Couldn’t come up with a better 200th post for PT Music even if I sat all week thinking about it:
Lou down at the amazingly awesome music site Salad Fork just cut the red ribbon on his incredible Mixtapes for Haiti project. We all know the devastation the 7.0 earthquake inflicted on the fragile Caribbean country and, odds are, we all donated the first few weeks after the disaster. Although most media outfits have packed up shop a month or two after the quake once they felt the story had been exhausted, Haitians are still in dire need to not only rebuild their country but to receive much needed supplies for day-to-day survival.
So with this mixtape project it seems that Lou is trying to drum up a second wave of support — and with a killer tracklist, he is giving us a good reason to open up all wallets and pocketbooks and dig deep for a second time. Complete with a blend of solid hits and unreleased material, the cassette features some of the best work from up-and-comers and SXSW show-stoppers. Here is a list of who’s featured on the tape:
- Memoryhouse
- Speculator
- Cloud Nothings
- RxRy
- Craft Spells
- Woodsman
- Sunnybrook
- Nate Grace (Pure Ecstasy)
- Memory Tapes
- Rene
- Twin Sister
- Weekend
- Mount McKinley
- Tan Dollar
- Prince Rama of Ayodhya
- Ppalm
So yeah, a lot of great music which you can get for as little as $5 (digital download of compilation)! If you splurge and donate $10 or more, then you’ll get both the digital and physical cassette versions as well as “something completely random” thrown into your package. But let’s be honest here, the music is playing second fiddle to the much needed charity support — with all profits going towards Partners in Health: Stand With Haiti. So go without that twelve pack of Pabst for a week or hold off buying that new record and help support this amazing project!
You can check out more info as well as donating directly to the cause from Lou’s kickstarter page.
