Mixtapes, Music

I put the mux in muxtape, yo. Wait, what’s mux?

The Heavenly Voices Mix, now playing on my Muxtape.

(Update Sep 2020: Muxtape no longer works, of course. One of the crash-and-burn casualties of the pre-streaming era. So I created a new playlist on YouTube. Win win, right?)

Before you ask, you can download from Muxtape, you know. You just need to find out how.

(Update Sep 2020: You didn’t ask.)

The mix features all-female vocals,voices like the magnificently breathy Kirsty Hawkshaw, Beth Hirsch on one of her non-Air collaborations, Portishead’s Beth Gibbons on a solo project. While the focus is on ambient/electronic music ( Psapp would be the most experimental of the lot), exceptions are Eva Cassidy’s folk-tinged cover of Songbird, and Blonde Redhead’s Kazu Makino on Elephant Woman. And because every female-vocal compilation deserves her presence, we have Susheela Raman on, too. And Venus Hum, yeah.

Today was the day Peter Parker’s aunt was born. My company apparently is not too big on Spider-man, they are more of DC fans, ( the FREAKS! ), so we didn’t get a holiday today.


Deli 9, right near my office, is becoming my lunch-zone these days, except when their a/c isn’t working. Their menu’s limited, but the waiters are courteous, know just when to refill my glass of water and get the food at just the right time. They don’t get the bill unless I ask for it, and the waiters don’t look askance when I don’t leave a tip, which is most of the time. I spend about forty-five minutes there everyday with a book or two, sometimes with the DS. Those forty-five minutes are like an oasis of sanity in the mad work-day rush, and post-lunch, I find myself much more courteous and people-friendly. Except today. At three o’clock or thereabouts, I got a monkey on my shoulder, a monkey called Don’twanna.

Don’twanna is a bad, bad shit chimp, who whispers dirty thoughts in my mind, thoughts of running away to a tropical island ( or the preferred second choice – home) and dipping my feet in cold water and sipping Lipton tea, with Cocorosie playing and the complete Starman in front of me waiting to be read. Don’twanna makes me sink deeper into my seat when someone calls my name, he forces me to sigh heavily when someone comes over to my cubicle; and crinkles my face, subtle enough to hint at my world coming to an ignominious end if I choose to respond to anyone calling my name. I hate Don’twanna when he’s not around, but when he comes sits on my shoulder, I just …um…don’t wanna. Today, I just wanted to quit everything, go home and read The Drawing of the Three in peace. Yes, world, I am reading the Dark Tower again. I have figured out how to get into the series again without stopping after volume 1. I just skipped it this time and went straight to volume 2. Muwhahahah. Fingers crossed.

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8 thoughts on “I put the mux in muxtape, yo. Wait, what’s mux?

  1. muxtape is interesting. But when i click on the songs in your mix, nothing happens… So whats supposed to happen ? May it just does not like my browser.

    • Ha! Last I remember, you are still in MY company, oui? The one where streaming audio/video is banned? BWAHAHAHAHAH.

      ( I am on another network. Different client. Unlimited downloads. Win.)

  2. Since you bugged me to, I went and had a look at your muxtape. I’ve actually heard some before… like Songbird and the Massive Attack number, just this week a friend recommended I keep it on infinite loop. :)

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