I am humbled to be here and offer you the much-anticipated September 2017 music compilation - otherwise known as Burn Mix 88. This is my first Burn Mix with the group (thanks for lowering the drawbridge) but it is certainly not my first mix tape. Throughout high school, college, and adulthood I’ve been chasing that perfect mix. As Nick Hornby said in High Fidelity, "...making a tape is like writing a letter - there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one. . . A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do." I've had a lot of great mixes in the past -high speed dubbed in my two cassette tape player or downloaded and burned to a CD and handed to a friend. There is no greater gift than the mix tape.
The music that moves me the most is a song that is able to transmit a bit of melancholy my way. Yes, the new guy is indeed pulling that card. It is one of the hardest emotions to express through music - perhaps because it is the hardest to fake. Aptly, I was chosen for the September mix which is the time when everything dies. Fall is a time that is both wildly beautiful and deeply introspective (at least for me). My best mixed tapes were fall mix tapes. I hope that you will listen to this mix on a long country drive - Be sure to roll the windows down, blast the heat, and think long and hard about the sad beauty of life. Sorry, but - its my first day.;
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Andy Shauf / Drink My Rivers
I recently discovered Andy Shauf at the beginning of the summer. Born and raised in the Canadian prairie, this guy has no doubt been through some long winters. If you dig this song, I would suggest listening to the 2016 album The Party and the rest of this album The Bearer of Bad News.
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Andy Shauf is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Regina, Saskatchewan. He plays several instruments, including clarinet. Known for honest, self-reflective songs as well as captivating lyrical works of fiction and an intimate live show, Shauf is considered one of the most intriguing emerging songwriters around. His release, The Bearer of Bad News, explores themes of uncertainty, curiosity and spirituality. “I think spirituality is a part of life whether you are religious or not, even if you’re just superstitious. Read more on Last.fm more...
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adrianne lenker / Indiana
I discovered AdriAnne Lenker’s side project after getting hooked on her beautifully strange voice as the front of the band Big Thief. She put out three great albums in 2014 that are a treasure trove of beautifully sparse songs. She is a fantastic songwriter.
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Adrianne Lenker is a singer/songwriter from Minneapolis, Minnesota and is the lead singer and plays guitar in the critically acclaimed band Big Thief. Her 2006 debut album "Stages of the Sun" consists of all original material that she wrote (some with her father) between the ages of 11 and 14. Produced by Grammy winner, Steve Hodge. More info at www.myspace.com/adriannelenker Read more on Last.fm more...
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Ian Fitzgerald / Melinda Down the Line
I love this album by Ian Fitzgerald. It is the country drive windows down album. I would also recommend the song Something to Remember me By. He has a great voice.
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Ian Fitzgerald is a songster. If he had been born a hundred years earlier, he probably would have learned the songs of the day and provided the entertainment in between sales pitches at a medicine show. If he had been born forty years earlier, he might have made his way to Greenwich Village or, a few years later, down to Austin to congregate with his fellow songwriters. As it is, though, Ian finds himself in hard times for songsters. So he writes the best songs he can and plays them for whoever will listen. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Leif Vollebekk / Cairo Blues
Leif Vollebekk, also has a great voice and is also from Canada (sensing a trend here). Stone cold silence in the room means the record is at its end. cay-row, cay-row.
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Leif Vollebekk is a Canadian singer-songwriter, based in Montreal. Since the beginning of his career, Leif has performed at the Newport Folk Festival and shared stages with Daniel Lanois, Beth Orton, Sinéad O’Connor, Patrick Watson, Coeur de Pirate, William Fitzsimmons and Sam Amidon. He released his break-through sophomore album ‘North Americana’ in 2013, while his 2010 debut ‘Inland’ was described as “beautiful, memorable and moving” by NPR and “timeless and monumental” by the Independent UK. Read more on Last.fm more...
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The Books / Free Translator
This is where the mix starts to shift from acoustic songs to a semi-electronic composition style I’ve been digging lately. The Books are very talented at taking found sounds, song fragments, and other potpourri, and combining them into beautiful songs.
