Please enjoy jwz mixtape 030.

This one's almost all new stuff, to make up for the fact that the last three have trended toward the old. Generally I've been aiming for the mixtapes to have about 1/3rd new stuff (where "new" means "released in the last three years or so") but that doesn't work out so well when I'm doing goofy themes like "reptiles", or obsolete genres like "vaguely industrial breakbeat".

Do you tend to prefer the mixtapes that are mostly newer stuff, or the ones that are mostly older stuff? I'm guessing that since I've had so many comments from people saying "I've never heard any of this before", most of you don't notice the difference...

Last time I asked whether you thought of this as compilation albums or a radio show. One big difference is that if it was a radio show, I wouldn't be trying as hard to avoid ever playing the same song twice.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 029.

By Order of His Majesty King Mob, please enjoy jwz mixtape 028.

How's this whole mixtape thing working out for you? What are your listening patterns? Do you think of them as compilation albums, or a radio show? And why do they provoke so little actual discussion of music?

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 027.

This one goes out to our ectothermal overlords from Alpha Draconis.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 026.

What do you have to say for yourself this time?

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 025.

And how does that make you feel?

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 024.

Consisting of roughly 50% music that I've discovered within the last month! So very current. You will contemplate. You will discuss. You will recommend. You have your orders. Carry on.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 023.

I tried to be all topical and do one with only songs about bunnies and Jesus, but it turned out pretty bad, so nevermind.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 022.

Questions? Comments? Outrage?

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 021.

Your thoughts on the music herein are as follows:

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 020.

Twenty mixtapes... that's kinda a lot, huh?

It's about half relatively-new stuff this time. As always, I eagerly await your valued opinions.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 019.

This is the sequel to mixtape 014, in that back before the Pleistocene extinction event, this is also music we used to refer to as "industrial", at least until it was retconned into "EBM".

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 018.

No particular theme this time; in fact, I did this one the old skool way: by taking the song that happened to be playing as a starting point, and then giving myself only the length of that song to decide upon the next one, ad nauseam. Imagine that. Lazy? Or disciplined? You decide.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 017.

It's mostly older stuff this time; I was aiming for the theme of "hiphop in unusual places".

And how's that working out for you?

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 016.

As your attorney in this matter, I advise you to engage in discussion of said mixtape.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 015.

By the way, there were a whopping five comments on the last one, which I can only interpret as "nobody's listening"...

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 014.

When I started making this one, I was thinking of it as "Difficult Listening Hour", but it ended up being a lot more rhythmic than I expected. Anyway, back before the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction Event, this is the sort of thing that we used to refer to as "Industrial".

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 013.

This one took me a lot longer than usual, and I'm not entirely sure why. I hope it was some combination of: A) I'm sick, my ears are clogged, and nothing sounds right; B) I haven't gotten much new music recently; and C) I obsess over the content and order of these way more than necessary; and not 2) I'm just plain running out of steam.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 012.

Since most of you seemed more interested in my 1997 list than my 2007 list, let's start off the new year with some music that is pre-millennial.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 011.