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

"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

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

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

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:

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

Change in the Weather: A Shoegazey Indie Pop Mix

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:

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