Mixtape 29

Mixtape 29

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

“The World is Beyond Us - It’s Too Enormous” is a line I would get stuck in my head all the time. I love this Tame Impala Remix of Crowded House’s song “The Island.” It’s preceded on this playlist by the 1966 Jacques Dutronc track, “Les Cactus,” whose lyrics roughly translate to “The whole world is a cactus / It's impossible to sit down anywhere,” so… Choose your preferred world philosophy there.

Curtis Waters’ single “Stunnin’” was a song I heard for the first time while waiting for lunch at an empanada stand on York St in Highland Park. It was an undiscovered song at the time, and since then it seems like they’ve uploaded new mixes and album art to Spotify at least once.

Here are some hidden gems on this playlist that you should definitely know about.

Omoge - Dizzy K.

“Omoge” is a 1983 track by Nigerian artist Dizzy K. that is far too funky to be so unheard of. The synth sounds are really cool and unique. I don’t quite know anything else like this song, and I felt really inspired by both its instrumentation and artwork, as you can probably tell from looking at the album art for my single “Dead End Friends.”

Les cactus - Jacques DuTronc

This is an excellent French rock track from 1966, although it may have first been released in 1967. Also from the same time and place is another hidden gem on this playlist - Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s “69 année érotique.”

TRACKLIST

1. Les cactus - Jacques Dutronc

2. To The Island (Tame Impala remix) - Crowded House, Tame Impala

3. I Am The Black Gold Of The Sun - Nuyorican Soul, Jocelyn Brown

4. Stunnin' (feat. Harm Franklin) - Curtis Waters, Harm Franklin

5. Omoge - Dizzy K. 

6. You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine - Lou Rawls

7. Dancing On My Own - Robyn

8. Roda - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

9. Let's Get Blown - Snoop Dogg

10. Alemania - Twin Shadow

11. The Look - Sports

12. Spooky - Dusty Springfield

13. Love for the Sake of Love - Claudia Barry

14. Voices Carry Through The Mist - The Surfing Magazines

15. Super Koto - Ponzu Island

16. 34HUNNID - ayrtn, mulade

17. 69 année érotique - Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin

18. Riding High - Faze-O

19. Posing In Bondage - Japanese Breakfast

20. Figure It Out (Night Edit) - Ekkah