77- Mediocrity Mix

  

N Mixtape 77- Mediocrity Mix (Winter '23)

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1. For Whom The Bell Tolls – Emi Meyer
2. All-American Bitch – Olivia Rodrigo
3. Distressed (Special Mastering 7” Version) – Horror Vacui
4. Perfect – The Veronicas
5. Monolith – Twin Tribes
6. Love Your Money – Daisy Chainsaw
7. Karma Police (Triple J Like A Version) – Pierce The Veil
8. Intergalactic (Remastered 2009) – Beastie Boys
9. 24 Hours To Live – Joyner Lucas
10. Unloved – Health
11. No Estoy Muerto – En Vivo – El Haragán Y Compañía
12. All My Love – Noah Kahan
13. Dear God (Remastered 2001) – Xtc
14. The Ride Of The Witcher – Joey Batey, Joseph Trapanese, Percival Schuttenbach
15. I Am A Machine – Siiickbrain
16. Baxolele – Gqwa!, Ninja
17. In America – K.Flay
18. Riot – New Unknown
19. Minigun – Wargasm Uk
20. Everything Turns Blue – Chelsea Wolfe
21. X’Ing Off The Days – Queendreena
22. Don’t Cry – Palaye Royale
23. Love (Triple J Like A Version) – Chvrches
24. The Sorrowful Wife – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
25. Never Fade Away (Samurai Cover) – P.T. Adamczyk, Olga Jankowska

Album of the Year 2023: TZIA

Every year I pick the album that most impressed me during the year. It is rarely my favorite album of the year but rather the one that affected me the most. These albums are so good that they typically change my taste in music.

There was a lot of good music in 2023, but nothing so fresh that it totally blew my mind or changed me as a person. Some of my favorite bands released new albums that held my attention (Skrillex – Close & Fire, Wargasm - Venom, Gunship - Unicorn), but what new music I listened to ended up being mostly single tracks. The freshest artist that I listened to this year was grandson (I Love You, I’m Trying), and I almost picked this as my album this year, but ultimately it was lyrics and words that grabbed me and changed me this year. Meg Myers is no stranger to my mixes, and I’ve been a fan since 2014, but her latest work, TZIA, is an extraordinary text and the first album in ages that left me speechless. It held my attention so completely the first few listens that I needed to sit down just to process all the messaging in the words. It’s a genuine journey and perhaps a new spirituality. Full of illuminating hope, the album served as a constant antidote the toxic negativity all around our culture these days, and as a result, it served as a banner of my optimism in work and life these days. Listen to this stuff: 

“Come, children of light/ Try not to get caught up in the egoic mind/ There are many vices to keep you swimming/ In the illusion of time”

“There will be no violence/ Or fear of the police/ No one will be silenced/ A new society/ Anew/ A new society”

“Cuz I just wanna touch somebody/ So they can be their own somebody/ Breathe air in their lungs/ Tell them they're enough/ Yea I just wanna touch somebody/ Yea I just wanna touch somеbody/ I'll reach into your soul, mind, body/ There's no onе to blame/ We're more than the pain/ Yea we are the same/ Yea we are the same”

Yeah, that’s my jam. I loved it. And the music matches all of it perfectly. Meg Myers might be crazy, but she’s speaking my language. TZIA is wonderful, and the lyrics cut through me like a lightning bolt this year, which is why it’s my album of 2023.

Previous winners:

2001: Linkin Park — Hybrid Theory

2002: Hawksley Workman — (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves

2003: Blink—182 — Blink—182

2004: Conjure One — Conjure One

2005: Imogen Heap — Speak for Yourself

2006: Rise Against — The Sufferer & the Witness

2007: Emilie Autumn – Opheliac

2008: Reggie and the Full Effect – Last Stop: Crappy Town

2009: Fischerspooner – Entertainment

2010: Die Antwoord — $O$

2011: S (Jenn Champion) — I'm Not as Good at It as You

2012: Amanda Palmer — Theatre is Evil

2013: Lorde — Pure Heroine

2014: Knife Party — Abandon Ship

2015: The Protomen — Act II: The Father of Death (2009)

2016: Sia — 1000 Forms of Fear

2017: The Magnetic Fields — 50 Song Memoir

2018: Gunship — Dark All Day

2019: Billie Eilish — When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

2020: Run the Jewels – RTJ4

2021: Halsey – If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power

2022: Wargasm – Explicit: The Mixtape

76- Everything Mix

  

N Mixtape 76- Everything Mix (Fall '23)

