The Signal: EP200

The Signal: EP200 – Exactly 45 minutes of “greatest hits” to get your toes tapping. We’re releasing EP200 on the 20th anniversary date of our first music mix and to celebrate, I asked The Signal’s fan for input: my wife. She went through all 199 previous mixes and picked out a pool of favorite tunes so give it a listen and see how many of your favorites make a return!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess.

Albums That Came Out in 2024

Any art appreciation is entirely subjective, so I don’t believe in rankings or claiming anything is the “best” for a given time period. These are albums that came out in 2024 that I would recommend.

Everything Everything – Mountainhead
So many bangers on this album. Would not be surprised if this was my most listened-to album of the year. From the almost Nosferatu-monologue quality lyrics of the first track “Wild Guess” (“The hideous old savagery comes and it knows what I want […] I count the vermin as friends”) to the covid-era alienation and heart break of “Cold Reactor” (“I haven’t left the house in nearly thirty thousand days / I sent you the image of a little yellow face / To tell you that I’m sad about the emptiness that’s all around me”), this album delivered the propulsive pop-rock I needed.

El Michels Affair – Boy Kills World (Songs From The Original Motion Picture)
Haven’t seen the movie, don’t care about the movie, but just about everything El Michels Affair puts out is funky and worth listening to. Horns from 70s exploitation cinema, vocals that sound straight from Thai and Indian discos, drums you could breakdance to… it’s all there.

Joey Valence & Brae – No Hands
Dumb party music. The sound harkens back to the 90s era of hip hop, especially Beastie Boys, and there’s something truly infectious about two young dudes shouting “Let’s go! Let’s go! Hands up! Hands up! Okay! Let’s go!” before declaring they’re “the baddest bitch in this club”, y’know?

Teen Mortgage – Teen Mortgage and Twisted Teens – Twisted Teens
Great year for self-titled punk rock from teen-named bands.

 

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The Signal: EP199

The Signal: EP199 – Exactly 45 minutes of tunes for the long dark nights at the end of the year. This time out we’ve got punk rock from Argentina and Washington D.C., some throwback electro-rock, bass heavy bangers, a bit of pet advice, Spanish choral, African improv, reggae and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess.

Trapped in a Chimney 2024

A laughing Santa Claus with a vintage film grain

Trapped in a Chimney 2024 – Exactly 45 minutes of Christmas music from someone more into music than Christmas, if that makes sense. We’ve got some standards, some vaporwave, UK Grime, a bit in Icelandic, Italo-disco… oh dang, we forgot to fit the Japanese Christmas city pop track in. Well, maybe next year.

Track’s only available for a limited time, so download it if you want to keep it. The tracklisting is in the file’s id3 tags.

The Signal: EP198

The Signal: EP198 – Exactly 45 minutes of tunes designed for work or for play, all night and all day with no nasty skips or disc wobble. This time out we’ve got kung fu samples, dreams of Brazil, glitched TV, psych freakouts and UK hip hop, old school reggae and chill wave futures. Hope you’ve got headphones.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. If you don’t know how to ask me, maybe you should just keep visiting the site every once in awhile.

familiar swans

It’s Tuesday and we all know what that means. It’s time to take our elderly relatives down to the river to examine the swans, to see if any of them look familiar.

It’s been years since the river spirits turned some of the village’s biggest jerks into swans and it doesn’t seem like we’re getting any better at recognizing a regular swan from a transformed swan who has “learned their lesson.”

But the old folks get some sun, seeing if any swans respond to their former names.

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The Signal: EP197

The Signal: EP197 – Exactly 45 minutes of the poltergeist activity music. For the sake of ease of clean up, be sure to keep your windows closed before pressing play. We’ve got bass-heavy music, Euro disco, German commercial music, a Russian reverb guitar pop cover, and more.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. If you don’t know how to ask me, maybe you should just keep visiting the site every once in awhile.

Let’s Get Loud vol. 3

Let’s Get Louder and Louder and Louder – 42 minutes of face-melting drum & bass music.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself in the id3 tags. If you’d like to receive an email every time a new mix is posted, uh… ask me, I guess. If you don’t know how to ask me, maybe you should just keep visiting the site every once in awhile.