Sunday, December 30, 2012

Sun. #6/Shyne Coldchain Vol. 1


Shyne Coldchain Vol. 1 mixtape by Vince Staples
Released: January 3rd, 2012

Rating: 78%

1. Progressive 2*
2. Beeper King Exclusive
3. Triggawittaheart
4. Baron Davis
5. 102
6. Versace Rap*
7. Phat Wemin*
8. Hostile
9. Sob
10. Aintnofun
11. Swiss Army
12. Dreams Turn2 Casualties
13. Taxi*

Sun. #6/A Strangely Isolated Place


A Strangely Isolated Place by Ulrich Schnauss
Released: May 2003

Rating: 80%

1. Gone Forever*
2. On My Own
3. Letter from Home*
4. Monday - Paracetamol
5. Clear Day
6. Blumenthal
7. In All the Wrong Places*
8. A Strangely Isolated Place

Saturday, December 29, 2012

Sat. #5/Saint Dymphna


Saint Dymphna by Gang Gang Dance
Released: September 5th, 2008

Rating: 84%

1. Bebey*
2. First Communion
3. Blue Nile*
4. Vacuum
5. Princes
6. Inners Pace
7. Afoot*
8. House Jam
9. Interlude (No Known Home)
10. Desert Storm*
11. Dust

Friday, December 28, 2012

Fri! #5/Dreamboat Annie


Dreamboat Annie by Heart
Released: February 14th, 1976

Rating: 83%

1. Magic Man*
2. Dreamboat Annie (Fantasy Child)
3. Crazy on You*
4. Soul of the Sea
5. Dreamboat Annie
6. White Lightning and Wine*
7. (Love Me Like Music) I'll Be Your Song*
8. Sing Child
9. How Deep It Goes
10. Dreamboat Annie (Reprise)

Fri! #5/You Can Play These Songs With Chords


You Can Play These Songs With Chords by Death Cab for Cutie
Re-issued: October 22nd, 2002

Rating: 68%

1. President of What?*
2. Champagne from Paper Cups
3. Pictures in an Exhibition*
4. Hindsight
5. That's Incentive
6. Amputations*
7. Two Cars
8. Line of Best Fit
9. This Charming Man
10. TV Trays
11. New Candles
12. Tomorrow
13. Flustered/Hey Tomcat!
14. State Street Residential
15. Wait
16. Prove My Hypothesis*
17. Song for Kelly Huckaby
18. Army Corps for Architects*

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Thu. #5/Bad Vibes


Bad Vibes by Shlohmo
Released: August 9th, 2011

Rating: 76%

1. Big Feelings
2. Places*
3. Anywhere but Here*
4. It Was Whatever
5. Parties*
6. Just Us
7. Sink
8. I Can't See You, I'm Dead
9. Trapped in a Burning House
10. Get Out
11. Your Stupid Face*
12. Seriously
13. Same Time*

Thu. #5/Aftermath


Aftermath by The Rolling Stones
Released: April 15th, 1966

Rating: 81%

1. Mother's Little Helper*
2. Stupid Girl
3. Lady Jane
4. Under My Thumb*
5. Doncha Bother Me 
6. Flight 505
7. High and Dry*
8. Out of Time*
9. It's Not Easy
11. I Am Waiting
12. Take It or Leave It
13. Think*
14. What to Do

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Wed. #5/Out of Our Heads


Out of Our Heads by The Rolling Stones
"The US release including the single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," some tracks from the UK release and other B-sides"
Released: July 30th, 1965

Rating: 73%

1. Mercy Mercy*
2. Hitch Hike
3. The Last Time
4. That's How Strong My Love Is
5. Good Times
6. I'm Alright (Live)*
7. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction*
8. Cry to Me*
9. The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man
10. Play with Fire
11. The Spider and the Fly
12. One More Try

Wed. #5/The Rolling Stones, Now!


