The Mixtape #2: Two guys in masks, one Pink Floyd deep cut

The Mixtape

Issue #2
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A handwritten cassette J-card for a Pink Floyd tape: Wish You Were Here and Animals on side A, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn on side B

Tape of the week: my Pink Floyd cassette. Side A has Wish You Were Here and Animals. Side B has The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, including Matilda Mother.

Press play again.

Hey now,

That’s a real tape up there, off my shelf. Side A has Wish You Were Here and Animals. Side B has the band’s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, including “Matilda Mother.”

Every week we’ll open with a different tape from the collection. Some lean classic rock, some lean new wave, some lean deep psych. That range is the whole point. Got an old mixtape of your own? Hit reply with a photo of the J-card and it might be next week’s tape.

This week’s mixtape

A Side A

Deep track

Matilda Mother

Pink Floyd · The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967

Syd Barrett wrote it for Pink Floyd’s first album, and Richard Wright’s organ and the shared vocal give it a storybook feel nobody else was making in 1967. If you only know the Dark Side years, this is where the band started.

Read our Pink Floyd story: start at the beginning, not the Dark Side

Emerging artist

Fabienk

Angine de Poitrine · Vol. II, 2026

Two musicians from Quebec in matching costumes and masks, playing microtonal guitar and drums. It sounds like nothing else you will hear this year, and you can watch it in this week’s video. They just announced a 2027 tour that starts March 4 in Melbourne, and Vol. II won Canada’s Polaris Prize last month. Presale signups for the new dates close Sunday at 3 PM Eastern, and tickets go on sale to the public Friday, October 30.

Read our Angine de Poitrine band profile

Psych nugget

Dirty Water

The Inmates · 1979

The Standells made it a garage rock anthem in 1966. Thirteen years later a London pub rock band turned it up and sent it to a new crowd. It was our Song of the Day.

Read our Song of the Day on The Inmates

B Side B

New wave

Senses Working Overtime

XTC · English Settlement, 1982

Andy Partridge stopped touring in 1982 because of stage fright, and XTC became a studio band. This is one of the best-known songs from English Settlement, and a fine reason to visit our New Wave pages.

Read why XTC stopped touring

Live

Free Hand

Gentle Giant · live bonus track on Free Hand, 1975

Few prog bands earned a live reputation like Gentle Giant. This live version of “Free Hand” is a bonus track on the 1975 album, and the song turns up on five of the eight discs in Front Row Center, a set of rare American concert recordings arriving November 27.

Read about Front Row Center

This week’s video

▶ Angine de Poitrine, Live on KEXP (full performance)

Hear all five on The Mixtape playlist

A This weekend on Acid Flashback Radio

October 23 to 25

Mr. Peabody, author of many of our Songs of the Day, takes over Acid Flashback Friday for all three hours with deep tracks and psych nuggets. Then Psychedelic Psaturday with DJ Kaigem, the Grateful Dead Hour and more.

See the full lineup

Listen live to Acid Flashback

B Today in Rock History

On October 23, 1966, the Jimi Hendrix Experience recorded their first single, “Hey Joe,” at De Lane Lea Studios in London. Hendrix wasn’t the first to cut it. The Leaves and The Byrds got there first. Read Today in Rock History for October 23.

C New on InternetFM

Interview

Zepparella Drummer Clementine: Picking Up Sticks at 27 and Honoring John Bonham

Read the interview

Band history

Genesis: Band History & Biography

Read the story

Interview

A Conversation with Andy Sherriff of Chapterhouse

Read the interview

That’s the tape. Flip it over next Friday.

Rock on,
DJ Uncle Steve

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