GIMME TINNITUS

Is it time to start listing the best tracks of year already? Why yes, yes it is. Now, a lot of these tracks have been available for a while (e.g. last year or in the GT 2010 preview), but they either had their official release this year or I just thought they should be on this list for some other reason or another. Without further ado, I give you the first volume of the Best Downloadables of 2010.

Downloadables:

Spector (mp3) by Signals

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Swim (To Reach The End) (mp3) by Surfer Blood

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Written In Reverse (mp3) by Spoon

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

I Do (mp3) by Screaming Females

Self Awakening (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Blessa (mp3) by Toro y Moi

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

See Waves (mp3) by Nice Nice

some lonesome street corner (USF remix) (mp3) by cars & trains

Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) (mp3) by Gucci Mane

Jail La La (mp3) by Dum Dum Girls

Me Thing Drawing Me (mp3) by Javelin

Everything Will Be Alright (mp3) by Golden Ages

Hold (mp3) by Hands

Years (Five – Eight) (mp3) by Starscream

Teenage Whore (mp3) by Dinosaur Feathers

Can’t Stay Awake (mp3) by Cloud Nothings

Be sure to check out the rest of the year’s Best Downloadables:

Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5

Additionally, if you like what you hear you should probably purchase music from the above artists at any of these fine online retailers:

Insound | Amazon MP3 | eMusic | Other Music

Also, If you want to download all (or most of) the tracks in this post, you should probably think about installing the DownThemAll! or FlashGot Firefox extensions.

So, as of this here post no mysterious benefactor has emerged to finance a last minute jaunt down to Austin. Hence, I am not going to SXSW. I already went through Part 1 of the Unofficial SXSW 2010 Showcasing Artists torrent, you can see the results of that… here. Here is a selection of mp3s from bands featured in Part 2. This time I was able to whittle down the list to 28 songs. Some of these tracks will probably be familiar to you, while others not so much. Listen.

Downloadables:

The Numbers Song (mp3) by Acid Girls

Transparent (mp3) by Awesome Color

Upside Down (mp3) by Banjo Or Freakout

Black Thorn Rising (mp3) by Bastard Child Death Cult

You Can Listen You Can Talk (mp3) by Carsick Cars

NO CAR NO BLOWJOB (mp3) by The Chinese Stars

Stare At Wheel (mp3) by Dios

Hot Cakes (mp3) by El Ten Eleven

Daisy (mp3) by Fang Island

Generator 2nd Floor (mp3) by Freelance Whales

Girl Pop Soda (mp3) by Gay Witch Abortion

Aves (mp3) by Gifts From Enola

k Rhythm Party 1 (mp3) by Holy Fuck

Koopa Boss Mode (mp3) by Lazer Sword

Your Friend Wil (mp3) by MC Frontalot

Bicycle (mp3) by Memory Tapes

smoke in your disguise (mp3) by New Roman Times

So Many Mike (mp3) by Peelander-Z

Suicide Cat (mp3) by Pong

Cinco (mp3) by The Ruby Suns

this is what celine dion would sound like if she had a dick (mp3) by Shitty Carwash

Street Trash (mp3) by TOBACCO

Confidence and Progress (mp3) by Tone

Ginger (mp3) by Twin Sister

Shadow Pups (mp3) by Videohippos

Conjirin’ (mp3) by When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

Hitman (mp3) by Woodgrain

Sooner or Later (mp3) by ZAZA

If you want to download all the individual tracks in this post, you should think about installing the DownThemAll! Firefox extension or try the Flash Got Firefox extension.

As you probably already heard, Diplo gathered together a bunch of remixers to ply their craft to their favorite tracks from major label rap artist Gucci Mane‘s triology The Cold War Mixtapes. The resulting free album Free Gucci (Best of The Cold War Mixtapes) features the knob tweaking of Memory Tapes, SALEM, Flying Lotus, Zomby, DJ Teenwolf, among others. Listen…

Downloadable: Excuse Me (Memory Tapes Remix) (mp3)

Get the whole free album over at Mad Decent.

Gucci Mane is on Twitter.
Gucci Mane is on Wiki Wiki Wiki.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

As you may already know, Adult Swim has a long history of releasing rad mixtapes. It all started with the Occult Hymn EP by Danger Doom. Then came: Definitive Swim (Def Jux themed), Warm And Scratchy (indie rock themed), Ghostly Swim (Ghostly Int’l themed), and most recently African Swim (African hip hop themed). Now Adult Swim has a new mixtape entitled ATL RMX, which teams up Atlanta rappers with a wide variety of remixers. And now a couple of tracks from said free mixtape.

Downloadables:
Take Off (Michna Remix) (mp3) by Young Dro
Good Night (HEALTH Remix) (mp3) by OJ Da Juiceman featuring Gucci Mane

Download the whole ATL RMX album… here.

Some of the other remixers on the album include: SALEM, Flying Lotus, Memory Tapes, Dam-Funk, Phaseone, Hudson Mohawke, and Prefuse 73.

The album is a cross-promotion for Rockstar’s app named Beaterator, which is a Timbaland-inspired remix app.

As the first fan of GT on the Facebook, this mini-mix goes out to TSURURADIO. The theme is… bikes.

Downloadables:

Bicycle, Bicycle, You Are My Bicycle (mp3) by Be Your Own Pet

Bicycle (mp3) by Memory Tapes

Day On A Bike (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Fall Bicycle (The Album Leaf Remix) (mp3) by Lymbyc Systym

Bizarro Bike (mp3) by Lightning Bolt

Cross Country Atom And His Package Tour Via Bicycle (mp3) by Atom & His Package

BONUS: check out the bicycle themed Contrast Podcast… here.

The Bicycle Coloring Book is available from http://www.bicyclepaintings.com/