In posting this, I am assuming that most visitors here already know about the website Art of the Mix in some way, shape or form. If not, infórmese de inmediato.

Sammy and I were chatting about his upcoming 100th mix, which landed with such aplomb earlier this summer. He encouraged me to do something similar for my 100th. Well, it turns out my 100th was somewhere in the middle of my redneck series last fall.

So, here I am at my 150th and rather than nick Sammy's idea 100%, I decided to do a one-song tribute to as many mixers as I could legitimately pay tribute to. My reasons were varied: the track selected is a song I know they love, or that I love off one of my favorite mixes of theirs, a style they might enjoy, or a song or artist they led me to, or perhaps one that I may have led them to, common ground we might have with an artist or song, or simply a personal message that hopefully the recipient understands (or at least hopefully I understand).

Sammy's mix helped provide a template in terms of mixers I didn't want to overlook as well as a base sample of their tastes. But I wanted to also pay tribute to long-lost mixers without having to contact them and blindly trust that their email was accurate on AotM.

I have made tributes here and there for different mixers, and had others makes ones for me, but this time I wanted to get as many of you as I could with one fell swoop. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did putting it together. And I hope that nobody feels left out, besides Sammy's list, my guideline was primarily folks who have commented on my own mixes (and my family's mixes) over the years. Not that one or two who have never commented on a doowad or doowad-related mix didn't make the cut, it just seemed proper to honor those most deserving first. And if you happened to be left off here, email me and we'll do a Mutual Appreciation Society mix as payback.

Oh, and regarding sequence, I listed all the songs in Excel first, lumped them in a playlist and then sequenced them doowad-style, averting my eyes from the original list to avoid favoritism. Less scientific than Sammy's, but at least less biased than a Florida election.

Posdata: As a sort-of tribute to RetroJoe and his actuarial statistics, here are some numbers:

• The mixers I picked from ranged from jkj to beat-nick, which gave a mean of ladyluck1123.


• The sum total of all the mixer IDs was
  3168246.


• The average mixer was chocoholic123, who for obvious reasons is not included.


• Jenergy was the the median mixer..


• The biggest leap from one mixer ID number to another was 9841, from hemizen to, appropriately enough, his brother.

¡Muchas gracias por todo a todos!

Disk 1
New York Dolls - Don't Start Me To Talkin'
Funky Ratchet

Fifteen - Rainbow Connection
ash.

Rancid - Hoover Street
les_autres

The Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
girlgerms

Soda Stereo - De música ligera
Luke79

Dinosaur Jr. - Blah
beadreamer

The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution
Moe

Big Brother & the Holding Company - Summertime
Hang The DJ

James Brown - Brand New Funky President
G-Sphere

Molotov - Frijolero
Mixxer

Lila Downs - El Bracero Fracasado
no borders

Rising Sons - Walking Down the Line
Leif Averageson

Lil' Ed & The Blues Imperials - Chicken Gravy And Biscuits
Barkis

James Carr - Gonna Send You Back to Georgia
Dom1

Rufus and Chaka Khan - You Got The Love
SteveRaglin

Betty Lavette - Stealer
sport !

Little Charlie & the Nightcats - Thinking with the Wrong Head
Jenergy

The Swallows - It Ain't The Meat
RetroJoe

Sly & The Family Stone - Seventh Son
Orchid

Louis Prima - I Wan'na Be Like You
jonpoi

Tom Lehrer - Silent E
Sean Lally

Jimmy Durante - Ink a Dink a Doo
ratticus redeemed

Edith Piaf - J'Ai Danse Avec L'Amour
The Cuckoo

Amy Winehouse - Amy, Amy, Amy
Sister Zoe Jarvis

The Gordons With Hank Jones Trio - Bebopper
dav13

Disk 2

Duke Ellington - Old Man Blues
Muzag

Miles Davis - Godchild
Captain Hi-Top

Iggy Pop - Tiny Girls
ghandi

Kevn Kinney - Kerouac
Jessica Lynn

Michael Smith - The Ballad of Elizabeth Dark
vandaleyes

Allen Ginsberg with Bob Dylan - Kerouac's Grave [Mexico City Blues Excerpt]
Sal Paradise Was Right

Jimmy Smith - St. Louis Blues
strange loop

The Band - Ophelia
Musowoman

Ry Cooder - Married Man's a Fool
gobi

Kinky Friedman - God Bless John Wayne
SwankQueen

Cracker - Eurotrash Girl
ofthaltned

National Lampoon featuring Christopher Guest - Positively Wall Street
French Connection

Bob Dylan & The Hawks - Lock Your Door/Baby Won't You Be My Baby
abangaku

Sonny Boy Williamson - 99
Wad

Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor
short wave radio

Robbie Fulks - Fuck This Town
Randy13

Bob Dylan - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry [Bangla Desh]
Darth Pazuzu

Del McCoury and Marty Stuart - Let Us Travel, Travel On
2old2matter

Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys - I Think Somebody Better Come Back Home
FranklinOnn12

John Prine - Paradise
bufo alvarius

Johnny Cash - Missouri Waltz
MO Twang!

