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HALLOWEEN MIX 2015!

PFU #35 COVER

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PFU #035 – HALLOWEEN MIX 2015

1. Tom Waits – Frank’s Wild Years
2. David Miscavige – L. Ron Hubbard Death Briefing
3. Spoon – TV Set [Cramps Cover]
4. Warpaint – Disco//Very
5. Kool Keith & L’Orange – Dr. Bipolar
6. Mourn – Your Brain is Made of Candy
7. Richard Rome – Ghost a Go-Go
8. Peaches – Burst!
9. Betty Chung – Bang, Bang [Mandarin Version]
10. The Shivas – You Make Me Wanna Die
11. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Pumpkin Pie
12. Johnny Falstaff – Gonna Make You Die
13. David Lynch – Pinky’s Dream [ft. Karen O]
14. The Loneliest Whale in the World – 52 Hertz
15. Eddie Murphy – Black Movie Theaters
16. The People’s Temple Choir – Black Baby
17. Sneaker Pimps – Small Town Witch
18. Thee Oh Sees – Will We Be Scared?
19. A Place To Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
20. Johnny Harris – Paint It, Black
21. The Exorcism of Anneliese Michel [1975]
22. Duchess Says – Rabies (Baby’s Got The)
23. Sun Ra – Nuclear War
24. The Surfmen – Ghost Hop
25. Whodini – The Freaks Come Out At Night
26. Polish Air Force – Aircraft Black Box
27. Portishead – Cowboys
28. Nirvana – Lake of Fire
29. Fela Kuti – Zombie
30. The Minute of Silence for Princess Diana [London]
31. NASA – Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Song
32. The Caretaker – All You’re Going to Want To Do is Get Back There

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VALENTINE’S DAY MIX #3: FOR SAD MEN

This is my favorite mix.

PFU #003

USE: Dealing with Heartbreak – Depression and Bargaining Stages. For Him.

  1. James Brown – Goodbye My Love, Parts 1 & 2
  2. Peter, Bjorn, and John – The Chills
  3. Al Green – Don’t Hurt Me No More
  4. Willie Nelson – Both Sides Now
  5. Chuck Berry – Wee Wee Hours
  6. The Walkmen – Many Rivers To Cross
  7. Johnny Thunders – You Can’t Put Your Arm Around A Memory
  8. Elvis Presley – That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
  9. The White Stripes – A Martyr For My Love For You
  10. Little Stevie Wonder – Sunset
  11. Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki
  12. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Sympathetic Noose
  13. Pavement – Here
  14. Sam Cooke – Bring It On Home
  15. Waylon Jennings – Delia’s Gone
  16. Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning
  17. The Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want To Get Over You
  18. Otis Redding – You Don’t Miss Your Water
  19. Neil Young – Heart of Gold
  20. The Make-Up – Time Machine
  21. LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great

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A VERY SPECIAL GUEST HALLOWEEN MIX FROM STRANGE CULTURE

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Our very good friend STRANGE CULTURE released a fantastic Halloween mix comprised of horror soundtracks this year. It’s everything Halloween music should be: terrifying, atmosphere, and very sex. All the best are here: Morricone, Nicolai, Goblin, Ortolani, Carpenter…

TRACK LIST:

  1. Bruno Nicolai – Sequence One
  2. François De Roubaix – Les Dunes D’Ostende
  3. Steven Hufsteter – Kiss of the Damned Love Them
  4. Ennio Morricone – Valzer
  5. Acanthus – Les Frisson Des Vampires
  6. Dies Irae – Nora Orlandi
  7. Bruno Nicolai – All The Colors Of The Dark
  8. Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells
  9. Fabio Frizzi – Verso L’Ignoto
  10.  John Carpenter – Chariots Of Pumpkins
  11. Nora Orlandi – Blood Heaven
  12. Tangerine Dream – Stealing The Silver Cross
  13. Walter Rizzati – House By The Cemetery Theme
  14. Riz Ortolani – Il Corpo Di Linda
  15. Goblin – Parte 1

NITE SWIM: A SUMMER GUEST MIX FROM STRANGE CULTURE

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Happy Summer Friends.

