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Jonathan's 'Mad Men' mix
By: jonathan.majak@secondsupper.com
 
 
 

Oh Mad Men, how the Mixtape has missed your television presence. After spending the summer trying to get into the softcore porn that is True Blood, you’re a welcome return in your dapper suits, flip hairdos and raging cases of sexism, racism and a host of other -isms that escape us at the moment. So to honor your well-tailored season four on AMC, the Mixtape is putting together a mix we’re calling “Mad Mix, Where the Groove Lies.”

First up is two-hit wonder Amerie and her tune “Gotta Work,” a song plucked from the promos for Mad Men, off her album Because I Love It. The swaggering bit of go-go funk that samples Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Comin” was perfectly placed in commercials for the series, the stuttering beats against the images of curvy Joan Holloway and weasel-y Pete Campbell. Criminally underrated, Amerie has now resorted to adding another “I” to her name, making herself Ameriie, to reflect a “positive energy.” Somewhere, Don Draper is rolling his eyes while sipping his tenth Scotch of the morning.

Next up is a sweet mash-up done by a bedroom DJ named Hulk Mash who has paired the Bjork-style vocals of Ellie Goulding and her tune “Starry Eyed” with the bubblegum pop of the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back” to make a kooky but somehow seamless blend of a tune that the secretaries at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce could dance to between typing up letters and avoiding having their asses patted by a perma-tipsy Roger Sterling. The mash-up is available free from Hulk Mash’s webpage: (fairtilizer.com/users/bevander/)

Lastly is Best Coast and their tune “This is Real” off their debut Crazy For You. Specializing in a lo-fi take on surf pop, the duo of Bethany Cosentino and musical partner Bob Bruno put together a fuzzy take on a love tune with the requisite 1960s handclaps and Phil Spector-esque “Be My Baby” like beat interloped in portions. You can practically see the Annette Funicello shenanigans playing out when you hear the tune, which is probably both a blessing and curse.

Buy: Best Coast, "Crazy For You"

YouTube: Count and Siden featuring Mystery Jets, “After Dark” music video

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