Mixtape Of The Day 11/20/2016: Traps & Snares

Get ready to thwack. Traps & Snares is a quickie I put together that focuses on drums and percussion. In addition to the usual experimental, avant-garde antics that are my bread and butter, there are some mainstream and even straight-up commercial artists thrown in as well (yes, you're actually seeing a Led Zeppelin song on one of my mixes). Includes a few of my favorite drum lines of all time (Nick Lowe, Captain Beefheart), nice textural maneuvers (Joni Mitchell, Squeeze), neo-classical pieces (Amadinda Percussion Group, Harrison Birtwistle), an exercise in divergent timekeeping (Cornershop), and something by Moondog (Moondog). Enjoy.

Tracklist: 

Baard Kolstad – Drum Solo (edit)

Cornershop – Butter the Soul

Max Roach – Caravanserai

Stan Freberg – The Yellow Rose of Texas

Nick Lowe – Big Kick, Plain Scrap

Joni Mitchell – The Jungle Line

Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble – Lou Harrison: Cantible No. 1

Led Zeppelin – Poor Tom

Peter Giger – Trilokie

Captain Beefheart – Hot Head

Squeeze – Trust

Paul Lansky – Threads (Movement 1)

Raspberries – I Don’t Know What I Want

The Who – Cobwebs and Strange

Harrison Birtwistle – For O, For O, the Hobby-Horse is Forgot (Excerpt)

Los Lobos – Arizona Skies

The Radio Dept. – Sloboda Narodu

Joe Jackson – Target

Amadinda Percussion Group – John Cage: Third Construction (Excerpt)

Moondog – Theme