Mux180: October 2015

Download or stream. The choice is yours!

Somehow this became the mux of ripped songs that've yet to officially drop. Not trying to be all cutting-edge, but sometimes cherry-picking advance singles is easier than wading through the usual glut of albums. Continuing to break all the rules regarding Battles, since La Di Da Di has plenty of legs. I've been air-drumming "Non-Violence" all week.

And for those who've been complaining of too-long muxes, this is the shortest one since June. If I excluded "Let It Happen," it'd be even more compact. I already went ahead and chopped off the end of "Under The Pressure" since, well, that kind of just floats along forever.

1. El Vy - I'm The Man To Be (El Vy)
2. Black Lips - Freedom Fries (Freedom Fries / Watch Your Back 7")
3. Deerhunter - Breaker (Fading Frontier)
4. Chromatics - Shadow (Excerpt) (Dear Tommy)
5. Wavves X Cloud Nothings - Nervous (No Life For Me)
6. Parquet Courts - Sunbathing Animal (Sunbathing Animal)
7. Tame Impala - Let It Happen (Currents)
8. Big Grams* - Fell In The Sun (Big Grams EP)
9. Battles - Non-Violence (La Di Da Di)
10. HEALTH - Life (Death Magic)
11. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Just Wait (Surf)
12. The War On Drugs - Under The Pressure (Edit) (Lost In The Dream)

*Big Grams, e.g. Phantogram and Big Boi, is the best left-field collab in a while.

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Rookies: Big Grams, El Vy

2015 music: Battles, Big Grams, Black Lips, Chromatics, Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, Deerhunter, El Vy, HEALTH, Tame Impala, Wavves X Cloud Nothings

Mux170: May 2015

Boom.

1. Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride (Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever)
2. Belle and Sebastian - Another Sunny Day (The Life Pursuit)
3. Will Butler - Anna (Policy)
4. TV on the Radio - Love Stained (Seeds)
5. Crystal Castles - Air War (Crystal Castles)
6. Chromatics - Just Like You (Tommy)
7. Bon Iver - Inside Out (Spoon cover)
8. Viet Cong - March of Progress
9. Death From Above 1979 - Nothin' Left (The Physical World)
10. Iceage - How Many (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
11. Grizzly Bear - Foreground (Veckatimest)
12. Built To Spill - Living Zoo (Untethered Moon)

TRT 46:15

2015 music: Built To Spill, Chromatics, Viet Cong, Will Butler

Mux167: Springtime For Mr. Mux / Hall of Famer #3

Boom.

1. Purity Ring - Bodyache (Another Eternity)
2. The Singles - Candy (Single)
3. Chromatics - I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around (Dear Tommy)
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Party Line (Girls In Peacetime Just Want To Dance)
5. David Bowie - Let's Dance (Let's Dance)
6. Felix Da Housecat - What She Wants (feat. James Murphy) (Devon Dazzle and the Neon Fever)
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary (Are You Experienced?)
8. Justin Timberlake - Don't Hold The Wall (The 20/20 Experience Vol. I)
9. Spoon - Outlier (They Want My Soul)
10. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval (TNT)
11. Caribou - Pelican Narrows (The Milk of Human Kindness)
12. Dan Deacon - Mind On Fire (Gliss Riffer)

I'm far too lazy to find all the separate muxes, but Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience Vol. 1 is the third album to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Said Hall is reserved for those rarest of albums in which all tracks miraculously find their way onto a mux. The first winner of such acclaim was Japandroids for their 2009 album Post-Nothing, followed by Cloud Nothing's Attack On Memory in 2012. Truly, no higher honor can be bestowed upon an album that is slowly-but-surely cannibalized by a seven-years-running, blog-based mixtape series.

TRT 51:16

Rookies: The Singles

2015 music: Belle and Sebastian, Chromatics, Dan Deacon, Purity Ring, The Singles

Mux142: March 2014

For all zero of you who feverishly follow my Last.fm stats, you've known this lineup for two weeks. Getting dangerously ahead of myself.

Boom.

