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Crane’s Day Mixtape Exchange Expose!!!–>tsurucmmntyprsts.. AdventurerNeil’s “This Time, Baby, I’ll Be Bulletproof” Mixtape!!!

November 30, 2010
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Picture by young@art…

Hey Cranes!

It’s Neil, ya know, long-lost AdventurerNeil, checkin’ in with ya to say ‘howdy!’, and share some muzak (mmm…sweet, sweet muzak). As you may know, I enjoy my music like the cookie monster enjoys his dough…
C is for cookie... good enough for me!

You guys are nazis, man!

So yeah, sorry for being all sorts of wicked-absent and never posting… sad story: right as the last mixtapes week was kickin’ off, my computer went kaput. Since then I’ve been busy, sure, but mostly just complacent and lazy. Boo complacent and lazy! >:| My computer is still broken, but I finally decided to hijack a roommate’s computer or two, and blamo, a few searched-up gmail passwords later and I’m in bloggerin’ heaven! Lesson? Where there’s a will there’s a way, yo! Man, I really really missed this place… I’m really quite happy with the kinds of moments that are possible on TSURURADIO!

A whiles back, Tsuru posted and invited all you fine folks to come on over to the society and engage in a little Crane’s Day Mixtape Exchange action… wellsir, 20+ of us birds swarmed and signed up and exchanged all sorts of fun goodies!

(A major shoutout goes to Story, the mistress of society awesomeness, for organizing it all and having patience with my lack of checking-in, patience with my extremely-late mixtape, and for sending me an awesome package!)

Welp, I’ve been itching to share my mixtape with the world at large (I never was good at keeping my mixtapes “for your eyes only”… gotta share that s#%t!). It’s basically a massive homage to the awesomness that is TSURURADIO…. which is to say, I owe credit to the blog and society for 85%ish of songs that appear on this mix. Regular readers might be sadfaced at how familiar the tracks look. But so what! I love them, and they sound damn good together, and include much of my favorite music from 2010… so what more can ya ask for?!

Anywho, less chit-chat, more rock!

The TSURURADIO Community Presents… A Special Crane’s Day Mixtape Exchange Event… With Lots Of Capitalized Words And Suspense-y Anticipation… AdventurerNeil’s “This Time, Baby, I’ll Be Bulletproof” Mixtape!!!

1. Colin Munroe – Bulletproof Monster (La Roux X Nicki Minaj Revox)
2. Hudson Mohawke – Rising 5
3. Small Black – Search Party
4. The High Wire – Odds & Evens (Twins Remix)
5. Javelin – Too Many Feelings
6. Wintersleep – Trace Decay
7. Dominant Legs – About My Girls
8. Arcade Fire – We Used To Wait
9. Generationals – Faces In The Dark
10. Kori Pop – Nowhere Near My Heart
11. Beach House – Used To Be
12. Local Natives – Airplanes
13. Mndr – I Go Away
14. Junip – Rope And Summit
15. Coconut Records – Summer Day
16. Small Black – Photojournalist
17. Avi Buffalo – Coaxed
18. The High Wire – It’s No Secret
19. Goddamn Electric Bill – Ten Thousand Years
20. Ocean Age – Dalvik Tide

I like this mix. A lot. Tons of electronic, lots of pop, some rock, a hint of twee, a smidgen of post-rock, and many many healthy dashes of pure, unadultered longing…
…that just bleeds through in every song. It follows my basic mixtape formula… start like a lion, end like a bedtime story… RAWR!Zzzzz… (don’t tell anyone my secret formula). I hope you enjoy the living bajeezus out of it! :D

Over and out for now!

-Neil

PS. What a freaking ridiculously amazingly abundant year for music, eh???! Thanks to goodness we have papa Tsuru to help us enjoy the new stuff and share it… I’ve been looking forward to end-of-year madness ever since it happened last year!! Hours and hours and hours of new great epic stuff…! Or as Tsuru might say…

itty interwebs: being home sucks, but this doesn’t!

May 19, 2010
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Hurrumph,

Being home is so not that great. Been sitting around all day in a sweatshirt and under 2 quilts eating and drinking (m&ms and cranberry juice, respectively), letting my dog in and outside, refreshing twitter, etc. Life without friends 24/7 is pretty dull.

On the brightside, yall can read this now!

I know it’s über typical, but This Is Happening by LCD Soundsystem is fucking incredible. I am seriously infatuated with this album. I was never even that huge of a LCD fan – I mean I liked “Someone Great” and “All My Friends” as much as the next person but God, I hate “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House” SO MUCH. But then theneedledrop threw this in my face earlier today and it makes me want to cry a little – like my world is crashing in on me. Is it possible James Murphy is not the creative, killer dude that I thought he was? Did he maybe rip off some other greats a little? I’m reserving judgement, but if you want the gossip, head over to The Needle Drop for this comparison thing they’ve got going on
Is the new LCD Soundsystem a rip off?

