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

Mux213: Mr. Mux Makes A Mess

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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

Mux211: Mr. Mux On Ice!

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1. Radiohead - 15 Step (In Rainbows)
2. Weezer - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here (The Blue Album)
3. Band of Horses - Wicked Gil (Everything All The Time)
4. Car Seat Headrest - Unforgiving Girl (She's Not An) (Teens of Denial)
5. Future of The Left - Stand By / Your Manatee (Travels With Myself And Another)
6. Angel Olsen - Those Were The Days (My Woman)
7. Pink Floyd - Time / Breathe (Reprise) (Dark Side of The Moon)
8. Wye Oak - Trigger Finger (Tween)
9. The Kills - Whirling Eye (Ash & Ice)
10. Hop Along - Powerful Man (Painted Shut)
11. Midlake - Young Bride (The Trials of Van Occupanther)
12. Pinegrove - New Friends (Cardinal)

TRT 47:09

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

Mux061: Labor Daze / The Year of Archetype: Day 258

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Mystery tracklist!

I figure all two of you that jump at my muxes have already parsed the tracks. For those who haven't, or for those who want the tracklist to determine whether or not they will listen to this hipster slag:

1. Jay-Z - 99 Problems
2. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
3. Eyedea & Abilities - Paradise (JDK Edit)
4. Gorillaz - Dare
5. YACHT - I'm In Love With A Ripper
6. Four Tet - Twenty Three
7. The Unicorns - I Was Born (A Unicorn)
8. The Magnetic Fields - I Think I Need A New Heart
9. Jens Lekman - Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo
10. Pink Floyd - Fearless
11. The Mountain Goats - The Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton

And if you haven't figured it out already, I post muxes on the first and the fifteenth. I usually do newish music for my first-of-the-month mux, then either some oldish favorites or some sort of theme for the midmonth mux.

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Yesterday's post resulted in a relative deluge of texts and Facebook messages that, in brief, threatened DEATH if I quit Archetype. I thought prefacing the post-in-question with "I'm gonna air this out" meant it was sort of a theoretical exercise, but many took it literally. As I think I've mentioned several times, abandoning Arc is a ridiculous, childish, backward move, and to all involved it'd be disrespectful, unfair, and downright mean.

In the post I wanted to give some transparency to the often-conflicting process of filmmaking, which is, as this blog posits, quite often film-aching. It would be a lie to say it's always fun and easy. I guess I was misleading when I listed all the semi-valid reasons to just give up, and for those of you who were genuinely upset at what seemed like forfeiture, I apologize.

That said, I've pinned down a fifteen-day stretch at the start of October in which I think I have a very good shot at finishing what I need to get shot while it's still autumn-y outside; maybe I could even run a few marathon days and finish the bastard. I know it all sounds fairly dubious coming from me, given at this point I'm still getting everyone's availability and, as a result, can't unequivocally say that, for example, October 18 or October 30 or November 8 will be the last day of shooting. We'll know once we get there.

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Mux047: Long Players

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1. Broken Social Scene - World Sick
2. Battles - Atlas
3. YACHT - Summer Song
4. Hot Chip - One Life Stand
5. Four Tet - Love Cry
6. Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
7. Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo
8. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

JDK Radio 004: Le Clasique Roc Deux

Stretching the boundaries of what is both "classic" and possibly "rock." Whatever. I like it.

Also: Return of the cheesy-as-hell vinyl scratch SFX. Ripped off from Sirius XM Radio's Classic Vinyl channel that I oh-so-enjoyed before my parents switched to shitty Comcast cable (which doesn't include free XM radio).

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The tracks:
1. David Bowie - Five Years
2. Big Star - September Gurls
3. The Animals - The House of the Rising Sun
4. Edgar Winters Group - Frankenstein
5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6. The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)
7. Devo - Gut Feeling
8. Cream - White Room
9. Jimi Hendrix - If 6 Was 9 (Intro)
10. Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
11. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
12. The Who - Baba O'Reilly*

*"Teenage Wasteland" for all you troglodytes who don't know the real name of the song.

JDK Radio 001: Classic Rock

I hate it when songs fade out and screw with a playlist. So I took matters into my own hands:

But don't expect this to happen again or anything. Sometimes I just like to stream while online instead of downloading and junking up my iTunes library.