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

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

Mux167: Springtime For Mr. Mux / Hall of Famer #3

Boom.

1. Purity Ring - Bodyache (Another Eternity)
2. The Singles - Candy (Single)
3. Chromatics - I Can Never Be Myself When You're Around (Dear Tommy)
4. Belle and Sebastian - The Party Line (Girls In Peacetime Just Want To Dance)
5. David Bowie - Let's Dance (Let's Dance)
6. Felix Da Housecat - What She Wants (feat. James Murphy) (Devon Dazzle and the Neon Fever)
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - The Wind Cries Mary (Are You Experienced?)
8. Justin Timberlake - Don't Hold The Wall (The 20/20 Experience Vol. I)
9. Spoon - Outlier (They Want My Soul)
10. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval (TNT)
11. Caribou - Pelican Narrows (The Milk of Human Kindness)
12. Dan Deacon - Mind On Fire (Gliss Riffer)

I'm far too lazy to find all the separate muxes, but Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience Vol. 1 is the third album to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Said Hall is reserved for those rarest of albums in which all tracks miraculously find their way onto a mux. The first winner of such acclaim was Japandroids for their 2009 album Post-Nothing, followed by Cloud Nothing's Attack On Memory in 2012. Truly, no higher honor can be bestowed upon an album that is slowly-but-surely cannibalized by a seven-years-running, blog-based mixtape series.

TRT 51:16

Rookies: The Singles

2015 music: Belle and Sebastian, Chromatics, Dan Deacon, Purity Ring, The Singles

Mux156: October 2014

Update on 5/16/17: The link to the mux has been restored.

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With each advance single, I think Iceage might be making a huge post-punk move into album-of-the-year territory with their upcoming third LP. (Never mind that I say the same thing with each advance You're Dead! track by FlyLo.) Absolutely cannot stop listening to "The Lord's Favorite" (or watching the video, for the matter), and even the nonsensical ESL chorus is permanently lodged in my head. ("One-hundred Euro wine. I do believe in heaven and I do believe it's time.") Kids are way too young to be this talented. Nevermind that Iceage, after two albums of blistering punk ("White Rune" and "Morals" are, plainly said, really fucking awesome), feel right at home with a sort of rockabilly hoedown fronted by a slurred-voice Dane.

Also always nice to hear some new Juan Maclean. It's been forever since their last album and "Happy House." Even longer since Less Than Human and "Give Me Every Little Thing."

Requisite DFA track since, good god, the album isn't terrible but, good god x 2, actually good.

1. Iceage - The Lord's Favorite (Plowing Into The Field of Love)
2. Death From Above 1979 - Virgins (The Physical World) (For MS, wherever you are)
3. Jay Reatard - Turning Blue (Singles 06-07 version)
4. Braid - Damages! (No Coast)
5. The Clientele - I Had To Say This (Suburban Light)
6. Katy B - All My Lovin' (Little Red)
7. Daft Punk - Derezzed (TRON Legacy Soundtrack)
8. The Juan Maclean - Love Stops Here (In A Dream) (For JCD)
9. Tortoise - Gigantes (Beacons of Ancestorship)
10. Justin Timberlake - You Got It On (The 20/20 Experience Vol. II)
11. Kendrick Lamar - Bitch, Don't Kill My Vibe (Good Kid M.A.A.D City)
12. Night Beds - Dancing On My Own (Robyn cover) (AV Undercover Season 4) (For JET)

TRT 47:23

Rookies: Braid, Night Beds

2014 music: Braid, Death From Above 1979, Iceage, The Juan Maclean, Katy B, Night Beds (technically?)

Mux152: August 2014

Boom.

1. The National - Beautiful Head (The National) (For JET)
2. The Hold Steady - Wait A While (Teeth Dreams) (For HG)
3. Disclosure - Latch (feat. Sam Smith) (Settle) (For JCD)
4. Royksopp - 49 Percent (The Understanding)
5. The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers (Single Edit) (Echoes) (For MEF)
6. Brian Eno & Kyle Hyde - DBF (High Life)
7. Kanye West - Everything I Am (Graduation)
8. Kendrick Lamar - Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst (Edit) (Good Kid M.A.A.D. City)
9. Tortoise - Four-Day Interval (TNT)
10. Nick Drake - Roads (Pink Moon)
11. Daft Punk - Doin' It Right (Random Access Memories)
12. Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World (A Space In Time)

Rookies: Brian Eno & Kyle Hyde, Ten Years After
2014 music: Briano Eno & Karl Hyde, The Hold Steady

Mux138: January 2014

New year, new mux.

