Butter Team Weekend Beats Vol. 41 (right-click to DL mp3)
A Butter Message to the USA
Gaz Nevada - IC Love Affair (Italian version)
Kavinsky - Nightcall (Breakbot Rmx)
Tears for Fears - Mad World
Cold Cave - Life Magazine (Delorean Rmx)
Miami Horror - Sometimes
Daniel Diamond - Champu
Hot Chip - Baby Said
ASAP Rocky - Demons
Baby Huey - Hard Times
Ghostface Killah - Buck 50 feat. Method Man
The Field - Then It's White
Open Mike Eagle - Nightmares
Butter Team Weekend Beats Vol. 34 (right click to DL mp3)
The Avalanches - Stay Another Season
The Zombies - Don't Go Away
The Field Mice - You're Kidding Aren't You
Radio Dept. - Domestic Scene
Kings of Convenience - Misread
Japan - Life in Tokyo
Death in Vegas - Girls
Nice to know that for every British indie pop band that found moderate commercial success in the late 1980s there are a dozen more equally worth your attention. I first heard about The Field Mice through resident twee pop curator Matt from Skatterbrain and have been "celebrating their catalogue" ever since. A true gem hidden amongst (and in spite of) the murky C-86 British alternative movement, The Field Mice helped popularize a combination of shambolic janglepop, homespun synth fuzz and cheap drum-machine rhythms that would influence almost every Manchester/Glasgow export for the next two decades. Not bad for a band that only existed for three years (they broke up in 1991).
The Field Mice - You're Kidding Aren't You
The Field Mice - Sensitive
The Field Mice - Annoint (Peel session)
The majority of their work has recently been reissued and is available on iTunes among other spots, For Keeps + Singles is a great place to start. A few more classics from the C-86/Rough Trade era:
Josef K - Sorry For Laughing
Primal Scream - Velocity Girl
This Poison - Poised Over The Pause Button
Shop Assistants - Safety Net
The Flatmates - I Could Be In Heaven
The Soup Dragons - Whole Wide World
For a full historical overview of where all of this stuff came from, check Pitchfork's Twee as Fuck feature, and if indie pop is your steez be sure to get your regular fix at Skatterbrain.
