Sunday Mixtape #42 - Real Life - mp3

This week's mix is designed to be filling like a big Sunday dinner. It's got lots of unusual flavors that meld together into a exciting musical melange. It's a bit disco and uplifting and dancy, which is unusual for a Sunday I suppose, but it's meant to pick up your spirits despite the fact the weekend is coming to a close. There is a little fun treat hidden in there which is a song from an old band I was in that has since been re-jigged into a song for my current band. Ooooh sneaky.

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Sunday Mixtape #42 - Real Life

Included on the mix this week:
1. Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work
2. James - Fire So Close
3. Distractions - Time Goes By So Slow
4. Fingerprintz - Wet Job
5. Aeroplanes - Transport One
6. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
7. Sons & Daughters - Dance Me In (JD Twitch & The Truffle Club's Optimo Remix)
8. Tanlines - Real Life (Memory Tapes Remix)
9. Alyoa - It's Been Too Long (Lifelike Top Gun Mix)
10.David Naughton - Makin' It

Friday Mixtape #41 - Nothing But A Heartache - mp3

Last week I gave you love... so it's only fair that I give you some songs from the other side, the heartbreak side. That's right, this is a mixtape chock full of anti-love songs for the cynic that lives inside all of us. Come on, life isn't all roses and chocolates.

So settle yourself into your couch, grab that tub of Ben & Jerry's and the remote, and have an anti-love night all to yourself.

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Friday Mixtape #41 - Nothing But A Heartache

Featured anti-lovers this week:
1. Delta 5 - Mind Your Own Business
2. Devo - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
3. Florence & The Machine - Kiss With A Fist
4. The Cars - My Best Friends Girl
5. Clare and the Reasons - That's All
6. The Avalanches - Since I Left You
7. Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison
8. The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache
9. Dion - Runaround Sue
10. Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do?

Friday Mixtape #40 - Boys & Girls In Love - mp3

I've never been a big sap that's worried about Valentines Day traditions. Yeah I'm guilty of being smug and in a relationship and all, but I'm a bigger fan of romantic gestures that aren't suggested by a card company or restaurant offering a prix fixe.

BUT

I do love a good love song, and what better time to let my inner sap who enjoys romantic music come out but at Saint Valentines... right? So here you go. Go on and burn it on a CD and pretend you made the mixtape yerself... (except for that bit where I talk at the start... so maybe nevermind)

Anyways, enjoy all you lovers and non-lovers and wannabe lovers... this mix is for you <3

Friday Mixtape #40 - Girls & Boys In Love

Included on the mix this week:
1. Orange Juice - L.O.V.E. Love
2. Pulp - Something Changed
3. The Rumble Strips - Girls & Boys In Love
4. The Maccabees - First Love
5. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?
6. Black Kids - Love Me Already
7. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
8. Chairlift - Bruises
9. When In Rome - The Promise
10. Martha & The Vandellas - My Baby Loves Me
11. Madeline Bell - You Don't Love Me No More
12. The Page Boys - Sweet Love
13. Buddy Holly - Love Like Yours

Friday Mixtape #39 - Weekend - mp3

This week's mix demonstrates, without a doubt, that my taste is quite varied - starting with an oh so brand new remix of Noah & The Whale, before descending into a spangly cowbell-laden disco section, until moving into garage music, new & old, and then finishing off with some trusty girl groups. Dreamy electro? Yep. Shameless disco. Uh huh. Cher? Sure! Belarussian Garage? Well of course!

There's more info on the main site: loveactionluvs.blogspot.com - but you're clearly just here for the music.

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Friday Mixtape #39 - Weekend

Included in the mix this week:
1. Noah & The Whale - Love of an Orchestra (Nightwaves Remix)
2. Class Action - Weekend
3. Andrea True Connection - More More More
4. Nick Glider - Hot Child in the City
5. Surfer Blood - Floating Vibes
6. The Stampletons - Pretty Little Girl
7. The Phoenix - Every Now And Then I Cry
8. Pat Lewis - Look What I Almost Missed
9. Cher - Dream Baby
10. Yvonne Prenosilova - When My Baby Cries

Friday Mixtape #38 - The Irish Edition - mp3

Welcome to this week's mixtape. I am pleased and very excited to present my inaugural Irish-only mix. Well after 38 weeks it's about time eh?!

As much as us residents of Ireland complain about the incestuous nature of living on this small island, I've always felt there is a great community of support (and yes, healthy competition) within our small yet dynamic music scene. For a country with a population about half the city of LA, we have a stunning amount of amazing musicians. Seriously, think about it.

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Friday Mixtape #38 - The Irish Edition

Much much more info on the main blog: LoveActionLuvs.Blogspot.com

Featured on this week's mix:
1. Candy in my Heels - Enough
2. Dark Room Notes - Let's Light Fires
3. Sleep Thieves - City Lights
4. TwinKranes - Amino Acids
5. Sweet Jane - Black Eyes
6. Lost Chord - Cheats
7. John Shelly & The Creatures - Angeline
8. Talulah Does The Hula - Lovesick Losers
9. The Ambience Affair - Devil In The Detail
10. Valerie Francis - Slow Dynamo
11. Villagers - The Meaning of the Ritual

There will definitely be more Irish mixtapes, which I am already looking forward to, and please feel free to send me any tracks you'd like me to feature. I cannot promise they'll all make it in as I'm pretty picky about my music, but I will give everything a listen.

Friday Mixtape #37 - Hit - mp3

This week's mixtape is the usual old-n-new mushed together to give you a lil upbeat Friday feeling. It's pretty happy even if the lyrics aren't (strange but true in most of these tracks). A lil new music trendy, with a bit 80s nostalgia thrown in for good measure, a small dose of early 90s, and finally rounding off with some 60s soul to make your boogie cup runneth over.

Personally most of these songs take me straight back to where I first heard them, whether that be watching "Real Genius" a 1984 gem starring Val Kilmer, or sneaking to watch 120 minutes at 12am on a Sunday night in 1992 (oooh cheeky!) Now who wouldn't like a big kick of nostalgia on a Friday? Who?!

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Friday Mixtape #37 - Hit

Included in the mix this week:
1. Miike Snow - Animal
2. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
3. Squeeze - Pulling Mussels From The Shell
4. St. Vincent - Actor Out Of Work
5. Dum Dum Girls - Jail La La
6. Los Campesinos! - You! Me! Dancing!
7. The Sugarcubes - Hit
8. Bernadette Grimm - C'est Fou (I'm Blue)
9. Linda Griner - Good Bye Cruel Love
10. Carolyn Crawford - My Heart

Friday Mixtape #36 - Blue Skies - mp3

This week's mix is a bit confused, a bit jangly pop, some dark and retro electro infused with vintage orchestras playing behind mini pop-ettes crooning away. It hints at every decade between now and your parent's hey day. It's pleasant, uplifting, and hopefully will get you excited about warmer days to come in the months ahead.

Bring on the blue skies!

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Friday Mixtape #36 - Blue Skies

Included in this weeks mix:
1. Lulu - I'll Come Running
2. Miniature Tigers - Cannibal Queen
3. Harlem - Friendly Ghost
4. Ann Reilly & The Echomen - Lonely Sixteen
5. Monaco - What Do You Want From Me
6. Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies (The Twelves Remix)
7. New Young Pony Club - Lost A Girl
8. Kleerup - Until We Bleed (Ft. Lykke Li)
9. Sandie Shaw - There Is Always Something There To Remind Me
10. Joe Dolan - Make Me An Island