INFINITY HOT TUB MIX!

Ah, finally. This year's RHMB Communal Mix. I spent a few weeks asking for people to give me a favorite track from this year and all of fifteen people were nice enough to participate (thanks, everybody!), including me (thanks, me!)

These are just in the order in which I thought they would sound the best, just so you don't think that Jason and hamdy are my favorites (ironically, I hate them both). I will try and put together a streaming link again before the listening thing.

A listening party is planned for Sunday, January 3rd, at 7PM, unless most of the people on this mix disagree with me, and then I'll update with a different date (or there may be two listening parties? who knows!). Also, good luck getting this to work with iTunes. *shakes head*

Here's the tracklist & link, with Track Number - Band Name - Song Title (RHMBer that picked the track) (track length):

01 - Local Natives - Wide Eyes (Jason!) (4:27)
02 - Sic Alps - L Mansion (hamdy) (2:38)
03 - Washed Out - Get Up (Harri) (3:01)
04 - Kings of Convenience - Mrs. Cold (Miss Modular) (3:08)
05 - Califone - Polish Girls (fradleybox) (3:04)
06 - Tabloid - The Junkie Violin Player (The Brutal End of Dirty Socks) (4:52)
07 - Other Lives - Matador (jamca) (3:44)
08 - Yo La Tengo - Periodically Double or Triple (Sarah Juice) (3:53)
09 - OOIOO - Hewa Hewa (Okelydokely Computer) (1:29)
10 - Metric - Gold Guns Girls (The Grolsch) (4:05)
11 - Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More (Mack) (3:27)
12 - Dirty Projectors - Two Doves (really dizzy) (3:41)
13 - Mew - Hawaii (Strack) (5:01)
14 - Dan Deacon - Snookered (Gimme Some Truth) (8:03)
15 - Atlas Sound with Noah Lennox - Walkabout (revilo) (3:58)

http://www.mediafire.com/?wmznoj2rzmz

also, an additional track:

16 - Sonic Youth - Malibu Gas Station (only sleeping) (5:39)

http://www.mediafire.com/?m2mywhkz1jd

ya retard of this year

Harri

P.S. I originally credited "Mew" instead of "Strack" for the Mew track. me dumb.

Art E. Mix Listening Party Update: Streaming!

Remember, the listening party is tonight at 7PM EST! Here is the streamable version, as promised! Click this play button, give it a second to load, and you should be set to go:



00:00:00 - 00:03:43 - 01 - Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave
00:03:44 - 00:09:14 - 02 - Here We Go Magic - Fangela
00:09:15 - 00:12:07 - 03 - Fresh & Onlys - Feelings in My Heart
00:12:08 - 00:14:16 - 04 - Broadcast & Focus Group - I see...
00:14:17 - 00:18:17 - 05 - Gary War - Clean Up
00:18:18 - 00:22:00 - 06 - The Mantles - Don't Lie
00:22:01 - 00:26:18 - 07 - Ganglians - Lost Words
00:26:19 - 00:30:27 - 08 - FRAET - Another Way To Answer
00:30:28 - 00:33:57 - 09 - Tonstartssbandht - Black Country
00:33:58 - 00:37:30 - 10 - Atlas Sound - Sheila
00:37:31 - 00:38:55 - 11 - Tim Hecker - Pond Life
00:38:56 - 00:42:26 - 12 - Gnonnas Pedro - Okpo Videa Bassouo
00:42:27 - 00:45:38 - 13 - Blank Dogs - Slowing Down
00:45:39 - 00:51:45 - 14 - Matthew Dear & Seth Troxler - Hurt
00:51:46 - 00:53:47 - 15 - Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave
00:53:48 - 00:57:53 - 16 - Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
00:57:54 - 01:00:12 - 17 - TeePee - Purgatory (2:18)
01:00:13 - 01:04:11 - 18 - KoC - Riot On Empty Street

and if you just want to download the thing normally, here:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=REPSD3Q6

enjoy!

Harri

RHMB's Best Of 2009 Lists!

