Best of 2012 instrumental mix

Pictured: Toto

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01 Evenings - Golden
02 Snow Palms - Blue Yonder
03 Andrew Bird - Things Behind The Barn
04 Two Bicycles - Voice Clouds
05 Message To Bears - Farewell, Stars
06 Dead Rat Orchestra - Salt Slide
07 Alamaailman Vasarat - Riistomaasiirtäjä
08 Black Prairie - Evil Leaves
09 Mount Eerie - (something)
10 Library Tapes - End of the Summer
11 dalot - haiku 16
12 Indian Wells - In The Streets
13 Errors - The Knock
14 Balmorhea - Artifact
15 Godspeed You! Black Emperor - We Drift Like Worried Fire
16 Memory Tapes - The Black Reel

~90 minutes counting the last two tracks, ~45 without them. Think of it as a 2-part deal if you want, or just skip the long tracks at the end, idgaf. It was a good year for instrumental music. I could have made this go on for hours, easily. I left most of my favorite ambient stuff off since a lot of the same artists are on the Hurricane Sandy Relief compilation posted below, which you should really check out in lieu of any mix I could make.

Best of 2012 mix

Pictured: None of the below bands.

I don't do lists, I do do mixes. click here to listen or check out the streaming link below.
hehe. do do.

01 Secret Mountains - Golden Blue
02 Thee Oh Sees - Lupine Dominus
03 Frankie Rose - Interstellar
04 Grass Widow - Milo Minute
05 Seapony - What You Wanted
06 Ilyas Ahmed - My Mirage
07 Mount Eerie - Ocean Roar
08 Sharon van Etten - Serpents
09 Black Prairie - How Do You Ruin Me
10 Efterklang - Dreams Today
11 Stars - Progress
12 The Luyas - Channeling
13 Memory Tapes - Neighborhood Watch
14 Aesop Rock - Racing Stripes
15 Boy Eats Drum Machine - The Devil's Wheels
16 Liars - WIXIW
17 First Aid Kit - Dance To Another Tune
18 Andrew Bird - Beyond the Valley of the Three White Horses

If i get DMCA'd for not blacking out any of those names, so help me god, (insert empty threats here). Run time is ~80 minutes, and watch out for a follow-up all-instrumental mix coming soon.

On the topic of Black Prairie, Secret Mountains, and Sharon Van Etten, I still have some pictures and videos from shows I attended last month to round up and post here. Secret Mountains are playing again this coming Friday, 12/14 at Union Pool in Brooklyn. They'll be opening for Andrew Cedermark (who sounds promising from the brief sample I heard) along with The Heaven's Jail Band and Gem Trails. While theirs will probably be a short set, Secret Mountains alone will be worth the price of admission, so drop by that show if you have nothing better to do.

Update: Secret Mountains canceled so I hope no one took my advice.

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fradleybox not-radiohead live mix

Click here for the download link. Does what it says on the cover. Sorry for deliberately mangling the band names in the track list below but we live in a very litigious internets these days. Dates ate in YYYY.DD.MM format.

01 B*ck & The Fl*ming L*ps - The Golden Age - 2002.12.24 KCRW (FM)
02 Ir*n & W*ne - Sunset Soon Forgotten - 2005.06.20 Norfolk (live album)
03 The ******* Fire - No Cars Go - 2008.01.23 Live at the Wireless (FM)
04 The Delgados - The Actress - 1998 Black Sessions (FM)
05 D*ves - The Man Who Told Everything - 2001.06.13 WBCN (FM)
06 Blonde Redhead - Here Sometimes - 2010.09.27 Black Sessions (FM)
07 Califone - Funeral Singers - 2009.12.03 KEXP (FM)
08 Wilco - Impossible Germany - 2008 (live DVD)
09 Br*k*n S*c**l Scene - cause = time - 2004.08.07 Stockholm (FM)
10 P*rt*sh**d - Nylon Smile - 2008.05.20 BBC (FM)
11 Broadcast - Look Outside - 2001.04.08 Oneworld (FM)
12 Andrew Bird - You Woke Me Up! - 2009.12.xx Fingerlings 4 (live album)
13 múm - K Half Noise - 2002.09.21 Barcelona (unknown source)
14 The P*xies - Where is my Mind - 2004.05.01 Coachella (livedisc)
15 Feist - Lover's Spit - 2000 Black Sessions (FM)

Radiohead Live 1992-1996 (again)

Links updated, tracklist now complete with date, venue, and source information. Read the post below this one if this is the first you're reading about this mix.

