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Washed Out “Hold Out”
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Threading in the Choirs presents Summerings.
Tracklist:
01. Idaho - Echelon
02. Efterklang - Modern Drift
03. Doug Burr - Red, Red
04. Secret Cities - Boyfriends
05. Nina and Frederik - Listen to the Ocean
06. A.A. Bondy - I Can See the Pines Are Dancing
07. Lost River/Old River - No Clouds
08. Here We Go Magic - Collector
09. Vivian Girls - Surfin’ Away
10. jj - Into the Light
11. The Radio Dept. - You Stopped Making Sense
12. Damien Jurado - Arkansas
13. Megafaun - The Longest Day
14. Elizabeth Cotten - New Year’s Eve
15. Françoise Hardy - Ton Meilleur Ami
16. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
17. The Tallest Man on Earth - Troubles Will Be Gone
18. Julianna Barwick - Red Tit Warbler
19. Sharon Van Etten - I Fold
20. Mark McGuire - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi
I have decided to do a downloadable music mix each season. The first installment will begin now, a 20 track, 123.46mb .zip file of mp3′s that fit aptly under the moniker of “summer”. Enjoy the warm weather.
Click here to download.
I’m downloading this right now. It looks superb; a perfect balance of songs I already love, songs I’ve barely played but to which I’ve been meaning to devote more time and songs I’ve never heard. Can’t wait to dig in!
(via Flux-Rad)
The Vocoder
50 years before Roger Troutman glimpsed the future of funk with “More Bounce to the Ounce” the vocoder was invented by Bell Labs to further secure encrypted military radio transmissions. In Dave Tompkins’ book, How to Wreck a Nice Beach ”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune.”
To compliment the book, Tompkins’ and DJ Monk-One put together this mix:
This thing is completely badass. You’s NEED to download it.
Extensive tracklist + commentary here.
(via Yours Truly)
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V/A: WE’RE ONLY DAYS AWAY (click to download)
This is the first mixtape I’ve put together and shared publicly in quite a while (I’ve made a few solely for my wife in the meantime). Feels good to get back in the game.
I started out w/ about 3 1/2 hours worth of music, and it took me forever to skin it down to just these 18 songs. It was tough as hell. The silver lining of that is that I’ve got so many ripe leftovers, I’ll probably be able to have another one ready in the not-too-distant future, albeit w/ a slightly different “feel” to it than this one. Anyway, please download & enjoy. I’d love to hear what you think of the music.
Tracklist:
01 Shout Out Louds Walls (Fontän Remix) 6:13
02 Kisses Bermuda 4:22
03 Lake Heartbeat Southbound 3:59
04 Korallreven Loved-Up 3:53
05 Pallers The Kiss 5:39
06 Treasure Canada 3:42
07 The Sonnets Sebastian Said (Montauk Remix) 5:07
08 Washed Out You’ll See It 2:55
09 Daft Punk Voyager 3:48
10 Tanlines Three Trees 3:23
11 Montauk Holiday 4:39
12 Lo-Fi-FNK Marchin’ In 5:08
13 Club 8 Western Hospitality (Pallers Remix) 5:39
14 Mathemagic Breaststroke 4:47
15 How to Dress Well Decisions [ft. Yüksel Arslan] 2:29
16 Fol Chen In Ruins (Baths Remix) 4:03
17 Active Child I’m in Your Church at Night 4:36
18 Wild Nothing Cloud Busting 5:22
Total Runtime: 1:19:34 (fits on a CD!)
P.S. - The photographs I used on the cover art are courtesy of photographers Luke Byrne & Kyle Scully, both of whose photos I think perfectly depict the mood of these songs. So make sure you click on those two dudes and peruse the rest of their work.
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