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Mixless 50 Year Mix: 1968-2018

50 years: a new Mixless mix featuring one track for each year from 1968 to 2018. I turned 50 back in March and my closest mates all did the same this year, so to celebrate the 1968 anniversary I’ve created a non-chronological mix blending together one piece of music from each year we’ve been here.…

Rest in peace 2016

Natural disasters, avoidable catastrophes, political upheaval, work-related strife and personal grief have conspired to make 2016 a year that I – and many others no doubt – won’t be too sad to see the back of. And when we remember the many musicians, artists, writers, actors, comedians, sportspeople, and other beloved people we lost this year, it feels like 2016…

Mixless 2016 tracks of the year

2016 has been quite the year for new music – see my top 50 albums of the year in one handy graphic. Below are 24 of my favourite tracks of the year. Needless to say, there are many, *many* more than 24, but these are the 24 that made my annual #MusicalAdvent #TracksOf2016 twitter countdown, revealed one a…

Mixless vinyl DJ set at Rise record shop in Bristol

Last Saturday I was lucky enough to play a bunch of my favourite records at Rise record shop in Bristol. Mine was the latest in a series of Rise customer DJ sets – a genius idea which sees shop regulars playing their own choice of music every Saturday afternoon. I spent a happy few weeks working out what…

Mixless top 50 debut albums

This last week I’ve been counting down my favourite 50 debut albums on Twitter (@mixless). You can relive the excitement and pretend you were there by reading the #Mxlss50Debut tweets backwards, or you can cast your eye over the full list below. This list thing wasn’t my idea – for that we must thank @StaggerLee30.…

Your collaborative Mixless mix – results in full

Update: here’s the mix: You Made This. Thanks everyone who voted for their favourite 10 from this list of 500-ish tracks that have appeared in previous Mixless mixes over the last four years. Here are the numbers that matter and the tracks that will make the mix. 191 tracks got at least 1 vote 98 of…

Pick the tracks for my next mix

Update: here are the tracks that made the final cut. Update: thanks to all who took part – results will be posted via @mixless and on here soon. Update: please let me have your votes by 8pm tonight (Fri 25 April). To mark my recent 30th mix, Millions Now Living Will Never Hear This, I’m offering you…

Mixless 50 best albums of the 1970s

Jumped on the ’50 best albums of 1970s’ bandwagon, and put together a list which I counted down on Twitter using #Mixless70sLPs over five nights (28 Jan – 1 Feb 2014). Here’s the complete list for when that hashtag goes off to hashtag heaven. I’ve also put together a YouTube playlist featuring one track from each…

Infographic: NME’s ‘500 greatest albums of all time’ by year

NME published its 500 greatest albums of all time in October 2013. I was intrigued to know which years were most represented, so spent a little too much time manhandling a spreadsheet to get a basic chart together. Then I pulled out a few extra facts and turned it into this here infographic. There’s a…

Musical advent – days 19 to 24

The Mixless musical advent draw to a close with my last six musical highlights of 2013. There are plenty of other tracks that didn’t quite make the top 24 #MusicalAdvent #TracksOf2013. Day 19 Boca 45 ft The Good People – We’re Right Here Old school hip-hop flavours from Bristol’s Boca 45 and New York’s The Good People.…

Musical advent – days 13 to 18

The third part of my musical highlights of 2013. A track a day for 24 days in December,  #MusicalAdvent #TracksOf2013 in fact. Day 13 Ty – Let’s Start From his A Kick Snare And An Idea 10″, British rapper Ty on fine form. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht-7YmwQhu0 Day 14 Jagwar Ma – Four One of many fine tunes on the…

Musical advent – days seven to twelve

Following on from the first six days of the Mixless  #MusicalAdvent #TracksOf2013, here’s the next batch of the best tracks of the year. You can follow the daily revelations via @mixless. Day seven Steve Mason – Never Be Alone From the outstanding Monkey Minds In The Devil’s Time LP. I couldn’t find a stream of the track anywhere, but…

Musical advent – days one to six

I’m rounding up the year’s best tracks in an advent stylee through daily Twitter updates. I can take no credit whatsoever for the #MusicalAdvent idea – for that we must thank @LippyKidBuzzTap who is treating us to his #AlbumsOf2013. So in case you’ve missed any so far, here are the Mixless #MusicalAdvent #TracksOf2013 days one to six. Day one The Fauns…

Keeping it Peel 2013

#keepingitpeel Dusting down the blog for another of its all too rare outings, I see two out of the last three posts were marking this same occasion: remembering John Peel on #keepingitpeel day. Bit of a lazy post this, just going to embed the few Twitter contributions I’ve made over the last day, but it’s been great…

Music First: new Mixless mix

Turns out you can now embed Mixcloud mixes on WordPress.com blogs… So here’s the latest Mixless mix streaming over on Mixcloud or indeed here if this works properly:

70 Years of Music

I recently compiled a collection of 70 tracks for my mum’s 70th birthday – one marking each year since 1942 (released/recorded/performed in a given year – fairly flexible). The result was four and a half hours of music in chronological order across four CDs – it went down a storm with Mixless senior: stuff she…

Keeping it Peel

#keepingitpeel It’s John Peel Day and in memory of the great man I was going to upload a snippet from a classic Festive Fifty, but rather appropriately the technology’s not working. Hope to include it on a future Mixless mix, but till then here’s the transcript: “Cocteau Twins at number 21 in the Festive Fifty,…

Bristol’s electronic music scene on video

Decent video on the Bristol electronic music scene – from Resident Advisor, via Shocklee and @weloveallthat. Real Scenes: Bristol from Resident Advisor on Vimeo.

Gold Skies

Yes not big and not clever, but today’s date gives a suitable enough excuse to post two seminal tunes…

Mixless’ Mxlss The xx / Jamie xx xxlss mix

As it’s been getting so many listens (well, compared to the other mixes), seems only proper to embed the Mxlss The xx / Jamie xx xxlss mix from late last year. What this mix does is throw together some of the best remixes of xx tracks (there have been many others best avoided), a couple…

Fuckery Witchcraft

Played a few records before/between bands at the Fuckery Witchcraft Halloween bash at the Boneyard Bar above the Old Firestation in Bristol. Largely empty at the start which meant I got to play a couple twice (shh). Mordant Music – Hummdrumm Mujava – Township Funk Thriller – BBQ The xx – VCR (Four Tet Remix)…

Four Tet + The xx = …

You know before you hear this it’s going to be spot on. There’s been a raft of xx remixes recently and you can count on the ears of one head the number that have been halfway decent. Four Tet shows us how it should done with this hypnotic take on VCR.

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