I didn’t really blog about Muxtape, but I intended to. Many of you discovered it all on your own, without my help. For those lucky few, it came and went so fast, we were left a bit perturbed without cool user generated mix tapes to listen to. Admittedly, I found a way to download mp3′s from other Muxtapes via a highly contended greasemonkey script. Naturally, when the RIAA came knocking on Muxtapes door, I was a bit more disappointed than most. Muxtape was my escapists return to Napster 1.0, with thousands of individually created libraries to listen to and download from. Many savvy audiophiles took care in selecting the kind of music they would add, and of course in what order.

Muxtape may be down but Justin’s concept lives on through OpenTape. A new kind of mix tape software, it may just be the promiscuous cousin of the former service. It’ll run on just about any PHP5 web server. For those with the means, OpenTape essentially allows us to host our own special version of Muxtape. I missed my library enough to install it and get it playing with even more great music.

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Pretty much what I’ve been listening to recently. Some peaches, I’d like to think rare, but mostly things you haven’t heard before. WARNING: Ed Banger and DFA are up in this bitch.

1. Imani Coppola – This song just jumped out at me for having funny lyrics. The reason it’s first, is because it’s the truth.
2. Lykke Li – My favorite song at the moment. Just easy jammin and she’s easy on my ears like the Cardigans.
3. Vampire Weekend – What’s not to like when white kids play African pop riffs.
4. Nine Inch Nails -The first single without a label. The best things in life ARE free.
5. Late of the Pier – I’m sorry, but this makes me feel like I’m coked up in a french nightclub cir 1973.
6. Crystal Castles – I go absolutely bananas to this shit.
7. Fujiya & Miyagi – I adore how this builds and builds until it’s perfect.
8. Busy P – Did I mention I enjoy repetitive dance music!
9. Beck – Consistently delivers good, amazingly produced music.
10. The Cool Kids – Gotta have the EQ just right on this one.
11. Nujabes – Perfectly blended jazz and hip-hop.
12. Bird Peterson – Mashing Sabbath all day every day.
13. Beastie Boys – The best song you’ve heard a hundred times.
14. Justice – Passionate sounding, but how do you know really?
15. Hercules and Love Affair – Throw back synth filled with 90′s connotations.
16. Hey Willpower – I fucking hate this song enough to make you hate it too.
17. Hocus Pocus – Swinging international hip-hop.
18. Nujabes – Intellectual beats from Japan.
19. Jackson And His Computer Band – The composition on this song alone. It’s just ridiculous.
20. Nujabes – Just kills. Everything about it from the lyrics to the piano.
21. JDilla – Austin bringing me home again.
22. Vampire Weekend – Two words. Hammer and Tongs.
23. Justice – A sweet remix that puts it all out there.
24. Kate Nash – I want to talk with this bird so bad!
25. The Blood Arm – From their garage to your headphones.
26. Tapes n’ Tapes – Straight ahead rhythm rock.
27. Kill The Noise – Obscure, but tells you how it is FTW!
28. Mr. Oizo – Heavy, heavy ruckus.
29. ABX – What could go wrong mashing Lil Kim and MGMT?
30. Digitalism – A remix that caught my attention.
31. Nujabes – Another exquisitely produced track to rock to.
32. Royksopp – Most. commercial. sounding. track. ever.
33. Sabastien Tellier – Great drama, filled with strings.
34. Hot Chip – A soild DFA remix. Wait for it now!
35. The Chemical Brothers – The closest to a radiohead song this duo can get.