Mux194: May 2016

Download or stream.

1. Jamie xx - Gosh (In Colour)
2. Chvrches - Playing Dead (Every Open Eye)
3. M83 - Go! (Junk)
4. RJD2 - 2 More Dead (Dead Ringer)
5. Kanye West - Waves (The Life of Pablo)
6. Aesop Rock - We're Famous (Bazooka Tooth)
7. Prefuse 73 - Perverted Undertones (One Word Extinguisher)
8. Ty Segall - It's Over (Manipulator)
9. Parquet Courts - Human Performance (Human Performance)
10. TV on the Radio - Seeds (Seeds)
11. Deerhunter - Neither Of Us, Uncertainly (Microcastle)
12. Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover (Prince)

TRT 48:33

2016 music: Parquet Courts, Kanye West, M83

Mux190: March 2016

Download or stream.

1. Hot Chip - Thieves In The Night (One Life Stand)
2. DIIV - Under The Sun (Is The Is Are)
3. Royksopp - Poor Leno (Melody A.M.)
4. Porches - Shape (Pool)
5. Prefuse 73 - See More Than Just Stars (feat. Helado Negro) (Rivington Nao Rio)
6. Taylor Swift - Blank Space (1989)
7. Ty Segall - Feel (Manipulator)
8. Wilco - Pickled Ginger (Star Wars)
9. Mastodon - Creature Lives (JDK Intro Cut) (The Hunter)
10. Deerhunter - Carrion (Fading Frontier)
11. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away (Blackstar)
12. Broken Social Scene - KC Accidental (You Forgot It In People)

TRT 47:31

Rookies: Porches, Taylor Swift

2016 music: David Bowie, DIIV, Porches

Mux188: February 2016

Download or stream.

1. Protomartyr - The Devil In His Youth (The Agent Intellect)
2. Beach Slang - Throwaways (The Things We Do To Find People Like Us)
3. Chvrches - Never Ending Circles (Every Open Eye)
4. Veruca Salt - Eyes On You (Ghost Notes)
5. Swervedriver - Last Rites (I Wasn't Born To Lose You)
6. The Mountain Goats - Balance (All Hail West Texas)
7. David Bowie - Lazarus (Blackstar)
8. Battles - Dot Com (La Di Da Di)
9. Prefuse 73 - Now You're Leaving (Surrounded By Silence)
10. Big Grams - Goldmine Junkie (Big Grams)
11. Thundercat - Them Changes (The Beyond / Where The Giants Roam)
12. Jamie xx - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times) (feat. Young Thug and Popcaan) (In Colour)

TRT 38:37

Rookies: Veruca Salt

2016 music: David Bowie

Mux185: Mr. Mux Trims The Tree

Download or stream. The choice is yours.

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

Mux181: Mr. Mux Rakes Some Leaves

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1. TV on the Radio - Right Now (Seeds)
2. Metric - The Shade (Pagans In Vegas)
3. Swervedriver - English Subtitles (I Wasn't Born To Lose You)
4. Wilco - Random Name Generator (Star Wars)
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - The World Is Crowded (Multi-Love)
6. TLC - Creep (CrazySexyCool)
7. Miguel - Simple Things (Wildheart)
8. Prefuse 73 - Mojave Mating Call (Rivington Nao Rio)
9. DJ Shadow - The Number Song (Cut Chemist Party Mix) (Endtroducing... Deluxe Edition)
10. Battles - Dot Net (La Di Da Di)
11. Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)
12. Ryan Adams - Welcome To New York (1989)

TRT 50:06

Rookies: Swervedriver, TLC

2015 music: Battles, Metric, Miguel, Prefuse 73, Ryan Adams, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Wilco

Mux172: June 2015

Boom.

Apologies for the last two muxes ending with very long songs. Or, in this case, two very long songs. But it makes sense... I think.

