MiniDisc Playlists 1-10 - Tracklists
Thursday, September 12, 2024A breakdown of the songs selected for the first ten MiniDisc playlists I’ve made.
These playlists were intended to be played in order, not in shuffle. They’re just representations of some of the music I’ve listened to during the specified times - my version of those “month” playlists people like to make, but just more pretentious lol. These playlists are limited to the runtime available in regular MiniDiscs recording in SP mode, usually 74 minutes but sometimes 80. Similar to older cassette mixtapes, the limitation in recordable space along with the several month timespan these mixes are supposed to represent, help ensure that all songs are chosen and sorted with purpose.
Choosing songs was tough as I wanted to include songs that I have generally enjoyed over the years, not just what I had listened to upto the making of this playlist. In the end, I came up with a generally well flowing playlist that started from a upbeat, active selection, to a transition towards slower, sadder (introspective?) songs. This would become a common theme amongst these playlists.
MiniDisc 1: Summer ‘19
- “Age of Consent” - New Order
- “Chewing Gum” - Blood Orange, A$AP Rocky
- “Nights” - Frank Ocean
- “Safe Ground” - BEA1991
- “Sweaty Faces” - Cherry Glazerr
- “Teen Age Riot” - Sonic Youth
- “Making Plans For Nigel” - XTC
- “Nine Minutes and Forty Three Seconds” - Machine Girl
- “Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000” - Have A Nice Life
- “Pictures of You” - The Cure
- “Souvlaki Space Station” - Slowdive
- “Mis” - Alex G
- “Hero” - Family of the Year
- “SUPERPOSITION” - Daniel Caesar
- “the same things happening to me all the time, even in my dreams” - Teen Suicide
- “Golden Hour” - Jonathan Morali (Life is Strange soundtrack)
This one is really similar to the first playlist to be honest. More songs that I was a big fan of before this and wanted to highlight as well as some songs I had actually discovered during this period.
MiniDisc 2: A/W ‘19
- “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” - Talking Heads
- “Song For Chris” - Everyone Asked About You
- “Who Makes Your Money” - Spoon
- “Dumb” - George Clanton
- “When You Sleep” - my bloody valentine
- “I Love Sloane” - Delroy Edwards
- “Free The Frail” - JPEGMAFIA, Helena Deland
- “Dark & Handsome” - Blood Orange, Toro y Moi
- “Never Meant” - American Football
- “Incinerate” - Sonic Youth
- “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” - The Flaming Lips
- “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” - Radiohead
- “Out of This World” - The Cure
- “Your Pain Is Mine Now” - Title Fight
- “Rom-Com Gone Wrong” - Matt Maltese
- “NYC” - Interpol
- “Impossible Germany” - Wilco
- “Heaven Or Las Vegas” - Cocteau Twins
- “Scenes Like This” - Puzzle
One of the playlists of all time. Made during the lockdown period of 2020/when I was abruptly finished with high school. A golden period of discovering new music. So boss, so good…
MiniDisc 3: Where Did Spring Go?
- “Caitlyn” - Jank
- “Hunned Bandz” - Tanukichan
- “Noid” - Yves Tumor
- “You” - Mk.gee
- “Dump” - Kero Kero Bonito
- “The Leanover” - Life Without Buildings
- “Shoot You Down” - The Stone Roses
- “Fingerbib” - Aphex Twin
- “Peroxide” - Ecco2k
- “Obedient” - Bladee, Ecco2k
- “First Crush” - Bladee, Yung Lean
- “DNA RAIN” - Bladee
- “Generation Why” - Conan Gray
- “Interlude I” - Frank Ocean (Blonded Radio instrumental)
- “Lucky” - Choker
- “Rushes” - Frank Ocean
- “Rushes To” - Frank Ocean
- “(forever?????????)” - glass beach
- “Baby Wonder’s Gone” - Drop Nineteens
- “Milk” - Sweet Trip
- “Naruto Themed Sexting” - Panucci’s Pizza
- “Weird Little Birthday Girl” - Happyness
Another baller ass playlist made during that hell lockdown period of 2020. Getting a little bit fun and freaky now. This playlist is named after a previous playlist I had made. I just liked the name.
