Home- mixes
- blog
- twitter
- contact
gordon christopher cieplak
empirical skeptic, magical empiricist
work in progress: handsomecode.com / views.fm
-
Mixes
- 89 plays / Created Oct 25, 11Carefully selected tracks for a medium-paced 10 kilometers. No dub step. [Photo: @tylr on his new roof, Wburg Bridge]
- 81 plays / Created Oct 06, 11Realized that I have been extremely lucky in my career of design and technology, and that in the best jobs work is exactly the same as play. Make tools, design things, and create music - every other kind of work is secondary. [PHOTO: My apartment.]
- 109 plays / Created Sep 14, 11A mix celebrating one year of Views.fm and three of 8tracks. Business! [PHOTO: 8tracks HQ]
- 390 plays / Created May 25, 11Sometimes things don't work out as expected. Here is some music to help you sort it all out. Listen to this a few times, hold on to those emotions, and turn them into raw energy. [PHOTO: Visalia, CA]
- 219 plays / Created Mar 16, 11Get out of your apartment, leave your iPhone at home, and get outside. [PHOTO: Matt]
- 199 plays / Created Jan 23, 11Sounds from working in SF this month. [PHOTO: 8tracks HQ]
- 83 plays / Created Nov 09, 10Got a lot on your plate? Living multiple lives? It's OK, nobody has jobs anymore, just roles. Listen to this and grind your facets to a single point. [PHOTO: Hollis]
- 161 plays / Created Jun 13, 10Fifteen tracks including music by Baths, CIVIL CIVIC and Caribou. [PHOTO: Santa Fe]
- 84 plays / Created Mar 11, 10New jams for the kids, by the kids. [PHOTO: Matt, Soho]
- 57 plays / Created Dec 23, 09My music hard drive died a few months ago so this is a strange assortment some of the best stuff that survived. Looking forward to a stranger 2010! [PHOTO: Brookyn]
- 106 plays / Created Nov 07, 09Woah, I could have sworn it was Halloween yesterday . . . [PHOTO: Waking up]
- 118 plays / Created Oct 02, 09New jams for the fall featuring my little bro aka DATA/DEBT, reminiscing about warmer days, slipping into a warm whiskey winter code coma. Now with more freshness! [PHOTO: Desk]
- 115 plays / Created Jul 18, 09Named after my time capsule and external hard drive, respectively. [PHOTO: Self]
- 96 plays / Created Feb 14, 09Do you all remember these bands? Do you remember those times? [PHOTO: Buenos Aires]
- 179 plays / Created Dec 20, 08Not Fleet Foxes or Cut Copy. [PHOTO: JaiDee]
- 588 plays / Created Aug 13, 08This is how I would have scored the movie. [PHOTO: Upstate]
- 603 plays / Created Aug 13, 0810 tracks of post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post-post punk by/for people who spend too much time adjusting boxes on a computer labeled attack/decay/leading/kerning, and who have a penchant for creating a trendy personal brand by removing vowels from otherwise straightforward names. [Photo: Massimo Vignelli at opening of 'Things I Have Learned']
- 120 plays / Created Dec 08, 118 DOPE tracks including music by Two Fingers, Mux Mool, and edIT. Time: 33 min.
- 45 plays / Created Nov 26, 11Animotion, Lazerhawk, Bryan Ferry. Dance my friends, dance.
- 45 plays / Created Nov 17, 11Eight tracks including music by ABADABAD, Alex Turner, and Dillon.
- 3572 plays / Created Mar 23, 10"Er is niets mooier dan mensen overtuigen van jouw muzieksmaak. Het is een roeping." http://www.kinkfm.com/playlistarjen.php the rest of KinkFM's tribute can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/3rshuk8 Muse, the Cure and Marc Almond in this list among many others.
- 63 plays / Created Nov 15, 11All I want is to breathe. Won't you breathe with me. Talking Heads New Order Sad Lovers And Giants.
