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I posted this on cohost on July 5th, 2023.
I miss getting summer music recommendations. Before Spotify or Pandora, my friends would send me what they were listening to. That's how I discovered a lot of cool artists I'd never otherwise listen to.
For the summer months, I thought this might be a cool community thing to do.
What do you say? Wanna make a mixtape together?
how to participate
- post a song; link to the artist's soundcloud/bandcamp/website so that folks can listen and support.
- single songs ok! playlists ok!
- bookmark and listen to folks' music
- if you think this is cool, share it
Send over some jams, please!
The response I got was excellent--people were sending music left and right; the post was even featured on Cohost's Daily Tags. Since cohost shut down, I wanted to archive all the songs that were sent on this tag for people to share and share alike.
All the mixtapes are available here on my mixtape garden.
#cohostsummmermixtapeone
Contributors: @illuminesce, @ygpa, @LysergZeroz, and @fwetzin. Photocomp by me.
Download the mixtape on mixtape garden
Bonus track: UTS - MC Wakava (added by @LyzergZeroz)
#cohostsummermixtapetwo
Contributors: @fwetzin, @illuminesce, @morayati. Art by @phantom-firefly.
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Bonus, adjacent summer tracks with explanation added by @morayati:
- Full sun, ironically. Shining, spiteful stuff like Palmdale's "Here Comes the Summer." Souls' "Expensive".
- Full sun, making you sunsick. Maybe like Shut Up Stella's "Light It Up." A lot of Colleen Green's music falls here: songs like "Posi Vibes" beam hard and purposefully on their surface, hoping no one look past it. Summer as faking it until you make it.
- "Highway" takes that quintessential summer mood of racing down the highway, friends in tow, perhaps toward an amusement park or water park or beach or some other nostalgic or idyllic getaway, and says that honestly, it sucks. Her delivery on this is sotto-voce, channeling the kind of unbothered cool that perhaps disguises a great deal of internal bothering. There's a subtext to "I don't like it when you take the highway / it just goes on and on and on," giving a distinct impression that things are not being said -- things that likely sound like "Someone Else" or "Deeper Than Love." You'd think a song called "Highway" would be about driving so fast you outrun those things; this one's about languishing in them and calling it relaxation. Which is also a summer mood.
#cohostsummermixtapethree
Contributors: @shadsy, @five, @tastywindex. Eggbug plush by @mousetooth.
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Bonus track: Around - Steel City Dance Discs Vol 6 (added by @tastywindex)
#cohostsummermixtapefour
Contributors: @tastywindex, @LostReach, @DennysDiner. Intern Secretary Eggbug by @ahcoffeebeans.
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Bonus track: It's Not A Man Abandons Post by SLOUCH (added by @DennysDiner)
If you want to continue adding to the mixtape, share this post. Add some of your favorites in the comments below.