Category: The Signal Mixes

The Signal: EP181 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed to make you spin in place and open your chestplate to let your heart light shine. This time out we’ve got hip hop, grime beats, drum & bass, post punk and punk-punk, retro-80s pop and griot music from Mauritania. Where else you gonna go to find a mix like that, eh?

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. I keep a list but I do it manually, like an Ancient. I write the emails with a quill.

The Signal: EP180 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed by expert ears to soothe your inner monkey. This time out we’ve got a Peruvian/Spanish-French polyglot pop, Fleetwood Mac-style vibes, wall of sound shoegaze, planetary core-deep bass, dubbed out 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, you can ask to be added to the mailing list that I maintain by hand, though I admit that requires you to know how to reach me. You can figure it out.

The Signal: EP179 – Exactly 45 minutes of music to snap your Walkman shut to, rhythmically, as if it were a percussion instrument. This time out we’ve got some rollicking rock, punk from Australia and Sweden, drum & bass, post-punk dub gems, surf and funk instrumentals, 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, you can ask to be added to the mailing list that I maintain by hand, like some sort of outlander posted in the wilderness.

The Signal: EP178 – Exactly 45 minutes of high fidelity digital sound, bringing the sounds of the world to you… no ticket required! This time out we’ve got some propulsive rock, some bossa nova-infused beats, a jazzy cover of a hip hop classic, Anatolian pop, Afghan beats, lowrider soul 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. I have an email list that gets notified when new mixes go up, but no way to join it outside of contacting me, so… yeah. I dunno, commercial mailing list services suck.

The Signal: EP177 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed to slip inside your head with no friction, no wear and tear on your precious brain-loading components. There’s a lot to like this time out! We’ve got funky library music, retro-80s rock and shoegaze, a dub remix of some Yorke work, electronic beats from the UK, a bit of Italian movie soundtrack music, 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 want to be on the mailing list to get notified when a new one goes out, you’re going to have to ask me. We’re going 100% artisanal on the mailing lists these days. Hand-crafted. No convenient sign-up page. Our ancestors didn’t need sign-up pages and neither do we.

The Signal: EP176 – Exactly 45 minutes of music as we kick off year 9 of this little curation project. We’ve got UK bass, Filipino/Canadian hip-hop, French garage rock, Spanish punk, and enough funk for several trunks.

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.

I’ve cancelled my Spotify account, so I’m not making playlists over there anymore. Feel free to recreate ’em using the tracklist in the file, I guess.

The Signal: EP175 – Exactly 45 minutes of year-ending music, custom designed to propel you through time… to destination 45-minutes-from-NOW! Wow! This time out we’ve got international funk, beats and new wave dub, Spanish vocal magic 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.

Or if you don’t want any files sullying up your computer, most of the music I used was on Spotify.

The Signal: EP174 – Exactly 45 minutes of music to soothe the savage feet. You like music, right? Maybe you like the same music as me. We’ve got old school dubstep, chicha (psychedelic cumbia), drum & bass, dreamy pop, and funk!

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.

I couldn’t find every track on Spotify, but here’s what I could dig up:

The Signal: EP173 – The exact 45 minutes of music you need to steer you through this year of solitary activity! This time out we’ve got Australian punk, gloom pop, a remix of a harp-playing pixie, some dub sounds, hip hop, ska, UK grime and some German electronic sounds.

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.

We couldn’t find everything on Spotify, but we found most of it:

The Signal: EP172 – Exactly 45 minutes of music for cloud heads, mist faces, vapor tops… and YOU! This time out we’ve got Australian jam goodness, lots of polyrhythms, Turkish funk from the Netherlands, a steel drum hip hop cover, a dub jazz standard cover, blistering rockabilly and much 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.