Today 5:4 is one year old, and to celebrate that—and continue the celebration of the best albums of last year, here’s a new mixtape, featuring tracks from each of those albums. Not surprisingly, it’s the most eclectic mix so far, and also the longest, just a few seconds shy of 3 hours. Start 2009 with the best of 2008 — enjoy!
Here’s the tracklisting in full:
• Squarepusher – Tensor in Green
• Nurse With Wound – Juice Head Crazy Lady
• Gregor Samsa – Company
• Byetone – Grand Style
• AGF – Ooops For Understanding
• Ladytron – Runaway
• Deerhoof – This Is God Speaking
• Stephan Mathieu – Auf Der Gasse
• Implex Grace – Fractal Flowers Bloom
• Ran Slavin – Above A City
• Specta Ciera – I Lost The Dream Archive
• Pantaleimon – At Dawn (Vogel)
• Andrew Liles and Daniel Menche – 1st to 3rd Instar [excerpt]
• Beyond Sensory Experience – Standing Silent
• Of Montreal – An Eluardian Instance
• AGF – (because) THIS IS
• Goldfrapp – Caravan Girl
• Implex Grace – In Space And Time We Travel
• Evan Marc and Steve Hillage – Alpha Phase [excerpt]
• Nine Inch Nails – 11 Ghosts II
• Operator Please – Yes Yes
• Johnny Hollow – Superhero
• Operations – Teapot
• Parenthetical Girls – Entanglements
• Hammock – Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
• Portishead – Plastic
• Matmos – Exciter Lamp and the Variable Band
• Mosaique – Sophil [excerpt]
• Autechre – Perlence subrange 3
• Fennesz – Vacuum
• Bersarin Quartett – Mehr als alles andere
• Celer and Matthieu Ruhlmann – The Pulling Pools Of Piccard’s Scientific Motions/First Night In Complete Darkness/Instrument Settings Below The Transparent Ocean/Our Entrance Into The Stream/Settling Inside The Natural Pathway/Carving An Impermanent Pathway Into The Moonlit Surface/The Melodies Of Our Heartbeats Slowing [excerpt]
• Christopher McFall – Requiem for Troost (Home) [excerpt]
• Lawrence English – Organs Lost At Sea
• Colin Andrew Sheffield – Breath Of Day [excerpt]
• Pēteris Vasks – Musica seria [excerpt]
• Steve Peters – Filtered Light (Chamber Music 4) [excerpt]
• Nadja – Thaumogenesis (Version) [excerpt]
• Bass Communion – Corrosive 1702 [excerpt]
• Salvatore Sciarrino – Storie di altre storie – III