Sad songs. This mix is all sad songs. Sad, all up in your guts. Do you feel that? That's sadness, getting all up in there.

From the age of about 11 to 18, Hip-Hop was pretty much all I listened to. At 17, I had money saved up from work, and this money was going towards an MPC; I was gonna produce. Well, one day I quit the job, the $1200 I had saved up went towards a car, and I soon discovered all the other music that was out there. The dream died.

But lately, as I've gotten deeper and deeper into music, I keep hearing songs and going "oh shit! the Beatnuts sampled that" or "oh shit! this was in an Organized Konfusion song." Seems to happen every other day. And I keep picking up things that would make for decent samples.

So, that's what this mix is. It's all songs that have been sampled or should be sampled, and although most of it predates Hip Hop by a decade or so, there's a Hip-Hop feel throughout. And I didn't use one James Brown or Incredible Bongo Band track. Good for me.

I can rapidshare if anyone would like.

This mix has the sound of cat being fucked inside of a running dryer, but with a tighter rhythm section. 14 tracks of bands popping blister puss on your face in stereo. 14 bands who would borrow $10 off you, promising to pay back on Tuesday, but never doing so, leaving you asking yourself," why do they have act like that? Why must I trust the clichéd irresponsible type?" 14 bands that would co-star in a odd couple-style sitcom with you (here's a hint: you're the prissy, emasculated one who's always being woken up by the sound of that girl you had a crush on being gangbanged by a garage band). 14 bands comprised of men who just aren't very nice people. They will always end up hurting your feelings. They will pee on your toilet seat and not be lucid enough to know it happened, let alone clean it up. But you will love them anyway.

There's something abrasive in every song. Whether it be the the loud mix, the fuzzed-out guitars, or the dude yelping at the top of his lungs about how his stomach hurts and his nose is bleeding. Loud, dumb fun. With a mix full of song titles like "I Miss Her Beer" and "Anonymous Gay Sex", you can't go wrong.



I've always been a deep sleeper. Normal alarm clocks are inept for dealing with the coma that is a night's rest for me. Back when I wasn't so vehemently anti-television, I used to use it's alarm, volume blasted, tuned to Telemundo for an added disorienting, "What the fuck is going on? Did my bedroom move to Mexico" feel. Now, I use this free PC alarm clock. All of the songs in this mix are perfect for my sleeping problem. In fact, I've programmed every single one of them at one point in time on my alarm. By the time I've gotten up to run across the room and kick the power switch in on my subwoofer, I'm too wound up to fall back asleep. Its kind of hard to do so when you're having a panic attack. And therein lies the concept, I guess: music that will give you a panic attack. Enjoy! Download the fuck out of the link below! Turn the volume up all the way! Destroy your roommates "me" time! Viva la quelque chose ou une autre!

http://rapidshare.de/fi les/27707346/Learn_From_Pie.zip.html

The concept is fairly simple. This mix is a collection of rock and blues standards or underground classics, either original or reinterpreted (or re-reinterpreted). It is a study in context and some of these songs can take on completely new lives with the most subtle of tweaks. And of course, there are some tweaks in the mix that are anything but.

I book ended it with "Your Southern Can Is Mine"-- the original "Blind" Willie Mctell version and The White Stripes cover. Mctell's being one of the oldest recorded blues songs in existence, and the White Stripes being, of course, a representation of modern rock music.

There are multiple versions of songs throughout, but examples of two versions aren't always necessary. For example: when you hear Kaleidoscope's version of "Minnie the Moocher", you don't really need to hear the Cab Calloway version to know it's a cover. The same can be said for The Who's version of "Hall of the Mountain King". Also, some songs, such as "Fortune Teller" and "Leaving Here", were done by so many artists, and were all so akin to one another, that two examples would be redundant.

At the heart of the mix is the build up to Led Zeppelin's reinterpretations of "The Hunter" (Albert King) and "You Gonna Wreck My Life" (Howlin Wolf), which took form in the epic "How Many More Times". Both of the originals are featured on here, as well as the Blue Cheer version of "The Hunter", which helps for dramatic effect.

It may seem rather lengthy, but I actually had to whittle it down to 21, after coming up with over 50 songs I could have used.

If anybody would like a rapidshare link of it, let me know.