Download: DJ Tommy Boy’s Texas Love Triangle Mix for Vice.

Funny how fast the Internet can move. Earlier today, a mix featuring a bevy of Dallas-based acts (and, OK, some Houstonites and Austinites, too) started making its way around the Internet. Created by Dallas’ own DJ Tommy Boy, the mix was commissioned by the folks at Vice Magazine, which apparently had been “badgering him for a while” to create something for its site. In the hours since it was posted earlier today, though, the mix, called The Texas Love Triangle Mix, has found its way onto its fair share of other influential sites, including The Fader, Chocolate Bobka and, how we first saw it, DFW’s own WeShotJR.

It’s a beast of a listen for sure, heavy on the electronic elements and not for the faint of heart (or for the people who think anything left of The Happy Bullets is “too weird”). My point: It’s worth a good deal more than its (free) cost of admission. The mix, which solely features the works of acts from DFW, Houston and Austin, launches quite appropriately with “The Eyes of Texas” before delving into a DFW-heavy open, starting with a George Quartz cover of Harry Nilsson’s “Coconuts” and then offering up tracks from fellow locals Phantastes, Darktown Strutters and Corporate Park. Really good stuff, too.

Get the mix here. And, after the jump, check the full tracklisting, as well as Tommy Boy’s write-up for Vice on his thought-process behind putting the mix together.

Also? A nice shout out for Dallas’ Klearlight Studio…

Writes Tommy Boy:

When Vice UK asked for a submission, I knew I had to share the sound
that can only be found right here in my home state of Texas. I am
fortunate to live in a place where so many of my peers are creating the
kind of music I love. When most kids are worrying about how the grass is
greener elsewhere, these bands are working hard to make where they are
where they want to be. This mix is made up of current Texas synth-based
projects and covers many genres, from industrial EBM to techno,
leftfield disco to electro, deep house to minimal wave and even a little
screwgaze for good measure.

I am grateful to all groups who were so kind to contribute to this
compilation; special thanks to Klearlight
Studios for helping master the final mix as well as producing
several of the bands in it. I’d also like to thank Answering
Machine Records for their submissions as well as their continued
output of quality Texas synth music. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it
wasn’t for all my creative friends across this big state.

There is something sacred in the geometry connecting Houston, Austin,
and Dallas – this love triangle that we’re all a part of. This mix is a
testament to what friends and neighbours are capable of and it’s a
fitting time capsule for this time and place. Don’t Mess with Texas.

And the tracklisting…

1. George
Quartz – “Coconut”
2. Phantastes
– “Flight of Stares”
3. Darktown
Strutters – “Silver Bullet”
4. Indian Jewelry
– “Same Mistake Man”
5. Corporate
Park – “Intimate Precision”
6. //TENSE//
– “Versus Man (TX Love Remix 2010)”
7. Seth
Nemec – “Count Zero”
8. Jake
Schrock – “Trigon”
9. E.R.P.
(aka Convextion) – “Frozen Volatiles”
10. DYX – “Lips
in the Darkness (feat. Press-On)”
11. Submersible
Machines – “Riding Theta Waves”
12. Missions – “Phantasy”
13. Medio
Mutante – “Transit (Demo)”
14. MVSCLZ –
“Fascination (Across The Nation)”
15. R9
– “Dreamdance”
16. edrupt –
“M-U-S-I-K”
17. betdat
– “Nex (Radio Edit)”
18. MKF
KÜNST – “Venga (TX Love Remix 2010)”
19. Berliner
Eins – “Nite Life”
20. Twisted
Wires – “Hell”
21. Low
Red Center – “Historic Edition”
22. S U R V
I V E – “White Clouds”
23. Future
Blondes – “NIGHT ANALYSIS (Oppenheimer Analysis “Behind the Shades”
RMX)”
24. Psychic
Violence – “U is Moon”
25. How I
Quit Crack – “Gone Away”
26. xix
– “1111(v7)”