1. Klaxons - Children of the Sun (Untitled 2014 album)
2. Phantogram - Nothing But Trouble (Voices)
3. Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane (Dirty)
4. Savages - She Will (Silence Yourself)
5. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You (Led Zeppelin III)
6. Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools (Drank) (Extended Version) (Good Kid M.A.A.D. City)
7. Fatlip - What's Up Fatlip (What's Up Fatlip?)
8. Aesop Rock - Save Yourself (Labor Days)
9. Frank Ocean - Thinkin Bout You (Channel Orange)
10. Four Tet - Unspoken (Album Version*) (Rounds)
11. Chromatics - Kill For Love (Running From The Sun Remix) (For JET)
12. Katy B - I Like You (Little Red)

TRT 57:48

Rookies: Fatlip, Katy B Kendrick Lamar, Led Zeppelin

2014 music: Katy B, Klaxons, Phantogram

*A prior mux had a version of "Unspoken" not featured on Rounds. Specifically, it used a piano sample from Tori Amos's "Winter" that was never cleared but isn't hard to find. Yep. Thrilling.

Mux141: Jack The Ripper

Boom.

1. !!! - The Most Certain Sure (Strange Weather, Isn't It?)
2. Disclosure - F For U (Mary J. Blige version) (Settle remixes)
3. Prefuse 73 - The Color of Tempo (One Word Extinguisher)
4. The Range - Everything But (Nonfiction)
5. Chromatics - Let's Make This A Moment To Remember (Night Drive)
6. EMA - Satellites (The Future's Void)
7. Pissed Jeans - Cathouse (Honeys)
8. Metz - Leave Me Out (Leave Me Out / Dirty Shirt 7")
9. Black Lips - Boys In The Woods (Underneath the Rainbow)
10. The Hold Steady - I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You (Teeth Dreams)
11. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me (Here And Nowhere Else)
12. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)

TRT 44:30

Rookies: Nick Drake

2014 music: Black Lips, Cloud Nothings Disclosure, EMA, The Hold Steady

Mux133: Shorties In Portie

Hoping my stolen internet can hold up long enough to upload this.

Boom.

So with my hard drive wiped I thought I lost my muxtapes pics. But, dur, I can just save them off an old file. But I already made a new crappy one without text because my wiped hard drive doesn't have the super-old version of Photoshop I use! If I had PS, the contrast would be jacked up about 1000% to make me look like Burial or some shit instead of a dude in his PDX apartment in a Dunder-Mifflin bathrobe because my office is above an uninsulated garage and I'm too cheap to turn on the heat until December.

ALSO: I got a laptop to replace my dying Dell, and while I did manage some black magic to transfer my playlists, of course a ton of data was lost. So I have to rebuild my mux library from scratch, e.g. the master source I use to determine if I've already had a song on a mux. Boring and technical, yes, but I played it safe and made something a bit crazy that I'm fairly sure has no repeats.

But order will be restored! Likely when I get real internet instead of siphoning off some tech-lacking person with such a dubious network name as "NETGEAR." Hmm, I wonder why it's unsecured. Maybe it's a trap!

1. Chvrches - The Mother We Share (The Bones of What You Believe) (For JET)

2. Disclosure - When A Fire Starts To Burn (Settle) (For JCD and my neighbor's girlfriend who liked the Disclosure CD I gave her)

3. Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up Look Sharp (Boy In Da Corner)

4. Propellerheads - Velvet Pants (Decksanddrumsandrockandroll) (For Andy D.)

5. Daft Punk - Instant Crush (Random Access Memories) (For [E/Z]U)

6. Chromatics - These Streets Will Never Look The Same (JDK Edit) (Kill For Love Drumless version)

7. A.C. Newman - On The Table (The Slow Wonder)

8. Arcade Fire - Intervention (Neon Bible)

9. Built To Spill - The Plan

10. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat (Spiderman of the Rings)

11. Justin Timberlake - Pusher Love Grrl (The 20/20 Experience Vol. I) (For Jessica Biel - Love, JT)

TRT 51:23

2013 music: Chvrches, Daft Punk, Disclosure, Justin Timberlake

Rookies: Chvrches

Mux126: Porkchop Sandwiches

You can never go wrong with closing on a Justin Timberlake cover.

Boom.

