“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention and then you’ve got to up it a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs and… oh, there are loads of rules.” The Mixtape club

NYC based designer Brian Thomas has just launched The Mixtape Club whose goal is simply to share and discover good music. Each month ten creatives are invited to contribute a ten song mix of songs they’re into along with album artwork. The first session and the 10 mixes are available to stream on the site now.

(Via Bitique.co.uk)

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Ecclectik Boogaloo
by: Adam Garcia

01 / Barter System / Big Quarters
02 / Rising Up feat. Wale & Chrisette Michelle / The Roots
03 / Good Lord / Brother Ali
04 / Traveling Dunk Tank / Doomtree
05 / Imitosis / Andrew Bird
06 / Perfect Speed / 13 & God
07 / Pearl’s Dream / Bat For Lashes
08 / My Moon My Man (Boys Noize Remix) / Feist
09 / Leaving You Behind feat Lykke Li / Amanda Blank
10 / Bury Me Beneath The Killin’ Fields / Foma di Luna

Sandbox Steinway
by: Micah Panama

01 / Let’s Go Surfing / The Drums
02 / West Coast / Coconut Records
03 / My Girls / Animal Collective
04 / Hang On To Your Ego / Beach Boys
05 / Two Weeks / Grizzly Bear
06 / Meet Me In The City / The Babies
07 / Eraser / No Age
08 / Fools / The Dodos
09 / Brackett, Wi / Bön Iver
10 / No One Does It Like You / Department Of Eagles

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(Thanks to Euan for the heads up!)

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