Artists like to release mixes and mixtapes with the music that they have been listening to or tracks that have influenced them as a way to broaden their fan's music tastes and give outsiders a perspective into the creative mind of that artist beyond their live show and productions. Caribou has assembled potentially the granddaddy of them all with a 1,000 track, yes 1,000-track, mixtape of his favorite tracks to school his fans on what they should be listening to. The playlist has tunes from a wide variety of genres and artists including Kanye West, Sly and the Family Stone, Led Zeppelin, Nas, Boz Scaggs, Kraftwerk, Neutral Milk Hotel and many more.
Caribou recommends you put the mix on shuffle and then we advise you let him take you on a 1,000 track musical journey through more then six decades of music.
Listen to the full playlist below. He also included a note as a thank you the fans via Consequence Of Sound.
Caribou will be going on an extensive world tour in 2015, which you can check out the details here.
The last few years of my life have been incredible, thanks in large part to all of you - so I've been thinking of how to say thank you.
As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I've been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I've collected the majority of that music here - and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.
I'm sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is a musical history of my life. Of course a lot of this music has come to me through my friends - thank you to Koushik, Kieran, Jeremy, Gary, Brandon, Jason, Sam, Ketan, Ryan, Toby and many others ... Also, please share music with me that you think I would like but is not included here, in the hope this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.
I suggest you listen to this on shuffle as I made no attempt to sequence these tracks - I just entered them as I browsed along the shelves in my record collection. If you see dead links or duplicate songs please tweet me - @caribouband.
I hope you find something to enjoy here.
Thanks,
Dan
