FLUXBLOG 2002 SURVEY MIX

This month marks the 10th anniversary of Fluxblog. I will be doing a few things to celebrate the occasion over the course of the year, but the main thing is that I will be putting together survey mixes for each year the site has existed. The mixes will be released on the first weekday of each month this year, culminating in revised/expanded versions of the 2010 and 2011 mixes and this year’s survey at the start of December.

2002 was an interesting year, with a lot of major stuff bubbling up as the identity of the decade was starting to take hold. Things really came into bloom in the following year – check back on March 1st for what will almost certainly be the most mind-blowing survey in the series – but the year is big on bold creative statements and high quality dance, hip-hop and rock music. It’s very much the year of the mash-up, both in terms of actual mash-up remixes and artists across the board building new tunes out of old tracks and gleefully bending and blending genres. There’s a little bit of post-9/11 angst in the mix, but for the most part, the music of 2002 was optimistic, adventurous and focused on delivering escapist pleasure.

DOWNLOAD DISC 1

Missy Elliot “Work It” / Sugababes “Freak Like Me” / Ce’Cile “Rude Bwoy Thug Life” / Kylie Minogue “Love At First Sight” / United State of Electronica “Emerald City” / Max Tundra “Lysine” / Cam’Ron “Hey Ma” / Scarface “On My Block” / Beck “Paper Tiger” / Interpol “Obstacle 1” / Wire “I Don’t Understand” / Clinic “Walking With Thee” / McLusky “To Hell With Good Intentions” / Sonic Youth “Karenology” / The Kills “Wait” / The Walkmen “We’ve Been Had” / Yo La Tengo “How Some Jellyfish Are Born”

DOWNLOAD DISC 2

Wilco “I’m the Man Who Loves You” / Dressy Bessy “I Saw Cinnamon” / Spoon “The Way We Get By” / 2 Many DJs “No Fun/Push It” / Eminem “Without Me” / Nelly “Hot In Herre” / Christina Aguilera featuring Redman “Dirrty” / Liars “Mr. You’re On Fire Mr.” / The Libertines “Up the Bracket” / Moby “We Are All Made of Stars” / Alcazar “Crying at the Discotheque” / The Roots “Thought @ Work” / Dntel featuring Ben Gibbard “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan (Superpitcher Mix)” / Gus Gus “David” / The Breeders “London Song” / Ugly Cassanova “Things I Don’t Remember” / …And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead “Source Tags and Codes”

DOWNLOAD DISC 3

LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge” / The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers” / The Streets “Let’s Push Things Forward” / Ms. Dynamite “Dy-Na-Mi-Tee” / Q Tip vs Michael Jackson “Don’t Stop to Breathe” / Eve “Satisfaction” / Quarks “I Walk” / RJD2 “Ghostwriter” / Angie Stone “Wish I Didn’t Miss You” / Devin the Dude “I-Hi” / Cee-Lo Green “Closet Freak” / Go Home Productions “Christmas on the Block” / MC Paul Barman “Old Paul” / Tweet featuring Missy Elliot “Oops (Oh My)” / Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” / Phantom Planet “California” / David Bowie “Cactus” / Belle and Sebastian “I Don’t Want to Play Football”

DOWNLOAD DISC 4

Coldplay “Clocks” / Freelance Hellraiser “A Stroke of Genius” / Ashanti “Foolish” / Justin Timberlake “Cry Me A River” / Truth Hurts featuring Rakim “Addictive” / Ludacris featuring Sleepy Brown “Saturday (Oooh! Ooooh!)” / R. Kelly and Jay-Z featuring Lil Kim “Shake Ya Body” / N.O.R.E. “Nothin'” / Jimmy Eat World “The Middle” / Conway “Lisa’s Got Hives” / S Club Juniors “Automatic High” / St. Etienne “Action” / Chemical Brothers “Star Guitar” / Underworld “Two Months Off” / Luomo “The Present Lover” / Shakedown “At Night”

DOWNLOAD DISC 5

Gold Chains “Rock the Parti” / Monster Island Czars “MIC Line” / Clipse “Grindin'” / Nas “Made You Look” / Scissor Sisters “Electrobix” / Golden Boy with Miss Kittin “Rippin Kittin” / Robyn “Don’t Stop the Music” / Tatu “All the Things She Said” / Boards of Canada “Julie and Candy” / Azure Ray “Trees Keep Growing” / Bright Eyes “Lover I Don’t Have to Love” / The Decemberists “July, July!” / Neko Case “Stinging Velvet” / Nickel Creek “Spit On A Stranger” / Shimmer Kids Underpop Association “Tones In Orbit” / Banjo V “Experimental Fashion” / Liam Lynch “United States of Whatever” / Iron and Wine “Bird Stealing Bread” / Doves “There Goes the Fear”

DOWNLOAD DISC 6

Andrew W.K. “She Is Beautiful” / Cornershop “Lessons Learned From Rocky I to Rocky III” / Guided By Voices “Back to the Lake” / Weezer “Keep Fishin'” / Ladytron “Seventeen” / Rilo Kiley “With Arms Outstretched” / Mekons “This Way Through the Fire” / Dixie Chicks “Long Time Gone” / Norah Jones “Don’t Know Why” / The Mountain Goats “No Children” / Avril Lavigne “Complicated” / Imperial Teen “Our Time” / Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Our Time” / Kurtis Rush “George Gets His Freak On” / X-Press 2 featuring David Byrne “Lazy” / Sascha Funke “When Will I Be Famous” / Chicks on Speed “Fashion Rules!” / Elvis Costello “Tear Off Your Own Head (It’s A Doll Revolution)” / The Polyphonic Spree “Light & Day/Reach For the Sun”

DOWNLOAD DISC 7

Foo Fighters “All My Life” / Queens of the Stone Age “No One Knows” / Crossover “Extensive Care” / Trina “Hustling” / Khia “My Neck, My Back” / N.E.R.D. “Brain” / Space Cowboy “I Would Die 4 U” / Out Hud “Dad, There’s A Little Phrase Called ‘Too Much Information'” / The Juan Maclean “By the Time I Get to Venus” / Elephant Man “Bad Man A Bad Man” / Busta Rhymes “It Ain’t Safe No More” / Styles P “Good Times” / Tanya Stephens “Need You Tonight” / Jay-Z and Beyoncé “’03 Bonnie and Clyde” / Lambchop “I Can Hardly Spell My Name” / Sigur Ros “Sigur 4 (Untitled)” / Songs: Ohia “Blue Chicago Moon”

DOWNLOAD DISC 8

Osymyso “Intro-Inspection” / The Flaming Lips “Do You Realize??” / Enon “Natural Disasters” / Destroyer “Hey, Snow White” / Sleater-Kinney “Sympathy” / Pearl Jam “Can’t Keep” / Pastor Troy “Are We Cuttin'” / Sticky featuring Lady Stush “Dollar Sign” / Girls Aloud “Sound of the Underground” / Röyksopp “Remind Me (Someone Else’s Radio Remix)” / El-P “Stepfather Factory” / DJ Shadow “Fixed Income” / Trick Daddy featuring Big Boi and Cee-Lo “In Da Wind” / The Secret Machines “What Used to Be French” / Aimee Mann “High on Sunday 51” / Bruce Springsteen “Lonesome Day” / Solomon Burke “Don’t Give Up On Me”