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Hottest day of the summer.  Here is a little something to beat the heat.  Actually, it’ll probably make you sweat more…so listen to it indoors.

Actually, it would be perfect on a run or the bike.  Or at 1am doing visual design.

1. The xx - Intro
2. Ursula Rucker featuring King Britt - Untitled Flow
3. Ulrich Schnauss - …Passing By
4. Aphex Twin - Xtal
5. Hot Chip - Touch Too Much (Fake Blood Remix)
6. La Roux - Bulletproof (Larry Tee & Alexander Technique Blogula Remix)
7. Bart B More - Finally featuring Oliver Twizt (Original Mix)
8. Bingo Players vs. Chocolate Puma - Disco Electrique (Vocal Mix)
9. Who Da Funk - Shiny Disco Balls featuring Jessica Eve (Original Mix)
10. Sir James - Special (Bingo Players Remix)
11. T.T.L. - Kamera (BuzzBoyzz Auto Focus Mix)
12. Dennis Ferrer - Hey Hey (DF’s Attention Vocal Mix)
13. Dennis Ferrer - Sinfonia Della Notte (Original Mix)
14. Kaskade - Everything (Big Room Mix)

Some of my recent mixes have pushed a little more progressive…even trancey…and the wife wasn’t feelin’ it. So I was inspired by this lovely spring weather to put together an organic house mix that the wife can get behind. It gets a little more deep and minimal in the middle…but I tried to resist the temptation to take it progressive. For me, this set has a ton of tracks that are tough not to like…house music fan or not. Enjoy!

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1. Ananda Project featuring Gaelle Addison - Cascades of Colour (Wamdue Black Mix) [King Street Sounds]
2. Miguel Migs - The Night [Naked Music]
3. Straight Radiohed - DJ WHO vs. Radiohead [White]
4. Hardrive/Masters at Work - Deep Inside [UMM]
5. Lovetronic - You are Love (Si Brad’s Payback Vocal) [Naked Music]
6. Andy Caldwell featuring Omega - I Can’t Wait [OM]
7. Miguel Migs - Surrender [Naked Music]
8. Bart B More - Finally featuring Oliver Twist (Original Mix) [Tiger]
9. Andreas Heiszenberger - Perfect Moment [Brut!]
10. Hardrive 2000/Masters at Work featuring Lynae - Never Forget (When You Touch Me) [Strictly Rhythm]
11. Naked Music NYC - If I Fall (Miguel Mig’s Deluxe Soul Dub) [OM]
12. Blue Six - Pure (Original) [Naked Music]
13. Kaskade - Sweet Love [OM}
14. Naked Music NYC - It's Love (Wamdue Dream Dub) [OM]
15. Aphex Twin - Xtal [Apollo]

I’ve been listening to my Back to Mine vol 3 Mix and one night decided that I should take it in another direction…probably because I was doing visual design…and I prefer my visual design soundtrack to be decidedly more aggressive.

So here is the extended and reworked version of that mix.  It’s kind of all over the place but its 2 hours of good times…to me anyways.  Hope you dig it.

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1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V - Pink Floyd
2. Idioteque - Radiohead
3. Butterfly - Talvin Singh
4. I Wanna Be Adored - The Stone Roses
5. Hey Hey (DF’s Attention Vocal Mix) - Dennis Ferren
6. Baba O’Riley (Original Mix) - The Cube Guys
7. Jason Nivens vs. Eric B and Rakim - I Know You Got Soul
8. I Remember - Kaskade & Deadmau5
9. The Phoenix (River and Rain) - God Within
10. Promised Land (Club Mix) - Joe Smooth
11. Needin’ U (Original Mistake Mix) - David Morales feat. The Face
12. The Freaks Come Out (Sharp’s Freaks at Trade Mix) - Cevin Fisher
13. Bucci Bag - Andrea Doria
14. Energy Flash (Original Mix) - Joey Beltram
15. Dish & Tell - House of Venus
16. The Age of Love (Watch Out for the Stella Club Mix) - Age of Love
17. Quadrophonia (Original Mix) - Quadrophonia
18. Bladerunner / ‘Til We Meet Again (Brothers in Rhythm Perkapella) - Inner City / Remake
19. Children (Dream Version) - Robert Miles
20. Get Up (Diplo Remix) - Bingo Players
21. Machuka (MikiWAR Bootleg Break) - Lil Jon featuring Mr. Catra & Mulher File
22. Rhythm - DJ WHO featuring Tanisha
23. Da Gonzo (Breaks Mix) - The Gonzo
24. Unfinished Symphony (Sasha & John Digweed Mix) - Hybrid

