All I'm saying is that's a pretty cool album whether you're a Tuvan throat singing fan or not. Read the reviews at the bottom. "Orgasmatron" also sounds great. 

posted by natedogg at 05:29PM CST on October 24

On the mixtape topic: Aziz Ansari in Shittiest Mixtape Boombox Blast.

That video begs the way to your challenge, should you choose to accept it:
What is the shittiest 5 song mixtape?

notes:
-Things like Metal Machine Music (basically dissonant metal scraping sounds) shouldn't get to count. That's not shitty, it's just irritating.
-You may reference beckto's list 

posted by natedogg at 06:06PM CST on October 24

1. Something by Toby Keith with the words "American Flag"
2. Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy
3. Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
4. Icy Hot Stuntaz - Tru Pimpin (might not qualify fairly w/in rules)
5. (tie) Dog's Eye View - Everything Falls Apart
5. (teye?) Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 

posted by natedogg at 06:22PM CST on October 24

So, does this mean that it's on?

As an aside, I like both of your songs tied for #5, although I do admit that Everything Falls Apart sounds like it should be in a beer commercial. 

posted by NanoCindy at 06:41PM CST on October 24

I was surprised that the Aziz mixes went for 'hackneyed' (theme songs, songs from soundtracks) more then purely 'godawful' (Europe's 'Final Countdown,' anything else on this page). 

posted by mrflip at 12:13AM CST on October 25

A few times I've asked Nate when "AEthermix II: The Ziggy-Generated Tagline" is going down, and every time he shudders and says it'll happen whenever someone steps forward to coordinate the sequential reception and dispatch of twenty-odd mixtapes to and from twenty-odd recipients. Not to mention hounding those who were late (like me).

My proposal: that everyone send their AEthermix in mp3 format. You can hand, mail, or courier a data CD to Nate, or you can FTP the files to a site that I'll set up. (We'll do our best to provide technical help for those who need it.) I'll post some guidelines that will make it easy for us to put all the mixtapes together into one coherent collection -- I'm hoping to keep it to two CDs (1500MB) but that will depend on how many people join up. I'll burn the collection onto CDs using the 7th floor burner farm (aka the math lab) and then Nate will hand/mail/whatever them out.

What you'll get back will also be a data CD -- you can drag all the files from the CD into your iPod, and you can play them on your PC while you're at work. However, you won't be able to slap it in your home stereo or cd changer (unless you have FliVo or a fancy mp3-playin' cd changer).

If you're old school and want to have audio CDs, well, you can burn your own. We'll make sure that each mix can just be drag-n-dropped onto Nero or equivalent for easy mass burnination. All mixes should include at least one piece of album art, which will make both iTunes-users and CD-burning-completists happy.

Post your comments below -- but if you're dead set on getting a stack of audio CDs then you'd better also be stepping up to handle the associated logistics. 

posted by mrflip at 12:45AM CST on October 25

1500 MB a person? That just means that Flip will try to show off by creating Yin/Yang II: Son of 陰陽 (which we all know is good, but definitely surpased by its off-beat, SxSW attending spin-off What I Did For My Spring Break).

Due to the many *.mp3 compression rates, I suggest that we place a limit of 80 minutes (the standard temporal limit compact discs hold) per registered Alkaline Earth user. 

posted by zieglerfe at 02:22AM CST on October 25

To be clear: 1500MB total. If there are 20 aethermixes, there will be 75MB/aethermixer. I'll detail this and a few other technical guidelines in a later post. 

posted by mrflip at 02:52AM CST on October 25

back to the mixtape bizness. In the category of "songs that have made me want to stick my head in the oven for 20 min at 350 degrees"

1. Asereje by Las Ketchup
2. Brick by Ben Folds Five
3. Mmm Bop by The Hanson Brothers
4. Talkin' about a Revolution by Tracy Chapman
5. Time of Your Life by Green Day 

posted by soku at 08:42AM CST on October 25

I am still debating with myself whether or not like "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)" by Meat Loaf.

I will try to come up with a list a little later on. 

posted by zieglerfe at 09:44AM CST on October 25

"Around The World" by Daft Punk is another. 

posted by zieglerfe at 11:38AM CST on October 25

So just to clarify, AEtherMix 2 is not a contest of putting together the worst mix tape. Right? 

posted by NanoCindy at 01:16PM CST on October 25

Wait, it's not supposed to be the worst mix tape? B/c I've got all these tracks of Japanese experimental white noise just waiting to impinge on your eardrums...

That, and some Milli Vanilli "lost" tracks. 

posted by javelina at 03:29PM CST on October 25

You can put as many tracks of japanese white noise on your aethermix as you want, but it shouldn't count for the shittiest mixtape. As per my note in the original comment, irritating crap that no one would listen to more than once is just not faithful to what the shitty mixtape is all about (IMHO). 

posted by natedogg at 04:30PM CST on October 25

I think it's clear there are two events afoot: "Aethermix II: A Time for Zig" and "AEthermuck: The World's Crappiest Mixtape (5 song limit)." Since you can construct your AEthermix any which way you want (but loose), you should be allowed to enter it in both events. 

posted by mrflip at 04:50PM CST on October 25

javelina: You listen to Maldodor too? 

posted by zieglerfe at 08:29PM CST on October 25

no dogs barking jingle bells?  

posted by shi at 09:28PM CST on October 29

5 tracks of audio vomit:
1)Dogs bark jingle bells (DBJB)
2)DeCSS.MP3
3)any tejano
4)Eazy-E - Still Talkin'
5)I will always love you-Whitney Houston 

posted by shi at 11:49PM CST on October 29