Indie Mix 13

"Cliff House." Awesome art by Andrew Bannecker.  Check out more of his work at his site, located here.

*Clears cobwebs and stumbles into the room*  Uhhh.....hello.  So, I was just listening to Tres Ouias' more mellow mix the other day and thinking this guy has good taste and that I haven't listened to a ton of new music lately.  I wonder if Tres Ouias has any that he would like to share with me.  I sent out a carrier pigeon to touch base with him and he told me he just made a mix for baby Tres Ouias and that he would post it in a bit.  Post it I thought?  Why post...ohhh that's right, we used to run a music blog.  I told him that I had just finished a couple of mixes and that I had just planned on emailing him but if he is going to post his newest mix, I guess i could dust off the old blogging gloves as well.

This is another under the influence headphone kind of mix.  I was listening in the car while sober and it was not quite the same as having this stuff pumped directly into your ear hole.  Especially with the early part of the mix.  Kind of slow pretty, richly textured stuff.  Let me just say that this mix does not bump, it caresses.

There are lot of familiar names on this mix, a couple tracks from Blind Pilot's newest album, Port O'brien, The Morning Benders, We Are Trees, even Big Phony and Damien Jurado who may have first appeared 12 Indie Mixes ago.

Samples, download link, and tracklist behind the jump or just grab the mix here.

Holiday Booty

Isn't holly poisonous?  I know it's spiky.  Figgy pudding sounds horrible

That title should up the page views huh? It's holiday time, I can tell because my co-worker is playing Christmas music non-stop, yeaahhh!!! What the fuck is figgy pudding and why would you come to my doorstep and demand some?  Just because you sing your demands doesn't make them any less demanding.  Let me try, and see if you like it.  "Now bring me your youngest daughter and a bottle of beeeer."  *Runs at the sound of sirens*  This music must stop.  I'm warning you lady subjecting me to this nonsense is like poking a bear in a cage, I am liable to...ask you to please refrain from such activity post haste. Maybe more like poking a very civilized well mannered bear in a cage, but a bear no less!! *adjusts monocle*  Either way, y'all gon make me lose my mind. How many of you muttered "up in here, up in here" to yourself? How many of you are now growling and speeding through the Arizona desert with suspended licenses?

The main reason for this post was because of the amazing online store that Boingboing featured the other day. Das Programm only features products designed by Dieter Rams, who is pretty much a god when it comes to design. His record player is my profile pic on this blog and I have pined for his stuff for years.  His work is displayed in the New York Museum of Modern Art and is also currently on exhibit at the SFMOMA.  So he is kind of a big deal.  I have no idea how these guys are able to stock an online store with his stuff, since they are literally museum pieces.  But I can tell you that I go and look at the SK5 almost every day and hope that someone else buys it so that I can stop obsessing and thinking that I may be able to obtain it.  Gaaah, can't stop drooling.

Dieter Rams, Braun SK5 (Snow White's Coffin) $1022.32

Braun RT 20 $1179.60

Braun G 11 $940.00

Braun Atelier 3 $940.00-$1570

Braun AB 22 Black and White $125

Braun ABW 30 $235-$393

Perhaps some more reasonable options for your loved ones after the jump...although if you really loved them you would get them the items above. Just saying.  *Clears space for record player*

Indie Mix 9

Igancio Torres', Stellar, an awesome series of gifs.  Read more about the series and see the rest of them here.

This is the last out of order indie mix before we become current.  Time for some normalcy in numbering.  Download the mix here. Or like always you can hit the jump for some samples and the whole tracklist.

Indie Mix 8

"Black Forest" by Hong Seon Jang, from a past group exhibit at the David B. Smith Gallery.

From the vault comes Indie Mix 8. You can grab it here. Hit the jump for samples and the tracklist.