I’m happy to present a mix by a good friend of PFU, Strange Culture.

It is an outstanding (and much more consistant blog that has already posted some truly incredible mixes. Including an (imagined) extended soundtrack to Drive. Each mix also comes with specially designed artwork.

The latest mix is designed for swimming after hours. I tested this last night, and I can testify that this mix delivers. Enjoy.

TRACK LIST:

  1. NZCA/LINES – Compass Points
  2. The Line – Cherry Chapstick
  3. Sun Glitters – A Dragonfly In the City
  4. Craft Spells – Sun Trails
  5. Lovers – Brothertiger
  6. Teams & Star Slinger – Say Please
  7. Big Spider’s Back – Black Chow
  8. Infinite Potentials – Lovesong
  9. Evan Voytas – Can’t Let Anyone Know Who You Are
  10. Enjoyed – Paws-Vanilla Remix
  11. The New Division – Shallow Play
  12. Airliner – None She Is
  13. Teen Daze – The Future
  14. Beat Connection – Same Damn Time
  15. Young Galaxy – The Angels Are Surely Weeping (Feat.
  16. Houses – Soak It Up
  17. Summer Heart – I Wanted You To Stay On The Other S.
  18. Memory Tapes – Swimming Field
  19. Korallreven, Sail A Whale – The Truest Faith (Sail A Whale Remix)
  20. Gold Panda – Fifth Ave
  21. Young Heel – Troubles At The Top
  22. Sail A Whale – Find Me a Boy
  23. Blackbird Blackbird – Blurred Lines

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SPECIAL GUEST CHRISTMAS MIX: PROXY’s HOLIDAY ARMAMENT VOL. 5

Proxy (ne Todd Buker) is amazing. He’s an electronic music dynamo, a crack designer, master digger of crates, acclaimed theater director, and all around winner. PFU has featured him on our Christmas mixes before mashing up Billie Jean and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy on our very first mix.

Here’s another one of his exceptional creations.

He sent me his annual Christmas mix and I had to share it. The tracks are numbered on the files, so please sort the mix by track number and listen to this in order. It’s a Christmas Program of amazing (and family accessible) holiday music and extremely rare seasonal nuggets. This is a great mix.

PFU #G001 – PROXY’s HOLIDAY ARMAMENT VOL. 5 [2011]

  1. The Free Design & the USAF Dance Orchestra – The Now Sound of Christmas
  2. Broadcast – Winter Now
  3. Bela Lugosi – Snowkenstein
  4. Herman Apple – Let it Snow
  5. Baby Pac Man – Snowflakes & Frozen Lakes
  6. Mangus T. Cook – Snow Bunny
  7. Janette Eden – You Turn Me On (And Light Me Up)
  8. Jimmy McCracklin – Christmas Time [Pt. 1]
  9. Pattie Marie Joy – Space Age Santa Claus
  10. Ambassador Record Corp Ensemble – Donner & Blitzen
  11. Harvie June Van – Dasher
  12. Preston Penn – Little Pee Wee
  13. The Legend of the Monkey Santa Claus
  14. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Santa [Alt Version]
  15. Cordell Jackson – Rock N Roll Christmas
  16. Snowflakes [Pt. 1]
  17. Good King Wenceslas
  18. Larry Rivera – Menehune Santa
  19. Jimmy McGriff – The Christmas Song
  20. Ben Light and His Surf Club Boys – Christmas Balls
  21. Jimmy Jones and the Versatiles – Christmas is a Drag
  22. Sonny Boy Williamson – Christmas Morning Blues
  23. Mary Denise Cawley – The Day That Santa Cried
  24. J.J. Barnes – Snow Flake
  25. Mary White – Christmas Bells
  26. Jingle Bells [Live]
  27. Walter “Crybaby” Stone & the Tradewinds – Christmas Time Again
  28. Santa Claus, That’s the Signal
  29. Eric Idle – Fuck Christmas
  30. The Christmas Holidays are Over…and Reprise

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THE PFU CHRISTMAS COLLECTION: Part 2 [2008]