This one is 53 minutes of eclectic earphone bliss.  It’s a little all over the place…but it works for me.  The funny thing about this one is the virtual lack of beats compared to my other mixes.  Not a single hip hop or house track to be found.  For full effect, crank it up through a set of headphones.

Rock it.

Download Back to Mine Mark Maloney Vol 3: Headphone-ism

Tracklisting

1. The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
2. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I-V
3. Radiohead - Idioteque
4. Talvin Singh - Butterfly
5. Waldeck - Defenceless (Thievery Corporation Mix)
6. Giant Leap Feat. Maxi Jazz - My Culture
7. Doves - Caught by the River
8. The Cure - A Forest
9. The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
10. Santogold - L.E.S. Artistes (XXXChange Remix)

As you may know, I prefer my music mixed. To me, it adds to the experience. It’s like a musical prix fixe, if you will. I’ve done a couple of mixes so far, but decided to get a little more ambitious with this one.

Download all 4 sets as a zip archive.

The idea behind this one was to build four different hour long mixes that would correspond to what I’d want to hear during different stages of an evening.

01 bar: old school beer drinkin’ jams

1. Eric B. & Rakim - Juice (Know The Ledge) [MCA]
2. Ice-T - New Jack Hustler (Nino’s Theme) [Sire]
3. Big Daddy Kane - Set It Off [Cold Chillin']
4. Rob Base & D.J. E-Z Rock - Joy and Pain [BMG]
5. Salt ‘N’ Pepa - Push It [Polygram]
6. Eric B. & Rakim - Follow The Leader [MCA]
7. Big Daddy Kane - Raw [Warner Bros]
8. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full (The Coldcut Remix) [Fourth & Broadway]
9. PM Dawn - Set Adrift On Memory Bliss [Gee Street]
10. EPMD - Strictly Business [Fresh]
11. Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - Mistadobalina [Elektra]
12. Black Sheep - The Choice Is Yours [Mercury]
13. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton [Ruthless/Priority]
14. L.L. Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out [Def Jam]
15. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It [Def Jam]
16. Gang Starr - Who’s Gonna Take The Weight [Cool Tempo]
17. Nice & Smooth - Sometimes I Rhyme Slow [Rush Associated]
18. Lake Trout - Sounds from Below [SNS]

02 dancefloor: breaks into blissed out house

1. Sia - Breathe Me [Caroline/Astralwerks]
2. Future Sound of London - Papau New Guinea [Jumpin' & Pumpin']
3. DJ WHO - Shitty Samples on Acid [Defective]
4. DJ Big Red - Weed on Friday [Baltimore Breakbeat]
5. DJ WHO - In D’Faze (Street Knowledge Mix) [Shaken Not Stirred]
6. Armand Van Helden featuring Team Facelift - Shake That Ass (Original Mix) [Southern Fried]
7. Major Lazer featuring VYBZ Kartel - Pod de floor [Downtown]
8. Kaskade - Sweet Love [Om]
9. Miguel Mix - Days of Color [Naked Music]
10. Kaskade - Everything (Big Room Mix) [Om]
11. Deep Dish - Say Hello (Extended Mix) [Deep Dish]
12. Armand Van Helden featuring Roland Clark - Flowerz [FFRR]
13. Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (Bay City Beat Mix) [Art of Mix]
14. Jungle Brothers - I’ll House You [Warner Black]

03 afterhours: dirty, sexy, and deep. time to get down.