MiniDisc 4: Techwear Type Beat
- “Mg1” - Machine Girl
- “5 Stars & Vanity Lights” - Varg2TM, Ecco2k
- “Pulling The String” - Silk Road Assassins
- “love cycle” - ryanxb100 (my bro, lost media)
- “3rd Crush [Crush Resist] (Live)” - Ecco2k
- “Blue Verb” - Vegyn
- “WAR REPORT” - Dean Blunt
- “Euphorium” - DJ CAMGIRL
- “NITRO GIRLS 4” - Dean Blunt, Joanne Robertson
- “Let Me Go” - Cartier God, Bladee
- “Time” - Ecco2k
- “Faith in Strangers” - Andy Stott
- “truckin’ along” - ryanxb100 (lost media)
- “An Accessory” - Cowgirl Clue
- “Mallwhore Freeestyle” - Bladee
- “So What” - Bladee, Ecco2k
- “Daisy” - Choker
- “Yandere Complex” - Sewerslvt (ewwww :((((()
- “Brokeup” - Arca
- “Lifetime” - Yves Tumor
- “Nikes (Music Video Version)” - Frank Ocean
- “The Silent Boy Cries (Ripsquadd Outro)” - Bladee
- “Blue Plastic” - Yung Lean
- “Love’s Refrain” - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
More heat more heat more heat. I mean what is there really to say, the music speaks for itself.
MiniDisc 5: Summer ‘20 (Handle With Care)
- “Sabbath” - Meltycanon
- “Do You Love Her Now” - Jai Paul
- “Girls just want to have fun” - Bladee, Ecco2k
- “Eva” - Yeule
- “Windbreaker” - Choker
- “Black Boy” - Ecco2k
- “Peroxide” - Mixed Matches
- “Play Em Like Atari” - Ecco2k
- “Crushed” - ryanxb100
- “IF I Could Hold Your Soul” - Cities Aviv
- “Medicine Burn” - Yves Tumor
- “Dedicated to Yegorka (absolution)” - bod [包家巷]
- “PATTERN - VIP” - Dean Blunt, DJ Escrow
- “Kiss, Kiss” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- “this is heaven & id die for it” - American Pleasure Club, Teen Suicide
- “Forever Dolphin Love (Cover)” - King Krule
- “Little League” - Cap’n Jazz
- “You’re in College Now” - Quality Time
- “Where’s My Dini?” - Ovlov
- “Wings in Motion” - Bladee
- “Lonesome Tonight” - New Order
- “artsick” - tricot
Fall/Winter 2020 - Spring 2021, we just keep it going. More bomb ass songs. I named this one “Inside” firstly because I was listening to that song and because I was again, stuck inside bc of covid and dropped out for the first time while trying to take online zoom classes for my first semester of college, from home.
MiniDisc 6: Inside
- “Inside” - Earl Sweatshirt
- “Oi!” - GVVAAN
- “Lean 4 Real” - Playboi Carti, Skepta
- “Backstr€€t Boys” - Bladee, Black Kray
- “MIDWESTEMO2” - FROMTHEHEART, Lunamatic, underscores, Yung Skrrt
- “Yameii Vs. The World” - Yameii Online
- “Honesty” - Yves Tumor
- “So Many Details” - Toro y Moi
- “A New Kind of Love” - Frou Frou, Imogen Heap
- “Moon” - Mixed Matches
- “Brown Steel” - Choker
- “Good For You” - Blood Orange, Justine Skye
- “My Way Out” - daine
- “Isn’t It So Convenient” - Mk.gee
- “Love Affair” - UMI
- “American Boyfriend” - Kevin Abstract
- “Estrangers” - No Vacation
- “stuck!” - FROMTHEHEART, Knapsack, underscores, VALENTINE
- “Live Well” - Palace
- “White Gloves” - Khruangbin
- “the fish song” - underscores
- “Prom” - SZA
- “the rot” - Dean Blunt, Joanne Robertson
Like May to October of 2021, something like that. You’ll never guess but theres more bangin tunes. It’s named overdue because it’s like being late with an assignment for school. I was late in making this like how I was late for a lot of my school work during this time lol.
