Heaping Handful of Favorites from 2015
Mixtape Riot Radio is baaaack! It’s been a full year since my last episode, which was also an annual “Best Of”, but I do plan on getting back into a more regular habit of recording these in 2016. Certainly not definitive, and there’s plenty of songs/artists I loved in 2015 that are not on here, but these 20 tunes represent a lot of what I’ve had in repeat rotation at different points over the year. This is also more of my chill listening playlist, rather than my club-filler make-the-dancefloor-break mix that you hear if you come see me DJ. I tried to focus on songs that may have fallen under the radar of most other end-of-year lists as well. Any way you squeeze it, I think they all fit together pretty well and leave me optimistic about the current state of musical affairs. Includes songs from Thundercat, Bomba Estereo, Misun, Equal, Love Taps, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Branko and more. Hope you dig it!
full tracklist and download are available here. Also, catch up on past episodes here.
JP • December 23, 2015
As I’m fixing to hit the road to the hot lands of Corrientes, Argentina, Episode 13 synthesizes most of the tunes collected in my cell from this corner of the blogosphere. So as ABBA once put it, “thank you for the music”, Chuck and, Feliz Navidad! Jumping Calypso
Johnny • January 7, 2016
Great mix, boom!