As we enter summer [aside: Found’s Silver Lake location is currently closed for the next year, as there’s been a lot of confusion over that], I wanted to share a mixtape that Jesse Rogg [Golden] and I just put together, ‘Something’s Got to Give.’

Jesse’s record label, Modus Vivendi Music, whose studio is in nearby Los Feliz [but represents artists from all over the world] has been a part of Found’s events, exhibitions, and general shared sense of a diverse boutique for cultural output.

It’s inspired by the unreleased Marilyn Monroe picture of the same name, as well as the Jack & Diane romcom ‘Something’s Gotta Give,’ although neither Jesse nor I have ever seen either.

We hope the mix recasts familiar sounds and songs in a context you might not have considered, meanwhile delivering bits and pieces which you might have never heard through a nostalgic filter.

We’ve decided a long time ago that genre-bound mixes might be easy to mix, because of similar instrumentation, tempo, themes, lyrics, etc. but typically feel flat, consistent to a fault, and….easy.  We’ve also come to the conclusion that there’s nothing more deflating than reading a track list before you hear a mix, so that’s why you don’t see one.  Will gladly share the tracks with you, though.  Also, some of our friends with taste will be tapped to put together some fun, diverse mixes on an irregular basis, under the Budget Cuts series.

Thanks to Classixx, who provided an amazing unreleased instrumental, Love Grenades, Casxio [w/ Golden + Public’s soon-to-be-released remix of ‘17′], all the Modus Vivendi Music family, and, of course, the internet.

Download it here.