Oh wow, first mix of the year? This one is about our old friend time dilation so lets synchronize watches and after your high-speed musical adventure we'll compare times and calculate how fast this mix really moved you! Once again it's a live mix so there are a few rough spots but I'd like to think that I'm getting better overall, or maybe I'm just getting more meticulous with my song selection. Download the mix here(30mb) or stream it with this and tell me that it's good!

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1. Pink Floyd - Time // The Flintstones - The Time Machine Side A [0:0]
2. Bruce Cockburn - Lovers in a Dangerous Time [3:31]
3. Postal Service - Theres Never Enough Time [6:00]
4. Arsonists - Rhyme Time Travel [Intro] // Time Machine - Time's Fly [7:02]
5. Sparklemotion - Time After Time [9:26]
6. Juelz Santana - Clockwork [11:20]
7. Akrobatik - Time [12:30]
8. Prefuse 73 - Back in Time // Nas - Rewind [14:17]
9. 2pac - Until the End of Time [16:30]
10. Speed of Light - Dub Pistols [17:28]
11. Booker T -Time is Tight // String Quartet Tribute to Coldplay - Clocks // Guess Who - No Time [20:36]
12. New Young Pony Club - The Bomb [24:25]
13. Madonna - Hung Up // The Countdown Kids - The Grandfather Clock [26:25]
14. Chocolate Milk - Time Machine [29:01]
15. Digable Planets - Time & Space [29:42]
16. John Vanderslice - Time Travel is Lonely // The Flintstones - The Time Machine Side B [31:59]

What are you listening to this Christmas season? Don't tell me it's Frank Sinatra or Bing Crosby this isn't the 40's anymore. Treat your eyes to this mix of hip-hop, indie rock, 80's and more hot beats than the holidays have seen in 40 minutes since forever.

Get it here(44mb) or stream it with this:

1. Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra - Do You Hear What I Hear // Santa Claus - A visit! // Major Bill Smith and Nancy Nolte - Happy Birthday Jesus [0:00]
2. Richard Cheese - Christmas in Las Vegas [1:49]
3. King George - Locked Up Fo Xmas (Explicit) [3:50]
4. Berlin Symphony Orchestra - The Nutcracker Suite (Baz Kuts Breaks Mix) [5:20]
5. Tentifour - Christmas In Hollis [6:19]
6. Busy Boys - Funky Fresh Christmas [8:10]
7. Bootsy Collins - Sleigh Ride [9:25]
8. 50 Cent - Straight to the Bank (Instrumental) / Suzannah - Mom & Daddy, Please Don't Steal For Me This Xmas [10:59]
9. The Free Design - Close Your Mouth It's Christmas [13:19]
10. Andrew Dost - Yeah, I Know, It's Christmastime [15:22]
11. Sufjan Stevens - Come On! let's Boogey to the Elf Dance! [17:25]
12. The Knife - Christmas Reindeer [20:06]
13. Johnny Mercer - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town [22:09]
14. Coldcut - Border (Coldcut vs. Silent Poets) // Supremes - My Favorite Things [24:16]
15. Rich Boy - Throw Some D's Remix (Instrumental) // Little Marcy - Suzy Snowflake [28:00]
16. Kay Starr - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm (Stuhr Remix) [29:45]
17. Corporal Blossom - White Christmas [31:15]
18. Cheeky Boy - Biggie's Last Christmas [32:22]
19. Berlin Symphony - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Red Baron Remix) [34:04]
20. Al Green - It Feels Like Christmas [35:15]
21. Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping [37:06]
22. Vince Guaraldi - Linus and Lucy (Pocketknifes's Hark, the Holler Remix) // Allan Sherman - The Twelve Gifts of Christmas [39:50]
23. New Edition - Happy Holidays to You [42:16]

Thanks goes to a LOT of Christmas MP3 blogs for helping me find all this music. Special inspiration was from Pocketknife's Mix from the Peppermint Palace and Peanut Butter Wolf's Badd Santa album, both of which I shamelessly stole tracks from. Cheers!

Do you ever feel like you want to save the world but then you realize you have to do laundry and take out the garbage instead? Eventually I may get around to it, but until then I figure this mix will be the closest I get.

