MiniDisc Playlists 1-10 - Tracklists

Thursday, September 12, 2024

A 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

  1. “Age of Consent” - New Order
  2. “Chewing Gum” - Blood Orange, A$AP Rocky
  3. “Nights” - Frank Ocean
  4. “Safe Ground” - BEA1991
  5. “Sweaty Faces” - Cherry Glazerr
  6. “Teen Age Riot” - Sonic Youth
  7. “Making Plans For Nigel” - XTC
  8. “Nine Minutes and Forty Three Seconds” - Machine Girl
  9. “Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000” - Have A Nice Life
  10. “Pictures of You” - The Cure
  11. “Souvlaki Space Station” - Slowdive
  12. “Mis” - Alex G
  13. “Hero” - Family of the Year
  14. “SUPERPOSITION” - Daniel Caesar
  15. “the same things happening to me all the time, even in my dreams” - Teen Suicide
  16. “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

  1. “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)” - Talking Heads
  2. “Song For Chris” - Everyone Asked About You
  3. “Who Makes Your Money” - Spoon
  4. “Dumb” - George Clanton
  5. “When You Sleep” - my bloody valentine
  6. “I Love Sloane” - Delroy Edwards
  7. “Free The Frail” - JPEGMAFIA, Helena Deland
  8. “Dark & Handsome” - Blood Orange, Toro y Moi
  9. “Never Meant” - American Football
  10. “Incinerate” - Sonic Youth
  11. “Feeling Yourself Disintegrate” - The Flaming Lips
  12. “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” - Radiohead
  13. “Out of This World” - The Cure
  14. “Your Pain Is Mine Now” - Title Fight
  15. “Rom-Com Gone Wrong” - Matt Maltese
  16. “NYC” - Interpol
  17. “Impossible Germany” - Wilco
  18. “Heaven Or Las Vegas” - Cocteau Twins
  19. “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?

  1. “Caitlyn” - Jank
  2. “Hunned Bandz” - Tanukichan
  3. “Noid” - Yves Tumor
  4. “You” - Mk.gee
  5. “Dump” - Kero Kero Bonito
  6. “The Leanover” - Life Without Buildings
  7. “Shoot You Down” - The Stone Roses
  8. “Fingerbib” - Aphex Twin
  9. “Peroxide” - Ecco2k
  10. “Obedient” - Bladee, Ecco2k
  11. “First Crush” - Bladee, Yung Lean
  12. “DNA RAIN” - Bladee
  13. “Generation Why” - Conan Gray
  14. “Interlude I” - Frank Ocean (Blonded Radio instrumental)
  15. “Lucky” - Choker
  16. “Rushes” - Frank Ocean
  17. “Rushes To” - Frank Ocean
  18. “(forever?????????)” - glass beach
  19. “Baby Wonder’s Gone” - Drop Nineteens
  20. “Milk” - Sweet Trip
  21. “Naruto Themed Sexting” - Panucci’s Pizza
  22. “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

  1. “Mg1” - Machine Girl
  2. “5 Stars & Vanity Lights” - Varg2TM, Ecco2k
  3. “Pulling The String” - Silk Road Assassins
  4. “love cycle” - ryanxb100 (my bro, lost media)
  5. “3rd Crush [Crush Resist] (Live)” - Ecco2k
  6. “Blue Verb” - Vegyn
  7. “WAR REPORT” - Dean Blunt
  8. “Euphorium” - DJ CAMGIRL
  9. “NITRO GIRLS 4” - Dean Blunt, Joanne Robertson
  10. “Let Me Go” - Cartier God, Bladee
  11. “Time” - Ecco2k
  12. “Faith in Strangers” - Andy Stott
  13. “truckin’ along” - ryanxb100 (lost media)
  14. “An Accessory” - Cowgirl Clue
  15. “Mallwhore Freeestyle” - Bladee
  16. “So What” - Bladee, Ecco2k
  17. “Daisy” - Choker
  18. “Yandere Complex” - Sewerslvt (ewwww :((((()
  19. “Brokeup” - Arca
  20. “Lifetime” - Yves Tumor
  21. “Nikes (Music Video Version)” - Frank Ocean
  22. “The Silent Boy Cries (Ripsquadd Outro)” - Bladee
  23. “Blue Plastic” - Yung Lean
  24. “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)

  1. “Sabbath” - Meltycanon
  2. “Do You Love Her Now” - Jai Paul
  3. “Girls just want to have fun” - Bladee, Ecco2k
  4. “Eva” - Yeule
  5. “Windbreaker” - Choker
  6. “Black Boy” - Ecco2k
  7. “Peroxide” - Mixed Matches
  8. “Play Em Like Atari” - Ecco2k
  9. “Crushed” - ryanxb100
  10. “IF I Could Hold Your Soul” - Cities Aviv
  11. “Medicine Burn” - Yves Tumor
  12. “Dedicated to Yegorka (absolution)” - bod [包家巷]
  13. “PATTERN - VIP” - Dean Blunt, DJ Escrow
  14. “Kiss, Kiss” - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  15. “this is heaven & id die for it” - American Pleasure Club, Teen Suicide
  16. “Forever Dolphin Love (Cover)” - King Krule
  17. “Little League” - Cap’n Jazz
  18. “You’re in College Now” - Quality Time
  19. “Where’s My Dini?” - Ovlov
  20. “Wings in Motion” - Bladee
  21. “Lonesome Tonight” - New Order
  22. “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

