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…or Compliments Of The Season as my family would say. I would normally do an end of year mix thingy and / or a free download but to be honest things have been a bit crazy in Mendoza land so unfortunately there’s no mix yet BUT I wanted to give you something so here’s a silly little beat I’ve been playing with.
And just because a feel bad about not doing a mixtape this year, here’s a special playlist with some of my favourite tracks of the year. Who knows, I may turn it in to an actual mixtape in the new year.
I’ve got to give a special mention to Laughing Lamb (aka Pete) who made one of my favourite albums of the year but hasn’t put it on Spotify. Listen / download on Bandcamp.
…and you know what? I’m totally fine with that. As part of this year’s Cassette Store Day celebrations a couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of contributing a track to the amazing Beanietapes Continuous Play compilation which collects together some of the highlights of the Oxford music scene on to a lovely cassette WITH Japanese style Obi Strip! How cool is that?!?!?!
The launch at Truck Store over the weekend in conjunction with the cassette release of Max Blansjaar’s new EP was a lot of fun and I even got to do a cheeky little acoustic rendition of “So What” from Old Ideas 2. A massive thank you to Jules and Ben from Candy Says for having me!
It still seems slightly crazy but Old Ideas 2 is finally out so to celebrate we had a little shindig at brilliant Truck Store where I played a bunch of tracks that influenced the whole Old Ideas project, tracks from the EP and a couple of brand new WIPs. Stream / download the set below.
To go in to production, the campaign needs 100 backers. If the campaign is successful: you get a shiny, black, 180g, copy of Old Ideas 2 on vinyl with a digital download card. If it’s not successful, you don’t get charged and we all move on with our lives.