Vol 06 of this EA series was turning a new page for us here at The World Forgot. For once we we got serious about posting in this online format [before we relied heavily on word of mouth and links that were passed around the nets via email] and we also switched the format from seventeen songs [the perfect prime number to fill up a full burned disc] to thirteen tracks [still a prime number but more realistic].
So here is Vol 06 of the popular series of compilations we’ve thrown together. We’re rapidly approaching the release of Vol 10. Get excited.
EA Mix vol 06 - A Fresh Start
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Welcome back readers. We’re not actually sure if any of you read this blog or if you just pillage your way through cyber space looking for downloadable content. But we’re not here to judge, we’re just here as a messenger of good music and lazy Tuesday mornings.
Enjoy the show.
EA Mix vol 05 - Going Home
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Welcome to the beginning of the weekend. And it’s only fitting that we’re posting our EA Mix vol 04 today as it is aptly titled The End Draws Near. So get off work already, head for a special spot in this strange world, and don’t forget to take good music with you.
EA Mix vol 04 - The End Draws Near
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Welcome back for vol 03 of the EA Mix series. This little gem was originally compiled and released about eleven months ago and is partially comprised of some wonderful artists from Labrador Records as well as the best cover songs that were then on the market.
Listen to good music.
EA Mix vol 03 - Swedish Pop Covers Rock
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Well, here’s round number two for the much sought after EA Mix series. As we talked about before all previously released volumes, nine in all, will be reposted here on The World Forgot as we approach our first birthday and the subsequent release of EA Mix vol 10. Get excited.
Ea Mix vol 02 - New Drugs
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The World Forgot is nearing our first birthday. We’ve come a long way from our first post. In fact we’ve come along way from that first mix album we threw together and emailed [and in some cases actually mailed] to our close friends. Now it’s been almost a full year since this little blog was created and what once started as just a space to host our series of EA Mix albums has grown up into something a little more sophisticated. At least we hope it has.
In honor of this upcoming milestone, as well as the fact that EA Mix vol 10 was just completed, we thought it would be nice to go back and re-release all of our old compilations. There’s some great music on these nine albums and we hope you enjoy them all.
Keep reading.
EA Mix vol 01 - Sounds for You to Hear
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Well we’re officially back from our globe trotting. Everest was and shall ever be a completely shattering experience. Simply shattering.
While we were gone our in box was having a small party of it’s own. Receiving new music, promotions, an interview request from a German music magazine, and other various and sundry items.
Included in this e-mess were some submissions by a guest writer here on The World Forgot. This is one of his posts and we thank Josh for sending it on over. If anyone else would like a guest spot [and a quick shout out] just email us what you think and we’ll either throw it up here and rebuke you or let your words stand on their own.
Anyway, here’s what Josh thinks. “This song reminds me of what a new immigrant to America would tell their grandchild who has never left the country. It is a warning for everyone who is of good health, with the last line of the chorus being in Russian. Then at the 2:28 marker, the Grandmother has run out of English to talk with and begins to lecture in pure, beautiful, forbidding Russian. I imagine a child standing, terrified, yet not understanding a word, with their foreign grandmother ranting. Then when the grandmother is joined by another intimidating adult around the 4:00 mark, they probably wet themselves a little.”
I opened my inbox the other day and I stumbled upon this little slice of heaven. In their own words “Mixtape Vol. 1, was compiled to celebrate Cross-Pollination, a weekly NYC concert series that brings together some of the most incredibly, and at times, undiscovered raw talent from across the country. Giving musicians the opportunity to stretch creatively with other like-minds, the premise of Cross-Pollination is simple. Every Tuesday evening at Pianos (158 Ludlow Street, NYC) two artists are invited to play together. Both of them play a solo 40-minute set followed by a 3 song pre-rehearsed collaborative set. Now in its third year, Cross-Pollination has brought together nearly 250 acts via 137 FREE shows. All artists included on the mixtape have played Cross-Pollination.”
If you live in the New York area and you haven’t made it to a Cross-Pollination show yet you need to jump on this bandwagon and see a show. The musical genius that comes from these collaborative efforts is breathtaking.
And breathtaking is a word I would use over and over again to describe their Mixtape vol 1. It’s brilliant. All of it is brilliant. To put it in perspective, the first track by My Brightest Diamond is arguably the weakest track on the list. That’s right, My Brightest Diamond just may be the low point on the mix. And if someone as talented and, lately, as prolific as Shara Worden is the proverbial bottom of the barrel then the bar has been set quite high. Quite high indeed.
The World Forgot will now enter a two week hiatus period. Make sure to explore our archives while we’re off trekking around Mount Everest. We like to think of it as we’re taking a short little sabbatical. Mainly because that sounds better than to say we’re lazy and going on one amazing vacation.
First of all the Arctic Monkeys cover the Strokes. Which is fun, because until this cover I didn’t really like the Arctic Monkeys at all, ever. Yeah, I didn’t like the Arctic Monkeys and I guess I’m the first person in the world to admit it.
Then I stumbled across this wonderful cover by the Strokes. And as we all know by now the Strokes and I have shared a long and fulfilling love affair. I’ll even go this far; I loved them long before Rolling Stone did. There, I said it.
EDIT/UPDATE : The below links for the mp3’s are now broken. To grab new links go to this new post.
You might be wondering how Clint Mansell and Danny Boyle’s new movie, Sunshine, are related. Well let me take a second and fill you in. Earlier today I was watching a brilliant movie, The Fountain, directed by Darren Aronofsky. I really encourage everyone reading this to see that movie. On top of the old school visual effects and wonderful storyline was laid an amazing work of music that complemented the film without competing with anything that was on the screen.
And then the end credits rolled and I was satisfied to see that Clint Mansell was behind the score. And that led my mind on a tangential thought process whereby I remembered that Clint Mansell was also behind the brilliant score for Requiem for a Dream, also directed by Darren Aronofsky. And it was at that precise moment that I thought about the trailer for Danny Boyle’s movie Sunshine.
You see, it’s not a random coincidence. The song used to promote Danny Boyle’s newest movie is in fact a remix of a song originally created by Clint Mansell for the movie Requiem for a Dream. In fact, it’s one of the most popular movie preview and advertisement sound bits ever used. To be completely honest it was first remixed and created to accompany the Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers previews.
Well, there it is. Three degrees that link Clint Mansell and Danny Boyle together. And now that you too possess all this trivial information it’s time to give you some music.
Vol 06 of this EA series was turning a new page for us here at The World Forgot. For once we we got serious about posting in this online format [before we relied heavily on word of mouth and links that were passed around the nets via email] and we also switched the format from seventeen songs [the perfect prime number to fill up a full burned disc] to thirteen tracks [still a prime number but more realistic].
