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The 2008 Compilation

This two-disc collection, a rich – though by no means exhaustive – sampling of our city’s vibrant music community, serves up both rare treats from artists you probably know well and tantalizing bites from names you’ll probably want to get to know a lot better.

The compilation will is available for purchase ($8) at local retail outlets and online at CD Baby. Proceeds from sales of the album go towards funding the festival and the rest of our activities.

DISC 1

01 Au – “Are Animals”
02 Blue Cranes – “S.T.I.L.L.”
03 Meth Teeth – “Unemployment Forever”
04 The Joggers – “Golden Wage”
05 A Weather – “Spiders, Snakes”
06 New Bloods – “Oh, Deadly Nightshade!”
07 Portland Cello Project feat. Heather Broderick – “For Misty”
08 Copacrescent – “Do My Thing”
09 Y La Bamba – “Fasting in San Francisco”
10 Valet – “We Went There”
11 Strength – “Wilderness”
12 Swim Swam Swum – “Not in Your Way”
13 Andy Combs and The Moth – “Let’s Ride”
14 Still Pending – “Drivin’ to California”
15 Yellow Swans – “Velvet Water”
16 Kelli Schaefer – “Lasso the Moon”
17 Nick Caceres – “The Victorian Hoedown”
18 Blitzen Trapper – “Crushing the Wheat”
19 Sandpeople – “The Count”
20 Panther – “Puerto Rican Jukebox (Lips and Ribs Remix)”

DISC 2 01 Devin Phillips – “Frenchmen Street Strut”
02 Bodhi – “Nadine”
03 SubArachnoid Space – “Honorable Mention”
04 Fist Fite – “Grandma Surprise”
05 Braille – “The IV”
06 Eliot Rose – “Brightness and the Blood”
07 Pseudosix – “Apathy & Excess”
08 Horse Feathers – “Road to Ruin”
09 Hey Lover – “She’s the Girl for Me”
10 Dragging an Ox Through Water – “Houses & Homonculi”
11 Southern Belle – “Sunnyside”
12 Pink Martini – “Hey Eugene (Watch Your Back)”
13 YACHT – “Ring the Bell (Premix)”
14 Living Proof feat. Liv Warfield – “Sky High City (Bluebird)”
15 Faux Hoax – “Foxworthy”
16 JonnyX and the Groadies – “Castle/Face”
17 The Woodlands – “Until the Day Dims”
18 Chromatics – “Night Drive”
19 Talkdemonic – “Silvertone”
20 Guidance Counselor – “Pull Over”

The 2007 Compilation

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DISC 1

01 Swim Swam Swum – “Without Your French”
02 Lips and Ribs – “Battle in Nagoya”
03 Modernstate – “SSMF”
04 Menomena – “Wet and Rusting”
05 Syndel – “Lemme Hear It”
06 World Court – “Maps”
07 The Hand That Bleeds – “Shattered Love Trance”
08 The Ocean Floor – “A Simple Adventure”
09 Laura Gibson – “Come by Storm”
10 Mirah and Spectratone International – “Community”
11 Evolutionary Jass Band – “Phyllis’ Frindge”
12 Old Time Relijun – “The Tightest Cage”
13 Black Elk – “Toss You to the Wolves”
14 Ethan Rose – “Ceiling Song 3 (Excerpt)”
15 Lifesavas – “No Surprise”
16 Alela Diane – “Up North”
17 YACHT – “See a Penny (Pick it Up)”
18 Starfucker – “Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second”
19 Colin Meloy (of The Decemberists) – “Culling of the Fold”

DISC 2

01 Junkface – “ATAMAKATAHIZAASHI”
02 Kristin Hersh – “Blackstone”
03 Sweater! – “Mediterranean”
04 Panther – “How Well Can You Swim?”
05 Ohmega Watts – “4 Days in Geneva”
06 Run On Sentence – “Carrie Pt. II”
07 Exploding Hearts – “(Making) Teenage Faces”
08 Derby – “If Ever There’s a Reason”
09 The Hugs – “North”
10 Eric John Kaiser – “L’Odyssee”
11 Ferocious Eagle – “Bastards”
12 The Better to See You With – “Garden”
13 Hungry Mob – “To the People”
14 Klezmocracy – “Hava Netze B’machol”
15 Wilding & AED – “Broken Branches”
16 The Robot Ate Me – “Empty Feelings”
17 Alan Singley – “Never Knew”
18 Nice Boys – “Johnny Guitar”
19 31Knots – “Sanctify”
20 White Rainbow – “Mystic Prism”
21 The Shaky Hands – “Soul”

Special thanks to CD Forge for burning the CDs, Stumptown Printers for printing the packaging, Dan Stiles for the amazing artwork, and all the artists for donating their wonderful music.

If you have any thoughts, comments or questions, please send the comp committee an e-mail.

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