Mixtapes

Death Grips’ Exmilitary is 13 tracks of relentless, bass-blasting hip-hop madness, dipping into everything from glitched-out dubstep and warped reggaeton/rock, to processed …

FACTmag presents another excellent mix: this one’s a time machine back to the early 90′s with rave producer/icons 2 Bad Mice.

Kick Out The Jams presents a new mixtape from Maddecent’s Derek Allen: a heavy mix of glitch, drum and bass, dubstep and a bunch of other funky beats.

Take R&B superstar Drake. Add electronic/dubstep/R&B wunderkind James Blake. Blend. What you get is a beautifully swirled half hour featuring the best of both artists in a killer m…

Al Lover sent us this mixtape and it’s fast becoming one of my new favorites. “Distorted Reverberations” continues Al’s journey into fuzzed out boom-bap chaos, with a collection of…

Chicago duo The Hood Internet like pop, rap, r+b, indie and rock. And they like it all at the same time. Birdman and Washed Out, Jamie Foxx and Röyksopp, Drake and Beach House, y…

Dance-punk rockers The Rapture celebrate their upcoming release and return to DFA with an hour-plus Radiomix from band member Gabriel Andruzzi. A hardcore start with Bad Brains qui…

London-based Tracerhand gives us a mix that zig-zags through new and old favorites, seeing how they like each other’s company. Downtempo house and electro blend with head-bobbing b…

From XLR8R’s always fantastic podcast series: JohnTalabot. An exclusive mix for the XLR8R podcast series, an offering that finds the mysterious auteur hazily winding his way throu…

NYC dj/producer Max Tannone crafted this mashup of Jay-Z and Radiohead. Tannone, who also goes by Minty Fresh Beats, got a lot of buzz around this mix, with even Jay-Z tweeting,  

M-Rock, who’s Kanye mix was one of Heavy’s most popular downloads, has whipped up another one, this time mixing hits from one of the all-time greats, A Tribe Called Quest.

One of the most hyped mixtapes of the year so far, Houses Of Balloons features Toronto-based r+b butter-voice Abel Tesfaye. Beautiful and twisted jams that sample a variety of hips…

Sparkle Bomb gives you a dance-tastic 100+ minute mix featuring Nightmares On Wax, De La Soul, Outkast, Spank Rock, Lady Sovereign, Common, Jamiroquai, Simian Mobile Disco, Cut Cop…

The folks at XLR8R bring you this podcast from their always spot-on series. Chicago-based producer and DJ Chrissy Murderbot is in top form, presenting his raved-up dancehall, elect…