By the way, does anyone understand what has changed recently with Youtube's embeddable playlists, and how to make them work again? The embeds I made for mixtape 064b and mixtape 047 no longer work. They always say "An error occurred, please try again later." I spent quite a while poking at it, but I can't figure out any way to get an embedded playlist to work. You can play them on the site here and here (modulo all the videos that have suffered takedowns since I posted them, sigh) but there no longer seems to be any way to embed more than a single video at once.

Have Safari, Flash and/or the Youtube player gotten screwed up recently? I'm getting a lot more Safari hypno-wheels while it is trying to embed Youtube lately, and often have stuttery playback even when the video is fully buffered.

And a special thank you to the uploaders of videos that I didn't include here because all of the copies on Youtube disable embedding. I'm not going to tell you what they are, because apparently their record labels would rather that you not know about them at all.

I think it's time to admit that I'm done doing the mixtapes.

I got busy and fell behind, and suddenly a month had gone by. Every weekend since I've said to myself, "yeah, this week for sure" and it just keeps not happening. Oh well. I'd have liked to have gone to a rounder number like 99, but I guess 75 isn't a bad run.

The lack of comments always made it feel like only five people were listening anyway.*

* No, this is not me trolling for you to say "I listened! I just had nothing to say!"

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 075. Another queued dump from the SXSW torrents. My queue. Let me dump you it.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 074. This is the second mixtape culled from the 2009 SXSW torrents. I put it together before I left, but I did manage to see five of these bands, some of them by accident...

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 073. This is late because I actually lost track of what day of the week it is. I'm at SXSW, and once again this year I slogged through the corresponding torrents. This time I passed snap judgements on 1187 tracks. This has been described as being "entirely too thorough." Be that as it may, my suffering is your gain, and this is the first batch of those snap judgements. All of these songs are from the torrents, and hopefully I will manage to see at least some of these bands this week. Wish me luck.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 072.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 071.

Today is a good day for staying inside.

And, of course, for donating to the DNA Lounge legal defense fund.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 070.

By Appointment to His Majesty, Norton I, please enjoy jwz mixtape 069.

It's crassly childish and predictable, but then, so am I.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 068. Which shares a certain something with mixtape 014.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 067.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 066.

Please enjoy jwz mixtape 065.

So that first track, The Mercy Beat. An old favorite, but it got its hooks into me in a big way recently, and I must have listened to it a hundred times in the last two weeks. I'd be sitting there listening to music, and think, "Wait, this doesn't sound right. This doesn't sound like The Mercy Beat". Then I'd listen to it another dozen times in a row. This doesn't happen to me that often. (I considered just putting 20 copies of The Mercy Beat on this mixtape, but I'm pretty sure I'd be the only one who would have thought that was funny.)

Also: I feel compelled to point out that tonight at Super Ego (every 3rd Saturday at DNA Lounge), for the first 40 minutes or so that I was there, every song played was a discoed-up remix of a track by one of the bands on the best-of-2008 mixtape 064. So if you're into that sort of thing, you might be in to that sort of thing.