THE 2007 PAST AND FUTURE TENSE MIX

So we are ending the year with the usual lists, lists, lists!. But not necessarily with a collection of the best of the year. Everybody else is already telling you what the best of the year is and was. I looked back at the previous years mixes and realized that I had already documented the songs and artists that would populate such a list. So what was I do to? Surely I could not be so lazy as to repeat songs. God no!

So I give you two mixes to wrap up the year. One focusing on the past (available below) and one on the future (coming in a few weeks). They contain some songs by the years best artists but more importantly they attempt to capture a perspective on how we may feel about the past and what we may hope for the future. Contemplation through music you say? Hell yes!

Also I present you with new cover art that will extend as a theme throughout 2008. And its bigger now too! I have to admit this years theme is influenced greatly by the brilliant work of Andrew Kuo and Jessica Hagy. I am obsessed with how charts and graphs can be appropriated to communicate specific things about our everyday lives in a way that words cannot. Plus they are just fun to make. Hopefully I will be able to build upon their brilliant work in the coming year.

Part 1: The Past Is Not Through With Us.

As someone once said, "you may be through with the past, but the past is not through with you." It's important to remember that our actions have resonance on our future selves. It complicates matters greatly I know, but we can ignore it only at our own peril.

Download the Mix as a 100 MB Zip File
Now using sendspace to deliver these massive files. Email me if the file expires.

The tracklist is as follows:
(The links below will lead you to ways of supporting these artists)

01 Fiery Crash, Andrew Bird
02 Devastation, The Besnard Lakes
03 Mapped By What Surrounded Them, Twilight Sad
04 Sailing To Byzantium, Liars
05 Bamboo Banger, M.I.A.
06 Leyendecker, Battles
07 Ed Is a Portal, Akron/Family
08 You're Alive At Your Funeral, Forest Leslie
09 Killing For Love, José González
10 When Under Ether, PJ Harvey
11 Breaker, Low
12 The Equalizer, Junior Boys
13 She's The One, Caribou
14 F-Word, Jens Lekman
15 Careful, Hot Chip
16 Trophy, Bat For Lashes
17 Dead fingers talking, Working For A Nuclear Free City
18 Will Gravity Win Tonight, Matthew Dear
19 Marble House, The Knife
20 Videotape, Radiohead

Part 2:
Coming after the new year. Stay tuned!