{"id":803,"date":"2008-05-01T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T19:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-put-the-mux-in-muxtape-yo-wait-whats-mux\/"},"modified":"2020-09-06T16:56:22","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T23:56:22","slug":"i-put-the-mux-in-muxtape-yo-wait-whats-mux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-put-the-mux-in-muxtape-yo-wait-whats-mux\/","title":{"rendered":"I put the mux in muxtape, yo. Wait, what&#8217;s mux?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Heavenly Voices Mix, now playing on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beatzo.muxtape.com\/\">my Muxtape<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(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?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Muxtape Remake\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLg4giSOV_afJKbnTk_25M9V4hdAaOQP3t\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Before you ask, you\u00a0<em>can<\/em>\u00a0download from Muxtape, you know. You just need to find out how. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Update Sep 2020: You didn&#8217;t ask.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mix features all-female vocals,voices like the magnificently breathy Kirsty Hawkshaw, Beth Hirsch on one of her non-Air collaborations, Portishead\u2019s Beth Gibbons on a solo project. While the focus is on ambient\/electronic music (\u00a0<em>Psapp<\/em>\u00a0would be the most experimental of the lot), exceptions are Eva Cassidy\u2019s folk-tinged cover of\u00a0<em>Songbird<\/em>, and Blonde Redhead\u2019s Kazu Makino on\u00a0<em>Elephant Woman<\/em>. And because every female-vocal compilation deserves her presence, we have Susheela Raman on, too. And Venus Hum, yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today was the day Peter Parker\u2019s aunt was born. My company apparently is not too big on Spider-man, they are more of DC fans, ( the FREAKS! ), so we didn\u2019t get a holiday today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Deli 9, right near my office, is becoming my lunch-zone these days, except when their a\/c isn\u2019t working. Their menu\u2019s 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\u2019t get the bill unless I ask for it, and the waiters don\u2019t look askance when I don\u2019t 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\u2019clock or thereabouts, I got a monkey on my shoulder, a monkey called Don\u2019twanna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Don\u2019twanna 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 \u2013 home) and dipping my feet in cold water and sipping Lipton tea, with <em>Cocorosie <\/em>playing and the complete <em>Starman <\/em>in front of me waiting to be read. Don\u2019twanna 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\u2019twanna when he\u2019s not around, but when he comes sits on my shoulder, I just \u2026um\u2026don\u2019t wanna. Today, I just wanted to quit everything, go home and read\u00a0<em>The Drawing of the Three<\/em>\u00a0in 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Heavenly Voices Mix, now playing on\u00a0my 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\u00a0can\u00a0download from Muxtape, you know. You just need to find out how. (Update Sep 2020: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,9],"tags":[789,786,775,787,788,655],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixtapes","category-music","tag-dontwannamonkey","tag-kirsty-hawkshaw","tag-playlist","tag-portishead","tag-psapp","tag-susheela-raman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3595,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions\/3595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}