This mix is dedicated to the memory of MF DOOM. His music bookends the mix with the Madlib reunion track "Avalanche" and his early non-album single "Is He Ill?" In between, his debut album track "Gas Drawls", the unofficially released Jay Electronica collaboration "True Lightyears", "Rapp Snitch Knishes" from his 2004 album MM..Food and "That's That" from his final album Born Like This from 2009.
"Begin The Beguine" is a song written by Cole Porter and first performed by June Knight for the 1935 musical Jubilee. This mix features versions by Ella Fitzgerald with The Buddy Bregman Orchestra, Louie Prima & Keely Smith, Neal Hefti & His Orchestra with The Ray Charles Choir as well as a demo version by Pete Townshend and an extended mix of Johnny Mathis' disco hit.
"Souvenirs" is a song written by John Prine for his 1972 album Diamonds In The Rough. This mix features covers by Bettye Lavette, Country Gentlemen, Maggie Bell and Paul Westerberg alias Grandpaboy.
The rest: Ernest & Hattie Stoneman's "The Road To Washington", The Velvet Underground-esque "Bright Lights" by England's Glory, the melodic "Mystery" by Wipers, the acoustic take one of Smashing Pumpkins' "Medellia Of The Grey Skies" and Don Covay's version of Morris Albert's standard "Feelings".
