You’ve surely heard the news of the passing of the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (MCA). This episode is a tribute, featuring some of my favorite tracks from the group. For more on Yauch, I’d recommend checking out the nice tribute page on the Beastie Boys’ official site.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 53 (35.5MB)

1. Beastie Boys – “Pass the Mic”
2. Beastie Boys – “Time to Get Ill” 
3. Beastie Boys – “Hey Ladies”
4. Beastie Boys – “Shake Your Rump”
5. Beastie Boys – “So What’cha Want”
6. Beastie Boys – “Professor Booty”
7. Beastie Boys – “Sure Shot”
8. Beastie Boys – “In 3′s”
9. Beastie Boys – “The Rat Cage”
10. Beastie Boys – “Sabrosa” 

It’s been a long wait, I know, but here we are with a new episode of the Codex, just in time for the arrival of nice weather here in Tokyo (and therefore more biking). As I mentioned on the show, if you like the podcast, then there’s a good chance you’ll like next week’s live sessions of Radio OK Fred, on May 3 and 4 at Hillside Terrace in Daikanyama, as part of the Magazine Library 10 exhibition. We’ll start “broadcasting” at around 17:00.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 52 (37.8MB)

1. Hooray for Earth – “No Love”
2. Airhead – “Wait”
3. Deep Sea Arcade – “Seen No Right”
4. Vacationer – “Good as New”
5. Bonjay – “Stumble”
6. La Sera – “Please Be My Third Eye”
7. Wild Flag – “Boom”
8. The Twilight Sad – “Another Bed”
9. The Horrors – “Changing the Rain”
10. Mike Wexler – “Lens” 

Back with a regular episode of the Codex to kick off the next 50, or more! Lots of great new tracks, and some nods to older classics. Here’s a link to the Paperheart tribute to Lou Barlow, a free download.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 51 (33.4MB)

1. Hey Ocean – “Big Blue Wave”
2. Ladyhawke – “Black White & Blue”
3. Bonjay – “Gimmee Gimmee”
4. The Drums – “Days”
5. Howler – “Back of Your Neck”
6. The Magnectic Fields – “Andrew in Drag”
7. Eugene McGuinness – “Knock Down Ginger”
8. Moonsocket – “Dirty Mind”
9. Sebadoh – “Good Things”
10. Telex – “Ça plane pour moi” 

Here we are, episode 50, and to mark the occasion I’ve decided to spotlight one band, and for anyone who has been listening regularly to the show, it should come as no suprise that it’s The Pixies. They remain my favorite band to this day, and so here’s a collection of 10 tracks that I love (but as I warn on the show, I wouldn’t necessarily call them my favorites, since there are just too many tracks that I love so much). Hope you enjoy it, whether you’re a fan of the band or not, and if you’ve been listening to the show for a while, thanks for sticking around.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 50 (33.1MB)

1. Pixies – “Debaser”
2. Pixies – “Is She Weird”
3. Pixies – “Dig for Fire”
4. Pixies – “Subbacultcha”
5. Pixies – “Distance Equals Rate Times Time”
6. Pixies – “Bone Machine”
7. Pixies – “Gigantic”
8. Pixies – “I’ve Been Tired”
9. Pixies – “La La Love You”
10. Pixies – “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)” 

A new episode is up for your enjoyment, and once again, it’s pretty much all new-ish releases, except for one re-release (Archers of Loaf). Next episode will be the momentous no. 50 — I do know what it will be, and I can tell you it will be themed (but it may please only me).

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 49 (40.1MB)

1. Cloud Nothings – “No Future/No Past”
2. We Are Knights – “Tears”
3. American Royalty – “Matchstick”
4. Lower Dens – “Brains”
5. Those Darlins – “Screws Get Loose”
6. Archers of Loaf – “Harnessed in Slums”
7. Tune-Yards – “My Country”
8. Tindersticks – “Show Me Everything”
9. Gramatik – “Dungeon Sound”
10. James Vincent McMorrow – “Higher Love” 

February has pretty much turned into a skip month, and I have to blame a nasty flu that resulted in a nagging cough that made it difficult to talk more than a few seconds without coughing. But I’m back with this collection of 10 new tracks.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 48 (35.4MB)

1. Sleigh Bells – “Comeback Kid”
2. Eugene McGuinness – “Lion”
3. Django Django – “Default”
4. Guided by Voices – “Laundry and Lasers”
5. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. – “Morning Thought”
6. Tomas Dvorak – “Nanorobot Tune”
7. Santigold – “Disparate Youth”
8. MNDR – “#1 in Heaven”
9. Grimes – “Genesis”
10. School of Seven Bells – “Lafaye” 

Nothing much to say except that it’s a new episode of the Codex, with another eclectic mix of tracks. Please enjoy.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. Here’s the playlist on Spotify, and you can also follow the Codex on Twitter and Facebook.

