No theme or anything here, except for the fact that these are Beatles songs I felt sounded particularly good on vinyl. Please listen on good speakers or good headphones. Recorded directly off the Technics... enjoy!

Love Me Do
Sexy Sadie
Lady Madonna
Paperback Writer
Getting Better
Hey Bulldog
You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Oh Darling
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey
Old Brown Shoe
I Feel Fine
Strawberry Fields Forever
All Together Now
I'm So Tired
Here Comes The Sun

Just some random songs I like... is there a theme? I dunno, maybe

1) Flourescent Grey - Deerhunter
2) Sleepyhead - Passion Pit
3) Empathy - Crystal Castles
4) Duet - Gonjasufi
5) Chinatown - Wild Nothing
6) Hannibal - Caribou
7) Drink To Me, Babe, Then - A.C. Newman
8) Gemeni Cusp - Polvo
9) NYC-25 - Olivia Tremor Control

1) Lyrical Gangbang - Dr. Dre
2) N.Y. State of Mind - Nas
3) Hip Hop - Mos Def
4) Machine Gun Funk - Notorious B.I.G.
5) Oh My God - A Tribe Called Quest
6) The Next Movement - The Roots
7) Where I'm From - Digable Planets
8) Get it Together - Beastie Boys (feat. Q-Tip)
9) Da Art of Storytellin' (Pt. 1) - Outkast
10) Da Mystery of Chessboxin' - Wu-Tang Clan

So about a month ago I won a ridiculously large collection of records on ebay from a very nice woman on the Upper East Side for only $2.50. When I picked them up, she had them all meticulously packaged with handles in three separate boxes and had her doorman hail me a taxi. The next day she asked me if I ever DJ with them to make her a mix, which I agreed to for feeling like such a slimy bastard for practically stealing her record collection. I'm sending her a CD of this today.

I'm still getting used to mixing on vinyl, so there's a few weird things in this mix. But enjoy the crackle, the warmth, the bass, and most of all -- the totally inane lyrics.

"Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson
"If Ya Think I'm Sexy" - Rod Stewart
"Dance Wit Me" - Rick James
"No Room For Dancing" - The Fatback Band
"Queen for a Day" - Donna Summer
"Heaven Must Be Missing An Angel" - Tavares
"How's Your Love Life Baby" - Jackie Moore
"You Make My Dreams" - Hall & Oates
"Sometimes a Fantasy" - Billy Joel
"Too High" - Stevie Wonder
"Please Don't Stay (Once You Go Away)" - Marvin Gaye

Thank you Eileen for making this all possible!

I'd be lying if I said I've been a fan of Jay Reatard any longer than a year; I'd also be lying if I said a week went by in that year where I didn't listen to one of his songs. Creating a mix of Jay's music wasn't a difficult task, though I wish i had more of his material to put something together on the spot like I did here. Getting into his music reminded me of when I discovered the Pixies in high school. Literally every time I heard another song by that band I would think to myself....is this band for real? How could one band have so many accessibly great songs and not be a staple of mainstream music? That's pretty much exactly how I felt the first time I listened to "The Matador Singles". One great song after another. Almost all of them under 2 minutes. And with an energy you really don't hear all that often anymore. I have a feeling Jay's sound will be influential down the road, if it hasn't been so already. Who knows what he could have accomplished - but it's clear the music world again lost someone special way too soon.

You will probably notice in the first song I accidentally faded up the next song about halfway through. It was recorded live at Fontana's on January 13th 2010, the day of Jay's death. Well, I can say that alcohol was to blame for the error, and I was going to fix it, but I thought it was a lot more punk rock to leave it in. Enjoy.

Contains elements of:

"Flea Market Montgomery" - Sammy Stephens
"Give it to Me Baby" - Rick James
"Casual Friday" - Black Leotard Front
"With or Without You" - U2

1) Dance! - Datarock
2) Bellhead - Liquid Liquid
3) Superheroes - Daft Punk
4) That's the Way I Like It - Pixeltan
5) Photocopier - Fujiya & Miyagi
6) It's Boring/You Can Live Anywhere You Want - YACHT
7) Careful - Hot Chip
8) Ceremony - New Order
9) Twenty Thousand Leagues - Midnight Juggernauts

My first attempt at an original remix. Contains elements of:

Disco Infiltrator - LCD Soundsystem
Darko - Booka Shade
Let's Make Out - Does it Offend You, Yeah?
Random noises - DJ CGerzzz

Feedback appreciated!

this is what happens when i get bored at 2am on a friday night.

1) So Bored - Wavves
2) No Time - Jay Reatard
3) Teen Creeps - No Age
4) Colorado - Pavement
5) Run to Your Grave - The Mae Shi
6) Lover's Spit - Broken Social Scene
7) River Card - Atlas Sound
8) Rock and Roll - Daniel Johnston
9) Birthday Boy - Ween
10) We're an American Band - Yo La Tengo

Weird mix....whole lotta Phil Spector and similar recording techniques

Major props to Debbie and Colin for getting me into River Deep-Mountain High!

1) Baby I Love You - The Ronettes
2) Deeper into Movies - Yo La Tengo
3) Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) - The Beach Boys
4) To Hear Knows When - My Bloody Valentine
5) Awaiting on You All - George Harrison
6) Snowstorm - Galaxie 500
7) I Love How You Love Me - The Paris Sisters
8) You Trip Me Up - The Jesus and Mary Chain
9) Star Sign - Teenage Fanclub
10) Why Don't The Let Us Fall In Love - Veronica
11) Comfy in Nautica - Panda Bear
12) All Tomorrow's Parties - The Velvet Underground
13) Saved By Old Times - Deerhunter
14) This Could Be The Night - Modern Folk Quartet
15) Blush - The Raveonettes
16) River Deep-Mountain High - Ike & Tina Turner
17) Dreams Reoccurring - Husker Du

Selected and recorded live:

1) You Keep Me Hangin' On - Vanilla Fudge
2) Pendelum - Broadcast
3) Cattle and Cane - The Go-Betweens
4) Mother of Pearl - Roxy Music
5) Twilight at Carbon Lake - Deerhunter
6) Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan
7) She Wanted to Leave - Ween
8) Birthday - Sugarcubes
9) Mary Anne with the Shakey Hand - The Who
10) Remember - John Lennon
11) Good Good Things - The Descendents
12) Heart Attack - Sleater-Kinney
13) Conjugate the Verbs - Enon
14) Fireworks - Animal Collective
15) Pimple Zoo - Guided By Voices
16) Speed of Life - David Bowie
17) Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom