LOGANMIX002: The Widening Gyre
My newest mix for you is low on tracks, but high on concept.
Loosely based off Yeats's conic conception of history in The Second Coming, the mixtape was built around a basic rule: the song length would increase with each successive track. Starting with the catastrophic warning alarms of "Red Alert" and eventually decelerating into telomeric decay and the uncertain resurrection of "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts", the track-list reflects Yeats's apprehension of the [Western] world spiraling helplessly out of control.
Really though, the elaborate conceit is just a convenient excuse to string together eight amazing songs -- from the James Bond baiting "History Repeating" featuring 60s cabaret vocalist Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads [what happened to those guys?] to Kevin Shield's apocalyptic re-imagining of Primal Scream's "If They Move Kill 'Em" (and which just may be the greatest song of the decade).
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone:
1. Red Alert - Basement Jaxx [The Singles] (3:37)
2. History Repeating - Propellerheads [decksanddrumsandrockandroll] (4:02)
3. Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim [Right Here, Right Now Single] (5:03)
4. MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill 'Em) - Primal Scream [XTRMNTR] (6:41)
5. Out of Control - The Chemical Brothers [Surrender] (7:17)
6. Narayan - The Prodigy [Fat of the Land] (9:06)
7. Your Blood In Mine - Serena Maneesh [Serena Maneesh] (12:09)
8. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts - M83 [Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts Vinyl] (17:42)
My CD club disbanded, so if you drop me a line I would be more than happy to make you a copy. Or don't.
Loosely based off Yeats's conic conception of history in The Second Coming, the mixtape was built around a basic rule: the song length would increase with each successive track. Starting with the catastrophic warning alarms of "Red Alert" and eventually decelerating into telomeric decay and the uncertain resurrection of "Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts", the track-list reflects Yeats's apprehension of the [Western] world spiraling helplessly out of control.
Really though, the elaborate conceit is just a convenient excuse to string together eight amazing songs -- from the James Bond baiting "History Repeating" featuring 60s cabaret vocalist Shirley Bassey and the Propellerheads [what happened to those guys?] to Kevin Shield's apocalyptic re-imagining of Primal Scream's "If They Move Kill 'Em" (and which just may be the greatest song of the decade).
If you believe the western sun is falling down on everyone:
1. Red Alert - Basement Jaxx [The Singles] (3:37)
2. History Repeating - Propellerheads [decksanddrumsandrockandroll] (4:02)
3. Right Here, Right Now - Fatboy Slim [Right Here, Right Now Single] (5:03)
4. MBV Arkestra (If They Move Kill 'Em) - Primal Scream [XTRMNTR] (6:41)
5. Out of Control - The Chemical Brothers [Surrender] (7:17)
6. Narayan - The Prodigy [Fat of the Land] (9:06)
7. Your Blood In Mine - Serena Maneesh [Serena Maneesh] (12:09)
8. Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts - M83 [Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts Vinyl] (17:42)
My CD club disbanded, so if you drop me a line I would be more than happy to make you a copy. Or don't.
posted by d l wright at 8/20/2006 06:40:00 PM
6 Comments:
nerd alert. when are you moving to portland?
you act like you have never read this blog before.
I thought you told me that you were going to include K-Fed and Paris Hilton's new songs. What gives? If those don't relate to the world spiraling out of control... well, then... (I think you get the point).
We caught K-Fed's "world television premiere" the other night. That man can not hold a beat to save his life.
Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp were inaudible, partially because they were drunk, but mostly due to the wall of shreaks that met them whenever they were on stage.
Do the Teen Choice awards not have a audio mixer?
WTF?
I guess this deserves a curious spin.
This keeps getting better and better:
"Her music is a perfect Hentai anime porn soundtrack for a bunch of schoolgirls in knee socks getting raped by a cartoon octopus."
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