Alexei Shishkin curates #19 of our Mixtape Sessions

Our Mixtape Sessions playlist series is curated by friends and artists with, with each edition showcasing their influences, inspirations and musical loves.

This edition, our 19th, was curated by Alexei Shishkin, who recently released his Good Times album via Audio Antihero. If you click with any of the tracks in these playlists, please support the artists featured – and the artist curating the playlist – by buying, streaming and sharing their music.

Says Shiksin, “When I sat down to make this playlist, I approached it much like I approached the recording of Good Times: no real plan, just sort of following wherever my ears went. Whatever influence might have been pulled from these tracks wasn’t direct, but was rather a deeper, subconscious pull.”

“As a matter of fact, a lot of the stuff on this playlist I didn’t even know of until this year (well after the album was finished). For example, Microdisney; this project from Cathal Coughlan, Sean O’Hagan, and company had already called it a day a couple years before I was even born.”

“I hadn’t discovered them until earlier this year, and they quickly rose up the ranks to one of my favorite bands. That’s one of the beautiful things about recorded music: its shelf life is limitless.”

Read more about what Shishkin has to say about his selection for the Mixtape Session right here.