GIMME TINNITUS

And now… the end of the year dump. Here is all the stuff I meant to get to last year but for some reason or another just didn’t get around to, sorry.

1. The Mae Shi remix and then get remixed…

Listen: You Are Free (The Mae Shi Remix) by Mates Of State
Listen: Lion And Lamb (LVC Remix) by The Mae Shi

2. An mp3 from indiefolkpopper Califone…

Listen: Funeral Singers (mp3)

3. An mp3 from Poo Bah artist Samiyam…

Listen: Swamp Tarts (mp3)

4. A free EP from noiseartist railcars…

Downloadable: CITIES VS. SUBMARINES (zip)
Listen: bohemia is without a sea (mp3)

It looks like this:

Check out the railcars tumblr… here.
Help him recreate the 1985 Kate Bush album “Hounds of Love”

5. A free digital 7″ from chiptune artist Bottlesmoker…

Listen: Walls (mp3)

6. A new mp3 from Prefuse 73’s folkdub side project Savath Y Savalas…

Listen: Pavo Real Plucked (mp3)

7. First Record SST Cassette Reissue (Side B) by Sonic Youth…

raepS gninruB (mp3)
maerD I demaerD I (mp3)
enolA toN sI ehS (mp3)
tI hsuP oT tnaW t’noD I (mp3)
daB ehT dnA dooG ehT (mp3)

It looks like this:

8. An mp3 from Joyful Noise artist Hermit Thrushes…

Listen: Snowflake Heart (mp3)

9. A free album from Breakfast Mountain, who say:

IF YOU’VE EVER HAD SEX, YOU’VE ALREADY HEARD BREAKFAST MOUNTAIN. FORMED IN 1999 TO PREVENT Y2K, BM HAS BEEN WAXING YOUR EARS FOR A DECADE. KNOW WHAT I MEAN? LIKE A GOOD MEAT LOVER’S PIZZA, BREAKFAST MOUNTAIN SPENDS EVERY MORNING IN YOUR MOM.

Downloadable: HOOOODED (sendspace zip)

Listen: GIRKLS (mp3)
Watch: GIRKLS (vimeo)

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

So this post contains (pretty much) all of my favorite mp3s from 2009. I have not put them in any sort of preferential order. These are sorted by artist in alphabetical order.

Take your time, scroll slowly, there are some real gems here. You may notice some big names missing here. Well, you know you can find those mp3s elsewhere (right?).

I will be putting up best of 2009 posts all week, so make sure you check back here soon. Also, if you haven’t already, you should check out largehearted boy’s 2009 Year-End Online Music Lists. Good stuff.

Without any further ado, I present the Top 109 Downloadables of 2009.

The Downloadables:

Glow Wreath (mp3) by Aa (BIG A little a)

Don’t Lie (mp3) by Abe Vigoda

So Bored (Wavves Cover) (mp3) by Anamanaguchi

Two (mp3) by The Antlers

Perfect Fit (mp3) by Apostle Of Hustle

Walkabout (w/ Noah Lennox) (mp3) by Atlas Sound

Time (mp3) by Beach Fossils

Make You Mine (mp3) by Best Coast

Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise (mp3) by Black Moth Super Rainbow

Tin Birds (mp3) by Blank Dogs

Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer? (mp3) by Blockhead

Name Tossers (mp3) by BOAT

Absolutely Anything (mp3) by Brilliant Colors

Rustic Arcadia (mp3) by Campfires

What’s This Magical (mp3) by Celebration

Love Is A Wave (mp3) by Crystal Stilts

Pink Sabbath (mp3) by Dananananaykroyd

We’re Not Going (mp3) by Darlings

Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper. RMX) (mp3) by Das Racist

Cassette Tape (mp3) by Day Of The Woman

Digital Haircut (mp3) by dd/mm/yyyy

BEAD (mp3) by Dinowalrus

Useful Chamber (mp3) by Dirty Projectors

Knotty Pine (mp3) by Dirty Projectors + David Byrne

The Lie/The Truth (mp3) by Double Dagger

Moon Fallout (mp3) by Dragon Turtle

I Remember (mp3) by Endless Endless Endless

Self Awakening (Take Remix) (mp3) by Ernest Gonzales

Housewolf (mp3) by Eula

Robots (mp3) by Exercise

Thee Only One (mp3) by Frankie Rose

Greg The Nerd (mp3) by Frat Dad

Surf Solar (Edit) (mp3) by Fuck Buttons

Arming Eritrea (mp3) by Future Of The Left

When They Fight They Fight (mp3) by Generationals

Prize Fighter (mp3) by Golden Triangle

Two Weeks (mp3) by Grizzly Bear

Dreamsucker (mp3) by Grooms

In The Dark (mp3) by Gun Outfit

Friendly Ghost (mp3) by Harlem

Die Slow (mp3) by HEALTH

Before Tigers (CFCF RMX) (mp3) by HEALTH

Fangela (mp3) by Here We Go Magic

Stats And Demographics (mp3) by Huak

Rising 5 (mp3) by Hudson Mohawke

Young Hearts Spark Fire (mp3) by Japandroids

Bone Jam (mp3) by Jeff The Brotherhood

West Coast (mp3) by Junk Culture

Dimensional Bleedthrough (mp3) by Krallice

Overnite Religion (mp3) by Kurt Vile

Beach Town (mp3) by Le Loup

Roses In The Park (mp3) by Liechtenstein

Tambourine (mp3) by Little Girls

Mysterium (mp3) by Liturgy

Red Oak Way (mp3) by Lotus Plaza

Forever (mp3) by Love Of Diagrams

100 Flowers (mp3) by Lovvers

Junked! (mp3) by The Mayfair Set

Asleep At A Party (mp3) by Memory Cassette

Lips (mp3) by Micachu & The Shapes

Blues Not Speed (mp3) by Mika Miko

1,2,3 Partyy! (mp3) by Mission Of Burma

You’re A Target (mp3) by No Age

Invisible Cities (mp3) by NOMO

Pine On (mp3) by Obits

Two-Headed Coin (mp3) by Obits

When Your Mask Is Your Revealing Feature (mp3) by The Oranges Band

Young Adult Friction (mp3) by The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Fences (The Soft Pack Remix) (mp3) by Phoenix