Since All Points West was cancelled, True Blood is pretty much all I’ve got left to look forward to this summer. AND OMG I’M SO EXCITED. Check out the season teaser over at HBO, and if you don’t already watch True Blood, start. Sookeh.
True Blood Trailer

This shit looks sweet. Kind of an evasive website as far as giving solid information, but there is an asterisk at the bottom that says alludes to tickets, so I recommend visiting the page daily for updates. According to the site,

The event is going to be a groundbreaking combination of interactive art and installations, panels, workshops, screenings, and live performances. As much as The Creators Project is a digital archive of our digital world, it is also a testament to the enduring appeal of the Real. Many of the artists within the program explore the way that digitally manipulated images, sounds, and motions converge in real time, in real spaces.

Check it ouuuuut, I’ll be at the NYC opening hopefully!
The Creators Project

Flight Of The Conchord’s Jermaine is going to be in Men In Black 3. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL.
…lol

This keeps coming up on my itunes and I can’t remember where I downloaded it from (sorry credit. I suck) but it’s a fabby remix by Suckers of “Wide Eyes” by Local Natives… and if you remember correctly from my Coachella post, Local Natives ruuuule. Listen to it!
Wide Eyes (Suckers Remix) by arimyg

At this rate, you should probably just start considering itty interwebs to be your weekly Tokyo Police Club update. See they just released this new single “Wait Up (Boots Of Danger”) and I certainly to like it! Although I can’t figure out whether the Boots of Danger or the Wait Up is supposed to be in parentheses… Anyway Champ is out June 8 down here in the US, and imma get it!
Tokyo Police Club – Wait Up (Boots Of Danger) by arimyg

Okay I’m bored, lazy, and about to get yelled at for being bored and lazy, so bye!

ari (1 2 3)

PS. Tsuru already posted this, but you better go here and get this mix! It’s summeresque and fabulous!
Blogwave Summer

TSURURADIO Presents… MIXTAPES WEEK: [ ...Living, Breathing, Dying... ] by nelso!!!

April 9, 2010
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Illustration by Mike

Oh my, what a week we’ve had so far, eh?  Honestly, I didn’t know if I’d be able to keep MIXTAPES WEEK going all week!  So many hyperlinks… so little time!  But alas, here we are, Friday, and we’ve got yet another amazing mixtape to share with you.  Also, waiting in the wings for my Crane Buddy to receive her Crane’s Day gift is the mixtape I made for her!  It’s a doozy that I plan on sharing with you ASAP, but she gets dibs on listening first, sorry — wouldn’t be all that special if I let you go before her, right?

Right.

Okay, as much as I hate to keep this short, it’s looking to be a nutty day today, it’s chilly outside, Baby’s sick, and dammit, I’m going to get a little lunchtime ride in to spin some ache out of my legs before a big (maybe 100 miler) ride tomorrow!   So, let’s get to the good stuff, eh?  And by good stuff, of course I’m talking about [...Living, Breathing, Dying...] by nelso!

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“Ahh life is all about balance, this mix has balance, in tempo, up and down, its living, its breathing, and eventually dying…”  says nelso, so true, about life, about this mixtape, about damn near everything.  I will also add that life is about lines, it’s just one line after another sometimes, isn’t?  Line up at the stop light, line up in the lane on the interstate, line up at the exit, line up to park, line up for some coffee, line up to pay, line up to even leave!  Ugh.

Sorry, I digressed there, I really hate lines.

Fortunately, this mixtape is NOT about lines.  It’s at times whimsical, then fun, then slow & introspective, sometimes a interesting mix of all of the above, like “Whale In The Night” by Firs.  As nelso said, it ebbs, it flows, it’s up & down, as is all things, and it’s quite brilliant.  A wonderful conclusion to a rather ebb & flow kinda week if you ask me!  Thank you so much nelso! So what say you?  Shall we get ‘er on?   Yeah, I think so too.

TSURURADIO Presents… MIXTAPES WEEK!

[ ...Living, Breathing, Dying... ] by nelso!!!

1. Annuals – Springtime
2. Mesita – Living/breathing
3. Shout Out Louds – Very Loud
4. Nurses – Technicolor
5. French Kicks – She Said So
6. Rosie and Me – Bonfires
7. Bedroom Eyes – Dancing Under Influence
8. Firs – Whale In The Night
9. Beach House – Lover of Mine
10. Ramona Falls – Russia
11. Mimicking Birds – Burning Stars
12. Peasant – The End
13. The Spinto Band – Jackhammer (slim version)
14. All Get Out – Wasting All My Breath
15. Local Natives – Cards and Quarters
16. Wye Oak – My Creator
17. She & Him – Riding In My Car (NRBQ)
18. Fanfarlo – Comets
19. The Farewell Circuit – The Inexorable March of Time
20. Bon Iver – Come Talk to Me

Thanks again, so so so much, nelso!!!  Wonderful, wonderful mixtape, as always!!!   No promises (like I said, I may be riding 100 miles tomorrow for the 38th annual Woodstock COP ride), but I’ll try to get at least one more up before we start a-new on Monday!!!

Cheers & may all your tubes full of air!

Tsuru