dreamorlife

My head just went *boom* with your answer :D You can't imagine how interested I am now in finding out the lyrics and listen to it again with that theme in mind. That is a seriously awesome idea, not to mention how difficult is to capture "life" :) And it seems a mixtape for me without a David Bowie track that I don't really get is not a mixtape.

Here is my review of my mixtape: Overall there some quite interesting things in here (really intrigued by 2,3,11 and 6, just because it is so weird), but for the next time I’d just wish for some fewer acoustic guitars :D But still a big thank you for every bit of time and effort you put in here, the first good Christmas present this year :) And here is my answer to Jonny and the cakes review of my mixtape: I'm in love with whoever made my mixtape, really loved the album covers and the note you left me! Thanks :) Enjoyed it! And sorry if my music taste scared you!! Ahahah Glad you liked it. Seems like there was actually something interesting for you in there, quite happy how it turned out. :) Tracklist: 01 - Mount Kimbie - Home Recording 02 - The 1974 - Chocolate 03 - Bonobo - Emkay 04 - Fatoumata Diawara - Sowa 05 - Modest Mouse - Dramamine 06 - Gregory Porter - Hey Laura 07 - Gold Panda - Marriage 08 - Portugal. The Man - Modern Jesus 09 - Melt Yourself Down - Fix My Life 10 - Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Day 11 - Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band - Improvisation 12 - Everything Everything - Choice Mountain 13 - Sting - Soul Cake 14 - Ghostpoet - Comatose 15 - Bloc Party - Team A 16 - Smith & Burrows - Rosslyn

Just seeing e.s.t. on a mixtape alone makes it worth checking out.

So Jonny and the cake, I was your mixtape maker. I'm going to write a proper answer when I have the time (hopefully tomorrow), but a shout out for putting Radiohead, Foals and Jon Hopkins on your tape. I knew that could work. I've also gotten my tape and already given it a first spin, teaser: I quite like it :) PS: you guessed the Christmas track right :D

I'd kill anybody that forces me to download a FLAC mixtape with like 1GB of files (I exaggerate, but still a valid point) :D Don't think that could be a problem, only if virtually everyone else would use MP3 and you were the only Apple guy. But that seems unlikely.

I mean, that's it. Just gonna second that motion.

For anyone trying to figure out what to put on my mixtape, here could be some hints: http://www.last.fm/user/wellthatsmusic Just do what you think represents you in a way I might enjoy. Open for anything :)

After missing out on the summer one, I'm definitely up for this one. In :)

If they want to avoid shitty moderator embarrassing themselves by not even looking up the proper spelling of the band you are supposed to announce, they shouldn't invent a new word this time :D But it's either more literal, like really roots style or something out of their imagination which (at least for me, don't know if anyone here has more psychic powers than me) seems unpredictable.

Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit nothing revolutionary, just an amazing voice with great songs.

I have challenged myself which was really rewarding. I have met amazing people whereas I didn't think there were (a) any nice people (b) I'd never talk to them. I have learned about electronic music. I listened to virtually nothing at the beginning of this year, and since then have gone on the most amazing journey through a virtual jungle, discovering lots of sounds I didn't know before and now are part of me. I've come to be more real and my actual myself when with others. Really great.

Coldplay, the Weeknd, The National, Lorde, Ellie Goulding and Santigold? That looks really interesting.

If they were going acoustic, they wouldn't have put that fat sound on Will's snare. Seems more like more experimentation soundwise and a musically not so "full" as perhaps VLV. So sparse, but not sounding sparse. Which is good and bad for performing live.

Prediction time! 1) How many tracks will LP6 have? 12, just because it is an even number 2) How long will LP6 be? around 45 min, just because it also has something symmetrical to it. 3) Assuming it will be released in 2014, which month will it be released? August. Enough time for promotion before, with a new single for the summer, appearances at festivals etc. 4) Guess the new look. What will LP6 era costumes look like? Space suits. With sparkly golden glitter on them. :D More realistically, I think it's a bit of back to the roots. They have done VLVODAAHF which was sort of a concept album and expaned on that with MX, they are probably like "just make some music, without costumes, cartoons and paintings". Or they continue there, take all the things they already have further. Possibly MX 2? Open for that 5) Where do you think LP6 will land within the broad spectrum of music genres/styles? (Pop, acoustic, straightforward rock, strings, heavy synths, hard rock.... etc.) See above, nothing revolutionary I think. Either a bit less ambitious, or a continuation of MX.