1. Kings of Tomorrow - Rain [Defected]
2. Kerry Chandler - Back To The Raw [Deeply Rooted House]
3. Funky Green Dogs - Fired Up! (Album Mix) [Twisted America]
4. Liberty City - Some Lovin’ (Murk Mix) [Murk]
5. Coral Way Chiefs - Release Myself [Murk]
6. Liberty City - If You Really Love Someone (Original Mix) [Murk]
7. The Fog - Been a Long Time (Original Club Mix) [Downtown]
8. Boris Dlugosch - Keep Pushin’ (Murk Monster Mix) [Manifesto]
9. Pete Moss - R U Serious [Worship]
10. Boris Dlugosch - Hold Your Head Up High (Julian Jonah’s Bad Boy Mix) [Realtime]
11. Sneaker Pimps - Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix) [Virgin America]
12. The S.O.U.L. S.Y.S.T.E.M.- It’s Gonna Be a Lovely Day (Dub House Mix) [BMG Victor]
13. Hardrive - Deep Inside (Original Mix) [UMM]
14. Funky Green Dogs - Reach for Me (Murk Mix) [Murk]
15. Miguel Migs - Petalpushing [NRK]
16. Steve Winwood - The Finer Things [Island]

04 chill: a melange of eclectic downtempo tracks for comtemplating just about anything.

1. Thievery Corporation - 2001 Spliff Odyssey [ESL]
2. Depeche Mode - Useless (The Kruder & Dorfmeister Session) [Reprise/Mute]
3. Vanessa Daou - Two to Tango [MCA]
4. Massive Attack - Hymn of the Big Wheel [Virgin]
5. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine [Capitol]
6. Massive Attack - Inertia Creeps [Virgin]
7. The KLF - Wichita Lineman Was a Song I Once Heard [TVT]
8. Lamb - Gabriel [Koch]
9. Depeche Mode - Leave in Silence [Reprise/Mute]
10. Pink Floyd - Mother [Capitol]
11. Dave Matthews Band - Christmas Song [Bama Rags]

Enjoy!

I read an article from eMarketer regarding smartphone usage.  They seemed to be drawing conclusions about their data that were subsubstantiated by their raw data.  From my science days, it was beaten into me that two numbers are not different unless they are statistically significant from each other and there are varying degree of statistical significance.  Here is a quick cut and paste from Wikipedia:

In statistics, a result is called statistically significant if it is unlikely to have occurred by chance. The phrase test of significance was coined by Ronald Fisher.

The use of the word significance in statistics is different from the standard one, which suggests that something is important or meaningful. For example, a study that included tens of thousands of participants might be able to say with very great confidence that people of one race are more intelligent than people of another race by 1/20th of an IQ point. This result would be statistically significant, but the difference is small enough to be utterly unimportant. Many researchers urge that tests of significance should always be accompanied by effect size statistics, which approximate the size and thus the practical importance of the difference.

The amount of evidence required to accept that an event is unlikely to have arisen by chance is known as the significance level or critical p-value: in traditional Fisherian statistical hypothesis testing, the p-value is the probability conditional on the null hypothesis of the observed data or more extreme data. If the obtained p-value is small then it can be said either the null hypothesis is false or an unusual event has occurred. It is worth stressing that p-values do not have any repeat sampling interpretation.

An alternative statistical hypothesis testing framework is the Neyman-Pearson frequentist school which requires that both a null and an alternative hypothesis to be defined and investigates the repeat sampling properties of the procedure i.e. the probability that a decision to reject the null hypothesis will be made when it is in fact true and should not have been rejected: a “false positive” or Type I error and the probability that a decision will be made to accept the null hypothesis when it is false Type II error.

