FLUXBLOG 2011 SURVEY MIX

aaaaah! yessss ive been waiting for this

I prefer the MP3’s over podcast as it means I can digest this massive collection in chunks. Thanks so much for putting it together - just incredible work. So much music that I missed out on this year to catch up with

Thanks for doing this. Last years mix was wonderful.

Ooh. Homework time for me. Just started reading your blog this month and been working my way backwards in time. Our tastes are pretty different. Most of the music on your blog I would not listen to more than once, which makes the writing all the more interesting to me - you find a way to make me deeply curious about a song and give me something to listen for, even if it’s way out of my scope of genres.

Cheers.

I spent a couple weeks figuring out what was going in, then spent more time trying to make it fit together well, both as individual mixes and as a larger 183 track thing, while taking some songs out and putting them in. A fair number of songs had to be cut to make this fit to ten discs. I didn’t want to go over that limit. This is more than enough.

i mean 10 discs…. come on dude.

Some readers have made a Spotify playlist. The problem with that is that you lose something like 50 tracks, and a huge chunk of the hip-hop. So it totally defeats the purpose of the survey, you know?

True. The idea being, download each disc and then the playlist will work (with local files); this would allow removing redundant files already stored.
Thanks regardless!

Seconded, Tracy. 10 discs is great.

Thank you, Matthew. Everybody donate or buy a T-shirt!

Yeah, I’ve heard all of these records. Some more than others. A lot of my listening habits — thanks to doing this site for ten years — involves cherry-picking tracks from records, so I don’t always spend a lot of time with full albums, even if I love particular songs.

George — make your own single-disc set! The point of this is to be sprawling, comprehensive, overwhelming. The thing I like about making/listening to this on my end is that I like the “whoa, soooo many good songs!” feeling. It makes me feel better about the year in music, it makes me think about just how much great stuff comes out all the time. I mean, I had to cut a lot of excellent stuff just to get this down to 10 discs!

Thanks so much for this; it’s difficult for me to sample much new, and so nice that you do all this work for it. You’ve turned me on to a ton of great music (but I kind of curse you for the earworm “Meet a Bear” that is tattooed on my brain now).

how is this legal? not objecting to tons of free music but did every single one of these tracks get approved by their respective labels. if so good job, if not slippery slope to go down no?

http://open.spotify.com/user/magicmenagerie/playlist/18955fNI0rEuVUa05jwaSK

plenty of hip hop on there, only Example and Shabbazz Palaces missing

OK what about time…
What about Immortal Technique - The Martyr ?
What about Lowkey - Soundtrack To The Struggle ?
What about reggae ?
What about country ?
What about Africa ?
What about Latin America ?

Great mixes though, many thanks

Thanks a million for putting this together!!!!!

Oh lord–ignore the caps lock on my previous comment please. :/

No love for james rabbit?

All theses songs are so wonderful! It makes me happy to listen to all that good music just before the new year. Thank you Matthew!

All the options are blocked by Reliance Netconnect! Help I need an alternate route!

Here is link to the same
http://blogs.hindustantimes.com/download-central/2011/12/24/a-christmas-present/
Cheers

thanks matthew. great job. lots of new discoveries on all ten discs. cds 2 and 5 were probably my favorites.

I’m glad you chose “Fallout” from Era Extrana. That track opens my own 2011 retrospective mix (a mere 20 songs).

Definitely. It’s probably his sexiest song to date.

It’s a photo I took at the G train platform in Court Square in Queens. It has some personal meaning for me, but I also just like the composition.