Rose Maddox - Sin City
Johnny Dark

Mississippi John Hurt - Let The Mermaids Flirt With Me
Tex Hobart

Neil Young - On The Way Home .
AnnieLawrie

Marie Burns & the Woodshed All-Stars - Willow
Rebel Princess

Disk 3

Alison Moorer - Moonshiner
Pollyanna

Steve Earle - The Kind
Mark Petrucelli

Townes Van Zandt - Lost Highway
Lost Highway

Bob Dylan - Wedding Song
buglady

Little Feat - Willin'
Little Spencer Boys

The Sir Douglas Quintet - It Was In The Pines
XYZ

The Kinks - Animal Farm
Toast

Dos Gringos - Jeremiah Weed
Angry_MOGS

The Watson Twins - Dig a Little Deeper
Mike Eternity

The Byrds - Citizen Kane
Lemon_Currie

Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up
gabechouinard

Randy Newman - God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)
avocado rabbit

Rasputina - Christian Soldiers
mahdishain

Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday
gpap_gpap

Aretha Franklin with The Ray Bryant Combo - Today I Sing The Blues
Media Vixen : Radio Sally

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
hemizen

Spiritualized - Cool Waves
ally marone

Emmylou Harris - J'Ai Fait Tout
Krenzel16

Silvio Rodríguez - Canción del elegido
lanhamyodel

Beirut - Guaymas, Sonora
locovinagre

Yann Tiersen - La valse des monstres
Rob_z2.

David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness! - Tzibeles Bulgar
e.buster

Erkin Koray - Hayat Bir Teselli
Bear

Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook
losingsoul

H.P. Lovecraft - At The Mountains Of Madness
lo-fi jr.

Disk 4

Jets to Brazil - Lemon Yellow Black
dnatimebomb

Billy Bond y la Pesada - Buen día Señor Presidente
Dead Man

The Beatles - It's All Too Much
ladakale

Ornette Coleman - Little Symphony
happykatakuri

XTC - River Of Orchids
destroyalltacos

Control Machete - Amnesia
Skipper Bartlett

Julieta Venegas - De mis pasos
astarinel

Jorge Drexler - Milonga Del Moro Judio
Barrydali

Caetano Veloso & Os Mutantes - É Proibido Proibir
deja_vu_all_over_again

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sowing Seeds
Tfranklin

The Raveonettes - With My Eyes Closed
dynamine

Bersuit Vergarabat - La Venganza De Los Muertos Pobres
njr

Spacemen 3 - Come Down Softly To My Soul
infinity_girl

Fabulosos Cadillacs - Calaveras y diablitos
blasikin

Nickel Creek - Can't Complain
FoolThemAll

John Mayer - I Don't Trust Myself
Liquidmoon1

Paul Westerberg - You're Getting Married
Rob Conroy

Regina Spektor - Samson
_celestia

Sun Kil Moon - Blue Orchids
Nomates

Owl And The Pussycat - Give Me The Morning
sweetxhoneyxbee

Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
anthony lombardi

Beth Orton - I Wish I Never Saw the Sunshine
kwan_dk

Mecano - Me cuesta tanto olvidarte
ika

Charlie Chaplin - Oh! That Cello
mr.pretzel

The Philip Koutev National Folk Ensemble - Dumai, Zlato
Salman1

Disk 5

Los Ases - La noche de anoche
tornadoZ

Herbie Hancock with Joni Mitchell - The Tea Leaf Prophecy (Lay Down Your Arms)
g.a.b. l@bs


Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
sbessg

La Buena Vida - Un Actor Mejicano
jaime b

Pink Floyd vs The Orb - Pigs On The Wing (part 2 - trance remix)
Mr. Mirage

Aarktica - Aura Lee
arktical

Mark Ronson with Phantom Planet - Just
AlmostFamous

Pedro the Lion - Bad Diary Days
Executive Slacks

Soul Coughing - St. Louise Is Listening
Air Raid

Can - Turtles Have Short Legs
JamesPhoenix

Blur - Essex Dogs
Essex Dog

Chuck Prophet - It Won't Be Long
Nest of Vipers

Goran Bregovic with Iggy Pop - In The Deathcar
musicgnome

Portishead - Silence
indiesoc

Marvelous 3 - Pizza and Wine
aidanjayewalker

Dinah Washington - Is You or Is You Ain't My Baby? (Remix)
DJ Karen Adams

Dusty Springfield with the Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This?
beat-nick

Azul Violeta - Renacer
Thomas_Mohr

Joaquín Sabina y Fito Páez - Llueve sobre mojado
deejzilla

Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country
Mesh

Shout Out Louds - South America
>toxotronic<

Trini López - Lemon Tree
artvandelay

Lyda Zamora - La chica ye - yé
KathrynandRupert

The King's Singers - Good Vibrations
Ken Harris

Lindsey Buckingham - DW Suite
Lipstick Vogue

Disk 6

The Beatles - You Won't See Me
Curtis Burns

Gigolo Aunts - Only You
your name here

Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences
sammyg123

Blonde Redhead - Top Ranking
super relax

Beulah - Popular Mechanics For Lovers
lastyearsgirl_

The Libertines - Music When The Lights Go Out
p the swede

The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Siobhan

The Zombies - Friends of Mine
MarkSmith

Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers - Echoes
fontilan

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
Tranzmotion

Love & Rockets - Holiday On The Moon
Dead Heaven

The Ting Tings - Great DJ
Doowadette

Mano Negra - Super Chango
musikitty

Lambchop - King of Nothing Never
Joe Gillis1

The Modern Lovers - Dignified and Old
a-lex12

Apples in Stereo - Energy
Pop Kulcher

Paramore - For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic
natalyesaurus

The Afghan Whigs - John the Baptist
cassiopea

The Raincoats - Fairytale in the Supermarket
The Misfit

Joan Jett and Paul Westerberg - Let's Do It
senatorhung

Ian Hunter - Cleveland Rocks
jball1954

Ben Folds Five - Your Redneck Past
TheKeenGuy (Patrick C. Taylor)

Botellita de Jerez - Guacarock
joey de vivre

Three Souls In My Mind - Que viva el rock n' roll
valis

Chingón - El Rey De Los Chingones
jkj