I thought my monthly mixtape project was complete, but I was wrong!

Here is a new mix I really love: Spotify | Apple | Youtube

I made it from a sealed, pre-recorded cassette I got for 99 cents at the record store. I taped over the cassette’s protection tabs and then I taped over the music and then I taped over the artwork.

This one I wanted to have a wintry, childlike feel to it, because that’s the way I wanted to feel while finishing the first draft of the book I’m working on, Don’t Call It Art, which is all about what I learned about being creative from my kids.

The record function on my good cassette deck went screwy on me, so I dragged out the trusty old Sony boombox I bought my son Owen when he first started getting into CDs:

Here’s the tracklist:

SIDE ONE

– Paul McCartney, “Every Night”
– Grizzly Bear, “Ready, Able”
– The Beach Boys, “All I Wanna Do”
– Robert Wyatt, “Heaps Of Sheeps”
– Here We Go Magic, “Collector”
– William Onyeabor, “Atomic Bomb”
– Chino Yoshio, “193193 (For Marimba)”

SIDE TWO

– Francis Bebey, “Pygmy Love Song”
– Herman’s Hermits, Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter
– Harry Nilsson, Listen, The Snow Is Falling
– Timmy Thomas, Why Can’t We Live Together
– Broadcast, Echo’s Answer
– Radiohead, “Kid A”
– Norma Fraser, “First Cut Is The Deepest”
– Buddy Emmons, “Singing Strings Of Steel”

You can listen to the mix on Spotify or Apple Music or Youtube.

I also added it to a big 10+ hour playlist of all the mixes I’ve made so far.