Summer Fridays 2015

Well it’s not summer anymore and it’s not Friday, but I still had these two mixes in the hopper and I finally found time to finish them. Cover art for mix 8.11 was done by enigmatic digital graffiti artist King of the Streets. Usually he gets a more rocking mix, I felt like he might like to dance, so we start things off with Frankie Goes to Hollywood and go from there.

The final mix for 2015 — SF8-12 — has cover art by Eli Kasan of Pittsburgh’s finest, The Gotobeds. (Not to be confused with classic filmmaker/name-namer Elia Kazan.) Knowing he’s a Wire fan (Google that with the name of the band), I went sort of punk/postpunk/mutant pop for this one.

Both of these turned out good! Appologies to the cover artists for me being so delinquent in finishing them. For everyone else, enjoy a couple last blasts of summer.

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Summer Fridays 8.11 by Soundbitesnyc on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
1. Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax
2. New Order – Tutti Fruiti
3. Painted Palms – Glaciers
4. Empress Of – Standard
5. Sebastien Tellier – La Ritournelle (Metronomy remix)
6. Here We Go Magic – Falling
7. Telekinesis – Courtesy Phone
8. Thomas A. Edison Electric Band – Europa & the Pirate Twins
9. Sparks – Number One Song in Heaven
10. Colourbox – Punch
11. Future Punx – Manhattan Loverboy
12. Pop Will Eat Itself – Psychosexual
13. JB Dunckel – Kill for You (Sangaile) [feat. Thibaut Barbillon & Alex Thomas]
14. Laptop – Nothing to Declare
15. Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane remix feat. Au Revoir Simone)
16. Young Galaxy – Body
17. U.S. Girls – Window Shades

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Summer Fridays 8.12 by Soundbitesnyc on Mixcloud

Tracklist:
1. The Moonlandingz – Sweet Saturn Mine
2. Hooton Tennis Club – P.O.W.E.R.F.U.L P.I.E.R.R.E
3. The Buzzcocks – I Don’t Know What to Do with My Life
4. Childbirth – Siri, Open Tinder
5. Woolen Men – Life in Hell
6. Primitive Parts – Troubles
7. Henry Badowski – Baby Sign Here With Me
8. Echo & The Bunnymen – With a Hip
9. Kelley Stoltz – Cut Me Baby
10. Sheer Agony – I Have a Dream
11. The Reducers – We Are Normal
12. The Shifters – Captain Hindsight
13. The Intelligence – Refuse to Pay Dues
14. The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy – Caroline Wheeler’s Birthday Present
15. The Stranglers – Get a Grip on Yourself
16. Deerhunter – Snakeskin
17. The Drink – No Memory
18. Brian James – Ain’t That a Shame
19. Mekons – Memphis, Egypt
20. Wire – Mannequin

Summer’s not over yet, and neither are Summer Fridays mixes. I just took a little break there. This week’s cover art is by frequent contributor Kelly Hitzing who always seems to find inspiration in the perspiration of her Miami home. With that in mind, here’s a mix that is definitely with the ’80s in mind, even if only a few of the songs are actually old. This one turned out well with a particularly sweet mix between the first two songs (YACHT/Hot Chip) which was by accident (but i definitely finessed it a bit once I realized the potential.) Perfect for poolside nights or listening whilst showering.

DOWNLOAD SUMMER FRIDAYS 8.10

And here’s your streaming player:

Summer Fridays 8.10 by Soundbitesnyc on Mixcloud

And the tracklist:

1. YACHT – I Thought the Future Would Be Cooler
2. Hot Chip – Started Right
3. Shriekback – Underwaterboys
4. Lemonade – Dancer on the Shore
5. Georgia – Nothing Solution
6. Heavenly Beat – Eucharist
7. Korallreven – Here in Iowa
8. Bear In Heaven – Lovesick Teenagers
9. Outfit – On the Water, On the Way
10. Lizzy Mercier Descloux – Room Mate
11. Monika – We Came Into this World (To Beat Them)
12. The Radio Dept. – Occupied
13. Part Time – Science, Shadows & Religeons on the Walls
14. Seoul – Haunt a Light
15. Duran Duran – Save a Prayer

PS no you did not miscount. There is no Summer Fridays 8.9. Yet. But soon.

