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

JDK's The Best Mix Ever (2010 Edition)

I compile one of these humbly-titled mixes yearly. Granted, not much has changed since last year, but I think I hit a good sequencing stride in the first third.

Download or stream TBME2010 at my public Dropbox.

Tracks:

1. Rogue Wave - Endless Shovel
2. The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
3. Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
4. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
5. Radiohead - Kid A
6. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
7. A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix The Gash In Your Head
8. Lightning Bolt - Dead Cowboy
9. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
10. Frightened Rabbit - I'll Believe In Anything
11. High Places - From Stardust To Sentience
12. Jay Reatard - Oh It's Such A Shame (Blood Visions cut)
13. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
14. Joy Division - Transmission
15. The National - Abel
16. Smog - Teenage Spaceship
17. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
18. Liars - The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack

Also, I'm not sure if it's too heavy-handed or not, but ending with "Maps" followed by "The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" was oh-so deliberate. Because of, you know, the Karen O / Angus Andrew romance. The songs put back-to-back is some high concept, call-and-response shit.

It also seems that "Kid A" has dethroned "The Tourist" and "Fog" as my favorite Radiohead song. Well, as the obvious truth is, I can only fit X songs on an 80 minute CD-R, and I only go with one song per band. "Kid A" is sort of my flavor of the season, since I'm in the process of sort of covering it and, lyrically, it's fairly brilliant.

Hell, while I Postscript this to death, I might as well toss up a few excellent cuts or alternates that were very painfully excised from my original giant iTunes playlist:

• The Antlers - Bear
• The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
• Battles - Race Out
• Beach House - Gila
• Bibio - Fire Ant
• Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
• Born Ruffians - Kurt Vonnegut
• Brian Eno - By This River
• Crystal Castles - Vanished
• Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
• The Get Up Kids - I'm A Loner, Dottie, A Rebel...
• Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
• Health - In Violet
• Japandroids - Wet Hair
• Jay Reatard - Nightmares
• The Joggers - Every Other Word
• Junior Boys - Last Exit
• Joy Division - Shadowplay
• LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass Version)
• Lightning Bolt - 2 Towers
• Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
• My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep (or) Sometimes
• The National - All The Wine
• No Age - Teen Creeps
• Pavement - Gold Soundz (or) AT&T (or) Cut Your Hair
• Portishead - The Rip
• Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot
• Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers (or) I Summon You
• The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
• TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
• The Walkmen - The Rat
• Weezer - No One Else (or) Say It Ain't So
• Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater

Mux058: August 2010 Part II

Double muxes today. I made the first a while back, and I wanted to capitalize on some new tracks that have been floating around. Thus, August 2010 Part II.

Download or stream at drop.io.

1. Best Coast - When I'm With You
2. Marnie Stern - For Ash
3. Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside The Womb
4. Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better
5. Wolf Parade - Pobody's Nerfect
6. Menomena - Taos
7. Deerhunter - Revival
8. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round
9. The Arcade Fire - Suburban War
10. Portishead - Roads
11. Tortoise - TNT

Mux053: June 2010

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1. Band of Horses - Laredo
2. The Hold Steady - Soft In The Center
3. Frightened Rabbit - Nothing Like You
4. Dom - Bochica
5. Phantogram - Turn It Off
6. Caribou - Found Out
7. Tobacco - Fresh Hex
8. LCD Soundsystem - What I Want
9. Wolf Parade - In The Direction of the Moon
10. The National - England
11. Broken Social Scene - Water In Hell
12. The Radio Dept. - You Stopped Making Sense

Mux050: April 2010 / Ten favorite albums of the year

Fifty Muxes in about three years. Guess I'll hit one hundred 'round 2014.

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1. Death - Keep On Knocking
2. The Radio Dept. - Heaven's On Fire
3. Here We Go Magic - Collector
4. The Morning Benders - Promises
5. Broken Social Scene - Backyards
6. Frightened Rabbit - Swim Until You Can't See Land
7. K-OS - Uptown Girl
8. Louis XIV - Paper Doll
9. Radiohead - Just
10. Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up
11. Foo Fighters - Everlong
12. Fang Island - Davey Crockett

Also: Every loves lists, but people moreso love ranked lists. My ten favorite albums of the year, thus far:


1. Titus Andronicus - The Monitor


2. Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks


3. Fang Island


4. Local Natives - Gorilla Manor


5. Four Tet - There Is Love In You


6. Spoon - Transference


7. Hot Chip - One Life Stand


8. Surfer Blood - Astro Coast


9. Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring


10. Beach House - Teen Dream

A good list, sure, but this year also has some juggernauts dropping from LCD Soundsystem, The National, probably The Arcade Fire, probably Deerhunter, maybe Radiohead, the slightest of all slight chances, My Bloody Valentine, and, hell, another Hood Internet mixtape.