PFU #000 – CHRISTMAS 2008

2008 TRACKLIST:

  1. Steve Carell – The Countdown
  2. The Soul Saints Orchestra – Santa’s Got A Bag Of Soul
  3. Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire – Mistletoe
  4. Jacques Dutronc – La Fille Du Pere Noel
  5. Caribou – The Snow Capes
  6. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Santa
  7. The Fireflies – X-Mas Song
  8. Kay Martin & Her Bodygaurds – I Want A Casting Couch For Christmas
  9. Reuben Anderson – Christmas Time Again
  10. The Soulful Strings – Merry Christmas Baby
  11. Diplo – When Eggnog Goes Bad
  12. Mahalia Jackson – Christmas Comes To Us All Once A Year
  13. Ringo Starr – C’mon Christmas
  14. John Coltrane – Greensleeves
  15. Donny Burns – Cool Yule
  16. Daniele et Michele – L’hiver
  17. Margo Guryan – I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
  18. Hot Lava – X-Mass Wii
  19. Chuck Berry – Merry Christmas Baby
  20. The Purse Snatchers – Christmas Lights
  21. Jackie Gleason & His Orchestra – It’s Christmas Time All Over The World
  22. Ernest Tubb – Happy Texas Christmas You All!
  23. The Walkmen – New Year’s Eve
  24. The Black On White Affair – Auld Lang Syne
  25. Donovan – New Year’s Resolutions

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CHRISTMAS STORY:

David Sedaris – Six to Eight Black Men

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THE PFU CHRISTMAS COLLECTION: PT. 1 [2007]

Hello out there kiddos. In the lead up to this year’s Christmas mix I thought I would dig all of the previous mixes up and re-post them for all those who haven’t heard them. Some mixes are made for those who can enjoy some blue humor and wildly untraditional music, and other are designed to be played for the entire family (if anything just to avoid hearing our parents Michael Buble cd’s). Also, in the spirit of December fun I have included a couple Christmas “Stories” as well.

These mixes are made every year in an attempt to keep holiday music from being too dull or trite, but while still trying to maintain the Christmas aesthetic or “spirit”. Each year’s mixes have had their own particular feeling, but they have all still fit quite well into my season. I hope they are useful throughout your holidays, and I hope you find some happy surprises while listening.

Christmas is a raging cultural animal and most working American musicians have made their own interpretation of this time of year, be it religious, funny, heartbreaking, offensive, bizarre, or just amazing. Sorting through thousands of variations on the same root theme each year has become an annual sociological roller coaster that always leaves me feeling fulfilled and my December activites are better for it. I hope you feel the same. Enjoy the music & Happy Holidays.

ALSO, YOU CAN FIND US ON FACEBOOK NOW. WE ARE RELEASING OUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY MUSIC THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. FIND US AND LIKE US: www.facebook.com/productionforuse

PFU #00: CHRISTMAS 2007

2007 TRACKLIST:

  1. NORAD – Santa Promotional Spot
  2. Sufjan Stevens – Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time!
  3. Ike & Tina Turner – Merry Christmas Baby
  4. Bey Ireland – All I Want For Christmas is A Go-Go Girl
  5. Jack Scott – There’s Trouble Brewin’
  6. Run DMC/Clarence Carter – Christmas In Hollis/Back Door Santa (Mix by DJ Riko)
  7. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – Let It Snow!
  8. The White Stripes – Candy Cane Children
  9. Unknown – Christmas Tumor
  10. Elvis Presley – Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me
  11. Clyde Lasley & The Cadillac Baby Specials – Santa Came Home Drunk
  12. Johnny Cash – It’s Not Cool To Kill On Christmas
  13. Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of The British Empire – Pete Townsend’s Christmas
  14. Marvin Gaye – Purple Snowflakes
  15. Pizzicato Five – Snowflakes
  16. Luna – Egg Nog
  17. Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards – Up Your Chimney
  18. The Raveonettes – The Christmas Song
  19. Proxy – Sugarplum Jeans
  20. Vince Guaraldi Trio – Skating
  21. The Manhattans – Alone On New Year’s Eve
  22. Loretta Lynn – I Won’t Decorate Your Christmas Tree
  23. Carla Thomas – Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas
  24. The Maytals – Happy Christmas
  25. The Rolling Stones – Winter
  26. Starflyer 59 – I’ll Be Home For Christmas

