The Joe Beats Experiment - Presents Indie Rock Blues mp3 download

tamada

This is a really impressive and fun mixset. Apparently, the tunes were selected by C.W. Roelle and Joey Beats, accordin. I see C.W. is something of a poor college-radio indie-rock dork who went to a lot of shows and didn't eat enough (he chose buying Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" over eating). The CD insert has stories, such as how the singer from Pinback once gave the admission money back to someone who yelled "you suck!" at a show, and asked him to leave. Knowing something of each of these original artists, and sometimes loving the songs before they were spliced and mixed, I was a bit suprised how it all worked out. Most tracks are reworked, some are a bit of mash-ups, but they are all worked together into just over 43 minutes of sad indie rock, ending in perhaps my favorite song, now reworked with a stronger beat and samples of groupies from the 1970s. From knowing Joey Beats only from his appearances as a producer on Sage Francis tracks to this, I'm quite impressed with his works. He didn't overwork the original songs, and the whole album feels more like an indie rock mixtape than hip hop sampling experiment. The only flaw is that some of the tracks sound like they were poorly mastered or transferred.