Okay, so it's certainly been a while since I last updated my muxtape... May.

I've been using the site since that time however, listening to others, finding new music, and following links...just not updating my own. I've had ideas though, playlists and tracks i've wanted to put up but then changed my mind later. As with Last.fm, I think I may me subconsciously afraid of music snobbery. It's silly I know, but i'm weird like that. All the same, the good news is that i've finally gotten round to updating the tracklisting!

Some are songs i've been enjoying for a few months now, others are regular favourites, and some are by entirely new artists that I wouldn't have known about a few months previously. It is rock, it is dance, it is instrumental and It's a mash-up of all these things, and of the playlists I tried to make over the summer and yet never upload. If you think there's a problem with the pacing or song order, well, that's probably the reason why... oh, and there's twelve songs too, instead of the ten that I'm used to.

August : [Stream Here]

• Alamos- Number Cruncher
• The National- Mistaken By Strangers
• Radiohead- Treefingers
• Arcade Fire- Black Wave / Bad Vibrations
• Innerpartysystem- Heart of Fire
• Boys Noize- & Down
• Royksopp- Someone Like Me
• ...Trail of Dead- Another Morning Stoner
• Swervedriver- Duel
• Motorcycle- As The Rush Comes
• Team Sleep- Princeton Review
• Nine Inch Nails- Lights In The Sky

I'll try and get it updated again in a month's time, promise. If not, you can certainly expect to see another update towards November. Just in time for Christmas either way...

I wrote a little about Muxtape last month- new site, upload twelve songs and share, internet excitement all round- and with the site still online (and thankfully seemingly devoid of any legal rambling), I've decided to update the songs to keep the page fresh.

 

There's no artist or band continuations, but again, the current line-up is once again a list of 'songs I like at the moment', rather than being focussed on something specific like genre or a letter of the alphabet, though those mixtapes may be coming eventually. That said, there's one or two more elusive acts listed this month that last- if you listen to the playlist and discover someone new anyway then that's great, I guess the site really works.

Here's the May listing: [Stream Here]

1. Jane's Addiction - True Nature
2. Hell is for Heroes - Kamichi
3. Nshwa - By Your Side
4. The Longcut - Holy Funk
5. Radio 4- Enemies Like This
6. Röyksopp - Sparks
7. Sufjan Stevens - All the Trees of the Field Will clap Their Hands
8. Computerman - Spies on You
9. Portishead - The Rip
10. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - So Divided

Muxtape Post and April listing

 

Muxtape is the new thing. Like Flickr, Digg, Facebook and Twitter before it, it's the new site that everybody seems to be buzzing about. It's loosely similar to Last.fm in that at it's centre is a fan population of music love, but muxtape makes things altogether more simple and minimalistic. From you're music folder on your hard drive you're allowed to upload 12 songs (under 10mb each), put them together, and link them to everyone else for them to stream- a digital revolution of the physical mixtape.

 

The idea's fun, and it's execution is even better- you can leave your questions behind, because you won't be needing to ask any. Small niggles arise in the fact that the site currently only accepts the mp3 file format-if you've got your entire music library on something like Windows Media or ITunes, obviously you're going to run into some problems until -if- the site allows their respective file types. But that aside, it's still relatively easy to get those songs into mp3s for uploading.

There's no better way to try it out than actually create one of your own. I made a playlist earlier today with ten songs all of the rather loose theme of 'songs I like at the moment', but for compilations of a certain genre the site feels it was made for that kind of thing, and presumably i'll be following with those following compilations in the coming weeks/months/years. For now though, here's what i've got:

1. Rilo Kiley- Spectacular Views
2. Band of Horses- Is There A Ghost
3. Bat For Lashes- Bat's Mouth
4. Union of Knives- I Decline
5. LCD Soundsystem- All My Friends
6. Damien Rice- Delicate
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Mysteries
8. Arcade Fire- Une Année Sans Lumiére
9. The Chemical Brothers/Flaming Lips- The Golden Path
10. The Secret Machines- It's A Bad Wind That Don't Blow Someone Some Good 

You can stream 'The RichardAM Muxtape' here, and i'll be changing it in a few weeks time- so go give it a listen!