For the last few months, I have been putting together a weekly mixtape: a cassette-tape-sized chunk of music that I enjoy, and that you should enjoy too. Some will be new, some old.

These are distributed as streaming audio: click on the link below to listen to each mixtape from the beginning. Each mixtape will be available for two weeks.

jwz mixtape Ø59 30 Nov 2008 Listen

01 Twinkle -- Ton Style (2007) 8:47 02 Orbital -- Lost (2004) 5:08 03 Battery -- Last of August (1998) 5:20 04 Gram Rabbit -- Orange You Glad (2008) 5:14 05 The Breeders -- Night of Joy (2008) 3:26 06 Ladyhawke -- Professional Suicide (2008) 3:43 07 Los Campesinos! -- This Is How You Spel...n of Faux-Romantics" (2008) 4:18 08 Poni Hoax -- Crash-Pad Driver (2008) 4:33 09 Architecture In Helsinki -- Like a Call (2004) 3:08 10 Psapp -- Tiger, My Friend (2004) 4:04 11 Cranes -- Feathers (2008) 3:19 12 M83 -- Skin of the Night (2008) 6:13 13 Mistle Thrush -- Do You Know This Bird? (1997) 3:07 14 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark -- The Misunderstanding (1980) 4:56 15 Crystal Castles -- Untrust Us (2007) 3:09 16 Fischerspooner -- All We Are (2005) 4:41 17 Kill Switch... Klick -- Lost Like Innocence (2001) 4:33 18 We Are Scientists -- After Hours (2008) 3:53 19 New Order -- Temptation (1982) 8:51

jwz mixtape Ø58 25 Nov 2008 Listen

01 The Prids -- Back Up Slow (2006) 3:59 02 The Sound of Animals Fighting -- I the Swan (2008) 4:14 03 Jesu -- Conqueror (2006) 8:10 04 My Bloody Valentine -- Only Shallow (1991) 4:17 05 Sian Alice Group -- Contours (2008) 6:33 06 The Blacks -- Heavy Song (2007) 3:32 07 The Long Blondes -- You Could Have Both (2006) 4:48 08 Los Campesinos! -- Death to Los Campesinos! (2008) 2:50 09 Poni Hoax -- Pretty Tall Girls (2008) 4:04 10 Gang of Four -- We Live As We Dream, Alone (1982) 3:38 11 Shiny Toy Guns -- When Did This Storm Begin (2008) 4:10 12 Jane Jensen -- Happiness (2000) 4:04 13 The Pets -- Cold House (2005) 3:32 14 Brazilian Girls -- Internacional (2008) 6:21 15 Gram Rabbit -- Dirty Horse (2004) 3:47 16 Barry Andrews -- Awake Too Long (2003) 2:19 17 Vermillion Lies -- Circus Fish (2006) 2:37 18 Ruby -- Salt Water Fish (1995) 3:24 19 Orba Squara -- Gravel (2008) 2:37 20 Black Light Burns -- Iodine Sky (2007) 8:31

If you're wondering why this is not a Podcast, or otherwise downloadable, it's because that would be illegal. We (DNA Lounge) pay our licensing fees to ASCAP, etc., but as far as I've been able to decipher the rules, the only way to legally distribute this music in any way except streaming would be to get explicit permission from each copyright holder, which is just too much work.

We're also prohibited from "encouraging" users to users to copy the music, and we are required to "disable copying by users if in possession of technology capable of doing so."

This means that, for example, if there existed tools out in the world that made it trivial for you to download any streaming audio webcast anywhere, I wouldn't be allowed to tell you what those tools were. If they existed. And I'm not saying that they do.