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Artist Mix Tape: Thomas Dean

This Wednesday marks the second installment of our Artist Mix Tape series that’ll last throughout the next few months. If you’re in a band that’s featured by our guests, and you’d like your song removed, please email us and we’d be happy to take your track down (I’m lookin at you Sparks XTC, I have a feeling a bunch of these fools are gonna post the shit outta your tracks).

 Please welcome Thomas Dean of the quirky, abrasive, yet undeniably catchy goth-garage band Order, formerly Order of the Dying Orchid. Last summer Order saw it’s first proper LP release in 9 years, comprised of some highlights and some pretty deep cuts from the band’s near decade of existence. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Thomas Dean’s brainchild Order, which will be celebrated by a yet to be detailed release that you’ll undoubtedly be reading about on this blog later this year. You can check out more information on Order here, buy the LP here, and their split cassette with Elephant Child here.

Download Thomas’ mix here.

1. Further “California Bummer” from Golden Grimes.

Super Vactions should like this band

2. Swirlies “Sarah sitting” from What To Do About Them.

TAAANG Great band loved this song since high school. Damon is a great singer and guitar player.They are better live than you would think. Plus my middle name is Sarah.

3. Stereolab “French Disko” from Switched on Volume 2 DRAGCITY Cd.

I picked this cause i have had them on the brain lately….. ORDER has new Stereolab inspired tees…

4. Lilys “Babys a Dealer” SUB POP 45 welfare Murder Plot 

I ripped this one myself……. one of the best Lilys tracks from this period. Maybe one of their best period.

5. Plastic Bertrand “Ça Plane Pour Moi” [SIRE]  

Josh [Order Drummer] and I both scored this recently on 45 . I knew it from the Sonic Youth cover from the “Freedom of choice” comp

6. Superchunk “Driveway to Driveway” From Foolish LP. [MERGE]

“Foolish” is my second favorite Superchunk LP . I saw them 4 times in one month in high school.

7. 6ths “Give Me Back My Dreams” From Hyacinths and Thistles  [MERGE]

I think both 6ths albums are really great. this is from the second one.

8. Squeeze “Black Coffee in Bed” from Sweets From A Stranger LP [A&M]  

Is that Elvis Costello singing back up?

9. Sebadoh “Notsur Dnuora Selcric” from Smash your Head on the Punk Rock  [SUBPOP]

Circles Around Ruston by Jason.

10. Guided By Voices “Please Freeze Me”  from King Shit and the Golden Boys [SCAT]

This song always reminds me of the cantrel st. bridge.

11. XTC “Ten Feet Tall” From Drums and Wires LP [VIRGIN] from one of the only records all four of the guys in invisible had all agree on.

12. The Kinks “This Man He Weeps Tonight” from Great Lost Kinks (Bootleg version) 

Dave sings. I always feel this track gets little love but its really good huh?

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borrowed beams of light kickstarter charlottesville va lp cd

Adam Brock and Nate Walsh’s Borrowed Beams of Light have posted a kickstarter video asking for your assistance in the release of their upcoming CD/LP. What’s in it for you? Glad you asked, because there’s a ton of stuff in it for you. For a $10 pledge, you can get a CD, for $15, you get the LP, for $20 you get an LP and a 7”. The list goes on and on, and one donation option even includes an original portrait by artist Thomas Dean. Go chip in to make a really wonderful LP come into fruition.

From the Kickstarter description: Indie pop band Borrowed Beams of Light, from Charlottesville, VA are more than halfway finished recording their new, full length LP.
A follow up to last year’s well regarded self-titled EP, this new, as yet untitled, LP will be a further exploration of the nostalgic tones of late 60’s baroque psychedelia, blended with hints of folk rock and glam.
This time around, the songs have found a thematic anchor, of sorts, in a bit of intriguing, almost conspiratorial folklore. Much of the thematic content of this batch of songs is loosely based on a 500 year old, vellum manuscript known as The Voynich Manuscript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript).
The manuscript contains more than 200 pages of handwritten text, and ink drawings, which have been studied, categorized, sensationalized and conspiratorialized for the past half-millennium—and to this day, its code remains elusive; its meaning—a mystery.
The theories as to the authorship and purpose of this puzzling document run the gamut—Franciscan monks’ medical journals, a elaborate swindle in the court of Elizabeth I, the ravings of a mad nobleman, a grand hoax.
The interest of the manuscript in regards to the Borrowed Beams however, is not one of conspiracy, or even academics. It is, at its core, an exploration of its aesthetics; the Beams have strived to give it our own narrative and re-imagine its history—with subtlety, we hope. This is not a rock opera! It’s a pop album.
We, the Beams, are asking for your support in regards to the expensive “finishing touches” pertaining to this project. We have recorded most of the album ourselves. But we would like to have it mixed and mastered elsewhere ($$$$$$$$). And we’d like to pay our wonderful artist, Thomas Dean (www.myspace.com/lostwoodsprint) what he deserves for doing the album art($$$$$$). And we need it to be pressed ($$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$). Thank you in advance for your support.

Adam Brock, Nathan Walsh, and all the Beams”

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