Boom.

1. Aesop Rock - Keep Off The Lawn (None Shall Pass)
2. Phantogram - Fall In Love (Voices)
3. HAIM - The Wire (Days Are Gone)
4. Chvrches - We Sink (The Bones of What You Believe)
5. !!! - Get That Rhythm Right (THR!!!ER)
6. Deerhunter - Pensacola (Monomania)
7. Iceage - Morals (Live in the Studio)
8. Tortoise - I Set My Face To The Hillside (TNT)
9. Feist - The Water (The Reminder)
10. Justin Timberlake - Blue Ocean Floor (The 20/20 Experience Part 1)
11. Oneohtrix Point Never - Ouroboros (Returnal)

TRT 47:01

Mux058: August 2010 Part II

Double muxes today. I made the first a while back, and I wanted to capitalize on some new tracks that have been floating around. Thus, August 2010 Part II.

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1. Best Coast - When I'm With You
2. Marnie Stern - For Ash
3. Titus Andronicus - My Time Outside The Womb
4. Frightened Rabbit - I Feel Better
5. Wolf Parade - Pobody's Nerfect
6. Menomena - Taos
7. Deerhunter - Revival
8. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round And Round
9. The Arcade Fire - Suburban War
10. Portishead - Roads
11. Tortoise - TNT

JDK's 2009 in Random

I'm not one to rigidly define music into infinite sub-genres. For instance, on my 2009 "rock" list, you could parse it between "indie-folk rock" (Grizzly Bear), "noise rock" (A Place To Bury Strangers), and "garage rock" (Japandroids).

That said, here are some tracks I couldn't really decide if they fell into the camp of rock or electronic. And there's some hip-hop that, by itself, wouldn't fill out a full roster since I'm not a particular connoisseur of that fine genre.

So, download or stream off drop.io.

1. The-Dream - Walkin' on the Moon
2. Brother Ali - Crown Jewel
3. Eyedea & Abilities - Burn Fetish
4. Tortoise - Prepare Your Coffin
5. Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
6. Bat For Lashes - Daniel
7. The xx - Crystalized
8. Wild Beasts - Hooting & Howling
9. Japandroids - Heart Sweats
10. Why? - This Blackest Purse
11. Bibio - Kaini Industries (Boards of Canada cover)
12. Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar (7" Edit)

Friday: my favorite songs at this point in my life (sans "1979" by The Smashing Pumpkins because somehow I forgot it). Saturday: All the albums I listened to plus my eight most favorites. Sunday: Notable albums that didn't make the top-eight cut.

Mux023: June 2009, the reissue

Working backward now. Second mix today considering I have no conscious memory of compiling the first one.

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1. Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
2. Franz Ferdinand - What She Came For
3. Green Day - Basket Case
4. Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
5. Beach House - Gila
6. Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
7. Swan Lake - Heartswarm
8. The Arcade Fire - Une Annee Sans Lumiere
9. Japandroids - Sovereignty
10. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
11. Tortoise - Chateroak Foundation

JDK Radio 006: Night

Wait until it's dark.

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Tracks:

1. The Knife - Silent Shout
2. Crystal Castles - Crimewave (vs. HEALTH)
3. Justice - Waters of Nazareth
4. Burial - Archangel
5. Battles - Leyendecker
6. Tortoise - Ten-Day Interval
7. Broken Social Scene - Hotel
8. Radiohead - Fog
9. TV on the Radio - DLZ
10. RJD2 - Here's What's Left
11. Junior Boys - Last Exit
12. Flying Lotus - Auntie's Lock / Infinitum

Mux023: June 2009

Download via drop.io. The tracks:

1. Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me
2. Franz Ferdinand - What She Came For
3. Green Day - Basket Case
4. Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
5. Beach House - Gila
6. Sunset Rubdown - Apollo and the Buffalo and Anna Anna Anna Oh!
7. Swan Lake - Heartswarm
8. The Arcade Fire - Une Annee Sans Lumiere
9. Japandroids - Sovereignty
10. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
11. Tortoise - Chateroak Foundation

Additions to the best albums of 2009 (thus far)

A lot of great new music recently. New additions in bold.


Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion


Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career


Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains


Dan Deacon - Bromst


Fever Ray


Franz Ferdinand - Tonight


Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest


Japandroids - Post-Nothing


Sonic Youth - The Eternal


The Thermals - Now We Can See


Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship