I've had enough of this heat shit

I love making mixes, I used to make mixtapes all the time for my car’s tape deck, before I had an iPod. Every now & then I get the urge to make a mix CD, even though I never listen to them. Therefore they instantly become relics immediately after I burn them. I stumbled across one of these relics the other day and gave it a listen, mostly because I had no recollection of what I had put on it. I was astounded at how terrible the audio quality was.

Turns out I had been lazy enough to make this particular CD in iTunes. Never again. I had been thinking about making a mix, and digging up this CD this only motivated me more, in order to do it right this time. Also there is currently a heat wave, and because I do my damnedest to avoid scrotum-melting heat, I’m essentially trapped inside:


Zach Hill – Hindsight is Nowhere
The Sound of Animals Fighting – The Ocean and the Sun
Emeralds – Genetic
Gil Mantera’s Party Dream – Dreamscape
Why? – The Vowels, Pt. 2
El-Creepo – Space Needle
Holy Fuck – Lucky
Mushroomhead – Treason
Tim Hecker – Blood Rainbow
Sun Araw – Deep Cover

53:58, 102 MB

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This time around I ripped each song from CD as an .aiff, mixed them togther, saved the mix out as an .aiff, then converted that to an .mp3. Except there’s one song on this mix that I don’t own on CD, so I used the mp3 I had, and the quality isn’t ideal. If you can tell which song it is (it should be clear as day to anyone with moderately discernible ears,) then you win a cookie.



i could appreciate 6 months ago

no future for magnetic tape

one of these holds 60 minutes of music, the other holds 57,450 minutes of music. They're pretty close to being the same exact size.

EST

Eastern Standard Time – Tempus Fugit (2004) on Grover Records

1. Segment
2. It's Alright
3. 1361
4. Agua y Cerveza
5. Eye of the Storm
6. When Will Your Love Be Mine?
7. Out of Time
8. Step Ready
9. Don't Go
10. The Watcher
11. Bésame
12. Can't Keep a Good Man Down
13. Skacapella




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This is ska. No relation to 90s third wave ska from Southern California. This is rooted in jazz & reggae, no rock, no punk. DC has quite the ska scene, and EST has always been one of its stalwarts. They’re not as active as they used to be, but they are still around. Unfortunately this is their most recent album.

“Can’t Keep a Good Man Down” features Dr. Ring Ding on vocals. I can’t claim to be very familiar with him, but I checked out one of his albums once upon a time, and he’s infinitely less obnoxious than his guest spot on this EST song would lead you to believe. Oh, and it turns out he’s some German cracker, which means his “style” is just an act, and has nothing to do with the West Indies. He probably isn’t even a doctor. Other than that, this is ska at it’s finest.