THE 7-YEAR-ITCH MIX: SPRING 2007

Last year at about this time, I chose to flip the typical P of A script by revisiting a rusty, tetanus-threatening sliver of my mp3 past. That sliver encapsulated some of my most treasured musical memories from the winter of 2006 and was presented in proper, karmic/cosmic conjunction with the astronomical phenomenon that is the spring/vernal equinox.

And so, as we celebrate yet another successful encirclement of the sun -- and as we in the North begin to dig ourselves out of a particularly bitter winter -- the time has once again come to cast our yearning ears rearward.  For, as that old Greek goat Socrates was wont to philosophize: An unexamined assemblage of mixtapes is neither worth assembling nor mixing in the first place.  (I paraphrase.) 

So I invite you -- my fearless, fellow time-travelers -- to return with this inveterate mixtape assembler to a time neither so very long ago nor so very far away.  A time that -- while perhaps ever-so-slightly brighter-eyed and bushier-tailed than the one we currently find ourselves biding -- we can only hope will prove as soft-focus familiar as it does sharp-contrast surprising...

Left-click [HERE] or [HERE] to download THE 7-YEAR-ITCH MIX: SPRING 2007.

TRACKLIST ---

01 INTERVENTION arcade fire
02 SILENTLY blonde redhead
03 BOOKS FROM BOXES maximo park
04 A STRANGE EDUCATION the cinematics
05 ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE pernice brothers
06 BRIGHTER BEAT malcolm middleton
07 SUMMER SPECIAL land of talk
08 CEMETARY LAWNS the rosebuds
09 NO ONE TOLD ME kristoffer ragnstam
10 RISE calla
11 I LOVE YOU, YOU IMBECILE pelle carlberg
12 SUPERSTAR TRADESMAN the view
13 BACK TO BLACK amy winehouse
14 I WIN starflyer 59
15 SO SOON the poems
16 DOWN IN THE VALLEY the broken west
17 EYE FOR AN EYE telograph
18 KEEP FORGETTING the cinematics
19 MY OWN FAULT maria taylor
20 MAN UNDER THE SUN the carny
21 THE LAST BEAT OF MY HEART devotchka


Left-click [HERE] to go to the 7-YEAR-ITCH MIX: SPRING 2006 mix. [RE-UPPED]