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Oi guys and girls!
It's been pretty quiet here on The Idioteque these past weeks, and my a-year-in-albums list is moving on ever so slowly. Part of the reason is I have been busy, and I've been moving back and forth from Aalborg and Copenhagen the past few weeks. Another reason though is that I've spent a lot of time doing my most ambitious mixtape yet - the 2011.5 mix, compiling all kinds of sounds from the first half of this year! It's finished now, and I think it has turned out pretty good! Let me just quickly talk you through it!
It can be sort of divided into parts, with the first containing some of the more established and mainstream (not in the derogatory way I usually use that word though) acts, such as Radiohead, The Strokes and The Streets. I had a hard time picking from Radiohead's The King of Limbs album, ending up however with 'Feral' which is the tune that intrigues me the most off it, and of course the brilliant 'Lotus Flower'. The two introvert The King of Limbs tunes are balanced by Iron & Wine's chill and groovy 'Monkeys Uptown'.
After this, the mixtape hits its most electronic phase, with Young Galaxy, Nicolas Jaar, Taragana Pyjarama and Austra. From here, we go into chillwave and 80s revival with Ford & Lopatin, key tune 'New Beat' by Toro Y Moi, and a bit of Rainbow Arabia, before segueing into straight out electropop with 'Kelly' by When Saints Go Machine.
The next part of the mixtape is more pensive and slow-moving, with Jamie Woon's 'Night Air', Elbow's 'Jesus is A Rochdale Girl', When Saints Go Machine's 'Add Ends', Bon Iver's 'Towers' and Arctic Monkeys' 'Love Is A Laserquest'. A true collection of gems. This is followed, perhaps quite abruptly, by the urban segment of the mixtape with Tyler, The Creator, SBTRKT and Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, before finishing off blastingly with 'Glass Jar' by Gang Gang Dance.
Bon Iver recurs throughout. In addition to 'Towers', he sticks his face and falsetto in with excerpts of 'Michicant', 'Perth' and 'Holocene' at various points in the mixtape. Thematic, as Bon Iver is a good candidate to top my end-of-year list come December...
The mixtape includes parts of the tracks below. All recordings are property of their rightful owners, the artists and record labels. I do not own the rights to this music, no copyright infringement intended.
00.00: Gang Gang Dance - 'Glass Jar' (excerpt) (Eye Contact, 4AD Records, 2011)
00.00: Bon Iver - 'Michicant' (excerpt) (Bon Iver, Jagjaguwar Records, 2011)
00.24: The Streets - 'Outside Inside' (Computers and Blues, Atlantic Records, 2011)
02.41: The Strokes - 'Taken For A Fool' (Angles, RCA Records, 2011)
04.53: Radiohead - 'Feral' (The King of Limbs, self-released, 2011)
06.15: Iron & Wine - 'Monkeys Uptown' (Kiss Each Other Clean, 4AD Records, 2011)
08.30: Radiohead - 'Lotus Flower' (The King of Limbs, self-released, 2011)
09.12: VETO - 'This Is Not' (excerpt) (Everything is Amplified, Sony BMG, 2011)
09.36: Trophy Wife - 'The Quiet Earth' (excerpt) (Moshi Moshi Records, 2011)
09.47: Young Galaxy - 'We Have Everything' (Shapeshifting, Paper Bag Records, 2011)
11.22: Nicolas Jaar - 'Mi Mujer' (Space Is Only Noise, Circus Company, 2011)
14.12: Taragana Pyjarama - 'Ocean' (Taragana Pyjarama EP, Fool House, 2011)
15.25: Bon Iver - 'Perth' (excerpt) (Bon Iver, Jagjaguwar Records, 2011)
17.21: Austra - 'The Future' (Feel It Break, Domino Records, 2011)
19.19: Ford & Lopatin - 'World of Regret' (Channel Pressure, Software Records, 2011)
21.00: Toro Y Moi - 'New Beat' (Underneath The Pine, Carpark Records, 2011)
22.57: Rainbow Arabia - 'Without You' (excerpt) (Boys and Diamonds, Kompakt, 2011)
23.59: Niki & The Dove - 'The Fox' (excerpt) (Sub Pop, 2011)
24.17: When Saints Go Machine - 'Kelly' (Konkylie, EMI Records, 2011)
25.04: Jamie Woon - 'Night Air' (Mirrorwriting, Polydor Records, 2011)
27.27: Young Galaxy - 'Peripheral Visionaries' (Shapeshifting, Paper Bag Records, 2011)
29.32: Elbow - 'Jesus Is A Rochdale Girl' (Build A Rocket Boys!, Polydor Records, 2011)
31.13: When Saints Go Machine - 'Add Ends' (Konkylie, EMI Records, 2011)
33.37: Austra - 'Beat and The Pulse' (Feel It Break, Domino Records, 2011)
37.44: Bon Iver - 'Towers' (Bon Iver, Jagjaguwar Records, 2011)
40.29: When Saints Go Machine - 'Church and Law' (excerpt) (Konkylie, EMI Records, 2011)
40.33: Arctic Monkeys - 'Love Is A Laserquest' (Suck It And See, Domino Records, 2011)
42.34: Tyler, The Creator - 'Yonkers' (Goblin, XL Recordings, 2011)
43.11: Bon Iver - 'Holocene' (excerpt) (Bon Iver, Jagjaguwar Records, 2011)
44.48: SBTRKT feat. Yukimi Nagano - 'Wildfire' (SBTRKT, Young Turks, 2011)
46.30: Bon Iver - 'Holocene' (excerpt) (Bon Iver, Jagjaguwar Records, 2011)
46.54: Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx - 'NY Is Killing Me' (We're New Here, XL Recordings, 2011)
47.24: Gang Gang Dance - 'Glass Jar' (Eye Contact, 4AD Records, 2011)
