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Part 1 Tracklist (58 minutes):

[00:00] Talkdemonic Palace Walk Ruins (Glacial Pace)

[04:34] Tame Impala Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? (Erol Alkan remix) Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? 12″ (Modular)

[08:46] The Drift Dark Passage Blue Hour (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

[14:34] Loney, Dear My Heart Hall Music (Polyvinyl)

[18:05] The Field Then It’s White Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)

[25:53] Moonface Fast Peter Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Jagjaguwar)

[33:52] The Berg Sans Nipple Change the Shape Building The Erosion (Team Love)

[37:35] Luke Abbott Brazil Holkham Drones (Border Community)

[42:24] Beirut The Rip Tide The Rip Tide (Pompeii)

[46:44] Robag Wruhme Ende Thora Vukk (Pampa)

[51:42] Porn Sword Tobacco Always Enjoy The Silence Vol. 2 (Mule Electronic)

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Part 2 Tracklist (61 minutes):

[00:00] James Blake I Never Learnt to Share James Blake (ATLAS)

[04:50] Nils Frahm Familiar Felt (Erased Tapes)

[08:01] Explosions in the Sky Let Me Back In Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence Ltd.)

[17:30] Karl Blau Celebrate by Singing Max 12″ (K)

[21:52] Portico Quartet Ruins single (Real World)

[27:30] Gotye Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) Making Mirrors (Samples n’ Seconds)

[31:34] BitRobot She’s an Android Nebula (self-released)

[35:40] Lost Animal Lose The Baby Ex Tropical (Sensory Projects)

[41:16] Hard Mix Now Her Defaults (Dovecote)

[45:17] Hayden Calnin Summer City EP (self-released)

[49:26] Roll the Dice Calling All Workers In Dust (The Leaf Label)

[57:34] Destroyer Chinatown Kaputt (Merge)

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Below is my playlist for The Quest Christmas Special and Countdown of the Best Songs of 2011 on CHIRP Radio Sunday, December 18, 2011 6AM-12PM. Tracks can be streamed individually on tumblr:

