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Hello!  I’m back from New Zealand!  More on that later.  Important business.

Tonight is the second Melbourne Mixtape Exchange!  It’s all happening in a few hours time at The Great Britain Hotel in Richmond, with sets from The Naysayers, Young Maverick and Pretty City.

I thought about what kind of mixtape I wanted to make for this event.  Last time, I suggested that I wanted to DJ your party (offer still stands, I dig northern soul, Melbourne indie, and hot Britpop frontmen).  This time, I focused on another love — summer music festivals.

The summer festival season opens with Meredith at the start of December and rolls through until Easter, when Boogie wraps everything up.  This year has been a corker and it’s not even over yet.  Here’s my picks, in Side A and Side B form:

SIDE A:
1. Primal Scream, ‘Movin’ On Up’ (Meredith 2012)
2. Vampire Weekend, ‘One (Blake’s Got a New Face)’ (Big Day Out 2013)
3. World’s End Press, ‘Faithful’ (Falls Festival 2012/13)
4. Hot Chip, ‘Over and Over’ (Falls Festival 2012/13)
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ‘Zero’ (Big Day Out 2013)
6. The Hives, ‘Hate to Say I Told You So’ (Falls Festival, 2012/13)
7. The Men, ‘Turn it Around’ (Laneway 2013)

SIDE B:
1. Pond, ‘Betty Davis (Will Come Down from the Heavens and Save Us)’ (Meredith 2012 & Laneway 2013)
2. King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, ‘Muckraker’ (Falls Festival 2012/13)
3. Velociraptor, ‘Sleep with the Fishes’ (Boogie 2013)
4. Royal Headache, ‘Girls’ (Meredith 2012)
5. Super Wild Horses, ‘Lock and Key’ (Boogie 2013)
6. The Stone Roses, ‘She Bangs the Drums’ (Future Music Festival 2013)
7. Best Coast, ‘The Only Place’ (Falls Festival, 2012/13)
8. Kitty Daisy & Lewis, ‘Honolulu Rock ‘n’ Rolla’ (Boogie 2013)
9. Boomgates, ‘Any Excuse’ (Meredith 2013)
10. Henry Wagons & The Unwelcome Company, ‘A Hangman’s Work is Never Done’ (Laneway 2013 & Boogie 2013)

You can also check out my Spotify playlist if you want to hear it all from start to finish.  (There are a couple of songs missing, namely World’s End Press, Pond and Kitty, Daisy and Lewis).

xoxo Nyssa on the 2nd March, 2013 | 1 comment
filed under music
and tagged with | melbourne mixtape exchange, pretty city, the naysayers, young maverick

one comment

1. Miranda says:

   March 7, 2013 at 5:03 am

   I love love love that you made an actual TAPE. This also makes me feel like you are so much cooler than me because I feel my music taste would make kids in America who would participate in something like this laugh endlessly at me.

   Must go listen to this on Spotify, immediately.

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