2008: -//-/\-\//--
Another year, another mix. 2008 was a crazy year for me. I try to keep this from being a personal emo blog, but suffice it to say I had a lot of firsts, a lot of highs and a lot of lows in 2008. I look back at it as one of the most dynamic years of my life, and the memories of the worst parts are already fading away while the highlights remain.
I mention that because my mix is, as usual, a frenetic...mix...of genres that pretty well represent the ups and downs of the year; there's metal, rock, indie, downtempo, post-rock, IDM, hip-hop and so on. Most of the music was released in 2008, but a few of the songs are from older records that I only just discovered. I've even got a song from a record that was on last year's mix too, because I just didn't stop listening to that album this year. The songs are all tagged, so if you're scared of screamy music you can mass-delete all the metal songs, but there are some real gems in there (you can listen to one of them here) so I encourage you to give the heavy heavy a shot; if you don't like the tech metal you might enjoy the indie metal.
And if you're a new friend, you can find my 2006 and 2007 mixes here and here (I've been doing year-end mixes since 2001, but I've only been uploading them the last few years). I'm getting a 'temporarily unavailable' error from Megaupload on the 2007 mix download, so if it doesn't clear up and you really want that mix just let me know and get you the songs.
As always, if you find a band here you love, please buy their albums and support them.
Download It!
Track Listing:
1. Trap Them - F**king Viva
2. Meshuggah - Bleed
3. The Secret - Funeral Monolith
4. Intronaut - The Literal Black Cloud
5. The Big Sleep - Pinkies
6. White Rabbits - The Plot
7. Autolux - Audience No. 2
8. Fujiya & Miyagi - Goosebumps
9. Clutchy Hopkins - Sound Of The Ghost
10. Early Graves - Ghosts Among Us
11. The Jonbenet - Eleventh Century Folklore (Chapter I)
12. These Arms Are Snakes - Red Line Season
13. Mogwai - Batcat
14. The Roots - Get Busy (Feat. Dice Raw & Peedi Peedi)
15. Ladytron - Ghosts
16. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
17. Meshuggah - Combustion
18. Zozobra - Treacherous
19. The Secret - Inferno
20. Intronaut - Australopithecus
21. Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
22. Maserati - 12/16
23. Fujiya & Miyagi - Hundreds & Thousands
24. The Notwist - On Planet Off
25. One Day As A Lion - Wild International
26. Nine Inch Nails - Letting You
27. Meshuggah - obZen
28. Spitfire - Arrhythmia Drift
29. Poison The Well - Purple Sabbath
30. Intronaut - Any Port
31. The Cape May - Copper Tied
32. Verbose - Turn Left Turn Right
33. Carbon Based Lifeforms - MOS 6581
34. Portishead - Threads
I mention that because my mix is, as usual, a frenetic...mix...of genres that pretty well represent the ups and downs of the year; there's metal, rock, indie, downtempo, post-rock, IDM, hip-hop and so on. Most of the music was released in 2008, but a few of the songs are from older records that I only just discovered. I've even got a song from a record that was on last year's mix too, because I just didn't stop listening to that album this year. The songs are all tagged, so if you're scared of screamy music you can mass-delete all the metal songs, but there are some real gems in there (you can listen to one of them here) so I encourage you to give the heavy heavy a shot; if you don't like the tech metal you might enjoy the indie metal.
And if you're a new friend, you can find my 2006 and 2007 mixes here and here (I've been doing year-end mixes since 2001, but I've only been uploading them the last few years). I'm getting a 'temporarily unavailable' error from Megaupload on the 2007 mix download, so if it doesn't clear up and you really want that mix just let me know and get you the songs.
As always, if you find a band here you love, please buy their albums and support them.
Download It!
Track Listing:
1. Trap Them - F**king Viva
2. Meshuggah - Bleed
3. The Secret - Funeral Monolith
4. Intronaut - The Literal Black Cloud
5. The Big Sleep - Pinkies
6. White Rabbits - The Plot
7. Autolux - Audience No. 2
8. Fujiya & Miyagi - Goosebumps
9. Clutchy Hopkins - Sound Of The Ghost
10. Early Graves - Ghosts Among Us
11. The Jonbenet - Eleventh Century Folklore (Chapter I)
12. These Arms Are Snakes - Red Line Season
13. Mogwai - Batcat
14. The Roots - Get Busy (Feat. Dice Raw & Peedi Peedi)
15. Ladytron - Ghosts
16. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction
17. Meshuggah - Combustion
18. Zozobra - Treacherous
19. The Secret - Inferno
20. Intronaut - Australopithecus
21. Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
22. Maserati - 12/16
23. Fujiya & Miyagi - Hundreds & Thousands
24. The Notwist - On Planet Off
25. One Day As A Lion - Wild International
26. Nine Inch Nails - Letting You
27. Meshuggah - obZen
28. Spitfire - Arrhythmia Drift
29. Poison The Well - Purple Sabbath
30. Intronaut - Any Port
31. The Cape May - Copper Tied
32. Verbose - Turn Left Turn Right
33. Carbon Based Lifeforms - MOS 6581
34. Portishead - Threads
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