Mixtape 23

Mixtape 23

I miss making you playlists for your disc drive, so I made you this. I know it’s not the same… but it’s the closest I can get. New mixtape monthly up on my spotify. Find me there at @jawnmo, and if you’re not on spotify, track list included here for you to burn to a cd and put in your 1996 jeep wrangler and turn up the volume. Have a nice weekend out there

about

Listening back to this playlist now, I get transported back to my car, driving through a neighborhood where I no longer live, past a high school I never attended, on a late spring afternoon, with “Crawling Home When The Morning Comes” playing on my speakers, trying to figure out if I need to hire a mix engineer to finish off “Dead End Friends,” or it I could get my mix to sound as good as anything on this playlist. I ended up doing it myself, for better or worse, and it was the first song I put out that I had mixed myself.

hidden gems

Love Me - The Phantom

I know next to nothing about this track. The Spotify page for this song says “The Phantom” is a left-field house producer from Warsaw, Poland - it’s clear this song is mixed in with the wrong artist. To me it sounds like it came out of an early rock and roll vault, written and recorded like a perfect early 1960s rock song. But again, I don’t know anything about the phantom, and where this song came from is a mystery to me.

I Miss That - Porches

This is not even a song that registers high on Porches’ discography. It’s not in his top ten on spotify, but man this song is so vibey and good. It feels like the parts of the song are all stream of consciousness, not necessarily in conversation with each other, but flowing next to each other. Sometimes it surprises me how a song can be so important to me but go undiscovered by so many others. This is one of those.

3 2 4 3 - Finom

I stole this one off a friends’ playlist. What a crazy groove.

Alrighty Aphrodite - Peach Pit

This one feels good to me, the groove is so sweet and nice, and the titular phrase is pleasant on the ears.

TRACKLIST

1. Boca Llena - Y La Bamba

2. Everybody's Talkin' - Harry Nilsson

3. Remember Where You Are - Jessie Ware

4. Love Me - The Phantom

5. Alrighty Aphrodite - Peach Pit

6. Mopedbart - Hubbabubbaklubb

7. Can't Help Myself - Alexandra Savior

8. Lover Girl - Aaron Frazer

9. Thoughts - Sasha Alex Sloan

10. It's Called: Freefall - Rainbow Kitten Surprise

11. I Miss That - Porches

12. Are You Even Real? - James Blake

13. Crawling Home When The Morning Comes - Sweet and Lonely

14. Worth My While - Bootsy Collins, Kali Uchis

15. 3 2 4 3 - Finom

16. On The Floor - Perfume Genius

17. I'm Scum - IDLES

18. Dream - Al Green