This lovely plot of musical perfection began as an attempt to put all the tracks at the top of Winamp’s ‘Most Played’ list (except those already committed to mixes) in one happy little place. It expanded to include some forgotten gems and some classics begging to be mixed (The Bjork and the Orbital were runners up for MACEWEN). The Orbital song got excised in the recent reversioning. Perhaps it will show up somewhere again. More electronica songs snuck their way into this mix than is the standard with my output, and that is largely intentional because that facet of my listening experience has been largely under-represented… until now! (ooh and ahh, please). And in the end only 4 of the originally slated songs remain. I would say this is probably my most diverse mix so far. There are some strange and wholly wonderful sounds contained within.
Created June 8, 2004. Reversioned July 12, 2004. And again August 6th. But that wasn’t uploaded till September 20.

Tracklist:

1. The Decemberists – Grace Cathedral Hill
2. Portishead – It’s a Fire
3. Aim w/ Kate Rogers – Sail (Rae & Christian Remix)
4. Bjork – Hyperballad
5. Nick Cave – The Ship Song
6. Sinead O’Connor – You Made Me The Thief of Your Heart (written by Bono, Gavin Friday, and Maurice Seezer)
7. Radiohead – Lucky
8. Massive Attack – Home of the Whale
9. Massive Attack – Safe From Harm (perfecto remix)
10. 1 Giant Leap – Racing Away
11. Pale 3 with Franka Potente – Fly With Me
12. The Dresden Dolls – Half Jack
13. Moloko – Forever More
14. The Prodigy – Climbatize
15. Lyrics Born with Lateef – The Last Trumpet
16. Modest Mouse – Float On
17. Outkast – You May Die

Length: 79:57

In the two weeks before this CD was made I discovered a lot of really amazing new music, mostly of the rock sort of variety. Those make up about half of the tracks here (including all the ones beginning in ‘C’), the others are some songs that have been really important to my listening pleasure in the last several months. The loose idea that started this mix was “Rock in the 2000s” to show all the ‘rock is dead’ people. Of course it stretched beyond that in order to not ignore some songs. Nonetheless all the songs except for tracks 5, 18, and 20 are 5 years old or younger.
Created April 2, 2004.

Tracklist:

1. British Sea Power – Men Together Today
2. !!! – Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard (a true story)
3. The Unicorns – Tuff Ghost
4. Wilco – Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway(again)
5. The Cardigans – Carnival
6. The Shins – New Slang
7. The Delgados – Coming in From the Cold
8. Badly Drawn Boy – Camping Next To Water
9. Calexico – Quattro
10. Elbow – Not a Job
11. Moloko – Statues
12. The Decemberists – Shanty for the Arethusa
13. Franz Ferdinand – Dark of the Matinee
14. John Vanderslice – Coming and Going on Easy Terms
15. The Dismemberment Plan – Time Bomb
16. British Sea Power – Fear of Drowning
17. British Sea Power – Carrion
18. The Cocteau Twins – Cherry Coloured Funk
19. Elbow – Grace Under Pressure
20. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Into My Arms

Length: 79:55

Lots of people don’t much like hiphop. My theory is that they just think they don’t and they haven’t heard the really good stuff. The idea behind this CD is basically that. A wide selection of honest to God downright awesome hiphop from most of my favourite hip hop purveyors. So if you like the beats and rhymes already, you’ll hopefully like this, and if you don’t then you can learn something!
Created December 20, 2003.

Tracklist:

1. Roots Manuva – Clockwork
2. Latyrx – Storm Warning
3. El-P – Stepfather Factory
4. Blackalicious – Deception
5. Prefuse 73 – Plastic (feat. Diverse)
6. Aesop Rock – Daylight
7. Dilated Peoples – Worse Comes to Worse
8. The Roots – You Got Me (feat. Erykah Badu)
9. Outkast – ATLiens
10. Deltron 3030 – Positive Contact
11. The Roots – Thought At Work
12. Lyrics Born – I Changed My Mind (Stereo MCs Mix)
13. Bomb The Bass – Bug Powder Dust (feat. Justin Warfield)
14. Outkast – Ghettomusick
15. Basement Jaxx – Lucky Star (feat. Dizzee Rascal)
16. Talib Kweli – Get By
17. Blackalicious – Sleep
18. Cinematic Orchestra – All Things To All Men (feat. Roots Manuva)

This here had its inception because the hiphop mix I was working on was to be a Secret Santa gift for someone whose musical tastes I didn’t know in and out. Not knowing whether he liked hip hop, I figured it would be a good idea to provide an additional CD that would cover the other spectrum of music.. the more guitar and voice side of things, with some variance of course. Turned out very lovely-like, though I had to go back and replace a U2 track (I included it largely because I knew Adam was a huge U2 fan, as well as because I really like it of course) with some Decemberists.
Created December 20, 2003.

Tracklist:

1. Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane over the Sea
2. Spoon – The Minor Tough
3. The Shins-Turn A Square
4. Fastball – The Way
5. Wilco – Heavy Metal Drummer
6. Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
7. Broken Social Scene – Stars and Sons
8. The Shins – Saint Simon
9. The Decemberists – Odalisque
10. The Notwist – Trashing Days
11. Grandaddy – Hewlett’s Daughter
12. The Flaming Lips – Waitin’ For a Superman
13. Doves – The Sulphur Man
14. Radiohead – A Wolf at the Door
15. Wilco – Ashes of American Flags
16. PJ Harvey – Angelene
17. Slovo – Killing Me
18. Gary Jules – Mad World (Alternate Version)
19. The Notwist – Consequence
20. The Postal Service – Such Great Heights

Length: 78:26

This was my first all out grand production of a mix CD with cover and everything, hours and hours went into it, as is often the case when doing things where computers like to cause errors. It breaks some rules (ie only one song per artist, which is a rule I ignored until basically 2005). I made this mix for Melissa (and perhaps a little for myself as well) when I and she left the proximity of each other and trundled off to McMaster and Queens respectively (that’s where the lame name that i’ve given it comes from). I don’t know if she ever actually listened to the whole thing, but I at least think it is really good. Some really nice transitions, and a lovely little end. The version here is a slightly updated one that I made more recently where Wonderwall by Oasis was replaced with The Devlins.
Created August 28, 2003. Reversioned December 21, 2003.

Tracklist:
01 – The Flaming Lips – Fight Test
02 – Mercury Rev – Goddess on a Hiway
03 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers – Dosed
04 – Lamb – Fly
05 – Muse – New Born
06 – Elbow – Red
07 – Radiohead – No Surprises
08 – Devlins – Waiting
09 – Travis – Driftwood
10 – A Camp – I Can Buy You
11 – Calla – Fear of Fireflies
12 – Outkast – Jazzy Belle
13 – Royksopp – Remind Me
14 – The Red Hot Chili Peppers – Tear
15 – Ron Sexsmith – Gold in Them Hills (remix featuring Chris Martin)
16 – Beck – Do You Realize?
17 – The Flaming Lips – Do You Realize?
18 – Wilco – Reservations
19 – Radiohead – True Love Waits