Just like this space, part of the reason I make mixes is to freeze my musical landscape in time. Future you: this is a taste of what you listened to this year. PS you smell terrific.

2009, Vol. 1

Phoenix - Fences
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
Mos Def - Pretty Dancer
Cut Off Your Hands - Oh Girl
Suckers - It Gets Your Body Movin'
Junior Boys - Dull To Pause
Crystal Castles - Crimewave
The Cool Kids - Pennies
DOOM - Gazzillion Ear
Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
Robyn Hitchcock - Saturday Groovers
Here We Go Magic - Tunnelvision
Beirut - My Wife, Lost In The Wild
Siah & Yeshua dapoED - Untitled
Dan Deacon - Wet Wings
Juana Molina - Rudo Y Cursi
Gang Gang Dance – Dust

2009, Vol. 2

Wilco - Solitaire
White Rabbits - Company I Keep
White Hinterland - Dreaming of the Plum Trees
Robyn Hitchcock - Hurry for the Sky
Camera Obscura - The World Is Full of Strangers
Pale Young Gentlemen - The Crook of My Good Arm
Deleted Scenes - Got God
Phosphorescent - It's Not Supposed to Be That Way
Cotton Jones Basket Ride - By Morning Light
The Postmarks - OX4
Headlights - On April 2
Grouper - Invisible
Benoit Pioulard - Idyll
Andrew Bird - Oh No
Comet Gain - You Can Hide Your Love Forever
The Tallest Man on Earth - Where Do My Bluebird Fly
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Jenny Lewis - Pretty Bird
Antony and the Johnsons - One Dove

2009, Vol. 3

Surf City - Free The City
Abe Vigoda - The Reaper
Deerhunter - Disappearing Ink
Love Is All - Movie Romance
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction
The Thermals - When We Were Alive
The Black Lips - Feeling Gay
Chain and the Gang - Cemetery Map
Baby Charles - Back Of My Hand
Delta Spirit - Strange Vine
Women - Group Transport Hall
Wavves - Weed Demon
Sonic Youth - Poison Arrow
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Cold Spring

Yankee Incognito a/k/a Guero Misterioso a/k/a Americana Non Grata

Estelle - American Boy (Radio Edit w/ Kanye)
The xx - Basic Space
The Antlers - Bear
Wild Beasts - This Is Our Lot
The Horrors - Scarlet Fields
Washed Out - Feel It All Around
Delorean – Deli
Björk - 5 Years
Florence & the Machine - Dog Days Are Over (An Optimo (Espacio) Mix)
Janelle Monáe - Many Moons
Radiohead - House Of Cards
Peggy Sue - Lover Gone
Bowerbirds - House of Diamonds
Yim Yames - My Sweet Lord
The Love Language - Sparxxx
We Were Promised Jetpacks - An Almighty Thud
My Morning Jacket - Gideon

2009, Vol. 4

Animal Collective - What Would I Want? Sky
Neon Indian - Deadbeat Summer
Lightning Dust - I Knew
Jack Peñate - So Near
Wild Beasts - The Devil's Crayon
Fool's Gold - Surprise Hotel
Generationals - When They Fight, They Fight
Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work Out
The Clientele - Share the Night
Girls - Headache
Karen O And The Kids - Hideaway
Atlas Sound - Quick Canal [w/ Laetita Sadier]
Fever Ray - Triangle Walks
The Flaming Lips - Silver Trembling Hands
Sonic Youth - Walkin Blue
Yo La Tengo - I’m On My Way
Real Estate - Fake Blues