christmas

Download. 33 minutes, 46.3 megabytes.

Happy Channukah!

2009-12-11T15:45:00.000-07:00

Happy Channukah! enjoy this mix someone else made, it's full of funny/weird vintage music related to the festival of lights!

Find out more here.

Jewish Christmas Mixtape (Xmas Songs by Jews)

2009-12-07T17:59:00.000-07:00

What better way to celebrate the birth of the King of the Jews than listening to a mixtape of Hebrews performing Christmas classics? Perfect for listening to while you prepare your seasonal decorations of coopted pagan symbols. Remember, don't forget the true reason for the season: the birth of Santa.

Tracklist:

Phil Spector - Silent Night/A Christmas Message
Mel Torme - The Christmas Song (Michael Kessler Open Fire Mix)
Beastie Boys - Country Mike's Country Christmas
Kenny G - We Three Kings/Carol of the Bells
Amy Winehouse - I Saw Mummy Kissing Santa Claus
Bob Dylan - I'll Be Home for Christmas
Neil Diamond - Happy Christmas (War is Over)
Simon & Garfunkle - Silent Night

Download. 27 megabytes, 19 and a half minutes.

(War is Over, if you want it)

Don We Now, Our Gay Apparel

2009-12-07T00:00:00.002-07:00

A very merry and gay Christmas mix, enjoy!

Erasure - She Won't be Home for Xmas
Wham! - Last Christmas
Johnny "Gay Pimp" McGovern - Dirty Gay Xmas
Madonna - Santa Baby
Pet Shop Boys - It Doesn't Snow Often at Christmas
Cher - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
Pansy Division - Homo Christmas

Download. 27 minutes, 37mb.

A Thanksgiving Prayer

2009-11-26T09:00:00.004-07:00

William S. Burroughs - Thanksgiving Prayer

Ambient Healing mixtape

2009-11-08T03:28:00.001-07:00

A soothing ambient chill mix of music to heal and calm. Best if taken with your meds. Do not drive or operate heavy machinery.

Download. 40.2mb, 29:17.

UNKLE - Back and Forth
Underworld - To Heal
Nine Inch Nails - Adrift and at Peace
The Orb - Spanish Castles in Space
M83 - Coloring the Void
Biosphere - People are Friends
The KLF - Mercury
Aphex Twin - Curtains
Moby - Lean on Me
DJ Shadow - Blood on the Motorway

England's Dreaming: It's Grim Across the Pond mixtape

2009-11-03T19:20:00.003-07:00

"And did the Countenance Divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among these dark Satanic mills?"

-- William Blake, Jerusalem

Not really the fairy tale land of Doctor Who, police who don't carry guns and Harry Potter, England can be a pretty grim place to live. Starting with the punk movement through to the current dubstep scene, the societal conditions of a country with a fucked up class struggle that's filled with housing projects and unemployment has brought us a lot of interesting music.

And that's what this mixtape is about: the amazing albeit bleak music of England. (I have nothing against it as a country or a group of people, I just thought this would make for a good mix).

Download. 66:38 minutes, 91.59mb

The KLF - It's Grim Up North (part ii)
Burial - South London Burroughs
Joy Division - Shadowplay
The Future Sound of London - Dead Cities
Billy Bragg - A New England
Jamie Woon - Wayfaring Stranger (Burial Remix)
Throbbing Gristle - United
Kano - Ps and Qs
Vex'd - Bombardment of Saturn
Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance
Distance - My Demons
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Coil - Ravenous
Sinead O'Connor - Black Boys on Mopeds
Skream - Nemesis
The Human League - Being Boiled (Fast Version)
Caspa - Big Headed Slags
The KLF - Jerusalem of the Moors

Happy Day of the Dead

2009-11-01T21:42:00.000-07:00

What better way to celebrate Dia de los Muertos than some brutal MEXICAN DEATH METAL?

The album's title translates to "Hated Race" (watch Lou Dobbs to figure out who that is) and features songs about immigration politics, the Zapatista movement and the drug war along with more traditional death metal themes. Ex-Dead Kennedys vocalist Jello Biafra appears as a tongue in cheek version Californian governor Pete Wilson on one track. This music is the polar opposite of what people commonly think of as "Mexican Music", e.g. Ranchera (the polka sounding stuff that's on like four AM stations) or Morrissey (seriously). Like gangsta rap before it turned into a showcase of Bentleys and diamonds, Brujeria has got to scare the shit out of White People.
Download it here from Brutal Xpression, which appears to be an extreme metal blog in Spanish. Good stuff if you're into it.

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T07:00:00.025-06:00

Happy Halloween, I hope you enjoyed my October goth mixtape.

For a treat, I've tracked down a copy of Skinny Puppy's infamous "Worlock" video. This video was created by cEvin and Ogre of Skinny Puppy using cut footage from horror movies that was removed by various ratings boards. Because of the nature of the work, it'll never have a commercial release, due to the graphic content and copyright clearance problems.

