This second mix plays host to some of my most favorite pop artists of the year, starting with the great Frank Ocean and Lana Del Rey, all the way through Jessie Ware and Solange. Mixed in are some perhaps less familiar tracks, remixes, and appearances by, among others, PM Dawn, Tame Impala, and Nico Muhly (twice! if you count his arrangement of Climax). Download your 2012 dose of tap-dancing therapy here.

I’ll provide one brief warning: there’s a slightly poppers-o’clock bit made up of one K-pop tune and two ‘heightened’ UK radio mixes, all three of which might contain trance breakdowns and/or saxophone solos. Consider yourself warned; as well as wished the happiest of holidays.

The lovely Stil in Berlin blog asked me to mix up a summer mixtape for them, something to help balance out Berlin’s rather schizophrenic weather this time of year (sun! storm! sweater weather!). The result is part nineties nostalgia (Neneh Cherry, Saint Etienne), part best-of-first-half-of-2012 (Fiona Apple, Diiv), and definitely part silly summer jams (Usher, Aviicii). Click on the image above to download my mix.

It’s a new mixtape! Click that cover above to get a nice 80-minute dose of Janet, Whitney, and apocalyptic gloating. Full tracklisting’s in the comments.

These are 23 of my favorite songs from 2011. I’ve mixed them all together in one file for soundtracking walks, drives, and flights to and fro wherever you call home in the upcoming holidays. Though I cannot guarantee there won’t be a part two, I just wanted to share this with you now, before the year is over for good. Enjoy, the tracklist is below.

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Beginners snippet/Ewan McGregor

Trust Issues (Remix)/Justin Bieber

I’ll Take Care Of You/Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX

Movement/Katy B

Living Like I Do (Feat. Sampha)/SBTRKT

Two Rings/Ice Choir

Emergency Room/Ford & Lopatin

Call Me Tonight/Active Child

Too Tough/The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Smiths cover)/Dum Dum Girls

Change the Sheets/Kathleen Edwards

Cosmonogy/Björk

Heste (Tristan and Isolde)/City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra

Till The World Ends (The Femme Fatale remix feat. Nicki Minaj/Britney Spears

Psychic (Club Mix)/SSION

Fashion Of His Love/Lady Gaga

Schoolin‚ Life/Beyoncé

Songs For Women/Frank Ocean

Wave Goodbye/Household

The Glorious Land/PJ Harvey

Our Prayer/Beach Boys

Hymn for the Heartbreaker/Corinna Rose

Equipoise/Justin Vivian Bond

Beth/Rest (Live on NPR)/Bon Iver

This latest mix has been lingering on my harddrive for a few weeks in the hopes that I could cure its schizophrenic nature. Now, realizing that my energy is perhaps best spent elsewhere (best of 2011 lists!), I’ve decided to put it up in its current, slightly bifurcated form.

If the first half is like an organic meal enjoyed at home, followed by some mild dancing by the fire, the second is a fluorescent binge on fast-food, followed by a slow drive home through the city. Download here.

Tracklist:

Heroics mixtape - Fall 2011

Look, I could try to sell you on this mixtape in two ways, the first being that this one was inspired by the Drive soundtrack: all synthetic cruise control, tinted windows, and an underlying threat of ultraviolence. I could mention Balam Acab, Gem Club, Colin Stetson, or Italo-mysteries Bagarre; get the obscurist vote.

Then again, I could also admit that this is still a Neonresolutions mix, and so you’ll encounter some 90s classics by Everything But The Girl and the Ghost Town DJ’s, and so alongside the requisite Gaga, Lana Del Rey, and R. Kelly remixes you’ll even hear a Bonnie Tyler cover.

Now whichever tack appeals to you most, I hope you do click that Gosling pic above and enjoy my soundtrack to your autumnal cruises.

The wonderful Stil in Berlin blog asked me to whip up one of my mixtapes to celebrate their fifth birthday. Honored, I mixed up five years of favorites (and some SiB soundbites), trying to soundtrack what the last half of the noughties sounded like for me, and I hope you’ll find some of your best-loved tunes in there too.

This second best-of-2010 mixtape forms the flipside to the first’s party vibage, all spooked sentiment and dark drama. Things may start off all nice and country, even working in some Tay-Tay in the middle there, but shit ultimately gets real biblical. Repent and download here.

1. Wedding Song / Anais Mitchell feat. Justin Vernon

2. Sometimes in this Country / Crooked Still

3. All We Are / Dirty Projectors + Björk

4. I Didn’t See It Coming / Belle & Sebastian

5. Lovers’ Carvings / Bibio

6. No Provenance / Joanna Newsom 

7. What Do You Think Will Happen Now? / Owen Pallett

8. Limit To Your Love (Feist cover) / James Blake 

9. Queen Of Denmark / John Grant 

10. Acts of Man / Midlake 

11. Heartbreaker / Girls 

12. Mean / Taylor Swift 

13. Dancing On My Own (Acoustic on Live Lounge) / Robyn

14. In this Shirt / The Irrepressibles

15. What He Wrote / Laura Marling 

16. I’m the One/Money on My Mind (the xx/Lil’ Wayne) / jj

17. Futile Devices / Sufjan Stevens

18. Walking Song / Kate & Anna McGarrigle

19. Names / Valley Maker

20. Le Pyromane / Karkwa

21. Excuses (Live at Yours Truly) / The Morning Benders