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The story of The Books began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong took their sonic experiments to the studio. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of Tomlab Records, they created what would become their debut record, 'Thought for Food', in 2002. Within a year, the Books relocated to Hot Springs, NC, and recorded and released 'The Lemon of Pink'. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Panda Bear / Take Pills
Person Pitch is probably one of the most influential albums I encountered after my college years. A thorough listen is highly recommended. This is that kind of album that is initially challenging but then slowly grows and grows on you until you can’t listen to anything else. Front man Noah Lennox works by himself creating loops and tangles of found sounds and recordings while layering in his distinct vocals (reminiscent of an old worn Beach Boys record). Noah is also in the band Animal Collective.
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Panda Bear is American musician Noah Lennox (born Noah Benjamin Lennox on 17 July 1978), a founding member of experimental pop band Animal Collective and member of Jane. Lennox grew up in the Roland Park section of Baltimore, Maryland. As a child, he played sports, and studied piano and cello. He later sang tenor in his high school chamber choir. After graduation, he attended Boston University but dropped out in 2000 and moved to New York where he dedicated himself to his music. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Caribou / Bees
Caribou is similar to Panda Bear (both animals). Caribou works solo writing all of the pieces of the song and recording and performing them separately. I highly recommend all of his albums.
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Caribou is Canadian Dan Snaith (b. 1978), who formerly recorded under the moniker Manitoba. Known for altering his sound with each subsequent release, he incorporates electronic psychedelia, krautrock rhythms, and breakbeat drums and creates a swirling, lush, musical panorama. Snaith also creates more club-oriented dance music under the name Daphni. Snaith grew up in Dundas, Ontario, Canada, which gave its name to a song from his debut album Start Breaking My Heart. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Sylvan Esso / Die Young
Sylvan Esso is one of my new favorites. Their 2014 self-titled album was on heavy repeat in the Bagge household. Amelia Meath of the folk band Mountain Man joined forces with electronic producer Nick Sanborn and they made a beautiful hybrid of their two backgrounds. Their much-anticipated second album came out this year and fell a little short for me – as anticipated second albums do. The band then released an all-acoustic version of the album that is fantastic. The album is The Echo Mountain Sessions and it converts the electronic album into an all-acoustic album while collaborating with a ton of bands you know (look it up!).
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Sylvan Esso is a Durham, NC, USA duo of vocalist Amelia Meath and electronic musician Nick Sanborn. Their début was the double A-side 12" Hey Mami / Play It Right (16 Jul 2013), featuring a capella and instrumental versions of each song. Meath’s powerful voice is front and center, unjoined by fellow harmonizers as it is in her folk group, Mountain Man. Sanborn, who plays bass in the genre-destroying Megafaun, creates intricate, pulsing grooves for Meath’s voice to inhabit. Sites: SoundCloud, Deezer, Discogs and BandCamp Read more on Last.fm more...
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The War on Drugs / Pain
The War on Drugs is great. This album came out on Monday. Enjoy.
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The War on Drugs is an American indie rock band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Band member Adam Granduciel (born Adam Granofsky in Dover, Massachusetts) moved from Oakland, California to Philadelphia in 2003, where he met Kurt Vile and began playing music with him. They began playing as The War on Drugs in 2005, and self-released a demo EP. While Vile and Granduciel formed the backbone of the band, they had a number of accompanists early in the group's career Read more on Last.fm more...
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Nick Drake / From the Morning
What would a fall album be without a little Nick Drake?
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Nick Drake (Nicholas Rodney Drake, Rangoon, Burma, June 19, 1948 - Tanworth-in-Arden, England, November 25, 1974) was an English folk singer known for his gentle, enigmatic songs and his virtuosic right-hand finger picking technique. Although he recorded only three albums, critics and fellow musicians hold his work in very high esteem. Drake failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime and had a strong aversion to performing. Since his death, however, Drake's music has gained a significant cult following. Read more on Last.fm more...
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Leon Bridges / Coming Home
This is my wedding song. My wedding is Saturday. Gulp. I had fun, hope you enjoyed the mix.
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Leon Bridges (born Todd Michael Bridges on July 13, 1989) is an American gospel and soul singer, songwriter and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Bridges began performing in and around Fort Worth, Texas and stirred up music industry interest with analog recordings, produced by Justin Block and Austin Jenkins of White Denim, which were uploaded to his SoundCloud page. Signed to major-label Columbia, his first singles -- including a rich ballad Read more on Last.fm more...
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