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Pink Mountaintops, Japandroids, The Mountain Goats, Blakroc, Mat Riviere - GIITTV's Mixtapes for 09

GodisintheTV 03/12/2009

The singles chart has always been unrepresentative of a week in music let alone a year. Subject to the fickle fads, and promotional campaigns of a hysterical, celebrity driven Television and media. Even in the inclusion of download sales hasn't halted the slide in quality, topped off by the fact that its all presented by Reggie and Fearne two of the biggest gob shite, passionless, none entities on Radio One.

The final nail in this year's coffin has come in the form of the X factor domination of the top five every contestant, former contestant, guest performer and even the bleeding Judges have got in on the act, cluttering up the top five with more (JLS apart) drivel. So rather than pick our singles of the year, we here at GIITTV decided to make our own mixes of some of our songs of 2009. You know a bit like those mix tapes you used to make when you were a kid, they contain some massive commercial hits, some lesser known gems and some cult classics that have tickled our ears in this last year. Only using modern sites like Spotify and Soundcloud et al, this time they are shorn of the bad editing offa the radio that always mucked up your play list. Namely we believe they are a more of a genuine reflection of the wide variety of music that has been released in the last calendar year. Enjoy!


Bill Cummings' mix featuring Ten City Nation, Passion Pit, Lovvers, Das Wanderlust, Engineers, The Antlers, A Place to Bury Strangers, Mos Def, Orphans and Vandals, Sky Larkin, Fever Ray, Mew, Blue Roses, Manic Street Preachers, The Pink Mountaintops and more:
http://open.spotify.com/user/billbones80/playlist/0ZSn5sYXbBbcCpbzfi1d7h

Kyle Ellison's mix featuring Cold Cave, Beirut, Dirty Projectors, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Future of the left, Ramona Falls, Health, Japandroids, Doom, P.O.S., Dan Deacon, The XX, Atlas Sound, Dinosaur Jr. and many more:
http://open.spotify.com/user/fingers_become_thumbs/playlist/6ZX8YJ6jwoxAhRJhXHRF5G

Owain Paciuszko's mix featuring Sweet Baboo, Colourmusic, Wilco, The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club, Animal Collective, The Veils, James Yorkston, Jarvis Cocker, The Mountain Goats, Untied States and more:
http://open.spotify.com/user/kingoftheducks/playlist/44D3k2Enq8ORP4ARoI9BZx

Rhian Daly's mix featuring Lady Gaga, The Maccabees, Jamie T, The Big Pink, Hockey, Mumford & Sons, The Wave Pictures, Patrick Wolf, St Vincent, Amazing Baby, Danananananykroyd, Deerhunter, Arctic Monkeys, Marina and the Diamonds, Memory Tapes, Discovery, Emmy The Great and more:
http://open.spotify.com/user/rhian/playlist/4D6xBb7yMwr74Z2yX7dFgy

Ash Akhtar's Soundcloud mix includes Wevie Stonder, Bibio, Blakroc, Them Crooked Vultures, Raekwon, Pablo, Madness
Jay Z, Dark Star, Grizzly Bear, Tinariwen, King Cannibal, Three Trapped Tigers, Hudson Mohawke and many more

Mixtape 2009 by Sheq

John Rogers' (aka Brainlove label head honcho) mix featuring Beach House, Wild Beasts, Micachu, Mount Eerie, Mat Riviere and Brightblack Morning Light with MP3s and descriptions on his blog here:

http://fireworksnightinamusia.blogspot.com/2009/11/brnlv-10.html

Simon Catling's mix featuring Andrew Bird, Choir of Young Blievers, Wavves, Sian Alice Group, Maps, I concur, Daniel Land and the Modern Painters, Times New Viking, Drums, Copy Haho, Camera Obscura and more:
http://open.spotify.com/user/jarock87/playlist/6jEFSVSxwVAMWRiuE7546y


Look out for GIITTV's shortlist of the 50 best albums of 2009, which will be revealed next week.