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Ready for some summertime jams to carry you through the dog days? The July mix tape has some great new stuff from M83, Toro Y Moi and Neon Indian — plus the latest from Radiohead and The Cure's Robert Smith.

Download or stream it below — and if you like it, feel free to check out the previous mixes (January, February, March, April, May and June).

download:
old waver july 2011 mix tape (77MB file)

tracklist:

1. Midnight City — M83
2. Saturday Love — Toro Y Moi
3. Last Night (Strokes cover) — The Morning Benders
4. Surgeon — St. Vincent
5. Totally True — Violens
6. Dry Ice — Pure X
7. Coming Down — Dum Dum Girls
8. The Death Of You And Me — Noel Gallagher
9. The Daily Mail (Live From The Basement) — Radiohead
10. Fallout — Neon Indian
11. Keep You — Class Actress
12. White Elephant — Ladytron
13. Answer — CANT (Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear)
14. Small Hours (John Martyn cover) — Robert Smith

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It's that time of the month again.. the Old Waver blog cycle has produced another mix tape. Our April mix tape is still going strong, but May hasn't fared quite as well. Such are the whims of the interwebs I suppose.

This month we come back strong with brand new Radiohead, the return of The Rapture, and Vince Clarke remixing his old buds in Depeche Mode, among others. Download or stream it below — and check out January, February and March if you've got the time to kill.

Please listen and purchase what you like.. this mix is a single track intended for sampling purposes only.

download:
old waver june 2011 mix tape (93MB file)

tracklist:

1. Staircase (Live From the Basement) — Radiohead
2. Before The Bridge — Future Islands
3. The Bay — Metronomy
4. Quantum Leap — John Maus
5. Amor Fati — Washed Out
6. Take Forever (feat. Robert Smith) — The Japanese Popstars
7. Behind the Wheel (Vince Clarke Remix) — Depeche Mode
8. Post Physical — Pictureplane
9. Wait In The Dark — Memory Tapes
10. Far Nearer — Jamie xx
11. How Deep Is Your Love? — The Rapture
12. Wild Palms — Sun Airway
13. Itchy Fingers — Junior Boys
14. Hits Me Like A Rock (feat. Bobby Gillespie) — CSS
15. Utopia — Yacht

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So it wasn't early this time, but hopefully it's worth the wait. It seems our April mix tape was well received, and this was another great month for new music.

We had to include The Horrors and New Order, but there are plenty of other treasures worth discovering in there. Download or stream it below — and don't forget to check out January, February and March, too.

Please listen and purchase what you like.. this mix is a single track intended for sampling purposes only.

download:
old waver may 2011 mix tape (82MB file)

tracklist:

1. Still Life - The Horrors
2. Albatross - Wild Beasts
3. Emergency Room - Ford & Lopatin
4. Eyes Be Closed - Washed Out
5. Blue Cassette - Friendly Fires
6. Fairlight - Com Truise
7. Beat And The Pulse - Austra
8. French Exit - The Antlers
9. Personal Jesus (The Stargate Mix) - Depeche Mode
10. 2 Hearts - Digitalism
11. Joshua - The Japanese Popstars (feat. Tom Smith)
12. Oh My God – Cults
13. Hope - Boris
14. Hellbent - New Order
15. Private Caller - Sondre Lerche
16. True Loves - Hooray for Earth

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As the January, February and March mix tapes have done before, this is the audio distillation of the last month on Old Waver. I hope you'll download and enjoy it — or at least stream it and give it a "meh."

Once again, please listen and purchase what you like.. this mix is a single track intended for sampling purposes only.

download:
old waver april 2011 mix tape (85MB file)

tracklist:

1. Say It - Beastie Boys
2. Glitch - Brian Eno
3. Mindkilla - Gang Gang Dance
4. Try It On (Salem Remix) – Interpol
5. A Chore - Tom Vek
6. Face In The Crowd - Cat's Eyes
7. Up on the North Shore - The Sea and Cake
8. Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair - Arctic Monkeys
9. Nosebleed – Deerhunter
10. Your Love Runs Still - Thieves Like Us
11. Supercollider – Radiohead
12. Interleave With You (ft. Alexis of Hot Chip) - WIN WIN
13. Puppets (Royksopp Remix) - Depeche Mode
14. Love Makes The World Go Round (Madonna cover) - You Say Party
15. What About Us - Handsome Furs
16. You and I (ft. Caroline Polachek) - Washed Out

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UPDATE:

Check out the May mix tape here.