11:57AM Destroyer Chinatown Kaputt (Merge)
Notes: 1st Best Song of 2011
11:54AM Ween Silent Night A Merry Little Christmas (Elektra)
11:51AM She & Him The Christmas Waltz A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
11:49AM AM Christmas Time Is Here Holiday Happiness & Cheer EP (Filter US)
11:45AM Adrian Younge Sound Orchestra It’s Me Something About April (Wax Poetics)
11:37AM Roll the Dice Calling All Workers In Dust (The Leaf Label)
Notes: 2nd Best Song of 2011
11:32AM Röyksopp Le Cantique de Noël single (self-released)
11:30AM Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Bigger Than Yr Yard Tape Club (Polyvinyl)
11:25AM Hayden Calnin Summer City EP (self-released)
Notes: 3rd Best Song of 2011
11:21AM Eligh & Amplive Guides Therapy at 3 (Legendary Music)
11:17AM Hard Mix Now Her Defaults (Dovecote)
Notes: 4th Best Song of 2011
11:13AM In Tall Buildings The Way to a Monster’s Lair In Tall Buildings (Whistler)
11:07AM Xyzr_Kx Cranes Secession in Astropolis (Actually, Records)
11:01AM Gruff Rhys Slashed Wrists This Christmas Atheist Xmas EP (PIAS)
10:54AM Brief Candles Small Streets Fractured Days (Guilt Ridden Pop)
10:49AM Lost Animal Lose The Baby Ex Tropical (Sensory Projects)
Notes: 5th Best Song of 2011
10:41AM Cass McCombs The Same Thing Humor Risk (Domino)
10:38AM BitRobot She’s an Android Nebula (self-released)
Notes: 6th Best Song of 2011
10:33AM The Band Christmas Must be Tonight Islands (Capitol)
10:29AM Adanowsky You are the One (with Devendra Banhart) Amador (Everloving)
10:25AM Gotye Somebody That I Used To Know (feat. Kimbra) Making Mirrors (Samples n’ Seconds)
Notes: 7th Best Song of 2011
10:19AM Atlas Sound Te Amo Parallax (4AD)
10:14AM Portico Quartet Ruins single (Real World)
Notes: 8th Best Song of 2011
10:10AM The Raveonettes The Christmas Song Maybe This Christmas Tree (Nettwerk)
10:05AM Canyons Sun And Moon Keep Your Dreams (Modular)
10:01AM Bob & Doug McKenzie The Twelve Days Of Christmas Great White North (Mercury)
9:54AM Kathleen Edwards Mint Voyageur (MapleMusic)
9:50AM Karl Blau Celebrate by Singing Max 12″ (K)
Notes: 9th Best Song of 2011
9:45AM Extentions This Love of Mine Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels (Numero Group)
9:36AM Explosions in the Sky Let Me Back In Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Notes: 10th Best Song of 2011
9:29AM The Dø The Wicked & The Blind Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
9:26AM Nils Frahm Familiar Felt (Erased Tapes)
Notes: 11th Best Song of 2011
9:22AM Ellen & The Escapades By the Fire Side With You single (self-released)
9:18AM Los Campesinos! By Your Hand Hello Sadness (Arts & Crafts)
9:13AM James Blake I Never Learnt to Share James Blake (ATLAS)
Notes: 12th Best Song of 2011
9:09AM Greg Lake I Believe in Father Christmas Works Volume 2 (Atlantic)
9:05AM Cloud Control This is What I Said Bliss Release (Ivy League Records)
9:02AM My Morning Jacket Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas iTunes Session EP (ATO)
8:57AM Owen The Armoire Ghost Town (Polyvinyl)
8:51AM Porn Sword Tobacco Always Enjoy The Silence Vol. 2 (Mule Electronic)
Notes: 13th Best Song of 2011
8:46AM Julian Casablancas Christmas Treat Phrazes For The Young (RCA)
8:42AM The Roots Kool On (featuring Greg Porn & Truck North) undun (Def Jam)
8:37AM Robag Wruhme Ende Thora Vukk (Pampa)
Notes: 14th Best Song of 2011
8:34AM Smith & Burrows The Christmas Song ft. Agnes Obel Funny Looking Angels (PIAS)
8:30AM David Lynch Good Day Today Crazy Clown Time (PIAS)
8:26AM Beirut The Rip Tide The Rip Tide (Pompeii)
Notes: 15th Best Song of 2011
8:19AM Nada Surf When I Was Young The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy (Barsuk)
8:14AM Luke Abbott Brazil Holkham Drones (Border Community)
Notes: 16th Best Song of 2011
8:04AM Sigur Rós Sæglópur Inni (XL)
8:01AM Chuck Berry Run Rudolph Run B-side to Merry Christmas, Baby (Chess 1714)
7:56AM Kurt Vile (so outta reach) So Outta Reach EP (Matador)
7:52AM The Berg Sans Nipple Change the Shape Building The Erosion (Team Love)
Notes: 17th Best Song of 2011
7:47AM The Black Keys Dead And Gone El Camino (Nonesuch)
7:39AM Moonface Fast Peter Organ Music Not Vibraphone Like I’d Hoped (Jagjaguwar)
Notes: 18th Best Song of 2011
7:34AM DJ Food Discovery Workshop Magpies, Maps & Moons EP (Ninja Tune)
7:26AM The Field Then It’s White Looping State of Mind (Kompakt)
Notes: 19th Best Song of 2011
7:22AM Woods Christmas Time is Here single (self-released)
7:17AM Oneohtrix Point Never Replica Replica (Software)
7:14AM Loney, Dear My Heart Hall Music (Polyvinyl)
Notes: 20th Best Song of 2011
7:05AM Sandro Perri Changes Impossible Spaces (Constellation)
7:03AM Christabel and the Jons I’d Like You For Christmas The Christmas Album (self-released)
6:58AM Justice Parade Audio, Video, Disco (Elektra)
6:52AM The Drift Dark Passage Blue Hour (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Notes: 21st Best Song of 2011
6:48AM George Harrisson Ding Dong, Ding Dong single (Apple)
6:45AM Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears Get Yo S*** Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! (Lost Highway)
6:39AM Tycho A Walk Dive (Ghostly International)
6:37AM Julian Koster Jingle Bells The Singing Saw At Christmastime (Merge)
6:31AM Jacaszek Goldengrove Glimmer (Ghostly International)
6:27AM Tame Impala Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? (Erol Alkan remix) Why Won’t You Make Up Your Mind? 12″ (Modular)
Notes: 22nd Best Song of 2011
6:21AM Holy Ghost! I Wanted to Tell Her I Wanted to Tell Her Single (Green Label Sound )
6:14AM Josh T. Pearson O’ Holy Night Last Of The Country Gentlemen bonus CD (Rough Trade)
6:10AM Rob Crow Sophistructure He Thinks He’s People (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
6:06AM Talkdemonic Palace Walk Ruins (Glacial Pace)
Notes: 23rd Best Song of 2011
6:00AM Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Christmas All Over Again A Very Special Christmas (A&M)