1. The Tallest Man On Earth - Darkness of the Dream (Dark Bird Is Home)
2. Will Butler - Son of God (Policy)
3. Toro Y Moi - Spell It Out (What For?)
4. Hot Chip - Love Is The Future (Why Make Sense?)
5. Crystal Castles - Not In Love (Album Version) (Crystal Castles II)
6. Blanck Mass - Atrophies (Dumb Flesh)
7. Prefuse 73 - Infrared (feat. Sam Dew) (Rivington Nao Rio)
8. RJD2 - Chicken-Bone Circuit (Dead Ringer)
9. Kendrick Lamar - How Much A Dollar Cost (feat. James Fauntleroy and Ronald Isley) (To Pimp A Butterfly)
10. Four Tet - First Thing (Rounds)
11. DJ Shadow - Stem / Long Stem (Endtroducing...)
12. Viet Cong - Death (Viet Cong)

TRT 56:42

Rookies: Blanck Mass

2015 music: Blanck Mass, Hot Chip, Kendrick Lamar, Prefuse 73, The Tallest Man On Earth, Toro Y Moi, Viet Cong, Will Butler

Mux151: Oregon Plates

Boom.

1. Strand of Oaks - Same Emotion (Heal)
2. Phantogram - The Day You Died (Voices)
3. Parquet Courts - What Color Is Blood? (Sunbathing Animals)
4. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Boys Turn Into Girls (Initiation Rites) (Sea When Absent)
5. St. Vincent - Digital Witness (St. Vincent)
6. Prefuse 73 - Choking You (One Word Extinguisher)
7. Wye Oak - Civilian (Civilian)
8. Cheatahs - Fall (Cheatahs)
9. Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (Led Zeppelin III)
10. Cloud Nothings - Giving Into Seeing (Here And Nowhere Else)
11. Mastodon - Tread Lightly (Once More 'Round The Sun)
12. King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King (Edit) (In The Court of the Crimson King)

Rookies: King Crimson, Strand of Oaks, A Sunny Day In Glasgow

2014 music: Cheatahs, Cloud Nothings, Mastodon, Parquet Courts, Phantogram, Strand of Oaks, St. Vincent A Sunny Day In Glasgow

Mux141: Jack The Ripper

Boom.

1. !!! - The Most Certain Sure (Strange Weather, Isn't It?)
2. Disclosure - F For U (Mary J. Blige version) (Settle remixes)
3. Prefuse 73 - The Color of Tempo (One Word Extinguisher)
4. The Range - Everything But (Nonfiction)
5. Chromatics - Let's Make This A Moment To Remember (Night Drive)
6. EMA - Satellites (The Future's Void)
7. Pissed Jeans - Cathouse (Honeys)
8. Metz - Leave Me Out (Leave Me Out / Dirty Shirt 7")
9. Black Lips - Boys In The Woods (Underneath the Rainbow)
10. The Hold Steady - I Hope This Whole Thing Didn't Frighten You (Teeth Dreams)
11. Cloud Nothings - I'm Not Part of Me (Here And Nowhere Else)
12. Nick Drake - Pink Moon (Pink Moon)

TRT 44:30

Rookies: Nick Drake

2014 music: Black Lips, Cloud Nothings Disclosure, EMA, The Hold Steady

Mux106: August 2012

After all this rock, I went a little electronic this time around.

Yep.

1. Hot Chip - Night and Day (In Our Heads)
2. Grimes - Oblivion (Visions)
3. Cut Copy - Alisa (Zonoscope)
4. Passion Pit - I'll Be Alright (Gossamer)
5. Prefuse 73 - The Only Hand To Hold (The Only She Chapters)
6. School of Seven Bells - White Wind (Ghostory)
7. Battles - White Electric (Gloss Drop)
8. Chromatics - Kill For Love (Kill For Love)
9. Liars - Brats (WIXIW)

TRT: 38:21

Rookies:
Grimes

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

Mux014: Chillin', the reissue

Pretty terrible sequencing, compared to the butter-smooth beatmatching of something like JDK Dance Party #7 (The MTV Party-To-Go of this generation), but some good songs. Just in a weird order.

Dropping like some beats.

1. TV on the Radio - Crying
2. Hot Chip - Boy From School
3. Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
4. Eyedea & Abilities - Exhausted Love
5. David Holmes - Theme / I.M.C.
6. Crystal Castles - Vanished
7. Prefuse 73 - Gratis
8. Rjd2 - Here's What's Left
9. DJ Earworm - Reckoner Lockdown (Kanye West vs. Radiohead)
10. Cut Copy - Lights and Music
11. Justice - One Minute To Midnight
12. Aesop Rock - Daylight