- 28 plays / Created Nov 12, 11Eleven tracks by Argentinian bands, including Él mató a un policía motorizado, Go-Neko!, and Los Peyotes. Most of it is pretty sloppy (in a good way, obviously). (Oh, I added download links to most of the tracks too.)
- 1851 plays / Created Nov 08, 11Here are eight songs from the past year that weren’t a complete waste of our time.
- 178 plays / Created Nov 07, 11are you taking notes on how to be a giant homo tool?? jesus get a fucking pen a john/dave fst ok yeah art by everking @ tumblr
- 10 plays / Created Nov 07, 11Eight tracks including music by Ame, Azari & III, and Deetron.
- 571 plays / Created Apr 08, 11Eight tracks including music by Justice, Daft Punk and Skrillex
- 143 plays / Created Jan 19, 11ten tracks that will sound amazing on your headphones including music by Glass Vaults, Young Galaxy and Broken Social Scene. Photo by Oriax (tumblr).
- 31 plays / Created Oct 25, 11Nicolas Refn's Drive in song format. Photo credits to www.flicksandbits.com
- 21 plays / Created Oct 27, 11An eclectic mix telling the story of the last humans on earth. Including music by Pallers, Desire, and Ladytron.
- 152 plays / Created Oct 18, 11Fifteen tracks including music by Little Dragon, Apparat, and Chancha Via Circuito.
- 164 plays / Created Jun 21, 11Ten tracks including music by Jesse Ruins, Balam Acab, and Charli XCX.
- 135 plays / Created Sep 29, 11Intro + 8 tracks to tickle your fancy including music by DJ Shadow, BreakBeatBuddha, and VibeSquaD. Time: 33 min.
- 529 plays / Created Oct 02, 11This mixtape was heavily influenced by the music undertones featured in the film, "Drive." __________________________________ Forty-one tracks including music by Youth Lagoon, Das Racist, Glass Candy and others.
- 8 plays / Created Apr 13, 11Strung these tracks together a few months ago for a friend and felt they might as well start my flirtation with this site. There's a groove and a dream mixed together - enjoy.
- 510 plays / Created Sep 18, 1115 synth-heavy tracks including music by Alaska in Winter, Beat Connection, and Kavinsky. All inspired-by or from the new movie Drive.
- 252 plays / Created Aug 10, 09Eight tracks including music by Michael Gordon, Daniel Lentz and Elodie Lauten.
- 26905 plays / Created Sep 13, 1116 tracks from the illest artists like Lil Wayne, Big Sean, Kanye West, and E-40. Turn up the bass & let out your inner thug.
- 124 plays / Created Aug 31, 119 Bumpin' tracks including music by Death Grips, Spank Rock, and Young L. Time: 35 min.
- 123 plays / Created Aug 29, 11(last of the summer jams) Eighteen tracks including music by Air France, Baby Monster, and The Rapture.
- 87 plays / Created Mar 24, 11Nine tracks including music by H-Town, Soft Circle and Banjo or Freakout.
- 477 plays / Created Jul 19, 11Este es un mix de prueba con algunas de las canciones favoritas del blog.
- 597 plays / Created Jul 22, 11Nine tracks including music by M83, Daft Punk , and Flying Lotus.
- 852 plays / Created May 25, 11...John, Paul, George and Ringo. Music by The Beatles; also includes classic tracks from the solo years...
- 20 plays / Created Jun 16, 11Seventeen tracks including a mix I did for the upcoming Grooms record plus music by Black Pus and Silk Flowers.
- 275 plays / Created May 17, 11Nine tracks including music b, Clams Casino, Thieves Like Us, Planningtorock, and Holy Ghost. For more visit www.ScotchandMurder.com
- 94 plays / Created May 11, 11Eight tracks including music by Ars Dada, Tyler the Creator and Father Murphy.
- 38 plays / Created Apr 30, 11I heard the first track while going through CDs in my car and I knew I had to make this mix: the soundtrack to my imaginary 90's punk movie from hell. (Think "Repo Man" meets "Toxic Avenger.") Eight tracks of lo fi punk rock and pop punk from '94-'00. Fast, loud, contagious riffs, and guitar tones that define the word "crunch." Featuring short cuts by Fugazi, Lagwagon, and Turbonegro. Photo by enjoy driving.