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Tracklist (40 minutes):
[00:00] Josh T. Pearson O’ Holy Night Last Of The Country Gentlemen (Rough Trade)
[06:56] Woods Christmas Time is Here single (self-released)
[09:30] She & Him Christmas Day A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
[12:50] Ellen & The Escapades By the Fire Side With You single (self-released)
[15:30] Christabel & the Jons I’d Like You For Christmas The Christmas Album (self-rlsd)
[17:54] Julian Casablancas Christmas Treat Phrazes For The Young (RCA)
[20:56] My Morning Jacket Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas iTunes Session EP (ATO)
[23:34] Smith & Burrows The Christmas Song ft. Agnes Obel Funny Looking Angels (PIAS)
[25:48] The Raveonettes The Christmas Song Maybe This Christmas Tree (Nettwerk)
[27:48] Gruff Rhys Slashed Wrists This Christmas Atheist Xmas EP (PIAS)
[33:17] Julian Koster O’ Holy Night The Singing Saw At Christmastime (Merge)
[37:28] AM Christmas Time Is Here Holiday Happiness & Cheer EP (Filter US)

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Tracklist (1 hour and 24 minutes):

[00:00] The Drift Dark Passage Blue Hour (Temporary Residence)

[05:54] Kimbra Two Weeks + Head Over Heels single (self-released)

[08:24] Howl at the Moon Sword-Fighting single (self-released)

[12:06] Cex Blink (Bizarre encryption mix) SHAMANEATER (self-released)

[19:18] Canyons When I See You Again Keep Your Dreams (Modular)

[23:39] Emperor X Defiance (For Elise Sunderhuse) Western Teleport (Bar/None)

[27:21] Mannequin Men Cheryl Tiegs Mannequin Men (Addenda)

[29:49] Rough Fields The Harbour Wall The Harbour Wall (Bomb Shop)

[33:59] Dear Data Oceans vs Mountains single (self-released)

[38:09] Cosmo Black Dia De Los Muertos Light It Up single (self-released)

[41:49] Ólafur Arnalds Near Light Living Room Songs (Erased Tapes)

[45:08] New Beard Given (feat. Gustav Ejstes) Moment of Peace EP (Shoulder Tap)

[48:41] Oliveray You Don’t Love Wonders (Erased Tapes)

[51:47] Yawning Gulf Untitled single (self-released)

[54:49] Faux Pas Prove Demo single (self-released)

[57:23] Tim Hecker Sketch 1 Dropped Pianos (kranky)

[64:19] Portico Quartet Ruins Portico Quartet (Real World)

[69:49] Lost Animal Lose The Baby Ex Tropical (Sensory Projects)

[75:23] Talkdemonic Palace Walk Ruins (Glacial Pace)

[79:56] Loney, Dear My Heart Hall Music (Polyvinyl)

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Below is my playlist for The Quest on CHIRP Radio Sunday, December 11, 2011 6AM-9AM. Tracks can be streamed individually on tumblr:

8:57AM Phondupe Aviary West single (self-released)
8:54AM The Tough Alliance Leg 1 Escaping Your Ambitions (Sincerely Yours)
8:49AM James Blake Love What Happened Here Love What Happened Here EP (R&S)
8:47AM Ty Segall My Sunshine Singles 2007-2010 (Goner)
8:43AM Korallreven Sa Sa Samoa An Album by Korallreven (Acephale)
8:36AM Faux Pas Renfield’s Dream Waterfalls (self-released)
8:30AM Mina Tindle Os Argonautas (demo) single (self-released)
8:27AM patten Ice GLAQJO XAACSSO (No Pain in Pop)
8:24AM The Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows Revolver (Capitol)
8:19AM Pterodactyl Nerds Spills Out (Brah)
8:15AM Mock & Toof From Kashima Tuning Echoes (Tiny Sticks)
8:10AM Oliveray You Don’t Love Wonders (Erased Tapes)
8:06AM Canyons When I See You Again Keep Your Dreams (Modular)
8:03AM Ólafur Arnalds Lag Fyrir Ömmu Living Room Songs (Erased Tapes)
7:54AM Eduardo Castillo Casaradio Afro Balearic EP (Juno)
7:51AM The Dø Too Insistent Both Ways Open Jaws (Six Degrees)
7:48AM AM & Shawn Lee City Boy Celestial Electric (ESL)
7:43AM Giraffage Moments Comfort (self-released)
7:40AM DRC Music K-Town (featuring N’Gotshima and Bebson) Kinshasa One Two (Warp)
7:37AM The New Pornographers Myriad Harbour Challengers (Matador)
7:29AM Kurt Vile The Creature So Outta Reach EP (Matador)
7:23AM Pink Floyd Mother The Wall (EMI)
7:19AM Cass McCombs Love Thine Enemy Humor Risk (Domino)
7:15AM The Sea and Cake The Moonlight Butterfly The Moonlight Butterfly (Thrill Jockey)
7:11AM Kimbra Two Weeks + Head Over Heels (Grizzly Bear + Tears For Fears mashup) single (self-released)
7:07AM She & Him Christmas Day A Very She & Him Christmas (Merge)
7:04AM Gold Panda Through Clouds An Iceberg Hurled Northward Through Clouds (DJ-Kicks) (!K7)
6:59AM Christina Vantzou Super Interlude Pt. 2 No. 1 (kranky)
6:54AM Explosions in the Sky A Song For Our Fathers How Strange, Innocence (self-released)
6:44AM Lau vs. Adem Imporsa (Silver Columns Remix) Ghosts EP (self-released)
6:41AM Zomby Labyrinth Nothing (4AD)
6:38AM Fleet Foxes White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
6:32AM Daedelus An Armada Approaches (Cruise from Here to the Afterlife Remix, Conducted by the James Pants Sea Faring Orchestra) Stones Throw x Dublab collaborative 45 The Sounds of Symmetry (Stones Throw)
6:29AM The Decemberists I 4 U & U 4 Me (Home Demo) Long Live the King EP (Capitol)
6:26AM Fleetwood Mac Never Going Back Again Rumours (Warner Bros.)
6:22AM Los Campesinos! By Your Hand Hello Sadness (Arts & Crafts)
6:15AM Wilco Art of Almost The Whole Love (dBpm)
6:10AM Sobrenadar Peri Physeos Physeos EP (Absent Fever)
6:04AM Kathleen Edwards Change the Sheets Voyageur (MapleMusic)
6:00AM Yawning Gulf Untitled single (self-released)

