art diva studios visuals and verbiage by Rachelle Díaz
music
Italo Space Mix
Some sci-fi for your hi-fi… Halloween dance party! [DOWNLOAD] 1. All Night Party – Tabu 2. Factory – BlackShag 3. Strangers In A Strange Land (Instrumental) – N.O.I.A. 4. Light Years Away – Warp 9 5. Space Is The Place – Jonzun Crew 6. Feeling Love L.E.B. Harmony 7. Robot Is Systematic – ‘Lectric Workers [...]
Women In Psych mix
[download] World of Dreams – The Cake Sally Go Round The Roses – Grace Markay* Hide & Seek – The Feminine Complex What A Way To Die – The Pleasure Seekers Twilight Dreamer – Earth & Fire*** Little Sadie – Trees** Beauty – Mad Curry*** Tuesday – Birtha Hard Chargin’ Woman – Zephyr Lottery – [...]
Lame Summer Mix
These people look like they’re having fun, don’t they? The music coming out of their waterproof jambox would sound something like this: a sexy, mellow train wreck of jazz, disco and soft pop, as they get ravaged by mosquitos and third-degree sunburns. Music perfect for lounging poolside at some douchey resort at your family reunion; [...]
Tragic Summer Mix
Wistful electronic tunes from the late 20th century to today for cruising dark suburbs with the windows rolled down on hot summer weeknights; for that pre-dusk hour at the beach where people pack up their stuff and go home, crammed all sticky and sandy in their air conditioned cars; for humid Saturday mornings going to [...]
Wyldeflowers mix
Ring in spring with this vernal collection of mostly vintage Psych/Folk/Rock DOWNLOAD [zip] Kites Are Fun – The Free Design Tomorrow – Strawberry Alarm Clock Oh, What A Lovely Day – Steff Sulke Last Night The Flowers Bloomed – Dave Travis Extreme In A Garden – Young Californians Love Story – Jethro Tull Easy Street [...]
Disco à la mode
Ring in your New Year with some disco… check out my Disco à la mode mix! Part 1: [download] 1. High On Disco (LeBaron Edit) – Nytro 2. That’s hot (Instrumental) – Jesse Gee 3. Something’s Up (Love Me Like The First Time) – Wayne St. John 4. Having It So Bad For You (Edit) – [...]
The Black Months mix
Today the storytelling beings. Everywhere in “Brittany the storytelling begins at Toussaint, in the Black Month. It goes on through December, the Very Black Month, as far as the Christmas story.” — A. S. Byatt, Possession Some chilly baroque psych-folk (+ pop/rock) for short, bright days and dark, windy nights. DOWNLOAD 1. The Hour of [...]
FeminiNRG mix & digital costume
Not your run-of-the-mill “ladies of the 80′s”! A mix of energetic ItaloDisco and sweet Euro synth-pop. Be sure to watch the youtube links too, you won’t regret it! DOWNLOAD 1. Upside Down – Vanessa (recommended youtube-ing) 2. Shine Up – Doris D And The Pins (recommended youtube-ing) 3. Menhungry – Maxine Dee 4. Instant Love [...]
Dancing In The Dark Mix
A cheezy, sexy, thrilling, spooky collection of Italo & Italo-esque tracks ranging from black to 50% gray. DOWNLOAD 1. Chinese Revenge (Dub Version) – Koto 2. On and On (Dub Version) – Decadance 3. Shake It Now – B. Blase 4. Security (Beats) – The Beat Club 5. Love On Video – The New York Models [...]
1996 Racing Stripe Mix
I meant to have this done by my 30th birthday two weeks ago, but life was still too nuts post-move (Tucson back to Austin) to finish it in time. These are tracks I found on various mixtapes I made in 1996-97 (I was 16) from a DJ mix on the Dallas alternative radio station called [...]
A Musical Homage to My Pops
My dad’s musical taste in rock from the late 60′s and early 70′s inspired me enormously in my early teens, and still does to this day. So as a Father’s Day tribute, I made him a mix CD — I wanted to make it all prog/proto-prog but it came out as more of a mish-mash [...]
TFMF: Oct 9-12
Tucson. Film. Folks don’t always put these two together, but the truth is, Tucson has a long history of filmmaking going back to the Old Hollywood Westerns of the 30′s and 40′s my generation grew up watching, or perhaps turning off after cartoons, on Saturday afternoon TV movie matinees on local UHF channels (now Fox, [...]
Harmonies
Just as much as swirling guitars and Hammond organs, vocal harmonies were an integral part that defined the 60′s psychadelic pop sound. This flashed in my mind this as I watched this episode of I Dream of Jeannie a few days ago, featuring future girlfriend-killer Phil Spector. I had to watch it just ’cause of [...]