Agh, missing the deadline by three days is the probably the most annoying thing that has happend to me in like 2 months or so :( (bad karma from too few visits to the forum lately :D) So if anyone doesn't get a mixtape (which sadly still seems to happen to often) I'm happy to jump in :) Have fun you all ;)

I'm the type of guy who admires Thom Yorke's moves, but I wouldn't dare do them in public. Wish I had the courage, but I do/did ballroom dancing which is nice because you get told how to dance. That is quite fun, but not really that much a place for being unique :D I also love men who have the ability to move gracefully, because that is first of all difficult and secondly not so "mainstream", but can be really cool (well, graceful is not the right word, hope you get what I mean :D)

Seems Spotify is measures things differently. Still, a cool record and hopefully a new invitation to innovate outside of boundaries for the whole genre.

Love the funky stuff on the record, but just wondering if, after all the hype, there is no one listening to it? Get Lucky is on Spotify nr. 3 most popular single in Germany, but Random Acces Memories is not even in the Top 100? (can't get it to show the international numbers, just shows an empty list). With Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and everybody else having their cover story dedicated to Daft Punk, I was a bit surprised. Maybe I'm just to much following twitter and global music sites and we Germans are slower :D

In the meantime I gave dreamorlife's tape some spins. More than I had to, but that's a good thing I guess, hahaha! At first glance I noticed the 20 numbers! And yeah, it’s more than 80 minutes long. Niiiiice. The theme might have to do with travelling? I say that while looking at the artwork and some titles of the songs; first one nicely says bonjour and last one says goodbye. But that could also be a personal hello of the mixtape maker, rather than referring to a journey. Unless we go all metaphorical and the mixtape is like a journey through all kinds of music. Nice cover, it added to the feeling I got while listening to the tape. Is it self-made or did you look for it to fit the theme? (it looks very familiar to me, so I think it's not self-made) In the cover there's a personal note to me, hahaha. I imagine this used to be one for RazorEye :angry: I just found some great illustrator (my second mixtape had also as a cover basis one of his works) and I just added some fonts, so to avoid the embarrassment of me drawing 1. I know this song. It is good for setting the mood of the tape, I think. I like that. It is chill and something that would be played in a nice club that I imagine myself in during a trip. But I am not a fan of the song, the trick with the high-up pitched voice is something I can't really handle. Beat is too loud for me as well, too dominant. It's a guy called "Flume" who just released his debut record in Australia, I love pretty much all of it so I had no idea which to put on here. But you're right, he's definitely on the more pop-side of the electronic things 2. This is Moddi, I think. I never really got into his songs, but I have heard some of his work. It starts off with something that could be Sigur Rós-like, I mean the stuff from their last album then. Then he sings a very honest song. It’s sad. Let me then surprise you and say it's Keaton Henson. Guy from London I think, who seems to suffer from social anxiety or something because he just likes to be at home and write music. That song is from a record about a heartbreak he had to endure, it's just a personal thing because I felt so with him after reading a profile of him (and there were people in the comments like "what a looser"). I just feel with him :) 3. Royksöpp. I like this. It is chill-out, kind of lounge like. Again managed to sneak in my pop-preferences, this one is from the bass player of the Chili Peppers. He did a solo EP which I found surprisingly interesting and more offbeat than what the Chillis usually do 4. Django Django. I like their CD, but to the honest, this is the song of them I like the least :( It is the most poppy and catchy I guess, but I don’t like the default mumbles, which are like robotic. Too bad I let that ruin the song for me, because the beat is very nice, it’s uplifting and the guitars are nice. To bad, the monotonic repetition is what got me originally into the track :D 5. Simple and cute song. Guy in love with a girl. Your singer-song writer song. “you are a radar detector” what? This one is indeed called "Radar Detector", from Darwin Deez. Funny and senseless, either hate or love it (or don't care) :D 6. Aaaah, nice start. Very lounge. Very relaxing. This is neat, it is not one of my favourite music styles, but this song I like. If I would do a three point system per song, this song would get three. It’s soooo nice. It’s like how I wish lounge would sound like. Here we go with the Radiohead references. This one is originally the title track from The Eraser solo album by Thom, but covered by a trumpet player called Christian Scott. If you approach him with care, you may actually start to like jazz. It's the guy that got me also into this sort of music because always has an awesome band, blending Radiohead-style-rock with other things (from loungy to real jazz-rocky). Seems that was a lucky pick :) 7. Oh no, I think this is one of these artists that I don’t like. I don’t like it, sorry. When the guy goes all ‘heartbeat ringing out of MY CHEST’ ... no. The song is like what you would hear in a club, I imagine. This one was the housy thing on the tape, from upcoming UK's brothers Disclosure. As also RazorEye just said "throw them music at me" (or something like that :D ), I just tried everything, so this was always going to be a hit-or-miss thing. 8. We’re still in the club. Another way. This sounds like the remix of the song. I’d like to hear the original version, I think it would be better than this remix. If this is not the remix, then I don’t understand why they made the song like this :S hahaha, eh yeah. Like the guitar is cute and nice, but seems out of place when it gets overruled by the remixing of ‘walkanotherway wa wak walkanotherway wa wak’ If you want to look for the original of this one, it's Come Back Home by Two Door Cinema Club 9. This is nice. Slow build-up, guitar coming in ... then a nice voice singing. Also a funny ‘kin-kin-kin’ like the guy is mumbling along with the music. Very nice singing. Funky bass. I like this song! Again something RHCP-related :D Their former guitarist, with their now guitarist (but on drums) and the bass player from Fugazi, forming a short-lived psychedelic outfit called Ataxia. This one was the shortest song from them I found, but if you're into long jams with distorted guitars, but emotional and with (I think) beautiful voices (both guitarists sing and even the Fugazi guy I think at some point), look