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CHRISTMAS STORY:

William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain – The Priest They Called  Him (A Junkie’s Christmas)

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Sadgasm. The Heartbreak Anthology: Part 3

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Good Evening. Let’s Get Sad. To that place where someone leaves you and advice and logic are useless. The mind usually leaps into a mode to fix its own imbalance as quickly as possible. This, of course, is usually the worst sort of reaction because heartbreak isn’t commonly a quick fix. Even if there is hope for a relationship most often there is a sizeable amount of arduous time apart required to recalibrate yourself and then properly recognize, accept, and mend the toxic elements that brought everything down. That’s if you’re lucky.

This mix is for men, and a woman’s mix will be following shortly. However, I think they all the sadness mixes will work for both sexes, much more than the anger mixes. Sadness usually makes us be a bit more accepting of another point of view because, well, we want everything to be ok.

I think that the brain has a hard time suddenly losing what it had come to assume was an essential element, no matter the amount of clues beforehand. The natural human reaction to say or do anything to solve a long view problem overnight (like a rotten relationship) eventually reminds us all that we, despite our quasi-sophistication, cannot escape becoming very irrational and dishonest with ourselves at our core.  This is a generalization, but seeing how most cultures defend this behavior in art, music, etc. as an inescapable defining human characteristic, I’d say its close enough to declare embedded in us. I don’t think we can evolve out of it. So…here’s what we get back for all of that intractable self destruction and pain.

Some of these songs are by the people who “cause” this sadness and the rest were written by really, really desperate and devastated people at their most irrational and broken. They’re so fucking good.

 PFU MIX #003

USE: Dealing with Heartbreak – Depression and Bargaining Stages. For Him.

 
 
  1. James Brown – Goodbye My Love, Parts 1 & 2
  2. Peter, Bjorn, and John – The Chills
  3. Al Green – Don’t Hurt Me No More
  4. Willie Nelson – Both Sides Now
  5. The Walkmen – Many Rivers To Cross
  6. Chuck Berry – Wee Wee Hours
  7. Johnny Thunders – You Can’t Put Your Arm Around A Memory
  8. Elvis Presley – That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
  9. The White Stripes – A Martyr For My Love For You
  10. Little Stevie Wonder – Sunset
  11. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Sympathetic Noose
  12. Sammy Ward – Bread Winner
  13. Kyu Sakamoto – Sukiyaki
  14. Pavement – Here
  15. Sam Cooke – Bring It On Home
  16. Waylon Jennings – Delia’s Gone
  17. Frank Sinatra – In The Wee Small Hours of The Morning
  18. The Magnetic Fields – I Don’t Want To Get Over You
  19. Otis Redding – You Don’t Miss Your Water
  20. Neil Young – Heart of Gold
  21. The Make-Up – Time Machine
  22. LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great

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Roll em.

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Welcome. This is my Music Blog. Since the prestigious Internet is so saturated with these things I had to select a concept that I thought was fitting considering what I have to offer. I wanted more than random 1-4 track leaks and I’m not suited to handle a dangerously hyper-focused (and wonderful) dorkout blog so I picked something that fit comfortably in the middle.

The aim of this blog is to give you a mix at least once every week. A small collection of songs with a central purpose, but not just a theme. I’ve found that 24 songs about water or visible panty lines don’t really have much of a practical use. The topic usually gets pretty tired by song 10 or 11, particularly without some sort of commentary. The mixes here will be soundtracks suited to real life situations so that when in those situations they (hopefully) will be a top notch companion. Each mix will fit onto a regular blank CD and occasionally will have printable artwork and track listings.

