KEEPYOURFACERADICAL 07/12 MIX

The mix is droppin' early this month due to my vacation happening next week. Their are some great songs on the mix with the highlight being the Gardens & Villa cover of "Gypsy" by Fleetwood Mac. It's one of my favorite covers ever! 

The mix art was inspired by the images below. I found this photo of the free diver a while ago and really like the intensity of the negative space. After the last mix art (scanography) I wanted to have one single iconic image with lots of saturated color. After I came across the image of the Nepon soda I knew I wanted to bite the color from it. I have also been waiting for an excuse to use a horror font but with reverse drips. The water concept actually makes it make sense. I photoshopped the divers head and hand to make him feel like he is swimming away from the turquoise slime. All in all, I feel like the cover has a sense of recreational doom (which is now my new band name). ENjO! the mix and the art, and have an amazing rest of July.

Note: There will probably be no posts until early August. 

KEEPYOURFACERADICAL 06/12 MIX (1/2)

The artwork was designed from vintage Windsurf magazines that I purchased a while ago on eBay. Working from left to right clockwise: Epic smile, epic splits, epic tandem and epic air. Gotta love the 80's! Bad typography also inspired by the 80's. Doing bad 80's type is much harder than it looks. I wanted to make the type on each cover different but I just ran out of time and wanted to get the mix uploaded.

The mix turned out really great this month and heck, because their was a surplus of great tunes I will be making two mixes for June. ENjO!

TRACKLIST:

1. Blackbird Blackbird - Happy With You
2. Two Wounded Birds - If Only We Remain
3. Haim - Forever
4. Bright Light Bright Light - A New Word To Say
5. Grizzly Bear - Sleeping Ute
6. Polysick - Smudge, Hawaii
7. Royal Canoe - Bathtubes
8. Hot Chip - These Chains
9. Beta Frontiers - Hondo ft. Becky Ninkovic
10. Eidolons - Yellow Wallpaper
11. Tennis & Vacationer - Petition (Vacationer Remix)
12. StaG - Summerfoot
13. The Moons - Bloody Mouth (Watchtower Version)
14. Arcadia Gardens - Come Wander With Us
15. Prince of Pressure - Noise In The Night
16. Matthew Dear - Crimewaves
17. StaG - Lived Like String
18. Wind Dam - Wheel
19. Post War Years - Growl
20. Van She - Beat Of The Drum
21. Liars - Annual Moon Words
22. Beta Frontiers - Oceana
23. Oscar Key Sung - All I Think About (part 1)
24. Royal Canoe - Caught In The Loop
25. Seapony - What You Wanted
26. Arcadia Dreams - Empty Dreams
27. Bibio - Lovers' Carvings (Chateaubriand Edit)
28. Liars - A Ring On Every Finger
29. Hot Chip - How Do You Do?
30. Arcadia Gardens - Purple Glow

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KEEPYOURFACERADICAL 04\2012 MIX

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The faces for the covers were taken from another site. I can't remember the artist but I loved them so much they just had to be part of the mix. If I ever remember where they came from I will post an edit and give the artist credit.

TRACKLIST:

1. Craft Spells - Leave My Shadow
2. Summer Heart - I Wanna Go
3. Happy Hands Club - Garden of Eden
4. Blackbird Blackbird - Waikiki
5. The Walkmen - Heaven
6. The Spinto Band - Muesli
7. Mirror Talk - Choose Life
8. TalkFine - Glasses
9. Beach House - Equal Mind
10. Cymbals - Candy Bar
11. Fixers - Another Lost Apache
12. Craft Spells - Burst
13. Cymbals - It Makes Me Seriously
14. The Spinto Band - Take It
15. Adam Smith - Hollow Bones
16. Black Light Dinner Party - Older Together
17. Ben Browning - Feels Like
18. Blessin' - Lately
19. Fixers - Floating Up
20. Blacks& - The Race Is On
21. Deep Time - Clouds
22. Fibes, Oh Fibes! - Goodbye To Love
23. KO KO - Float
24. Boneglow - 1994
25. Urban COne - We Should Go To France
26. The Spinto Band - Cookie Falls
27. Fixers - Crystals
28. Stoner Showers - Welcome Home
29. Driving At Dawn - A Lot Like love
30. Joakim - Nothing Gold (Todd Terje Mix)

ENjO!

KEEPYOURFACERADICAL 02\2012 MIX

Sorry this mix is a few days late but it went through lots of edits to even get it down to below 60 songs. The month of February was a pretty MEGA month for new tunes. I hope you like the mix I think it is the best to date. I would have wanted to spend more time on the cover, but I am currently working on lots of art for my first gallery show.

If you want the link for the mix and aren't already on the secret email, hit me up in the form in right banner.