The Rolling Stones, Now! by The Rolling Stones
Released: February 13th, 1965

Rating: 72%

1. Everybody Needs Somebody to Love*
2. Down Home Girl
3. You Can't Catch Me
4. Heart of Stone*
5. What a Shame
6. Mona (I Need You Baby)*
7. Down the Road Apiece
8. Off the Hook
9. Pain in My Heart
10. Oh Baby (We Got a Good Thing Goin')*
11. Little Red Rooster
12. Surprise, Surprise

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Tue. #5/12 X 5

 
12 X 5 by The Rolling Stones
"An expanded release of the UK's Five by Five EP for the US."
Released: October 17th, 1964

Rating: 70%

1. Around and Around
2. Confessin' the Blues
3. Empty Heart
4. Time is On My Side*
5. It's All Over Now
6. 2120 South Michigan Avenue
7. Under the Boardwalk*
8. Congratulations
9. Grown Up Wrong*
10. If You Need Me*
11. Susie Q

Tue. #5/The Rolling Stones

 
The Rolling Stones by The Rolling Stones
Released: April 16th, 1964

Rating: 70%

1. Route 66
2. I Just Want to Make Love to You*
3. Honest I Do
4. Mona (I Need You Baby)*
5. Now I've Got a Witness
6. Little by Little
7. I'm a King Bee
8. Carol*
9. Tell Me (You're Coming Back)*
10. Can I Get a Witness
11. You Can Make It If You Try
12. Walking the Dog

Tue. #5/A I A: Dream Loss

 
A I A: Dream Loss by Grouper
Released: April 11th, 2011

Rating: 78%

1. (First Heart Tone) Dragging the Streets
2. I Saw a Ray
3. Foul Eraser*
4. Atone*
5. No Other
6. Wind Return
7. A Lie*

Monday, December 24, 2012

Mon. #5/A I A: Alien Observer

 
A I A: Alien Observer by Grouper
Released: April 11th, 2011

Rating: 82%

1. Moon is Sharp*
2. Alien Observer*
3. Vapor Trails
4. She Loves Me That Way (Second Heart Tone)
5. Mary on the Wall (For Betre Jackson)*
6. Come Softly (For Daniel Dalzell)

Mon. #5/Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

 
Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill by Grouper
Released: 2008

Rating: 85%

1. Disengaged*
2. Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping
3. Stuck
4. When We Fall
5. Traveling Through a Sea*
6. Fishing Bird (Empty Guided in the Evening Breeze)
7. Invisible
8. I'm Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill*
9. A Cover Over
10. Wind and Snow
11. Tidal Wave*
12. We've All Gone to Sleep

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Sun. #5/Skelethon

 
Skelethon by Aesop Rock
Released: July 10th, 2012

Rating: 81%

1. Leisureforce
2. ZZZ Top*
3. Cycles to Gehenna
4. Zero Dark Thirty*
5. Fryerstarter
6. Ruby '81
7. Crow 1
8. Crow 2*
9. Racing Stripes
10. 1,000 O'Clock*
11. Homemade Mummy
12. Grace*
13. Saturn Missiles
14. Tetra
15. Gopher Guts

Sun. #5/Bazooka Tooth

 
Bazooka Tooth by Aesop Rock
Released: September 23rd, 2003

Rating: 81%

1. Bazooka Tooth
2. N.Y. Electric*
3. Easy
4. No Jumper Cables*
5. Limelighters*
6. Super Fluke
7. Cook It Up
8. Freeze
9. We're Famous*
10. Babies with Guns
11. The Greatest Pac-Man Victory in History
12. Frijoles*
13. 11:35
14. Kill the Messanger
15. Mars Attacks

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Sat. #4/The Present Lover

 
The Present Lover by Luomo
Released: February 24th, 2004

Rating: 86%

1. Visitor
2. Talk in Danger
3. The Present Lover*
4. Body Speaking*
5. So You
6. Could Be Like This
7. Cold Lately*
8. Tessio*
9. What's Good
10. Shelter

Sat. #4/No Way Down

 
No Way Down EP by Air France
Released: June 26th, 2008

Rating: 90%

1. Maundy Thursday
2. June Evenings*
3. Collapsing at Your Doorstep*
4. No Excuses*
5. No Way Down
6. Windmill Wedding

Sat. #4/Plumb

 
Plumb by Field Music
Released: February 13th, 2012

Rating: 80%

1. Start the Day Right*
2. It's Okay to Change
3. Sorry Again, Mate
4. A New Town*
5. Choosing Sides
6. A Prelude to Pilgrim Street
7. Guillotine*
8. Who'll Pay the Bills?
9. So Long Then
10. Is This the Picture?
11. From Hide and Seek to Heartache
12. How Many More Times?
13. Ce Soir
14. Just Like Everyone Else
15. (I Keep Thinking About) A New Thing*

