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Here’s the tenth in a series of several mixtapes made for my wife’s birthday some moons ago.
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Here’s the ninth disc in a series of mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a couple years gone.
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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]](https://steelwagstaff.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3273518391_c98d57e3bd_z.jpg)
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]](https://steelwagstaff.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2680300147_763fa32108_z.jpg)
Here’s the sixth of several mix tapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a couple of years yon.
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Here’s the fifth of the mixtapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years back.
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Here’s the fourth of several mix tapes I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years ago.
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Here’s the third of several discs I made for Laurel’s birthday a few years back:
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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]](https://steelwagstaff.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/3443054137_b8bb37f8a4_z.jpg)
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!
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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!
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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]](https://steelwagstaff.info/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2488228070_34a1c5bda4_o-e1432677579534.jpg)
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!
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Here’s the first of two foreign-language music discs I made for Laurel a few years back. As you might guess, a bunch of songs were missing from Spotify’s library, but it’s still a pretty fun listen (coming it at just under an hour). Enjoy!

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).

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”):

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.”

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.

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…

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…