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1. Intro – New Found Glory
2. Tousou – Hanabie
3. More Than You Know – Blink-183
4. I Want Everything – Hyper, Wargasm (UK)
5. I See My Body Through You – CLT DRP
6. Karma – Mod Sun
7. Punk's Dead – Soft Play
8. Loser – Sueco
9. Zulu Screams –Goldlink, Bibi Bourelly, Maleek Berry
10. Act Up – Killer Mike, Young Nudy
11. The Pen & The Sword – MC Abdul
12. Fever – Nas
13. Zero – Secret Shame
14. Dirty Diana (Metal Version) – Leo
15. Lullaby – Pinkshift
16. Autumn's Here (2023 version) – Hawksley Workman
17. Perfectly Alone – K.Flay
18. Madness – Darkways
19. 3am – Skrillex, Prentiss, Anthony Green
20. Happy Birthday – Jenn Champion
21. Ovaries Speak – Meg Myers
22. This Woman's Work (2018 remaster) – Kate Bush
23. One More Time – Blink-182
24. I'm Ready – Jess Bush, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia, Dan Jeannotte, Kay Hanley, Tom Polce
25. Love Won't Hide the Ugliness – Brutus
26. Already Over – Mike Shinoda
27. Torn From Your Silhouette – Dying Wish
28. Ahsoka - End Credits – Kevin Kiner

N Mixtape 76b- Nothing Mix

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1. No Reason to Cry Out Your Eyes (2023 version) – Hawksley Workman
2. Who Died in Our Backyard – Secret Shame
3. Anthem Part 3 – Blink-182
4. It's Not Your Fault – New Found Glory
5. Flames – Mod Sun, Avril Lavigne
6. Fragments of a Better Memory – Dying Wish
7. Do It So Good – Wargasm (UK)
8. Get Out – Pinkshift
9. I'm the X – Ethan Peck, Tom Polce, Kay Hanley
10. Good News Bad News (we're all gonna die) – Jenn Champion
11. Taste like Venom – Gunship
12. Children of Sorrow – Health
13. Planet of the Bass – Kyle Gordon, DJ Crazy Times, Ms. Bijana Electronica
14. Manhattan – CHVRCHES
15. What This All Really Means – Nas
16. Puppet – Dorian Electra
17. Fight Night – Migos
18. Mi Gente – J Balvin, Willy William
19. "Slut!" (Taylor's Version) – Taylor Swift
20. Common People – Pulp
21. Lake of Fire (Live) – Nirvana
22. Torx – CLT DRP
23. Deprecating – Maggie Lindermann, Siiickbrain
24. Barbie & Ken – Scene Queen, Set It Off
25. Murmaider III – Metalocalypse: Dethklok
26. Chaining Eris – Secret Shame
27. Into the Dark – Harpy
28. Irish Goodbye – K.Flay, Pierce the Veil

75- Summer Rains

 

N Mixtape 75- Summer Rains (Summer '23)

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1. grandson – Drones
2. MEG MYERS – A NEW SOCIETY
3. Joy Oladokun, Noah Kahan – We're All Gonna Die
4. HEALTH, SIERRA – HATEFUL
5. عصافير – KHALIFA OG
6. We Didn't Start The Fire – Fall Out Boy
7. Bloodywood – Ari Ari
8. Grey Veins – L.S. Dunes
9. BURN THE WITCH – Pinkshift
10. Hard Times – Cro-Mags
11. Girls – The Dare
12. Cha Cha Cha – Käärijä
13. Doctorin' The Tardis – The Timelords
14. It Ain't What You Do It's the Way That You Do It – Fun Boy Three, Bananarama
15. Superman – Goldfinger
16. Excuse Me Mr. – No Doubt
17. Summer Goth – Aesthetic Perfection, Sebastian Svalland
18. Love Und Romance – The Slits
19. The Magician – Scarlet's Remains
20. Temple of Love – Black Veil Brides, VV
21. Edmund Kemper – SKYND
22. Persephone – Secret Shame
23. I Wanna Be Software – Grimes, Illangelo
24. Games Without Frontiers – Peter Gabriel
25. All Apologies – Sinéad O'Connor
26. Box of Rain (2013 Remaster) – Grateful Dead

74- Aliyah

 

N Mixtape 74- Aliyah (Spring '23)

