Share your Mixtapes

[rumpdoll]

Hi everybody,

I would like to listen to more random music you guys like. Hopefully I'm not the only one. So if you like to share a few mixtapes you made, ideally in playlist form with a few words about the "who, what and why" please do it here.

I'll start with a mix I made for my nieces when they turned 10. I tried to incorporate a wide set of genres without alienating them (so no hard rock or strange electronica, no hip hop for the first one, too). From my perspective it has become a mix full of pop music you can sing along, too

So here it is:

La La Land Cast - Another Day Of Sun
Mint Royale, Lauren Laverne - Don't Falter
Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
Zaz - Je veux
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World
Nicole - Ein bisschen Frieden
John Lennon - Imagine
Fatboy Slim - Praise You
Moloko, Boris Dlugosch, Michael Lange - Sing It Back - Boris Dlugosch Mix
Deee-Lite - Groove Is in the Heart
The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back
Antônio Carlos Jobim, Elis Regina - Águas De Março
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity
Gorillaz, Gruff Rhys - Superfast Jellyfish
The Go! Team - We Just Won't Be Defeated
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But You
Kofelgschroa - Sog ned

[Nick]

Over the summer I got heavily into city pop (Japanese pop music from the late 70s/early to mid 80s), and I made this playlist as a introduction to the genre. I'm pretty proud of it.

1. Mariya Takeuchi- Plastic Love
2. Junko Ohashi- Telephone Number
3. Shigeru Suzuki- Coral Reef
4. Tomoko Aran- Midnight Pretenders
5. Tatsuro Yamashita- Magic Ways
6. Taeko Ohnuki- 4:00 A.M.
7. Miki Matsubara- Stay With Me
8. Yasuko Agawa- L.A. Nights
9. Anri- Last Summer Whisper
10. Tomoko Aran- I'm in Love
11. Haruomi Hosono- Sports Men
12. Tatsuro Yamashita- Ride on Time
13. Minako Yoshida- Midnight Driver
14. Anri- Windy Summer
15. Mariya Takeuchi- September

The Light in the Attic city pop compilations that came out recently are an obvious point of reference here, as are the dozens of fan-made city pop playlists that populate YouTube that I listened to when preparing this playlist. Also, as it was very important to me that the playlist fit onto a single CD, the whole thing works out to be 76 minutes.

[Nick]

I also made a second compilation of my favorite songs that I couldn't find any room for on the first. Just like the first CD this one is 15 songs and just a little under the 80 minute mark. But there's also a few songs that aren't quite city pop, but are important to the development of the genre (like the two Yellow Magic Orchestra songs or "Lady Pink Panther").

1. Toshiki Kadomatsu- If You…
2. Tatsuro Yamashita- Daydream
3. Hitomi Tohyama- Exotic Yokogao
4. Yellow Magic Orchestra- Day Tripper
5. Junko Yagami- Bay City
6. Kaoru Akimoto- Dress Down
7. Tatsuro Yamashita- Space Crush
8. Yellow Magic Orchestra- Firecracker
9. Shigeru Suzuki- Lady Pink Panther
10. Kimiko Kasai- Mmm Mmm Good
11. Momoko Kikuchi- Adventure
12. Takako Mamiya- Love Trip
13. Anri- Remember Summer Days
14. Taeko Ohnuki- Summer Connection
15. Noriki- Night Lights

[rumpdoll]

I also made a second compilation of my favorite songs that I couldn't find any room for on the first. Just like the first CD this one is 15 songs and just a little under the 80 minute mark.

Nice, hopefully I can find some of both on spotify, japanese music is often a bit difficult on there

[Nick]

I also made a second compilation of my favorite songs that I couldn't find any room for on the first. Just like the first CD this one is 15 songs and just a little under the 80 minute mark.

Nice, hopefully I can find some of both on spotify, japanese music is often a bit difficult on there

I'm not sure about Spotify (I use it, but not all too frequently), but every one of these songs is on YouTube if you're interested.

[Jirin]

This is a list I made as the soundtrack for a character in a webcomic I drew:

Robyn - Hang With Me
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Robert Johnson - Hellhound On My Trail
Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
The National - Conversation 16
The Knife - We Share Our Mother’s Health
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals - Apologies

[Nick]

At the start of my quarantine back in March I did this thing where I made a soundtrack to a fictional movie. I've tweaked it a bit since then, so here's my final iteration:

La Femme du Brazil: The Original Soundtrack

A cosmopolitan young woman and a pop-culture obsessed detective travel from Paris to the Old West to Rio in pursuit of a mysterious stolen emerald.