Codex 47 (32.7MB)

1. Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “Nerve Damage!”
2. Stagecoach – “Break”
3. A Lull – “Our Age”
4. St. Vincent – “Cheerleader”
5. PJ Harvey – “When Under Ether”
6. Sbtrkt – “Hold On (feat. Sampha)”
7. Tom Vek – “Aroused”
8. Warpaint – “Ashes to Ashes”
9. Washed Out – “Amor Fati”
10. Phantogram – “Don’t Move” 

I was suddenly in the mood to record another episode of the Codex, so you get two shows in two nights. This is also probably the fastest I’ve ever put together a playlist — in about 5 minutes — and it simply revolves around two of my favorites artists, Mark Robinson and Fugazi. No, Moonsocket doesn’t really fit into this, but I still felt like playing his cover of that Arcade Fire track at the end. And here are links to the Wugazi and Ghostfunk mashup albums.

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Codex 46 (31.2MB)

1. Cotton Candy – “Anderson McQuaid” and “Fantastic & Spectacular”
2. Flin Flon – “Kamloops”
3. Maybe It’s Reno – “Sugarloaf Mountain”
4. HollAnd – “Boolean Misery Index”
5. The Evens – “Cache Is Empty”
6. Joe Lally – “Pick a War”
7. Fugazi – “Long Division”
8. Wugazi – “Ghetto Afterthought”
9. Ghostfunk – “Dem Back”
10. Moonsocket – “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” 

This episode of the Codex is all about gaming, and so (almost) every track played is from a game, and not just any game, but what I would say is a terrific collection of indie games. As I promised in the show, here then are links for both the games and their soundtracks. So first off, if you’d like to play some of these games, go to the following sites: Fotonica, The Binding of Isaac, Super Meat Boy, Blocks That Matter, VVVVVV, Sword & Sworcery EP, and PixelJunk Eden. If you’re more interested in the music, here are links to the various albums that were featured on the show: Fotonica, Danny Baranowsky’s The Binding of Isaac and Super Meat Boy, Morusque’s Blocks That Matter, SoulEye’s VVVVVV, Jim Guthrie’s Children of the Clone and Sword & Sworcery LP, and Baiyon’s PixelJunk Eden.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. You can also follow the Codex on Twitter and on Facebook.

Codex 45 (38.2MB)

1. Nicolo Sala – “Cosenz”
2. dB Soundworks – “Sacrificial”
3. Danny Baranowsky – “Forest Funk Chapter 1 Light World”
4. Morusque – “Wood”
5. SoulEye – “Predestined Fate”
6. Jim Guthrie – “Children of the Clone”
7. Jim Guthrie – “Lone Star”
8. 6955 – “Dyad 06″
9. Disasterpeace – “Adventure”
10. Baiyon – “637 Volpe” 

Here we are with a new episode, and I’m listening to it as I write this, and I need to apologize again for some strange static sounds when I talk — I tested things before recording and it sounded fine, so I have no idea what’s going on. Getting very frustrated with Nicecast — oh please Djay, include some sort of Spotify plugin!

Also, please note that Codex now has its own Facebook page, and is on Twitter too (@codex_podcast), so two more ways to be updated when a new episode is released.

You can download the episode below, and find the playlist, or subscribe to the RSS feed so as not to miss any future episode — the show is in the iTunes Store too. And here’s the playlist in Spotify.

Codex 44 (35MB)

1. Ladytron – “Seventeen – Soulwax Mix”
2. Surfer Blood – “Miranda”
3. The Black Keys – “Lonely Boy”
4. Tennis – “Origins”
5. Hey Marseilles – “Elegy”
6. Charlotte Gainsbourg – “White Telephone”
7. Chairlift – “Sidewalk Safari”
8. Race Horses – “Benidorm”
9. Architecture in Helsinki – “Contact High”
10. Panda Bear – “You Can Count on Me”