This ten-disc, 183-song mix is a survey of some of the best and most notable music from 2011. It covers a wide range of artists and genres, and I think it’s as comprehensive as it possibly can be while focusing on my personal favorites and omitting stuff I either don’t care about or outright hate. I think you’ll find that this serves as both a helpful guide to some of the year’s most exciting music and a surprisingly listenable series of mixes. Discover new music, rethink familiar acts, jam out to nearly 13 hours of music. If you enjoy this, please do pass it on.

Beyoncé “Countdown” / Jay-Z and Kanye West “Gotta Have It” / Britney Spears “How I Roll” / Tune-Yards “Powa” / Lady Gaga “Yoü and I” / Neon Indian “Fallout” / Friendly Fires “Hurting” / TV on the Radio “Caffeinated Consciousness” / Battles “Sweetie and Shag” / Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire with Despot, Das Racist, Danny Brown and El-P “Huzzah! Remix” / Action Bronson “Larry Csonka” / Toro Y Moi “Still Sound” / Thao and Mirah “Rubies and Rocks” / Paul Simon “The Afterlife” / Iron and Wine “Me and Lazarus” / Lloyd with Andre 3000 and Lil Wayne “Dedication to My Ex (Miss That)” / Adele “I’ll Be Waiting” / Cass McCombs “County Line”

Slow Club “Two Cousins” / The Rapture “It Takes Time To Be A Man” / DJ Shadow featuring Little Dragon “Scale It Back” / Rihanna “We Found Love” / Handsome Furs “What About Us” / Cut Copy “Where I’m Going” / Holy Ghost! “Do It Again” / MNDR “Cut Me Out” / Patrick Wolf “The City (Richard X Remix)” / Azealia Banks “212” / Lonely Island with Nicki Minaj “The Creep” / Danny Brown “I Will” / John Maus “Believer” / Sepalcure “Carrot Man” / Beirut “Santa Fe” / Jessica Lea Mayfield “Tell Me” / Cults “Bad Things” / Gardens & Villa “Carrizo Plain”

Florence + the Machine “Spectrum” / Wild Beasts “Bed of Nails” / Destroyer “Kaputt” / PJ Harvey “The Words That Maketh Murder” / Tyler the Creator and Hodgy Beats “Sandwitches” / King Louie “Too Cool” / James Pants “Every Night I Dream” / The Weeknd “The Party and the After Party” / Thundercat “Walkin'” / Radiohead “Separator” / Lil Wayne “Nightmares of the Bottom” / Little Dragon “Nightlight” / M83 “Claudia Lewis” / Yuck “Shook Down” / Smith Westerns “Weekend” / Matthew Friedberger “Shirley” / Cymbals Eat Guitars “The Current” / Society of Rockets “Plastic Stars”

R.E.M. “Discoverer” / Wild Flag “Romance” / Purity Ring “Ungirthed” / Veronica Maggio “Finns Det En Så Finns Det Flera” / Planningtorock “I Am Your Man” / EMA “Milkman” / Atlas Sound “Mona Lisa” / Eleanor Friedberger “Heaven” / Real Estate “It’s Real” / Pistol Annies “Hell On Heels” / Pusha T “Raid” / ASAP Rocky “Palace” / Kelly Clarkson “What Doesn’t Kill You (Stronger)” / AWOLNATION “Sail” / The Joy Formidable “Whirring” / Cold Cave “The Great Pan is Dead” / Mr. Dream “Learn the Language” / Sandro Perri “Changes” / Austra “Shoot the Water” / Bon Iver “Calgary”

The Kills “Future Starts Slow” / Anna Calvi “No More Words” / Black Keys “Lonely Boy” / James Blake “The Wilhelm Scream” / Shabazz Palaces “Recollections of the Wraith” / Nicolas Jaar “Space Is Only Noise If You Can See” / King Krule “Portrait in Black and Blue” / Jack White “Love Is Blindness” / Cam’ron and Vado “Girls Cry” / Curren$y “This Is the Life” / Ludacris with Wiz Khalifa “What U Smoking On” / Electric Six “Psychic Visions” / Panda Bear “Last Night at the Jetty” / Drake “Marvins Room” / Kurt Vile “Baby’s Arms” / Feist “How Come You Never Go There?” / Cliffie Swan “Dream Chain” / The Decemberists “Calamity Song” / ‘The Book of Mormon’ Original Cast “I Believe”

