LPC Mixtape Series, Vol. 4, January 2010: The Meaning of Is

Sorry I'm a bit late with this, but I've had a lot to do over the past few days. It's finally here, at least. And yes, the title is most definitely a Clinton reference.

As you can probably tell from the photo, this is a 90s themed mixtape and we're glad to present it to all of our nearly 7,000 visitors from January. Thank you for reading LPC and keep checking the site for new stuff every day!

Tracklist:

1. The Smashing Pumpkins - The End Is the Beginning Is the End
2. A Tribe Called Quest - Buggin' Out
3. Bran Van 3000 - Drinking in L.A.
4. Mike Watt - Drove Up From Pedro
5. Boredoms - Super Going
6. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy
7. Faith No More - Everything's Ruined
8. The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen
9. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
10. Weezer - Pink Triangle
11. Smash Mouth - Stoned
12. Galaxie 500 - Tugboat
13. Nas - It Ain't Hard to Tell
14. Foo Fighters - Everlong
15. Rush - Everyday Glory
16. Pavement - Grave Architecture
17. Stars of the Lid - Anchor States, Pt. 1
18. Beat Happening - Noise
19. Lemonheads - Down About It
20. The Flaming Lips - Race For the Prize

Enjoy the mixtape, there should be another one out in three weeks. I'm out for the night.

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LPC Mixtape Series, Vol. 3, November/December 2010: Christmas Morning

Depending on how old you are as you're reading this, you're probably several years past the unmatchable excitement of waking up on Christmas morning to see what you've received from family, friends, other relatives, and, of course, Santa.

What were some of the best gifts you received during your childhood? There's always that one gift that you'll always remember because it was on a different level compared to the rest. Likewise, you'll also remember the gift you received from a (presumably) distant relative who was either a cheapskate, unintelligent, or thought you were five years old.

While this mixtape isn't strictly Christmas-themed, I'd like to think it is with several Christmas-related tracks (most of those, thanks to T_R_A, being comedic) and a general thought of Christmas morning in mind (except for the Odd Future stuff, of course!).

Because of the lack of a mixtape for the month of November, we decided to combine the two months into one giant mixtape for both November and December; we think you'll like this a lot.

With that, we'll let you enjoy 30 selections from our staff for the months of November and December.

1. Afrirampo - Miracle Lucky Girls
2. Clive Tanaka y su Orquesta - All Night, All Right
3. Tame Impala - It's Not Meant to Be
4. Bad Veins - Gold and Warm
5. Earl Sweatshirt - EARL
6. Dean Martin - Baby, It's Cold Outside
7. Girl Talk - That's Right
8. Max Bemis and the Painful Splits - Do the Dohnk
9. Sun City Girls - Space Prophet Dogon
10. Tyler, the Creator - French! Featuring Hodgy Beats
11. Vince Guaraldi - Linus and Lucy
12. Killer Bong - Are There Any Complaints
13. Half Man Half Biscuit - All I Want For Christmas Is a Dukla Prague Away Kit
14. Girls - Carolina
15. NoMeansNo - Big Dick
16. One Ring Zero - Half and Half
17. Weezer - Trampoline
18. Ducktails - Killin' the Vibe
19. The Residents - Dumbo, the Clown (Who Loved Christmas)
20. Stellar OM Source - Island Best
21. Captain Beefheart - There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage
22. Electric Six - The Rubberband Man
23. Atlas Sound - This Wheel's on Fire (Dylan)
24. Man or Astro-man? - Mermaid Love
25. Nuclear Rabbit - Santa Claus Is Selling Crack
26. Jad Fair and Naofumi Ishimaru - Santa's Knee
27. Big Troubles - Bite Yr Tongue
28. Das Racist - Who's That? Brooown!
29. Medecine - Christmas Song
30. Vince Guaraldi - Skating

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With this post, I would like to thank everyone who has had a helping hand in the foundation or continuation of this blog. Every writer on this staff that contributes does a great job in writing and it's hard for me to not be happy with the writers we have.

Without the visitors and readers of the blog, though, we wouldn't be able to do any of this. Thanks to all of you for making this possible.

Now let's look at 2011 as the year we can make this improve in so many ways. Good night and Merry Christmas.

LPC Mixtape Series, Vol. 3, October 2010: Monster Jams

As you may have heard earlier this month, EA Sports decided to do the right thing: release the new version of NBA Jam as a separate entity from NBA Elite 11. For people like me who essentially worship the original arcade game, this is fantastic news. Considering the game gets its proper release in about two weeks, I felt it was only appropriate to give the game a good tribute with the title of this mixtape.

As usual, you'll get the varied selections from our writers - everything from Kings of Leon to Coil. As the writer who has to put these mixes together at the end of every month, I greatly enjoy the variety our writers bring to the table. Maybe having 28 writers on the staff does that for you.