Which is what makes the Internet awesome, years ago this was something that you had to spend time tracking it down at horror movie conventions or from ads in the back of zines and when you got it was a 5th generation VHS tape and looked like ass. These days, it's on youtube.

Read more about the video here.

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion

2009-10-23T01:54:00.000-06:00

They're goth but they wear all white? and film videos that look like Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade? Good song, strange video. I miss 120 Minutes, although I guess VH1 Classic shows Classic 120 Minutes now.

And Dream of Sleep

2009-10-22T02:52:00.001-06:00

A mixtape about sleep from a guy who can't sleep. It's a sleepy mix of songs about sleep interspersed with some ambient tracks. Perfect for counting sheep or browsing the internet at 3am. Insomniac.

Download.

Tycho - The Daydream
The Orb - Sleeping Tiger and the Gods Unknown
Wu-Tang Clan - I Can't Go to Sleep
Kate Bush - And Dream of Sheep
Aphex Twin - Blue Calx
Cowboy Junkies - Dreaming My Dreams with You
Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside of a Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78rpm mix)
Jackson Browne - Sleep's Dark and Silent Gate
Moby - My Beautiful Blue Sky
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Tonight
Biosphere - Chukhung
Stevie Nicks - Dreams (Deep Dish mix)
The Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Magnetic Fields - Asleep and Dreaming
Jakatta - American Dream
The Monkees - Daydream Believer
Global Communication - 4:14
Roy Orbison - In Dreams

Home Taping is Killing Record Industry Profits!

2009-10-19T00:16:00.000-06:00

The Nuclear War Dance Party Mixtape

2009-10-17T00:01:00.004-06:00

"The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker." -Albert Einstein

A mixtape about nuclear war. When I was growing up in the 1980s, I really felt that there was not going to be a future. It just seemed inevitable. What better way to deny the inevitable than with a dance party?

Of course we didn't know to much later that the Russians were cooking the books and that by the end of the decade they'd be insolvent and the Cold War would be over. Any young person these days probably think it was all very ridiculous.

But it did produce some great songs:

Anne Clark - Poem for a Nuclear Romance
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Enola Gay
The Postal Service - We Will Become Silhouettes
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
Psychic TV - Eve ov Destruction
Fischerspooner - We Need a War
Time Zone (feat. Afrika Bambata and John Lydon) - World Destruction
Sting - The Russians
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Alphaville - Forever Young
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
Sun Ra - Nuclear War
Colonel Bagshot - Six Day War

Download.

Clove Cigarettes and Coffin Nails: A Gloomy Goth Mixtape for Halloween

2009-10-16T03:08:00.006-06:00

It's that time of the year, the falling leaves and grey skies make one remember the gloomy music of your youth, the apple pie taste of a Djarum black, that extra strong cup of coffee drank at a Denny's at 3am, watching a crappy VHS tape of Return of the Living Dead in your friend's basement, musty used books, scuffed Doc Martins, Ritt black dye that never dyed things dark enough, getting your ass kicked by the football team...

It seemed to rain a lot more often back then, didn't it?

Enjoy this mix, everyone gets to be a little goth now and then, even though cloves are now illegal and your mom's reading Twilight.

73 minutes of gloom, 84mb of sorrow. Download.

Tracklist:

Bixio, Friizi & Tempera - Siete Note in Nero (7 Notes in Black)
The Cure - Prayers for Rain
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting (The Vampire Song)
The Catherine Wheel - Black Metallic
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Dazzle
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Sisters of Mercy - More
Ministry - Everyday is Halloween
Public Image Ltd. - The Order of Death
Leonard Cohen - Avalanche
I Love You but I've Chose Darkness - According to Plan
Peter Murphy - Strange Kind of Love
Coil - The First Five Minutes After Death
Goblin - Suspiria
Bahaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead

Change in the Weather: A Shoegazey Indie Pop Mix

2009-10-16T02:55:00.005-06:00

I made this mix a while ago, just fucking around with Mixmeister. I really wanted to make a mix of shoegaze/indie songs I loved. It's best listened to after a rainstorm.

Download.

Tracklist:

The Smiths - Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before
Glasvegas - Geraldine
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
Ride - Seagull
Amanda Palmer - Astronaut (A Short History of Nearly Nothing)
Mogwai - We're No Here
Suicide - Cheree
TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
The Cure - Prayers for Rain
UNKLE - In a State
Gorillaz - Dare (DFA Mix)
Massive Attack - Unfinished Symphony
The Stone Roses - Fool's Gold
New Order - Regret
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on Our Side
Joy Division - She's Lost Control
The Editors - Lights
The Arcade Fire - Intervention
Peter Murphy - Strange Kind of Love
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World