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1. Don't Get Too Close – Skrillex, Bibi Bourelly
2. The Game – Starbenders
3. Sacrifice – Kaskade, deadmau5, Sofi Tukker, Kx5
4. RATATA – Skrillex, Missy Elliott, Mr. Oizo
5. Killbot! – chloe moriondo
6. Here Comes the Rain Again - Remastered Version – Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart
7. Get Inspired - ZHU Remix – Genesis Owusu, ZHU
8. Marie Douceur, Marie Colère – Manon Hollander
9. Sheraton Commander – Weezer
10. WEEDKILLER – Ashnikko
11. Mr. Brightside – The Killers
12. Resolution – Linkin Park
13. Dark Ceiling in Tennessee – Ritual Howls
14. Nothing to Prove – Kae Tempest
15. Something to Hide – grandson
16. Absolution – Siiickbrain, g3ox_em
17. I JUST WANNA TOUCH SOMEBODY – MEG MYERS
18. A Million Little Pieces - Radio Edit – Placebo
19. 3AM Eternal - Live at the S.S.L. – The KLF
20. Prophet – VNV Nation
21. Happy – Showtek
22. I'm Good (Blue) – David Guetta, Bebe Rexha
23. I Want To Be With You - SUCKERPUNCH Version – chloe moriondo
24. The Good Life – Weezer
25. Changes – Joy Oladokun
26. If You Could Read My Mind – Gordon Lightfoot
27. Lora Lie Lo – Patty Gurdy

73- Snowlessness

 

N Mixtape 73- Snowlessness (Winter '22)

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1. Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
2. Are You Alive? (Edit) - Orbital, Penelope Isles
3. Records - Weezer
4. Favorite Band - chloe moriondo
5. Empires - The Smashing Pumpkins
6. Frenzy - Iggy Pop
7. Michael & Quincy - Nas
8. XENA - Skrillex, Nai Barghouti
9. El Apagón - Bad Bunny
10. Way Back - Skrillex, PinkPantheress, Trippie Redd
11. (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Nxghtshade, Satin Puppets, Lyndsi Austin
12. Frankenstein - Rina Sawayama
13. Father Christmas - The Kinks
14. 929 - Halsey
15. I Want A Dog - Weezer
16. Coastline - Hollow Coves
17. This Is Why - Paramore
18. Little League - Cap'n Jazz
19. Money - Embrace
20. The Calendar Hung Itself... - Bright Eyes
21. Honey, This Mirror Isn't Big Enough for the Two of Us - My Chemical Romance
22. Tinfoil - Rainer Maria
23. Misery Business - Paramore
24. Wajhelkhata - Znous
25. The Death & Resurrection Show (Remastered) - Killing Joke
26. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - Bryce Miller/Alloy Tracks Remix - Journey, Steve Perry

Album of the Year 2022: Explicit: The Mixxxtape

Every year I pick the album that most impressed me during the year. It is rarely my favorite album of the year but rather the one that affected me the most. These albums are so good that they typically change my taste in music.

This year’s pick is easy. Ten seconds into hearing one of their songs, I was ravenous for more. I quickly became obsessed with them, and their sound has been a dominant theme of my entire year. The band is Wargasm (UK). They’re an electronic rock, “Nu Metal” act out of London, and their music feels like a bliss punch to the face. It’s been a long time since my rebellious, hardcore, adrenaline side has been tapped. Rock music has been on the decline for years, and it started to feel like there wasn’t any energy left – in the culture, and sometimes in me. Then D.R.I.L.D.O. came out and I felt young all over again. The future regained its color and for a moment, all was right with the world. I poured over their small back catalog and every song resonated with me. Patron Saints had already been my aesthetic this year. Now I had a track for it. Lapdance is too clever for its own good. Then I got to see them in a tiny club in Queens with, like, 30 people. It was one of the best shows of my life. I saw them again a few month later, and they already started blowing up. They opened for Bloodywood and there were already hundreds of people there. I don’t think this stuff is for everybody, but boy oh boy is it for me, which is why Wargasm’s Explicit: The Mixxxtape is my album of the year.

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Previous winners:

2001: Linkin Park -- Hybrid Theory
2002: Hawksley Workman -- (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves
2003: Blink-182 -- Blink-182
2004: Conjure One -- Conjure One
2005: Imogen Heap -- Speak for Yourself
2006: Rise Against -- The Sufferer & the Witness
2007: Emilie Autumn – Opheliac
2008: Reggie and the Full Effect – Last Stop: Crappy Town
2009: Fischerspooner – Entertainment
2010: Die Antwoord - $O$
2011: S (Jenn Champion) - I'm Not as Good at It as You
2012: Amanda Palmer - Theatre is Evil
2013: Lorde - Pure Heroine
2014: Knife Party - Abandon Ship
2015: The Protomen - Act II: The Father of Death (2009)
2016: Sia - 1000 Forms of Fear
2017: The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir
2018: Gunship -- Dark All Day
2019: Billie Eilish -- When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
2020: Run the Jewels – RTJ4

2021: If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power – Halsey