Mux217: Mr. Mux Breathes The Wild

Download or stream.

1. Japandroids - North East South West (Near To The Wild Heart of Life)
2. Craig Finn - Preludes (We All Want The Same Things)
3. LVL UP - The Closing Door (Return To Love)
4. Muncie Girls - Respect (From Caplan To Belize)
5. Cadence Weapon - Cheval (Hope In Dirt City)
6. Junior Boys - Bits & Pieces (Begone Dull Care)
7. Neon Indian - The Glitzy Hive (VEGA INTL. Night School)
8. Pile - Dogs (A Hairshirt of Purpose)
9. Pinegrove - Cadmium (Cardinal)
10. Preoccupations - Memory (Edit) (Preoccupations)
11. Phantogram - Barking Dog (Three)
12. Weezer - Surf Wax America (The Blue Album)

TRT 46:31

2017 music: Craig Finn, Japandroids, Pile

Rookies: Craig Finn, Pile

Mux213: Mr. Mux Makes A Mess

Download or stream.

1. Devo - Gut Feeling (Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!)
2. Queens of The Stone Age - I Sat By The Ocean (...Like Clockwork)
3. Franz Ferdinand - Cheating On You (Franz Ferdinand)
4. Elliott Smith - Pretty (Ugly Before) (From A Basement On The Hill)
5. Cloud Nothings - Up To The Surface (Life Without Sound)
6. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb (The Wall)
7. Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (So This Is Goodbye)
8. Gorillaz - Superfast Jellyfish (Plastic Beach)
9. Big Boi - Mama Told Me (Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors)
10. Wolf Parade - Floating World (EP 4)
11. Japandroids - I'm Sorry (For Not Finding You Sooner) (Near To The Wild Heart of Life)
12. Radiohead - Black Star (The Bends)

TRT 45:23

2017 music: Cloud Nothings, Japandroids

Mux202: September 2016

Download or stream.

1. Beach Slang - Punks In A Disco Bar (A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings)
2. Muncie Girls - I Don't Want To Talk About It (From Caplan To Belize)
3. Silversun Pickups - Well Thought Out Twinkles (Carnavas)
4. Car Seat Headrest - 1937 State Park (Teens of Denial)
5. Tegan and Sara - Boyfriend (Love You To Death)
6. Junior Boys - Teach Me How To Fight (Last Exit)
7. The Avalanches - Subways (Wildflower)
8. Pinegrove - Then Again (Cardinal)
9. The Kills - Days of Why And How (Ash & Ice)
10. Nothing - Curse of the Sun (Tired of Tomorrow)
11. Dinosaur Jr. - Be A Part (Give A Glimpse of What Yer Not)
12. Caribou - Sun (Swim)

TRT 47:39

Rookies: Muncie Girls, Nothing, Pinegrove, Silversun Pickups

2016 music: The Avalanches, Beach Slang, Car Seat Headrest, Dinosaur Jr., The Kills, Muncie Girls, Nothing, Pinegrove, Tegan and Sara

Mux192: April 2016

Download or stream.

1. LNZNDRF - Beneath The Black Sea (LNZNDRF)
2. Junior Boys - What You Won't Do For Love (JDK Heads And Tails Edit) (Big Black Coat)
3. Michael Jackson - Rock With You (Off The Wall)
4. Porches - Mood (Pool)
5. !!! - Bend Over Beethoven (Myth Takes)
6. Spoon - My Mathematical Mind (Gimme Fiction)
7. The Thermals - My Heart Went Cold (We Disappear)
8. Ty Segall - Candy Sam (Emotional Mugger)
9. Aesop Rock - The Harbor Is Yours (None Shall Pass)
10. Royksopp - Monument (feat. Robyn) (The Inevitable End)
11. Ride - OX4 (Going Blank Again)
12. Jens Lekman - And I Remember Every Kiss (Night Falls Over Kortedala)

TRT 53:50

Rookies: LNZNDRF

2016 music: Junior Boys, LNZNDRF, Porches, The Thermals, Ty Segall

Mux186: January 2016

Download or stream.

