Best Butter Team Mixes of 2k9

Oh snap, 500th post. It's been a pleasure. I'll be shutting down BT to work on some other sites (including Sketchy Santas, Sketchy Bunnies and Urlesque), but please enjoy this wintry mix + my other two favorites from this year. Be sure to sign up for email updates on the right for a few mixes in 2k10.


Butter Team Winter 2k9 Mix (right click to download mp3)

Tracklist:
1. The Avalanches - Little Journey
2. Royksopp feat. Fever Ray - This Must Be It (Thin White Duke edit)
3. Discovery - Osaka Loop Line
4. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Mingus Rude/Avalanches edits)
5. The Outcasts - Loving You, Sometimes
6. Okkervil River - On Tour With Zykos
7. The Zombies - I Can't Make Up My Mind
8. Benji Hughes - The Mummy
9. Ruby Andrews - You Made A Believer Out of Me
10. Q-Tip - Won't Trade
11. Avalanches/Daft Punk/Cut Copy - SuperNightVisions
12. VEGA - Kyoto Gardens
13. Mark Mothersbaugh - Look At That Old Grizzly Bear
14. Sufjan Stevens - That Was The Worst Christmas Ever!








Summer Sanka Mix (Deux) - right click to download

Tracklist:
1. Electric Light Orchestra - Livin' Thing (Avalanches redux)
2. Instant Funk - Got My Mind Made Up (Avalanches redux + Spank Rock intro)
3. The Main Attraction - Everyday
4. Atlas Sound feat. Panda Bear - Walkabout
5. Beach Boys - You Still Believe in Me
6. Bullion feat. J Dilla - You Still Believe in Dee
7. Roy Ayers - Running Away
8. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Stool Pigeon
9. Organ Morgan - Cocaine Afternoon
10. The Avalanches - Slow Walking
11. Tough Alliance - 25 Years and Runnin'
12. The Very Best - Yalira
13. Junior Byron - Dance to the Music (LCD Soundsystem redux)





Buttery Soul Mix (right click to download)

New Holidays - Maybe So, Maybe No (1969)
Smokey Robinson - If You Can Want (1968)
Ruby Andrews - You Made a Believer Out of Me (1969)
The Jarmels - A Little of Bit of Soap (1961)
The Impressions - Seven Years (1969)
The Mad Lads - No Strings Attached (1969)
Betty Padgett - Sugar Daddy (1975)
Harvey Averne - You're No Good (1968)
Jackson Sisters - I Believe in Miracles (1976)
The Johnny Otis Show - Watts Breakaway (1969)

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Okkervil River on WOXY.com

The blogosphere already has plenty of Sheff fanatics in OR scrubs so we'll pass on the foam party, but you really need to hear this. Last week the team shared a few pared-down classics along with a new track, "Lost Coastlines", part of an appendix for The Stage Names to be released later this year. Hear a few more at The Futurist.


Okkervil River - A Hand To Take Hold of the Scene (live)


Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines (live, unreleased)

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Potent Postables

Are you smarter than Turd Ferguson?

A. The capital city and chief seaport of Lebanon, also home to the American Universoty of Beirut, the port of Beirut, and the Beirut International Aiport.

Q. Beirut - Transatlantique

A. A familiar name for wild North American and subarctic-dwelling reindeer, also the official mascot of the short-lived Colorado Caribous professional men's soccer team in 1978.

Q. Caribou - Zoe

A. Named after the tough decison many consumers faced between VHS or Beta, two rival incompatible models of video cassette recorders made available in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Q. VHS or Beta - She Says

A. In 2003 this band released a split EP with Julie Doiron titled Julie Doiron/Okkervil River.

Q. Okkervil River - Plus Ones

Preorder VHS or Beta's Bring on the Comets.
Preorder Okkervil River's The Stage Names.
Buy Caribou's Melody Day (single).

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