Just updated the TMCD1 (we are going to call it something different, can’t remember what now) playlist on Fairtilizer. Probably going to add 1, maybe 2 more songs (maybe including a cover) and then put the whole lot up for download and maybe make a few CDs too. Won’t that be nice?
Oh, there’s someting new on the remixes page as well. Hmmmm….
Category: News
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Almost there now.
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8tracks (and then some) of goodness
Now that muxtape has morphed in to a portal for bands, a fair few different sites have tried to replace it with similar mixtape style functionality. In my humble opinion the best so far is 8tracks. A nice clean interface, simple concept and some brilliant mixes by it’s users with high quality audio. They look to be a bit more prepared than muxtape (I think a lot of sites learned from the mistakes muxtape made) so hopefully it’ll be around for while. Here’s my first attempt at an 8tracks ‘mixtape’:
Tracklisting:
Juno – High Noon
Vienna Teng – Idioteque
The Black Keys – I’m Glad
M. Ward – Let’s Dance
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. – Without You
Ryan Adams – Times Like These
The Dismemberment Plan – Crush
Jeff Buckley – Satisfied Mind
Antony & The Jonsons – Knockin’ On Heavens Door
A Camp – I Can Buy You
Sparklehorse – Shade And Honey
Cake – I Will Survive
Cat Power – New YorkIf you post your own, let me know. Should have a couple of TM originals ready for you soon too…
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Erm…Happy 2009!
Hello. Let’s say this is the first PROPER POST of 2009 shall we? The last one was just me getting excited about the Watchmen film. Again. So how are you all? Doing well. That’s nice.
First of all a quick site update. I’ve recently had to move the blog to a slightly different bit of the internet and, shock horror, I now have to actually start paying for my webspace. I do want to say a HUGE THANK YOU to Sam Shelton who’s been hosting this site and the Toy #1 site for me pretty much since day 1. I have to say it is quite cool though to actually ‘own’ tigermendoza.co.uk now but’s that’s more geek-ery than anything else. Moving the site around has meant changing a couple of things behind the scenes so if you do spot any links not working or anything else weird please let me know.
As for new music, the start of 2009 was weird because once I got back from a brilliant holiday, I found it really difficult to create anything I thought was good and wanted to continue. I think I’m coming out of it now though and there’s a couple new things which need a little tweaking but should be ready very shortly (including a couple of new songs with Helena) and maybe even some gigs. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve also been thing of adding a mixtapeshow.net style regular podcast to the site but we’ll see.
Untill next time then, here’s something I started right at end of 2008 and tweaked today.
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“Yankin’ it like an Atari Joystick”
A while back I did a remix / re-version of a song by my old band Toy #1 called Atari Joystick. Dan from the band asked me if I still had it but somehow I’ve managed to lose the final mp3 and the source files so here’s the 2008 redux version.
TM vs TOY #1 – Atari Joystick (TM 2008 redux v2)
Edit 27/12: I managed to find the original remix:
TM vs TOY #1 – Atari Joystick (TM remix)Let me know which one you prefer. If I can find a good copy of a Toy #1 version of Atari Joystick I’ll post that as well.
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New stuff
Cheers to everyone that saw me do the acoustic gig in slough last week. It was fun. Don’t know if I really fitted in to a punk night but never mind it seemed to go down well.
Apart from that I’ve been working on a couple of songs that will be on the first Tiger Mendoza download release which will probably be called TMCD1 (imaginative? No, but never mind eh?) and will be ready for the end of Jan 2009. Won’t that be great? Here are a couple of tracks for you to listen to:
‘Tokyo Triangle’ features the lovely Helena Markou on vocals. We’ll be working on some other new songs together as well but they’re not ready yet.