Make your list, Santa... check it twice. If you don't see your list here, put it in the comments (I must not have gotten one from you).

mela:

1 choir of young believers - this is for the white in your eyes/burn the flag
2 julie doiron - i can wonder what you did with your day
3 vic chesnutt - at the cut
4 soap & skin - lovetune for vacuum
5 castanets - texas rose, the thaw & the beasts
6 m. ward - hold time
7 broad cast and the focus group - Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
8 bob dylan - together through life
9 blk jks - after robots
10 fraet - for another day

+ dark was the night best compilation 2009

okelydokely computer:

1-20

1) Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
2) Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
3) The Horrors - Primary Colours
4) Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
5) Reigns - The House On The Causeway
6) Asobi Seksu – Hush
7) Son Of A Bricklayer – Shitao/La Jetee
8) Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons Of Bad Luck
9) Tosca - No Hassle
10) Broadcast & Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
11) Taken By Trees - East Of Eden
12) David Sylvian – Manafon
13) Sonic Youth - The Eternal
14) Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
15) Atlas Sound - Logos
16) Blue Roses - Blue Roses
17) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
18) PJ Harvey & John Parish - A Woman A Man Walked By
19) Major Lazer - Guns Don't Kill People.. Lazers Do
20) Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest

21-50

21) Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
22) Susumu Yokota – Mother
23) Andrew Weatherall - A Pox On The Pioneers
24) Evangelista - Prince Of Truth
25) Empire Of The Sun - Walking On A Dream
26) Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
27) The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead
28) The Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want
29) Hudson Mohawke – Butter
30) Antlers – Hospice
31) Various - Warp20
32) Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
33) Nosaj Thing - Drift
34) Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
35) HEALTH - Get Color
36) Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
37) Julie Doiron - I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
38) Jamie Vex'D - In System Travel EP
39) Wooden Birds – Magnolia
40) The Invisible - The Invisible
41) Seeland - Tomorrow Today
42) A.A. Bondy – When The Devil’s Loose
43) Johann Johannsson - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
44) Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
45) Gary War - Horribles Parade
46) Boys Noize – Power
47) Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
48) Various - Echodub Loves (Vol. 01)
49) Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
50) Various – Dark Was The Night

James Grolsch:

1. Fanfarlo - Reservoir
2. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
3. Emmy The Great - First Love
4. Florence and the Machine - Lungs
5. Metric - Fantasies
6. Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
7. Moderat - Moderat
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
9. Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
10. Regina Spektor - Far

Best of the rest, in no particular order

Ohbijou - Beacons
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
Blue Roses - Blue Roses
Stricken City - Songs About People I Know
Volcano Choir - Unmap
Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
The XX - XX
Beirut - March of the Zapotec and Realpeople Holland
Sian Alice Group - Troubled, Shaken etc
Frank Turner - Poetry of the Deed

Best compilation

Various Artists - Dark Was The Night (Red Hot compilation)

witches hat:

1. Leyland Kirby 'Sadly, the Future is no Longer what it Once Was' (History Always Favors the Winners)
2. Richard Youngs 'Beyond The Valley Of Ultrahits' (Sonic Oyster)
3. Alasdair Robert 'Spoils' (Drag City)
4. Bleeding Heart Narrative 'Tongue Tangled Hair' (Tartaruga)
5. Aaron Martin 'Chautauqua' (Preservation)
6. Meth Teeth 'Everything Went Wrong' (Woodsist)
7. Gary War 'Horribles Parade' (Sacred Bones)
8. Ben Nash/Natutilus splt (Blackest Rainbow)
9. Tim Hecker 'An Imaginary Country' (Kranky)
10. Grass Widow 'Grass Widow' (Makes A Mess)
11. Emeralds 'Emeralds' (Wagon)
12. Black to Comm 'Alphabet 1968' (Type)
13. Current 93 'Aleph At Hallucinatory Mountain' (Coptic Cat)
14. Magik Markers 'Shame Mask' (Arbirary Signs)
15. Reiko Kudo & Tori Kudo 'Light' (Siwa)
16. These Are Powers 'All Aboard Future' (Dead Oceans)
17. Vivian Girls 'Everything Goes Wrong' (In The Red)
18. Axolotl 'Of Bonds In General'
19. Kodama 'Turning Leaf Migrations' (Olde English Spelling Bee)
20. Gin En Tsubame 'Yukino' (Sloow Tapes)
21. Lovvers 'OCD Go Go Go Girls' (Wichita)
22. Thee Oh Sees 'Help' (In The Red)
23. Folle Eglise 'Anna's Present'
24. Camera Obscura 'My Maudlin Career' (Rough Trade)
25. Broadcast & The Focus Group 'Investigate with Cults of the Radio Age' (Warp)
26. Tara Jane O'Neil 'A Ways Away'
27. Antony & the Johnsons 'The Crying Light' (Secretly Canadian)
28. Peaking Lights '2 Songs For Ceremony' (Night People)
29. Music For One 'The Red Thumb' (Perennial)
30. Condo Fucks 'Fuckbook' (Drag City)
31. Suishou No Fune 'Phantom of the Eternal Night' (There)
32. The Fresh & Onlys 'Grey-Eyed Girls' (WOODSIST)
33. Sonic Youth 'The Eternal' (Matador)
34. Steven R. Smith 'Cities'(Immune)
35. Skullflower 'Malediction' (Second Layer)
36. Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions 'Through the Devil Softly' (Nettwerk)
37. Dredd Foole & Ed Yazijian 'That Lonesome Road Between Hurt and Soul' (Bo Weavil)
38. Harappian Night Recordings 'The Glorious Gongs of Haiduwele' (Bo'Weavil)
39. LSD March 'Under Milk Wood' (Important)
40. Jim O'Rourke & Loren Connors 'Two Nice Catholic Boys'(Family VIneyard)

stuff i didnt get to listen to but probably shouldve

Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - White Lunar
William Basinski - 92982
Sunn O))) - Monolith & Dimensions
David Sylvian - Manafon
Barn Owl - The Conjurer
all the Type, Woodsist,Blackest Rainbow, Under The Spire, Sacred Bones, Skaters-linked stuff
Bill Orcutt - A New Way To Pay Old Debts
Andrew Chalk - The Cable House

stuff that clearly should be in everyone's list but is a comp or a rerelease

Onna - Holy Mountain
The World s Lousy With Ideas Volume 8 comp

albums where i expected more from what i read but were in fact a bit shite
bat for lashes
animal collective
beach house
noah and the whale

only sleeping:

1 Sonic Youth - The Eternal
2 The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules
3 Chris Clark - Growls Garden / Totems Flare
4 Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
5 Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
6 Black Moth Super Rainbow - Eating Us
7 Dan Aurebach - Keep it Hid
8 Mos Def - The Ecstatic
9 Antipop Consortium - Flourescent Black
10 Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
11 Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
12 Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away…
13 Prefuse 73 - Everything She Touched Turned Ampexian
14 Hannu - Hintergarden / Harhailua
15 Fraet - For Another Day
16 Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
17 Dan Deacon - Bromst
18 Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
19 Medeski, Martin & Wood - Radiolarians II / Radiolarians III
20 Wilco - Wilco [The Album]

grep (chet):

Here's a top 25:

1 Dangermouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul
2 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
3 Portugal. The Man - Satanic Satanist
4 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
5 Musette - Datum
6 Lorenzo Meo - The E.P.M. Project
7 The Beatles - Everyday Chemistry
8 Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
9 Radio Moscow - Brainwaves
10 Neil Young - Dreamin' Man Live 92'
11 Cuo2duo - Clockspeed
12 Hockey - Mind Chaos
13 The XX - xx
14 Wilco - Wilco the album
15 Elvis Perkins in Dearland - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
16 Super Furry Animals - Dark Days Light Years
17 Andrew Bird - Noble Beast Useless Creatures
18 Steve Earle - Townes
19 Brand New - Daisy
20 Fever Ray - Fever Ray
21 Joel Plaskett - Three
22 Elysian Fields - the afterlife
23 Nils Lofgren - The Loner
24 Patrick Watson - Wooden Arms
25 Zywiolak - Nowa Ex-Tradycja

*L* @ Medeski Martin & Wood

Harri

My Favorite Music Of 2009!

