This eight-disc, 157 song mix is a survey of some of the best and most notable music from 2010. It’s fairly comprehensive, covering indie, pop, rock, punk, folk, rap, R&B, soul, dance, country, modern classical, ambient and electronic music, and in many cases, hard-to-classify genre hybrids. I inevitably had to leave out some things, but 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 stuff! Rediscover familiar artists in a new context! Jam out to ten and a half hours of world-class tunes! If you enjoy this, please do pass it on.

Owen Pallett “Midnight Directives” / Vampire Weekend “White Sky” / Spoon “The Mystery Zone” / Joanna Newsom “Good Intentions Paving Company” / Liars “Scarecrows on a Killer Slant” / Janelle Monae featuring Big Boi “Tightrope” / Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill” / Robyn “Dancing on My Own” / LCD Soundsystem “I Can Change” / Sky Ferreira “One” / Bat For Lashes and Beck “Let’s Get Lost” / Arcade Fire “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” / Twin Sister “All Around and Away We Go” / Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Round and Round” / Caribou “Odessa” / Rihanna “Only Girl (in the World)” / Kanye West featuring Pusha T “Runaway”

Yelawolf “Billy Crystal” / Gorillaz featuring Mos Def and Bobby Womack “Stylo” / Goldfrapp “Alive” / Alphabeat “Heatwave” / The-Dream “Love King” / of Montreal featuring Solange “Sex Karma” / Dominique Young Unique “Music Time” / Waka Flocka Flame “Hard in Da Paint” / Stereolab “Two Finger Symphony” / The Russian Futurists “Hoeing Weeds Sowing Seeds” / Glasser “Apply” / Shapes and Sizes “Too Late For Dancing” / Marnie Stern “Transparency is the New Mystery” / James Blake “I Only Know What I Know Now” / Tracey Thorn “Oh, the Divorces!” / Victoire “I Am Coming For My Things” / A Sunny Day in Glasgow “Drink Drank Drunk” / Azari & III “Reckless With Your Love (Tensnake Mix)” / Best Coast “Our Deal”

Scissor Sisters “Invisible Light” / Matthew Dear “You Put A Smell On Me” / Ne-Yo “Champagne Life” / Alicia Keys “Un-Thinkable (I’m Ready)” / How to Destroy Angels “The Believers” / Gold Panda “Snow & Taxis” / These New Puritans “Three Thousand” / Usher featuring Nicki Minaj “Lil Freak” / Beyonce “Why Don’t You Love Me?” / Fol Chen “In Ruins” / Kylie Minogue “Better Than Today” / Club 8 “Dancing With the Mentally Ill” / Britta Persson “Meet A Bear” / Clinic “Bubblegum” / Wavves “Idiot” / Past Lives “Don’t Let the Ashes Fill Your Eyes” / Crystal Castles featuring Robert Smith “Not In Love” / Big Boi featuring Big Rube “General Patton” / M.I.A. “XXXO” / First Rate People “Girls’ Night” / Baths “You’re My Excuse to Travel”

The New Pornographers “Moves” / Ted Leo and the Pharmacists “Bottled In Cork” / The Roots “How I Got Over” / Phosphorescent “It’s Hard to Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama)” / Sabbath Assembly “Glory Hallelujah” / Erykah Badu “Turn Me Away (Get Munny)” / Kings Go Forth “High on Your Love” / Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings “Money” / Die Antwoord “Enter the Ninja” / T.I. “I’m Back” / Chromeo “When the Night Falls” / Beeda Weeda “Baserock Babies” / California Swag District “Teach Me How to Dougie” / Free Energy “Free Energy” / Los Campesinos! “Romance is Boring” / My Chemical Romance “Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)” / Nicki Minaj “Girls Fall Like Dominoes” / Ghostface Killah “Together Baby” / Unknown Mortal Orchestra “Ffunny Ffrends” / Beach House “Walk in the Park”

Hot Chip “Thieves in the Night” / Reading Rainbow “Always on My Mind” / Dum Dum Girls “Rest of Our Lives” / The Knife “The Height of Summer” / The Mynabirds “Ways of Looking” / Deerhunter “Helicopter” / Guido featuring Aarya “Beautiful Complication” / School of Seven Bells “Windstorm” / Avey Tare “Ghost of Books” / Laura Marling “Alpha Shallows” / White Hinterland “Bow & Arrow” / Laetitia Sadier “One Million Year Trip” / Society of Rockets “We” / Lil Wayne “I Am Not A Human Being” / Rick Ross featuring Gucci Mane “MC Hammer” / Roach Gigz “Magic Gas” / Titus Andronicus “Titus Andronicus Forever” / Superchunk “Digging For Something” / Serena-Maneesh “I Just Want to See Your Face” / The Magnetic Fields “We Are Having a Hootenanny” / Rose Elinor Dougall “May Holiday”

Four Tet “Angel Echoes” / Pantha Du Prince “Bohemian Forest” / Panda Bear “You Can Count On Me” / Women “China Steps” / Gonjasufi “Duet” / Flying Lotus “Do the Astral Plane” / Prins Thomas “Ørkenvandring” / Tame Impala “Solitude Is Bliss” / Slow Club “Giving Up On Love” / Cee-Lo Green “Fuck You” / Belle & Sebastian “The Ghost of Rockschool” / Jay Electronica “Exhibit C” / Black Milk featuring Royce Da 5’9 “Deadly Medley” / Charlotte Gainsbourg “Looking Glass Blues” / Zola Jesus “I Can’t Stand” / Wolf Parade “Little Golden Age” / Mr. Dream “Knick Knack” / The Fall “Y.F.O.C./Slippy Floor”

Thrushes “Crystals” / Bullion “Say Goodbye to What” / Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris “Baby” / Drake “Karaoke” / Sade “Soldier of Love” / Katy B “Katy On a Mission” / Teengirl Fantasy “Cheaters” / CocoRosie “The Moon Asked the Crow” / Dirty Projectors and Bjork “On and Ever Onward” / Deloreon “Real Love” / The Smashing Pumpkins “Freak” / Warpaint “Undertow” / The Morning Benders “Promises” / Emeralds “Candy Shoppe” / Kelis “Acapella” / Discodeine featuring Jarvis Cocker “Synchronize” / We Love “Ice Lips” / Twista featuring Raekwon “The Heat” / Gil Scott-Heron “New York Is Killing Me”

Field Music “In the Mirror” / Electric Six “After Hours” / Das Racist “Rappin 2 U” / Curren$y “A Gee” / Antony and the Johnsons “I’m In Love” / The National “Bloodbuzz Ohio” / Candy Claws “Warm Forest Floor” / Sufjan Stevens “I Walked” / William Brittelle “Vivid Culture” / The Chemical Brothers “Snow” / Brian Eno “2 Forms of Anger” / Stornoway “I Saw You Blink” / Mose Allison “My Brain” / Elaine Lachica “Tumbleweed” / Taylor Swift “Mine” / Weezer “Trainwrecks” / Jenny and Johnny “Big Wave” / No Age “Valley Hump Crash” / The Walkmen “Angela Surf City” / Scout Niblett “Duke of Anxiety” / Dom “Jesus” / How to Dress Well featuring Yuksel Arslan “Decisions”