"Dear Junior, I Miss You. <3 Senior (SXSW 2007)" (IMP - May 2007)

Seems a safe guess that the theme of this mix is 'acts who played SXSW in 2007', which translates to a setlist mostly made up of current indie faves - including several which I already knew and which are always welcome ("Thursday", "The Gulag Orkestar", "Young Folks", "Do The Whirlwind") - and an engaging listen.

The best of those that I hadn't heard before are the shimmer and groove of the Fratellis' "Flathead" (hadn't heard of them at all before) [edit 16/8/08: turns out this was actual Midlake's "Roscoe" - misled by an erroneous track listing!] and, in particular, Amy Winehouse's brilliant invocation of girl group swoon and drama (you only need to hear the first few bars to pick it up) mixed with hints of jazz and rock and roll circa the same era on "Back to Black" (I'd only previously heard "Rehab" of her stuff, and hadn't thought much of it). Also especially like Les Savy Fav's "The Sweat Descends" and the 1900s' sixties-dappled "Living the Medium Way".

(A replacement from the administrator for the May mix, which never arrived.)[