Summer Jamz '08 #6: Jeff Siegel and Kevin J. Elliott
Summer Jamz '08 #6: It's Not The Heat http://www.sendspace.com/file/qrmab7 Each Summer Jam is proudly co-hosted with Screw Rock N' Roll and What Was it Anyway. 01. Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Au Rayaume Des Mouches 02. Meth Teeth - To My Good Friend 03. Royal Trux - I'm Ready 04. Amon Duul II - Archangels Thunderbird 05. Ruth - Mon Pote (Version Courte) 06. The Wedding Present - Spangle 07. The Congos - Congo Man 08. Depth Charge - Blue Lipps 09. Gilberto Gil - Sai Do Sereno 10. Circle ft. Verde - Gerde 11. Cut Copy - Far Away 12. Depeche Mode - See You 13. DOP - Foly 14. Nomo - All the Stars 15. Crystal Castles - Courtship Dating 16. Part Timer - Only Natural 17. The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences 18. Vivian Girls - Wild Eyes 19. Natural Snow Buildings - Gone 20. The Pizzas - Hideous Fashion 21. Sian Alice Group - Motionless 22. Cristina - Drive My Car (Long Version) 23. Frank Black - Headache 24. Jack Rose - Kensington Blues Here in greenhouse NYC, our only real theme is "sweltering," so this mix is a reflection of soupy, unrelenting humidity. A heat mirage. A little dancing, but not too much, because we must lie down and rehydrate. Ready the sweat-bucket. --Jeff Siegel This mix started from my end -- where in the fickle Ohio heat and rain and wind, I'm forced to celebrate summer with a "home" vacation. That is, with the price of gas and food and alcohol going through the fucking roof, trying to conjure up a seasonal fever dream is confined to the basements, backyards, and dive bars of Columbus. So excuse the randomness, the scruffy edges, the teenage nostalgia. I don't have beaches or skyscrapers or foreign flights to pad my imagination this year, only scuzzy, cigarette stained hangovers, bong rips, and lo-fi escapism. Jeff did a wonderful job juxtaposing my trash heap -- giving us the soaring solar to my claustrophobic nocturnal. --Kevin J. Elliott
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More summer:
Summer Jamz '08 #5: Compiled by Jayson Greene and Stewart Voegtlin "Oh, geezus. Didn’t we all wanna give up the goose when the sweat ceased to dribble and ran?" Summer Jamz '08 #4: Compiled by Paul Scott and Ian Mathers For their summer mix, Paul and Ian decided to have a conversation, or maybe an argument, thanks to one inarguable fact: Ian hates summer. Summer Jamz '08 #3: Dear Summer... by Jonathan Bradley "My mix is for the times everything is still and quiet and perfect ... I haven’t included any yacht rock or Eagles tunes, but that’s all I can guarantee." Summer Jamz '08 #2: State of the Union, Jack by Mike Orme and Nick Southall "Two former Stylus Magazine compatriots ... celebrate the summer by splitting halves of a mix CD, each trying to fill their side with songs the other writer would put on a summer mix." Summer Jamz '08 #1: Compiled by Alfred Soto and Dan Weiss "In the context of summer, vastness suggests the abrogation of responsibility: school and relationships, mostly..."