Early, as promised.

1. Bear In Heaven - Autumn (Time Is Over One Day Old)
2. !!! - Lucy Mongoosey (As If)
3. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (Quality Control)
4. Chvrches - Lies (The Bones of What You Believe)
5. Junior Boys - Big Black Coat (Big Black Coat) (For JF, wherever you are)
6. Deerhunter - Duplex Planet (Fading Frontier)
7. Protomartyr - Cowards Starve (The Agent Intellect)
8. Wavves X Cloud Nothings - No Life For Me (No Life For Me)
9. Spoon - Anything You Want (Girls Can Tell)
10. Ride - Time Machine (JDK Intro Edit) (Going Blank Again)
11. The Mountain Goats - Jeff Davis County Blues (All Hail West Texas)
12. Waxahatchee - Bonfire (Ivy Tripp)

TRT 45:17

Rookies: Protomartyr

2015 music: !!!, Deerhunter, Protomartyr, Wavves X Cloud Nothings, Waxahatchee

2016 music: Junior Boys

Mux184: December 2015

Download or stream. The choice is yours.

Another long one. (That's what she said.) Blame it on a last-minute spin of Ride's Going Blank Again and including the epic "Grasshopper" to top off this Thanksgiving long-player.

1. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow (Loveless)
2. Jack White - Lazaretto (Lazaretto)
3. The New Pornographers - Born With A Sound (Brill Bruisers)
4. Spoon - Take A Walk (Girls Can Tell)
5. Sonic Youth - Purr (Dirty)
6. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Drain The Blood (Hometowns)
7. The Microphones - The Moon (The Glow Pt. 2)*
8. !!! - Freedom! '15 (As If)
9. Junior Boys - Over It (Big Black Coat [Advance])
10. Big Grams - Lights On (Big Grams)
11. Deerhunter - Ad Astra (Fading Frontier)
12. Ride - Grasshopper (Going Blank Again)

TRT 54:21

2015 music: !!!, Big Grams, Deerhunter, Junior Boys (2016, actually)

*Nope, this isn't a repeat. I did use an acoustic version of "The Moon" on an earlier mux that I found on the netherregions of someone's P2P shared folder.

Mux116: January 2013

Another grab bag (Original download expired.)

1. The Weakerthans - Aside (Left and Leaving)
2. Japandroids - Fire's Highway (Celebration Rock) (for JCD)
3. Spoon - Don't You Evah (Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga)
4. Ty Segall Band - The Tongue (Slaughterhouse)
5. YACHT - Love In The Dark (Shangri-La)
6. Sonic Youth - Do You Believe In Rapture? (Rather Ripped)
7. Junior Boys - Under The Sun (iTunes Session)
8. The Velvet Underground - Heroin (The Velvet Underground and Nico)
9. The Who - Behind Blue Eyes (Who's Next)
10. Ride - Time of Her Time (Going Blank Again)
11. The New Pornographers - Stacked Crooked (Twin Cinema)
12. Dum Dum Girls - Season In Hell (End of Daze EP)

Rookies: Dum Dum Girls, The Weakerthans

TRT 49:58

Mux094: February 2012

Dropped in the Box.

Yeah yeah yeah, strange that, for all my gushing over Cloud Nothings there's none of Attack On Memory here. Not a huge secret, but I compile the tracklists pretty much the moment I finish one Mux, and I spend about two weeks piecing it together and swapping stuff out. So I already had the tracks before CN's album came out. This one is long enough as it is, so I took off the grafted-on "Wasted Days" finale since that beast runs nine minutes.

1. Superchunk - Digging For Something (Majesty Shredding)
2. Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes (More Adventurous / Rock Band 3)
3. Midlake - Roscoe (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
4. Weekend - The One You Want (Red EP)
5. Junior Boys - In The Morning (So This Is Goodbye)
6. Four Tet - You Could Ruin My Day (Pause)
7. Hot Chip - The Warning (The Warning)
8. John Mayer - Kid A (Radiohead cover) (Bigger Than My Body single)
9. Fucked Up - Ship of Fools (David Comes To Life)
10. Deerhunter - Strange Lights (Cryptograms)

TRT 42:59.

