Mux175: Mr. Mux Doffs His Cap

Boom.

1. TV on the Radio - Quartz (Seeds)
2. Daft Punk - One More Time (Discovery)
3. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Wanna Be Cool (Surf)
4. Passion Pit - Five Foot Ten (1) (Kindred)
5. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Ur Life One Night (Multi-Love)
6. Sonic Youth - Rats (Rather Ripped)
7. Caribou - Dive (Our Love)
8. Stars - Going Going Gone (Live) (Sad Robots)
9. Moonface - Black Is Back In Style (Julia With Blue Jeans On)
10. Grizzly Bear - Colorado (Yellow House)
11. Led Zeppelin - Ramble On (Led Zeppelin II)
12. Lightning Bolt - The Metal East (Fantasy Empire)

TRT 49:14

2015 music: Donnie Trumpet, Lightning Bolt, Passion Pit, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Mux173: A Midsummer Night's Mux

Boom.

POST-DAMAGE CONTROL: Everything is fine now. Just a little malfunction related to inattention. But everything's fine now. We're all fine here... how are you?

DAMAGE CONTROL: Okay, I totally fucked up the ending. I had to jump through hoops to take off the end of the Donnie Trumpet song that I forgot to align the start so that it wouldn't overlook with "Soft Revolution." Fixing...

I had to make this in Audacity on my laptop, and given that I had to check online to figure out how to do pretty much everything, there might be some jank in this. If that's the case, I'll just remake it on my iMac sometime between now and 2018.

Well, given that zero of you didn't even bother guessing the titles based on antonyms, I wasn't even going to make this until at least one person asked nicely. But no one did. So here you go, ungrateful jerks. Enjoy these while they last. I thought I would've been threatened with a lawsuit long before I stopped giving a shit.

I also don't have my email list with me, so get used to checking my Twitter (@JDKworks) around the 1st and 15th for the link.

1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Multi-Love (Multi-Love)
2. Tame Impala - Desire Be Desire Go (Innerspeaker)
3. Shamir - Head In The Clouds (Ratchet)
4. Daft Punk - Megamix 2 (DJ Hero Soundtrack)
5. TV on the Radio - Happy Idiot (Seeds)
6. Caribou - Second Chance (Our Love)
7. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - I Want To Make It All Right (Acme)
8. Born Ruffians - Foxes Mate For Life (Red, Yellow and Blue)
9. The Hold Steady - Spinners (Teeth Dreams)
10. Ride - Twisterella (Going Blank Again)
11. Stars - Soft Revolution (Set Yourself On Fire)
12. Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Slip Slide (Surf)

TRT 47:25

Rookies: Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Shamir, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

2015 music: Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment, Shamir, Unknown Mortal Orchestra

Mux171: Darkness On The Edge of Muxtown

Boom.

1. Led Zeppelin - Your Time Is Gonna Come (Led Zeppelin)
2. Ty Segall - The Hand (The Manipulator)
3. Blue Oyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper (Agents of Fortune)
4. The Strokes - Reptilia (Room On Fire)
5. Lightning Bolt - Horsepower (Fantasy Empire)
6. Wire - Shifting (Wire)
7. Moonface - Quickfire, I Tried (Heartbreaking Bravery)
8. Stars - The First Five Times (Set Yourself On Fire)
9. Courtney Barnett - Nobody Really Cares If You Go To The Party (Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit)
10. Tortoise - The Equator (TNT)
11. Caribou - Bowls (Swim)
12. The Juan Maclean - Happy House (Single / The Future Will Come)

TRT 59:23

Rookies: Blue Oyster Cult, Moonface

2015 music: Courtney Barnett, Lightning Bolt, Wire

Mux168: April 2015

Boom.

1. Will Butler - What You Want (Policy)
2. TV on the Radio - Could You (Seeds)
3. Ex Hex - Beast (Rips)
4. Queens of the Stone Age - Smooth Sailing (...Like Clockwork)
5. Iceage - Let It Vanish (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
6. Viet Cong - Pointless Experience (Viet Cong)
7. Arcade Fire - Joan of Arc (Reflektor)
8. Split Single - My Heart Is Your Shadow (Fragmented World)
9. Death From Above 1979 - Crystal Ball (The Physical World)
10. Radiohead - House of Cards (In Rainbows)
11. Stars - Set Yourself On Fire (Set Yourself On Fire) (For JCD and JF, wherever you are)
12. The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize (The Soft Bulletin)

TRT 48:45

Rookies: Will Butler

2015 music: Viet Cong, Will Butler

Mux068: January 2011

New year, old music.

Download at Megaupload.com. Stream below.



1. The National - Secret Meeting
2. The Magnetic Fields - I Don't Want To Get Over You
3. The New Pornographers - Letter From An Occupant
4. Stars - Elevator Love Letter
5. LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
6. Four Tet - Smile Around The Face
7. The Knife - Heartbeats
8. Robyn - Hang With Me
9. My Bloody Valentine - Soon (Glider Version)
10. Spoon - The Ghost of You Lingers
11. Neil Young - Rockin' In The Free World (Electric)
12. Lightning Bolt - Ride the Sky

Mux rookies:
Neil Young
Robyn

Mux052: Rookies 2

Trying to get lightning to strike twice, given my Rookies 1 muxtape is one of the better mixes I've made (Mux041 under Important Stuff on yon sidebar). Those usually happen by accident, though, so, if nothing else, here are some songs I like by bands that haven't ever appeared on one of my mixes.

Download or stream at drop.io.

1. Jimmy Eat World - Sweetness
2. Stars - Ageless Beauty
3. Shout Out Louds - Please Please Please
4. Dr. Dog - Where'd All The Time Go?
5. Dom - Burn Bridges
6. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
7. The Drums - I Felt Stupid
8. Fujiya & Miyagi - Collarbone
9. Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket
10. Jens Lekman - Maple Leaves
11. Built To Spill - Carry The Zero

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