Toby Aronson's Friendship Bracelet Mix
Burlington, Vermont's Toby Aronson is one of the men behind NNA Tapes, in my opinion one of the best tape labels out there. They've released music from the likes of Oneohtrix Point Never, Nonhorse,...
View ArticleMix: nihiti
Back in February, Dragan Otasevic from Brooklyn electro-pop outfit nihiti (which includes AZ contributor Arturo Darvishire) submitted a 2,000-word guest post on New York's Sandwell Distinct, a dark,...
View ArticleDemdike Stare Does Podcast for XLR8R
XLR8R roped in Demdike Stare to make a podcast for them, and it rules. This mix is all over the place; Demdike throw together Lebanese belly dancing music, '90s house from Germany's Move D, stellar...
View ArticleAltered Zones | April 2011 | Mix Series v8 | Grimes
[photo by Max Capacity]Say hey to the eighth edition of our monthly mix series. Each month, we get an artist to make us a mix based on their favorite tracks on the site from the past 30 days, along...
View ArticleMix: How To Dress Well
I'll just come out and say it: I don't listen to Hot 97 very often. Usually I just listen to whale sounds all day, which can get pretty boring after awhile. Luckily, Tom Krell, aka How To Dress Well,...
View ArticleMix: Liturgy
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix from Liturgy says:I decided to cull from different areas of experimental and extreme metal as well as classical and avant-garde composition. All the music I included is very...
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Altered Zones | May 2011 | Mix Series v9 | Holy Other
[Image by Max Capacity]Welcome to the ninth installment of our world famous Monthly Mix series. The mix Canadian songstress Grimes cooked up for our April edition was so good it got us all the way...
View ArticleMix: Ford & Lopatin
Ford & Lopatin were kind enough to send us their jazz-prog "Roughly Fusion Mix II," and it seems they've raised the bar even higher since their last one, "Metal Fatigue." This mix starts off with...
View ArticleMix: John McEntire
For those of you who aren't already en route to Chicago's second annual Neon Marshmallow Fest this weekend, here's a mix from Tortoise drummer JohnMcEntire, who will be throwing down Saturday night as...
View ArticleMix: National Jukebox at the Library of Congress
Last month, the Library of Congress launched the National Jukebox, an online archive of more than 10,000 songs recorded before 1925. While sifting through the mountain of rarities, we went from feeling...
View ArticleBlanck Mass' Quietus Mix
Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Powers has turned a few heads with his texturally rich, aurally engaging solo project Blanck Mass. Celebrating his recent album on Mogwai's Rock Action label, Powers made an...
View ArticleLaurel Halo's FACT Mix
Right now over on FACT (but for a limited time only) you can download a mix that beatsmith Laurel Halo made. This one's called "Pornoviewer," and it's named after Dopplereffekt track that appears near...
View ArticleAltered Zones | June 2011 | Mix Series v10 | Pictureplane
[Image by Max Capacity]After a stellar submission from Holy Other, the tenth installment of our Monthly Mix series is here, and who better to inaugurate that second digit than Pictureplane? Though he...
View ArticleSteve Hauschildt: "First Day of Summer Mix"
Some website told me that the Summer solstice began on June 21st at 1:16 pm EDT, but I'm going to go with Steve Hauschildt on this one and lay it down: Summer starts July 7th at 12pm-- right here,...
View ArticleSolar Bears' Mix for 'SUP
'SUP Magazine just packaged their recent Solar Bears interview with a special mix curated by the Irish duo, including tracks from Blondes, Ford and Lopatin, John Maus, and Thundercat. Since Solar...
View ArticleMix: Soft Metals
Patricia Hall from Soft Metals says:"These songs are spacey and free-form, which may seem out of character for us, but we wanted to share some of the inspiration for the hints of psychedelia that we...
View ArticleAltered Zones | July 2011 | Mix Series v11 | Sleep ∞ Over
[image by Max Capacity]Welcome to the 11th installment of our monthly mix series. For July, we got Stefanie Franciotti of Sleep ∞ Over to select some of her favorite cuts from AZ last month and...
View ArticleAltered Zones | Aug 2011 | Mix Series v12 | Star Slinger
[image by Max Capacity]Welcome to the 12th installment of our monthly mix series! For the past year, we've been getting some of our favorite artists to compile their favorite tracks posted on AZ in the...
View ArticleHeat Wave: "Tha Clock On The Wall" Mix
This latest mix from Los Angeles' Alex Gray is like trying to find your way in the desert after the hallucinations and the dehydration have fully taken hold. The palette here reflects a steady diet of...
View ArticleOctavius: Glass Haus Mix
Octavius says:The Glass Haus mix does not want your undivided attention.I've spent more time than I probably should have in thought or debate about various types of music. One area of fascination is...
View ArticleMix: Plaid
This past Tuesday, London's OG IDM-ers Plaid dropped their latest LP for Warp, Scintilli-- their first proper album in 8 years-- and thousands of electronic music fans around the globe rejoiced....
View ArticleAltered Zones | September 2011 | Mix Series v13 | Raleigh Moncrief
[image by Max Capacity]Welcome to the 13th installment of AZ's monthly mix series. This time around, Raleigh Moncrief volunteered to make us a mix of what he's been listening to as of late. The...
View ArticleHarmonizer: Mix
I had a lot of great things to say about Harmonizer's World Complete EP last week, but only one word-- the one word to rule them all?-- can truly sum up their suite of electronic atmospheres: vibes. So...
View ArticleMix: Twerps
Rick Milovanovic of the Twerps says:It was impossible for us to make you an Australian pop compilation without including some songs from New Zealand too. There's so much music that we love from down...
View ArticleUpset The Rhythm Shares John Maus, Future Islands Demos
Upset The Rhythm says:Here’s a collection of some current Upset The Rhythm required listening. Some of the tracks like the Group Inerane and Halo Halo songs are anticipating our excitement about next...
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