Canada’s Caribou has decided to go for a new record of the longest mixtape ever. However, it isn’t in the traditional sense. He has basically gathered 1000 songs via YouTube as a sort of thank you to his supporters. Now the first thing that you may be thinking is, “he only just gathered other people’s links in put them in one long playlist”. Well, yes, but mind you it is 1000 of them! Before advising one to play the selection on shuffle, Caribou aka Daniel Snaith wrote:

“The last few years of my life have been incredible, thanks in large part to all of you – so I’ve been thinking of how to say thank you.
As you can imagine, music has been a central love of my life since I was a teenager and over the years I’ve been introduced to a lot that has stayed with me. I’ve collected the majority of that music here – and I thought sharing it with you seemed like one way I could say thanks.

I’m sure some things are under-represented or over-represented, but roughly speaking this is a musical history of my life. Of course a lot of this music has come to me through my friends – thank you to Koushik, Kieran, Jeremy, Gary, Brandon, Jason, Sam, Ketan, Ryan, Toby and many others…
Also, please share music with me that you think I would like but is not included here, in the hope this becomes a dialogue rather than a monologue.

I suggest you listen to this on shuffle as I made no attempt to sequence these tracks – I just entered them as I browsed along the shelves in my record collection. If you see dead links or duplicate songs please tweet me @caribouband.

I hope you find something to enjoy here. Thanks,
Dan”