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Download: Imaad Wasif’s Mixtape

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L.A. RECORD alum Imaad Wasif is in residency three Thursdays this month at Spaceland, and each show is curated to reflect a different theme—tonight’s “Bad Vibes,” next week’s “Faith Folk” and finally “Cock Rock.” In honor of vibes, faith and rock, Imaad put together this awesome mixtape for us! Listen and download above and read about the songs below!

01. The Savages “I”
A desi-psych band from Bombay (Mumbai) late ‘60s or early ‘70s, fronted by my long-lost uncle, Bashir Sheik. Perhaps the first known lyrical exploration of Jung’s disassociation theory of the “I.”

02. Ramleh “There Must Be More Than This”
Heavy power-electronic music to wash your memories of 1990 away.

03. Jonathan Halper “Leaving My Old Life Behind/I Am A Hermit (My Mind Is Not The Same)”
From Kenneth Anger’s Puce Moment, circa ’66—sounds like a cross between Barrett and the Clean.

04. Swamp Rats “I’m Goin’ Home”
Flower punk at its finest before its lips turned black. ’66 near Pittsburgh.

05. Karen Dalton “Katie Cruel”
From the 1962/63 Green Rocky Road Loop tapes, recorded on two-track reel-to-reel at home or in a coffin—probably at home since coffins don’t have phones.

06. Bob Lind “Cool Summer”
This is one of the most tragic and beautiful songs ever written, a perfect expression of sorrow. ’66.

07. Jake Holmes “Dazed and Confused”
In the tradition of all great bluesmen, Jimmy Page lifted this song and later re-hashed it in a far less creepy version for one of his far less creepy bands. ’67/’68.

08. Brigitte Fontaine “Le Goudron”
Translation: tar = auditory pornography. ’69.

09. Sharon Tandy with Les Fleur de Lys “Hold On”
Get high off the smoke in Sharon Tandy’s vox. This song has one of my favorite British psych guitar solos ever. ’67.