When I sat down to write up a 'best of 2006' list I found that it had been a really good year in music and by 'good' I mean there were many songs, sounds and beats that heated my passion for music, that inspired me. Writing down that list I suddenly felt that it would be much more satisfying to put that into a mix. So I cut and timestretched and pitched and pasted until I managed to fit 88 songs into 66 minutes. It's not one song after the other but more of a rearranged multilayered bastard thing: Hawnay Troof sings to a Placebo tune, a heavily-cut up version of The Locust interferes with The Raconteurs, Cursive sing over Justice's "Waters of Nazareth", Justin Timberlake dialogues with the Daughters. This is not for purists. Scene-cleansing purists miss out on so much. I love genre clashes that somehow work as a new whole thing. It's like dialoguing with the music you like. Nerds, don't fear the mainstream! Punx, don't spit on the dance music! Chart pop addicts, get your virgin-like ears ready to embrace noisy grindcore! It's in the Twothousandsickmix, please touch that stereo. Best listened to after midnight with your headphones on dancing in the dark.
Oh, and please, seriously: If you think that a mix like this infringes your copy-or-whatever-right then please tell me and I will instantly take it down (and beep your track out). I personally believe that a piece that is so heavily edited and made for pleasure and not for profit helps to spread the word about the included artists. If it might have any effect on your potential customers at all then it will help selling the originals. Stop that paranoia.
Please don't deeplink.