Rookies:
John Mayer (and I don't think he'll ever show up on a Mux again)
Midlake

Mux087: Bronchitis Sux

Dropped.

1. Klaxons - Echoes (Surfing The Void)
2. Junior Boys - Itchy Fingers (It's All True)
3. Radiohead - Staircase (Live from the Basement) (web rip)
4. Neon Indian - Suns Irrupt (Era Extrana)
5. TV on the Radio - Will Do (Nine Types of Light)
6. Washed Out - Within and Without (Within and Without)
7. Prefuse 73 - The Only Thief To Steal Tonality (The Only She Chapters)
8. Feist - Undiscovered Firsts (Metals)
9. Bon Iver - Perth (Bon Iver)
10. Weekend - Untitled (Sports)

Rookies:
Neon Indian

Mux080: July 2011

In the Box.

1. Professor Murder - The Mountain
2. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
3. Robyn - Dancing On My Own
4. The Kills - Nail In My Coffin
5. Klaxons - Gravity's Rainbow
6. Battles - Futura
7. Black Lips - Modern Art
8. Coma Cinema - Caroline, Please Kill Me
9. The Joggers - White Madam
10. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Belong
11. Junior Boys - Banana Ripple

Rookies:
Black Lips
Cyndi Lauper

The Archive: Mux007: Noisy

Lest they fade into oblivion, I've taken the task upon myself to listen to all my Muxes. If nothing else, it's a nice progression of my listening tastes starting way back in May 2008.

While most are pretty good (that is, back in the era before I was totally obsessed with sequencing), there are some surprises that, like grandmaster Mux028, just flow.

One such is Mux007: Noisy, which, in this horrific post-drop.io world, has been added to my Dropbox. Hit it up, and here are the tracks:

1. No Age - Teen Creeps
2. Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness
3. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
4. Son of Supercar - When Have I Been Wrong?
5. Les Savy Fav - Raging In The Plague Age
6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Don't Think Lover
7. Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
8. Jay Reatard - Turning Blue (Blood Visions versions)
9. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
10. The Knife - We Share Our Mothers' Health
11. Justice - New Jack
12. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Fennesz Mix)

And that "We Share Our Mothers' Health" to "New Jack" transition? Get out of here.

Mux069: Electronic 2

Apologies to the frothing masses who didn't get their midmonth Mux on the midmonth day. I think I've responded to most of the deluge of needy e-mails. If I haven't gotten around to you: I'm sorry. Let's stay friends.

• Download: Mux069: Electronic 2

Tracks:
1. James Blake - CMYK
2. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
3. Boards of Canada - Roygbiv
4. Deerhunter - Helicopter (Diplo & Lunice Remix)
5. Junior Boys - Last Exit
6. Battles - Leyendecker
7. Burial - Archangel
8. How To Dress Well - Ready For The World
9. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
10. The Knife - Still Light
11. Crystal Castles - Untrust Us (Fade Out)

Making their mux debut:
Burial
How To Dress Well
James Blake

JDK Radio 010: Night 2

Download or stream off drop.io.

1. Radiohead - Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
2. !!! - Must Be the Moon
3. Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up
4. Daft Punk - Da Funk
5. Soulwax - NY Excuse (Nite Version)
6. The Juan Maclean - Give Me Every Little Thing
7. Annie - Heartbeat
8. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
9. Friendly Fires - Skeleton Boy
10. The Knife - Neverland
11. LCD Soundsystem - Beat Connection (Album Version)
12. Royksopp - Follow My Ruin
13. DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
14. Justice - Phantom Pt. II (Soulwax Nite Version)
15. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Fennesz Mix)

JDK's 2009 in Electronic

Again, very few of these are attached to my favorite albums of the year, but these set themselves apart from the gigantic mass of music that comes out at any given year.

Stream or download off drop.io.

1. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero
2. Dizzee Rascal - Holiday
3. Junior Boys - Hazel
4. Bibio - Fire Ant
5. Royksopp - Happy Up Here
6. Handsome Furs - Radio Kalininbrad
7. Dan Deacon - Snookered
8. Memory Tapes - Plain Material
9. Fuck Buttons - Flight of the Feathered Serpent
10. Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
11. Health - In Violet

Thursday: favorite "random" songs of the year (e.g. some hip-hop, some weird stuff, etc.). Friday: my favorite songs at this point in my life (sans "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins because somehow I forgot it). Saturday: All the albums I listened to plus my eight most favorites. Sunday: Notable albums that didn't make the top-eight cut.

Mux007: Noisy, the reissue

The madness is almost done.

Dropped.

1. No Age - Teen Creeps
2. Sleater-Kinney - Wilderness
3. TV on the Radio - Staring at the Sun
4. Son of Supercar - When Have I Been Wrong?
5. Les Savy Fav - Raging in the Plague Age
6. A Place To Bury Strangers - Don't Think Lover
7. Broken Social Scene - Ibi Dreams of Pavement (A Better Day)
8. Jay Reatard - Turning Blue (Blood Visions Version)
9. Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
10. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health
11. Justice - New Jack
12. Junior Boys - Last Exit (Fennesz Mix)

Mux019: March 2009, the reissue

Boomshakalaka

1. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
2. Junior Boys - Hazel
3. Phoenix - 1901
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Today's Lesson
5. The National - So Far Around The Bend
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life
8. Swan Lake - Widow's Walk
9. The Thermals - Power Doesn't Run On Nothing
10. Dan Deacon - Snookered

JDK Dance Party #7: Thanksdancing

Forgive the horrid title, but the album art makes up for it.

Stream or download at, yet again, the fabulous drop.io.

1. M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Diplo Street Remix)
2. Brother Ali - Crown Jewel
3. MGMT - Time To Pretend
4. CSS - Music Is My Hot Sex
5. Phoenix - Everything Is Everything
6. Justice - D.A.N.C.E.
7. Annie - I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me (off the Don't Stop 2008 leak)
8. Junior Boys - Hazel
9. The-Dream - Walkin' on the Moon
10. Kylie Minogue - Can't Get You Out of My Head
11. Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
12. Hot Chip - Ready For The Floor
13. Simian Mobile Disco - It's the Beat (Album version)
14. The Sounds - Rock 'N Roll
15. The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
16. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass Version)

JDK Radio 006: Night

Wait until it's dark.

Download via drop.io.

Tracks:

1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (vs. HEALTH)
3. Justice - Waters of Nazareth
4. Burial - Archangel
5. Battles - Leyendecker
6. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval
7. Broken Social Scene - Hotel
8. Radiohead - Fog
9. TV on the Radio - DLZ
10. RJD2 - Here's What's Left
11. Junior Boys - Last Exit
12. Flying Lotus - Auntie's Lock / Infinitum

Mux027: Chillin' II

July has seen far too many playlists. Today I'll post two, which are, relatively, short. And I like them.

The tracks:

1. The-Dream - Walkin' on the Moon
2. Junior Boys - Bellona
3. CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above
4. Yeasayer - Sunrise
5. Daft Punk - Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger
6. Bibio - Fire Ant
7. Discovery - I Want You Back
8. Kanye West - Flashing Lights
9. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

Mux019: March 2009

Before I bury it, here's a reminder that my feature film, Transmissions, is available to stream and download at this blog and right below this post.

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It's been a while since I threw down a mix. Or just a month, really. But before I tackle this enormous glut of music I just downloaded, here are some good tracks from other pretty-new stuff. Download the mix here. The tracks:

1. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
2. Junior Boys - Hazel
3. Phoenix - 1901
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Today's Lesson
5. The National - So Far Around The Bend
6. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Young Adult Friction
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Dull Life
8. Swan Lake - Widow's Walk
9. The Thermals - Power Doesn't Run On Nothing
10. Dan Deacon - Snookered