By no means is this a definitive list, but it is a list of the 10 best mixtapes we’ve heard in the last eight months or so. There’s plenty to love here. Do tell us if we’ve left anything out.

1. Four Tet Essential Mix
   Features: Kieran Hebden doing what he does best – playing the best out-there electronic music out there, including Floating Points & Joy Orbison.
2. The Magician – Magic Tape One
   Features: Stephen Fasano introduces his new solo project post- Aeroplane and makes a mark with this funky disco mix.
3. Mike Scott’s Orchestral Pop Fantasia State Mix
   Features:” The point where the two worlds of pop and classical crossover, via a series of well known tracks, obscurities and mash ups. “
4. Autechre FACT Mix
   Features: “An unpredictable, kaleidoscopic affair, rooted in sinuous leftfield hip-hop but with bursts of tremulous ambient electronics, techno, hectic breakbeats and, at one particularly memorable point, metal.”
5. Alex Metric August 2010 Mix
   Features: An hour of solid dancing: Phoenix, Mystery Jets, Holy Ghost!, Tracey Thorn, Boys Noize, Orbital, Kele, Jamaica.

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The best music on the web this week.

Anders Ponders
Imagine a cross between a viola-playing Final Fantasy and Belle & Sebastian and you’ve got Anders somewhat sussed out. Listen to his debut album Nodes of Overtones on DayAndNightMag.ie this week.
http://www.myspace.com/andersponders

Bon Iver goes back to school
The bearded troubadour recently rejoined his first high school band – the Eau Claire Memorial Jazz Band, in order to raise funds for their annual trip to New York. The resulting concert of Bon Iver and Duke Ellington songs has now been released on iTunes. Listen to a song via I Guess I’m Floating.
http://short.ie/boniverband

Lonelady
Warp Records will release Lonelady’s debut album Nerve Up in February. Inspired by post-punk angular riffs, 80s pop and sounding like a combination of late ’80s/early ’90s female singers (Alanis Morrisette, Tori Amos, PJ Harvey), LoneLady is an intriguing proposition. Get the single for free.
http://lonelady.co.uk/

Remixes of 2009
Before the year was up, I selected my 35 favourite remixes of the year taking in reworks from Aeroplane, Joker, Classixx, The Horrors, Crookers, Rustie, Skream, Air France and Fake Blood. Listen to them on Nialler9.com.
http://short.ie/remixes09

1. Aeroplane Remixes
   If you’re looking for some brilliant remixes, look no further than Belgium’s Aeroplane whose reworkings of MGMT, Sebastien Tellier and Friendly Fires reside in cosmic disco heaven.
   Listen at the Hype Machine
2. Empire of The Sun
   The hype around this Aussie electro-pop collaboration between Pnau’s Nick Littlemore and Luke Steele of The Sleepy Jackson just gets louder.
   Listen at the Hype Machine
3. Feist and Bon Iver
   Tracks from the Red Hot charity compilation Dark is the Night have started to appear online including ‘The Train’, a beautiful acoustic song with Feist and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. The album features 31 tracks, mostly original from the likes of Bon Iver, The National, Arcade Fire, Conor Oberst, Cat Power, Grizzly Bear and much more.
   Listen at the Hype Machine
4. The Brighton Port Authority
   The album I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat for Norman Cook’s new project The BPA is out next week and it features guest appearances from David Byrne, Iggy Pop, Dizzee Rascal, Jack Penate and Jamie T.
   myspace.com/thebpa