- 74 plays / Created May 05, 118 tracks including music by Pegasus Dream, Owen Pallett and Bracken.
- 248 plays / Created Apr 27, 11Tracks including music by Astro Nautico, Clams Casino and Earl Sweatshirt.
- 622 plays / Created Jan 04, 11and here 2010 comes full circle, with the second half of my top 100 songs of 2010, featuring some bouncin', bumpin', grindin', mopin', and once again ponderous gems from the likes of gold panda, kanye, and glasser.
- 69 plays / Created Jan 04, 10Nineteen tracks including music by Roxy Music, Pere Ubu and Wire.
- 85 plays / Created Mar 11, 11Twenty-six tracks that nobody cool listened to when it came out in the 80's including music by Circle Jerks, Agent Orange and Descendents.
- 35 plays / Created Apr 22, 11Ten tracks dripping with swag including music by Purity Ring, Star Slinger, and some other remixes.
- 35 plays / Created Apr 18, 11Music by Pantha du Prince, Radiohead, Paul Kalkbrenner.
- 26 plays / Created Apr 18, 11...mixes too! *200th Mix* The Smiths Groove Armada Toro Y Moi
- 67 plays / Created Apr 14, 11Soaked in gold... 8 tracks including music by Loops Haunt, ▽nkown ShΔpes, and Boy Eats Drum Machine. Time: 35 min.
- 113 plays / Created Apr 05, 11Got to get a new pair of shoes to kick it with her Not kick it wit chu Beck LCD Soundsystem Spoon
- 397 plays / Created Apr 11, 10If you loved Clueless and My So Called Life in the 90s, you probably loved these songs. Eighteen tracks including That Dog, Veruca Salt, and Elastica.
- 566 plays / Created Mar 17, 11This is what I put on instead of the radio when I'm at work haha Thirty-seven tracks including music by Angus & Julia Stone, Architecture In Helsinki and Band Of Skulls.
- 188 plays / Created Mar 13, 11Eight tracks from Olivier Assayas's biopic "Carlos", featuring music by The Feelies, New Order and Wire.
- 50 plays / Created Mar 06, 11Eight tracks including music by Black Lips, Dr. Dog and Fumestones. Some more random tracks I've been enjoying this week.
- 23 plays / Created Mar 04, 11Sparking shoegaze with the right touch of estrogen Asobi Seksu Lush Stereolab Glow Project pt 6: A series of mixes that bring out my sound-color synaesthesia
- 113 plays / Created Apr 03, 10Eighteen tracks including music by Jeans Wilder, Cough Cool and Cocteau Twins.
- 435 plays / Created Jan 22, 11
- 139 plays / Created Feb 22, 118 tracks including music by Cinnamon Chasers, Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie XX, and Virtual Boy. Time: 38 min.
- 79 plays / Created Feb 23, 11Eight tracks including music by Phantogram, Metronomy and Crystal Castles.
- 17 plays / Created Feb 19, 11Eleven tracks including music by Battles, Clark and DJ Shadow.
- 18 plays / Created Feb 17, 11Six tracks including music by Aloe Blacc, Georgia Anne Muldrow and Lykke Li.
- 427 plays / Created Nov 22, 10Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA or simply Odd Future) are a fresh hip-hop collective from L.A. composed of a handful of extremely talented individuals who, quite frankly, just don't give a fuck. They're vulgar, offensive, funny, and creative as shit. All of their music is self-produced and self-released, download it at oddfuture.com.
- 92 plays / Created Feb 07, 11Eighteen tracks including music by Alva Noto, Aphex Twin and Architect.
- 21224 plays / Created Jan 07, 1123 songs. we don't want to hurry now, do we? a soundtrack for doing deeds in the dark. sexy, unhurried, dreamy, bassy, trailing off into downtempo, sensual, slow, sleepy, but not before a good chunk of panty-wetting hotness. artists including Lovage, PANTyRAiD, Handsome Boy Modeling School (feat. Cat Power). do your lady or gentleman (or ladies, or gentlemen, or both) a favour(s) and play this mix.