One can only hope that it may be a theme song for a world changer like Al Gore one day. Thumbs up right back at that dude!

Download the mix here(26mb) or stream it with this:

1. Gorillaz - O Green World // McLeod Landfill - Recycling Ad [0:00]
2. Golden Records: Space Alphabet - E for Earth [2:15]
3. Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth [3:11]
4. Carole King - I Feel The Earth Move [4:42]
5. Bjork - Earth Intruders (Spank Rock Remix) [5:40]
6. King Biscuit Time - I Walk The Earth (Sampled with Arrested Development - Children Play With Earth) [8:35]
7. Blockhead - Forest Crunk [11:05]
8. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology Song) // Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth (Instrumental) [11:53]
9. Mobb Deep - Hell on Earth (Instrumental) // Jack Johnson - 3 R's [14:04]
10. Blockhead - Forest Crunk // The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son [15:28]
11. Dr. Octagon - Earth People (Interstellar Time) [17:07]
12. Cannibal Ox - Real Earth (Instrumental) // Buddy Holly - Earth Angel [18:20]
13. Sesame Street - We Are All Earthlings // Urban Tribe - Carbon Based [20:38]
14. Urban Tribe - Carbon Based // Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Sampled with Sounds of Nature - Birds in a Rainforest ?) [22:54]

So have you heard of Dr. Megavolt (pictured above beside a mean looking tesla coil)? I saw him on Wired Science a few weeks ago and he put on a pretty impressive light show. Supposedly you can just hire him to do wild electrical stunts for your events. Which begs the question, why would anyone hire a clown/magician for a child's birthday party?

This latest DJ mix begs the additional question, why would anyone listen to music other than the Sounds of Science? This electricity (unfortunately a little lacking on the magnetism) mix goes out to my co-worker Cindy in Electrical Engineering. Party on!

Download the mix here(21mb) or stream it with this:

1. Rainstick Orchestra - Electric Counterpoint Fast // Richard Muller - Electricity (UC Berkeley Podcast) [0:00]
2. Disney Records - Main Street Electrical Parade (Disneyland 1979) [0:40]
3. Ollie & Jerry - Electric Boogaloo [1:27]
4. Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage [2:38]
5. The Knife - Zapata [4:24]
6. Linkin Park - High Voltage [5:28]
7. Madlib - Electric Company (Voltage-Watts) [6:41]
8. Shout Out Out Out Out - Dude You Feel Electrical [6:57]
9. U2 - Electrical Storm // Schoolhouse Rock - Electricty, Electricity [10:41]
10. The Electric Company - Electric Company Theme [11:54]
11. The Avalanches - Electricity (Original 7" Version) [12:31]
12. Squarepusher - Rotate Electrolyte // Beastie Boys - Electrify (Acapella) [14:23]
13. Beastie Boys - Electrify // Tom Glazer - How Do We Measure Energy [15:35]
14. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue // Zachary Sanders - Electricty, Electricity [17:20]
15. Billy Idol - Shock to the System [19:15]

There's just so much buzz about Radiohead's album In Rainbows being released online that I just had to release my own In Rainbows Mix simultaneously. It's a straight half hour of psychadelic optics, so throw it in your iTunes, turn on visualizations and trip out!

Download the mix here(20mb) or stream it with this:

1. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Blue Turning Gray // Peter Pan Records Presents Learn about Colors - Side A [0:00]
2. Walt Disney - Wonderful World of Color [1:12]
3. Broadcast - Colour Me In [1:45]
4. Disney Records - Wonderful Eyes [3:52]
5. Dr. Octagon - Blue Flowers // Dorothy Collins - How Many Colors Are There In The Rainbow? [4:25]
6. Dead Prez - Look Around [6:36]
7. Supertramp - Child of Vision // J-Live - Live-Audio Visual (Acapella) [8:33]
8. Zero 7 - Seeing Things // Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans - Ultra Violet and Infra Red [14:14]
9. Blockhead - Coloring Book [16:10]
10. Hot Chip - Colours // Hot Chip - Colours [17:42]
11. Disney Records - The Spectrum Song [20:25]
12. 4th Pyramid - Light this Beat On Fire [21:40]
13. The Whatnauts - Why Can't People Be Colors Too [22:06]
14. Edan - I See Colours [23:23]
15. The Dells - I Can Sing a Rainbow/Love is Blue [25:24]
16. DiY - Firenze - Orange is Orange // Rainbow Brite - Starlite Rainbow Brite [26:28]
17. Lupe Fiasco - Tilted in Any Colour You Like [28:18]
18. Peter Pan Records Presents Learn About Colors - Side B [31:37]

