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This week sees the release of the soundtrack to British psychological thriller Berbarian Sound Studio, a soundtrack that’s notable for being a) creepy as hell and b) the last thing ever recorded by much-missed British duo Broadcast before singer Trish Keenan’s death from pneumonia in 2010. Keenan’s death robbed the music world of a distinctive voice and a singular talent, and the release of Berbarian Sound Studio has got us listening again to the fantastic mixtape a friend of Keenan’s released in her memory a couple of weeks after she died. This in turn got us thinking about other artist-made mixtapes that have brightened up our iTunes over the last couple of years, eclectic selections made by musicians you wouldn’t necessarily expect to dabble in DJ mixes — we’ve shared a few of them after the jump.

Broadcast

Trish Keenan’s “Mindbending Motorway Mix” was made for a friend just before Broadcast headed off to Australia on tour — a tour from which, sadly, Keenan would never return. Her friend released the mix as a tribute to the singer, and it’s been on fairly regular rotation on our iTunes ever since. We can’t find a working download link for it any more — because, y’know, distributing obscure MP3s of songs you can’t buy by artists who are long dead anyway is definitely what’s destroying the music industry — but you can still stream it right here.