- 203 plays / Created Jan 13, 11Some of my favorite remixes of 2010. Twenty tracks including music by Gucci Mane, Evenings and Future Islands. Artwork by Karina Eibatova.
- 120 plays / Created Feb 05, 11This is my mix, with tracks by Nicolas Jaar, Kassem Mosse, and Moodymann. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
- 60 plays / Created Feb 07, 119 tracks including music by Owl Challenger, Bird Peterson, and Kanka. Time: 35 min.
- 295 plays / Created Jan 31, 11Eight tracks including music by Gorilla Warfare Tactics, Breakbot and White Sea.
- 63 plays / Created Feb 06, 11New decade, like some neo Darwinistic arms race music mutates on; it's a post dubstep world I'm told. Star Slinger, Darkstar and James Blake intervene.
- 66 plays / Created Jan 25, 11Eight tracks including music by Destroyer, Django Django and HAPPY TRENDY.
- 1380 plays / Created Jan 25, 11Twenty-five tracks including music by Bassnectar, Deadmau5 and EOTO.
- 107 plays / Created Jan 22, 11Eight tracks including music by Tame Impala, Canyons and Cut Copy.
- 434 plays / Created Jan 06, 1120 hippest-hoppest tracks including music by Wiz Khalifa & Snoop Dogg, Curren$y, rare Nas, Devin the Dude & Odd Future as well as many other legends of hip-hop... more tunes at: http://whistlewhileyouhustle.blogspot.com/
- 188 plays / Created Sep 24, 09Nine tracks including music by Architeq, Bibio and Dntel.
- 9142 plays / Created Oct 30, 10Make love to -- Fuck to. Pretty much the same shit worded differently. If you don't like it, go mope somewhere else.
- 148 plays / Created Jan 03, 11Another freaking fantastic year for music! So much good music that I had to divide my 'best of' list into two mixes. Part 2, a little lighter. 11 tracks from the most amazing albums of 2010. Featuring Dokkebi Q, Flying Lotus, and Four Tet. Songs are ordered for best mix flow, not necessarily ranking. You can read my entire list here: http://tinyurl.com/dj-dim-mak-best-of-2010-lastfm
- 69 plays / Created Dec 20, 10saying goodbye to 2010 with synths, bass, and beats music by Phantogram remixed by Michna, LAKE R▲DIO, Ike Yard and more treats from 2010 image by Liu Xiaofang
- 46 plays / Created Dec 17, 10Ten tracks including music by Beanie Sigel & Jay-Z, Kid Cudi and Lil Wayne.
- 124 plays / Created Dec 16, 10Part One of my epic Best of 2010 mix. Fifteen tracks including music by Delorean, Glasser and HEALTH. Artwork by Alex Asher Daniel.
- 54 plays / Created Dec 05, 10Eight tracks including music by Unkle, Air and Dj Shadow.
- 209 plays / Created Mar 19, 10Nineteen tracks including music by Air, Aloe Blacc and Bear Hands.
- 122 plays / Created Aug 30, 10My favorite kind of dance tracks. Late night, slow burn, drug jams that feel more like hip-hop than electro-pop. Includes a special preview from my new EP, 2033, out for free tomorrow (8/31).
- 42 plays / Created Nov 03, 10Fourteen tracks including music by Baths, Caribou and Crystal Castles.
- 68 plays / Created Oct 26, 108 on-point electronic tracks including music by Layo & Bushwacka, Caribou & Deepchild http://whistlewhileyouhustle.blogspot.com/
- 53 plays / Created Oct 22, 10Eight tracks including music by A-Trak, Siriusmo and Far East Movement.
- 560 plays / Created Oct 15, 10Eight tracks including music by Gold Panda, Matthew Dear and Superpitcher.
- 10 plays / Created Apr 11, 10Eight tracks including music by Jimi Tenor, Maxx Traxx and Pete Herbert.