I keep a playlist of songs I like, old and new, that I want to use for Summer Fridays every year and, inevitably, some of them don’t feel all that summery. Sometimes I wait till a fall mix for those but when I saw this week’s cover art, I took it as an opportunity to use all those aggro burn-it-down songs that had been stacking up (and find some more too).

Cover art is by John Lee who was one of the first people I met on moving to NYC. I went to see his band Muckafurgason religiously. I made mixes for his wedding. Mucka went their separate ways around the time he started getting into TV and with PFFR he’s been part of some of the most amazingly, hilariously f’d up programs ever to air, including Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel and The Heart, She Holler. (Also Delocated which isn’t so f’d up but is awesome.) Recently he’s directed episodes of Broad City and Inside Amy Schumer, and he’s currently in Los Angeles directing the Pee-Wee Herman movie that’s being released via Netflix. He grew up in San Francisco, is a pretty die-hard New York dude and simply wrote “this is how I feel about Los Angeles” when he sent the cover art. There’s no way I couldn’t start with The Fall.

Please enjoy this rather nihilistic mix.

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Summer Fridays 8.8 by Soundbitesnyc on Mixcloud

Here’s the tracklist:
1. The Fall – L.A.
2. Girls Names – Riticence
3. Male Gaze – Smog Dawn
4. Pop-O-Pies – In Frisco
5. Fist City – Fuck Cops
6. Spray Paint – Goth Apologist
7. The Birthday Party – Big Jesus Trash Can
8. The Intelligence – The World is a Drag
9. METZ – Spit You Out
10. Obnox – Grease
11. Fake Palms – Sparkles
12. Protomartyr – Why Does it Shake?
13. Richard Papiercuts – When it Really Begins
14. POW! – Liquid Daydream
15. Primitive Parts – Miracle Skin
16. My Dad Is Dead – Put It Away
17. Spectres – Where Flies Sleep
18. Wavves X Cloud Nothings – How It’s Gonna Go
19. Sleaford Mods – No One’s Bothered

Have you played around with Google’s Deep Dream? Cover art this week started as a picture I took of some balloons on the East River Ferry. But a couple passes through Deep Dream, it turned into that. Freaky! And fun. It seemed like a good choice for this year’s Franco/tropicalia/weird disco/etc mix which is one of the ones I always enjoy the most. It’s not as weird as the cover art. Enjoy.

Also this will be one of two Summer Fridays mixes going up this week as this one should’ve been up last Friday. I swear the next one will be up tomorrow!

DOWNLOAD SUMMER FRIDAYS 8.7

Or stream it:

Summer Fridays 8.7 by Soundbitesnyc on Mixcloud

And here’s the tracklist:

1. Roy Ayers – Everybody Loves the Sunshine
2. LA Priest – Oino
3. Chassol – Pipornithology, Pt II
4. John Baker – Festival Time
5. Stereolab – Blaue Milch
6. Domenique Dumont – Comme Ca
7. Cortex – Poxa
8. BEAK> – When We Fall
9. Richard Hayman – The Look of Love
10. Belle Epoque – Miss Broadway
11. Etienne de Crecy (featuring Baxter Dury) – Family
12. Kasso – Walkman
13. Nadjma – Some Day My Caliph Will Come
14. Donny Benét – Gentleman’s Choice
15. Piry – Heroi Moderno
16. Juniore – Marabout
17. Brigitte Bardot – Contact
18. Etienne Charry – Prinsen
19. Bert Kaempfert – Afrikaan Beat