Friday, December 21, 2012

Fri! #4/Obsidian

 
Obsidian EP by Aquarian
Released: November 2012

Rating: 74%

1. Obsidian*
2. Motherisk
3. Towerblock
4. Obsidian (Randomer Remix)

Thursday, December 20, 2012

Half Way Home

 
Half Way Home by Angel Olsen
Released: September 4th, 2012

Rating: 80%

1. Acrobat*
2. The Waiting
3. Safe in the Womb
4. Lonely Universe*
5. Can't Wait Until Tomorrow
6. Always Half Strange
7. You are Song*
8. Miranda
9. The Sky Opened Up
10. Free
11. Tiniest Seed*

Thu. #4/Florine

 
Florine EP by Julianna Barwick
Released: 2009

Rating: 81%

1. Sunlight, Heaven
2. Cloudbank*
3. The Highest
4. Choose*
5. Anjos
6. Bode

Thu. #4/The Magic Place

 
The Magic Place by Julianna Barwick
Released: 2011

Rating: 83%

1. Envelop*
2. Keep Up the Good Work
3. The Magic Place
4. Cloak
5. White Flag*
6. Vow
7. Bob in Your Gait
8. Prizewinning*
9. Flown*

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Wed. #4/Trappers Alley: Pro's and Con's

 
Trappers Alley: Pro's & Con's mixtape by Boldy James
Released: May 24th, 2011

Rating: 76%

1. James (Intro)
2. Long Run*
3. Dice Game
4. Ground Beneath My Feet
5. Applied Mathematics (Skit)
6. I Sold Dope All My Life*
7. Devil in Disguise
8. Concrete Connie*
9. Drops of Reign
10. You Know My Name
11. Home Invasion*
12. Killin' Da 5th
13. Truck Drivin' School
14. JIMBO
15. Top Villain
16. Meet the Neighbors
17. There Goes the Neighborhood*
18. Optional
19. What's Da Goody Bag
20. Heavy Weight
21. Gettin' Flicked
22. Runnin' from the Police
23. Send a Message (Skit)
24. Make It Work
25. Bulk Pick Up
26. Pumpin' Gas
27. Life Time*
28. This My Corner (Outro)

Wed. #4/Kiss

 
Kiss by Carly Rae Jepsen
Released: September 14th, 2012

Rating: 75%

1. Tiny Little Bows
2. This Kiss*
3. Call Me Maybe*
4. Curiosity*
5. Good Time
6. More Than a Memory
7. Turn Me Up
8. Hurt So Good*
9. Beautiful
10. Tonight I'm Getting Over You
11. Guitar String/Wedding Ring
12. Your Heart is a Muscle

Wed. #4/His He She & She

 
His He She & She by Blawan
Released: September 2012

Rating: 79%

1. Why They Hide They Bodies Under My Garage*
2. His Daughters
3. His Money*
4. And Both His Sons

Wed. #4/Satin Panthers

 
Satin Panthers EP by Hudson Mohawke
Released: August 1st, 2011

Rating: 78%

1. Octan
2. Thunder Bay*
3. Cbat*
4. All Your Love
5. Thank You

Wed. #4/Less Than Human


Less Than Human by The Juan MacLean
Released: August 9th, 2005

Rating: 82%

1. AD 2003
2. Shining Skinny Friend*
3. Give Me Every Little Thing
4. Tito's Way*
5. Love is in the Air
6. In the Afternoon
7. My Time is Running Out
8. Crush the Liberation*
9. Dance with Me

Monday, December 17, 2012

Mon. #4/Late Nights with Jeremih

 
Late Nights with Jeremih mixtape by Jeremih
Released:August 7th, 2012

Rating: 82%

1. Skip Intro
2. Rosa Acosta
3. Fuck U All the Time*
4. Outta Control
5. Ahh Shit
6. All Over Me
7. Go to the Mo
8. 773 Love*
9. Keep It Moving
10. Ladies
11. Late Nights (Interlude)
12. Late Nights
13. Girls Go Wild
14. Rated R (The Masterpiece)*
15. Feel the Bass
16. Let Me Down Easy*
17. Knockin'
18. Letter to Fans

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Sun. #4/Danger

 
Danger EP by Katy B
Released: December 7th, 2012

Rating: 79%

1. Aaliyah*
2. Got Paid
3. Light as a Feather
4. Danger*

Sun. #4/On a Mission

 
On a Mission by Katy B
Released: April 1st, 2011

Rating: 83%

1. Power on Me
2. Katy On a Mission*
3. Why You Always Here
4. Witches Brew*
5. Movement*
6. Go Away
7. Disappear
8. Broken Record
9. Lights On
10. Easy Please Me*
11. Perfect Stranger
12. Hard to Get