I highly recommend you visit I Am Not Rock via this link to read my friend lucy's diaries of Radiohead's early shows, perhaps as you listen. I believe there are entries on more than one of the dates from which performances were used on the mix. It's an excellent read and can help provide context for what you're listening to. 

the updated links again:
mp3 V0 (lossy)
flac (lossless)
flac (lossless) alt link

flac + foobar (windows users)
flac + vlc (mac users)

megaupload is my only friend, dropbox a fickle lover.

Key: SBD = Soundboard (of some type) AUD = Audience and the rest are kinda obvious.

01 Intro - 1995.03.24 Kentish Town Forum London UK FM
02 You - 1996.05.27 Pinkpop Festival Landgraaf Netherlands FM
03 The Bends - 1997.07.04 Les Eurockéennes Festival Belfort France SBD
04 Planet Telex - 1995.07.30 National Bowl Milton Keynes UK SBD
05 Million Dollar Question - 1993.06.04 Maginset Goteborg Sweden FM
06 High and Dry - 1996.07.13 T in the Park Festival Strathclyde Scotland FM
07 Lift - 1996.04.04 JBTV Metro Chicago IL TV
08 Yes I Am - 1993.09.03 Barrowlands Glasgow Scotland FM
09 True Love Waits - 1995.12.05 Luna Theater Brussels Belgium VHS
10 Nobody Does it Better - 1996.04.12 Roseland Ballroom NYC AUD
11 Creep - 2003.11.27 Earl's Court London UK XFM
12 Fake Plastic Trees - 2006.06.08 Hummingbird Center Toronto Ontario AUD
13 Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong - 1994.12.02 Melkweg Amsterdam Netherlands AUD
14 I Promise - 1996.04.16 La Cigale Paris France AUD
15 Nothing Touches Me - 1992.06.13 BBC Evening Sessions London UK FM
16 Maquiladora - 1994.07.02 Roskilde Festival Roskilde Denmark SBD
17 Big Boots - 1995.11.10 Cafe De La Danse Paris France AUD
18 Inside My Head - 1994.08.27 Reading Festival Reading UK FM
19 Bulletproof - 2004.04.18 Makuhari Messe Tokyo Japan SBD
20 Talk Show Host - 1998.12.10 Amnesty International FM
21 Stop Whispering - 1995.06.06 RPM Club Toronto Ontario SBD
22 Just - 2001.06.01 Rock Am Ring Festival Nürburgring Germany FM
23 The Trickster - 1998.04.02 Bill Graham Civic Center San Francisco CA AUD
24 Lurgee - 1996.04.13 Avalon Ballroom Boston Massachusetts FM
25 Permanent Daylight - 2001.09.30 Castle Hall Osaka Japan AUD
26 Nice Dream - 2000.07.04 SFB Sendesaal Berlin Germany FM
27 Anyone Can Play Guitar - 1995.02.27 2 Meter Sessions Netherlands SBD
28 Black Star - 1995.12.01 Gino Stockholm Sweden FM
29 My Iron Lung - 1997.06.24 Muziekcentrum Vredenburg Utrecht Netherlands FM
30 Blow Out - 1993.07.12 The Whiskey A-Go-Go Los Angeles CA SBD

moar comments !

Radiohead Live 1992-1996

So, I just finished this live Radiohead mix I've been working on for a very long time. Almost two years, in fact. Here's some background:

There will be four mixes highlighting different periods in Radiohead's live performances over the course of their career. Radiohead are somewhat unique in that most songs tend to evolve constantly and slowly the more they are played, some more drastically than others. As a result, some songs will appear more than once over the course of the mixes because they are performed in such different ways over the years. Each mix is set up to be mock-concert length and should feel sort of like any given show in the time period (at which they play a truly absurd number of awesome b-sides and new songs, of course).

Just in time for the 90's to be retro, this first mix covers 1992-1996 (with Talk Show Host wrangled in; it wasn't debuted live until early 1997 but there were good reasons to include it here). 29 songs, 2 hours. I did my best not to choose specific performances lots of folks may have already heard (for example, Lift performed at Pinkpop in 1996 does not appear on this mix, instead, Lift performed on JBTV will appear), though this was not always possible. Early shows were never this long, but I decided to go by current show length as a guideline. I also have only used the dates as a cutoff for what songs to include; I allowed myself to use performances of those songs from later shows, which I did in some cases where I do not plan to feature the songs again in a later mix. Some of these recordings are almost two decades old, and others are from shows as recent as 2006.

