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marathonpacks’ 2007 Year-End Mixes, Vols. I & II

Thursday, December 20, 2007

So, hi. Happy holidays, etc. At this point, I’m roughly 75% done with my normal holiday shopping, and 75% done with my more cherished year-end tradition, my year-end mix-making. The first two are below (at a crisp, shiny 192kbps), with the next two to follow (hopefully) tomorrow (update: yeah, uhhhh…Monday NEW UPDATE: THEY’RE UP NOW). Yeah, they’re all Sendspaced–it’s expensive buying presents for 6 nieces and nephews, and I can’t risk the bandwidth overage charges. Let me know if there’s any technical malfeasance over there.

As usual, I hope you like these; they’re a pretty clear snapshot of what I listened to over and over this year. The more I think about these mixes–what with the rampant genre-jumping, the questionable transitions, the inevitable omissions–the more I wonder if anyone other than me really likes them, if they appeal to Internet music geeks only, or if those two are much less than mutually-exclusive. I suppose they’d be tough to play at a club (too much indie rock) or a record store (not enough indie rock), so I hope you’ve got a use for them–remember, re-gifting is always an option with this sort of thing. Also: if I know you and presents are a thing we do, get ready for these in CD form.

In other news: you can see a version of my top 25s (singles | albums) over at the upstart tastemaking famous Pitchfork blog, but expect something longer in this space next week, explaining stuff (and altering my ever-altering list). Also, as I did last year, I’m planning to have some friends over for egg-nog and list-makings of their own. They’ll put me to shame, for sure. For now, though: 200MB of year-end jams.


mix one | 71:09 | 97.8 MB

1. Battles “Race:In” | Mirrored
2. Róisín Murphy “Overpowered” | Overpowered
3. Kanye West “Flashing Lights” | Graduation
4. Swizz Beatz “Take a Picture” | One Man Band Man
5. White Williams “In the Club” | Smoke
6. The Pierces “Boring” | Thirteen Tales of Love and Revenge
7. Lil’ Wayne “Get High, Rule the World” | Da Drought 3
8. Matthew Dear “Neighborhoods” | Asa Breed
9. The Honeydrips “Fall From A Height” | Here Comes the Future
10. Alsace Lorraine “Call for Papers” | Dark One
11. The Clientele “Bookshop Casanova” | God Save the Clientele
12. Gruff Rhys “Lonesome Words” | Candylion
13. Tunng “Bullets” | Good Arrows
14. Lavender Diamond “Oh No” | Imagine Our Love
15. Charlotte Gainsbourg “The Songs That We Sing” | 5:55
16. Blonde Redhead “23″ | 23
17. Apostle of Hustle “The Naked & Alone” | National Anthem of Nowhere
18. Feist “My Moon My Man” | The Reminder
19. The Crayon Fields “Potholes” | Animal Bells
20. BARR “The Song is the Single” | Summary

mix two | 71:30 | 98.2 MB

1. Radiohead “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” | In Rainbows
2. The Good, the Bad & the Queen “Herculean” | The Good, the Bad & the Queen
3. Deerhoof “Matchbook Seeks Maniac” | Friend Opportunity
4. YACHT “See A Penny (Pick It Up)” I Believe in You. Your Magic is Real.
5. Sophie Ellis-Bextor “Me & My Imagination” | Trip the Light Fantastic
6. Modest Mouse “Dashboard” | We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
7. The Broken West “On the Bubble” | I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On
8. King Khan & his Shrines “Welfare Bread” | What Is?!
9. Amy Winehouse “Tears Dry on Their Own” | Back to Black
10. The Bees “Listening Man” | Octopus
11. Skeletons & the Kings of All Cities “Hay W’happens” | Lucas
12. Akron/Family “There’s So Many Colors” (section) | Love is Simple
13. Deerhunter “Spring Hall Convert” | Cryptograms
14. The Twilight Sad “That Summer…” | Fourteen Autums & Fifteen Winters
15. Celebration “Pressure” | The Modern Tribe
16. M.I.A. f. Bun B & Rich Boy “Paper Planes (Remix)” | Kala
17. Yelle “A Cause des Garcons” | Pop-Up
18. Katy Rose “Rosemary” | CandyEyed
19. Mother & the Addicts “All in the Mind” | Science Fiction Illustrated

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