A mixtape made for Paul Schroeder.

"Again, I'd asked Andy to fill in some of the blanks in my musical spectrum - psychedelia being a bit ol' blank for me. I have to concede that I'm still rusty on the intricacies of it all, but this lot should [ahem] turn you onto the scene. There's a bunch of raw & powerful music here, some splendid sounds & it just goes to show what an excellent ear for music he had (as well as an astounding collection from which to pluck all this)."

To quote news on the linusland (for those who don't know - Linus was the band in which he was a key member) website:

"Andy had an amazing vinyl record collection, and we know that he would want them all to go to loving homes. We have set up an EBay store to sell these treasured items to the highest bidder. This is a long-term project, as there are hundreds of records. Please keep checking to see if the album or single of your dreams is listed, or email us if there is a specific record that you've been looking for."

A mixtape made for Jenni Scott

"This is a happy tape, full of energy. Andy put the Gala and the Aqua songs on for me specially because I liked them a lot, despite/because of them being silly euro pop-rock-top 40. I love the stompingness of 'Freed From Desire', and the fact that it seems to be a song about Zen Buddhism or something -- 'freed from desire, mind and senses purified'. And what better way to finish a happy, upbeat, poppy tape than with bis?"

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A mixtape made for Jenni Scott

"This is a happy tape, full of energy. Andy put the Gala and the Aqua songs on for me specially because I liked them a lot, despite/because of them being silly euro pop-rock-top 40. I love the stompingness of 'Freed From Desire', and the fact that it seems to be a song about Zen Buddhism or something -- 'freed from desire, mind and senses purified'. And what better way to finish a happy, upbeat, poppy tape than with bis?"

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A mix tape made for Jenni Scott.

"The names of the sides kinda gives it away -- it's not a theme collection as such, just a group of really fun and slightly mad songs. This is one of the earliest tapes that Andy did me -- the only earlier one was a Bob And Friends one, where Side One was all Bob Dylan and Side Two was about an eclectic a mix as either of these sides... For ages this was my acid test of 'is the Internet ready for this music business' -- I thought that when I could get all of an Andy mixtape a) in electronic format, and prefereably b) without actually ripping any of it myself, then the Internet could be considered mature. I actually started to pull together these tracks back in 2002 when I first experimented with Audiogalaxy, and more recently some friends helped me out with some of the tracks, but the mighty fine Paul Wibier's Satan (Theme) stumped me for ages, until another friend pointed out a radio feed on which someone had digitized it -- complete with 'clunk' as the tape recorder was stopped.

"Favourite tracks: ooh, a toughy. California Hippie Murders (about the Manson Family murders, with yodelling), the aforementioned Satan (Theme), I Spent My Last $10 (On Birth Control And Beer), and the fantastic Bongwater's Folksong. And that's only Side One..."

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A mix tape made for Jenni Scott.

"The names of the sides kinda gives it away -- it's not a theme collection as such, just a group of really fun and slightly mad songs. This is one of the earliest tapes that Andy did me -- the only earlier one was a Bob And Friends one, where Side One was all Bob Dylan and Side Two was about an eclectic a mix as either of these sides... For ages this was my acid test of 'is the Internet ready for this music business' -- I thought that when I could get all of an Andy mixtape a) in electronic format, and prefereably b) without actually ripping any of it myself, then the Internet could be considered mature. I actually started to pull together these tracks back in 2002 when I first experimented with Audiogalaxy, and more recently some friends helped me out with some of the tracks, but the mighty fine Paul Wibier's Satan (Theme) stumped me for ages, until another friend pointed out a radio feed on which someone had digitized it -- complete with 'clunk' as the tape recorder was stopped.

"Favourite tracks: ooh, a toughy. California Hippie Murders (about the Manson Family murders, with yodelling), the aforementioned Satan (Theme), I Spent My Last $10 (On Birth Control And Beer), and the fantastic Bongwater's Folksong. And that's only Side One..."

Side Two follows in a week

A mix tape made by Andy Roberts for Jenni Scott

"Andy did me this tape after Velvet Goldmine came out. I was too young for Glam as a movement first time round, and had been mesmerised by the style of the film as well as the music. While Andy had done me loads of punk tapes (UK punk, US punk, new wave, etc etc) he'd never thought of glam as a tape theme (even though he spoke very approvingly of the brickies-wearing-mascara atmosphere of the whole thing). All I can say is, hot damn! I'd never heard T Rex properly before this tape, let alone Eno and even Bowie.

My favourite track is still Roxy Music's Do The Strand, though."

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A mix tape made by Andy Roberts for Jenni Scott

"Andy did me this tape after Velvet Goldmine came out. I was too young for Glam as a movement first time round, and had been mesmerised by the style of the film as well as the music. While Andy had done me loads of punk tapes (UK punk, US punk, new wave, etc etc) he'd never thought of glam as a tape theme (even though he spoke very approvingly of the brickies-wearing-mascara atmosphere of the whole thing). All I can say is, hot damn! I'd never heard T Rex properly before this tape, let alone Eno and even Bowie.

My favourite track is still Roxy Music's Do The Strand, though."

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A mix tape made by Andy Roberts for Paul Schroeder.

"This was a tape for me that andy did in the early 90's. He had a vast & amazing record collection and I still had a great many shortcomings in musical knowledge at that point; I may have just asked him to broaden my horizons. He clearly had fun doing this tape & it's something that I've gleefully returned to from time to time over the years.
A year or so back I asked my pal at work, (Lee) if he could transfer the tape to a CD; I had a few tapes that I was desperate to hear, but didn't have a tape machine with which I could transfer stuff into the digital world - so kudos to Lee for facilitating this.

I've returned to the digitised version of this tape to pluck out specific tracks here & there more than any of the other 'digitised tapes' that were converted at the time ...well, because the material on here is so good & so much fun!"

This is side B, the "Wired Side".

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A mix tape made by Andy Roberts for Paul Schroeder.

"This was a tape for me that andy did in the early 90's. He had a vast & amazing record collection and I still had a great many shortcomings in musical knowledge at that point; I may have just asked him to broaden my horizons. He clearly had fun doing this tape & it's something that I've gleefully returned to from time to time over the years.
A year or so back I asked my pal at work, (Lee) if he could transfer the tape to a CD; I had a few tapes that I was desperate to hear, but didn't have a tape machine with which I could transfer stuff into the digital world - so kudos to Lee for facilitating this.

I've returned to the digitised version of this tape to pluck out specific tracks here & there more than any of the other 'digitised tapes' that were converted at the time ...well, because the material on here is so good & so much fun!"

This is side A, the "Weird Side".

(Download Side B)