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

JDK Dance Party #10: Monsoon Season

Download or stream off drop.io.

Tracks:
1. Teen Daze - Wet Hair (Japandroids cover)
2. Scapegoat Wax - Aisle 10 (Hello Allison)
3. Phantogram - Mouthful of Diamonds
4. TV on the Radio - Crying
5. Gorillaz - Dare
6. Hot Chip - Over And Over
7. Friendly Fires - In The Hospital
8. Annie - Heartbeat
9. Cee-Lo Green - Fuck You
10. The-Dream - Yamaha
11. Daft Punk - Human After All
12. Solid Gold - Bible Thumper
13. Health - Triceratops (CFCF Remix)
14. Felix Da Housecat - Rocket Ride
15. Dan Deacon - The Crystal Cat

JDK Radio 008: 2004

2004 was a watershed year in music. For me, at least. And there was, like every year, some truly fantastic albums. It was, however, when I moved to Columbia's dorms in Chicago that it became almost necessary to like "cool" music. And with everyone tethered to the same network and able to rip whole iTunes libraries, I ended up amassing quite a collection.

At the time it seems almost baffling that my most-used item for music-listening was a CD player. A portable one, at that, that I shoved into my pocket when walking to class. And yeah, some fancy kids had iPods (like my roommate), but I figured I never needed more than an hour and twenty minutes of music, and that all (single) albums don't exceed the limits of a physical CD. Also at the time I had my files organized in folders for ease of use in creating Winamp play lists, so iTunes lost its ease-of-use sex appeal.

It wasn't until a full year later that I got an iPod and begrudgingly substituted the lean Winamp for the system-resource-intensive iTunes. But by that point my primary CD player broke and I had to use another that didn't have as good a skip-protection feature, meaning that a ten-minute walk to class usually involved only one New Pornographers song stuttering all the way down State Street.

Call me a nostalgia fiend for an era barely five years ago, but JDK Radio 008 is dedicated to music from the year 2004, which, to me, was my first bonafide Year of Music.

Stream or download this fine mix via my Dropbox.

Oh, yes, and the tracks:

1. The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
2. Stars - Ageless Beauty
3. The Walkmen - Little House of Savages
4. A.C. Newman - On the Table
5. Controller.Controller - History
6. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
7. Felix Da Housecat - Ready 2 Wear
8. Air - Surfin' On A Rocket
9. The Magnetic Fields - I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
10. !!! - Shitscheissemerde (Part 1)
11. The Streets - Blinded By The Lights
12. Kanye West - Slow Jamz