Goth Star (mp3) by Pictureplane

Sinister Skies (mp3) by Pollination

Preparation’s Kids Choir (mp3) by Prefuse 73

First Daze (mp3) by Pterodactyl

Gigantic (Pixies Cover) (mp3) by Puttin’ On The Ritz

Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) (mp3) by railcars

Fake Blues (mp3) by Real Estate

Set-Up (mp3) by RENMINBI

FROST (mp3) by Salem

Bell (mp3) by Screaming Females

Fear! (mp3) by Shark?

Truth Is (mp3) by The Sky Drops

Crown On The Ground (mp3) by Sleigh Bells

C’mon (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Los Angeles Guitar Dream (mp3) by Spanish Prisoners

Got Nuffin (mp3) by Spoon

Billy Ocean (mp3) by Super Tennis

Kudos (mp3) by Surf City

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

M.B.T. (mp3) by Susu

Ghost Colony (mp3) by Tape Deck Mountain

Where Was My Brain? (mp3) by Ted Leo + The Pharmacists

Portofino (mp3) by Teengirl Fantasy

So Fine (mp3) by Telepathe

Kilometer (mp3) by Tempo No Tempo

Ruby Go Home (mp3) by Thee Oh Sees

Move To California (mp3) by Times New Viking

Blessa (mp3) by Toro Y Moi

It #1 (mp3) by Ty Segall

Shark Suit (mp3) by UUVVWWZ

When I’m Gone (mp3) by Vivian Girls

Elephants (mp3) by Warpaint

Belong (mp3) by Washed Out

Mickey Mouse (Demo) (mp3) by Wavves

So Bored (mp3) by Wavves

Homeopathic Valtrex (mp3) by White Shit

Psychic City (mp3) by YACHT

Ambling Alp (mp3) by Yeasayer

Gumball Machine Weekend (mp3) by Yppah

Sooner Or Later (mp3) by ZAZA

UPDATE: I knew I forgot something…

Coat Of Arms (mp3) by Nosaj Thing

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


More Best of 2009 Coverage:
Albums | Videos | MP3 Blogs | Photos | Mixtape | Free Albums | Off My Radar

railcars’s multi-instrumentalist Aria Jalali has started a kickstarter project looking for the funding to take a some time to rework the album Hounds of Love by Kate Bush in his own noisy style. To give you an idea what is involved, listen to what he did with a song by The Cranberries…

Downloadable: Dreams (The Cranberries Cover) (mp3)

If you give just $5 you get the completed, mastered album, plus the railcars discography all in mp3 format. And if you give $20 you get the painted, hand numbered cassette as well as the mp3s, and also a handwritten love letter. The more you give, the more you get. C’mon, give Mr. Jalali some money.

widget: Let’s recreate the 1985 Kate Bush album “Hounds of Love”

railcars has a tumblr.
Aria Jalali is here.
Gold Robot is here.
Stumparumper is here.
Room Tapes is on Myspace.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

BONUS: Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) (mp3)

So I put together this mix which I have dubbed Fall 2009 Mix and I posted it to my SoundCloud.

Downloadable/Streamable: SoundCloud Fall 2009 Mix (soundcloud)

UPDATE: Mix removed from Soundcloud, but individual tracks available below

Downloadables:
01. M.B.T. by Susu
02. Bone Jam by Jeff: The Brotherhood
03. Ghost Colony by Tape Deck Mountain
04. Prize Fighter by Golden Triangle
05. Thee Only One by Frankie Rose
06. Swim (To Reach The End) by Surfer Blood
07. Losing Feeling by No Age
08. Absolutely Anything by Brilliant Colors
09. Fear! by Shark?
10. Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) by railcars
11. Dreamsucker by Grooms
12. Ecstatic Rite by Liturgy
13. Nuke Duke ‘Em (Mae Shi Remix) by Dinowalrus

You can download the continuous mix using the widget at the top of the post.

If you want to download all the individual tracks in this mix, you should install DownThemAll!.

railcars a/k/a multi-instrumentalist Aria Jalali (+ Sam Farzin when on tour) has a new EP entitled Cathedral With No Eyes. The EP:

recounts the life of Edmund the Martyr, a 9th century king of East Anglia with songs about his life and succession to the throne as a young boy, his conquests, his suffering at the hands of vikings and death by their arrows.

Let me just say that this is hands down the best damn EP about a 9th century king of East Anglia EVER. If you like walls of noise (which were quite popular in the 9th century), you really should listen to this. Really.

Downloadables:
Cathedral With No Eyes (mp3)
Castles (mp3)

railcars has a tumblr.
Gold Robot is here.
Stumparumper is here.
Room Tapes is on Myspace.
Amazon MP3 page is here.
eMusic page is here.

BONUS: Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) (mp3)

And now another installment of Stuck In My Head, where I post some mp3s that are um, stuck in my head.

Downloadables:

Fences (Phoenix Cover) (mp3) by The Soft Pack

Day I Die (mp3) by Bottle Up & Go

Chicken Gorlet (mp3) by Hi Red Center

Passion Of Saint Edmund (Rebirth) (mp3) by railcars

The Colloquialism Is Simply “Gas” (mp3) by I Love You