no further :) 10. Hahaha, I know this song. Rap. The lyrics are ..... yeah well. A bit ridiculous. But that makes it funny. It’s an okay song though. I wouldn’t place it on my iPod (if I’d have one), but I kind of dig it. I also have to laugh about the part when he says ‘Go Play. Go play’ because at first I heard ‘Coldplay, coldplay’ :laugh4: I even looked into the lyrics to be sure about what he said :D Sort of a niche reference to Coldplay :D But critics praise him for that record, so he seems to be at least one step above other contemporaries *cough* insert name*. The "Backseat Freestyle" from Kendrick Lamar 11. folk, this is very nice! Probably from The Hobbit soundtrack, the dwarf song, right? I never listened to the soundtrack, while I have that one of LotR and that one I have listened to endlessly. Maybe I should get the one from The Hobbit as well. They only sing, no instruments, but the bass voice makes it sound like an instrument to accompany the singing. I really like this song. "Misty Mountains", but otherwise correct. Really loved how much atmosphere he can create in such a short time. Must now listen to the rest of the soundtrack :D 12. Nice guitar to start with. Then a girl singing. This reminds me of Blonde Redhead somehow, but it isn’t. She also reminds me somehow of Florence and the Machine. I like this song, it’s rocky, poppy and had weird twists, like halfway it suddenly becomes heavier or the beginning of the bridge where they go Nirvana, hahaha. And the changing in tempo. It seems like a whole lot is going on in the song, but they do it in such a way that it makes sense and sounds good. Again RHCP-related (should stop that now :D). Their former guitarist produced their first EP, a female rock band from America called Warpaint. Also sort of psychedelic, but they make really great music. And how many female rock bands are their that make actually good music?!, instead of being the realisation of their managers fantasies... 13. Starts like a videogame. Then Thom Yorke’s voice. Is this a remix of some of Thom Yorke’s work or did he sing in someone's work? No, I hear more typical Tom York things in the song than just his singing. Okay, I really like to know what this is. One of the more challenging references here, but really well spotted! He is featured on a track by an American guy called "Flying Lotus" who does all sorts of weird stuff with electronics, but I thought if Thom features on it that must quite be worthwhile listening. His whole albums are still a bit difficult (depending on your mood :D), but really interesting ventures, showing what you can do with electronic music. 14. Jazz, not my cup of tea Well, I at least I had to try it. But, as I said, I just wanted it to be a 15. Ah nice. Pop/Rock band. “Nikola, we’re gonna make a difference” Simple song, but nice. A bit of a cheer after all these melancholy things. Last Dinosaurs, from Australia. 16. The guy sounds drunk yes. But the music underneath is nice. But I don’t know about this type of ‘rapping’, it goes smooth because of the way he does, I bet that isn’t easy, but is it rapping? Anyway, it fits the song (lyrics especially) and the song is smooth, okay. I can listen to this some more times :) The guy is called Ghostpoet, and was probably the first album I loved just because of it's title (it's called "Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam"). He absolutely hates it to be called a rapper, he says he just "mumbles" and does art. Or whatever. Bit melancholic again, but I really like him 17. Piano song and a girl with real girlpower :lol: like the one in #12 bunch of strings accompany the song later one, pretty. This song has a very nice feeling to it. I would like to hear more from this artist. From a group I think I should know more about, but I don't. Paradise Circus from Massive Attack 18. I know this song. Comes by a lot on radio, in clubs and my bf listens to it. We don’t have the same taste, hahaha, maybe I should let him listen to the songs that I don’t get on this mixtape, because those are the type of songs he likes. Nice song to party on. Literally one week after putting this onto the mixtape I realized how huge this song actually was in terms of radio presence (and how big Macklemore has become). Nearly ashamed, but I still love him. The same guy who wrote "Same Love", a song about gay rights (and he's an American rapper). Just for that I love him. And his poor producer, Ryan Lewis. They really seem to work as a team, but people always forget him (or mistake him, like that guy Letterman from the late night show). :D 19. A completely different song again. A soft piano tune. It’s pretty, could be from a movie. Is it Nils Frahm or someone? I want this song. Seems like the unnoticed star of the exchange, yes! The only time I ever listen to solo piano music. 20. Indeed a summer feeling tune. The beginning makes me very sentimental, because it makes me go back to Nicaragua. How happy memories can make you sad, eh? Nice ending of the mixtape. Recurring motif, again a remix by Two Door CinemaClub. RazorEye is in Australia, where the summer should vanish now, so I thought about memories and not like us here, where we can now hope for summer (and be excited and listen to the great tapes we already got :) This tape had so much variation, jazz, rap, dwarfs singing folk, straight pop, electronic, lounge, ambient. Definitely made it interesting to listen to it. My favourite songs were 6 (not only because it sounds good, but mostly because it is in a genre that I usually dislike), 9, of course 11, and 12 :heart: Thank you for the mixtape! I am sure a lot of work went into it. Perhaps good to know that I surely will check out some of these artists and found some new love :} Thanks just for reviewing, and if you found just on new artist you may like I think was already worth it. But really thanks for a (altough belated) finish to this exchange and making me confident again to participate in the next one :) Tracklist: 1. Sleepless (Flume feat. Jezzabell Doran) 2. You Don't Know How Lucky You Are (Keaton Henson) 3. Pedestal of Infamy (Flea from the "Helen Burns" EP) 4. Default (Django Django) 5. Radar Detector (Darwin Deez) 6. The Eraser (Christian Scott) 7. Latch (Disclosure) 8. Come Back Home Myd Remix (Two Door Cinema Club) 9. Another (Ataxia) 10. Backseat Freestyle (Kendrick Lamar) 11. Misty Mountains (Richard Armitage, The Hobbit Soundtrack) 12. Elephants (Warpaint) 13. ... And the World Laughs With You (Flying Lotus ft. Thom Yorke) 14. Do You Feel (Jose James) 15. Time & Place (Last Dinosaurs) 16. Cash and Carry Me Home (Ghostpoet) 17. Paradise Circus (Massive Attack) 18. Can't Hold Us (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ft. Ray Dalton) 19. Ambre (Nils Frahm) 20. Something Good Can Work (Two Door Cinema Club/Ted & Francis Remix Deluxe Edition Version) Hope you fun discovering some of these people ;)

