mixed by jesse kriss
This being New Year’s Day, I figured it was a good time for a bit of a retrospective.
I’m not that interested in creating Best Of lists, but I did want to take the time to make a mix that traces a bit of my listening history over the last 10 years or so. Not every track was released in that time frame (I’m looking at you, Tricky), but most were.
We start in Minnesota, land of Carleton, and home to Atmosphere, Heiruspecs, and Lateduster, who all played at The Cave my freshman year. (Yes, I went to Minnesota for college. No, I wasn’t in search of Paul Bunyan.) P.O.S. is from there, too, but I didn’t catch him until later.
It was at Carleton that I was introduced to electronic music and a whole new breed of sample based music. Sure, I’d heard radio hip hop, but Tricky was something else entirely (thanks, Brady!). And Lev lent me Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives a few years later, which blew me away – sounds I’d never heard. Lucas got me a prerelease copy of Amnesiac about the same time. (Their label organized listening parties before the official release date, and Lucas talked the guy into letting him record it.)
Meanwhile, Mike was getting me caught up on Mos Def, and MF Doom followed. (Not to be missed: Mos going nuts over Doom’s rhymes.) I’m not sure how I stumbled upon that Mark Ronson track, but the production is impeccable – a skill he applied a few years later on Amy Winehouse’s albums.
The Grey Album isn’t likely to be new to anyone, but it was a big enough milestone to earn its place here.
The next phase was really fueled by Mashit and Beat Research. That’s where all that crazy jungly mashup insanity springs from, so thanks to that crew and DJ C and Ripley in particular for driving that sound to my ears.
As for 2010+, who knows…
Tracklist
- 00:00 - 3.2 Red Dog / Atmosphere / Headshots : Se7en
- 02:06 - Meters / Heiruspecs / Small Steps
- 06:06 - Gare de Lyon / Lateduster / Lateduster
- 10:00 - Meth-Head vs. McNugget / P.O.S. / Ipecac Neat
- 13:47 - Unspoken / Four Tet / Rounds
- 17:09 - Makes Me Wanna Die / Tricky / Pre-Millenium Tension
- 21:06 - Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors / Radiohead / Amnesiac
- 24:07 - Nuno / Prefuse 73 / Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives
- 26:23 - Ms. Fat Booty / Mos Def / Black on Both Sides
- 30:04 - Bluegrass Stain’d / Mark Ronson / Here Comes the Fuzz
- 34:15 - Gazillion Ear / MF Doom / Born Like This.
- 38:21 - December 4th / Jay-Z and Danger Mouse / The Grey Album
- 41:45 - Fi You VIP / Murderbot / Ruff in the Bunny Fizness
- 47:01 - Billy Jungle / DJ C / Mas Hits
- 52:21 - Bingo / M.I.A. / Arular