Tracklist:

1. Suis La Lune - In a Deep Hole With Clay and Remorse
2. Sleigh Bells - Tell 'Em
3. Electric Six - American Cheese
4. Javiera Mena - Hasta La Verdad
5. Le Révélateur - Statues
6. Kings of Leon - Radioactive
7. King Tuff - Sun Medallion
8. Titus Andronicus - No Future, Pt. III (Escape From No Future)
9. Coil - Tattooed Man
10. Strawfoot - Strawfoot Waltz
11. Atlas Sound - Criminals
12. Deep Thinkers - The Technicolor B-Boy Slide Show
13. ANBB - I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground
14. Spiritualized - Electricity
15. Mark McGuire - Brothers (For Matt)
16. Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter
17. Circle Takes the Square - A Crater to Cough In
18. Star Slinger - Deerhunter - Helicopter (Star Slinger Remix)
19. Band in Heaven - A Tunnel Into Your Dreams (Demo)
20. Thoughts Paint the Sky - Akt II: Konflikt - Zwickmühle

As always, enjoy the mixtape.

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(photo from Altered Zones)

Other matters from October:

• All of LPC's staff would like to thank our 5,665 visitors to the site last month. That's a new monthly record of visitors for the blog!
• The complete plans for our end-of-year bash on the blog will be posted soon. In addition to the staff polls, we'll add something for the readers as well.
• We can't encourage you enough to leave comments on our posts. We want your feedback!

Reminder to our readers

The third edition of our mixtape series will be released next Monday evening. Prepare your media players and devices for the ear-splitting awesomeness.

Some other notes to followers:

• We're going to begin posting top ten lists from our writers soon (top ten albums, top ten songs of 2010, etc.). Hopefully we'll be able to start this in mid-November or so.
• Join our Last.fm group if you haven't already; we're always open to blog suggestions.
• If you're a writer who hasn't written anything in a while or at all, you need to get in touch with either myself of The_Red_Agent. We need your help in the end-of-year stuff.
• As always, if you'd like to become a writer for the blog, just let me know how you can add to the blog and you can become a part of the staff.

LPC Mixtape Series, Vol. 2, September 2010: One For Pep Pep

I lied: I'm too lazy to make a better cover for September. But Altered Zones has some of the best backgrounds I've ever seen on a music site and I've got to use them. As the August mixtape was, this is simply a mixtape featuring songs from many of our writers that have been in frequent play for them.

At least the title doesn't totally suck this time, though. The next one will probably be about NBA Jam or something, I don't know.

Tracklist:

1. Ida Maria - Oh My God
2. Anberlin - Impossible
3. Refused - Liberation Frequency
4. The Soundcarriers - Last Broadcast
5. Arandel - In D#1
6. Ketil Bjørnstad - 02 II
7. Unwound - October All Over
8. Flying Lotus - Time Vampires
9. Real Estate - Black Lake
10. TOKiMONSTA - Death by Disco
11. Prizzy Prizzy Please - A Thundergust of Woodpeckers
12. No Age - Valley Hump Crash
13. Sun Araw - Beat Cop
14. Four Tet - Slow Jam
15. Gay Witch Abortion - Curses
16. The Static Age - Already Dead
17. Cassiber - Vengeance is Dancing
18. Deerhunter - Desire Lines
19. Hard Mix - Memories
20. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Skeletons

For now, we'll leave these at twenty tracks. As visits to the site increase (we would like to thank all of our visitors for the 5,138 page views last month), we may make these more frequently and add or subtract the amount of songs on the mixtapes.

Think of Richard Dunn when you listen to this. Just for a tribute.

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LPC Mixtape Series Vol. 1, August 2010: Peter's First Tape

My poor attempt at a cover aside (I'll make a better one for September), this is a mixtape featuring fourteen songs picked by our writers that, from LPC's foundation in late June to now, have been some of their favorites.

We'll do one of these monthly, and the titles (and cover art) will become more creative every time. For now, we'll leave you with this.

Tracklist:

1. Ruinzhatova - Trans-Europe Express
2. Small Black - Despicable Dogs
3. Electric Six - I Buy the Drugs
4. Svarti Loghin - Kosmik Tomhet
5. Panda Bear - Slow Motion
6. Dylan Ettinger & the Heat - Miami Heat (The Stakeout)
7. Freddie Gibbs - National Anthem (Fuck the World)
8. Joanna Newsom - Good Intentions Paving Company
9. Peter van Hoesen - Terminal
10. Crooked Necks - Poisoning the Seed
11. Oberhofer - o0Oo0Oo
12. Pan Sonic - Pan Finale
13. Eric Copeland - Fun Dink Death
14. Tennis - Marathon

Have fun.

Peter's First Tape