Download Mixtape vol. 12 – “Spot the Dog” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

Tracklist:

1. New Mjøndalen Disco Swingers – Eurodans
2. James Murphy – Going Out
3. Grasscut – The Tin Man
4. DJ Shadow – Come On Riding (Through the Cosmos)
5. Tune-Yards – Bizness
6. Jamie XX – Far Nearer
7. Diana Ross – Love Hangover
8. Billy Cobham – Heather

I intend to resume regular podcasts but to spend less time on each. Seeking out audio samples to intersperse tracks takes me ages as does sequencing and beat matching. What I mostly want is to create a record of all the tracks that have caught my attention recently so I’m afraid simple cross fades will have to do.

Download Mixtape vol. 11 – “A Few Old Tunes” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

Tracklist:

1. Hot 8 Brass Band – It’s Real
2. The Very Best – Kamphopo
3. The Bees – No Atmosphere
4. Xploding Plastix – Treat Me Mean, I Need the Reputation
5. Venetian Snares – Szerencsétlen
6. Leila – Feeling
7. Portishead – Machine Gun
8. Alhaji K. Frimpong – Kyenkyen Bi Adi Mawu
9. Tall Pony – I’m Your Boyfriend Now
10. The Doors – The End

Download Mixtape vol. 10 – “Christopher Hogwood” Edition and/or subscribe in iTunes.

Tracklist:

1. Röyksopp – The Girl and the Robot
2. Kleerup – The Tower of Trelick
3. Little Boots – Stuck on Repeat
4. Lykke Li – Little Bit
5. The Whitest Boy Alive – Courage
6. Phoenix - Lisztomania
7. Lil’ Wayne – A Milli
8. Knifehandchop – Hooked on Ebonics
9. Cage the Elephant - Ain’t no Rest for the Wicked
10. Born Ruffians – I Need a Life
11. Ratatat – Falcon Jab
12. Annie – I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me

The Röyksopp track is absolutely stunning. As a friend of mine said “it teeters on the edge of mega cheese but falls off on the side of uber cool.” I couldn’t agree more.

Kleerup and Ratatat, I discovered thanks to a blog post at Ohh! Crapp. I saw Little Boots’ cover of Hot Chip earlier this year on YouTube and was blown away but then forgot all about her until I heard this smashing little number. Apprently she’s made it big. Well done.

Lykke Li sings on the new Röyksopp album but I’d heard this track on the excellent OLO Radio podcast last year. Very sweet. Alongside Röyksopp, I’ve also been listening to the new Phoenix and Whitest Boy Alive albums on repeat all last week. Highly recommended. The Whitest Boy Alive is Erlend Øye and friends creating devastatingly effective minimal pop and Phoenix have come up with their best album to date, in my opinion.

Lil’ Wayne, what can I say? I do hope he gets well soon. I don’t know anything about Knifehandchop. I don’t know where I heard the track or where I got it from. It will probably get on my nerves soon but for now it makes me smile.

A very good friend introduced me to Cage the Elephant. I don’t much like the rest of their stuff but this track is Wicked. The first draft of this mix had the Four Tet remix of Born Ruffians on it which is a stunningly beautiful track that I picked up off the Resident Advisor podcast. However it didn’t quite fit with the mood (what mood?!) so I switched it for the original. I kinda like it but probably because it reminds me of the remix.

I don’t know where the Annie track came from. It the kind of pop I’d normally stay well away from, but Annie’s cool cos she did a DJ Kicks.

Hope you enjoy it.

Download Mixtape vol. 9 - ”Not a Care in the World” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

Track list:

1. Blossom Dearie – Doop-Doo-De-Doop (A Doodle Song)
2. Guy Mitchell – Everybody Loves Somebody
3. Laurie Johnson – Happy Go Lively
4. Les Cole – Be Boppin’ Daddy
5. Archie King – The Vampires
6. John & Jackie – Little Girl
7. Roy Brown – Butcher Pete (Part 1)
8. Jimmy Lloyd – Rocket in my Pocket
9. Ronnie Dawson – Rockin’ Bones
10. George Jones – Rock It
11. Johnny Dollar – Action Packed
12. Joyce Green – Black Cadillac
13. Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite
14. Peter Koelewijn – Kom Van Het Dak Af
15. Neal Hefti – Batman Theme
16. Hoyt Curtin – Top Cat Theme
17. Poorboys – Move, Baby, Move
18. Dwight Pullen – Sunglasses After Dark
19. Duke Ellington – Everything Goes
20. Harry Breuer – Minute Merengue

