Summer Shoulders.

So it's summer, as you may have noticed. I know this primarily because it's too hot in my room, because I sat on a beach with some people last weekend, and because I've finally completed work on my 2008 Plan B Summer Mix CD.

Assembling a satisfactory track-list proved a ridiculously painstaking process, as these things can easily become with the possibilities for endlessly tweaking put at our fingers by iTunes.... we can agonise over the overall feeling conveyed by the CD over a matter of weeks, crafting watertight segues and checking them for leaks... man, remember the old days with the tapedeck, where if you decide you're not entiiiiirely sure about that 13th Floor Elevators track you laid down four songs back, well, tough luck, it's there already.

Anyway, I'm not going to post the finished CD for you - that'll be hard copy only, as is only respectful to my friends and CD swapping buddies.

What I'm going to do is post LAST YEAR'S CD, which came together a lot more easily, and which is still basically my ultimate Summer Music tour de force, featuring many of the usual sunny suspects and relatively little disorientating weirdness, and overall I'm still very pleased with it.

(Several of the best tracks I should point out for grabbed directly from another excellent Summer Cd put together a while back by that indefatigable knight of the mix tape, Grant Balfour, and that the cover art is ripped from a comic by Bryan Lee O'Malley, so credit where it's due etc.)

Enjoy.

download (90mb .zip file)

Labels: mixtapes, radio show, summer