Here’s another monthly mixtape made 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.

I wrote about the mix’s origins and shared some of my custom “dub” tracks in today’s newsletter:

It began when I read novelist Elizabeth McCracken’s latest dispatch from Barton Springs pool here in Austin. She titled it “One Rich Man in Ten,” which is a line from the country song, “A Satisfied Mind”:

How many times have you heard someone say
‘If I had his money I’d do things my way’
But little they know
It’s so hard to find
One rich man in ten
with a satisfied mind… 

You can read more here.

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or YouTube.

Here’s the tracklist:

Side A

– Porter Wagoner, “A Satisfied Mind” (dub)
– Hiroshi Yoshimura, “Over The Clover” (dub)
– Mac DeMarco, “Chamber of Reflection”
– Augustus Pablo, “King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown”
– Unknown Mortal Orchestra, “That Life”
– The Congos, “Congoman”
– Sly and the Family Stone, “If You Want Me To Stay”
– Frankie Knuckles, “The Whistle Song”
– Chet Atkins and Dolly Parton, “Do I Ever Cross Your Mind?”

Side B

– Arthur Russell, “That’s Us / Wild Combination”
– Yellow Magic Orchestra, “Gradated Grey”
– Mekons, “Last Night on Earth”
– Upsetters, “Three in One”
– Branko Mataja, “Tesko Mi Je Zaboravit Tebe”
– Little Joy, “No One’s Better Sake”
– Radiohead, “Weird Fishes”
– Kim Deal, “Are You Mine?”
– Carlton Haney monologue about Pythagoras and bluegrass

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