Such a great year for music. I can usually barely figure out 15 or 20 that I really love, but I was just swamped with great stuff in 2009. A lot of LPs I enjoyed had just as good (and sometimes better) singles and EPs, so I'll list those along with:

1. Gary War - Horribles Parade
-- Anhedonic Man 7"
-- Galactic Citizens 12"
-- Opens WFMU Sessions CS
-- Zontag 7"
-- Reality Protest WEB
2. Broadcast & The Focus Group - Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
-- Broadcast - Mother Is The Wilky Way EP
3. Blank Dogs - Under And Under
-- Seconds 12"
-- Waiting 7"
-- Slow Room 7"
4. Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
-- Daytrotter Session WEB
5. Thee Oh Sees - Help
-- Tidal Wave 7"
-- Dog Poison
-- Zork's Bruise Tapes
6. Kings of Convenience - Declaration of Dependence
7. Tonstartssbandht - An When
8. Atlas Sound - Logos
-- Rough Trade EP
-- Time Warp Virtual 7" WEB
-- Virtual 7" No. 8 WEB
-- Virtual 7" No. 6: Solo, or 'The Square' WEB
9. Roman Soldiers - Warmer 7"
10. Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave 7"
-- Daytrotter Session WEB
11. The Mantles - s/t
-- Bad Design 7"
12. Here We Go Magic - s/t
13. Ganglians - Monster Head Room
14. Fraet - For Another Day
15. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
16. Fresh & Onlys - s/t
-- Bomb Wombs CS
-- Laughter Is Contagious 7"
-- I'll Tell You Everything 7"
17. Woven Bones - With You Alone 7"
-- Janie 7"
-- Needless 7"
18. Matthew Dear & Seth Troxler - Hurt (single)
19. Clark - Growls Garden EP
20. TeePee - Morals
-- Aware 7"
21. Timbre Timbre - Timbre Timbre
22. Beirut - March of the Zapotec / Real People Holland EP
23. Guiseppe Ielasi - Aix
24. Jacuzzi Boys - No Seasons
25. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
26. Flight - Flowers 7"
27. Sean McCann - Phyylum Sigh CS
28. Jeans Wilder - Antiques
29. Meth Teeth - Everything Went Wrong
30. Woods - Songs of Shame
-- Sunlit 7"
31. Vivian Girls - Everything Goes Wrong
-- Moped Girls 7"
32. Rantouls - Little Green Hat 7"
33. Venetian Snares - Filth
34. Cheveu - s/t
35. Bibio - Ambibalence Avenue
36. 10-20 - s/t
37. Audion - Stoplight 7"
-- That's That 7"
-- Look At The Moon 7"
38. Skyramps - Days of Thunder
39. Mark Templeton & Aaron Munson - Acre Loss
40. Sore Eros - Second Chants

I'll post everyone else's lists tomorrow afternoon (don't forget to send them to me!)

Harri

Harri's Best of 09 LISTENING PARTY!

Phase two of my WAR ON CHRISTMAS is having a listening party on December 20th, at 7PM EST for my Best of 09: Art E. Mix! In case you missed the link earlier, or are too lazy to scroll, here:

01 - Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave (3:43)
02 - Here We Go Magic - Fangela (5:30)
03 - Fresh & Onlys - Feelings in My Heart (2:53)
04 - Broadcast & The Focus Group - I see, So I see So (2:08)
05 - Gary War - Clean Up (4:00)
06 - The Mantles - Don't Lie (3:42)
07 - Ganglians - Lost Words (4:17)
08 - FRAET - Another Way To Answer (4:08)
09 - Tonstartssbandht - Black Country (3:29)
10 - Atlas Sound - Sheila (3:32)
11 - Tim Hecker - Pond Life (1:24)
12 - Gnonnas Pedro Et Ses Panchos - Okpo Videa Bassouo (3:30)
13 - Blank Dogs - Slowing Down (3:11)
14 - Matthew Dear & Seth Troxler - Hurt (6:06)
15 - Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave (2:01)
16 - Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (4:05)
17 - TeePee - Purgatory (2:18)
18 - Kings of Convenience - Riot On Empty Street (3:58)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=REPSD3Q6

There will be a high quality streamable version before the listening date, promise.

