Xmas Mixes

Christmas

The yulemix enters its Pierce Brosnan era with this seventeenth senses-shattering installment! It's another paradoxically digital yule (ana)log, optimized to obfuscate and illuminate your holiday season. Each side will conveniently fit onto a one side of a 100-minute cassette. Break off those recording tabs and commence hall-decking, revelers!

The Airborne Yuletide Event

THE AIRBORNE YULETIDE EVENT — Yuletunes Eclectic & Inexplicable XVII [Side A]

Pure energy from one of electronic music's brightest lights: Sofia Kourtesis. Clamour had built around the Peruvian artist's poignant brand of house music following a string of EPs and 12"s, culminating in last year's Madres—a passionate, vulnerable and excellent album that resonated widely.

Madres packed in rare specificity for a dancefloor record, combining paeans to the power of sound with direct tributes to the neurosurgeon who saved the life of Kourtesis' mother. (Kourtesis even took him clubbing in Berlin as an additional thank you.) The album's earworm melodies and approachable aura helped launch Kourtesis from bubbling to breakthrough on the global stage. In both sound and impact, it mirrors another record: Swim, the 2010 classic made by Kourtesis' friend and mentor, Dan Snaith.

Speaking of @caribouband: RA.943 kicks off with a brand new Sofia Kourtesis & Daphni collaboration, before powering through summer-ready cuts from LUXE, Floating Points, IceMorph, DJ ADHD and an old Oliver Lieb classic. Even as her reputation as a recording artist swells, this power-hour mix is a sharp reminder of Kourtesis' DJing chops, teeing up a victory-lap summer ahead.

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RA.943 Sofia Kourtesis

Yippie kai yay, Christmas lovers! I've overcome my Electoral Affective Disorder to compile another mood-elevating, hall-decking, merry-making, glad-tidings-shouting mostly-analog masterpiece. No. 11 in an unrelenting series. Fits on a 90-minute cassette tape.

The Christmas Hack: Yuletunes Eclictic & Inexplicable No. 11 - One More Louder

The Christmas Hack — Yuletunes Eclectic & Inexplicable XI: One More Louder (Side A)

Yippie kai yay, Christmas lovers! I've overcome my Electoral Affective Disorder to compile another mood-elevating, hall-decking, merry-making, glad-tidings-shouting mostly-analog masterpiece. No. 11 in an unrelenting series. Fits on a 90-minute cassette tape. Nearly.

The Christmas Hack: Yuletunes Eclictic & Inexplicable No. 11 - One More Louder

The Christmas Hack — Yuletunes Eclectic & Inexplicable XI: One More Louder (Side B)

Unite the Twelve! With the release of my newest yulemix, you've got one mixtape for each day of Christmas. This one is FULLY GUARANTEED to optimize your hall-decking, and to pass the melancholy hours of your road trip/flight delay/journey by rail/sea voyage/sleepless night in contemplation of your sins.

Noel Means Noel—Yuletunes Eclectic& Inexplicable Vol. 12: A Fully Consensual Listening Experience of Christmas

Noel Means Noel — Yuletunes Eclectic & Inexplicable XII: A Consensual Xmas Xperience [Side A]

My fourth Christmas compilation, from 2009, is still the one I love best. Even though this one caused me a lot of trouble; more than you would believe.

That Means Christmas to Some People - Yuletunes Eclectic IV: The Quest for Peace [side A]

Tags: Christmas holiday old-time-radio

My fourth Christmas compilation, from 2009, is still the one I love best. Even though this one caused me a lot of trouble; more than you would believe.

THE AIRBORNE YULETIDE EVENT — Yuletunes Eclectic & Inexplicable XVII [Side A]

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