New mixtape up for the end of the week. I’ve been happily busy at work, but unhappily detained from my blog. I’ll have some photo posts, interviews, and a few more mixtapes coming soon.. For now enjoy a new mixtape.
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De-loused by the fists of god
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
The 90s – mixtape/playlist
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009
I can’t really call this a mixtape. At 40 songs deep, it’s really a 90’s playlist, full of memories deluded by raging hormones and chemicals; good simple times that I somehow made as complicated as I possibly could – adolescence is oh so bitter-sweet.
I’m getting nostalgic, or maybe: just waiting for some new awesome music to be released to make another mixtape. Sooooo – I’m dipping into the archives, charging the memory banks. Of course I can’t fit everything I’d want to in, & as is: this “playlist” is probably over-bloated.
We’re talking about an entire decade, and I’m probably only fixating on what i like/liked when I was 16 (this is a very limited point of view, I hardly liked anything. Sorry if you had the misfortune of knowing me during that period in my life.)
Back on topic: I only had to hunt for a few specific tracks (Sponge & Nada Surf); the rest I miraculously already had in my library. I haven’t head some of these songs in years, which made this all the more fun.
I tried not to pick top-40 bullshit, picking things I thought would be a fun jaunt down memory lane; maybe even introducing a few songs that either someone wasn’t aware had come out during the 90’s, or just hadn’t heard on the radio before.
This is not a serious mixtape. It’s not some pretentious collection, of a bunch of bands that no one has ever heard of – I wasn’t into electronica or rave music or whatever back in the Nineties – sorry to disappoint.
Every single one of these tracks, in one way or another, has some zany high school story attached to it
- & I could write some tumescent meandering POS that explained each, but I won’t bore you.
If there’s a track you enjoy(ed), tell me your story and bore me in the comments with your tale.
Maybe I’ll reply back with my own anecdote 
If you’re too young to remember the 90’s: please shut up and keep to yourself; you make me feel old.
Hopefully 2.66 hours of music might be able to give a whole decade a little justice.
Happy Hump Day! A Mid-Week Mixtape
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
I started making mixtapes/CD’s for a few reasons, none of which originally had anything to do with blogging:
- I live in the southern nether regions of Miami.
- I work in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale (42 mile commute).
- Before this job I worked in Coral Springs (37 mile commute).
- Before that job I was in school at AIFL (35 mile commute).
- Let’s just suppose I spend a lot of time on the road (still with me?).Couple that with the reality that Miami really has some crappy radio ( I grew up in SF, where some semblance of decent rock and hip hop radio stations existed/exist. Does anyone remember KOME when it was alternative? )
Groovin Mixtape
Friday, February 20th, 2009
So enough of dickin’ around. We’re throwing down some jams, coated with a thick layer of bacon grease for you here at El Sanchez. I’m un-apologetically not stickin’ to one genre, style, sub-genre, philosophy, color group, movement or what-have-you. If I downloaded it in the past couple of weeks and I thought it was hot, it’s included in this mixtape.
I always end up pulling a ton of songs I like when making a mix, but two to three end up as stragglers getting cut out at the end of the process. Those stragglers then get dumped into a next mix playlist and I start from there next time. Sometimes those mixes don’t work the next time either. That leads to a bunch of strong songs that just are in limbo, not on a mix, not being listened to. This makes for an un-happy Agustin.
Half of the songs on this mix are remnants that didn’t fit into my last two mixes.
Another half ended up in a mix-bin for next week.
Hopefully you dig a few tracks. Happy Friday!
Ten Tips to Making a Kickass Mixtape…
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Mixtapes conjure ideas of courting girlfriends, the 80’s, backpacker hip hop, plastic cassette tapes, hand scrawled notes, and white-hiss. I have many fond memories of sitting on a hardwood floor in my dad’s apartment, using a double cassette deck to record my favorite songs off LIVE 105, & patching all my favorite songs together into a mish-mosh of haphazard songs.
Today the internet has been a game-changer for how people consume, collect, digest and process music. No longer are music lovers going to the radio’s Top 40 as the end all be all for all of their music. High quality music is now accessible in any genre to just about anyone who looks hard enough.
