M3 Volume 16… Available Now
Things have been slow here this week, but I’m home for the holidays and that’s just how it is. As much as I loathe Thanksgiving itself (the result of a general disdain for both turkey and the vast majority of my extended family), it’s definitely nice to get away from New York for a minute. DC has never been better and there’s honestly nothing more enjoyable than going around your room and accidentally stumbling across all the stuff you had to hide from your parents in high school (read: cigarettes, drug paraphernalia, condoms, illegal immigrants, etc.), but the best thing about being back in the Chocolate City is being reunited with my car and its iller-than-ill soundsystem. Gary and I took the Chariot 2.0 on a mid-atlantic university tour through Virginia and North Carolina over the weekend and you better believe I was rockin’ this mix the whole way.
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Comprised predominantly of slammin’ rock and electro tracks that are ideal for driving at absurd speeds on dark highways, M3 Volume 16 is undeniably the hotness. With a nice array of tracks including well-established cuts from Test Icicles, the Strokes and Bloc Party, and more recent favorites from the likes of Danger, Fortune, and the Author, the mix is dropping heat all over the place. With Les Savy Fav bringing the fucking rock on “Slugs In The Shrubs” and “Raging In The Plague Age” at one end of the spectrum and Ghosthustler, Calvin Harris and Danger keeping it shit-hot at the other end with some bangin’ electronics, Vol. 16 has got it all. Looking past the more recognizable names on the tracklist, definitely don’t sleep on the excellent cuts from These New Puritans, Damn Shames and Late of the Pier either, and those of you who already wrote “Flux” off weeks ago (yeah, that was me too) would be wise to give it another chance because the 12″ version is 100% off the chains, owning the original in every possible way.
High Resolution Artwork: [Front Cover] [Back Cover]
Download: M3 Volume 16 [follow link]
M3 Volume 16:
01. “Circle Triangle Square” - Test Icicles [Alternate Link]
02. “Slugs In The Shrubs” - Les Savy Fav [Alternate Link]
03. “Heart In A Cage” - The Strokes [Alternate Link]
04. “Raging In The Plague Age” - Les Savy Fav [Alternate Link]
05. “Bully” - Fortune [Alternate Link]
06. “Taxi” - The Author [Alternate Link]
07. “Reactor Party” - ShitDisco [Alternate Link]
08. “Elvis” - These New Puritans [Alternate Link]
09. “Luno” - Bloc Party [Alternate Link]
10. “Dancing In The Aisles” - Damn Shames [Alternate Link]
11. “Busy Busy Busy” - Ghosthustler [Alternate Link]
12. “Bathroom Gurgle” - Late of the Pier [Alternate Link]
13. “Merrymaking At My Place” - Calvin Harris [Alternate Link]
14. “Flux” (12″ Version) - Bloc Party [Alternate Link]
15. “11h30″ - Danger [Alternate Link]
November 23rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
thats really sick album art
November 24th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Looks ace all round.
Looking forwards to hearing Late of the Pier, Artrocker have been botting them for months.
Out of interest: do you still like American indie-alt stuff? Can’t think of any hyper current examples (damn me!) but I’m thinking Rilo Kiley, Sufjan, Joanna Newsome, Swan Lake, New Porns, Decemberists… I ask only because it’s for artists like these that I started reading GWFAs. Still love it now though!
November 24th, 2007 at 9:17 am
Thanks allot for a other mixtape. Gotta jump on the bus in half a hour so gonna take the album for a “spin”.
Grtz from the Netherlands.
November 24th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Glad that someone else is pushing DANGER out there, I’ve been spinning him for a few weeks in NYC and everyone is loving it!
November 24th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
ya know, i like this mix. i really do. but the inclusion of Luno just makes me come away thinking “geez, Silent Alarm still pretty much owns every album that has come out since…”
November 24th, 2007 at 4:41 pm
Holy crap…that is the coolest volume of music I’ve ever seen. Good to know I’m no the only one who loves These New Puritans.
November 24th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
This is a really good mix, derek!
Thankyou!
November 24th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
niiiiice! this is a long stretch but any chance you stopped by norfolk during your cruise around virginia?
November 25th, 2007 at 3:25 am
Further proof you are the reason why I am able to put together hot-ass party playlists. Thankyou, good sir.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Really digging the artwork, I think this volume is going to be another great party.
Thank you for putting out these compilations!
November 25th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
“Reactor Party” was my jam over the break. Glad to see it’s inclusion.
And I love “Flux” in all of its versions. It had to be said.
Ill mix.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
I’m not completely sold on ‘Flux’ yet… absolutely love Bloc Party though.
November 27th, 2007 at 1:00 am
looks like Vancouver on the back cover?
November 27th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
[…] Finally, to all who is reading this, I recommend, nay, demand, that you go to this Good Weather For Airstrikes post, and download the entire mix, in the correct order. Please. I think it’s absolutely brilliant and it has rekindled my love for “Circle Square Triangle” which could now be one of my favourite songs ever… at the moment. I mean, c’mon, what a song. And the band who made it had a funny name, how can you go wrong with that? I’ll tell you how - you can’t. Just download and listen. Even if you don’t like it it’s an interesting listen. I’ll put a couple of personal favourites below, enjoy. […]
December 10th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
Does anyone know where I can get anything from fortune? There really good.
December 29th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
That taxi track by the author is sweeet! Thanks for bringing this band to my attention! and yeah circle square triangle is genius. Along with flux….
April 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Worrrrd. Mad love. First visit to the site. Impressive