Here is the track listing for Take What You Like: July 2004. As always if anyone is interested in a copy, and doesn't already receive one, email me your address and I'll mail one.

1. Chick a Boom Boom Boom - Mocean Worker
2. Guardian Angel - Juno Reactor
3. Sweep Down Early - Innocence Mission
4. I Would for You - Jane's Addiction
5. Monument - Carina Round
6. At Least That's What You Said - Wilco
7. The Past and Pending - The Shins
8. The Slow Drug - PJ Harvey
9. Chiaruscuro - Tulsa Drone
10. The Tain (Parts I, II, III, IV, V) - The Decemberists

Here is the track listing for Take What You Like: June 2004. As always if anyone is interested in a copy, and doesn't already receive one, email me your address and I'll mail one.

1. [Trailer Audio] - Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus
2. Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying - Belle & Sebastian
3. 88 Ways - Mia Doi Todd
4. Spoiled - Sebadoh
5. March of the Fire Ants - Mastodon
6. Ruin - Three Mile Pilot
7. Victorious D - Pinback
8. The Truth - Handsome Boy Modeling School
9. The Last Three Minutes - Ten Seconds
10. Part 8 - Yume Bitsu
11. Unspoken - Four Tet
12. Robot - t.A.T.u.
13. Move to the Groove - Lolita Ritmanis
14. Loom - Trlok Gurtu & Robert Miles
15. Boys, You Won't - The Wrens
16. Unknown - Tortoise

I am trying something really off the wall with a couple of these. The first "song" isn't even a song. It's just the audio off a movie trailer that I really liked. I've got a lot of instrumental stuff on here. It's funny because this month's started out with a lot more alt.pop stuff. The t.A.T.u. is cribbed from a mix I was sent by kiad. They are a manufactured Russian girlband but I can't seem to resist their poppy charms.

I'm having trouble coming up with enough music to put into a CD. Aside from the first piece none of these get five stars in my iTunes. This is despite an even broader list of sources to cull for new music in the past month or two. Unfortunately some of my favorite stuff just doesn't sound good as a single, you have to hear it in the context of the album.

Here is the track listing for Take What You Like: May 2004. As always if anyone is interested in a copy, and doesn't already receive one, email me your address and I'll mail one. I must get started on June's immediately since I don't want to get any further behind.

1. No Need to Argue - The Cranberries
2. Each Coming Night - Iron and Wine
3. Alone in Kyoto - Air
4. Tiny Vessels - Death Cab for Cutie
5. Jacqueline - Franz Ferdinand
6. Hysteria - Muse
7. Tarfur - Quarashi
8. Duende - Bozzio Levin Stevens
9. Pretty Close to the Edge - Trans Am
10. High - Skalpel
11. Trying to Find a Balance - Atmosphere
12. Excursions - A Tribe Called Quest
13. Women's Prison - Loretta Lynn
14. Movie Song - Trailer Theme - Halley
15. Bine - Autechre

My personal favorites are Atmosphere, Skalpel and Iron and Wine. The Quarashi is of dubious quality but since the lyrics aren't in English I don't have to listen to their silly pretentiousness which brought this song up a notch. The Autechre song is from their album confield which is uhm, different. It's not like the stuff you may have heard on the Pi soundtrack.

This batch went in the mail today.

I'm trying something new here and listing out the mix cd contents. If anyone is interested in a copy, and doesn't already receive one, email me your address and I'll mail one.

1. Tokyo - The Books
2. Sermon on the Mount - Europa String Choir
3. Lazy - David Byrne
4. Ekova - Starflight in Daden: Aurora Remix
5. White Flag - Grails
6. Stars - Hum
7. The World at Large - Modest Mouse
8. Jane - Elf Power
9. Great Ghosts - Microphones
10. Jerusalem - Mirah
11. Pretty Girls - Neko Case
12. Something Bigger, Something Brighter - Pretty Girls Make Graves
13. Kid You'll Move Mountains - Manitoba
14. Crank Heart - Xiu Xiu
15. No More Mosquitos - Four Tet

My personal favorites are Tokyo, Great Ghosts, Jerusalem and Stars. Even the tracks that aren't favorites I enjoy a great deal. l'll continue listening to all of them over the years to come.

For those I already send them out to this batch goes in the mail Monday.

I've been slow to get the mix CD out this month since my time been abbreviated by the trip. I finally finished my music research for March's mix CD. I'm picking the songs and laying down the track order today. I've already settled on the cover art. The first CDs should be on their way tomorrow.

Again anyone is invited to receive one. Just send your name and address to twyl@gnumatt.org.