2014 MIX #26
Tracklisting:
1. Pretty Hurts – Acceleration
2. Perverts Again – Outhouse Countdown
3. Kitchen People – Take, Take, Take
4. Kill The Hippies – Volcano
5. The Kramers – Evil Girl
6. Hopeajärvi – Karkotus
7. Joni Ekman – Tiedän Että Valehtele
8. Needle Exchange – Counteract Now
9. The Porno Pop-Ups – Big In Nothing
10. Mark Wynn – I Just Don’t Understand Nick Cave
11. Center Negative – Six Months In A Leaky Flat
12. TheHabituals – Take Over
13. Year Of Birds – Unpopular Choice
14. Coma In Algiers – Extol
15. Blue Angel – Don’t Want Need To
16. Cruelster – Inchworm
17. Skin Colour – Slime God (7” Version)
18. Bad Faith – Cadaver No More
19. The Repossessed – Falling Down
20. Men With Chips – Opus Aich
21. Gattopardo – Hora Do Lobo
22. Teva Cheema & The TVs – On Teva T.V.
23. Destination Lonely – Seul
24. Statler + Waldorf – I Hate You And I Want You To Die
25. William Alexander – Maze
26. The Dance Asthmatics – Liquid Lunch
27. Efficiency – Golfclub Fetish
28. Stations – Work / Natives (Live)
29. 100% – Phantom Game
30. The Night Terrors – Blue Black
31. The Frightening Lights – Window
32. Charcoal Owls – Housebound And Proud
33. Mike Rep And Friends – She’s An Outsider
There are 500+ tracks and 450+ artists featured on these mixes. Obviously I didn’t discover everything on my own. A good deal came from tracking labels through an RSS feed, but there were plenty of other sources that helped over the year: Power Lunches Ltd, random visits to the Terminal-Boredom forums, Tumblr (radio-party, rockscissorsgun, fuckinrecordreviews, modraucous, cyanidetooth, radiocola, dynamitehemorrhage, several others, and various things that popped up on my dash), a Mess + Noise feature here and there, Bandcamp artist “Recommendation” links, Soundcloud (especially North London Bomb Factory’s page), a few still-single reviews, Rust Belt Hammer, Terminal Escape, and more that I’m forgetting. I wasn’t trying to dictate what’s relevant to anyone, but rather gather up as much quality as I could from the underground and showcase it. There are plenty of rough recordings and songs that aren’t fully realized across the 26 mixes. But if it was included, I at least thought the band was onto something. The overall idea being that talent pool is expansive. There are plenty artists worth encouraging. This was more or less my reaction to people who struggle to find more than an album or two a year that they can get behind. It was excessive for good reason. Ok, bye. I am music blog Gahndi. My only regret was that this paragraph wasn’t longer.