- 36 plays / Created Oct 03, 10Ten tracks, but who can say what's there (not me I'm too drunk to remember)?
- 52 plays / Created Sep 21, 10Nine tracks including music by Best Coast, Crocodiles and Kids Of 88. para divertir a frilipo
- 40 plays / Created Feb 25, 10...abusing drums... Eight tracks including music by Photek, Aphex Twin and Arovane.
- 21 plays / Created Sep 18, 10How morning feels. Nine tracks including music by Stars and Oren Lavie.
- 192 plays / Created Sep 08, 10Twenty-two tracks including music by Benny Benassi, Boys Noize and Crystal Castles.
- 55 plays / Created Sep 02, 10A shining electronic mix endorsed by Doc and seconded by Tony. Includes eight mainly instrumental tracks by imaginary friends like George Fitzgerald, Matthew Dear, and DJ Sprinkles.
- 81 plays / Created Feb 05, 10(8+1)tracks including music by Busdriver, Ellen Allien and Gui Boratto.
- 39 plays / Created Aug 16, 10The classically trained mixologists at KVRX presents to you their weekly concoction of what's currently emitting over 91.7 MHz in Austin, TX. This remedial tonic blends Wave Hands Like Clouds and Stunts, both performing at KVRX's Summer Series August 27th. Also includes Marmalakes who performed at the July Summer Series show.
- 103 plays / Created Aug 08, 10In anticipation of Tron Legacy, here are some old tunes (if 2007 is old) with a retro-futuristic atmosphere. A bit like Blade Runner.
- 270 plays / Created Jul 23, 10this shit's delicious. mother may i have some more?
- 83 plays / Created Jul 14, 10No jazz flute, but LOTS of sex panther. 60% of the time, this 8tracks mix bangs every time. It also clocks in at a massive 24 tracks!
-
Posts
Impromptu jam session in Kanazawa last night with a japanese guitarist and french pianist that are way better musicians than I ever will be, in the most wildly decorated rock bar I’ve ever been to. There are relatively few foreigners here in this ‘samurai’ town (which has Paul Smith, A.P.C., etc.) so being a musical white guy is an interesting novelty enough that my subpar musical skill qualifies me for invitations to play hotel gigs, which I guess is not a bad backup plan in the event my design/code career goes south.
A lot of my songwriting in the Hold Steady has to do with this place in your life where it’s appropriate to go to parties and have a dumb job. And then you get a little older, and it’s not as appropriate. There are people who make that transition, and then there are people who get hung up right there. It’s that frustration: ‘This isn’t turning out how I thought it was going to. Why is it so hard for me to get to work? Why do I sleep so much? Why am I not excited to see my friends?’
Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn talks to us about his unflinching new solo album. (via pitchfork)(via LG announces nearly borderless 55-inch OLED HDTV)
Finally it’s starting to look like the goddamn future.
We have a Facebook page now, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Give us your likes, now. All of them. Give us your goddamn likes!
I do think Andersen’s central point is a good one, though, which is that popular culture is the way it is right now because we have our heads up pop culture history’s ass thanks largely to the Internet
BSNYC breaks down that Andersen Vanity Fair article on the self-interested state of popular culture
Following decriminalization, Portugal has the lowest rate of lifetime marijuana use in people over 15 in the EU: 10%. The most comparable figure in America is in people over 12: 39.8%, Proportionally, more Americans have used cocaine than Portuguese have used marijuana.
While I’m sure you’re all happily enjoying some ‘Christmas medicine’ this week, as I am, it is good to reflect on the fact that many people are regularly incarcerated needlessly for drug related crimes, and there is still, in fact, a ‘war on drugs’. Happy holidays.
http://www.virgin.com/richard-branson/blog/time-to-end-the-war-on-drugs
to steal from someone and not feel bad, you either have to be a sociopath or view the act differently. One way is to remove “Someone” from the equation. You’re not stealing from a person. Big companies do a lot to help people view them as less than human. I heard a speach by Noam Chomsky who said that corporations are like super humans. They cannot be hurt like a human can and they never die. They are not succeptible to scrutiny or accountability. this makes them more profitable. If companies want to enjoy these benifits to some degree they have to live with what else comes with being not human. you miss out on compassion, forgiveness, comraderie, empathy, trust all kinds of shit.
