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Getting Chummy: TDoL Summer Mix 2010

Monday, July 26th, 2010 | musiX, pdX | 3 Comments

Summer is finally here in Portland … at least for a few days—’tis the season for barbecues, tubing down the river, bottomless ice chests and summer jams (Jams? JAMZ!).

TDoL spent countless hours in a dark room assembling your summer soundtrack for 2010, a mixtape filled with singalongs, un poquito de español, noise (Noise? NOIZE!), a few breezy numbers, a handful of Portland cuts, and loads of hand claps … we’re talking more clap than a state school fraternity house. Most of the music on this compilation has been lovingly featured on The Days of Lore. You should totally buy the records.

Grab the full mix in a convenient zip folder by clicking the link below. Pairs well with road trips, good barbecue and cheap beer, as well as bad trips, good times and cheap friends.

TRACKLIST:
1. “Guadalajara” - Pepe Guízar
2. “Girlfriend” - Ty Segall
3. “Too Young to Burn” - Sonny & the Sunsets
4. “Free Association” - These Hills of Gold
5. “Better Surrender” - Far
6. “Beverly Kills” - Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
7. “Flashes” - International Waters
8. “Miss Metro” - The Knuckles
9. “Starting Over” - Typhoon
10. “The Ghost Inside” - Broken Bells
11. “Bad Buzz” - The Mint Chicks
12. “Get Around Town” - Revolver
13. “Juniper” - Y La Bamba
14. “Evening Star” - Blitzen Trapper
15. “TAOS” - Menomena
16. “La Barra” - Montañas
17. “Cars and Explosions” - Kevin Dunn
18. “Doesn’t Shake Me” - The Goodnight Loving
19. “Floating Vibes” - Surfer Blood
20. “Atom Bomb” - The Apples in stereo
21. “Sidepain” - Sea of Bees
22. “A More Perfect Union” - Titus Andronicus

DOWNLOAD: Getting Chummy: TDoL Summer Mix 2010 (117 MB ZIP)

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Kevin Dunn’s new wave gets new again

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 | musiX | No Comments

The late-’70s and early-’80s was an interesting period in music—that weird transition from disco and punk rock to hip hop and new wave. Bell-bottoms gave way to skinny ties. Sideways haircuts replaced Afros … and keytars were mysterious and cool. Oh it was a magical time, kids!

A lot of great music came out of those awkward years. And while MTV was instrumental in fostering a new visual age there were—as is usually the case—a lot of artists that remained in the shadows for one reason or another.

The name Kevin Dunn probably won’t ring a bell with a lot of people (myself included up until a month ago). His band The Fans were making a racket in Athens, Georgia years before R.E.M. put it on the map. Peter Buck loved the band, although they didn’t last very long. Dunn went on to produce a number of records from slightly better-known Athens bands, including The B-52s‘ “Rock Lobster” and the first releases from seminal rock band Pylon. Meanwhile Dunn was making music as a member of the Regiment of Women, which released The Judgment of Paris in 1981. He also released a handful of solo LPs and 7-inches, making spiky, new wave power pop that was weird, catchy as hell and way ahead of its time.

All of Dunn’s loose ends have all just found their way on to No Great Lost: Songs, 1979-1985 (Casa Nueva Industries), and I must say it’s been fun sifting through this record’s 21 songs. Each one’s a schizophrenic gem. They’ll fuck with your emotions a little—floaty vocals and gloomy synths collide with cheery dub beats and reggae strums—you never really know if you want to go running merrily through golden fields or crawl between the cushions of your couch. I chose the latter.

“20,000 Years in Sing Sing” and “Cars and Explosions” are good entry points, though I recommend diving into the entire disc. I do not, however, recommend crawling between the cushions of your couch.

“Cars and Explosions” - Kevin Dunn

“20,000 Years in Sing Sing” - Kevin Dunn

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