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Mixtape: Coitus

Coitus: Mixtape
February 13, 2012 By In Mixtape

By ReddNappy AKA Jason Foster

“Hold on, lemme put some music on.” We’ve all said that before but what happens when your roommate is borrowing your i-Pod and all you have is Top 40 radio? Of course they’re playing nothing but Nickelback and Taylor Swift. Unless you’re in high school or just really love the sound of Chad Kroeger’s voice that’s not going to cut it. Your jump off is now bouncing out the door faster than the Saints out of the playoffs. Too soon? Nope! But if you do want to get that touchdown, a grand slam, a hole in one or whatever metaphor the kids are using these days to sealing the deal, legally download Coitus.

Coitus, has been crafted, like a fine vodka (Mr. Boston) to simulate the ebb and flow of the bump and grind. The songs are nicely paced but never too fast. Let the music guide you, if you last the whole tape you then you get a prize. What? A return visit.

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Track List:

1) Flying Overseas Theophilus London ft. Devonté Hynes & Solange Knowles
2) Houstatlantavegas Pains  Major Lazer & La Roux ft. Drake
3) Quest  Nosaj Thing
4) Coming Down The Weeknd
5) Break Childish Gambino
6) Novacane Frank Ocean
7) U.R.A. Fever The Kills
8) D.D. The Weeknd
9) Tape You N*E*R*D
10) Black Milk Massive Attack
11) Secondbreath Jamie Woon
12) Glory Box Portishead
13) Paradise Circus feat. Hope Sandoval Massive Attack
14) Search Lights Empress Hotel
15) Everybody Loves the Sunshine Seu Jorge and Almaz
16) What You Need The Weeknd

 

Mixtape: Long Drive Home

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November 4, 2011 By In Mixtape, Music

 

I adore Robyn’s video for Call Your Girlfriend where she flash-dances and is sad for five minutes but it isn’t something I can physically translate to a dancefloor. I have a good sense of rhythm and love singin’ along but I also have bowlegs, two left feet and bad shoes. Obviously this means my car is a constant discotheque. After a Quarter evening of rolling my eyes and voguing to the Lady Gaga problem I was able to climb into an American-made mom-van and close out the thumping jungle bass. Joker’s dubby take on pop, Joywave’s familiar samples and Dave Sitek’s disco Lykke Li were enough to get me moving on I-10. The surreal pop of Zola Jesus and Active Child were head-clearing and Starfawn’s visceral thump finally got my hands moving and head bobbing. Stay + pushed me over the edge and you should have seen this kid poppin’ seated turns like it was 1982 in Berlin. JJ’s intimacy whispered as I sat in front of my house and let the groove’s build get my feet moving onto the pavement and toward my damn bed.

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Luke Garcia

5-Song Play List: Under the Covers

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September 26, 2011 By In Mixtape, Music

I am a cover freak. There’s just something about the sheer weirdness of Andre 3000 revamping the Beatles’ “All Together Now,” or the delicious oddity of a folk band covering “Billie Jean” – covers are a sonic playground for musicians to interrupt the norm. Altering tempo, substituting or adding in different instruments, and changing the melody of an original not your own is an art for unto itself. Since I typically gravitate towards cover songs that I might be able to play myself, I end up getting hooked on a lot of soft, stringy little numbers. Here are the covers I can’t get out of my head lately, and why.

 

Drain You (Nirvana cover) – Horse Feathers

For years I’ve straddled the two disparate worlds of raunchy, rowdy punk/grunge jams and precious little acoustic ditties. I love them both, but can never really reconcile their basic differences. So when I found this Horse Feathers cover of the eighth track from Nirvana’s infamous Nevermind, I was downright ecstatic. Its soft tone and the brilliant addition of violins make the song sound fresh and clean, but the contrast between its sweet sound and the dark original lyrics casts an eerie, perfectly calibrated cloud over its sunny strings and vocals. Obsessed!

