Erik's Best of 2011 Mixes I-IV

This year, as is custom, I made year-end mixes of tracks I enjoyed throughout the year. There are 4 mixes, which are available for download here.


Mix I: Too Much Culcha


This mix is primarily garage and more uptempo rock music.

 

Track List:


01. Woods - Any Other Day
02. Black Lips - New Direction
03. Motel Beds - Go Go Make Yourself
04. The UV Race - Inner North
05. Mind Spiders - No. 3
06. Campfires - Chasing Planets
07. Hospital Ships - Reprise
08. Natural Child - Dogbite
09. Thee Oh Sees - I Need Seed
10. Those Darlins - Screws Get Loose
11. ART MUSEUMS - Dancning with a Hole in Your Heart
12. Crystal Stilts - Dark Eyes
13. Akron/Family - So It Goes
14. WATERS - For The One
15. Lavalier - Santa Claus Ain't Comin'
16. Kids On A Crime Spree - John Paul Sartre II
17. Fergus & Geronimo - Baby Don't You Cry
18. Sleeping in the Aviary - Someone Loves You
19. Girls - Honey Bunny
20. The Vaccines - Nørgaard 


Mix II: Hope Is For Presidents 


This mix is mostly rock, once again, but overall it's more polished, cleaner, and happier.

 


Track List:


01. The Strokes - Taken For A Fool
02. Generationals - Ten-Twenty-Ten
03. Dent May - Fun
04. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People II: Still Peoplin'
05. Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Tune Grief
06. BOAT - Frank Black Says (No. 14 Baby)
07. Yuck - Milkshake
08. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Definite Darkness
09. The War On Drugs - Your Love Is Calling My Name
10. Dum Dum Girls - Caught In One
11. Chelsea Wolfe- Demons
12. Wye Oak - Holy Holy
13. Kurt Vile - Jesus Fever
14. Real Estate - It's Real
15. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Yesterday, Never
16. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Heaven's Gonna Happen Now
17. Fucked Up - Under My Nose



Mix III: We Built This City On Ruins

This third mix has a mellower tone than the other two, and features more electronic elements. Kind of a wind-down and ethereal mix.

 

Track List:


01. The Decemberists - June Hymn
02. Fleet Foxes - Lorelai
03. Eleanor Friedberger - My Mistakes
04. St. Vincent - Cruel
05. tUnE-yArDs - You Yes You
06. Jens Lekman - New Directions
07. Destroyer - Poor In Love
08. Panda Bear - Surfer's Hymn
09. Ford & Lopatin - Emergency Room
10. Craft Spells - Scandinavian Crush
11. Beirut - The Peacock
12. James Blake - Give Me My Month
13. Atlas Sound - Te Amo
14. Bon Iver - Holocene



Mix IV: Go Meet Aaliyah 


The fourth mix is a rap addendum. Rap never finds a natural flow into any mixes, and rap had a really great year this year, so so I figured I would make one hip-hop-only mix.

 


Track List:


01. Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise
02. Danny Brown - Detroit 187 (feat. Chip$)
03. Tyler The Creator - Tron Cat
04. Death Grips - Guillotine
05. Murs - Animal Style
06. Reks - This or That
07. Kanye West & Jay-Z - Otis (feat. Otis Redding)
08. Big K.R.I.T. - R4 Theme Song
09. Phonte - We Go Off (feat. Pharoahe Monch)
10. Freddie Gibbs - Natural High (Even Higher Learning)
11. Elzhi - The World Is Yours
12. Kendrick Lamar - Rigamortus
13. Shabazz Palaces - Swerve the Reeping of All that is Worthwhile (Noir Not Withstanding)
14. Frank Ocean - Novacane



There you have it! That was 2011 for me, musically. Enjoy, and I'll see you in 2012.


-e.