mixtape

2023 Mixtape /  by Geoff Kim

2023's favourite tracks, designed to be listened to in order.

  1. "A Good Thing" Claud
  2. "Cramps" Slow Pulp
  3. "Not Strong Enough" boygenius
  4. "Lights Light Up" Fenne Lily
  5. "After Midnight (feat. Clairo)" Phoenix
  6. "Joy (Guilt)" dust
  7. "Turkey Vultures" Wednesday
  8. "Flood Into" Fazerdaze
  9. "Eraser" Pulp Fever
  10. "Adderall" shame
  11. "Emergency Contact" IAN SWEET
  12. "Lovely Sewer" Yves Tumor
  13. "Spring Bug" Helena Deland
  14. "Best Friend" Wallice
  15. "I Heard It In My Dream" Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys
  16. "Something Wrong" Hand Habits
  17. "Borrow Trouble" Feist
  18. "Cellar" Sea Lemon
  19. "Good Lies" Overmono
  20. "Skipping Like A Stone (feat. Beck)" The Chemical Brothers
  21. "A&W" Lana Del Rey

2022 Mixtape /  by Geoff Kim

Clocking in at 89 minutes, here’s 2022’s favourite tracks. Carefully curated to be listened to in order.

  1. “Bad love” Dehd

  2. “Waterfall” Disclosure, RAYE

  3. “Bad habit” Steve Lacy

  4. “American teenager” Ethel Cain

  5. “Runner” Alex G

  6. “Belinda says” Alvvays

  7. “King of Sweden” Future Islands

  8. “Is it supposed” Hudson Mohawke

  9. “There’s only one (feat. Genesis Owusu)” Winston Surfshirt

  10. “Step by step” Braxe + Falcon

  11. “Spiderweb” Built To Spill

  12. “Good will hunting” Black Country, New Road

  13. “Snow on the beach (feat. Lana Del Ray)” Taylor Swift

  14. “Problem with it” Plains

  15. “This is a photograph” Kevin Morby

  16. “Block me out” Gracie Abrams

  17. “Coyotes” Bill Callahan

  18. “Midnight sun” Nilüfer Yanya

  19. “Call me home” SASAMI

  20. “Lullaby” Grace Ives

  21. “Emberly” Deadharrie

  22. “Free in the knowledge” The Smile

“Bad love” by Dehd

2019 Mixtape /  by Geoff Kim

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2019 Mixtape

Geoff Kim’s favourite tracks of the year

Once upon a time, I used to make physical mixtapes to hand out to friends and family on my birthday. In 2019, I don’t really know how to do this. Long gone are the days of ‘CD burning’ and Spotify playlists are just about the only way I know how to share what I deem are the best tracks for the year.

I guess this is the blog format.

As always, these are curated to be listened to in order.

Head to Spotify or Google Play Music for the playlists on those respective services and/or enjoy the videos below.

1 - “Seventeen” by Sharon Van Etten

2 - “Patience” by Tame Impala

3 - “Superbike” by Jay Som

4 - “Drunk II” by Mannequin Pussy

5 - “Not” by Big Thief

6 - “Aute Cuture” by ROSALÍA

7 - “New World” by Ghostface Killah feat. Eamon

8 - “1972” by Broken Social Scene

9 - “Painted in the Sound” by Justus Proffit

10 - “Now I’m In It” by HAIM

11 - “The Knife” by Maggie Rogers

12 - “Essentially” by Japanese Breakfast

13 - “Forever Half Mast” by Lucy Dacus

14 - “Don’t Look Down” by …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead

15 - “Destiny” by Glitter

16 - “In Your Head” by Nilüfer Yanya

17 - “Zoo Eyes” by Aldous Harding

18 - “Forest Lawn” by Better Oblivion Community Center

19 - “Element” by Deerhunter

20 - “Peace To All My Freaks” by Of Montreal

21 - “Fort Greene Park” by Battles

22 - “Home” by Caribou

23 - “Dawn Chorus” by Thom Yorke

2012 Mixtape /  by Geoff Kim

2012 will go down as the year that I ceased buying CDs, as well as trawling through and endless number of blogs to download mp3s. Instead, I am now one satisfied subscriber of Rdio and occasional browser of Spotify. This means that I pretty much stream everything and sync to my iPhone for when I'm not connected to wifi. Having quick access to just about any artist and album has proven to be hugely beneficial and I'm probably discovering more music than ever before.

However, the downside is that it is not so easy to share mixtapes in physical form with those I have been making mixtapes for the past 10 years. The traditional act of giving out burnt CD copies at my birthday drinks are sadly no more. I'm hoping the playlists I have created on both Rdio and Spotify will be sufficient for those that have been waiting. I will be sharing it on all my social channels, including this blog, so that you won't have to miss out.

So get on Rdio now and enjoy.