https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/ mixtapes.lmorchard.com — playlists https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/zz-not-mine/rsa-june26/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:41:35 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-covers/covered-living-on-the-ceiling/ Find as many cover versions as possible of 'Living on the Ceiling' by Blancmange. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:58:13 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/zz-not-mine/symphonic-rock-anthems/ Male-led bands with epic harmonies, melodramatic riffs, and clever lyrics. Fri, 23 Jan 2026 23:46:33 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/zz-not-mine/electronic-rock-indie-sleaze-tuesday-early-morning/ Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:59:28 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/zz-not-mine/cold-deathrock-wednesday-early-morning/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:24:09 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/drones/ This songs kind of drone on - they're not about drones. Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:04:35 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/solarpunk-temple/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 17:44:06 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-covers/numan-s-shadow/ Gary Numan is pretty great, isn't he? This is mostly the 1997 tribute album Random (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_(album)), but also a bit of rabbit-holing of my own. Tue, 12 Sep 2023 16:33:37 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/trying-to-guess-what-song-the-girl-meant-with-the-talking-and-such/ Wed, 06 Sep 2023 01:58:09 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/dark-jams/ up-tempo melancholic jams with some miscellanea thrown in just because Wed, 08 Dec 2021 17:17:58 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-covers/cry-little-sister/ So, I fell down a rabbit hole after I watched Lost Boys again and heard that CHVRCHES did a cover of Cry Little Sister. Thu, 30 Sep 2021 05:55:18 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/les-alex-s-wedding-music/ When my wife and I got married, I burned a CD to play at the ceremony and this is what was on it. Wed, 25 Aug 2021 18:35:12 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-covers/no-really-don-t-change/ INXS made a lot of folks want not to change. I like it. Wed, 04 Aug 2021 05:21:08 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/space-truckin/ Warp Drive Active Wed, 02 Sep 2020 04:40:00 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/some-of-my-90s-dance-bullshit/ Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:27:30 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/vibing-while-crying/ To verklempt and back again Tue, 04 Aug 2020 20:00:21 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/walls-of-sound/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 07:24:34 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/big-sonic-heaven-spy/ An automated attempt to spy on what's streaming at bigsonicheaven.com Thu, 23 Apr 2020 23:17:55 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/gird-your-loins-fight-music/ Orz: `Oh, it is *dancing*` Fri, 28 Feb 2020 18:22:47 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/zz-not-mine/dark-dance-2000s/ Sat, 01 Feb 2020 04:01:06 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/these-fascist-groove-thangs/ We don't need them, brothers and sisters Sat, 17 Aug 2019 00:49:52 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-covers/keep-running-up-that-hill/ Kate Bush made a lot of people run up that hill, didn't she? Tue, 13 Aug 2019 05:31:19 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/20190812/ Mon, 12 Aug 2019 22:17:43 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/synthetic-space-program/ Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:08:30 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/halloween-spoopy-times-i-guess/ This is Halloween, this is Halloween Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:21:03 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/20180410/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 18:03:40 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/trader-joes-music/ Tue, 13 Mar 2018 00:45:43 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/00-covers/that-light-never-goes-out-does-it/ is this really necessary? possibly yes. Thu, 21 Sep 2017 15:17:36 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/my-shazam-tracks/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 23:44:09 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/music-for-when-you-re-doing-something-you-probably-shouldn-t-be-doing/ Wed, 18 Jan 2017 16:14:32 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/20160905/ Wed, 07 Sep 2016 21:16:01 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/don-t-let-the-bastards-grind-you-down/ I was trying to cope with the results of the 2016 election and retain maybe a modicum of optimism. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 14:40:32 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/20160803/ Thu, 04 Aug 2016 01:21:02 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/trajectory-4em/ Thu, 16 Jun 2016 21:29:40 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/synthpunk/ Wed, 03 Feb 2016 13:56:52 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/2015-top-songs/ Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:33:38 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/20150907/ Wed, 09 Sep 2015 03:18:28 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/to-listen/ Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:18:09 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/2014-top-songs/ Mon, 15 Dec 2014 15:43:33 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/electrotweepop/ These are electronic songs that seem rather twee and sweetly boppy. Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:30:48 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/sometimes-i-miss-city-club/ Mon, 02 Dec 2013 19:34:28 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/bass-guitar-appreciation/ These tunes let the bassist step out front and lead for a bit. Sun, 22 Sep 2013 19:35:01 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/our-lady-peace-mike-turner-era/ Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:43:32 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/music-for-frapsing-space-games/ For awhile, I wanted to make videos of playing space games, and these were the soundtrack. Fri, 12 Jul 2013 19:35:03 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/twee-sparkles/ Tue, 07 May 2013 15:27:37 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/expansive-feels/ The feels, they're expansive in these tunes. Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:33:03 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/zz-not-mine/nu-wave/ Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:56:53 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/smile-because-it-happened-ending-credits-for-imaginary-movies/ Fri, 28 Sep 2012 19:25:51 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/liked-from-radio/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 18:08:50 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/i-live-105-in-sf/ Back in about 2007 or so, my wife and I moved to Califormia. One of my favorite stations there was Live 105, and these were some of the songs I heard then. Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:51:41 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/electrostomps/ These are electro songs and they make me stompy. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:14:48 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/last-fm-loved/ Once upon a time, I used last.fm a whole lot more and I liked music there. Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:57:39 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/before-the-western-odyssey/ Back in about 2007 or so, my wife and I moved to Califormia. Before that, we lived in Michigan and I was listening to a lot of indie rock on RadioIO. These are a lot of my favorites from then. Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:16:38 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/weirdo-strings/ Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:24:33 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/industrial-accident-industrial-ebm/ More clangy bangy Industrial than bleepy boopy Synthpop. Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:19:52 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/bleep-bloop-bop-synthpop/ More bleepy boopy Synthpop than clangy bangy Industrial. Fri, 12 Aug 2011 16:52:05 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/01-conceptual/big-sonic-heaven-shoegaze-dreampop-britpop/ Inspired by and stolen from the playlists of Darren Revell of https://www.bigsonicheaven.com/ Fri, 29 Jul 2011 02:01:30 +0000 https://mixtapes.lmorchard.com/02-top-lists/starred/ Tue, 19 Jul 2011 19:46:00 +0000