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Santa Claus Is Back In Town sung by Elvis Presley

I’ve talked a lot about how music is a time-travel machine.

Today what hit me while working The Re-Rip Project and the compilations of various EDM genres is how long I spent preferring …

All Of Us from Spoke’s album “Done”. Also appears on the album All We Need Of Hell

Darling Buds So Close

When your shuffled playlist brings back something you forgot you loved. From the Crawdaddy album released circa 1990.

I’m deeply annoyed by the metadata now supplied from Apple when you go to convert a CD. Either an album is now put into the Various Artists ghetto, or the same album is listed in parts because of partnered artists even when the album itself and the liner notes make no such distinction.

  1. Eternal Lover — Moonwater
  2. Karmic Light — Tetsu Inoue
  3. They Come in Peace — Tranquility Bass
  4. Plateau — Orb
  5. A Study of Six Guitars — Amorphous Androgynous
  6. Session 3: Wien in E — Tosca
  7. Anthropomorphic — Qubism
  8. No One in the World [Edit] — W.F.O.
  9. Fat Chair — Terra Thaemlitz
  10. edit:one — DJ Iri
  11. Creatures Made Of Light Glide Softly Across The Slowly Ever-rotating Homeworld In Gentle Undulations Of Warm Dub Through The Encircling Golden Ether Common To System 35 — Mysteries of Science
  12. #19 — Aphex Twin
  13. Tranquility Base — Omicron
  14. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian Eno & Harold Budd
  15. Expanding — Young American Primitive

A mix CD gift from Caleb, circa 2019.

  1. Premonition — YukaKita Mura
  2. Phoenix — WolfMother
  3. Space Cruise — Ben Prunty
  4. Abyss Watchers — Yuka Kitamura
  5. Vignette: Panacea — Disasterpeace
  6. Vordt of the Boreal …

From a Maxell XLII 90 cassette given to me by my friend Chuck. Side A dated 6/20/94, Missing songs: Marion Diez, Half the Time. Side B dated 6/21/94

  1. Get Enough — Ivy
  2. You Bite My Tongue — Unwound
  3. Our Caballero — Don Caballero
  4. Blade of Grass — Versus
  5. A Mouthful Of Exhaust — Man Or Astro-Man?
  6. Sweet Pea — Seam
  7. All Set to Go — Hard-Ons
  8. Suki — Unrest
  9. Rebound — Sebadoh
  10. Alison — Slowdive
  11. Bronx Cheer — Mercury Rev
  12. Bricks — Crain
  13. Solitary Set — Polvo

A mix tape reconstruction: Selections by Chuck Horne. He didn’t make it for me, but it’s beautiful. What a gift!

  1. Main Sequence Diffusion / Photon / Lajolla — Füxa
  2. A Stream With Bright Fish — Brian …

I missed the record store. I made a mix for my friends but mostly to show I was still edgy and cool. I never sent it. This track list was made for a 100-minute cassette tape. Label On Side A said …