The mix is available as both a lossless (flac) and mp3 (V0) download. Additionally, I have bundled the lossless version with a program that will play flac files; foobar2000 for windows users and vlc for mac users, just in case you are new to the format. The mp3s sound great, but of course, I suggest you get the flacs. Only slight remastering was performed on most tracks, and nearly one-fourth of the tracks are taken from audience recordings. The date and venue for each track is part of the file name, in case anyone decides they want to find the bootleg that a song came from.

In sum, this is a must-have for Radiohead fans and perhaps a good thorough exposure to the band's early work for anyone who only knows the later albums. At the very least, it's something to listen to until the new album comes out!

Please enjoy with my best regards, and please, for the love of all that's holy, leave comments!

- fradleybox


links:

mp3 V0 (lossy) link fixed
flac (lossless)
flac (lossless) alt link



flac + foobar (windows users)
flac + vlc (mac users)


Tracklist:

01. Intro
02. You
03. The Bends
04. Planet Telex
05. Million Dollar Question
06. High and Dry
07. Lift
08. Yes I Am
09. True Love Waits
10. Nobody Does it Better
11. Creep
12. Fake Plastic Trees
13. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
14. I Promise
15. Nothing Touches Me
16. Maquiladora
17. Big Boots
18. Inside My Head
19. Bulletproof
20. Talk Show Host
21. Stop Whispering
22. Just
23. The Trickster
24. Lurgee
25. Permanent Daylight
26. Nice Dream
27. Anyone Can Play Guitar
28. Black Star
29. My Iron Lung
30. Blow Out

[2010] fr*dl*yb*x instrumental m*x (redux)

Boy Eats Drum Machine

There were so many great instrumental tracks leftover from my first mix and I heard a few more in the last quarter of the year, some of which have been recently blogged here, and I decided to go ahead and make another one. There are only a few bands in common with the first mix. Click the picture to listen.

01. Andr*w B*rd - Make Hay
02. Bl*ck Pra*rie - Full Moon in June
03. dné - Time Is Fabulous
04. Happenstance - Even My Goosebumps Shivered
05. Dalot - Infinite Window
06. Arandel - # 3
07. Asura - Asura III
08. James Stephen Finn - Twelfth Floor
09. Anenon - Damiel
10. Br**n En* - Flint March
11. Arcn Templ - Eighteen Steps Of Evil
12. Boy Eats Drum Machine - Battle Hymn
13. Dorian White - Luxated Hip
14. Balmorhea - Clamor
15. Dirk Geiger - Gewitterregen

[2010] fr*dl*yb*x m*x

DMCA'd motherfucker

 

That picture above is interactive! try to poke senator Turt L. Face's nose with your cursor. He makes a funny sound!

[2010] Instrumental Mix

I don't make any grand, egotistical claims like this is the "best of" instrumental music in the past year. They aren't the best instrumental albums of the year, either. Many of the albums these tracks come from are not themselves entirely instrumental. It is, however, a damn nice mix of some of the best instrumental tracks I've heard this year, and I hope you end up getting into one of these artists because you like their track.

so, download the mix here and enjoy
fradleybox - 2010 Instrumental Mix (link updated with new itunes-friendly version)


Tracklist (artist-album-title):
01 - Boy Eats Drum Machine - 20 Beats - The Rabbit
02 - Fly*ng L*tus - P*ttern+Grid World - Kill Your Co-Workers
03 - T*bacco - Maniac Meat - Nuclear Waste Aerobics
04 - Autechre - M*ve of Ten - y7
05 - Waggers over the Station - Uphekka - Blankets of Oracle Bones
06 - Noveller - Desert Fires - Toothnest (For Chris Habib)
07 - Errors - Come Down with Me - The Erskine Bridge
08 - Balmorhea - Constellations - Bowsprit
09 - Black Prairie - Daytrotter Session - Ostinato Del Caminito
10 - Evenings - North Dorm - Favorite Maze
11 - Flotilla - flotilla - Cathedral
12 - Eluvium - Similies - In Culmination
13 - Mount Eerie - Song Islands Vol. 2 - (wind lyrics)
14 - Ólafur Arnalds - ...And They Have Escaped... - Loftið Verður Skyndilega Kalt

edit: the woman in the lower right hand corner of that image kinda looks like my mom