ryn's Rush Hour Jam, Vol. 1

Rush hour... in Ottawa... sucks. Well, rush hour everywhere sucks. But I've put together a set of 20 songs (and a couple bonus tracks) that total at about 1.4hrs of music, which is about how long it takes to cross the city. The general theme I was aiming for with this mixtape is, "upbeat music to lift your post or pre-work/school mood". Varying genres; all stuff that gets me singing or bobbing my head. Same deal as last time too, link at the bottom for download. Get a WinRAR or UnRARx style program to open up the files if you don't already have them. Enjoy!

Mix 2: Rush Hour

Tracklist:

1. Surfer Blood "Floating Vibes"

2. Passion Pit "Better Things"

3. Hellogoodbye "I Never Can Relax"

4. Das Racist "You Oughta Know"

5. of Montreal "A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger"

6. Steel Train "Turnpike Ghost"

7. Wick-it the Instigator "Everlasting Shine Blockaz"

8. Hall & Oates "Rich Girl"

9. Phoenix "Fences"

10. Chromeo "Don't Turn the Lights On"

11. Free Energy "Free Energy"

12. Lupe Fiasco "The Show Goes On"

13. Joel Plaskett Emergency "The Instrumental"

14. The Darkness "Growing on Me"

15. Lily Allen "Take What You Take"

16. Gorillaz "Rhinestone Eyes"

17. Motion City Soundtrack "A Life Less Ordinary (Need a Little Help)"

18. Limbeck "Let's Get Crazy"

19. Fang Island "Daisy"

20. Spoon "You Got Yr Cherry Bomb"

Bonus Round!

21. Vampire Weekend "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (iTunes Session)"

22. Herbie Hancock "Rockit"

Download link: Requested be taken down.

Kevmoh's Music Mix 2: Motown

This is essentially a beginner's guide to Motown music. I know that many of my friends don't listen to this music and that has to change. I just got into Motown earlier this month and can't believe I've let all this amazing music pass me by. Cheesy? Yes. Catchy as hell? Most definitely.

Kevmoh's Mix 2: Motown

1) The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
2) Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)
3) The Marvelettes - Please Mr. Postman
4) Martha & The Vandellas - Heat Wave
5) Marvin Gaye - I Heard it Through the Grapevine
6) The Temptations - My Girl
7) The Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
8) Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
9) Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
10) The Temptations - Get Ready
11) The Temptations - Ain't Too Proud to Beg
12) The Miracles and Smokie Robinson - The Tracks of My Tears
13) The Supremes - I Hear a Symphony
14) Mary Wells - You Beat Me to the Punch
15) Stevie Wonder - I was Made to Love Her
16) The Supremes - Baby Love
17) The Supremes - You Keep Me Hangin' On
18) The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back

Link to Download

ryn's Late Night Mix, Vol. 1

Earlier this week Kevmoh came to me and presented the idea of using our blog to create weekly mixtapes with different themes, as he previously mentioned a couple of posts ago. I thought the idea was a fantastic one. This is something him and I used to take part in on more of a seasonal scale (ie; summer mixes, winter mixes). Assuming I personally have the time to do so, I will have a new mixtape up by every Friday... sort of like my own G.O.O.D. Friday! Anyway, without further adieu, I give you my first mixtape of nighttime, bed time, late night tunes to wind your day down to. Just a few favourites I like to fall asleep to. At the bottom I've posted a downloadable link to the playlist! You'll need a decompressing program to open up the .rar file, but those are easy to come by with Google. Enjoy!

Mix 1: Late Night (Bedtime)

Tracklist:

1. Grizzly Bear "Foreground"

2. Serge Gainsbourg "Couleur Café"

3. The xx "VCR"

4. John Mayer "Vultures"

5. Broken Social Scene "Major Label Debut"

6. Wilco "Sky Blue Sky"

7. Elliot Smith "Say Yes"

8. Vetiver "More of This"

9. Devendra Banhart "Baby"

10. Dustin Kensrue "Consider the Ravens"

11. The National "Afraid of Everyone"

12. Wilco "Leave Me (Like You Found Me)"

13. John Mayer "Gravity"

14. Cass McCombs "Dreams-Come-True (feat. Karen Black)"

15. Fleet Foxes "Oliver James"

Download Link: Late Night (Bedtime)

Kevmoh, Mix 1: "Chill Out (Night Time)"

Mix 1: Chill Out (Night Time)

Tracklist:
1) Destroyer - Suicide Demo For Kara Walker
2) Washed Out - You and I
3) Ancient Greeks - Lay Up
4) Air - Ce Matin-La
5) Cee-Lo - All Day Love Affair
6) Broken Social Scene - Pacific Theme
7) Stereolab - Brakhage
8) Feist - One Evening
9) Destroyer - Kaputt
10) Grizzly Bear - Ready, Able
11) jj - From Africa to Malaga
12) Junior Boys - Sneak a Picture
13) Bill Calahan - Rococo Zephyr
14) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Can't Hear my Eyes
15) Deerhunter - Earthquake
16) The xx - Night Time

Download Link: "Chill Out (Night Time)"

Essentially this is an "end of the day" mix, a mix when you just want to relax but still listen to interesting music that can be lush and complex but it will not assault or offend your ear drums. It contains a wide variety of different music genres: everything from instrumental tracks to Chill Wave music to jazz to a singer-songwriter. If you're looking for new end of the day music, you need not look any further.

New Things Abroad!: Music Mixes

Do you need a music for a certain occasion? A certain mood? A certain… je ne sais quoi?

Well, now you’re going to get it. Starting this week, and going on once a week until the end of time (until I run out of music), I’ve decided I’m going to make themed music mixes. Each mix will have 15 songs on it from a variety of artists. I’m hoping that these mixes will cover a variety of moods: everything from “I just want to dance” to “I just want to make love on languid June evenings!”

Well, enjoy. The first one will be up later tonight.