Lately I've been so mentally drained… In the past couple months, I've been across 12 states, left my hometown of 28 years, left my job of 4 years, and decided to brave the wild in the wildest of the west to try to live a better life…. It's a huge opportunity for me, but it still feels strange.  I've been having this huge mental block lately, where I don't know what to say or do, and I can't seem to figure out why. Change? stress? who knows. It's eating me up, though. I just decided that the best way to work through it was to pick fun sounds out and arrange them together in a way that's gotta be so silly that there's no way you can keep a straight face grooving to them. It was some night in some other state, playing to a huge room full of nobody, that I realized that this whole profession can be so tiring if you're not playing to have fun and making yourself smile before trying to be the cool guy.  I'm sick of people taking music so seriously, why the fuck do I wanna be locked up in a room full of dudes scratching their chins waiting to be impressed? I definitely don't. So in the name of good fun, I fired up the old recorder and whipped through some of my favorite funky tunes to groove to, and slapped out this mix. 1 take, a couple fuckups, but the message is clear: I don't give a fuuuuuck.  I'm just out here trying to get my swerve on and have a good motherfuckin' time.  Shut your mind off and tap your foot. No brains, no headaches! So here it is. Wild west intergalactic Turf Swing. I hope space aliens listen to this shit in the hills while they mine for mercury to power their intergalactic low riders, with the license plates rattling like diamondbacks. Most of all, though, I just hope to put a smile on some faces while I try to break this funk. Big ups to outer space, big ups to the desert, and big ups to oakland, for all the inspiration. Much love to you all. cheers. :)



TL:
Dorrough- IDGAF (quarry vs tyler the tastemaker remix)
Koan sound- max out
drake- the motto
Tipper- Off kilter
Koan sound- Meanwhile in the future
Bart simpson- Do the bartman
Dads on Display- Boom Bap
Wick it the instigator- Beastie mouse
matt miller- gravel pit (flume remix)
tool- 46 &2 (blunt instrument remix)
culprate- finger
Squirrel nut zippers Vs An-ten-nae- Crunk in hell
Kotch- Bucovina
dads on display- Tickle the ivories
Ratchet- Kan Krush3r <====(heat!!)
groove fellaz- struck by funk
tipper- Covered in lobsters
Ray charles- good times (opiou remix)
Ray charles- what Id say (bobby c remix)
benny goodman- Sing sing sing (nick thayer remix)
harry belafonte- Jump in line ( codes remix)
E-40 vs johnny cash- Tell me when to fire (disco tech remix)
Fatboy slim- praise you 

No brains, no headaches!

It was tuesday night when we flew in…. my road dog Paul and I…. our ship had hit a cow on the way in….the mood was very tense….If we pull over, the gestapo is going to want aboard and I'm not getting busted on alien territory with weed….again…soooo…. we decided to keep pushing forward…. when we landed, it was chaos… Reptilians everywhere, and someone kept feeding booze to these goddamn animals! Tracers shot every which way, and in the distance, all I could see was flamethrowers and the echoing sounds of "WEEEEEEE!" in the distance… I knew I was in over my head….

Around that very time, I saw sasquatch….. No fooling…the real deal…. he wasn't blurry…but he was throwing up on himself. I felt bad for the dude…. He did, however, leave an open seat for me at the bar…so I walked up with my double styrofoam cup….

I bellied up to the bar, looked the bartender straight in the eyes, and said "look here, I don't like you….", then pointed to some dude who was unconscious in the stool next to me and said "My friend here don't like you either….now gimme something that's gonna make this hurt differently or I'll chop your hand off"….. The bartender gave me a hug and informed me that I should probably go to bed, so I did… and that's when I started to hallucinate….

On a usual night I can sleep in the cockpit of the ship with no problem, right through a meteor shower, but this night was different… As I lay down, the cabin windows lit up like Las Vegas as a giant beetle shuffled by, blasting trap music so loud that license plates sang like crickets into the desert air… It sounded like bourbon street out there… I had no choice but to wonder why I was such a terrible person, and then venture out….

I made my way to a Lazer pyramid only to discover that it was just a mirage, and now I was stuck with the daunting task of walking all the way home piss drunk with my mind shattering into a thousand pieces….. 

 I kept walking and walking and hallucinating harder and harder and had this realization that I don't give back enough, that I'm too harsh on others, and that I should make the best of my life in the short time that I'm here…. But most importantly, I realized that I should get to my spaceship before daylight so I don't get arrested.   I made it back….and the whole ship smelled like pizza… I thought about home, I thought about life…I thought about everything I loved…and then I fell asleep….

When I awoke, it was sunday…and everything in sight had been burnt to ashes…. I searched for all of the beautiful things I had seen but they were gone… I began to feel terrible, but then I felt relieved….and lucky to have seen them at all… 

We packed up the ship the next morning and put it into hyperdrive, and I said a prayer… 

"Dear god…. thank you for everything you've bestowed on my most prosperous journey… and forgive me for all the hearts I've broken, people I've wronged, and all the bikes I've stolen when I was too drunk to walk home…. thank you for letting me see another day…"

before I knew it, I was back on my home planet in the mercury mine….breaking my back, wishing I was back there in the desert losing my mind…..


this mix is dedicated to one of my most favorite places in the world… a place where I've laughed, I've cried….I've completely lost my shit…but subsequently found so much more… This is dedicated to the Black Rock desert…. Where you build something beautiful, and burn it the fuck down… Loving and letting go, just like the most precious things in life that you have to love and let go… your family, your friends… it all goes away in the end, so enjoy it to the fullest while you have it.… Come on out…….you can have it all….my empire of dirt…






tracklisting:


NyQuil    (uses "drugs" sample from denis leary)
C2c - Mack the knife (tribute to Louis Armstrong)
Skeewif- Moscow Mule
Stone temple Pilots- Interstate Love Song (jPOD remix)
John Denver- Country Roads (pretty lights remix)
Harry Mclinton- Big rock candy mountain (jPOD remix)
Nirvana- Plateau (dj laura remix)
Brazilian girls- pussy (mr jennings remix)
Fats Woller- Ain't misbehavin' (pippo remix)
Seals and Crofts- Summer breeze (barbaric merits remix)
Boards of Canada- Roygbiv (drankenstein remix)
Minnesota- Astral Projection
Kanye West- Flashing lights instrumental
Fine cut Bodies- Beaver blink (ooah remix)
Charlie Chaplin's final speech from 'The Great Dictator'
Pink Floyd- time (pretty lights remix)
Gold Panda- Marrigage (star slinger remix)
Neil Young- Old man (funk hunters remix)
Mumford and Sons- Little Lion man (hot young girls remix)
Fleetwood Mac- The Chain (funk hunters remix)

 

nicknyquil

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