A mixture of downtempo, chanson, orchestral pop, baroque pop, yé-yé, easy listening, lounge, jazz, bossa nova, exotica, film score, and Tropicália.

Track list:

1. Air- La Femme d’Argent
2. Serge Gainsbourg- Bonnie and Clyde
3. Henry Mancini- Peter Gunn Theme
4. Nouvelle Vague- Just Can’t Get Enough
5. Gillian Hills- Zou Bisou Bisou
6. Françoise Hardy - Tous les garçons et les filles
7. Dionne Warwick- I’ll Never Fall in Love Again
8. Hugh Masekela- Grazing in the Grass
9. Serge Gainsbourg- Initials B.B.
10. Stanley Wilson & His Orchestra- Wagons Ho!
11. Dusty Springfield- Son of a Preacher Man
12. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood- Summer Wine
13. Walter Wanderley- Summer Samba (So Nice)
14. Astrud Gilberto- Fly Me to the Moon
15. Antonio Carlos Jobim- Brazil
16. Jorge Ben- Taj Mahal
17. Al Hirt- Green Hornet Theme
18. Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '77- The Waters of March
19. Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66- Mas Que Nada
20. Gal Costa- Baby
21. Hugh Masekela- Riot

[Nick]

Update: cut out the trip to the Old West, added more time in Paris and Rio...

1. Air- La Femme d’Argent
2. Serge Gainsbourg- Bonnie and Clyde
3. Henry Mancini- Peter Gunn Theme
4. France Gall- Laisse tomber les filles
5. Gillian Hills- Zou Bisou Bisou
6. Brigitte Bardot- Harley Davidson
7. Françoise Hardy- Le temps de l'amour
8. Serge Gainsbourg- Initials B.B.
9. Hugh Masekela- Grazing in the Grass
10. Sun Ra and the Blues Project- Batman Theme
11. Geoff Muldaur- Brazil
12. Walter Wanderley- Summer Samba (So Nice)
13. Maysa- O Barquinho
14. Astrud Gilberto- Fly Me to the Moon
15. Antônio Carlos Jobim- Brazil
16. Jorge Ben- Taj Mahal
17. Al Hirt- Green Hornet Theme
18. Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '77- The Waters of March
19. Sérgio Mendes and Brasil '66- Mas Que Nada
20. Gal Costa- Baby
21. Hugh Masekela- Riot

[Edre Depeche Head]

I have been putting together a goth playlist/mixtape it keeps growing but heres the condensed version.

1. Xmal Deutschland - Reign
2. Night Sins - The Stranger
3. Ikon - Alive
4. What Moon Things - Vampir
5. What Moon Things - Party Down The Street
6. Sisters of Mercy - Walk Away
7. Depeche Mode - Stripped
8. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
9. Bauhaus - All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
10. Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
11. The Cure - In Your House
12. Drab Majesty - Dot In The Sky
13. Siouxsie And The Banshees - Dear Prudence
14. Joy Divison - Disorder
15. Clan of Xymox - Stranger
16. Clan of Xymox - No Words
17. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
18. The Church - Under The Milky Way
19. Marilyn Manson - Coma White
20. Idles - A Hymn
21. This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
22. Savages - Husbands
23. Dead Can Dance - The Trial
24. Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister
25. London After Midnight - Sacrifice

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6QwLD ... kFyy5mKBvw

[rumpdoll]

Nice, the thread is alive, I will listen to both

here is one I made a few years ago for some colleagues. Its very power poppy (and germancentric) and always reminds me of spring:

Fresh, frivolous and socially damaged

1. The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart
2. Dogs die in hot cars - Lounger
3. Le Tigre - TKO
4. Stella - The shape of sound itself
5. Die Türen - Tanz den Tanz
6. Tocotronic - Mach es nicht selbst
7. Element of Crime - Finger weg von meiner Paranoia
8. R.E.M. - Its the end of the world as we know it
9. The Flaming Lips - Race for the price
10. Klez.e - Werbefläche Mond
11. Nada Surf - The way you wear your head
12. Caesars - Only You
13. Erdmöbel - Busfahrt
14. Wir sind Helden - Die Träume anderer Leute
15. Blur - Parklife
16. William Shatner - Common People
17. Franz Ferdinand - Michael
18. Metric - Dead Disco
19. Die Goldenen Zitronen + Michaela Melian - Beautiful People