MiniDisc 7: Overdue
- “Thieves Like Us - 12” Extended” - New Order
- “Wait for Me” - Daryl Hall & John Oates
- “U Don’t Have to Call” - Usher
- “WUSYANAME” - Tyler, the Creator, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Ty Dolla $ign
- “Nothin’ on You” - B.o.B., Bruno Mars
- “GHETTO YOUT” - Lancey Foux, Bakar, Clairo
- “ILoveUIHateU” - Playboi Carti
- “Bloodveil / Stillborn” - Bladee, Ecco2k
- “Streets” - Doja Cat
- “Killer Boy” - Melizza
- “Unaware” - Mk.gee
- “Jupiter” - Matt Maltese
- “Julia” - Yuki Saitou
- “Tulog Na” - Sabu
- “Nineteen” - PinkPantheress
- “3:00 AM” - Finding Hope
- “24” - Kanye West
- “LA Hills Burn At The Peak Of Winter” - Croatian Amor
Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 - the first part of a two Disc series. More jumpy, less cohesive tbh but still important songs. Named after Estes Park, Colorado, where I saw Ecco and Yves for the second time with my friend Sebastian, in November 2021.
MiniDisc 8: I. Estes
- “Molly Hearts” - Trippie Redd
- “DONT! - TRUST ME” - Lancey Foux
- “Secrecy Is Incredibly Important To The Both of Them” - Yves Tumor
- “Pro: Lov: Ad” - Sweet Trip
- “Calcium” - Ecco2k
- “Show Me Love” - Robin S
- “tears in the club” - FKA twigs, The Weeknd
- “Passion” - PinkPantheress
- “Trelawny Waters” - John Glacier
- “Beauty Stranger [155 BPM]” - Vegyn
- “Mssng Naw” - Yves Tumor
- “A&E” - Inga Copeland
- “Nothing to Hide” - Sporting Life, Devonté Hynes, Wiki
- “Meditation”- Babyfather, Arca
- “Salt” - Crim3s
- “12 Stout Street” - Rx Papi, Gud
- “Guilt Trip” - Kanye West
- “Killuminati” - Babyfather
- “Wednesday Night Interlude” - PARTYNEXTDOOR
- “Soulseek” - Blue Iverson
- “as long as ropes unravel fake rolex will travel” - Dean Blunt
Fall 2021 - Winter 2022 - the second part of a two Disc series. This playlist is up there for number one with MD3. Lovey Dovey ass playlist. Soo good. Named after the feeling I was in during this period, and after the SOPHIE song. RIP.
MiniDisc 9: II. Infatuation
- “Infatuation” - SOPHIE
- “ride the dragon” - FKA twigs
- “Chaotic” - LOONA / ODD EYE CIRCLE
- “Cologne” - beabadoobee
- “In The Flesh” - Ecco2k
- “Flesh without Blood” - Grimes
- “Jackie” - Yves Tumor
- “Kono Speed no Saki e” - MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
- “night is young” - yuragi
- “Court Vision” - Sporting Life, Evy Jane
- “beautySleep” - Ecco2k
- “WASTE” - BROCKHAMPTON (just Bearface really)
- “If I Sleep” - Dystopia
- “Today” - Mura Masa, Tirzah
- “Soul Sista - Remix” - Bilal, Raphael Saadiq
- “Pain” - PinkPantheress
- “Take Off Ur Pants” - Indigo De Souza
- “Dreams Never End” - New Order
- “Track X” - Black Country, New Road
- “International” - Sweet Trip
March - June 2022 - mostly just feeling like shit from school and work and life. Also covid, maybe… who knows.
MiniDisc 10: Crash & Burn
- “FLASH CASANOVA” - Yabujin
- “Sacrifice” - George Riley
- “Sometimes” - my bloody valentine
- “Pink Cloud Tracing Paper” - Asobi Seksu
- “This Floating World” - I Hate Sex
- “Restless Song” - Shadow Community / Mid-Air Thief
- “awaken” - Mixed Matches
- “Eye Contact” - Yung Lean
- “Leanworld” - Yung Lean
- “Don’t Go” - Yung Lean
- “Bubble” - Babyfather
- “Bangin’ Lemon” - Babyfather
- “I Love This Game” - Sporting Life
- - 23. the entirety of the album “Soul on Fire” - Dean Blunt
- “Everglade” - Tortoise
And that’s all the MiniDiscs so far. I still have more playlists in my library to complete and continue making, but this is what I have so far. I’ll continue to keep making these periodical collections of music, but I want to also expand into themed playlists, like a collection of pure instrumental songs I like, or as many 10/10 songs that I can fit into an 80 minute disc. IDK! We’ll see later what I come up with.
If you wanna read about the physical discs themselves then you can go: hereeeeeeee
Thanks gang.