Friday Mixtape #53 - Totally Wired

We are back. After a three month break I felt ready to re-visit this little podcast. Inspired by events upcoming this weekend. That's right, Ireland is gearing up once again for the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally. It's our own mini-Glasto.

I don't think I'll be making the trip down this year, it isn't much fun when your best mates aren't there, so we've all decided we'll make our own fun here at home. Not sure if it will cheer me up, or tide me over, but I've put together a mix of some of the artists that are going to be down the country this weekend.

Enjoy! No promises as to when I'll be back for the next mix, so go ahead and subscribe or simply watch this space!

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Included on the mix:
1. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Air France Remix)
2. Hot Chip - And I Was A Boy From School
3. Soft Cell - Born To Lose
4. Liquid Liquid - Flextone (Telephones edit)
5. Hurts - Better Than Love
6. Crystal Castles - Celestica
7. Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
8. Public Image Ltd. - The Public Image
9. The Fall - Totally Wired
10. The Big Pink - Velvet

Friday Mixtape #52 - The Birthday Mix

Happy Birthday to the mixes!
Okay, well admittedly it's been over a year since I've started making the mixes, but this is the official 52nd mix making it the birthday mix. Boo-yeah. Also, since it's late, I've made it a double... 20 songs for your listening pleasures.

After this I won't be making the mixes quite every week. They've been really fun to do, but at the moment I have a few too many things on my plate making it nearly impossible to get them out... the fact that this mix is over 2 weeks late is the proof.

But fear not, I'm not giving them up completely, they just won't be weekly. And of course you can always catch my monthly radio show I'm still doing for Radio Nowhere. http://radionowhere.org

Anyways, enjoy this mix, enjoy the summer and keep subscribed so you don't miss the next mix, whenever that may be. xoxo

(and yes... that photo is actually me on my 1st birthday)
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Included on the mix this week:
1. Altered Images - Happy Birthday (12" Mix)
2. Talulah Gosh - Be Your Baby
3. Sorry For Laughing - Josef K
4. What A Drag - Bear Hands
5. The Sugarcubes - Birthday
6. Jean on Jean - Tonight
7. Warpaint - Elephants
8. Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be
9. It'll Come Around - All Saints Day
10. Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light (Stuart Price Remix)
11. The Jackson 5 - The Love You Save (The Knocks Remix)
12. The BPA - He's Frank (ft. Iggy Pop) (The Twelves Remix)
13. Orange Juice - Rip It Up
14. Junior Boys - Birthday
15. Phoenix - Fences (Def Starr Version)
16. Sunvisor - Sky Dive
17. The Smiths - Unhappy Birthday
18. Crass vs. Liquid Liquid - Mashuup
19. Blur - Birthday
20. Badly Drawn Boy - New Year

Friday Mixtape #51 - The Chills

This week, rejuvenated from a small break, I've been inspired but a lot of disco-y-electro-hip-pop. But with a certain down-played relaxed vibe running throughout at the same time. A diverse group of artists who all probably fancy dancing late into the night and sitting and talking until the sun rises.

I also have to thank my brother for introducing me to a few of these fun mashed-up tunes. Oh yeah, and of course included my own band's brand new track. Ha.

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Tracks include:
1. Girl Talk - Touch 2 Feel
2. Metric - Help I'm Alive (The Twelves Remix)
3. Talulah Does The Hula - Don't Panic
4. Rollerskaters - Sleep Tight
5. Peter Bjorn & John - The Chills
6. The Names - Floating World
7. The xx - Crystalised
8. Wax Tailor - Our Dance
9. Neon Indian - Sleep Paralysist
10. Mayer Hawthorne - Green Eyed Love (Classixx Remix)

Delayed gratification...

I know I promised that I was nearly to the 52 weeks of mixtapes mark... and I was due to treat you with #51 on Friday, but the truth is, this week I have been lazily enjoying my home land of California. Much time in Santa Barbara was spent with family and friends so I felt they deserved my time more than the music. I'll be back with a bang next friday, the official release date of my band's next single, Don't Panic... which you can officially listen to on the mySpace.

xoxo

jla

Friday Mixtape #50 - Distant

A breezy jangly all-over-the-place mix this week. It's up and down and in the wind and indecisive about what it wants to be when it grows up. I can certainly relate.

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I also should mention that this blog is officially ONE YEAR OLD. Happy birthday to my mixes! Yeah, yeah, I suppose we've got to wait til mix #52, but technically this is mix 51 as way back in August I put up the mix I did for State.ie and didn't number it... and I also took one holiday from the mixes... so there you go. I've also noticed certain trends in my listening -which actually shows up in this current mix (80s, Girl groups, Postcard Records, Classixx remixes you get the jist). I'll probably plan something special for mixtape #52...

But back to the current mix: here's hoping those who are distant have the chance to return now that that pesky volcano has stopped his belly rumbles. In fact, so distracted was I by the pleasant tunes, I didn't even notice there were only 9 songs! Oops, forgive me.

Included this week:
1. Eternal Summers - Fall Straight Back
2. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
3. Orange Juice - Poor Old Soul
4. Chloé - Distant
5. Groove Armada - Paper Romance (Classixx Remix)
6. Human League - The Lebanon
7. Mystery Jets - Flash a Hungry Smile
8. Aztec Camera - Lost Outside The Tunnel (Postcard)
9. Beirut - A Sunday Smile

Friday Mixtape #49 - Season in the Sun

It's Friday! and the weather outside is puttin us in the mood for some blissed out, sunny oh-man-it's-nearly-summertime kind of music. The music you imagine blasting out down the street during the day where you sit around on grass clutching some cider and wishing time would just stop.

It's also my ode to my homeland of California. A lot of blissed out California themed songs included. Been missing that place a lot lately... and lucky me, I'll be there visiting in just a few weeks. Yay!

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Included this week:
1. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
2. Dee Edwards - What Can't There be Love?
3. Marlena Shaw - California Soul
4. Brother Jack McDuff - Hot Barbecue
5. Peggy Lee - Manana (Is Soon Enough For Me)
6. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - Beggin'
7. She & Him - Home
8. The Aislers Set - California
9. Terry Jacks - Seasons In The Sun
10. Florence & The Machine - You Got The Love (The Very Best Remix)

Free Talulah Does The Hula Download

Hey!
my band, Talulah Does The Hula, are offering a remix of our previous single, Bad Boyfriend, for the grand sum of nought! We held a little remix competition at the end of last year and you can download the chosen track below, but you can also listen to and download the other remixes on our mySpace page: http://myspace.com/talulahdoesthehula

Download Bad Boyfriend (Cast Aside Brides Remix)

The track will feature on our next double-A side single for the songs 'Don't Panic' and 'Real Friends' and will be released on the 7th of May.


We will be hosting a single launch Upstairs in Whelans where we'll be playing alongside Hello Moon & The Evening Watch. Tickets are a mere €7. Feel free to post and re-post the track wherever you like.