The Ripped & Dubbed Generations mixtape series debuts today with Midnight's Road: 16 tracks ripped from self-released or underground/indie label CDs or CD-Rs, originally released between 2001-2013. All songs were sourced from my own personal collection - discs acquired through my life as a musician and underground label head; a cross-section of the underground as I perceived it in those years. Most of the songs featured on this mix were only released on the CD format, and many have never made the online transition from bricked Myspace pages to today's standard streaming services. A handful of songs featured here were only ever heard by the 50-or-so people who landed a CD-R at the merch table or through a small distro mailorder ten or more years ago, and the Generations project seeks to make this music available for discovery in a whole new era to a new generation of experimental music enthusiasts.

Though you won't be able to add most of these tracks to your Spotify playlist, I'm including links to Discogs listings for each if you'd like to try to snag an original CD-R (usually for very few dollars). Bandcamp links are also included when available.

GENERATIONS #1: MIDNIGHT'S ROAD

1. Muntjac - "Sprouts" from Imaginary Conservation Sounds [Azriel, 2007]
2. Starbird - "Mushrooms" from Night Keep Moving [Spirit Of Orr, 2006]
3. Elm - "Covered In Blankets And Moss" from Nemcatacoa [Digitalis Arts & Crafts Editions, 2009]
4. Jackie-O Motherfucker - "Pray" from Liberation [Road Cone 2001; ripped from 2004 ATP reissue]
5. MV & EE with The Bummer Road - "Big Deal" (edit) from Green Blues [Ecstatic Peace! 2006]
6. Feathers - "Ibex Horn" from Gnomeozoic Live [Feathers Family, 2004]
7. Ashtray Navigations - "Outside Air" from Cinderella Stamps [Memoirs Of An Aesthete, 2011; ripped from 2020 Greatest Imaginary Hits VHF reissue]
8. B.R. Garm - "Over Laketown" from The Zeros [Dontrustheruin, 2007]
9. Expo '70 - "Your Beard Is Growing Psychic" from Sonic Messenger [Beta-Lactam Ring, 2009; Bandcamp digital]
10. Evan Caminiti - "Midnight's Road" from Psychic Mud Shrine [Digitalis Arts & Crafts Editions, 2009]
11. The North Sea - "The Sun Went Out" from On The Endless Golden Skyway [Black Petal, 2007]
12. Enfer Boreal - "Untitled (track 4)" from The Birth Of Venus [Stunned, 2009]
13. Bird People - "Deep In The Forests Of Kashyyyk" from The Decompression Sessions Vol.1: Piloting a Vapor-Powered Spacecraft Into the Heart of the Void [self-released 4xCD-R, 2013; Bandcamp free download]
14. Many Mansions - "Metanoia" from Return To Source [Whitehaus Family Record 2009; Bandcamp free download]
15. Nick Castro & The Poison Tree - "Music For Mijwiz" from Further From Grace [Strange Attractors Audio House, 2005]
16. GHQ - "Drop City Blues" from Everywhere At Once [Three Lobed Recordings, 2008; Bandcamp digital]