Husband and wife combo, Viva Voce, have this great song called “Mixtape=Love” on their album The Heat Can Melt Your Brain. As a child of the 80s, I remember fondly the days of making and trading mixtapes with friends. I think I can trace my interest in graphic design back to these mixtape days of literally cutting and pasting together ‘zine-like cassette tape cover art. Make your own mixtape image here! Below, you can find my current playlist/mixtape (or click here for my mixtape archive):

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My friend Jason Evans has been putting together a series of guest mixtapes over on his blog (which I highly recommend). I was stoked when J asked if I’d like to join in, and November is my turn to play DJ at Notes from the Land Under a Perfect Sun. Here’s my mixtape and the concept behind it:

Most of the time, when making a mixtape, I like to have a theme. Is it too general to say that this mixtape’s theme is “Stuff I Like”? Mixtapes have a certain ebb & flow, and this one wanders through bands and songs that have influenced me, changed the way I  thought about music, and caused plenty of people stare at me as I sing along at top volume while driving down the road. Many of these songs are surefire dance party-starters in our house when we’re doing the dishes.

“Stuff I Like” — Fall 2010
Click here to listen to this playlist
  1. Fugazi – “Merchandise”
  2. Quicksand – “How Soon is Now?”
  3. New Order – “Your Silent Face”
  4. Crystal Castles & Robert Smith – “Not in Love”
  5. Seam – “Rafael”
  6. My Bloody Valentine – “Only Shallow”
  7. Slint – “Good Morning, Captain”
  8. Battles – “Leyendecker”
  9. Drive Like Jehu – “Atom Jack”
  10. Les Savy Fav – “The Sweat Descends”
  11. Superchunk – “Driveway to Driveway”
  12. Dirty Projectors & David Byrne – “Knotty Pine”
  13. Animal Collective – “My Girls”
  14. Sigur Ros – “Hoppipolla”
  15. Sufjan Stevens – “Holy, Holy, Holy”