1. Zwan - Lyric (Mary Star of the Sea)
2. Marnie Stern - Noonan (The Chronicles of Marnia)
3. The Hold Steady - Massive Nights (Boys And Girls In America)
4. Foals - My Number (Holy Fire)
5. Cloud Nothings - Forget You All The Time (Cloud Nothings)
6. Broken Social Scene - Anthems For A Seventeen-Year-Old GIrl (You Forgot It In People)
7. Midlake - In This Camp (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
8. Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers (Modern Vampires of the City)
9. Chromatics - Cherry (After Dark 2)
10. Baths - Earth Death (Obsidian)
11. !!! - Infinifold (Myth Takes)
12. Klaxons - My Love (Justin Timberlake cover) (Live)

TRT 47:11

Rookies: Zwan

New(ish) music from 2013 albums: Baths, Chromatics, Foals, Marnie Stern, Vampire Weekend

Mux119: Oregon Dreamin'

Blame all volume disparity on the geniuses who mastered Local Natives and MBV so ridiculously low.

Boom.

1. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy (Friendly Fires)
2. Justin Timberlake - Suit & Tie (Single)
3. Kanye West - Street Lights (808s and Heartbreak)
4. LCD Soundsystem - Too Much Love (LCD Soundsystem)
5. Chromatics - At Your Door (Kill For Love)
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon (Rifts)
7. Frightened Rabbit - Holy (Pedestrian Verse)
8. Local Natives - Mt. Washington (Hummingbird)
9. Bloc Party - This Modern Love (Silent Alarm)
10. Sleater-Kinney - Buy Her Candy (Dig Me Out)
11. Tame Impala - Be Above It (Lonerism)
12. My Bloody Valentine - Who Sees You (MBV)

TRT 47:15

Rookies: Tame Impala

Mux117: One Last Winter

Boom.

Boring tech note: The last three tracks were originally all very low-volume, so I boosted them until they started to distort. So apologies that you'll have to ride the levels at the end.

Another grab bag. Started as a clearinghouse but turned out rather nice. So says the man who sequenced it.

1. Ty Segall - Thank God For Sinners (Twins)
2. Divine Fits - Would That Not Be Nice? (A Thing Called Divine Fits)
3. Enon - Pigeneration (Grass Geysers Carbon Clouds)
4. LCD Soundsystem - Movement (LCD Soundsystem)
5. The Knife - Silent Shout (Silent Shout)
6. Chromatics - Night Drive (Night Drive) (For JCD)
7. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Baby (Mature Themes)
8. Hot Chip - So Glad To See You (The Warning)
9. DIIV - Doused (Oshin) (For JET)
10. Arcade Fire - Headlights Look Like Diamonds (Arcade Fire EP)
11. The National - Wasp Nest (Live on KEXP)
12. Slint - Good Morning, Captain (Spiderland)

Rookies: Enon

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Mux115: Counting Down

Little bit of everything. No special fanfare for the last mux of the year, though the last track is something I've wanted on a mux for a long time.

Boom.

1. Wolf Parade - Cloud Shadow On The Mountain (Expo 86)
2. Black Lips - The Lie (Arabia Mountain)
3. Franz Ferdinand - The Dark of the Matinee (Franz Ferdinand)
4. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) (Funeral)
5. Wiping Out Thousands - Creation (This Came First)
6. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing (Less Than Human)
7. Chromatics - Back From The Grave (Kill For Love)
8. Purity Ring - Lofticries (Shrines)
9. Spiritualized - I Am What I Am (Sweet Heart Sweet Light)
10. The Walkmen - Line By Line (Heaven)
11. Wilco - Via Chicago (Summerteeth)
12. The National - Lucky You (Daytrotter Session)

Rookie: Spiritualized

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JDK's Favorite Albums of 2012 (Extremely Short Edition)

Continuing my trend of pushing out a list before the other sites do so I can't be, like, accused of following P4K too closely. But, hell, this, like most other music lists (and muxes) might as well be curated by them.

And if something awesome comes out in December, I'm sure it'll be on my giant write-up, complete with those lovely little graphics of the album art (that take forever to insert, but whatever).