The Year in Music: March 2010

Favorites of the year, thus far:


Beach House - Teen Dream


Four Tet - There Is Love In You


Free Energy - Stuck On Nothing


Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks


Hot Chip - One Life Stand


Liars - Sisterworld


Local Natives - Gorilla Manor


Los Campesinos! - Romance is Boring


The Radio Dept. - Clinging To A Scheme


Rogue Wave - Permalight


Spoon - Transference


Surfer Blood - Astro Coast


Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks


Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Mux044: January 2010

Two new tracks and a lot of old favorites.

Download or stream off drop.io.

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
2. Black Kids - I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You (EP version)
3. The Joggers - Wicked Light Sleeper
4. Jay Reatard - I Know A Place
5. Radiohead - Bones
6. Vampire Weekend - Giving Up The Gun
7. Spoon - Out Go The Lights
8. The Kills - Black Balloon
9. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark
10. Los Campesinos! - Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
11. Cut Copy - Bright Neon Payphone
12. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country

JDK's The Best Mix Ever (2009 Edition)

My taste in music is constantly shifting. If nothing else, on any given year I'll listen to thousands of new songs.

So here are my current favorite songs ever. Note the list tends to skew toward current fare - mostly because I didn't start listening to good music until 2004.

Unfortunately, this beast is over 100 MB, so you'll have to brave the dark waters of Megaupload to download it.

JDK's The Best Mix Ever (2009 Edition) by jdkentala

And thus:

1. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. The Walkmen - The Rat
3. Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI
4. Why? - Fatalist Palmistry
5. The Thermals - A Pillar of Salt
6. Jay Reatard - Nightmares
7. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
8. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
9. The National - Slow Show
10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
11. The Microphones - The Moon
12. Deerhunter - Nothing Ever Happened
13. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - In This Home On Ice
14. Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything
15. Frightened Rabbit - Head Rolls Off
16. Smog - Teenage Spaceship
17. Rogue Wave - Endless Shovel
18. Radiohead - The Tourist

Saturday: All the albums I listened to plus my eight most favorites. Sunday: Notable albums that didn't make the top-eight cut.

Mux017: January 2009, the reissue

I'm just going to keep making these as I toil on this ungodly-long section of the Arc shot list.

Hmm, I wonder what this link is...

1. The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me
2. The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
3. The Kills - Last Day of Magic
4. Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
5. Mount Eerie - Voice In Headphones
6. Modest Mouse - Broke
7. Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
8. Friendly Fires - On Board
9. WHY? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under
10. Animal Collective - Brothersport
11. The Dodos - The Season
12. Max Tundra - Which Song

Mux029: A.M. / Favorite albums of 2009 (thus far, again)

Something a little more mellow this time around.

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1. The Antlers - Two
2. Why? - January Twenty Something
3. The Thermals - At The Bottom of the Sea
4. Yeasayer - 2080
5. Elliott Smith - Rose Parade
6. The Rural Alberta Advantage - The Air
7. Frightened Rabbit - My Backwards Walk
8. Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
9. The National - About Today

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Also, another theoretical of if a gun was to my head, these would be my ten most-favorite albums of the year (thus far, alphabetically):

1. The Antlers - Hospice
2. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
3. Dan Deacon - Bromst
4. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
6. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
7. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
8. Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship
9. We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls
10. Why? - Eskimo Snow

JDK Radio 005: My Brain Is Insane

Second playlist of the day. Fifth installment of semi-themed JDK Radio. (Whereas The Muxtapes are mostly new music.)

And if you happen to be in the presence of anyone older than 40, I suggest you listen to the last track in private.

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The tracks:

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper
2. A.C. Newman - Miracle Drug
3. Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
4. Green Day - Brain Stew
5. The Shout Out Louds - Wish I Was Dead
6. Modest Mouse - Medication
7. Elliott Smith - King's Crossing
8. Sleater-Kinney - Jumpers
9. The National - Abel
10. Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts

Mux017

Like any good procrastinating casual-hipster, this is culled from an eclectic group of Best of 2008 albums and the like. And also the Pitchfork 500 book I got for Christmas.

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1. The Magnetic Fields - Take Ecstasy With Me
2. The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno
3. The Kills - Last Day of Magic
4. Frightened Rabbit - The Twist
5. Mount Eerie - Voice In Headphones
6. Modest Mouse - Broke
7. Hot Chip - One Pure Thought
8. Friendly Fires - On Board
9. Why? - A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under
10. Animal Collective - Brothersport
11. The Dodos - The Season
12. Max Tundra - Which Song