2026mixtape: Waft.
(spotify playlist)
Claude Debussy “Clair de lune”
Marvin Hamlisch “Solace (The Sting soundtrack)”
Strange Cargo & William Orbit (w/Joe Frank) “Montok Point”
Laurie Anderson “It Was up in the Mountains”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Time Zones”
Natural X “Spiritual Conquest”
Windy & Carl “Set Adrift”
Elliott Smith “Needle in the Hay”
Harmonic 33 “Departure Lounge”
The The “Soul Mining”
Modest Mussorgsky “Pictures at an Exhibition”
Will Powers “Adventures in Success”
Margo Guryan “Why Do I Cry”
Clan of Xymox “Muscoviet Mosquito”
Tricky & Martina Topley-Bird “Feed Me”
Eevee “Blue Birds”
Baaskat “Revenge of the Little Bird”
Hi-Posi “You are my Music”
Pepe Deluxe “THree Times a Player”
Fex “Subways of your Mind”
Fun Boy Three “The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)”
Tones on Tail “Rain”
Tones on Tail “Twist”
Johan Lindell “On the Roof”
Radiohead “Everything in its Right Place”
Freur “Doot Doot”
Patrik Andren & Johan Soderqvist “The Rust Belt”
Kissing the Pink “Victory Parade”
Kissing the Pink “What Noise”
Miki Berenyi Trio “Vertigo”
Yaz “Situation”
Bjork “Isobel”
Adrian Berenguer “Beyond”
The Hot Toddies “Boys on Bikes”
Barrett Strong “Money (That's What I Want)”
Jenny Lewis “Little White Dove”
Yello “Let Me Cry”
xPropaganda “The Night”
Grouper “Poison Tree”
B-Movie “Nowhere Girl”
I don't know what's going on with "Nowhere Girl" from B-Movie. There are ... many versions and remixes and an odd 30-second "version" on Spotify but nothing on Spotify is the Some Bizarre extended mix below. They re-did ... the original extended mix in 2016? [FX: shrugs] In 2023, a "Sped Up" version? [FX: continues shrugging] I had the extended 12" with minimal red line art that was not the clown/officer/? minimal red line art, it appears nowhere online and is apparently a figment of my imagination.
The Sundays “Wild Horses”
Saint Etienne “Hug My Soul”
France Gall “Popee de cire poupee de son”
The Beatles “Don't Let Me Down”
Danielle Dax “Big Hollow Man”
Wayne Gibson & The Dynamic Sounds “Pop the Whip”
The Stone Roses “I Wanna Be Adored”
Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Eme Alfonso “Keep Your Head Up”
Carter Burwell “The Hula Hoop”
Ofra Haza “Im Nin'alu”
Blake Babies “Take Me”
Consolidated “Product”
DKMD “I'm watching you”
Ladytron “Skools Out”
Kylie Minogue “Come into My World”
Propellerheads “Take California”
Beyoncé “Formation”
Arling & Cameron “Voulez-Vous”
Moev “Smog”
The Chills “Pink Frost”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Southern”
Letters to Cleo “Rim Shack”
Spandau Ballet “ Gold ”
Bessie Smith “Haunted House Blues”
Dazz Band “Let It Whip”
Crime & the City Solution “The Adversary”
Nelories “Popstars”
Big Bill Broonzy “Mean Old World”
Kitchens of Distinction “Drive That Fast”
Alvvays “Archie, Marry Me”
Jane Antonia Cornish & Hamilton Berry “Scattered Light”
Muslimgauze “Every Grain of Palestinian Sand”
Phantogram “When I'm Small”
Pat Benatar “Heartbreaker”
Black Honey “I Don't Ever Wanna Love”
Dole “Slumberland”
Slowdive “When the Sun Hits”
Sunscreem & Jimmy Gomez “Who Will Love Me Now”
Sunscreem & Trouser Enthusiasts “Cover Me”
Sleater-Kinney “Words and Guitar”
Comateens “The Munsters Theme”
The Milkshakes “Green Hornet”
Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock “It Takes Two”
Beastie Boys “Sabotage”
Delta 5 “Mind Your Own Business”
Danny & The Juniors “At the Hop” (see Wages of Spin)
XTC “Life Begins at the Hop”
Guitar “Honeysky”
Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch “Sea Wall”
Naked Eyes “Promises, Promises” (RIP Peter Byrne)
Luscious Jackson “Naked Eye”
Slowboy, Ivoxygen, zaichkou888 “Astro”
Primal Scream “Higher than the Sun”
Plastics “Last Train to Clarksville”
Run D.M.C. “Hart Times”
Veronica Falls “Bad Feeling”
Aisha Kandisha's Jarring Effects “Aisha”
Thee Headcoatees “Ca Plaine Pour Moi”
St. Vincent “Actor Out of Work”
LFO “LFO”
Single Gun Theory “Exorcise This Wasteland”
Duke Ellington “Kinda Dukish”
Kissing the Pink “Desert Song”
In the Nursery “Always”
Propaganda “Dream Within a Dream”
William Orbit “The Story of Light”
Charlie Megira “The Girl Who Was Frightened of Ashtrays”
The Replacements “Kiss Me on the Bus”
Big Audio Dynamite “The Globe”
Paul McCartney & Wings “Band on the Run”
Andrew Poppy “The Amusement”
Wall of Voodoo “Mexican Radio”
Dolly Parton “9 to 5”
Renegade Soundwave “Biting My Nails”
The Farm “Groovy Train”
B-Movie Orchestra & The Cinematic Fever Girls “Beat Fuga Shake”
Mulatu Astatke “Yegelle Tezeta (My Own Memory)”
Charlie Christian “Grand Slam”
Pet Shop Boys “West End Girls”
Underworld “Spoonman”
Booker T. & the M.G.'s “Green Onions”
