Showing posts with label Best of 2009. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Best of 2009. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

2009 Discs 1 and 2: The Singles and The Calm



As noted, this (last) year's end of year mix came in 3 parts. The first was the cassette (2009 in Lo-Fi), the second was Disc 1: The Singles and the last was Disc 2: The Calm.

Disc 1: The Singles is meant to play at random. None of the songs are meant to flow into each other. It was designed to be listened to on an iPod, in a playlist on shuffle. The first and last tracks are designed as opener/closer, respectively to bookend the list, but they still function anywhere else in playing order. The track list is as follows:

01. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Optimist vs. The Silent Alarm (When the Saints Go Marching In)
02. Girls - Lust for Life
03. Camera Obscura - Honey in the Sun
04. Passion Pit - Moth's Wings
05. Delorean - Seasun
06. Sleigh Bells - Crown on the Ground
07. Raekwon - Kiss the Ring (feat. Inspectah Deck & Masta Killa)
08. The Very Best - Chalo
09. Foreign Born - Early Warnings
10. Double Dagger - The Lie/The Truth
11. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Some Trees (Merritt Moon)
12. The Shaky Hands - Allison and the Ancient Eyes
13. Dirty Projectors & David Byrne - Knotty Pine
14. Animal Collective - My Girls
15. The Mountain Goats - Deuteronomy 2:10



Disc 2: The Calm is meant to play like a standard album, front-to-back. It's much more folky/acoustic. Generally speaking, throw on some headphones, lay back and relax and listen. Track list:

01. Mazes - Laid in the Darkness
02. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
03. White Antelope - Silver Dagger
04. Mumford & Sons - Sister
05. Bowerbirds - Northern Lights
06. The Tallest Man on Earth - Pistol Dreams
07. Telekinesis - I Saw Lightning
08. Beirut - Mimizan
09. Dirty Projectors - Two Doves
10. Woods - To Clean (Acoustic)
11. The Clientele - Bonfires on the Heath
12. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait for the Others
13. Pink Mountaintops - Vampire
14. Antony and the Johnsons - Dust and Water



That's all!
Erik

Next lists will be my 100 favorite tracks of all time. Stay tuned!

(Special thanks to Matty [SS# 386-05-1812] for album art!)

2009 in Lo-Fi

Here is the first of 3 end of year mixes I put together. This is 2009 in Lo-Fi. Originally presented as a cassette, this mix showcases my favorite in lo-fi from throughout 2009.

Track List:
01. Jookabox - You Cried Me
02. The Fresh & Onlys - Peacock and Wing
03. Real Estate - Green River (7" Version)
04. Woods - Rain On
05. Smith Westerns - My Heart
06. The Beatles - I Need You (Bad)
07. Young Governor - Virginia Creeper
08. Tonstartssbandht - Midnite Cobras
09. Das Cassette Robot - The End of Side A
10. Wavves - No Hope Kids
11. Fergus & Geronimo - Harder Than It's Ever Been
12. So Cow - Casablanca
13. The Babies - Meet Me in the City
14. railcars - Bohemia is Without a Sea
15. Flight - My Business
16. Eat Skull - Stick to the Formula
17. Tortoise - Yinxianghechengqi
18. Wet Hair - Saturn
19. Das Cassette Robot - The End of the Cassette

8Tracks! External Link


More to Come,
Erik

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

2009 Part 1: Orphans

This play-list is the first of 4 parts to the 2009 mix. It's songs that, while still sweet, just didn't quite have a home on the three real mixes. Also note: there were a few songs not included on this list (though I really wanted to!) that I first came to appreciate after hearing other people's '09 mixes. But it felt like cheating, so I didn't. Either way:



External Link: http://8tracks.com/bubblewolf/2009-part-1-orphans

Best,
Erik