Terminus Est

 

Mix Title: Terminus Est
Recipient: Brady Harvey (skythecoloroforangeade)
Track Listing: 

Disc 1: I Just Want to Start a Flame in Your Heart
The Breakup - 1. Heavy Vegetable – Doesn’t Mean Shit (1993) - 2. T. Rex – Broken Hearted Blues (1973) - 3. The Beatles – She Said She Said (1966) - 4. The Smiths – Ask (1986) - INTERLUDE - 5. Jacob McMurray – Steerpike (2008) - The Breakdown - 6. The Zombies – Care of Cell 44 (1968) - 7. Faust – Jennifer (1973) - 8. Bauhaus – Crowds (1980) - 9. White Fence – Your Last Friend Alive (2011) - 10. Bonnie “Prince” Billy – I See a Darkness (1999) - 11. Sonic Youth – Superstar (1994) - INTERLUDE - 12. Ástor Piazzolla – Tanguedia III (1986) - The Breaking - 13. Donovan – Season of the Witch (1966) - 14. Brian Eno – Blank Frank (1974) - 15. Freddie King – Going Down (1971) - 16. The Fall – Leave the Capitol (1981) - 17. Wire – Three Girl Rhumba (1977) - 18. The Ink Spots – I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire (1941)
 
Disc 2: This is the Line of Division
The Party - 1. Arthur Brown – Fire (1968) - 2. Big Black – Kerosene (1986) - 3. Gang of Four – I Found that Essence Rare (1979) - 4. The Hives – Declare Guerre Nucleaire (2000) - 5. Love – Seven & Seven Is (1966) - INTERLUDE - 6. Earth – Hung From the Moon (2008) - The Shit - 7. Justice – Genesis (2007) - 8. The Fall-Outs – Zombie (1994) - 9. The Elastik Band – Spazz (1967) - 10. Roy Brown – Butcher Pete, Part One (1949) - 11. Steven Jesse Bernstein – Come Out Tonight (1988) - 12. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Mercy Seat (1988) - INTERLUDE - 13. Suicide – Girl (1977) - The Glimmering - 14. Jeremy Enigk – Carnival (1996) - 15. The U-Men – Dig It a Hole (1987) - 16. Blondie – Atomic (1979) - 17. Max Frost & the Troopers – Shape of Things to Come (1968)
 
Disc 3: Lux Sit and Dance
The Dawning - 1. Brave New World – It’s Tomorrow (1967) - 2. Red Cross – Annette’s Got the Hits (1980) - 3. Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters – Civilization (1947) - 4. Miles Davis – Helen Butte/Mr. Freedom X (1972) - 5. Nick Drake – Black Eyed Dog (1974) - INTERLUDE - 6. Brian Eno – In Dark Trees (1977) - The Horizon - 7. The Go! Team – Phantom Broadcast (2007) - 8. Os Mutantes – El Justiciero (1971) - 9. Ennio Morricone – Una Pistola Per Ringo (1965) - 10. Syd Barrett – Octopus (1969) - 11. Gilberto Gil – Coragem pra Suportar (1968) - INTERLUDE - 12. James Blackshaw – White Goddess (2005) - The Redemption - 13. Lali Puna – Don’t Think (2001) - 14. Magnet – Gently Johnny (1973) - 15. Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor (1963) - 16. Violent Green – Beautiful Child (1996) - 17. Tenniscoats – Lutie Lutie (2008) - 18. Karen O and the Kids – All is Love (2009)

 Liner Notes: 

 The Breakup

There’s a string that hangs from the sky – The air on that night was tempered like a knife – She’s making me feel like I’ve never been born – And if it’s not love, then it’s the Bomb that will bring us together

The Breakdown

You can tell me about your prison stay – Your red hair’s burning. Yellow jokes come out of your mind – A slim pixie, thin and forlorn – Your last friend alive – Can save me from this darkness – I love you. I really do

The Breaking

When I look out my window, what do you think I see? – The messenger of your doom and your destruction – I got my feet in the window, got my head on the ground – Exit this Roman shell! – Something is nothing. Nothing is Nothing – I don’t want to set the world on fire, I just want to start a flame in your heart

The Party

Fire, to destroy all that you’ve done – I was born in this town, lived here my whole life – See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini? She doesn’t think so, but she’s dressed for the H-Bomb – Declare guerre nucleaire – If I don’t start cryin’, it’s because that I have got no eyes

The Shit

Her pale face, it shakes my bones – People gonna think, yes they’re gonna think you’re a spazz – He’s hackin’ and wackin’ and smackin’, he just hacks, wacks, chopping that meat – The clock hurries like a terrified animal and stops, dribbling saliva – They are sick breath gathering at my hind

The Glimmer

The Lines made me perfect and came then. The light gave me dark – Wrapped in burlap, soaked in sweat, it’s ready to Grow! – Make it magnificent. Tonight, make me tonight – Let the old world make believe it’s blind and deaf and dumb, but nothing can change the shape of things to come

The Dawning

I don’t know where I am, and I don’t know who I am – Muscle Beach party, California sun – Don’t want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords, I make it clear – The black eyed dog, he called at my door. The black eyed dog, he called for more

The Wasteland

The shadow of a strong man, with a gun in his hand, raised to protect the poor people of the hacienda – Meant even less to me than I thought, with a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds, clover honey pots and mystic, shining feed – Even those who have no courage to resist, have to find the courage to resist

The Redemption

I’m too slow for your talking, so quick your mouth moves – I put my hand on her belly, and she said, do you want to fill me? – Come back to me, beautiful child – Lutie, Lutie – Holes in history is where you’ll find me

Personal Note: I had a great time creating this for Brady. The mix came together pretty quickly, over a single evening under the influence of a lot of liquor. The packaging took a lot longer, but once I had the idea, it came together fairly rapidly. Part of me wishes I would have made two of them, so I could keep one!

Brady, I hope you like it.

I put many pics and too much information about the process of creating this here.