Sun. #4/Soundtrack from Twin Peaks

 
Soundtrack from Twin Peaks composed by Angelo Badalamenti
"Songs and scores composed by Angelo Badalamenti for the first season of the TV series Twin Peaks, directed by David Lynch."
Released: 1990

Rating: 85%

1. Twin Peaks Theme
2. Laura Palmer's Theme*
3. Audrey's Dance
4. The Nightingale*
5. Freshly Squeezed
6. The Bookhouse Boys
7. Into the Night
8. Night Life in Twin Peaks
9. Dance of the Dream Man
10. Love Theme from Twin Peaks*
11. Falling*

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Sat. #3/Chromophobia

 
Chromophobia by Gui Boratto
Released: February 26th, 2007

Rating: 83%

1. Scene 1
2. Mr. Decay
3. Terminal*
4. Gate 7
5. Shebang*
6. Chromophobia
7. The Blessing
8. Mala Strana
9. Acrostico
10. Xilo*
11. Beautiful Life*
12. Hera
13. The Verdict

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Thu. #3/An Empty Bliss Beyond This World


An Empty Bliss Beyond This World by The Caretaker
Released: June 21st, 2011

Rating: 83%

1. All You're Going to Want to Do Is Get Back There
2. Moment of Sufficient Lucidity*
3. The Great Hidden Sea of Unconsciousness
4. Libet's Delay*
5. I Feel as If I Might Be Vanishing
6. An Empty Bliss Beyond This World*
7. Bedded Deep in Long Term Memory
8. A Relationship with the Sublime
9. Mental Caverns Without Sunshine*
10. Pared Back to Minimal
11. Mental Caverns Without Sunshine
12. An Empty Bliss Beyond This World
13. Tiny Gradiatrions of Loss
14. Camaraderies of Arms Length*
15. The Sublime is Disappointingly Elusive

Thu. #3/Feel It Break


Feel It Break by Austra
Released: May 13th, 2011

Rating: 77%

1. Darken Her Horse*
2. Lose It*
3. The Future
4. Beat and the Pulse
5. Spellwork*
6. The Choke*
7. Hate Crime
8. The Villain
9. Shoot the Water
10. The Noise
11. The Beast

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Wed. #3/Candy Bar Creep Show


Candy Bar Creep Show EP by MS MR
Released: September 14th, 2012

Rating: 78%

1. Bones
2. Hurricane*
3. Dark Doo Wop*
4. Ash Tree Lane

Wed. #3/Lodger


Lodger by David Bowie
Released: May 18th, 1979

Rating: 80%

1. Fantastic Voyage*
2. African Night Flight
3. Move On
4. Yassassin
5. Red Sails
6. D.J.*
7. Look Back in Anger*
8. Boys Keep Swinging*
9. Repetition
10. Red Money

Wed. #3/Vivian Girls


Vivian Girls by Vivian Girls
Released: September 30th, 2008

Rating: 82%

1. All the Time*
2. Such a Joke*
3. Wild Eyes
4. Going Insane
5. Tell the World
6. Where Do You Run To*
7. Damaged*
8. No
9. Never See Me Again
10. I Believe in Nothing

Wed. #3/Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience


Silent Shout: An Audio Visual Experience by The Knife
"Audio of The Knife's 2006 concert in Gothenburg, included in the 3-disc limited deluxe edition."
Released: July 17th, 2007

Rating: 85%

1. Pass This On*
2. The Captain
3. We Share Our Mother's Health*
4. You Make Me Like Charity
5. Marble House*
6. Forest Families
7. Kino
8. Heartbeats
9. Silent Shout*
10. From Off to On

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Tue. #3/936


936 by Peaking Lights
Released: February 8th, 2011

Rating: 80%

1. Synthy
2. All the Sun That Shines*
3. Amazing and Wonderful*
4. Birds of Paradise Dub Version
5. Hey Sparrow
6. Tiger Eyes (Laid Back)
7. Marshmellow Yellow*
8. Summertime

Tue. #3/Night Falls Over Kortedala


Night Falls Over Kortedala by Jens Lekman
Released: September 5th, 2007

Rating: 84%

1. And I Remember Every Kiss
2. Sipping on the Sweet Nectar*
3. The Opposite of Hallelujah*
4. A Postcard to Nina
5. Into Eternity
6. I'm Leaving You Because I Don't Love You
7. If I Could Cry (It Would Feel Like This)
8. Your Arms Around Me*
9. Shirin*
10. It Was a Strange Time in My Life
11. Kanske är jag kär i dig
12. Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo

