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I have spent the last month inhabiting 2019, and it was a strange, alienating, disconcerting, but also surprisingly peaceful experience. As you will hear, it was hardly a lost age of innocence, but for a year which only finished 12 months ago it felt very distant indeed. So much has happened in 2020, and so much has already gone on in these few days of 2021, that the events of this recent period seem already to have disappeared prematurely into the memory hole. Maybe this is all for very good reasons and 2019 is the least interesting of all years right now. Maybe this mix will be ignored, and with good reason, which is a shame, as I think it may be one of the best so far, but it may be a few years before anyone feels like listening to it.

I should put a brief warning here – the mix not only contains swears and raunchiness, there are also some parts from about 1:17 to 1:22 which may be upsetting to just about anyone. It felt wrong to leave them out. I may get around to making a PG version, but it depends on whether I can find the time. So for now, consider yourself warned.

0:00:00 Hildur Guðnadóttir – 12 Hours Before0:00:36 Floating Points – Falaise0:02:04 Clipping. – Blood Of The Fang0:04:35 Шакке (Schacke) – Кислотный Пипл (Kisloty People)0:05:57 Charlotte Adigéry – High Lights0:08:43 Yung Baby Tate feat. Kari Faux – Hot Girl0:10:21 Cate Le Bon – Daylight Matters0:12:24 Neon Indian – Toyota Man0:15:05 Algiers – Can The Sub_Bass Speak?0:18:52 Black Country, New Road – Sunglasses0:23:16 Scratcha Dva X Gage – Piffd0:24:46 Charli XCX & Christine And The Queens – Gone0:27:17 Roisin Murphy – Incapable0:29:55 Fka Twigs – Cellophane0:33:21 Little Simz feat. Cleo Sol – Selfish0:34:56 Ocean Wisdom – Blessed (feat. Dizzee Rascal)0:38:14 Sampa The Great, Ecca Vandal – Dare To Fly0:41:13 Zlatan – This Year0:43:30 Busy Signal – Balloon0:45:44 Aldous Harding – The Barrel0:47:31 Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (feat. Billy Ray Cyrus) [Remix]0:49:48 Billie Eilish – Bad Guy0:51:29 Tom Blip & Swordman Kitala – Kitala Beat0:53:20 Taso & Siete Catorce – 2 For $200:53:33 International Teachers Of Pop – The Ballad Of Remedy Nilsson0:56:39 Dave – Streatham0:57:38 Alessandro Cortini – Let Go0:59:17 Snapped Ankles – Rechargeable1:01:25 Cassetteboy – Boris Johnson1:01:31 Ice Cream – Peanut Butter1:03:37 Equiknoxx – Brooklyn1:05:29 Peggy Gou – Starry Night (Original Mix)1:07:48 Xhz – Jazz 2 Jazz1:10:58 Four Tet – Only Human1:12:06 Octo Octa – I Need You1:14:20 Jocelyn Pook with Greta Thunberg – You Need To Listen To Us1:15:54 W. H. Lung – Nothing Is1:17:30 Hildur Guðnadóttir – 12 Hours Before1:19:13 Caterina Barbieri – Fantas1:21:00 Christopher Tignor – Your Slow Moving Shadow, My Inevitable Light1:21:40 Purple Mountains – Nights That Wonâ€t Happen1:24:12 Sulli – Goblin1:26:00 Gang Starr – Family And Loyalty (feat. J. Cole)1:26:55 Von Bikräv – Casse Des Murs1:27:37 Stormzy – Vossi Bop1:29:22 Bas – Amnesia (feat. Ari Lennox & Kiddominant)1:30:47 Brittany Howard – Stay High1:33:22 Richard Dawson – Jogging1:36:50 Lizzo – Juice1:39:14 Whodat – Funeral Song1:40:23 Nilufer Yanya – Paradise1:42:38 Shura – Bklynldn1:45:36 Bremer/Mccoy – DrÃ¥ber1:47:01 Celer – Our Dream To Be Strangers1:48:06 Lingua Ignota – Do You Doubt Me Traitor1:48:51 Rhyw – Biggest Bully1:50:32 Jubilee – Disconnected1:52:26 Kosh – Keep Hope Alive1:55:52 DJ Seinfeld – Electrian1:57:22 Squarepusher – Vortrack (Fracture Remix)2:00:07 Jay1 – Your Mrs2:00:54 Lady Leshurr – Your Mr2:01:32 Denzel Curry – Ricky2:02:46 Doja Cat – Rules2:04:30 Jai Paul – Do You Love Her Now?2:06:21 Greentea Peng – Mr. Sun (Miss Da Sun)2:07:41 Hatchie – Stay With Me2:10:01 Tame Impala – Patience2:12:59 Shamba – Idgaf2:14:41 Krept & Konan – Ban Drill2:19:43 Precolumbian & Estoc – Cct022:19:55 Tzusing & Hodge – Electrolytes2:12:44 Lady Lykez – Muhammad Ali Remix Ft Lioness2:23:02 Megan Thee Stallion – Cash Shit (feat. Dababy)2:24:15 Normani – Motivation2:25:45 Ciara – Thinkin Bout You2:27:47 Dua Lipa – Don’t Start Now2:29:21 Rapsody Ft D’angelo & Gza – Ibtihaj2:31:49 Bush Tea – Wiyah Waist2:32:38 Luke Temple – Henry In Forever Phases2:35:18 Devendra Banhart – Kantori Ongaku2:37:14 M83 – A Bit Of Sweetness2:40:33 Angel Olsen – Lark2:42:44 Ose – Is It Love?2:43:36 The Lasso – Oscillations2:45:13 Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society – Finite2:47:24 Anthony Naples – Benefit2:48:47 Coldplay – Arabesque

There will shortly be a full tracklist with samples used for completionists posted in the comments below