The Passion of the Weiss Winter Mixtape
February 8th, 2010
Why a winter mixtape? Because your Wu mixtape with “Winter Warz” and “Cold World” cracked in half. Because London just got through the biggest snowfall in decades. Yes, this mixtape is being posted on a website better known for summer jamz, but I’d argue that winter transcends weather. I’ve lived in Canada for most of my 21 years and you get used to the chilling winds, knee deep snow drifts and icy roads. But even if you’re walking around in shorts this season, hopefully this tape will give you the feeling of damp boots, red noses and the sharpness of January air. –Aaron Matthews, Feature Editor
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1. Boards of Canada - 1969
I don’t know if Boards of Canada specifically set out to make seasonal-sounding music. They do tend to have an undercurrent of outdoorsy atmosphere to some of their best work, hinted at in titles (”Hey Saturday Sun”; “In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country”; The Campfire Headphase) and the odd sensation of their music sort of sounding like it’s been left out in the elements to warp and wither. But to be honest, the wintry qualities of “1969″ aren’t so obvious; this could very well sound like a sun-faded, heat-damaged, borderline-dubstep summer anthem to someone else who heard it for the first time in, say, July. It just so happens that Geogaddi came out in February, and when it’s February in Minnesota and you’re listening to this new, alluring but kind of uncomfortable music during a pre-dawn 75-minute bus commute to a temp job out in the suburbs, a trip where the eventual sunrise results in an overcast winter morning with a bleached-white sky the same color as the snow-covered landscape, well, that could do something to forge a particular association. And that ending refrain — “1969, in the sunshine” — felt like it was referencing two places that were a long distance in the past. — Nate Patrin
