The Signal: EP177 – Exactly 45 minutes of music designed to slip inside your head with no friction, no wear and tear on your precious brain-loading components. There’s a lot to like this time out! We’ve got funky library music, retro-80s rock and shoegaze, a dub remix of some Yorke work, electronic beats from the UK, a bit of Italian movie soundtrack music, and more.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

If you want to be on the mailing list to get notified when a new one goes out, you’re going to have to ask me. We’re going 100% artisanal on the mailing lists these days. Hand-crafted. No convenient sign-up page. Our ancestors didn’t need sign-up pages and neither do we.

The Signal: EP176 – Exactly 45 minutes of music as we kick off year 9 of this little curation project. We’ve got UK bass, Filipino/Canadian hip-hop, French garage rock, Spanish punk, and enough funk for several trunks.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

I’ve cancelled my Spotify account, so I’m not making playlists over there anymore. Feel free to recreate ’em using the tracklist in the file, I guess.

The Signal: EP175 – Exactly 45 minutes of year-ending music, custom designed to propel you through time… to destination 45-minutes-from-NOW! Wow! This time out we’ve got international funk, beats and new wave dub, Spanish vocal magic and more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

Or if you don’t want any files sullying up your computer, most of the music I used was on Spotify.

The Signal: EP174 – Exactly 45 minutes of music to soothe the savage feet. You like music, right? Maybe you like the same music as me. We’ve got old school dubstep, chicha (psychedelic cumbia), drum & bass, dreamy pop, and funk!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

I couldn’t find every track on Spotify, but here’s what I could dig up:

The Signal: EP173 – The exact 45 minutes of music you need to steer you through this year of solitary activity! This time out we’ve got Australian punk, gloom pop, a remix of a harp-playing pixie, some dub sounds, hip hop, ska, UK grime and some German electronic sounds.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

We couldn’t find everything on Spotify, but we found most of it:

The Signal: EP172 – Exactly 45 minutes of music for cloud heads, mist faces, vapor tops… and YOU! This time out we’ve got Australian jam goodness, lots of polyrhythms, Turkish funk from the Netherlands, a steel drum hip hop cover, a dub jazz standard cover, blistering rockabilly and much more!

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

The Signal: EP171 – Exactly 45 minutes of music suitable for cosmonaut activities or, uh, whatever you’re up to right now. This time out, we’ve got a lot of Russian synth pop and rock for you as well as some electronic sounds. A bit less eclectic than the usual Signal mix, but say what you will, it’s still definitely 45 minutes long.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

The Signal: EP170 – Exactly 45 minutes of music for party buses of all sizes and shapes and, uh, qualities. We’ve got quite a haul for you this time out. This mix has some Hindi funk, Argentinian cumbiapop, Turkish psych electropop from the Netherlands, MF Doom over 80s J-pop, Beck remixed via 00s J-pop, dubstep, turntablism, dub, drum & bass from London and a spoken word cherry on top.

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags.

The Signal: EP169 – Exactly 45 minutes of music to accompany the dawning horror that this mask may not come off. This is your life now, so aren’t you lucky it’ll have Turkish psych-rock, steel drum hip hop covers, Japanese pop, lo-fi beats, French rap and more?

Download by clicking on the link (or image) above. The file is available only for a limited time. If you’re interested in the tracklist, it’s in the mp3 itself, in the id3 tags. 

A Scratched CD-R Found In An Abandoned Sleigh Labeled “REINDEER JAMZ” – Exactly 45 minutes of xmas music you didn’t know you wanted to hear, picked with the imp of the perverse spinning the ol’ music genre wheel. We’ve got rock, pop, blues, sure… but we’ve also got Christmas reggae, Halloween monster holiday cheer, drum-n-bass, dubstep, vaporwave, a weather report, punk rock and a musical program from a children’s psychiatric hospital.

If that sounds like the holidays to you, click on the image or link above to download and enjoy! Tracklist is in the file’s id3 tags.