Monday Mixtape: Michael Martin-del-Campo aka Mikey MDC
Monday Mixtape is another path towards music discovery, featuring people whose taste I admire answering a series of questions and prompts with songs (which might change from time to time).
Michael Martin-Del-Campo is a Los Angeles based wardrobe stylist and consultant, burgeoning menswear influencer, and general bon vivant. He has great taste in suiting, books, and crucially for our purposes, music. Here is his Monday Mixtape:
Mikey MDC
Virgo...is all I know
Los Angeles, CAHow do you find/discover music?
I think of myself as all-knowing but sometimes I use the Apple Music “discovery” station, sometimes it shows me something obscure other times it just feeds me the same slop I’ve heard before. YouTube’s recommendations used to be good too in the 2010s (ed note: he prefers YouTube’s earlier stuff). There was a time when I even used to discover new music through tumblr but those days are gone from this earth like the snows of yesteryear…
What was the first song you put on when you woke up this morning?
“Crocodile Rock” by Elton John
What song have you listened to more than once this past week?
“Different Drum” by The Stone Poneys
What is a recent song you think everyone should know about?
“Feeling” by Billie Marten
A song off your work out playlist:
“Threshold” by Slayer
What song can you do at karaoke without looking at the tv screens?
“Graduate” by Third Eye Blind (ed note: hell yeah)
Song you associate with being 13 years old:
“The Decline” by NOFX
What song do you listen to when you want a lobotomy?
“Plays Cassavetes 2” by Ekkehard Ehlers
What song do you use to indulge your wallowing?
“Save it For Later” by The English Beat
What song do you use to renew your spirit?
“You Don’t Know Me” by Armand Van Helden
What is your favorite cover song?
Gillian Welch’s cover of Radiohead’s “Black Star”
What song would you like to hear just before you die?
“God moving over the face of the waters” by Moby
Really loved the Tumblr reference for music discovery. That platform had such a unique way of surfacing obscure tracks throgh reblogs and curated music blogs that algorithms just cant replicate. I remember stumbling on entire genres I didnt know exsited just by following the right people. Now everything feels a bit too predictable tbh.
save it for later is such wallowing music i see you