Below is my playlist for The Quest on CHIRP Radio Sunday, December 4, 2011 6AM-9AM. Tracks can be streamed individually on tumblr:

8:55AM Oliveray Growing Waterwings Wonders (Erased Tapes)
8:50AM Hard Mix The Well Chant single (self-released)
8:46AM Icarus Himself WI via IN Career Culture (Science of Sound)
8:42AM Oneohtrix Point Never Up Replica (Software)
8:39AM Paz Lenchantin Kentucky Hymn Songs For Luci (self-released)
8:34AM Mannequin Men Hobby Girl Mannequin Men (Addenda)
8:24AM Emerson, Lake & Palmer Fanfare for the Common Man Works Volume 1 (Atlantic)
8:19AM Atlas Sound Te Amo Parallax (4AD)
8:14AM Wye Oak Holy Holy Civilian (Merge)
8:07AM Sigur Rós Lúppulagið Inni (XL)
8:03AM Christopher Norman Maps (Kotov & Andre Wilde Remix) single (self-released)
7:57AM New Beard Given (feat. Gustav Ejstes) Moment of Peace EP (Shoulder Tap)
7:54AM DJ Food In Orbit Every Monday Magpies, Maps & Moons EP (Ninja Tune)
7:50AM Talkdemonic Palace Walk Ruins (Glacial Pace)
7:35AM Kate Bush Misty 50 Words for Snow (ANTI-)
7:30AM Yacht See a Penny (Pick it Up) I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real (Marriage)
7:27AM Seekae 3 +DOME (Rice is Nice)
7:23AM Gladys Knight & the Pips Midnight Train to Georgia Imagination (Buddah)
7:18AM Eligh & Amplive Guides Therapy at 3 (Legendary Music)
7:13AM The National England High Violet (4AD)
7:07AM Casiokids Det Haster! Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen (Polyvinyl)
7:02AM Lost Animal Lose The Baby Ex Tropical (Sensory Projects)
6:57AM Little Dragon Never Never Machine Dreams (Peacefrog)
6:53AM Phantogram Make a Fist Nightlife EP (Barsuk)
6:50AM Yawning Gulf Untitled (W_L_T Commission) single (self-released)
6:43AM Tycho Hours Dive (Ghostly International)
6:39AM The War on Drugs Taking the Farm Wagonwheel Blues (Secretly Canadian)
6:35AM Giraffage Girl Comfort (self-released)
6:32AM Real Estate It’s Real Days (Domino)
6:27AM Dave Mason World in Changes Alone Together (Blue Thumb)
6:18AM Cex Blink (Bizarre encryption mix) SHAMANEATER (self-released)
6:15AM Extentions This Love of Mine Eccentric Soul: The Nickel & Penny Labels (Numero Group)
6:12AM Woods Rain On Songs Of Shame (Shrimper)
6:08AM Heikki Sarmanto Max and the Enchantress Tales of Max (Finlandia)
6:06AM Gospel Music Let’s Run How to Get to Heaven from Jacksonville, FL (Kill Rock Stars)
6:00AM Ólafur Arnalds Near Light Living Room Songs (Erased Tapes)