Callum's Almost Monthly Mix - November

Here's the Student Voice playlist that never was...

I decided to make this blog the main home for my mixes as this way I've got full control over form and (most importantly) length, and I can provide LINKS LINKS LINKS so that you can listen rather than count on my shit-spouting attempts to describe and promote the tracks.

Having said that, this one was a bit disjointed as I've been a combination of ill, in a hurry and frustrated, so while the tracks are genius, my descriptions are pretty fucking poor. Cheers to Duncan for the first track!

Also I would like to get a streaming player for the whole mix put here at some point when I sort the technical malarkey behind it, so apologies for that not being here now.

Enough chit chat. Here it is:


1. The Correspondents – Wanna Go Home
Yup, it's swing jazz and I like it... Seductively scatty female vocals intersperse jazzy breaks and brass (touched with the cheeky remixing hand of Mr Chuckles)
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2. Francois and the Atlas Mountains – Be Water (Je Suis de l’Eau)
Some fantastically twee french hippies sing around a campfire about being water. make up your own mind.
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3. Phoenix – Fences
New single from the parisian alt-rocker chums of Daft Punk, smokey disco elegance smeared with indie cool. (I actually prefer other tracks off this album, namely Love Like A Sunset, but this is the new single, fits better in the mix and I'm fucking lazy so can't be arsed to change it)
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4. The Flaming Lips – The Sparrow Looks Up at the Machine
Mirrors the 'Lips new album - exciting sonic experimentation and Wayne Coyne's mystical warbling hidden behind layers of muddy instrumental
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5. Memory Tapes – Plain Material
The man behind Weird Tapes/Memory Tapes/Memory Cassette has already proved his production genius, and he's topped it here. My favourite single for months. The unassumingly barren intro of distant vocals and guitar progresses unexpectedly into pure shimmering electro brilliance. Flawlessly joy-inspiring and fucking catchy.
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6. Julian Casablancas – 11th Dimension
The Strokes frontman shows off an unexpectedly awesome solo project, here 80s dance elements complement his characteristic drawl. This track's been blogged to death so I figured I'd jump on the (oh-look-he-sounds-better-when-not-in-the) band-wagon
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7. Vitalic – Your Disco Song
Expansive synth hook descends into euphoric techno with retro robotic vocal samples and echoey blips.
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8. MRSA – Chemicals
Beautifully (almost naively) joyful melodies descend cheekily into one of the simplest but most satisfying drops i've heard in a while, then run together into blissful DnB sonic genius.
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9. SebastiAn – H.A.L.
Watch your volume meter... Massive laser synth bass gives way to what sounds like robot erotica. More than a little bit fucking sick.
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10. Randomer – Scapegoat
Reggaeton-esque exotic beats fused with grimey elastic bass lines and yelping chipmunk vocal samples. It sounds far too subtle and boundary-breaking for me to call it dubstep...
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11. Pretty Lights – More Important Than Michael Jordan
A mixtape in itself. Thoughtful electronica merges into choppily-sampled hip-hop with plenty of wobbles on the way.
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12. M83 – Run Into Flowers (Midnight Fuck Remix by Jackson)
Not a clue what the original sounded like but the tampered product sounds a treat. Transient and otherworldly voices and synth lines are subject to the playful sonic ripping and tearing of demon producer Jackson, whoever that may be.
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13. LCD Soundsystem – Bye Bye Bayou
The disco legend returns with an obscure cover. The repetitive but alluring vocals and simple beat are occasionally joined by varyingly warped stereo sound effects. Not sure why it’s good, but it is.
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14. Portico Quartet – Paper Scissors Stone
Ear-tickling and dynamically fluctuating modern jazz, a bit reminiscent of Cinematic Orchestra. Also one quarter of their otherwise standard instrumental lineup is a Hang player (a weird steel drum/marimba type thing) so they get some prop for that.
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