Various Artists, Troubleman Mix-Tape - 1h 8m 54s

Tracks & Durations

1. Miles Davis	1:04
2. Lightning Bolt - Waiting For The Snake Assasin	3:23
3. Burmese - Pleasures of Greed and Pain	1:16
4. Crash Smash Explode - One Minute	1:50
5. The Red Scare - Iron Curtain	2:04
6. Rah Bras - Fungry	1:29
7. Blonde Redhead - Father	2:15
8. Crom-Tech - Lord Dorpal	0:41
9. Harriet The Spy - How We Got on Kill Rock Stars	1:58
10. Red Monkey - Essential Nutrients	2:58
11. The Hex - Black Tape	1:51
12. Petty Crime - Curse of Boredom	1:41
13. - Freak The Funk	5:29
14. Xbxrx - Cat.Garbage.Love	1:18
15. The Bad Form - Sell Yourself	2:08
16. The Convocation of... - Solitary White Amongst Remix	4:34
17. Melt-Banana - We Love Choco-Pa	0:18
18. Song Of Zarathustra - The Evening Beat	2:41
19. Flying Luttenbachers - Total Assymmetry	4:05
20. Black Dice - Stake Fin	0:29
21. The Fucking Champs - Over the Flat Earth	2:07
22. The Monorchild - Who Put Out the Fire?	3:04
23. The Crainum - Untitled	3:06
24. The Intima - Summer Of Twelve Thousand Years	1:34
25. Sean Na Na w/ Lois - 2-9476	2:20
26. Lovesick - Faster Than Arrows	2:25
27. Sunshine - Pulp	3:23
28. Secret Stars - September	2:46
29. Turn-Offs - Lost and Found	1:58
30. Excelsior - Sailing The Sea Of Hoag	2:24

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Review

The almighty mix tape is not just an outdated phenomenon for disaffected indie rockers or Luddites, and the Troubleman Mix-Tape--on CD of course--proves it with 49 exclusive, engaging tracks. In keeping with the classic mix-tape "cut-up" aesthetic (including such "found" snippets as a fumbled air check from Barry White's DJ days and a Miles Davis outburst), there's a coherent yet calculatedly jarring quality in the songs and sequencing that will make the listener stop to check the liner notes every few minutes. The aesthetic at work is analogue-loving, with keyboards, female vocals, and nods to prog rock, jazz, and noise. A lot of these groups seem to be looking back while looking ahead, and the resulting neck strain is refreshing. Like a noisy state of the union, with some funky and softer stuff for good measure, everyone appears in their best 21st-century dress; the bands include Olympia punk vets Unwound, up-and-comers Glass Candy and the Shattered Theatre, Chicago's Bride of No No, Japanoise winners Melt-Banana, hot prog-metal insurrectionists the F***ing Champs, and skree champions Erase Errata. Troubleman Mix-Tape serves as a great introduction to those curious about the deeper trenches of the noise underground, and it makes for a thrill-a-minute personal soundtrack that demonstrates just why mix tapes were so cool in the first place. --Cyndi Elliott

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