While you wait for the ultimate Summer Mix for Party Lunatics that I've been cooking up (I really should finish that, because Summer is halfway over...), have a listen to side B of Elektrikli Türkiye - a mix tape I made from some of my best Turkish 45s! Turkey in the 1970s was a hotbed of swirling psychedelia, electric intensity, and insane instrumentals, and I love them all - you know how much if you've listened to and read my commentary on Side A! 

Yes, this is recorded directly from the cassette on which I compiled the songs. Real cassette quality in digital form. Ha! - and you'll love every minute. I guarantee it! You can download it too!

I'll be re-stocking the actual tapes next week at the record store Mount Analog in Los Angeles, and they are always available for anyone looking for an electric kiss...

To be friends or learn more or request tapes or anything at all - Write to Sam at

PO Box 3669
Oakland, CA
94609

or be lazy and shoot me an email at tapes4ever@gmail.com

Fellow Turkophiles and Brave Explorers - Have At It! Now I'm working on Volume 2...

Elektrikli Turkiye: Side B

"Brasil Elétrica" is a mix tape: A lovingly curated collection of some of my favorite crazy Brazilian music from the 1970s - both Electrified and Electrifying! I have been collecting Brazilian records for nearly 10 years and these are some of the best, craziest, and rarest songs I have. They need to be shared! 

As soon as you hit play, you will be transported to electric Brazil, a magical community of all different kinds of people, where howling guitars, swirling synthesizers, pummeling drums and out of space vocals are king. Fuzzy rock 'n' roll, psychedelic rock 'n' roll, a little funk, some wailing...Sounds good, right?

Like I said, "Brasil Elétrica" is actually a tape. Like "Elektrikli Türkiye," this soundcloud page is a direct-from-the-cassette recording of each side but this time they're together in one recording. The sides are very different, so in order to preserve the uniqueness of each side AND condense the tape into one playlist or whatever, I tried to break them up in a way that still makes you feel like you're flipping your cassette over to start a new adventure on the other side. (This may or may not include a recording of me actually flipping over the cassette.)

Track list provided upon request!

Write me at:
Sam Swig
PO Box 3669
Oakland, CA
94609

tapes4ever@gmail.com also exists but i would prefer a postcard!

Brasil Eletrica

Fikret Kızılok freaking out on the keyboard. Erkin Koray shredding hard. Orhan Gencebay dominating the bağlama. The Hürel boys paying homage to Anatolia. Serter Bagcan getting throaty. Parla Şenol moaning in echoes. And SO MUCH MORE…!

After months of trying to figure out how to record stuff to my new computer after the old one broke, I figured it out! So here is volume 2 of Electric Turkey for your digital consumption. Honestly, I think it's even better than the first one! The tape has been on the market for awhile but, like I said, I am hopeless with electronics. (This is part of the reason why I make tapes as opposed to fancy stuff. Go with what you know!)

I hope you enjoy! It's gonna blow your mind, don't worry about it.

As always, track list available upon request. 

tapes4ever@gmail.com

PO Box 3669
Oakland, CA
94609

If you'd like to get the actual tape, visit tapes4ever.bigcartel.com!

Elektrikli Turkiye: Volume 2

Soundcloud keeps deleting my mixes. Find me on mixcloud for new ones!! All will be transferred over there, too. mixcloud.com/samswig

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ravenous song collector, flailing writer, excellent parallel parker

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