I’m starting with Christmas because I’m a Christmas freak and I thought there should be more mixes out there for people who probably hate most Christmas music. This is essentially a soft opening of the blog to work out any kinks, take suggestions on the format, and gear up for the first polished Production for Use mix in January. I’m including last year’s Christmas mix just to have some good kickoff swag. Download them both. I’ve added two Christmas stories this year. Enjoy the holiday music, please give me feedback or questions, and enjoy the end of 2008.

***ALL MIXES & STORIES HAVE BEEN REPOSTED WITH FRESH LINKS***

NOTE: I’m not trying to just give away songs. If ANY band does not want their work available through this blog, PLEASE tell me and I will repost the mix without it. Upon request I will provide ways to purchase any of the albums that these songs originally appear.  If you like these artists, buy their albums, and more importantly: Go to Their Shows and Buy Their Merchandise.

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PRODUCTION FOR USE MIX: #00/#000

USE: Enjoying the Holidays without enduring Mannheim Steamroller.

2008 TRACKLIST:

  1. Steve Carell – The Countdown
  2. The Soul Saints Orchestra – Santa’s Got A Bag Of Soul
  3. Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire – Mistletoe
  4. Jacques Dutronc – La Fille Du Pere Noel
  5. Caribou – The Snow Capes
  6. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Santa
  7. The Fireflies – X-Mas Song
  8. Kay Martin & Her Bodygaurds – I Want A Casting Couch For Christmas
  9. Reuben Anderson – Christmas Time Again
  10. The Soulful Strings – Merry Christmas Baby
  11. Diplo – When Eggnog Goes Bad
  12. Mahalia Jackson – Christmas Comes To Us All Once A Year
  13. Ringo Starr – C’mon Christmas
  14. John Coltrane – Greensleeves
  15. Donny Burns – Cool Yule
  16. Daniele et Michele – L’hiver
  17. Margo Guryan – I Don’t Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
  18. Hot Lava – X-Mass Wii
  19. Chuck Berry – Merry Christmas Baby
  20. The Purse Snatchers – Christmas Lights
  21. Jackie Gleason & His Orchestra – It’s Christmas Time All Over The World
  22. Ernest Tubb – Happy Texas Christmas You All!
  23. The Walkmen – New Year’s Eve
  24. The Black On White Affair – Auld Lang Syne
  25. Donovan – New Year’s Resolutions

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CHRISTMAS STORY:

David Sedaris – Six to Eight Black Men

DOWNLOAD! CLICK HERE! 

2007 TRACKLIST:

  1. NORAD – Santa Promotional Spot
  2. Sufjan Stevens – Hey Guys! It’s Christmas Time!
  3. Ike & Tina Turner – Merry Christmas Baby
  4. Bey Ireland – All I Want For Christmas is A Go-Go Girl
  5. Jack Scott – There’s Trouble Brewin’
  6. Run DMC/Clarence Carter – Christmas In Hollis/Back Door Santa (Mix by DJ Riko)
  7. Smokey Robinson and The Miracles – Let It Snow!
  8. The White Stripes – Candy Cane Children
  9. Unknown – Christmas Tumor
  10. Elvis Presley – Santa Bring My Baby Back To Me
  11. Clyde Lasley & The Cadillac Baby Specials – Santa Came Home Drunk
  12. Johnny Cash – It’s Not Cool To Kill On Christmas
  13. Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians of The British Empire – Pete Townsend’s Christmas
  14. Marvin Gaye – Purple Snowflakes
  15. Pizzicato Five – Snowflakes
  16. Luna – Egg Nog
  17. Kay Martin & Her Bodyguards – Up Your Chimney
  18. The Raveonettes – The Christmas Song
  19. Proxy – Sugarplum Jeans
  20. Vince Guaraldi Trio – Skating
  21. The Manhattans – Alone On New Year’s Eve
  22. Loretta Lynn – I Won’t Decorate Your Christmas Tree
  23. Carla Thomas – Gee Whiz, It’s Christmas
  24. The Maytals – Happy Christmas
  25. The Rolling Stones – Winter
  26. Starflyer 59 – I’ll Be Home For Christmas

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CHRISTMAS STORY:

William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain – The Priest They Called  Him (A Junkie’s Christmas)

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