 

I Can’t Make You Love Me (Bonnie Raitt cover) – Bon Iver

At this point, Justin Vernon (the one-man superpower behind the sleepy falsetto genius of Bon Iver), can do no wrong. And this cover is proof – it’s gorgeous, and like many good covers, unexpected. He originally introduced his version of the Bonnie Raitt classic during a live performance on Jimmy Fallon, but I prefer the clarity of his subsequently released studio recording. Honestly, Vernon could sing Rebecca Black’s “Friday” and I would probably slobber all over it and throw it on my bedtime playlist, I’m that in love with his voice. But give this a listen and try not to get chills when he hits the chorus. I dare ya.

 

Billy Jean (Michael Jackson cover) – The Civil Wars

My favorite type of cover dares to make a total departure from the sound of the original, and this one nails it, switching Michael Jackson’s classic baby-daddy groove from funky to folky. The harmonies rule, and the male-female duet adds a layer of sexy conversational tension. The Civil Wars, a duo who linked up randomly at a songwriting session in Nashville, score bonus points for rocking this one live and sounding flawless straight through.

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow (Carole King cover) – Amy Winehouse

The media frenzy swirling around Amy’s death has generated plenty of controversy, with many questioning societal values and priorities as toxicology reports and celeb interviews eclipsed coverage of bombings in Norway and other worthy news. But with all of the hype aside, a woman with a beautiful voice passed away. And perhaps because I watched my dad buy artists’ entire discographies following their demise, from Michael Jackson to Frank Sinatra, and play them on loop like a drawn-out eulogy, I felt compelled to pay my respects by pausing to appreciate Amy’s talent. I’ve always loved her voice, and she shines on this Carole King cover.

 

White Blank Page (Mumford & Sons cover) – Keirsten Holine

I can’t do a cover playlist without giving a shout-out to this amazing singer. My friends tease me for haunting her YouTube stream, but her voice is so gloriously beautiful and she brings so much life and personality to every song she sings – I can’t stay away! Singing this Mumford & Sons tune, already one of my favorites, she brings in a few extra layers of harmony and a smoothness that she seems to infuse into every cover I’ve heard her do.

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Emily Jensen is a folk-singin’, camera-totin’, word-lovin’ Portland girl who fell hard for New Orleans years ago and never really left.

Mixtape: Slow B-Q

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August 26, 2011 By In Mixtape

By: Lizzie Ford-Madrid

I’m at that point in the summer where it’s so hot I just want it to be over mostly out of guilt for not taking advantage of summer times like I should. I know summer doesn’t really end in New Orleans but I always feel a twinge of sadness as September rolls around. It’s beautiful out and hot, and everyone is at the beach and they’re hot, and I’m sitting around incapacitated and sweating because it’s fucking hot.  Nothing makes me forget that twinge of sadness like a good old BBQ. This playlist is exactly what I want to listen to when I have my close friends over to sear a variety of animal flesh on the grill. So, crack open a beer and play this as your BBQ starts to wind down; and maybe if you’re lucky enough the moment you think it’s over your party will catch it’s second wind.

Featuring

Rye Rye – Sunshine
Frank Ocean – Songs for Women

TV On The Radio – Will Do
Beyoncé featuring André 3000 – Party
Amy Winehouse – Back To Black

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Mixtape: New Jack Swing

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April 15, 2011 By In Mixtape, Music

Beloved Invader Ashbash has come back with her third mixtape: “New Jack Swing.” Take a quick stroll down memory lane with early 90s R&B. Then put on your spandex bodysuit and dance like you’re in the movie “House Party.”

The Good Girls – “Your Sweetness”

Ralph Tresvant – “Yo Baby Yo”

Bobby Brown – “On Our Own”

Bell Biv DeVoe – “Do Me!”

Full Force Family – “House Party”

 

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And to really get you in the mood, how about a dance-off?