zak mering is mak zering, raw thrills, and greatest hits.. depending on your flavor:

Mak Zering - Pretty Boy Swag from Gunk TV Records on Vimeo.

Raw Thrills - Laurel Canyon Dreamin' from Gunk TV Records on Vimeo.

Raw Thrills - Mind Surfin' from Gunk TV Records on Vimeo.

this mix is a story.. a progression of sentiments and moods experienced upon returning to my hometown, los angeles, leading up to the point where i am now, ready to leave again. like most of my mixes, its a bipolar one, mixed with nostalgia for my hometown, lament over lost ones, anger and boredom, while in the end finding solace as it travels further east.


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where my blog name comes from.. slash best hip hop in all the world

So finally, after a semester abroad with much traveling and photography and not enough time spent on listening to and finding new music, I give you the Hood Fairy mix. This will count as best of 2010 in music as many of these songs happen to be from 2010.. This mix covers my winter period, the lonely nights spent in my bed in Prague with headphones on, unable to move from the various euphoric sounds entering my ears... as well as the cold walks to class, trudging through snow and thinking only intense rap music could save me. So you will get a dose of that... also the sound of a fairy's wand comes up intermittently throughout much of the mix somehow, hence it's name. Lastly, the song "Terry" is dedicated to my best friend Taylor who died while I was away. I would make a Taylor mix, but it'd be full of Magnetic Fields and Belle and Sebastian (memories of our time spent together in high school) and I'm not sure I want to go there again.

Link: HOOD FAIRY

Hello its been a while with the mixes..
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This mix contains every genre tag on this blog so it should be interesting, it marks the end of one era and the beginning of another, as mixes sometimes do. And i didn't make it for anyone once again but it definitely has people in mind, those that inspire, and those that cause pain.. and then the ones that do both.

a nice blend of underground, old school, hyphy, and southern rap. download here

Tracklisting:


*the Dilla track titled "The Red" is actually called "It's Like That" ...woops

a few of my favorite songs of the year from various genres
there are four parts to this mix: ethnic, electronic, hip hop, and indie...
it's quite a journey. hope you enjoy: download here

1) Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion



2) NOMO - Invisible Cities



3) Staff Benda Bilili - Tres Tres Fort



4) Atlas Sound - Logos



5) Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue



6) Clutchy Hopkins Meets Lord Kenjamin - Music Is My Medicine



7) Nosaj Thing - Drift



8) Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez, Vol 2



9) Prefuse 73 - Meditation Upon Meditations



10) Paolo Fresu & Uri Caine - Think



11) Mulatu Astatke & The Heliocentrics - Inspiration Information



12) Kurt Vile - God is Saying This to You...



13) Blakroc - Blakroc



14) Chip Tha Ripper - The Cleveland Show



15) Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland



16) XX - XX



17) Leonard Cohen - Live in London



18) Mos Def - The Ecstatic



19) Paolo Nutini - Sunny Side Up




20) Odd Nosdam - TIME soundtrack


Runner Ups (3.5/5)

The Horrors - Primary Colours

Underground Kingz - UGK 4 Life

Lil Wayne - No Ceilings

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle

Sufjan Stevens - The BQE

Neon indian - Psychic Chasms

Cotton Jones - Paranoid Cocoon

City Center - City Center

Girls - Girls

Javelin - Jamz n Jemz

Whitetree - Cloudland

In The Country - Whiteout

jj - jj no 2

dilla's voice is pure love plus bootleg daft punk sample, incred.

Blockhead is excellent, i saw him live last night and it made my day! He produced all of Aesop Rock's earlier albums (aka every good Aesop song is a Blockhead beat) and he's got 3 incredible solo albums, "Music by Cavelight, Downtown Science, and Uncle Tony's Coloring Book as well as a new one coming soon... The Music Scene. Last night he improvised over his own music while DJ Signify scratched over it, something you don't really see anymore.