More typically, the significance level of a test is such that the probability of mistakenly rejecting the null hypothesis is no more than the stated probability. This allows the test to be performed using non-significant statistics which has the advantage of reducing the computational burden while wasting some information.

It is worth stressing that Fisherian p-values are not Neyman-Pearson Type I errors. This confusion is unfortunately propagated by many statistics textbooks.

So when I saw the data, I asked about this.

And interestingly, they actually used my tweet in one of their articles.  Cool!

For the second volume in my little personal Back to Mine collection, I dug into my buddy Steve’s ipod and put together a “Back to My Mom’s” mix circa 1990.  This mix is a testimony to a time in my life when I didn’t know much about myself or my place in the world — but I knew that I loved beats and that its more fun to dance while partying than to sit just around.

The mix starts out with some of my favorite hip-hop tracks from that era and then moves quickly into a bunch of “Mayfield tracks” (aka stuff that we would have rocked in Tony Pegas’ basement back in the day).  Killer EBM and industrial dance stuff with some legendary electronic tracks thrown in.  The set ends with a couple of alternative classics that, although not necessarily dance tracks, seemed to always find their way on to the proverbial decks.  It’s a little slice of P.T. Flagg’s.

Enjoy!

Download Back to Mine Mark Maloney Vol 2: Back to My Mom’s Circa 1990

Tracklisting

1. Cypress Hill - Ain’t Goin Out Like That
2. Black Sheep - The Choice is Yours
3. N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
4. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel (Remix)
5. Depeche Mode - Behind the Wheel (L.P. Mix)
6. Microchip League - New York (Dance Floor Cut)
7. Front 242 - Headhunter, Vol 1
8. Nitzer Ebb - Join in the Chant
9. Meat Beat Manifesto - God O.D.
10. Ministry - Everyday is Halloween (Album Version)
11. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
12. Bollock Brothers - Harley David Son of a Bitch
13. Public Image Limited - The Body
14. The Cure - Just Like Heaven

I’ve been a big fan of the “Back to Mine” series since its inception.  Essentially, it asks famous DJs or electronic music producers to put together a mixed compilation of tracks that you’d hear at their house after a night out rather than during the night out itself.

So, I decided to put one together myself.  Just for fun.  And to express myself a little.  These are some of my favorite tunes hopefully put together in a way that makes a little sense.  Enjoy!

Download Back to Mine: Mark Maloney Volume 1 (80MB)

Tracklisting

1. Rusted Root - Send Me On My Way
2. Dave Pike - Sandunga
3. Miguel Migs - Days of Color
4. Armand Van Helden featuring Roland Clark - Flowerz
5. Follow Me (Club Mix) - Aly-Us
6. Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
7. Warehouse - Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
8. Neon - John Mayer
9. The Sulphur Man - Doves
10. Shaolin Satellite - Thievery Corporation
11. Seek Up - Dave Matthews Band
12. Personal Jesus (Acoustic) - Depeche Mode

Dear Friends,

After 10 years as a founding partner of no|inc, I’ve decided to leave the firm to become the new Executive Creative Director at Grassroots Enterprise in D.C. (http://www.grassroots.com). With Grassroots’ deep public policy experience, I’ll be using my creative talents “for the powers of good”.  At this point in my life, the opportunity to “do good” means a lot to me.

The decision is bittersweet, however, as I will not be involved day-to-day with my family at no|inc.  Over the past decade, we’ve done some amazing work with some amazing clients.  But most importantly, I will miss the amazing people with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working side-by-side over these years.

My last day will be Friday, May 15.  It may seem sudden…but the timing actually works out from a work flow perspective.

For those clients with whom I have open jobs, I’ll be in touch individually to explain the transition plan.

And, just in case you were wondering, no|inc is going nowhere.  The company is as strong and as creative as ever.  This move is about a new direction for me.  Plain and simple.

Cheers…and I will be in touch.