It’s time to spin another episode of Mixtapes!, where artists are forced to make a crazy playlist based on crazier prompts. This time, Ginger Root’s Cameron Lew pulls together an impressive collection of songs.
Ginger Root’s Cameron Lew recently stopped by to participate in our Mixtapes series, where he offered up the ideal songs for life’s most pivotal (and sometimes ridiculous) moments. Between choosing tracks for scenarios like having love embraced or rejected, surviving turbulence, and even being caught without toilet paper, Lew revealed much about his eclectic and studied musical taste — as well as his sense of humor.
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As he did when he took part in a Crate Digging dive, the Ginger Root mastermind pulled out some deep cuts for his Mixtapes playlist. There’s Dirt Bike’s “Pop Bar” for making the line-six-to-headliner Coachella jump, “Anata ni Teleport” (“あなたにテレポート”) by Sumiko Yamagata for gaining the power of flight, and The Sugarplastic’s “Another Myself” to keep his younger self on track. “If I didn’t know about this band, I wouldn’t be here right now,” he says. “It’s a band from the ’90s out of LA in the power pop scene, introduced by my high school teacher.”
He’ll have to tell us later if he really spun “Paprika” when his tour with Japanese Breakfast ended, and if he’s been able to memorize the lyrics to his own “Show 10” by now. For other prompts, he actually doubled dipped with his own twist on the situation: Woke up too early? Do you want to go back to sleep (Blossom Dearie’s soothing “Sunday Afternoon”) or get your day started (Kero Kero Bonito’s “Graduation”)? Plane turbulence? You gonna rock with the plane (White Denim’s “It Might Get Dark”) or pick the lost song you’ll ever hear (the ending medley on The Beatles’ Abbey Road)?
See what other tracks Ginger Root puts on his Mixtapes playlist by watching the full video interview above (or on YouTube), recorded at Los Angeles’ Gold-Diggers Sound. You can also listen to the fully Spotify playlist below.
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