I could do a review if wanted (surprise :D). All good things are three :)

I'm not angry or hating or whatever, hope this doesn't come across wrongly. Seems more grim than I am. :D Hoping now for a review again, Wyrd has gotten my mixtape. :)

Seems more like that cat killed him, took on his online-identity and continued posting on coldplaying, but ignores pms. Bet it was a lion. :wink3:

Jai Paul and Bonobo definitely, but also getting into the new Kurt Vile record. Hadn't heard of him before (american psychedelic lo-fi is not so popular here), but that one sounds really good.

I'm just hoping for some users to capture the cool concerts and reupload them. Because, living in Germany, I can't even see the stream (even if I would stay up late). Gutted about so much amazing technology and so stupid licensing issues, because there are some quite interesting bands I'd like to see. As for the Exchange: Seems like there are some reviews missing, guessing from the post by Diana. Maybe assemble a list of willing participants willing to do a second review? (if necessary, I could also do a third. Getting a real routine with that :) )

I made one originally for RazorEye, and this one is still not reviewed. After that, I made a second, different one for Deirdre because she hadn't gotten any. So my fast-mixtape, put together in less time, is reviewed, but it's the one into which I put more of my time (and which has completely different music on it) that's still unreviewed, and where I would be glad if anyone would like to listen to it.