I can't decide if it's because I'm having trouble keeping up or because there is less than one interesting album coming out per week, but either way I'm gonna start being a little more flexible with the recency of the stuff I write about up here. For one thing, I average at least a couple months of intending to play a given Soundcloud mix before I actually sit down and get the 40 minute thing done. After that, though, it can easily become a fixture. RARE EARTH TONES has stayed with me for months, proving endlessly applicable for any sort of background music need especially. There's something to be said for the album as tracklist-less, continuous mix - no reasonable person could be expected to remember the particularly trenchant timestamps, and so listening to any of it requires listening to all of it (or at least intending to do so; I'll admit that I'm intimately familiar with the first five minutes or so, after which listening sessions occasionally fall prey to all manner of interruption). By using his own tracks exclusively, Dubbel Dutch ducks the usual mix pitfalls of incohesion and lack of direction, delivering a full 36 minutes that remains as exciting as the first.

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