minimix: 07 to the Max

At long last, here are my year-end mixes at year's beginning. I made two mixes of good 2007 stuff -- although, by no means the "best," trying to spread it around, to avoid the Wilcos, Arcade Fires, White Stripes etc and to not overlap too much with all the stuff I've given up over the course of the year (links below).

What I ended up with were two "discs" 100MB each, and I split them up *nominally* into a "loud" mix and a "quiet" mix, although not sure it worked out that well. After I spent all that time putting them together, I wasn't 100% satisfied, so I did a "shuffle" mix that was picked at random by iTunes and after a little weeding out of artists/tracks featured on the other two, I ended up, not surprisingly, with a mix that was much, much better than the two I spent all that effort on. Almost to the point where I'm embarrassed to show you what I did. Anyway, here are all three available for download.

Tomorrow I'll give you my "best tracks of 2007" list with individual links to each one.

Enjoy: (Mediafire folder w/ all three):

Disc I: a little bit loud

01 23 -- Blonde Redhead: 23
02 Titanic Vandalism -- The Go! Team: Proof of Youth
03 Photocopier -- Fujiya & Miyagi: Transparent Things
04 Cato As A Pun -- Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
05 Air Raid -- Menomena: Friend And Foe
06 Ain't It Strange -- Dr. Dog: We All Belong
07 Dashboard -- Modest Mouse: We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
08 Ode To LRC -- Band Of Horses: Cease To Begin
09 Stand -- A Band of Bees: Octopus
10 Chicago Falcon -- The Budos Band: The Budos Band II
11 Maria Jose -- Federico Aubele: Panamericana
12 Right Moves -- Josh Ritter: The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
13 All Angels Road -- Hopewell: Beautiful Targets
14 Keep on Looking -- Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights
15 Weird Fishes/Arpeggi -- Radiohead: In Rainbows
16 A Mix Of Sun And Cloud -- The Most Serene Republic: Population
17 All My Heroes Are Weirdos -- !!!: Myth Takes
18 Breaking Point -- The Earlies: The Enemy Chorus

Disc II: a little bit quiet:

01 Now. Now. -- St. Vincent: Marry Me
02 Moon Woman II -- Elvis Perkins: Ash Wednesday
03 No Surprises -- Marissa Nadler (Feat. Black Hole Infinity): OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer
04 White Gold -- Metric: Grow Up and Blow Away
05 How Will We Know? -- Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter: Like, Love, Lust & The Open Halls Of The Soul
06 There are too Many Birds -- Arthur & Yu: In Camera
07 Goodbye to Mother and the Cove -- Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: Some Loud Thunder
08 Space Maker -- Air: Pocket Symphony
09 Portland -- Benzos: Branches
10 Herstory Of Glory -- Do Make Say Think: You, You're A History In Rust
11 Nantes -- Beirut: The Flying Club Cup
12 Just One Of Those Things -- Erin McKeown: Sing You Sinners
13 Plus Ones -- Okkervil River: The Stage Names
14 Oh My God, Whatever, Etc. -- Ryan Adams: Easy Tiger
15 Planes And A Girl -- Frank Smith: Heavy Handed Peave & Love
16 Carnival On 7th Street -- The Clientele: God Save The Clientele
17 Plasticities -- Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
18 Wolves (Song of the Shepherd's Dog) -- Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog

Disc III: a little bit random:

01 The Ghost Of Genova Heights -- Stars: In Our Bedroom After The War
02 N'Oubliez Pas La Réunion -- Bob Brozman Orchestra: Lumière
03 Breakin' Up -- Rilo Kiley: Under The Blacklight
04 Alive and Amplified -- The Mooney Suzuki: Alive and Amplified
05 Broke Me Up -- Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew: Spirit If...
06 Raziel -- Marc Ribot: Asmodeus: Book Of Angels Volume 7
07 Thriftstore Jewelry -- The Bad Plus: Prog
08 Section 23 (Get Up And Go) -- The Polyphonic Spree: The Fragile Army
09 Friday Night At The Drive-In Bingo -- Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
10 Sycretism -- Billy Martin & John Medeski: Mago
11 Tell Me Why -- Neil Young: Live At Massey Hall 1971
12 Tears Dry On Their Own -- Amy Winehouse: Back To Black
13 Carnival Of Souls -- Marco Benevento: Live At Tonic
14 Old Cane Pole -- Tony Trischka & Various Artists: Double Banjo Bluegrass Spectacular
15 Zero to the Skin -- Assembly Of Dust: Recollection
16 Old World -- Tin Hat: The Sad Machinery Of Spring
17 Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again -- Cat Power: I'm Not There
18 All I Know Is What You Tell Me -- Stephen Stills: Just Roll Tape

Previously in minimix:
Best of 2006

Comes Alive Vol. 6
Last Batch 2007
Jazzercise.6 (07.2)
Shuffleupagus.4 (2007)
More 2007 Hits
Americana Is Beautiful.2 Relatively New
Jazzercise.4 (07)
even more new music
more new music
Comes Alive Vol. 2
Old & New