Dreamy pop psychedelia, soundtrack gadgetry, and ’60s electronics: my version of the holidays. Merry Mix-mas!
Office Naps Mix 2006
Johnny Harris Orchestra, Footprints on the Moon (7″, Warner Brothers)
Scott Walker, It’s Raining Today (Scott 3, Smash)
West Minist’r, Carnival (7″, Razzberry)
John Barry, Something’s Up! (The Knack… and How to Get It, soundtrack, United Artists)
Buffalo Springfield, Expecting to Fly (Buffalo Springfield Again, Atco)
Sound Vendor, Mister Sun (7″, Liquid Stereo)
13th Floor Elevators, May the Circle Remain Unbroken (Bull of the Woods, International Artists)
Electric Flag, Peter’s Trip (The Trip, soundtrack, Sidewalk)
Peepl, Freedom (7”, Roaring)
Chad & Jeremy, Distant Shores (Distant Shores, Columbia)
Oracle, Don’t Say No (7”, Verve Forecast)
Bruce Haack, Super Nova (The Electric Lucifer, Columbia)
George Harrison, Greasy Legs (Wonderwall Music, soundtrack, Apple)
Moon, Brother Lou’s Love Colony (Without Earth and the Moon, Imperial)
Societie, Bird Has Flown (7”, Deram)
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66, Celebration of the Sunrise (Stillness, A&M;)
John Wood, Maiden Voyage (Turn of the Century… And I’ll Come Back, Ranwood)
Poppy Family, There’s No Blood in Bone (Which Way You Goin’ Billy?, London)
Phil Moore, Jr., A Now Thing (Right On, Atlantic)
Organ Grinders, Mirror Images (7”, Smash)
Fred Weinberg, The Keen Machine (The Weinberg Method of Non-synthetic Electronic Rock, Anvil)
Hooterville Trolley, No Silver Bird (7”, Lynnette)
United States of America, Clouds (United States of America, Columbia)
Electrosoniks, Orbit Aurora (Electronic Music, Philips)
Quincy Jones, Threadbare (The Slender Thread, soundtrack, Mercury)
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Thank you to everyone who’s written, commented, contributed to, complimented, recognized, criticized, linked to, and otherwise read and enjoyed Office Naps in 2006!
-Little Danny
thanks for the great mix LD….every time one of your amazing tunes rings my bell an angel gets its wings.
thanks for stuffing my stocking all year.
looking forward to mondays with you in 2007.
easy breezy beautiful..
nice
happy holidaze
speedy g.
jb dies on christmas day..
that’s sort of apropos
country mouse
What a wonderful mix. The 13th Floor Elevators version of “May the Circle Remain Unbroken” is a revelation! I can’t remember the last time I heard something so desolate as that song. In a weird way, it reminds me of El Paso.
Ahhh, Merry Mix-mas indeed. Loving the psychedelic sounds here. Thanks for the Mix-mas present!
– Mr. Attention
Amazing, just amazing. Thankyou kindly for this mix!
I love you, Office Naps!
Glad y’all are digging the mix. The 13th Floor Elevators is an especial favorite of mine; weird even by their standards, to me it always seemed like the sound of Roky Ericson teetering on the abyss…
Great mix Danny! I get to hear Scott Walker, the Buffalo Springfield and the Elevators all in the same bag. Very cool!
What Office Naps does:
Docere
Delectare
Movere
Thank you!
Thank you for a great blog!
Thanks, all!
I’ve posted a new version of the mix. Same songs, better fidelity.
So much to get into on this mix! who the hell were sound vendor? a truly crazed track.
but why is the stereo mix over a minute shorter? something to do with the dopler effect?
Very astute, emberglance! I actually tightened up the mix a bit on the new version (i.e., there’s more overlap between some of the songs now). Plus, as you note, there’s the Dopler effect to contend with.
Don’t know anything about the Sound Vendor (except that it’s great, of course). I *believe* that they were a Los Angeles band – or their label was, at least.
Mister Sun could have been a 13th floor elevators track.
Great mix. Really like the Electric Flag track and the way it comes in after “Will the circle…”. Cheers
Thanks for the mix, I dig it!
Concurring, concurring, concurring! You did such a smooth job mixing everything, and I’m VERY much digging this being a single mp3. It gives appreciation and interest to every song. I’ve been playing this every day since I grabbed from your site. Can’t wait for the next one.
Listened to this again for the first time since January, back-to-back with Part 2. EPIC! Again, fantastic work here.
Any chance of you ever posting that John Wood version of ‘Maiden Voyage’ on it’s own in the not-so-distant future? Easily one of the coolest covers I’ve never heard!
-Mr. Attention
Hi Mr. Attention – here ya go:
John Wood, “Maiden Voyage”
http://www.officenaps.com/johnwood_maidenvoyage.mp3
Great work, thanks to share it !!
… from Madrid (Spain)
Wow, man. I just got randomly tuned onto your site, and I feel like I won a prize or something. I’ve never dug into any of this music, but it’s blowing my mind.
Thanks so much, these mixes are just rad as shit.