(this photo was meant to upload but wouldn't )

http://8tracks.com/zombie...inium-pigs

I'm as fickle as they come, and my favourite songs might be my favourites for years, or days.

Here are some that have stuck around for a while now


This one's for you (featuring Robyn)
Fläskkvartetten
Swedish string quartet who have been around since 1980s, this song is from their 12th album last year. I love Robyn, and could have picked Be Mine or With Every Heartbeat, but chose this one, something not as widely heard.



Dawn of the Dead
Does if Offend You, Yeah?
Don't know much about these guys, but their album is stuck in my car CD player, and this track is mostly on repeat.



Wet Blanket
Metric
This is the song that got me into Metric. They have a lot of words in their songs



Elemental
Deep Forest
From their biggest flop of an album, and my favourite, Music Detected. Beverly Jo Scott is guest vocalist on this one.



Play Me
Flesh Quartet (Fläskkvartetten)
Released under their english name, from their 1996 album Fire, Fire.



I am in love with you
Imogen Heap
I keep putting this one on mixtapes going on a couple of years now.



Inhaler
Hooverphonic
Belgian group who had a hit with their song "2Wicky", which appeared on a soundtrack or two, but I always liked this song more. They have a different singer now.



The Gentleman Who Fell
Milla Jovovich
This song has cool video, with tarantulas and everything. I got the album on eBay for a dollar, but this song was worth every cent.



Pure
Golden Palominos
I've loved and hated the Golden Palominos on and off for at least a decade, and had this one at my wedding even.



Blow x Blow
Moloko
From their Statues album which had the best album photo ever - a pint of lager in the sea.



Platform Moon
Jupiter One
This NYC group is trying to hit the big time. They managed to get this song on to a Mazda ad in Europe. They won a songwriting competition 2 years ago with their song Countdown (recently featured on Heroes, pre-episode season 3), resulting in them being signed. I can't wait to hear them on radio down here!

Are you competing with Lammastide?

GooeyTheHamster said:

I suppose I better go and look at his then?

I just made it cause I thought it would be fun

I didn't know you were in the Org music club line-up!

I also didn't know that Milla Jovovich was a musician


...will have to listen to this later!

thekidsgirl said:

no I'm not a member, this is an independent venture

ZombieKitten said:

Maverick!!!

abierman said:

not really just guilty of being very slow off the mark

ZombieKitten said:

Arr, pirates at bay!

Will listen soon anyway!

Sander said:

still waiting for the rest of yer review!

Wow. A rogue mixtape... and yours has gotten more responses than mine! Oh well -- I know my tastes can be boring.

This looks good, actually. I'll listen and review soon.

Very professional for an unauthorized mixtape. I'm impressed!

The Does It Offend You, Yeah?-track kicks ass!!!

Metric too!

sextonseven said:

I LOVE THIS MIX!

Every song would get at least a four-star rating in iTunes from me (except for Golden Palominos which gets three stars). Many I'd give a perfect five stars.

Favorites are the Robyn string song , Milla (whose album I have and of which I've always been a fan since it came out back in the 90s) and Moloko (the strings remind me of Clare Fischer).

You should have joined our club!

And where have I seen that aluminum pigs photo before?

I love that Milla track and video. Wish she would've kept it up.

MikeMatronik is gonna cry! This renegade mix has gotten more replies than his

FOR SHAME! I'm especially disappointed with you sexton






















!

sextonseven said:

really?

sextonseven said:

I made it

TRON said:

yeah

Definitely one of the coolest mixtapes. You really should have joined the group. I'd have liked to read your comments. Some things that stuck out...

This One's for You - My jury is out where Robyn is involved. But I LOVE this song. It's far and away the best I've heard of her. Love her voice against the strings... and there's something remotely "Diana Ross and the Supremes" in the feel of this track.

Wet Blanket - Many friends at my school have been trying to get me into Metric, as they're quite the talk of the town here. This is the first opportunity I've had to hear them. I thought they'd be another forgettable electronic band, but I was apparently very wrong! Is guitar always this prominent in their stuff? I love everything about this, from the odd vocal cadence of the verses to the harmonies of the bridge.

Elemental - Love the guitar line most. I don't think the song quite needs the eastern male vocal or the rapped bridge, but I suppose they add an interesting texture in what could be an otherwise mundane instrumental final third.

Play Me - 2 for 2. Maybe I need to check out Fläskkvartetten. What percentage of their stuff is without guest vocal, would you say?

I am in Love with You - Imogen Heap s another act I've been urged to check out, but have slept on. And I don't know why... everything I have heard of her, I like. Very funky track.

Inhaler - This, "Pure" an "Platform Moon" may be the only songs that didn't altogether grab me. That said, it's not bad -- just doesn't rise to the charm of the others on the mix. This also sounds "soundtracky." Does all their stuff have this synthy, ambient feel? I'd give a second listen to some other title from them.

The Gentleman Who Fell - How cool! How did this album perform? I'd think if she kept it up, she could have made a name for herself in music. I'd also love to know who produced this. Sounds like some stuff Stephen Lipson would come up with.

Blow x Blow - Love it. And, yeah, the strings do have a very Claire Fischer a la "Crystal Ball" feel.

...I can't decide on a favorite. Lot's of good material here!

Lammastide said:

aaaaww thanks


yeah, last 2 albums have had a fair few guitarry tracks


It's Deep Forest, they put that stuff in every song


Out of the 12 albums, I know about 3 are totally instrumental, and most of the ones with guest vocalists have one or 2 instrumentals on them.


Later albums went in a whole different direction, which I didn't like. It's not all so ambienty, but trip hop


produced by Richard Feldman, co-produced by Mark Holden, co-written by the 3 of them. I only like this song on the whole album.


the whole album is very strings LOVE that

ZombieKitten said:

You need to make different photos.

Lammastide said:

It flopped big time here in the states, but I remember the reviews to be decent.

sextonseven said:

same same but different

ZombieKitten said:

And most of the songs were already on the mixtape you sent me so of course I liked it. The one you sent me is like the super-extended director's cut version of this thread.

sextonseven said:

that's right