Download Mixtape vol. 8 – “Yes” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

Track list:

1. Headman – Moisture
2. Amplive – Reckonerz (ft. Charli2na)
3. Safety Scissors – Untitled
4. Jel – Thrashin
5. The Postal Service – This Place Is a Prison
6. The Glitzy Baghags – Borat vs. Super Sharp Shooter
7. The Yardbirds – A Certain Girl
8. Booka Shade – Pong pang
9. Hot Chip – Don’t Dance
10. Bedrock – For What You Dream Of
11. Sigur Rós – Ný Batterí

Featuring classics from Aphex Twin and Mr Bungle as well as some more obscure tracks, this mix showcases some of my favourite computer game-inspired music. It’s a bit shorter than usual because I wanted to keep the quality high. Extra geek points to anyone who can tell me which game intro the bonus track is from!

Download Mixtape vol. 7 – “For Great Justice” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

1. Jellyfish – Ignorance is Bliss
2. Mark VII – Comic Enemy
3. Subi – Mario Theme (Miyamotonian Remix)
4. Power-Pill – Pac-Man
5. ChthoniC – Linear Groove
6. Dhsu – Koopa vs Kefka
7. The Minibosses – Zelda
8. Mr Bungle – Zelda Theme
9. Fuzz – Bomberfuzz
10. Bonus Track

Download Mixtape vol. 6 – “Half Way Round” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

1. Forss – Characteristics
2. Doves – Firesuite
3. Simian – The Wisp
4. Fat Freddys Drop – Ray Ray
5. AGK – The Liking Of Things
6. Beastie Boys – Root Down (Free Zone mix)
7. Souls of Mischief – 93 ’til Infinity
8. Sébastien Tellier – La Ritournelle
9. Orbital – Transient

Download Mixtape vol. 5 – “Four to the Floor” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

1. Trickski – At Les
2. Âme – Mifune
3. DJ Gregory – Elle (Âme Remix)
4. Underworld – Jal To Tokyo (Paul Woolford Vocal)
5. John Tejada – Big City Music
6. Santos – Somatique
7. Röyksopp – Remind Me (Tom Middleton Cosmos Mix)
8. Mode Hookers – Breathe (Instrumental)
9. Luke Vibert – Breakbeat Metal Music
10. Leopold Gregori – Renaissance
11. Supermayer – Two of Us (Album Version)

Download Mixtape vol. 4 – “Moderate or Good, Occasionally Poor” and/or subscribe in iTunes.

1. Janis Joplin – Mercedes Benz
2. Para One – Musclor feat. TTC
3. Hasil Adkins – She Said (played at the wrong speed)
4. Lo Fidelity Allstars – Battleflag feat. Pigeonhed
5. Hybrid – Marrakech
6. Tunng – Bullets
7. The Cure – Lullaby (Extended Mix)
8. Deniece Williams – Free
9. Blackalicious – Rhythm Sticks
10. Klute – Hell Hath No Fury
11. Tom Middleton – Margherita
12. Ronald Binge – Sailing By

Download Mixtape vol. 3 – “Cinematic” Edition and/or subscribe in iTunes.

1. Aimee Mann – One
2. Tosca Tango Orchestra – El Cholulo
3. The Dust Brothers – Marla
4. Björk – Scatterheart
5. Clint Mansell – Summer Overture
6. Zola – Zingu 7
7. Vangelis – Main Titles
8. Kawai Kenji – Making of Cyborg (Utai 1)
9. Bruno Coulais – Le Lac
10. Cliff Martinez – First Sleep
11. The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home feat Patrick Watson
12. Air – Alone in Kyoto
13. Eric Weisberg & Steve Mandell – Duelling Banjos
14. Melanesian Choirs – God Yu Tekkem Laef Blong Mi

(PS I’m now calling these audio downloads mixtapes because many people seem to have difficulty with the term podcast. Using an incorrect term that everyone understands is probably more useful than a correct one which many misunderstand )