Mix #7 - Springtime

Creator: Charles Desporte
Occupation: Production Tech
Theme: Spring
Title: Mesclun Mix

Track Listings:

1) Cherry Blossom Girl - Air
2) Sunday Sun - Beck
3) Our Secret - Beat Happening
4) O Leaozinho - Caetano Veloso
5) Laguna Sunrise - Black Sabbath
6) The Day the Air Turned Blue - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead
7) Flower - Liz Phair
8) Johnny Sunshine - Liz Phair
9) Summer's Cauldron - XTC
10) Grass - XTC
11) So Quero Um Xodo - Gilberto Gil
12) Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
13) Tree - Sebadoh
14) The Fawn - The Sea and Cake
15) California Stars - Billy Bragg and Wilco
16) Um Canto De Afoxe Para O Bloco De Ile' (Ile' Ile') - Caetano Veloso

Charlie delivered this mix for the first day of Spring. It was a good mix, and every time I hear "California Stars", it really does remind me of a spring night. Usually, I am against repeating an artist on a mixtape (unless that is your theme), but I didn't mind it at all. Maybe it was because I haven't heard Liz Phair in a long time. I forgot how dirty she was. Or just always ignored it. I listened to this mix for the first time in a friends new apartment, before he moved it. Empty rooms and bare walls. The only thing inside was a cd player, coffee table, beers and boxes.
The foreign tracks on here are a treat and make you want to sit on the porch and drink margaritas.