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For once, I didn't wait until the last minute. Here's the March mixtape a whole day early for your enjoyment.

This is an attempt to distill the past month of the blog into one tidy package, as done for January and February. Once again, please listen and purchase what you like.. this mix is a single track intended for sampling purposes only:

old waver march 2011 mix tape (54MB file)


tracklist:

1. Ignite - The Raveonettes
2. Pacing Around The Church - Cold Cave
3. Games - The Strokes
4. Live Those Days Tonight - Friendly Fires
5. DNA - The Kills
6. Need You Now (Architecture in Helsinki Version) - Cut Copy
7. Slivers Of You - Puro Instinct
8. The Body - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
9. Wait And See - Holy Ghost!
10. The Quiet Earth (James Yuill Remix) - Trophy Wife
11. Shine Like Stars - Glasvegas
12. Suffer Well (M83 remix) - Depeche Mode
13. End Of The Line (Remixed by Tame Impala) - Daft Punk
14. Mirror - Burial & Four Tet & Thom Yorke
15. You Don't Respond - The Flaming Lips with Neon Indian

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Welcome to month two of the old waver mix tape experiment. A fair number of you wasted bandwidth to download the january mix tape, so we'll carry on.

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Distilling the past month of the blog into one mp3 is a fun project for me. As mentioned before — Audacity may be easier than an old-school crossfade with a two-channel mixer, but it's a rewarding creative exercise all the same.

Please listen and purchase what you like.. this mix is a single track intended for sampling purposes only. Hope you enjoy it — find the link and tracklist below:

old waver february 2011 mix tape (135MB file)

1. The Great Pan Is Dead - Cold Cave
2. Strangelove - Friendly Fires
3. Enola Gay - OMD
4. Twist of Fate (Reeder's No Fate Radio Remix) - Bad Lieutenant
5. Still Sound - Toro y Moi
6. We Have Everything - Young Galaxy
7. Jump Into the Fog - The Wombats
8. There Is A Light That Never Goes Out - Dum Dum Girls
9. Funeral Song – Minks
10. Belong - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
11. Should Have - Cloud Nothings
12. Under Cover Of Darkness - The Strokes
13. The Shore - Chapel Club
14. Daydreamer – Youngteam
15. Lotus Flower – Radiohead

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Lower quality streaming version

download: old waver january mix tape

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Back in the day I'd constantly make mix tapes. Whenever I had the time, I'd drag out the extra CD player, the second hand Radio Shack two-channel mixer — maybe the old turntable — and lay down a curated audio cassette. Usually 90 minutes, unless I felt ambitious enough to tackle 120.

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Sure, it was wasted effort — especially if you effed up the crossfade into the last song. But it was a choice to go beyond pressing play and record; like cooking with organic ingredients or rolling your own.

Even though a digital version isn't quite the same, I decided to copy a real music blog and put one together anyway. It's primarily stuff that's recently been posted on the blog, with some random favorites pulled from the current rotation.

The mix is a single track intended for sampling purposes only.. please listen and purchase what you like. Apologies for the size of the file — I'll make it more manageable next time.

Here's the link and the tracklist. Enjoy:

old waver january 2011 mix tape (169MB file) 

1. Pure Radio Cosplay - ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
   
2. Corner Of The Sky - Cut Copy 
3. Chains - Gatekeeper
4. Synchronize - Discodeine
5. Mad About the Boy - The Radio Dept.
6. Whirring - The Joy Formidable
7. Christopher Columbus - Gruff Rhys
8. Mongk II - British Sea Power
9. Rocketships - Menkena
10. Quiet Life - Japan
11. Blame The Machines - Duran Duran
12. Frozen Forest - CFCF
13. For Sweet Dave (In The Future) - Teen Daze
14. Mexican Grand Prix - Mogwai
15. Come On Let's Go - Broadcast
16. Shook Down - Yuck
17. End of the Night - Smith Westerns
18. Not A Friend - Cat's Eyes

UPDATE:
Lower quality streaming version