Delorentos like making mixtapes. So much so that their contribution to the egoeccentric hangover mixes is a two-parter- woo hoo!

Delorentos are currently on tour, having just played a massively well-recieved set at SXSW. They'll be hitting Italy for some dates at the start of April before returning to these shores to play FM 104's 'The Gig' on April 6th in the Olympia. Also on the bill for this show are The Blizzards, The Coronas, Aslan and Television Room- with all proceeds going to Temple Street Children's Hospital.

Check out Delorentos myspace here for updates, and links to their increasingly crazy tour diaries.

Read on for tracklistings and links for the mixtapes...

Click for part one: Nial's mix.

Tracklisting:

01. Yo La Tengo- Danelectro 3
02. Bat For Lashes- Horse And I
03. Black Lips- Not A Problem
04. Magnolia Electric Co.- Doing Something Wrong
05. Sebadoh- Spoiled
06. Semifinalists- Let's Kill This
07. Nina Simone- Do I Move You?
08. Ben Kweller- Sha Sha
09. Good The Bad And The Queen- Kingdom of Doom
10. Death In Vegas- Dirge

Click for part two: Kieran's mix.

01. Siugur Rós- Samskeyti
02. Blur- Battle
03. Death Cab For Cutie- Summer Skin
04. Cat Power- Lived In Bars
05. Damien Dempsey- Factories
06. Coldplay- Trouble
07. David Kitt- Dancing In The Moonlight
08. Mercury Rev- Holes
09. Radiohead- All I Need
10. The Frames- Falling Slowly


Artwork thanks to the amazing David DeGrand over at degrandland.com. Check out his work here.

Enjoy!

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Sinéad over at the Sigla Blog has got an excellent series of posts looking at how & where artist actually make their music.

Called 'The Musical Rooms Series', it's a great idea which has given people a look inside the worlds of the likes of Super Extra Bonus Party, Delorentos & Dan Le Sac v Scroobius Pip (right).

Check it out here.

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Here's Hefner's morose yet insanely chirpy 'Hymn for the cigarettes' to set you up for the weekend.

By the by, apart from the obvious Christmas shopping over the weekend you should:

• Check out Delorentos in the Ambassador tonight, with support from Messiah J & The Expert, and Super Extra Bonus Party
• Or come along to Run For Cover in The Tube in Bray tonight. Other acts on the bill include No Standing & Forward More.
• Not miss EP launch of the year in the Lower Deck, Portabello on Saturday Night. Bats release what is surely going to be a gem of a record, with support from Crayonsmith, Sasparilla & Terrordactyl.
• Start preparing your liver for the epic Xmas drinking that's now just around the corner. (With particular reference to 'The 12 Pubs of Christmas').
  

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