Some favorites of 2009 in a 4+ hour mixtape

So I decided to put together a mix of some of my favorite music from 2009. This is not intended to be a mix that flows really well, it's just a way of getting all of these tracks together that are representative of 2009's sound. Side A is mostly Dubstep and Techno related. Side B is an odd mish-mash of mostly non-techno styles, trailing off into ambience towards the end. Side A Side B

Favorites of 2009

Top 20: Alva.Noto- Xerrox Vol. 2 Ancient Methods- Fourth Method Ben Klock- One Emeralds- What Happened Fever Ray- Fever Ray Joris Voorn- Balance 014 Lawrence English- A Colour For Autumn Leyland Kirby- Sadly, The Future Is No Longer What It Was Louderbach- Autumn Mark McGuire- A Pocket Full Of Rain Moritz Von Oswald Trio- Vertical Ascent Nurse With Wound- Surveillance Lounge / Memory Surface Oni Ayhun- OAR 003 Quantec- Subliminal State SND- Atavism Tara Jane O'neil- A Ways Away Tin Man- Cool Wave Untold- Stop What You're Doing / I Can't Stop This Feeling (Remixes) William Basinski- 92982 Zola Jesus- The Spoils The Rest of the Best: Andy Stott- Brief Encounter/ Drippin Ben Frost- By the Throat Ben Klock- Before One Breakage- Together / Rain Celer- Close Proximity and the Unhindered Care-all Cio D'or & Donato Dozzy- Menta Cio D'or- Die Faser Claro Intelecto- Warehouse Sessions Clubroot- Clubroot Cv313- Subtraktive D. Dozzy & Nuel- Aquaplano 1111 Damolh33- Trade Wind Demdike Stare- Symbiosis DJ Sprinkles- Midtown 120 Blues Evangelista- Prince of Truth Former Ghosts- Fleurs Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples- Circulations Gregg Kowalsky- Tape Chants Group Bombino- Guitars from Agadez, Vol. 2 Ilyas Ahmed- Goner Isolee- October Nightingale Jens Zimmermann & Byron Bogues- BUT Fool King Midas Sound- Dub Heavy/ Hearts and Ghosts Luke Hess- Light In The Dark Marissa Nadler- Little Hells Mark McGuire- Solo Acoustic Volume 2 Marko Fürstenberg - Eibenstock Mika Vainio- Vandal Mike Dehnert- Colombage Milton Bradley- Dystopian Vision Mokira- Persona Mount Kimbie- Maybes Mountains- Choral N/A- Variance III / Variance IV Neon Indian- Pyschic Chasms Orphx- Division The Pains of Being Pure at Heart- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Pendle Coven- Self Assessment Ricardo Villalobos & Los Updates- Bank Brotherhood Scuba- Aesaunic Shackleton- Three EPs Silent Servant- Negative Fascinations Simon Scott- Navigare Sparklehorse & Fennesz- In The Fishtank A Sunny Day In Glasgow- Ashes Grammar Sven Weisemann- Shove Tadeo- Contacto Telefon Tel Aviv- Immolate Yourself Tim Hecker- An Imaginary Country Tony Lionni / Radio Slave - Berghain 03 Part 1 V/A- Milky Disco 2 (Let's Go Freak Out) Vladislav Delay- Tummaa White Rainbow- New Clouds XDB- Mihon Yo La Tengo- Popular Songs additions: after further listening here are some other favorites of 2009: Broadcast And The Focus Group- Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age Cold Cave- Love Comes Close Dj Sprinkles- Sisters, I Don't Know What This World Is Coming To HTRK- Marry Me Tonight Joy Orbison- Hyph Mngo / Wet Look JPLS- The Depths Kassem Mosse- Workshop 8 Moderat- Seamonkey Monolake- Silence Motor City Drum Ensemble- Raw Cuts #5 & #6 STL- Silent State The Mayfair Set- Already Warm Tu M'- Monochromes Vol. 1 These are all really great, especially the Tu M' and the Broadcast albums

Throbbing Gristle and physical sound

Revisiting TG, I was thinking that it's been a really long time since I've heard anything that has this kind of raw energy. Are computers making music boring? I've heard plenty of pretty music made on computers, but pretty is limited to being pretty. I want to hear more like this: here is the regrouped TG 23 years later. Now sporting laptops, but still sounding fresh. It's interesting to see how things have changed, or rather how things have rearranged.

Hyper-active spaz-out mix

Mix 2 is the complete opposite of the first mix. It's sort of an ode to the candy-coma week following halloween. I remember when I was young I would empty out my pillowcase of halloween candy on the floor and proceed to build a candy fortress. After it was all built I would start to consume it all. I'd get all sugar-high and lose myself in nintendo wonderland. By the end of the week my fortress was usually reduced to a few boxes of raisins, some dum-dums, and maybe a few smarties. It's interesting how much that all played into some of my musical interests later in life. Making this mix, it suddenly made sense to me why the Warp records sound appealed to me so much in my teen years. So, anyways this mix is all candy and nintendo. A mix for a spastic 10 year old: 8-Bit Attention Span

mix series

I decided to make a series of mixes. I'll be using ableton live to create them, using cross-fades and such, but I'm no dj, so they will be mostly in the mix-tape style. The first one is an ambient mix. It's fairly dark, probably best for nighttime listening in the dark.

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it's mostly about media management

Primarily this is just a space for me to organize my thoughts relating to music. I've been consuming copious amounts of music and need a place to put it all into some kind of perspective. There's a million other blogs like this. The only thing that really makes one different from another is the musical perspective of the individual. Blogging has the potential to allow people to get an intimate view of another individual's perspective on music, art, politics, or whatever it is that blogger is posting about. So this blog is for whomever wishes to hear what i hear...but let's face it, nobody really reads these things, so really it's just for me.