Julianna Barwick “The Magic Place” / St. Vincent “Cruel” / Lykke Li “Youth Knows No Pain” / Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks “No One Is (As I Are Be)” / The Last Hurrah “The Ballad of Billy and Lilly (Parts 1 and 2)” / Thurston Moore “Illuminine” / My Morning Jacket “You Wanna Freak Out” / Fleet Foxes “Bedouin Dress” / Travis Garland and JoJo “Paint” / Yelle “Safari Disco Club” / Sebastian featuring Mayer Hawthorne “Love In Motion” / ARAABMUZIK “Golden Touch” / xxxy “Ordinary Things” / Tom Vek “A Chore” / Patrick Stump “Spotlight (New Regrets)” / Yelawolf “Good Girl” / Big K.R.I.T. “Time Machine” / Rewards with Solange Knowles “Equal Dreams”

Rebecca Black “Friday” / Das Racist “Michael Jackson” / The-Dream with Big Sean “Ghetto” / Ke$ha “Blow” / Katy B “Broken Record” / SBTRKT “Right Thing to Do” / Kelly Rowland with Lil Wayne “Motivation” / J. Cole “Work Out” / Justice “On’n’on” / Coldplay “Hurts Like Heaven” / Big Troubles “Misery” / Iceage “Broken Bone” / Liturgy “Generation” / Oneohtrix Point Never “Replica” / Kate Bush “Wild Man” / Charli XCX “Stay Away” / Gang Gang Dance “Sacer” / Lana Del Rey “Video Games”

Beastie Boys “Make Some Noise” / Nicki Minaj “Super Bass” / Miranda Lambert “Baggage Claim” / Los Campesinos! “By Your Hand” / The Strokes “Under Cover of Darkness” / Foo Fighters “Back and Forth” / Girls “Alex” / Guided by Voices “The Unsinkable Fats Domino” / Megafaun “Get Right” / Keren Ann “My Name Is Trouble” / Active Child “Hanging On” / The Field “Is This Power?” / Azari & III “Manic” / Frank Ocean “Songs For Women” / Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Little Blue House” / Kathryn Calder “Who Are You?” / Future of the Left “Polymers Are Forever”

Hauschka “Cube” / Mountain Goats “Damn These Vampires” / Sloan “Unkind” / Telekinesis “I Cannot Love You” / Wilco “Dawned On Me” / Gauntlet Hair “My Christ” / Cities Aviv “Coastin'” / Lil B “I Seen That Light” / Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame “Break Her” / Jamie xx “Far Nearer” / Skrillex “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” / The Dø “Gonna Be Sick!” / Lindsey Buckingham “In Our Own Time” / The War On Drugs “I Was There” / Wye Oak “Holy Holy” / Dum Dum Girls “Coming Down” / WU LYF “Heavy Pop” / Esben and the Witch “Marine Fields Grow”

Deerhoof “The Merry Barracks” / Craig Wedren “I Know” / Death Cab For Cutie “Codes and Keys” / Jamie Woon “Lady Luck” / Gotye “I Feel Better” / Raphael Saadiq “Stone Rollin’” / Tom Waits “Talking At the Same Time” / Björk “Crystalline” / Mary J Blige with Rick Ross “Why” / Kendrick Lamar “A.D.H.D.” / Washed Out “Eyes Be Closed” / Adventure “Smoke and Mirrors” / Bell “Meaninglessness” / Killer Mike “Ready Set Go” / Nicola Roberts “Lucky Day” / Madeon “Pop Culture (Live Mashup)” / Joe Goddard “Gabriel” / Phantogram “Don’t Move” / The Olivia Tremor Control “The Game You Play Is In Your Head, Parts 1, 2 and 3”