Where the hell are all the chemistry articles geysering out of Jacks of Science that I dream about so often? Well, it looks like I won't have another restless sleep tonight because I've encoded about 8-9 bad ass chemistry posts into song form in this hot new mix.

Download the turntable of elements mix here(28mb) or stream it with this:

1. Switchfoot - Chem 6A // Alchemist - Bring it On (Instrumental)[0:00]
2. Apathy - Chemical [0:53]
3. Mu-Ziq - Caesium // Dj BC - Powers of Kryptonite [1:50]
4. Lemon Jelly - Elements // Justice League of America - Metamorpho The Element Man Song [3:45]
5. Blackalicious - Chemical Calesthenics [5:38]
6. Luke Vibert - Radioactive // Large Professor - Radioactive // Dorthy Collins - Ice Is a Solid [8:48]
7. Public Enemy - Bring The Noise (MF Doom Monosodium Glutamate Remix) [12:10]
8. MF Doom - Monosodium Glutamate // Tom Glazer & Dottie Evans - What Is Chemical Energy? [13:02]
9. U.N.K.L.E. - Chemistry // Tom Glazer & Glazer & Dottie Evans - What Is Chemical Energy? [13:50]
10. Alan Braxe and Fred Falke - Palladium // Golden Records - Hydrogen and Helium // Tom Lehrer - The Elements [16:52]
11. Queens of the Stone Age - Better Living Through Chemistry // Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science [20:50]
12. Rush - Chemistry // Frank Cardulla - The Mole // Frank Cardulla - Strong Acids and Bases (part 1) [23:50]
13. Golden Records - Hydrogen and Helium // Tragically Hip - Silver Jet [27:42]
14. George Cromwell - Organic Chemistry [29:26]

Oh no he didn't, another DJ set by yours truly? And it's about numbers? Hold on, where's all the science on Jacks of Science these days? You see, mathematics is so deeply rooted in nature that no self respecting Jack of Science could ever knock it. This mix is dedicated to all the mathematicians out there grindin', legally and illegally.

Download the numerical mix here(24mb) or stream it with this:

1. Sesame Street - Eight Beautiful Notes [0:00]
2. DJ Yoda - Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen // Spanky & Our Gang - 1-3-5-8 Jane [0:43]
3. DJ Shadow & Dan the Automator - Bombay 405 Miles // Michael Starbird - Counting Surprises [1:48]
4. The Go! Team - Feelgood By Numbers (Sampled with Beastie Boys - Three MC's and 1 DJ, Sesame Street - Six, LL Cool J - 4 3 2 1) [3:57]
5. Rufus Thomas - 6-3-8 (That's The Number to Play) [5:58]
6. Blackalicious - 4000 (Instrumental) [7:16]
7. Jay-Zeezer - 99 Luft Problems [7:46]
8. Harry Roche Constellation - Hawaii Five-O [10:00]
9. Jay-Z - 22 Two's [10:46]
10. White Rose Movement - Love Is a Number [12:44]
11. GZA - 4th Chamber (Instrumental) // Decemberists - 16 by 32 [14:10]
12. Dr. Octagon - 3000 // Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 [15:36]
13. Souls of Mischief - 93 Till Infinity (Instrumental) [17:17]
14. The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count [18:12]
15. James Figurine - 55566688833 [18:43]
16. Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty-Three // Kraftwerk - Numbers [20:00]
17. Funki Porcini - 1,2,3,3,4 [21:39]
18. Lemon Jelly - Experiment Number Six [23:09]
19. Bob Dorough - Three Is A Magic Number [24:30]
20. Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen (Sampled with Michael Starbird - Sizing Up Fibonacci Numbers) [25:42]

After all the humans become extinct due to wars of terror and global warming, who is going to carry the torch? Clearly robots. It's the dream all scientists are indirectly working towards (Citation Needed).

