Cassette Culture Old

This mixtapes 85 minutes of cracking tunes old and new. Its a fantastic piece of work, blending popular, often mainstream songs (e.g. Eric Prydz – Call On Me) with the less mainstream (e.g. Soulwax – Ny Lipps). Fun for all the family!

And while were here, I stumbled on this site run by the Buffet Libre chaps. If you're into remixing your own stuff check this out - they're giving away parts for loads of tracks from Cut Copy to Voxtrott. Mighty!

Download link for the mix is below and I've popped up a few of the tracks for you to download too, just click away in the tracklist.

Tracklist:
1. Sintonia Buffetlibre
2. 2 Unlimited – Get Ready For This (Orchestral Version)
3. Gossip – Standing In The Way Of Control (Soulwax remix)
4. Snap – Rhythm Is A Dancer
5. Daft Punk – One More Time
6. Eric Prydz – Call On Me
7. Justice vs Simian– We Are Your Friends
8. And One – Metal Hammer
9. Les Rhymes Digitales – (Hey You) What's That Sound?
10. Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
11. Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
12. Gala – Freed From Desire
13. Wildchild - Renegade Master (Fatboy Slim Old Skool remix)
14. Armand Van Helden – You Don’t Know Me
15. Soulwax – Ny Lipps
16. Whigfield – Saturday Night
17. Mylo vs. Miami Sound Machine - Doctor Pressure
18. Modjo – Lady
19. Justice – D.A.N.C.E. (Mstrkrft remix)
20. Run DMC – It’s Like That
21. Ann Lee – Two Times
22. Chemical Brothers – Hey Boy Hey Girl
23. Alter Ego – Rocker
24. Tomcraft – Loneliness
25. Basement Jaxx – Red Alert
26. Cassius - Feeling For You (Les Rhymes Digitales remix)
27. Tiga & Zyntherius – Sunglasses At Night
28. MGMT – Kids (Soulwax remix)
29. Josh Wink – Higher State Of Consciousness
30. Scatman John - Scatman
31. Digitalism – Pogo (Shinichi Osawa remix)
32. Vitalic – La rock 01

Download Hit! here

www.myspace.com/buffetlibre

In the summer I bought myself a Hercules console and set about learning how to mix by pressing buttons and hitting stuff. I made my first pre-recorded mixtape a while ago but didn't feel it was good enough to share here. My next effort is a little better but still very amateur! In no way am I proclaiming this to be anything amazing at all - I just thought a few of you might like a listen and if anyone can give me feedback, positive or negative, I would really appreciate it. The mix is a live set I played at a party in Cardiff last Tuesday and I've called it "Daft Monkey" (there's a lot of Daft Punk in there)

I'll be posting some of the tracks over the next week or so - look forward to that!

Tom Hardwicke - Daft Monkey (360 kbps MP3 version - 86Mb)

Tom Hardwicke - Daft Monkey (High quality WAV version - 382Mb)

Tracklist:

1. Daft Punk - Ouverture + Utah Saints - Radio One minimix sample
2. Miami Horror - Summerfest '86
3. Daft Punk - Human After All
4. The Count and Siden - Beeper
5. Justice - DVNO (Sunshine Brothers remix)
6. Alex Metric - Deadly on the Dance Floor (Alex Metric mix)
7. Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (Fake Blood remix)
8. Nirvana vs Disco Trash Music - Smells Like Neon Spirit
9. Crystal Castles - Vanished (Nasty Nav remix)
10. The Whip - Blackout (Shinichi Osawa remix)
11. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor (LA Riots remix feat. Villians)
12. Daft Punk - Technologic
13. Daft Punk - Prime Time of Your Life (Night Facilities remix)
14. Alex Gopher - Aurora (Shinichi Osawa remix)
15. Dave Spoon & Pete Tong - Gas Face (Japanese Popstars remix)
16. Mystery Jets - Half In Love (Foamo remix)
17. MGMT - Kids (Soulwax remix)
18. Daft Punk - Aerodynamic (Northie remix)

A month or two ago, back in the day when I was still finding my feet as a music blogger (I still am), I did a guest post for Jon over at Sundtrak. Sundtrak is a far more cutting-edge blog than my own, I often find great stuff there before it appears anywhere else and the taste is very similar to that of Cassette Culture - I suggest you check it out! Anyway, Jon's returned the favour with a guest post about some of his favourite tracks from 2008. Pay attention now.

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Tom was good enough to guest post on my blog so I thought it proper to return the favor. In the theme of introducing our own blogs on each other's blogs, I decided to make a post that I won't even be posting on my own blog until New Years Eve. Some tracks that might be part of my "Hello 2009, Goodbye 2008 Top 10 List!" It might actually be top 20 this time, and well, hopefully these tracks stick for the next few months. What better way to represent Sundtrak?

To the music! I couldn't get this song out of my head the first time I heard it, I also couldn't stop laughing. None other than Moulinex and his remix of Ben Mono's Jesus Was A B-Boy. This should rightfully get you to listen to more Moulinex stuff.

Second, the Soulwax remix of MGMT which needs no introduction.

And lastly, the Van She Tech remix of Walter Meego. Tom has posted a bunch of Van She remixes already, thought I'd add to the list. Very bubbly track, what electro should be all about.


Ben Mono - Jesus Was A B-Boy (Moulinex Remix)



MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Remix)



Walter Meego - Forever (Van She Tech Remix)

I'm a big fan of MGMT, they've brought psychadelic electro music up to the frontline, you might even say mainstream. And that's always good because it means you might hear it somewhere like the gym, which makes a welcome break from Justin Timberlake and chums. Most importantly though, when I saw them live in Cardiff last year, they created such a stunning mesh of sounds that I think I would have fallen over had I not been crammed in amongst wide-eyed admirers.

Anyway, that was all a long time ago, but the other day, this arrived and the world can go mental again.


MGMT - Of Moons Birds and Monsters (Holy Ghost! remix)

www.myspace.com/mgmt
www.myspace.com/holyghostnyc

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Aaaalright. So Cassette Culture is getting quite old now (ahem...2 weeks) and I've noticed there isn't a single mash-up on the site!! Now that's fairly rubbish given I was listening to loads of them at the time I started all this.

To solve this problem, I think it's only right that I introduce you to Immuzikation, a DJ/Producer based in Athens who was shipping out excellent mash-ups on an almost daily basis about a month ago. He's done some stunning work, particularly on the track "Fish Tacos" in which he seamlessly blends together 5 different artists and the Reading Rainbow Theme. It's genius! Everytime I hear Coldplay's Viva La Vida these days (which is pretty much everyday if Radio One/Two are the stations of choice in your kitchen) I can't help but feel its lacking something special after hearing this track.

Preview "Fish Tacos":


Download free:
Coldplay v Weezer v Cut Copy v The Blow v MIA V Reading Rainbow Theme - Fish Tacos (Immuzikation Extra Tartar blend) (Mediafire)

Here's a couple more Immuzikation mash-up crackers:

Preview "LES DANCE":


Download free:
Santogold v Justice - LES DANCE (Immuzikation Black Not blend)(Mediafire)

Preview "Jeumie":


Download free:
Yelle v Weezer - Jeumie (Immuzikation mash-up)(Mediafire)

AND, he's recently popped up this little jem on his myspace; a remix of MGMT's Electric Feel.

Preview "Electric Feel (Immuzikation remix)"


Download free:
MGMT - Electric Feel (Immuzikation remix)(Mediafire)

www.myspace.com/immuzikation