Tue. #3/Two Dancers


Two Dancers by Wild Beasts
Released: August 3rd, 2009

Rating: 81%

1. The Fun Powder Pot*
2. Hooting & Howling*
3. All the King's Men
4. When I'm Sleepy
5. We Still Got the Taste Dancin' on Our Tongues*
6. Two Dancers (I)
7. Two Dancers (II)
8. This is Our Lot*
9. Underbelly
10. Empty Nest

Monday, December 10, 2012

Mon. #3/Celestial Lineage


Celestial Lineage by Wolves in the Throne Room
Released: September 13th, 2011

Rating: 84%

1. Thuja Magus Imperium*
2. Permanent Changes in the Subconsciousness
3. Subterranean Initiation*
4. Rainbow Illness
5. Woodland Cathedral
6. Astral Blood*
7. Prayer of Transformation

Mon. #3/My Demons



My Demons by Distance
Released: January 26th, 2007

Rating: 80%

1. Night Vision
2. My Demons*
3. Weigh Down
4. Traffic*
5. Mistral
6. Cyclops
7. Cella
8. Ska*
9. Fractured
10. Tuning*
11. Confined
12. Delight

Mon. #3/The Bells Sketch


The Bells Sketch EP by James Blake
Released: March 2010

Rating: 79%

1. The Bells Sketch*
2. Buzzard and Kestrel
3. Give a Man a Rod

Ragysh


Ragysh EP by Todd Terje
Released: 2011

Rating: 86%

1. Ragysh*
2. Snooze 4 Love*
3. Snooze 4 Love (Version)
4. Bonysh

Saturday, December 8, 2012

Sat. #2/Critical Beatdown


Critical Beatdown by Ultramagnetic MC's
Released: October 4th, 1988

Rating: 80%

1. Watch Me Now
2. Ease Back
3. Ego Trippin'*
4. Moe Luv's Theme
5. Kool Keith Housing Things
6. Travelling at the Speed of Thought (Remix)
7. Feelin' It*
8. One Minute Less
9. Ain't It Good to You*
10. Funky (Remix)
11. Give the Drummer Some*
12. Break North
13. Critical Beatdown*
14. When I Burn
15. Ced-Gee (Delta Force One)

Friday, December 7, 2012

Fri! #2/Neptune's Lair


Neptune's Lair by Drexciya
Released: November 1st, 1999

Rating: 81%

1. Temple of Dos de Aqua
2. Andreaen Sand Dunes
3. Running Out of Space
4. Universal Element
5. Habitat O' Negative
6. Funk Release Valve
7. Organic Hydropoly Spores
8. Draining of the Tanks
9. Surface Terrestrial  Colonization
10. Oxyplasmic Gyration Beam
11. Triangular Hydrogen Strain
12. Bottom Feeders
13. C to the Power of X + C to the Power of X = MM = Unknown

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Thu. #2/IOTDXI


IOTDXI by Various Artists
"A compilation of seminal singles and new materials from R&S records"
Released: October 31st, 2011

Rating: 85%

Disc 1
1. Safehouses -- by Pariah
2. OFI (Bullion's Interface Mix) -- by Model 500
3. Lostwithiel* -- by The Chain
4. Coreshine Voodoo* -- by Lone
5. CMYK* -- by James Blake
6. Orpheus -- by Pariah
7. Stereofreeze -- by Untold
8. I Only Know (What I Know Now)* -- by James Blake
9. Lions on the Beach -- by Cloud Boat
10. Bohla -- by Blawan
11. Transatlantic Landing Bay* -- by Space Dimension Controller
12. Camels -- by Vondelpark

Disc 2
1. The Birth of a Feeling -- by Space Dimension Controller
2. Cobra* -- by Lone
3. Shader* -- by Blawan
4. Left Unsaid -- by Pariah
5. Ralph -- by Bullion
6. Tarry* -- by Klaus
7. U-29 -- by Untold
8. Suffer for Your Art* -- by The Chain
9. Orpheus (Oneohtrix Point Never Subliminal Cops Edit) -- by Pariah
10. Lightmeters -- Airhead

Thu. #2/Rip It Off


Rip It Off by Times New Viking
Released: January 22nd, 2008

Rating: 77%

1. Teen Drama
2 (My Head)
3. RIP Allegory
4. Wait
5. Drop-Out
6. Come Together
7. Faces on Fire
8. Relevant: Now
9. Early 80s
10. Mean God
11. Another Day
12. The Apt.
13. Off the Wall
14. End of All Things
15. Times New Viking vs Yo La Tengo
16. Post Teen Drama