  1. “Inside” - Earl Sweatshirt
  2. “Oi!” - GVVAAN
  3. “Lean 4 Real” - Playboi Carti, Skepta
  4. “Backstr€€t Boys” - Bladee, Black Kray
  5. “MIDWESTEMO2” - FROMTHEHEART, Lunamatic, underscores, Yung Skrrt
  6. “Yameii Vs. The World” - Yameii Online
  7. “Honesty” - Yves Tumor
  8. “So Many Details” - Toro y Moi
  9. “A New Kind of Love” - Frou Frou, Imogen Heap
  10. “Moon” - Mixed Matches
  11. “Brown Steel” - Choker
  12. “Good For You” - Blood Orange, Justine Skye
  13. “My Way Out” - daine
  14. “Isn’t It So Convenient” - Mk.gee
  15. “Love Affair” - UMI
  16. “American Boyfriend” - Kevin Abstract
  17. “Estrangers” - No Vacation
  18. “stuck!” - FROMTHEHEART, Knapsack, underscores, VALENTINE
  19. “Live Well” - Palace
  20. “White Gloves” - Khruangbin
  21. “the fish song” - underscores
  22. “Prom” - SZA
  23. “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

  1. “Thieves Like Us - 12” Extended” - New Order
  2. “Wait for Me” - Daryl Hall & John Oates
  3. “U Don’t Have to Call” - Usher
  4. “WUSYANAME” - Tyler, the Creator, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, Ty Dolla $ign
  5. “Nothin’ on You” - B.o.B., Bruno Mars
  6. “GHETTO YOUT” - Lancey Foux, Bakar, Clairo
  7. “ILoveUIHateU” - Playboi Carti
  8. “Bloodveil / Stillborn” - Bladee, Ecco2k
  9. “Streets” - Doja Cat
  10. “Killer Boy” - Melizza
  11. “Unaware” - Mk.gee
  12. “Jupiter” - Matt Maltese
  13. “Julia” - Yuki Saitou
  14. “Tulog Na” - Sabu
  15. “Nineteen” - PinkPantheress
  16. “3:00 AM” - Finding Hope
  17. “24” - Kanye West
  18. “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

  1. “Molly Hearts” - Trippie Redd
  2. “DONT! - TRUST ME” - Lancey Foux
  3. “Secrecy Is Incredibly Important To The Both of Them” - Yves Tumor
  4. “Pro: Lov: Ad” - Sweet Trip
  5. “Calcium” - Ecco2k
  6. “Show Me Love” - Robin S
  7. “tears in the club” - FKA twigs, The Weeknd
  8. “Passion” - PinkPantheress
  9. “Trelawny Waters” - John Glacier
  10. “Beauty Stranger [155 BPM]” - Vegyn
  11. “Mssng Naw” - Yves Tumor
  12. “A&E” - Inga Copeland
  13. “Nothing to Hide” - Sporting Life, Devonté Hynes, Wiki
  14. “Meditation”- Babyfather, Arca
  15. “Salt” - Crim3s
  16. “12 Stout Street” - Rx Papi, Gud
  17. “Guilt Trip” - Kanye West
  18. “Killuminati” - Babyfather
  19. “Wednesday Night Interlude” - PARTYNEXTDOOR
  20. “Soulseek” - Blue Iverson
  21. “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

  1. “Infatuation” - SOPHIE
  2. “ride the dragon” - FKA twigs
  3. “Chaotic” - LOONA / ODD EYE CIRCLE
  4. “Cologne” - beabadoobee
  5. “In The Flesh” - Ecco2k
  6. “Flesh without Blood” - Grimes
  7. “Jackie” - Yves Tumor
  8. “Kono Speed no Saki e” - MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS
  9. “night is young” - yuragi
  10. “Court Vision” - Sporting Life, Evy Jane
  11. “beautySleep” - Ecco2k
  12. “WASTE” - BROCKHAMPTON (just Bearface really)
  13. “If I Sleep” - Dystopia
  14. “Today” - Mura Masa, Tirzah
  15. “Soul Sista - Remix” - Bilal, Raphael Saadiq
  16. “Pain” - PinkPantheress
  17. “Take Off Ur Pants” - Indigo De Souza
  18. “Dreams Never End” - New Order
  19. “Track X” - Black Country, New Road
  20. “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

  1. “FLASH CASANOVA” - Yabujin
  2. “Sacrifice” - George Riley
  3. “Sometimes” - my bloody valentine
  4. “Pink Cloud Tracing Paper” - Asobi Seksu
  5. “This Floating World” - I Hate Sex
  6. “Restless Song” - Shadow Community / Mid-Air Thief
  7. “awaken” - Mixed Matches
  8. “Eye Contact” - Yung Lean
  9. “Leanworld” - Yung Lean
  10. “Don’t Go” - Yung Lean
  11. “Bubble” - Babyfather
  12. “Bangin’ Lemon” - Babyfather
  13. “I Love This Game” - Sporting Life
  14. - 23. the entirety of the album “Soul on Fire” - Dean Blunt
  15. “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.