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Mixtape 104 • Manatee

It’s edgy and manic and insistent, and it’ll surely drive your lunatic friends to ask you who is making that racket. Make sure you tell them Clifffs is spelled with three Fs.

It’s edgy and manic and insistent, and it’ll surely drive your lunatic friends to ask you who is making that racket. Make sure you tell them Clifffs is spelled with three Fs.
Clifffs
SongArtistNotes
Manatee
Clifffs
Pretty fast for a manatee
Holy Horses
Temples
Symphonic hallucinations
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
The Beatles
By the banks of her own lagoon
Reality
Material
We’re in it
— • BREAK • —
Arkadelphia
Waxahatchee
Shake some dust off
Night And Day (Live Bonus Track)
Sondre Lerche
Nice take
Hey World (Acoustic)
Isobel Campbell
Get out there
Dear Son
The Warlocks
Quite morose
— • BREAK • —
Helium Bar
The Weirdos
Weird weird weirdos
Captain's Log/Space Madness
Ren + Stimpy
Fortunately, we had to eat the spaceship
Soul Finger/Shriek Bum Liimbo/Circus Freak/Midget Tolerance
Puff Tube
Thanks, Charley!
The Great Divide
Ashley Park
Have a pop chaser
— • BREAK • —
Power To The People
Geraldo Pino
Heavy heavy heavy
Whatever Lola Wants (Gotan Project Remix)
Sarah Vaughan
Best of three continents
F.D.M.
Afro Social Club
Afrobeating
— • BREAK • —
Volcano
Guided By Voices
Slow burner
The Circus
Company Man
Wait for it
Promises
Beach Bunny
Ready for summer
The Pan
The Goodnight Loving
Didn’t look, took the hook
— • BREAK • —
Beaches & Friends (The Twelves Tabloid mix)
French Horn Rebellion
Still waiting for the French Horn.
Houdini Crush
Buke + Gase
What sort of mayhem is this?
Best Friend
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Not your usual AJJ
Route 66
Wayne Hancock
A bit more slide
— • BREAK • —
I'm In The Mood For Love
Jools Holland Orchestra And Jamiroquai
With Jamiroquai
Actualice Su Fe
Mutagénicos
Update your faith!
I Can Give You Anything
Cato Salsa Experience
Norwegian as heck
Uh-Oh
King Kong
I got a little problem
— • BREAK • —
Gotta Get Up
Ty Segall
Originally by Nilsson
Agua de Beber
Astrud Gilberto + Antonio Carlos Jobim
Water everywhere
Black
Ken Nordine
Goth primer
— • BREAK • —
Computer Games
Frank Cornelius
Good times
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