All posts tagged: Mixtape

Euterpe – Guest Mixtape Series

We invited Sydney local band Euterpe to share their ideal mixtape. This is is the first in our band/artist guest series. Your mum shows you this song in the car with the speakers on full blast. You think to yourself “my god, this is gonna catalyse a passion for alternative rock and Ancient Greek modalities”. -Bianca (vocals/guitar) The Nagging Doubts are a great local post-punk act. This song toes the perfect line between groove and soundscape, in my opinion. -Oscar (guitar) My trumpet teacher gave me this album in year 5, and I played it on repeat for years because I didn’t have any other music on my iPod -Conrad (drums) This song is so beautiful and haunting, but somehow simultaneously danceable (or at least foot-tappable…) –Mim (bass) Walking home from uni on a crisp windy Sydney afternoon, you listen to the liquid vibratos of an amber voice coupled with a discordant, fractured guitar. There’s something weird going on out there, man -Bianca This more reflective cut from Lianne La Havas’ 2020 album trades the …

MIXTAPE SEVEN: TIME MACHINE

We asked you to  turn back time and hear a song that made an impact on you in your youth. Give us your teen angst,  music you would dance to wildly in your room, coming of age song. Falco – Der Kommissar Yes, I was a member of the Falco fanclub in my youth. I’ve started to hear this song in a lot of recent films. Who’s the cool kid now?AGE: 12 Oasis – Supersonic This song made me feel like I was really COOL getting the bus to school when I was 14. I felt like a real rock n roll star….. couldn’t have been further from it.AGE: 14 Police – Bring on the Night Reminds me when I was sitting for hours in front of the stereo in the leaving room, headphones on, listening to my favourite vinyls and feeling the music so deeply in my whole being.AGE: 13 Blondie – Hanging On The Telephone I freakin love this song. Teenage angst at it’s best.AGE: hmmm…early teens? Orange Juice – Blue Boy I …

MIXTAPE SIX: SONGS OF SEDUCTION

These are the songs you throw on when you want to get busy. Track 1: Ooh La La – Goldfrapp Track 2: Bob’s Yer Uncle – Happy Mondays ‘Bob’s Yer Uncle’ is the standout track from arguably the only standout album released by the Happy Mondays, the aptly titled ‘Pill ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches’. And weaved through out the tune, Shaun Ryder embraces the mantra that ‘questions are more important than answers’, posing timeless conundrums such as: 1. What do you want to hear when we’re making love? 2. Can I hold you from behind and tell you that it’s me? 3. Can I take you from behind and hold you in my arms? 4. What do we need to re-live to bring us close? 5. Why don’t you do it to me? 6. Why don’t you do those things to me? Track 3: Feel Like Makin’ Love – Roberta Flack Beautiful and smooth! Track 4: Luv Machine – Blonde Redhead So many different feelings in this song! Love/hate, attraction/repulsion… a certain vision of a …

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Contribute to Mixtape #6

Songs for Seduction. For Mixtape #1 we asked what song says ‘I really like you’. Now for Mixtape #6, we want to hear your seduction song. Booty call? Crazy in love? Mid-week business-time with your socks still on? Let us know what song you throw on when you want to get busy. Want to contribute? Sign up here: http://eepurl.com/hteWff