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

Mux077: Chillin' III

Chillin' is back with some BPM-matching.

BOOM.

1. Jay-Z - Izzo (H.O.V.A.)
2. Flying Lotus - Tea Leaf Dancers
3. People Under The Stairs - The Hang Loose
4. Daft Punk - Da Funk
5. Toro Y Moi - New Beat
6. Radiohead - Lotus Flower
7. Annie - Heartbeat
8. Gold Panda - Marriage
9. Crystal Castles - Knights
10. The Roots - Right On
11. Kanye West - Slow Jamz (feat. Twista)
12. Big Boi - Lookin' For Ya

Rookies:

• Annie
• People Under The Stairs
• Toro Y Moi

Upcoming music releases for the rest of 2010

This has already been a ridiculously-awesome year for music, and there's still more coming in these last four months. Off the top of my head, this is what I'll be looking forward to. I probably missed some stuff, so fill me in via the comments.

• Battles - Untitled Tyondai Braxton-less album (in production)
  
• Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer
  
• Daft Punk - Tron Legacy soundtrack
  
• Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest (plus at least a bonus EP or, hell, a secret double album)
  
• The Hood Internet - The Mixtape Vol. V (expected)
  
• Japandroids - 7" Singles #3, 4, and 5 (following "Art Czars" and "Younger Us")
  
• Kanye West - Album formerly titled Good Ass Job
  
• Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV
  
• Marnie Stern - Marnie Stern
  
• Michael Jackson - Untitled posthumous release
  
• No Age - Everything In Between (leaked)
  
• Of Montreal - False Priest (leaked)
  
• Radiohead - Untitled eighth album (rumored; unlikely)
  
• Sufjan Stevens (feat. The National?) - The Age of Adz
  
• The Thermals - Personal Life (leaked)
  
• The Walkmen - Lisbon (leaked)
  
• Weezer - Hurley (it should have at least one decent song, right?)

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

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

JDK Radio 003: Beats

Discovering that beat-matching is something I don't excel at, but I've been listening to a lot of hip-hop/rap/whatever-you-want-to-call-it lately.