This week the mix is 100% robot themed. Appropriately so, it's mostly electronica, the music of machines. It also contains swear words. Holler at me to suggest a particular theme in the future or maybe some awesome robot tracks that I don't know about. Next week I'm thinking Optics Mix.

Download the robot parade here(28mb) or stream it with this:

For now, here's the playlist:

1. They Might Be Giants - Robot Parade (Layered with a little Forbidden Planet Soundtrack - Flurry of Dust (A Robot Approaches)
2. Rufus Thomas - Funky Robot (Introduced with Kid Koala - Robo Chacha)
3. Hexstatic - Robopop // Kraftwerk - The Robots
4. Ben Wa - Bad Robot
5. The Aquabats - Robot Theme Song
6. Daedelus - Astroboy
7. Boards of Canada - Music is Math // Music For Robots - Tone Tales From Tomorrow
8. Mos Def - Mathematics
9. Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator // Styx - Mr Roboto
10. Daft Punk - Robot Rock
11. Boards of Canada - Nova Scotia Robots (Sampled with Monroe Calculator Company - Keys to the Seventies - 1265 & 1260)
12. DJ Yoda - Plays Computer Games
13. S.A. Smash - Robot
14. I am Robot and Proud - The Electricity In Your House Wants to Sing // The Police - Murder By Numbers
15. Telepopmusik - Mathematics //Darrell Stern and Bob Kaliban - Number Cruncher
16. Covox - Computer Love (Sampled with Monroe Calculator Company - Keys to the Seventies - 1265 & 1260)

Y. Whales are awesome, but as fellow mammals we are pretty awesome as well. So in an awesome fashion I mixed up a storm on the wheels of steel this evening and made this animal-themed downloadable 34 minute mp3 mix down. Some may be tempted to call it a podcast, but I can't make that commitment.

Since I have so much music, picking themes helps me narrow down my playlist selection a bit. My DJing philosophy is sort of like a genre-less stream of musical consciousness but if you had to peg it down I'd say this mix is a children's electronic dance mix, with bonus rap music.Download it here(28mb) or stream it with this:

For now, here's the playlist:

1. Lion King - Circle of Life // Massive Attack - Tear Drop (sampled with M83 - Birds, Dr. Michael Ghiselin - Darwin and Evolution Audiobook)
2. Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy // Savage Garden - The Animal Song (sampled with Naraus & Miranda - What Is An Animal?)
3. The Go! Team - Ladyflash (sampled with Power Records Ghostly Sounds - Mean Cat)
4. David Wilcox - Do The Bear Cat
5. Daz Dillinger - Vibe (Instrumental) // Sesame Street - A Cat Had A Birthday // Ratatat - Wildcat
6. Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey (sampled with Muppets - Mahna Mahna)
7. The Aquabats - Cat With 2 Heads!
8. The Other People Place - Moonlight Rendezvous (sampled with Dr. Michael Ghiselin - Darwin and Evolution Audiobook)
9. Lil Wayne and Juelz Santana - Birds Flyin' High (sampled with a bit of Beach Boys - Pet Sounds)
10. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo (Clean Lord Digga Mix) // Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo (Instrumental) // Nelly Furtado - I'm Like a Bird // Snoop Dogg - Still A G Thang (Instrumental)
11. Sesame Street - A Bear Eats Bear Food // mu-Ziq - Whale Soup
12. Dr. Dre - Hustlers (Instrumental) // Shamu And His Crew - Doin' The Dolphin
13. Rufus Thomas - The Funky Bird
14. CunninLynguist - Halfanimal, Halfman
15. Gonzales - Love Scene // Manual - Frequency (sampled with Dr. Michael Ghiselin - Darwin and Evolution Audiobook, Wizard of Oz - Lions And Tigers and Bears)
16. Silver Jews - Animal Shapes // Wonderland Records - Yogi Bear and Boo Boo

I admit some parts of it didn't mix so hot but I'm new at this so cut me some slack. I realize it's pretty heavy on the childrens music, but that was just the case this time. Enjoy and don't forget to purchase music you enjoy.