A Source of Guaranteed Happiness

1. Half Man Half Biscuit - Joy Division Oven Gloves
2. The Clean - Tally Ho
3. Jeff Beck - Hi-Ho Silver Lining
4. The Zombies - Tell Her No
5. Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings - Tell Me
6. Nerina Pallot - I Don't Want To Go Out
7. Sneaky Sound System - It's Not My Problem
8. Phoenix - 1901
9. Silverchair - Insomnia
10. Quasi - Our Happiness Is Guaranteed
11. Merlene Webber - No Happiness
12. Trinidad Tripoli Steel Band - Sissy Strut
13. Destra Garcia - Bacchanal
14. Djavan - Aquele Um
15. Manu Chao - Trapped By Love
16. Patience Africa & Peddlers - Lomfana Ngi Yamithanda
17. Busi & Ilanga - True Love
18. Tunng vs Taraf De Haidouks - Homecoming
19. Lo Jo and Django - Jah Kas Cool Boy
20. Django Django - Storm
21. Stephane Grappelli - Djangology
22. Detektivbyran - Honky Tonk of Wermland
23. Markscheider Kunst - Moryak
24. Tangerine Dream - Love On A Real Train

Sammy
I always knew a collaboration between myself and the estimable Mr Song would throw up an interesting and eclectic mix and I certainly wasn't disappointed. The first of many posts this, I hope.

Robert Song

For one so (relatively) young, I have always been impressed in the breadth and quality of Sam's mixes. On this our first collaboration, we have covered a lot of decades and genres.
I think I can say with some confidence that you should at least find one tune here that will be guaranteed to make you happy.

RS MF

Sunny Day Cookie Club

1. Messer Fur Frau Muller - Let's Smile But Stir
2. Tiny Masters Of Today - Pop Chart
3. Annemarie - Apple (Suicide On Your Stereo Set)
4. Boy Genius - Blame Love
5. The Loves - Sweet Sister Delia
6. The Zolas - You Better Watch Out
7. The Lovely Eggs - I Like Birds But I LIke Other Animals Too
8. Will Mono & Jan Joknie - Seks Vir Plesier
9. The Cookies - The Old Crowd
10. Pale Sunday - Shooting Star
11. OK Go - Before The Earth Was Round
12. Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
13. Balloon Farm - A Question Of Temperature
14. The Summer Sounds - One Last Kiss
15. Kaleidoscope - Flight from Ashiya
16. The Clientele - The Garden At Night
17. Wondermints - Knowing Me, Knowing You
18. Spaghetti Anywhere - Girlfriends with Boyfriends
19. Javelin - Vibrationz
20. The 10p Mixes - Sticky Disco
21. Meow Meow! - I Wonder What Went Wrong
22. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others
23. Summer Camp - Ghost Train
24. Sondre Lerche - Bluish

A milestone mix. This is the first mix that has been created on my Mac, which I purchased over 2 months ago. Being still more familiar with the PC set up, I've been doing most of my mixing/uploading and creating CD covers, and even finally submitting the final tracklist on my blog and ZerO on my old computer. But this is a 100% Mac only concoction. It's taken a lot more time than usual after encountering a few small hurdles but I did it and now I'm finally ready to make this permanent .

Thanks to a few people for their help over the past week, in particular Ed, and especially Deanna who finally showed me how easy things can be when you know what to do.

So, have the perils of putting this together detracted from my enjoyment of it? Luckily, no!

RS MF

One Hour Twenty

1. The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
2. The Kinks - Mr. Pleasant
3. The Minders - Pauline
4. The Pillbugs - The Milkman's Wife
5. Vampire Weekend - Holiday
6. Flight Of The Conchords - We're Both In Love With A Sexy Lady
7. Of Montreal - Your Magic Is Working
8. Neil Young - Cinnamon Girl
9. The New Pornographers - Challengers
10. Benji Hughes - Ladies On Parade
11. R.E.M. - Can't Get There From Here
12. Wilco - Casino Queen
13. Dressy Bessy - Side 2
14. T. Rex - Jeepster
15. Edwin Moses - I Needed You
16. Neutral Milk Hotel - Glue
17. Honeybus - Black Mourning Band
18. I Am Kloot - Morning Rain
19. The Hollies - Heading For A Fall
20. Tommy Roe - It's Gonna Hurt Me

Following on from the mix by John K comes my own attempt at a last fm mix. As usual I’ve taken a track from each of my Top 20 artists on last fm and moulded them into a mix.

There’s certainly a few surprises on the list. The first being the number of my favourite acts not included – The Smiths, Roxy Music, Big Star, Rolling Stones, The Clash etc

I can attribute that to the rise of digital music. Pre 2006 all of my music was purchased on hard copy (CD, vinyl) and while I still listen to these on occasion, nowadays most of my music is purchased (or indeed not) digitally and listened to via the laptop or Mac.

Hence, some bands I was not aware of before this date (Pillbugs, Minders, Of Montreal) along with new acts (Vampire Weekend, Flight of the Conchords) feature highly.

The inclusion of acts such as Tommy Roe and Edwin Moses over established acts can be put down to mix making. Nowadays I often choose to listen to mixes over actual albums I’ve heard before, and I’m always on the lookout for new music to then share with others via my mixes. Of course I’ll often go back to old favourites such as the Beatles and Kinks, but generally I want to hear new sounds..

The mix is exactly one hour long, and every track I’ve used has never previously appeared on a Sammy mix. The only exception being the lovely Hollies song which certainly deserves a second outing..

RS MF