2006 Ist Rad Mixtape, Vol.1
To gear up for my year-end list of favorite albums, I’ve decided to put together a couple mixtapes that feature some of my favorite tracks from the year. As you might suspect, “Vol. I” indicates more than one … but how many will there be? Oh my god stay tuned, y’all. The first mix is 22 songs, all of them are instrumental or use vocals sparingly. Some of you might hear the word instrumental and think, “Wow, that sounds like a snoozer,” but then you obviously haven’t heard Chris Clark or Nomo. Everything from dream-inducing minimalist ambient sounds to toe-tapping jazz horn sections fill the mix, and you’ve even got some sexy artwork, since it’s pretty much doubling as a kickass makeout mix. You can thank me later.
Flux=Rad’s 2006 Ist Rad Mixtape, Vol I (Download the zip)
Track listing after the jump:
01 Chris Clark “Night Knuckles”
02 The Album Leaf “Into the Sea”
03 Glenn Kotche “Mobile Parts 1 & 2″
04 The Hylozoists “Fin Du Monde”
05 Adrian Klumpes “Weave In and Out”
06 Plaid & Bob Jaroc “The Launching of Big Face”
07 Mogwai “Folk Death 95″
08 Triosk “Lazyboat”
09 The Benevento/Russo Duo “Soba”
10 Ellen Allien & Apparat “Do Not Break”
11 Four Tet “Pockets”
12 Six Organs of Admittance “The Desert Is a Circle”
13 Benoît Pioulard “Alan & Dawn”
14 Nomo “Nu Tones”
15 Svalastog “Reconnecting Joints”
16 Clark “Herr Barr (Reinterpretation / Improvisation)” (feat. Broadcast)
17 Christopher Willits “Dive”
18 Colleen “Your Heart Is So Loud”
19 The Boats “Little Black Rays of Hope”
20 Mountains “Sewn Two”
21 Chihei Hatakeyama “Towards a Tranquil Marsh”
22 Glissandro 70 “Something”
Thank you for the mix. Looks great.. already downloaded and being copied over to my iPod for my plane flight tomorrow.
can I make a recommendation for vol 2? I’d love it if there was a playlist file and/or the filenames were consistent for ordering. I’m not as big as an iTunes user as the rest of the world and prefer to be super anal over how my files are named and presented. Help me!