The Mixtape - 20 October 2007



Tonight's random hotpotch featured some very random songs indeed from 1992 - when did you last hear Kingmaker, The Heart Throbs, The Jennifers and Ride on the radio?

We also had some great new albums in this week including Eskimo Disco's wonderfully-titled 80s-fest "Robots & Laptop Dancers Make Good Friends", and also former Bellatrix lead singer Eliza Newman's debut solo offering, "Empires Fall", plus we've got the new mini-album from former Catatonia frontperson Cerys Matthews, "Awyren = Aeroplane". It's such a good album I don't care that I don't understand a word of it!

Also managed to play a track the brilliantly quirky Myspace-only track "Add Me" from northern troublemakers Chumbawamba, one from Thousand Yard Stare's lost classic from 1993, "Mappamundi", new singles from Bloc Party and Sigur Ros, and the song that is the most played in the world right now (according to last.fm), Radiohead's 15 Step.

Mark Ronson - God Put A Smile
Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
Modest Mouse - Dashboard
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Half-Awake (Deb)
Kingmaker - When Lucy's Down
Metronomy - Hear To Wear
Hot Puppies - King Of England
Kaiser Chiefs - Heat Dies Down
Blur - Colin Zeal
Kat Frankie - The Tops
Asobi Seksu - Thursday
Heart Throbs - Hooligan
Eskimo Disco - Air Guitar
Thousand Yard Stare - Monsieur Bour And His Goat
Bloc Party - Flux
Sigur Ros - Hljomalind
Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To?
Hives - Tick Tick Boom
Operator Please - Leave It Alone
Chumbawamba - Add Me
Cerys Matthews - Awyrennau
Eliza - Empire Fall
Jennifers - Just Got Back Today
Ride - Twisterella
Radiohead - 15 Step
Gene - Olympian
Hybrasil - When I'm Yawning
Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer
Suede - Trash


Article by Paul Golder, 20 Oct 2007
Posted in The Mixtape






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