TRACKLIST:

1. Wildcat! Wildcat! - Mr. Quiche
2. Daniel Rossen - Silent Song
3. Gardens & Villa - Neon Dove
4. Oregon Bike Trails - Cayucas
5. The Bamboos - The Wilhem Scream (James Blake Cover)
6. Django Django - Default
7. Sean Bones - Here Now
8. Jordan Klassen - Go To Me
9. Yalls - Real Fantasy
10. Craft Spell - Still Left With Me
11. My Friend Wallis - Better Things To Do
12. Fanfarlo - Dig
13. Bloof Orange - Sutphin Boulevard
14. Another - Maika
15. The Shins - The Rifle's Spiral
16. I, A Man - I Ran My Ghoul
17. Eli Mardock - Everything Happens for the First Time
18. Capybara - Late Night Bikes
19. Little Racer - Little Racer
20. Gardens & Villa - Spacetime
21. My Friend Wallis - Running
22. Montevideo - Horses
23. Beach Fossils - Shallow
24. Islands - Hallways
25. Rhye - Open
26. Each Other - Sit Still
27. Black Marble - Pretender
28. Alexander Fairchild - Place is You
29. Little Racer - The Town
30. Gardens & Villa - Thorn Castles
31. San Cisco - Awkward
32. J R G - Why Are You Always In My Dreams?
33. Page France - The Ruby Ring Man
34. Princeton - Andre
35. My Friend Wallis - That Little Dream
36. Dive - Human
37. Fanfarlo - Shin Things
38. Royal Canoe - Hold On to the Metal
39. Woodpigeon - For Paolo
40. Gardens & Villa - Black Hills
41. Roman Ruins - Mighty Love
42. Yalls - Settle Down
43. Damien Jurado - Museum of Flight
44. ILLLS - Teeth
45. Bahamas - Okay Alright I'm Alive
46. Beach Fossils - Lesson
47. Bowerbirds - In The Yard
48. Yuksek - Off The Wall
49. So Many Wizards - Lose Your Mind
50. Fenster - Oh Canyon
51. My Friend Wallis - Be Free
52. Foreign Orange - Day by Day Livin'
53. Mutual Benefit - Auburn Epitaphs

ENjO!

JANUARY 2009 MIX

 

TRACKLIST:

1. Gorillaz - Broken (2009 Demo)

2. New Villager - Rich Doors

3. Jeremy Jay - Love Everlasting

4. Princeton - Ms. Bentwich

5. Bug Lung Lady - Neutral Man

6. The Dodos - Untitled (New song LIVE)

7. Peter Bjorn & John - Nothing to Worry About

8. The Twelves - When You Walk

9. Burning Hearts - Sea Birds

10. Grizzly Bear - Shift (New song LIVE)

11. Bug Lung Baby - Paper Crane

12. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Feel The Drip

13. Thing One - Through the Winter

14. Radiohead - Nude (Ww Plants Are Happy Plants Remix)

15. Music Go Music - Warm In the Shadows

16. Morgan Geist - Ruthless City

17. Franz Ferdinand - Anyone In Love (Tonight: Bonus Track)

18. Fanfarlo - I'm A Pilot

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Sorry its a day late, but I have been too busy listening to the new Junior Boys album. I hope you enjoy the mix, and please comment if you do. Enjoi!

HALLOWEEN MIX - 2008

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MY MUSIC TIMELINE

I have been asked more than a few times to upload some of the music I have made over the years. So, I searched for all of the usable music that I have been involved in making since I got home from my mission. I have been in a lot of bands over the years and always spend time writing music or just playing my bass. So, here is a timeline of music I could find and a brief explanation.

Hyadus  - was a band I played in while at college for a few months with my good friend Rachel Couch (guitar) and this Cali surfer guy that looked kinda like Owen Wilson (drums)I played bass, duh. I think we only played 1 real show which was a Battle of the Bands and we found a singer the day of the show... his name was Richard I think. He was strange and super emo before emo's really came onto the scene. He winged the lyrics the whole show and we ended up placing 2nd in the battle.

¿Cuál Bruja? - the band name means Which Witch?, in Spanish. It was something I messed around with when GarageBand first came out on the Mac. I started taking MIDI files from video games and then remixing them. I tried music from tons of games including Contra, Metroid, Double Dragon and even Blaster Master, but they never really worked out. The only ones that really went somewhere were tracks from the game Snow Brothers and Lemmings.

At this same time I bought a mini USB keyboard that I started playing, so I am sure my primitive skills on the keyboard are very evident.

Antler - this was another band that I started with my friend Rachel Couch and Stacey Whitmore (drums) while at BYU-Idaho. Plus there was another guitarist but I can't for my life remember his name. We practiced a lot in Rachel's basement and I think only played 1 show in that basement.

Ghost Mane - A band started out of boredom with my little brother Jordan the stupid idea to write songs based on the concept of combining a monster with some form of hair. We played a few shows for friends and family but only played one official show near Halloween in the Gary garage in Rexburg, ID. The best garage ever for playing shows and skateboarding during the winter. The show involved me playing bass and jordan playing drums and for a brief introduction like 15 canning jars filled with water. We also never talked once during the entire show and had an overhead projector with everything we wanted to say about ourselves and the songs ready and cut-out on transparencies. It was a weird show to say the least. The weirdest part was the Jordan wrote lyrics to the songs that were never meant to be sung, but to provide entertainment. And half way through the show people began trying to sing them. What a beautiful disaster.

Ghost Mane Solo - After I moved to Ohio I still had the urge to write songs based on the Ghost Mane concept. I started writing new songs on my own formed around me using bass loops and GarageBand. I still try and write new stuff every now and then because it has become a music obsession to write moderately spooky dance songs.

Tyson Schenk - Everything else could be grouped into this catagory. It is mostly stuff done the same way with my bass, keyboard and GarageBand but doesn't really sound spooky.

Here is a zipped file of recordings (54.57 MB) I have made under the different catagories. Hopefully you find something enjoyable in this to validate the download. Enjoi!