Marcel Winatschek

This Week’s Songs

Put together this week’s mix: The Ting Tings’ loose, almost accidental energy, Bloc Party when they’re tight and nervous, Pop Levi, and this gutting ballad with Yoko Kanno and Ilaria Graziano. They shouldn’t work together but they do.

Muxtape’s basically a ghost now but the format still feels right. Short, constrained, forces you to think about what goes where. That discipline matters.