The ordered list

1. Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory
   
2. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
   
3. Japandroids - Celebration Rock
   
4. Chromatics - Kill For Love
   
5. Sleigh Bells - Reign of Terror

The unordered list

• Bear In Heaven - I Love You, It's Cool
  
• Hot Chip - In Our Heads
  
• Liars - WIXIW
  
• Lotus Plaza - Spooky Action At A Distance
  
• The Men - Open Your Heart
  
• Titus Andronicus - Local Business
  
• Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
  
• Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
  
• Wiping Out Thousands - This Came First

You can download Wiping Out Thousands' This Came First at their Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want download. (And yes, that includes $0.) Favorite songs of the year (limiting two songs per band)

• Chromatics - Into The Black
  
• Chromatics - Lady
  
• Cloud Nothings - Wasted Days
  
• Cloud Nothings - Cut You
  
• Divine Fits - Shivers
  
• Flying Lotus - Electric Candyman (feat. Thom Yorke)
  
• Four Tet - Pinnacles
  
• Hot Chip - Flutes
  
• Japandroids - The House That Heaven Built
  
• Liars - No. 1 Against The Rush
  
• Liars - Brats
  
• Lotus Plaza - Strangers
  
• The Men - Open Your Heart
  
• The Men - Ex-Dreams
  
• Sleigh Bells - End of the Line
  
• Wiping Out Thousands - Creation
  
• Wiping Out Thousands - Beach

Mux112: November 2012

Going electro this round. Grab it.

1. Neon Indian - Heart: Attack (Era Extrana)
2. The Knife - Neverland (Silent Shout)
3. Passion Pit - Cry Like A Ghost (Gossamer)
4. Hot Chip - Look At Where We Are (In Our Heads)
5. DJ Shadow - Changeling (Endtroducing...)
6. Chromatics - Bell (Night Drive)
7. Purity Ring - Grandloves (Shrines)
8. Wiping Out Thousands - Beach (This Came First)*
9. Grimes - Skin (Visions)
10. Flying Lotus - Electric Candyman (feat. Thom Yorke) (Until The Quiet Comes)
11. Boards of Canada - Satellite Anthem Icarus (The Campfire Headphase)

*Wiping Out Thousands' excellent debut LP, This Came First, is available for a pay-what-you-want download (and yes, you can be a cheapskate and nab it for free) over at their Bandcamp page. Also make sure to check out their EP, Reaction Machine, as well as the single "Mass Nerve."

Mux111: PacNor

Tried to make a mix of all Portland bands for my recent trip to the northwest. I apparently do not have enough Portland-only bands in my iTunes, so I decided to venture over into Washington and the surrounding areas to make a rather scattershot PacNor playlist.

And no, there's no obligatory Nirvana track.

Yoink.

1. Modest Mouse - Dark Center of the Universe (The Moon & Antarctica)
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox (The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack [yep])
3. Band of Horses - The Funeral (Everything All The Time)
4. The Decemberists - The Engine Driver (Picaresque)
5. The Joggers - Hot Autism (Solid Guild)
6. Sleater-Kinney - What's Mine Is Yours (The Woods)
7. The Thermals - When We Were Alive (Now We Can See)
8. YACHT - I Walked Alone (Shangri-La)
9. Stephen Malkmus - Out of Reaches (Real Emotional Trash)
10. Elliott Smith - Between The Bars (Either/Or)
11. Chromatics - Into The Black (Drumless version)
12. The Microphones - The Glow Pt. 2 (The Glow Pt. 2)

TRT 49:27

Mux110: October 2012

I may or may not have simply forgotten to put "Blindsided" by Bon Iver between tracks 7 and 8 when I was compiling this in GarageBand. We can all pretend it's there.

Here.

1. The Kills - Future Starts Slow (Blood Pressures)
2. Ty Segall Band - Tell Me What's Inside Your Heart (Slaughterhouse)
3. The Men - Bataille (Leave Home)
4. Joy Division - Interzone (Unknown Pleasures)
5. Chromatics - The Page (Kill For Love)
6. Broken Social Scene - Swimmers (Broken Social Scene)
7. The National - Conversation 16 (High Violet)
8. Phantogram - Nightlife (Nightlife EP)
9. Deerhunter - Wash Off (Fluorescent Grey EP)
10. Ride - Polar Bear (Nowhere)

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Mux109: Megamux / Hall of Fame entrant #2

Enough with these 35-minute muxes, you say? How about 50 minutes? Even though, well, the last five minutes is a "bonus track," named as such because it's a tad intense than usual mux fair (no, it's not Lightning Bolt), you have the power to simply stop listening before it. So everybody wins!

