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VA – Further Complications 200/9
So another year of life, love, happiness, sorrow, family, friends and art has passed, and here I am collecting a few of my favorite musical moments from it. It felt like a strong year for music, but then don’t they all in the moment—at least moreso than on reflection. There will be no succinct tracklisting this year, just a list of featured artists because this mix is a bit more of a mess than usual. At least, it feels more like a soup to me than maybe a traditional tracklisting would indicate—and heck, a little bit of surprise can be fun.
Anyway, enough beating that recalcitrant horse, on to the music. Thirty tracks in seconds under an hour, featuring: Jarvis Cocker / Solange / Tim Hecker / Tortoise / Diamond Watch Wrists / Volcano Choir / Whitney Houston / Phaseone / Prefuse 73 / Yeasayer / Joakim / Dirty Projectors / Fontän / Chris Clark / Animal Collective / Taken By Trees / Tyondai Braxton / Toro Y Moi / Bibio / Vowels / Stephan Mathieu / Risil / Lindstrom & Prins Thomas / Son of Sound / Hudson Mohawke / Broadcast & The Focus Group. Enjoy.
DOWNLOAD: VA – Further Complications 200/9 (59 min. 51 sec., 107MB)
November 30th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
Lookin’ forward to hitting play on this one.
December 1st, 2009 at 11:41 am
Looking forward to this, but I wish there was a track listing with song titles in case I fall in love with something and need to track it down …
December 1st, 2009 at 11:54 am
I doubt there will be many surprises, but if there are just ask!
December 7th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
A hundred and fifty downloads so far, and only two comments. Well, I just want to die.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Appreciate the time put in this. So far, it sounds great but I have agree with Paige.
December 8th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
Thanks, I suppose I tried to be sneaky and left the tracklisting vague to get some conversation/questions/comments going—I guess that didn’t work.
December 8th, 2009 at 3:00 pm
I will say that I love how different many of the tracks are. Alot of these mixes, while having great music, tend to walk a narrow path and this one differs. And I love it for that.
December 13th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Really loving this. Thanks.
December 14th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Thanks, Tom!