So you missed our show today. You’re not alone. Things went badly for a time, then they went well for about 20 minutes. But that’s ok! Thanks to the miracle of podcasts you can listen to the sparklingly-pristine lovingly-produced full episode forever. But what if you want to atone for your misdeeds somehow? Or (perhaps) what if you’re not so much a listening-to-other-people-talk kind of person? Instead maybe you enjoy…

Music.

Well, that’s where a mixtape comes in. Sure… mixtapes used to be made by a painstaking process of dubbing vinyl records onto cassette at precisely timed intervals. They were a labor of love. Well, this is digital, but it’s probably no less a labor of love. I mean, do you know how difficult modifying ID3 tags and archiving things to a .zip file is? Well?

Yet now,  it is a fine collection of archived MP3s with ID3 tags. Here’s a track listing (roughly in the same order as our show today):

1. Oleg Kostrow – Tanets El’miry I Tartyufa
2. Tanya Tagaq – Growl
3. Abayudaya Jews of Uganda – Jerusalem
4. Baligh Hamdi & Magid Khan – Magnouna
5. Marusic Is Trio – Taranjkanje
6. R.D. Burman – Masterji Ki Aa Gayi Chitti (Padmini & Shibangi)
7. Mulatu Astatke – Chifara
8. Sainkho Namchylak & Ned Rothenberg – 2nd Dance
9. AU vs Masanka Sankayi – Two Labors
10. Hiran’ny Tanoran’ny Ntao Lo – Oay Lahy É [O! Dear Friend]
11. Aksak Maboul – A Modern Lesson
12. OOIOO – UMO
13. Huun-Huur-Tu & Malerija – Orai-la boldu-la
14. Dengue Fever – Pow Pow
15. Tafo Brothers – Bijli Bhari Hai
16. Tautu Archer – Ama Ama
17. Ugarte Anaiak & Tanya Tagaq – One Frail Seed
18. DJ Huron – Bagpipes/Celtic Hip Hop Instrumental
19. Hatsune Miku English – [title in Japanese]
20. Bugotak – Kaar Mege (Nirvana’s Rape Me)
21. Fanfare Ciocarlia – Born To Be Wild
22. Leningrad Cowboys & The Red Army Ensemble – Delilah
23. Oleg Kostrow – Tanets Detey Prokofeva
24. Secret Chiefs 3 – Jabalqa/Jabarsa (BLÆRG remix)
25. Tanya Tagaq – Force

That’s the music you get if you download the mixtape. It has some truly great Music of Incomprehension. Which, for those who appreciate a little more description, includes:

• modern Russian electronic exotica
• Eskimo throatsinging
• African Jews — yes really!
• Egyptian/Indian crossover psych jam sessions
• Jazz-io-pia
• experimental throatsinging
• Cambodian classical rock revival
• Pakistani Bollywood (Lollywood)
• What is this? New Caledonia? I don’t even know.
• Inuit throatsinging
• Celtic Bagpipes Hip-Hop
• Covers: Rape Me, Born To Be Wild, Delilah
• (at least one of those covers is throatsinging)
• Middle East Drum ‘n’ Bass… and actually good
• Oh, look at that, some Eskimo throatsinging

I won’t tell you which is which, exactly. That would spoil the fun for you when you download the music and add it to your song library. Of course, if you’d prefer, you can play match-em-up with all these beautiful covers that I included in the ID3 tags. It’s like an actual real music collection!

After you save the mixtape to your computer you can let me know what you thought about it here in the comments. Or, hey! Tune into our show next week; assuming they let people like us on again next week.

Enjoy!

Here is a link that you can click to get the music I’ve been talking about.

Here is another link, that, if you want to, you can select with your keyboard by repeatedly hitting [tab] and then pressing [enter] and, in such a way, also enable you to get the music.

Here is another link in case all the others didn’t work.