Summer Jamz ’08 #6: It’s Not The Heat
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Each Summer Jam is proudly co-hosted with Screw Rock N’ Roll and What Was it Anyway.
01. Jean-Claude Vannier – L’Enfant Au Rayaume Des Mouches
02. Meth Teeth – To My Good Friend
03. Royal Trux – I’m Ready
04. Amon Duul II – Archangels Thunderbird
05. Ruth – Mon Pote (Version Courte)
06. The Wedding Present – Spangle
07. The Congos – Congo Man
08. Depth Charge – Blue Lipps
09. Gilberto Gil – Sai Do Sereno
10. Circle ft. Verde – Gerde
11. Cut Copy – Far Away
12. Depeche Mode – See You
13. DOP – Foly
14. Nomo – All the Stars
15. Crystal Castles – Courtship Dating
16. Part Timer – Only Natural
17. The Olivia Tremor Control – Jumping Fences
18. Vivian Girls – Wild Eyes
19. Natural Snow Buildings – Gone
20. The Pizzas – Hideous Fashion
21. Sian Alice Group – Motionless
22. Cristina – Drive My Car (Long Version)
23. Frank Black – Headache
24. Jack Rose – Kensington Blues
Here in greenhouse NYC, our only real theme is “sweltering,” so this mix is a reflection of soupy, unrelenting humidity. A heat mirage. A little dancing, but not too much, because we must lie down and rehydrate. Ready the sweat-bucket.
—Jeff Siegel
This mix started from my end — where in the fickle Ohio heat and rain and wind, I’m forced to celebrate summer with a “home” vacation. That is, with the price of gas and food and alcohol going through the fucking roof, trying to conjure up a seasonal fever dream is confined to the basements, backyards, and dive bars of Columbus. So excuse the randomness, the scruffy edges, the teenage nostalgia. I don’t have beaches or skyscrapers or foreign flights to pad my imagination this year, only scuzzy, cigarette stained hangovers, bong rips, and lo-fi escapism. Jeff did a wonderful job juxtaposing my trash heap — giving us the soaring solar to my claustrophobic nocturnal.
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More summer:
Summer Jamz ’08 #5: Compiled by Jayson Greene and Stewart Voegtlin
“Oh, geezus. Didn’t we all wanna give up the goose when the sweat ceased to dribble and ran?”
Summer Jamz ’08 #4: Compiled by Paul Scott and Ian Mathers
For their summer mix, Paul and Ian decided to have a conversation, or maybe an argument, thanks to one inarguable fact: Ian hates summer.
Summer Jamz ’08 #3: Dear Summer… by Jonathan Bradley
“My mix is for the times everything is still and quiet and perfect … I haven’t included any yacht rock or Eagles tunes, but that’s all I can guarantee.”
Summer Jamz ’08 #2: State of the Union, Jack by Mike Orme and Nick Southall
“Two former Stylus Magazine compatriots … celebrate the summer by splitting halves of a mix CD, each trying to fill their side with songs the other writer would put on a summer mix.”
Summer Jamz ’08 #1: Compiled by Alfred Soto and Dan Weiss
“In the context of summer, vastness suggests the abrogation of responsibility: school and relationships, mostly…”