Hi I’m Louis C.K. and this is a thing : IAmA
Really awesome IAmA with Louis CK about his new special. Going to buy the damn thing instead of using bit torrent.
We seem to have trapped ourselves in a vicious cycle—economic progress and innovation stagnated, except in information technology; which leads us to embrace the past and turn the present into a pleasantly eclectic for-profit museum; which deprives the cultures of innovation of the fuel they need to conjure genuinely new ideas and forms; which deters radical change, reinforcing the economic (and political) stagnation.
Music service Grooveshark’s Chairman Sina Simantob sent this email to another executive: “…we are achieving all this growth without paying a dime to any of the labels… My favorite story related to our case is the story of a kid who appears in front of the judge for sentencing for the crime of having murdered both his parents saying judge have mercy on me cuz I am an orphan.” “In our case, we use the label’s songs till we get a 100 (million) uniques, by which time we can tell the labels who is listening to their music, where, and then turn around and charge them for the very data we got from them, ensuring that what we pay them in total for streaming is less than what they pay us for data mining. Let’s keep this quite for as long as we can.
Be careful what you put in an email « OmLinks
Great strategy, Grooveshark. Just, great job.
Great job, CNN.
OMFG
Stephen Colbert on CNN’s firing of approximately 50 journalists after the network completed a study on the quality of user generated content it was receiving via platforms such as iReport.
Colbert nails it. You savvy kids and your social tumblin’ are gonna be the death of us all.
CPG deconstruction. Love it.
A beautiful study in what happens when you eliminate complexity in brand design.
Actually just had a physical and routine blood tests – the only aberration was that my Vitamin D was very low. Physician wasn’t too worried though, apparently this is a common ailment for Americans, probably even more so for New Yorkers with office jobs.
I wasn’t made aware this put me at risk for diabetes, heart disease, and death though. I’m gonna be running to the drug store in a few minutes.
Pretty excited to listen to these.
I took a screen shot so that in case an editor at the NY Times was like, “Why the fuck is this on our front page?” and took it down, I would have proof that Fugazi releasing bootlegs was, for a moment, the most important story in the United States of America.
-
Tweets
- Video: http://t.co/KGKCULrU
- @glenhOnodera likewise, really enjoyed seeing your slice of the city. hit me up with your vids when they're ready!
- @hellastoops will be sure to sort out an international data plan next time so i can keep up my tweet consistency.
- Back home. My apartment is huge now.
- @somebadideas yes. psychopaths are very much absurdists. http://t.co/4TaO4cNh
- Photo: Kyoto http://t.co/qUZxNiIl
- T-5 days until America. Looking forward to thai food and the roman alphabet.
- Photoset: Impromptu jam session in Kanazawa last night with a japanese guitarist and french pianist that are... http://t.co/vtGuwtBr
- "A lot of my songwriting in the Hold Steady has to do with this place in your life where it’s..." http://t.co/R3HozG6B
- @lunar_le They really need to fix that. Such a design flaw.
- @lunar_le Porque no hay nadie en Tokyo que habla español. ¡Bueno, nadie que yo conozco!
- Really need to stop saying '¿como?'
- @mattboch I was wondering about all those countries with land borders. Wild.
- I then realized this was likely first of many moments on this trip in which I'm made aware of my profound lack of cultural understanding.
- An hour into the bus ride to Tokyo, I noticed, to my surprise, that we were on the left side of the road.
- @datadebt dude i know. can't wait.
- RT: @GSElevator: #1: Bank of America is the Kmart of banks.
- @danielaperdomo RT: @GSElevator: #1: Chicks seem to like it when I mention something I read on the Huffington Post.”
- Photo: (via LG announces nearly borderless 55-inch OLED HDTV) Finally it’s starting to look like the goddamn... http://t.co/wiPoliUZ