HAHJCAICYDHOBGHAHJCTY!

Harri

Fradleybox's 2009 Instrumental Mix!

1. Fraet - Was It You (4:20)
2. Blindoldfreak - Pipe One (3:34)
3. Hauschka - Wonder (3:57)
4. Andrew Bird - Nyatiti (3:59)
5. Hannu - Hakolahti (5:12)
6. Memory Tapes - Pink Stones (3:54)
7. Tosca - Rosa (5:07)
8. Adamned.Age - Substanz P (4:10)
9. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Smile The Day After Today (2:33)
10. Mono - Follow the Map (3:55)
11. Mount Eerie - Something (2:22)
12. Tim Hecker - 200 Years Ago (4:45)
13. Loren Mazzacane Connors & Jim - Most Definitely Not Koln (10:40)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3VTG5IX2

Thanks frad! Some great tunes on this one!

Harri

December 03 Office Chart: One For The Road

From Dead Air Space:

Thu, 03 December
office chart .. one for the road

1. Olson 1:29 by Boards Of Canada Music Has The Right to Children
2. Get Off (Rob3 Remix) by Blaqstarr & Diplo Get Off - EP
3. It's Gonna Rain, Part I (1965) by Steve Reich Early Works
4. Piano Concerto : II. Lento e deserto by Ligeti Project Ligeti: Melodien, Chamber Concerto, Piano Concerto & Mysteries of the Macabre
5. Open Up The Gate by The Congos Heart Of The Congos
6. clusters on a quadrilateral grid 2 by Percussion Group Cincinnati John Luther Adams: Strange and Sacred Noise
7. Dance Dance Dance [Previously Unreleased Version] by Neil Young Neil Young Archives Volume I

Thom

http://www.mediafire.com/?yymi3zmmwzg

Thanks again to pukirocks in the chatbox for putting this one together! Nice to see Steve Reich getting some attention! I'm a big fan.

Harri

Harri's Best of 2009: Art E. Mix!

Harri is me, by the way. This has been a great year for music, I think. These are 18 tracks from all but two of my favorite albums (or maybe from singles or something) this year. I left off Roman Soldiers and Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti because the former was redundant and the second was kind of a "greatest hits" album but not really so whatever. But I love them all the same.

01 - Thee Oh Sees - Tidal Wave (3:43)
02 - Here We Go Magic - Fangela (5:30)
03 - Fresh & Onlys - Feelings in My Heart (2:53)
04 - Broadcast & The Focus Group - I see, So I see So (2:08)
05 - Gary War - Clean Up (4:00)
06 - The Mantles - Don't Lie (3:42)
07 - Ganglians - Lost Words (4:17)
08 - FRAET - Another Way To Answer (4:08)
09 - Tonstartssbandht - Black Country (3:29)
10 - Atlas Sound - Sheila (3:32)
11 - Tim Hecker - Pond Life (1:24)
12 - Gnonnas Pedro Et Ses Panchos - Okpo Videa Bassouo (3:30)
13 - Blank Dogs - Slowing Down (3:11)
14 - Matthew Dear & Seth Troxler - Hurt (6:06)
15 - Crystal Stilts - Love Is A Wave (2:01)
16 - Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms (4:05)
17 - TeePee - Purgatory (2:18)
18 - Kings of Convenience - Riot On Empty Street (3:58)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=REPSD3Q6

A streamable version and date for a listening party will be up when I can get those kinds of things sorted out.

Hope you enjoy! (if you do, drop me a note)

Harri

P.S. who care!