This is where you right-click.

1. Spoon - I Saw The Light (Transference)
2. Twin Shadow - You Can Call Me On (Confess)
3. Purity Ring - Ungirthed (Shrines)
4. Matthew Dear - Ahead of Myself (Beams)
5. Chromatics - Running From The Sun (Kill For Love)
6. Cloud Nothings - Our Plans (Attack On Memory)
7. Blur - Coffee & TV (13) (for JET)
8. Lotus Plaza - Eveningness (Spooky Action At A Distance)
9. Divine Fits - Shivers (A Thing Called Divine Fits)
10. Swans (feat. Karen O) - Song For A Warrior (The Seer)
Bonus Track: Mount Eerie - Waves (Ocean Roar)

TRT 49:51

Rookies:
Blur
Divine Fits
Purity Ring
Swans
Twin Shadow

And it looks like we have another entrant into the Muxtape Hall of Fame. The requires are simply that all tracks off a given album make it onto any muxes in any order. Japandroids accomplished the feat in April 2011 with all eight songs off Post-Nothing sneaking into muxes.

So, surprise surprise, the newest addition is Cloud Nothings and their album Attack On Memory:



1. No Future / No Past (Mux101: One Future)
2. Wasted Days (Mux095: Still Burnsvillianous)
3. Fall In (Mux099: The Precipice)
4. Stay Useless (Mux098: April 2012)
5. Separation (Mux103: The 2012 Sampler)
6. No Sentiment (Mux107: Heatwave)
7. Our Plans (Mux109: Megamux)
8. Cut You (Mux096: March 2012)

I'm going to assume that most of the MP3 links are broken, and if you want a new link, I can provide a fresh file.

Mux106: August 2012

After all this rock, I went a little electronic this time around.

Yep.

1. Hot Chip - Night and Day (In Our Heads)
2. Grimes - Oblivion (Visions)
3. Cut Copy - Alisa (Zonoscope)
4. Passion Pit - I'll Be Alright (Gossamer)
5. Prefuse 73 - The Only Hand To Hold (The Only She Chapters)
6. School of Seven Bells - White Wind (Ghostory)
7. Battles - White Electric (Gloss Drop)
8. Chromatics - Kill For Love (Kill For Love)
9. Liars - Brats (WIXIW)

TRT: 38:21

Rookies:
Grimes

Mux103: The 2012 Sampler

All 2012 tracks. The "newer" stuff are from Japandroids, The Walkmen, Liars, and PS I Love You.

Download.

1. Japandroids - The Nights of Wine and Roses (Celebration Rock)
2. The Walkmen - Heaven (Heaven)
3. Liars - No. 1 Against The Rush (WIXIW)
4. Bear In Heaven - The Reflection of You (I Love You, It's Cool)
5. Chromatics - Lady (Kill For Love)
6. Cloud Nothings - Separation (Attack On Memory)
7. The Men - Ex-Dreams (Open Your Heart)
8. PS I Love You - First Contact (Death Dreams)
9. Wiping Out Thousands - Bounce (Reaction Machine EP)
10. Tanlines - Nonesuch (Mixed Emotions)

Rookies:
Tanlines

Mux101: One Future

Business as usual,  I guess.

In the Box.

1. Cloud Nothings - No Future / No Past (Attack On Memory)
2. The Men - Turn It Around (Open Your Heart)
3. Titus Andronicus - Anxiety Block (Television Personalities cover) (Titus Andronicus LLC Mixtape Vol. I)
4. Spoon - I Could Be Underground (30 Gallon Tank EP)
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There She Goes, My Beautiful World (Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus)
6. Boris - Ibitsu (Akuma no Uta)
7. Ty Segall - Girlfriend (Melted)
8. Sleigh Bells - Demons (Reign of Terror)
9. Bear In Heaven - Sinful Nature (I Love You, It's Cool)
10. Chromatics - Into The Black (Kill For Love)

Rookies:
Chromatics

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