Mux217: Mr. Mux Breathes The Wild

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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

Mux215: Mr. Mux Gets The Hell Out of Here

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1. Neon Indian - Polish Girl (Era Extraña)
2. Jens Lekman - How We Met, The Long Version (Life Will See You Now)
3. The Radio Dept. - Where Damage Isn't Done (Less Matters)
4. Meat Wave - Glass Teeth (The Incessant)
5. Strand of Oaks - Everything (Hard Love)
6. Pink Floyd - Us And Them (Dark Side of The Moon)
7. Thundercat - Tokyo (Drunk)
8. Taylor Swift - Style (1989)
9. Atoms For Peace - Dropped (Amok)
10. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better (You Could Have It So Much Better... With Franz Ferdinand)
11. Japandroids - Midnight To Morning (Near To The Wild Heart of Life)
12. Crystal Fairy - Crystal Fairy (Crystal Fairy)

TRT 47:58

Rookies: Crystal Fairy, Meat Wave

2017 music: Crystal Fairy, Japandroids, Jens Lekman, Meat Wave, Strand of Oaks, Thundercat

Mux191: Mr. Mux Kicks The Dirt

The choice is yours.

1. The Go! Team - Panther Dash (Thunder, Lightning, Strike [UK Version])
2. Neon Indian - Annie (VEGA INTL. Night School)
3. Cheatahs - Channel View (Mythologies)
4. Hop Along - Tibetan Pop Stars (Get Disowned)
5. The Hold Steady - You Can Make Him Like You (Boys And Girls In America)
6. Jamie xx - Girl (In Colour)
7. EL VY - It's A Game (Return To The Moon)
8. Joy Division - Day of the Lords (Unknown Pleasures)
9. Santigold - Before The Fire (99 Cents)
10. HEALTH - Life (Purity Ring Remix)
11. Shearwater - A Long Time Away (Jet Plane And Oxbow)
12. Sufjan Stevens - Chicago (Demo) (Illinois)

TRT 45:12

Rookies: Santigold

2016 music: Shearwater

Mux189: Mr. Mux Eats His Hat

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Digging into the vault with some older cuts by Caribou, !!!, Boards of Canada, and Radiohead. Some new and newish stuff as well. And after last mux's briefness, this one hits 58:46, but that's mostly because of a nine-minute closer. Well, it can't be nearly as bad as that time I put Fucked Up's 22-minute "ONNO" on a mux.

1. Caribou - Yeti (The Milk of Human Kindness)
2. !!! - Yadnus (Myth Takes)
3. Michael Jackson - Get On The Floor (Off The Wall)
4. Boards of Canada - Telephasic Workshop (Music Has The Right To Children)
5. HEALTH - New Coke (Death Magic)
6. Tortoise - Hot Coffee (The Catatrophist)
7. Radiohead - Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was (The Bends)
8. Shearwater - Prime (Jet Plane And Oxbow)
9. Cheatahs - Reverie Bravo (Mythologies)
10. Wolfmother - Where Eagles Have Been (Wolfmother)
11. Neon Indian - News From The Sun (Live Bootleg) (VEGA INTL. Night School)
12. Brian Eno & Karl Hyde - Return (High Life)

TRT 58:46

Rookies: Shearwater

2016 music: Shearwater, Tortoise

Mux185: Mr. Mux Trims The Tree

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I changed the lineup approximately 27 times, so I figured just to release it into the wild. It's not that I couldn't get a sequence going but I just kept finding better songs. Basically there were at least five different viable versions of this.

Also, apologies that the "Flora > Fauna" into "Pastel Assassins" butt-cut is really intense and jarring. It worked better in my head when they were the same tempo. I tried fading out "Flora" but it's just too short to cut shorter. But how about that sweet transition from the Neon Indian outro into the SFX of the "Puzzles" intro? Butter. Also: No one cares.

The Upstream Color soundtrack is also on my writing playlist (e.g. the roughly two hours daily I spend writing the final Chronicle book, my next screenplay, and a freewrite that's starting to take shape as... something?), and beyond the gimmick of Shane Carruth doing the score, it's actually really fucking good. Glad I picked the track with the shortest Walden quote as its title. He really upped his game with the soundtrack and cinematography since Primer. Let's just hope The Modern Ocean, with all its star power, comes out within the decade.

Oh, right, I'm supposed to be talking about music. Well, I think I greatly improved my sequencing in 2015, and while it'll still technically be 2015 when I do it, I'm sure Christmas will come early in the form of Mux186: January 2016. That is, if your idea of Christmas is a 45-minute-ish mixtape that's whim to my mad-scientist leanings. As for continuing on into 2016, the rules will remain the same, even though I recently routed them when Battles dropped and for a while was completely irresistible. I'll hit Mux200 in summer and am already stockpiling tracks for Retromux 2; hard to do considering that two of the bands on 001 and 100 have broken up, other bands have gone crap, and some barely put out music. But hey, if I have to do it once every four years, I think I can manage. I'm sure a few lite themes might make a guest appearance, like another Rookies. No promises on that front, but barring some cataclysm, expecting two muxes a month as always, lest someone finally gives me a DMCA takedown. And then, shit, I'll just use my secret email list to hit everyone up for their sweet pirate mux action.

1. Ty Segall - Finger (Melted)
2. Wavves - Heavy Metal Detox (V)
3. Beach Slang - Ride The Wild Haze (The Things We Do To Find People Who Feel Like Us)
4. Hop Along - Sister Cities (Painted Shut)
5. Ryan Adams - All You Had To Do Was Stay (1989)
6. Wilco - Radio Cure (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)
7. Shane Carruth - I Love To Be Alone (Upstream Color Original Soundtrack)
8. Battles - Flora > Fauna (La Di Da Di)
9. Prefuse 73 - Pastel Assassins (Surrounded By Silence)
10. HEALTH - L.A. Looks (Death Magic)
11. Neon Indian - Techno Clique (VEGA INTL. Night School)
12. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Puzzles (Multi-Love)

TRT 45:00 on the nose.

Rookies: Beach Slang, Hop Along, Shane Carruth

2015 music: Battles, Beach Slang, HEALTH, Hop Along, Neon Indian, Ryan Adams, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wavves

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."

Mux089: Twenty-Six Bullshit Years

Edit: Posting this now so it doesn't clutter up next week's Meridien K posts.

In the Box.

1. St. Vincent - Chloe In The Afternoon (Strange Mercy)
2. Sleater-Kinney - Oh! (One Beat)
3. Sun Kil Moon - Lily and Parrots (Ghosts of the Great Highway)
4. Girls - Die (Father, Son, Holy Ghost)
5. The War On Drugs - I Was There (Slave Ambient)
6. The Rapture - How Deep Is Your Love? (In The Grace of Your Love)
7. Neon Indian - Halogen (I Could Be A Shadow) (Era Extrana)
8. Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely (Kid A)
9. Boards of Canada - Over the Horizon Radar (Geogaddi)
10. Iceage - You're Blessed (New Brigade)
11. James Blake - I Never Learnt To Share (James Blake)
12. The Mountain Goats - This Year (The Sunset Tree)

Rookies: The Rapture St. Vincent

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