Steel Wagstaff

Trying to do good things for good reasons

Category: Mix Tapes

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #9]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #9]

    Here’s the ninth disc in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a couple years gone.

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #8]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #8]

    Here’s #8 in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years ago.

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #7]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #7]

    Back in the day, I made some mixtapes for Laurel’s birthday. Here’s #7 in that series.

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #6]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #6]

    Here’s the sixth of several mix tapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a couple of years yon.

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #5]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #5]

    Here’s the fifth of the mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years back.

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #4]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #4]

    Here’s the fourth of several mix tapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years ago.

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #3]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #3]

    Here’s the third of several discs I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years back:

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #2]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #2]

    For Laurel’s birthday a few years ago, I decided to make her a set of mixtapes, one for each year of her life, 30-something in all. The discs didn’t have any inherent connection, just a collection of interesting music on each one. Here’s the second in the series. Enjoy!

  • Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #1]

    Laurel’s B-Day Mixes [Disc #1]

    For Laurel’s birthday a few years ago, I decided to make her a set of mixtapes, one for each year of her life, 30-something in all. The discs didn’t have any inherent connection, just a collection of interesting music on each one. Here’s the first in the series. Enjoy!

  • Shake That Thang [Disc #2]

    Shake That Thang [Disc #2]

    This is the second of two ‘Shake That Thang’ danceable mixtapes I made for Laurel a few years back. A couple of songs are missing from the original mix, but it’s still pretty fun. Enjoy!

  • Shake That Thang [Disc #1]

    Shake That Thang [Disc #1]

    This is the first of two ‘Shake That Thang’ danceable mixtapes I made for Laurel a few years back. A bunch of songs from this first disc were missing from Spotify, and the order got all scrambled up, but it’s still pretty fun. Enjoy!

  • Chant avec une nouvelle langue [Disc #2]

    Chant avec une nouvelle langue [Disc #2]

    Here’s the second of two foreign-language music discs I made for Laurel a few years ago. Some songs were missing from Spotify’s library, but it’s still a pretty grooving mix, I’d say. Enjoy!

  • Discs for Laurel: Hipz Hop #3

    Discs for Laurel: Hipz Hop #3

    Here’s the third of the Hipz Hop discs I made for Laurel a few years ago. Spotify is missing three tracks: Chances R’s “Anarchy in the UK” (after Kapten Rod), Linton Kwesi Johnson’s “If I Woz A Top Natch Poet” (after Baths), and Rahzel’s “Godfather of Noize” (last track in the mix).

  • Discs for Laurel: Hipz Hop #2

    Discs for Laurel: Hipz Hop #2

    Here’s the second of the Hipz Hops mixtapes I made for Laurel a few years back. Spotify is missing two songs, “Fist Full of Strife” by Blacklisted Individuals (2nd song), and “White Privilege” by Macklemore (after “Kool On”):

  • Discs for Laurel: Hipz Hop #1

    Discs for Laurel: Hipz Hop #1

    Along with the previous 4 discs, I made three discs with some flavor of hip-hop. I called them the Hipz Hop mixes. Here’s the first one: The only song Spotify didn’t have in their library was Jurassic 5’s “What’s Golden,” which appeared between “Nigeria What?” and “Paper Planes.”

  • Discs for Laurel #4

    Discs for Laurel #4

    Here’s the fourth disc I made for Laurel to listen to while driving around for her job a few years back: Joanna Newsom’s “Easy” wasn’t in Spotify’s library, but it came between “Human Thing” and “Suckas Don’t Respect It” on the original disc.

  • Discs for Laurel #3

    Discs for Laurel #3

    Here’s the third disc I made for Laurel to listen to while driving around for her job a few years back: A few songs Spotify didn’t have in their library: Bonnie “Prince” Billy’s cover of “The World’s Greatest” and Frakkur’s “7” appeared after “Neighborhood #4” and before “One Day”, and Seasick Steve’s “Walking Man” was…

  • Discs for Laurel #2

    Discs for Laurel #2

    Here’s the second of a set of several discs I made for Laurel several years ago for her to listen to while driving. There was a song that Spotify doesn’t have in their library. It’s a great tune by a Ghanaian group, but I don’t remember the group’s name of the song title, so it’s…

  • Discs for Laurel #1

    Discs for Laurel #1

    Sometime after Laurel and I got together, I realized that she spent a fair amount of her time in her car for her job, and that her car had a CD player. So I made her a set of CD mixes for when she was driving around. Here’s the first of these discs: A few…

  • Mixtapes for Laurel: SONG

    Mixtapes for Laurel: SONG

    When Laurel and I first began dating, we made each other a series of mixtapes, not the most original idea, but it was an important part of our getting to know each other. For me, I decided to make a series of four discs BULL WORK BIRD SONG that were both a play on Laurel’s…