52 card pickup
two mixtapes by larry hastings
in honor of my birthday, 2020
Side 1
Coronavirus Uptempo
one hour four minutes twenty-eight seconds
0:00:00 Charlie Brooker Charlie Brooker's Antivirus Wipe
taken from a very funny BBC special about the pandemic
0:00:07 Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime (Gigamesh Remix)
0:06:00 Min Ghen Cô Vy'
Commissioned for a 2020 Vietnamese hand-washing PSA, reusing the music from the 2015 Vietnamese pop song "Ghen"
0:09:04 The Aquabats! Karate Body!
I didn't play on this one... but stay tuned
0:11:49 Tosca Elektra Bregenz (Bottin's Disco Spritzer Mix)
0:17:09 DJ Cummerbund Weird Betty
watch the matching video here and you'll recognize all the samples!
0:21:23 Pogo Mazel Tov
created from samples from the 1971 film Fiddler On The Roof
0:26:12 Stewart Copeland Confronting Jacques
from the soundtrack to the 1998 video game Spyro The Dragon
0:30:24 Star Trek Continues Embracing The Winds (excerpt)
in rememberance of Grant Imahara (1970-2020), who I once met
0:30:29 Negativland Richard Nixon Died Today
in observance of the 2020 presidential election
0:32:53 Sachiko Kawamura Planet Wisp (Act 1)
from the soundtrack to the 2010 video game Sonic Colors
0:37:54 MicrOpaqu3 Library Takeout
written by Duke University librarian Jamie Keesecker, for an informational video about how to check out books from the university library during the pandemic
0:41:08 Marskye Carousel
from the 2017 video game GNOG
0:42:04 Mondo Candido La Rivolucione
0:46:41 Charles Blaker and Corky Greene I Am The Greatest: The Adventures Of Muhammad Ali
opening and closing titles music from the 1977 animated children's show of the same name
0:47:39 Pogo Ganbatte
0:52:50 Seks Bomba Casino Royale
cover of the theme song to the 1967 film of the same name
0:54:49 Sean Connery and Michael Collins Goldfinger
voice clip from the 1964 film of the same name, in observance of the passing of Sean Connery (1930-2020)
0:54:55 The Aquabats! She's Gonna Live Forever!
I played on this track! No foolin'!
0:58:05 Kamil Wolnikowski Boileroom
written on a Commodore 64 modified to have dual SID audio chips, to provide stereo sound and a total of six channels
1:01:05 Pogo Tiggerific
created from samples taken from the 2000 movie The Tigger Movie
1:03:55 Charlie Brooker Charlie Brooker's Antivirus Wipe
a rare televised heartfelt moment from Charlie
1:04:02 The Aquabats! Karate Body Part 2!
I played on this one too!
Side 2
Lockdowntempo
one hour nine minutes thirty-three seconds
0:00:00 Ken Nordine with Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz Desolation Theme
from the amazing 1988 concept album Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films
0:01:52 DJ Kodi Les Reves D'Alice
0:06:45 C418 Excursions
0:12:13 That Mitchell And Webb Look The Quiz Broadcast (excerpt)
from a very dark series of comedy sketches about life after The Event
0:12:21 Pogo Sugarella
0:14:36 Ulrich Schnauss Never Be The Same
Ulrich is now a member of instrumental space music supergroup Tangerine Dream
0:19:45 RZA A New Ice Cream Truck Jingle For A New Era
commissioned by Good Humor in 2020 for use by ice cream trucks
0:20:28 Dr. Tapeworm Storm Speedway
written to sound like music from the the original Spyro The Dragon video game trilogy on the Playstation,
perhaps specifically Spryo 2: Ripto's Rage!, and undoubtedly using the Spyro Soundfont Collection
0:26:46 Thomas Williams Odeon "The Hunter"
from a short animation used in Cake (2019) season 3 episode 1 Cos And Effect
0:27:38 Technodon Hi-Tech Hippies
Technodon is really Yellow Magic Orchestra, but their band name was owned by another record company
0:31:59 Pogo Stampy Foot
0:33:38 Memorex Memories In Motion
0:37:12 Ben Prunty Lost Ship (Explore)
from the soundtrack to the 2012 video game FTL: Faster Than Light
0:41:13 Yellow Magic Orchestra Seoul Music
0:45:56 Sergio Mendez And Brazil '66 The Joker
0:26:12 Stewart Copeland Confronting Jacques (Slow Version)
unused music from the EU release of the 1998 video game Spyro The Dragon hidden on the game disc
0:51:36 Bad Snacks Game Plan
from the YouTube copyright-free music library
0:53:26 Frank Burke and George Cassidy Part III (Revisited)
from the undated bootleg release Tubular Bells Trance Mixes
1:05:19 Bill Meyers Better Days Ahead
1:07:55 Single Gun Theory Still Closest To My Heart
samples from Pope John XXIII (before his death in 1963) and United States astronaut Frank Borman