Electric Adolescence – we spell canada with lower case letters

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010

If you’ve ever had the pleasure of spending time with a Canadian you’ll know that we’re sorry. Not for anything in particular, just generally. If you bump into one of us on the street, we’ll be the ones to apologize, to a point where it makes you wonder what a country with relatively clean hands has to feel so bad about.
 
Like any country with running water and a stock market, we have had a checkered history with the original tenants of our land, and several run-ins with the French, but never has a country fetishized their sins as thoroughly as Canada has. Our airports, government buildings, and public places use Native art the way Persian homosexuals use leopard print, and everything we read is coupled with a French translation, even though I’m personally more likely to have a conversation in Tagalog. We put more money towards art funding than any country in the world, with a wildly disproportionate amount of that going to multicultural artists and projects, to a point where we haven’t just turned our guilt into an art form, we have adopted it as a national identity so pervasive that it makes one wonder what would be left if all that went away.
 
In the end, I still prefer living in a country that settles its grievances with art funding and tax policy as opposed to settlement camps and suicide bombers, and I like having the French language around, if only for aesthetics, but with America acting like Al Pacino during the last few minutes of Scarface, the Middle East fighting their way back to the seventeen century, and Europe looking like a great sweater that has seen one too many winters, maybe my countrymen can celebrate this Canada Day by grading the world on a curve, and letting ourselves off the hook.
 
A little glimpse of the part of our culture that doesn’t involve nature, gentrification, or winter sports, here’s a mix of some Canadian rock and new wave from the eh-ties.

Trooper – The Boys In the Bright White Sports Car
Gino Vannelli – Black Cars
The Parachute Club – Rise Up
Platinum Blonde – Situation Critical
Loverboy – Working For the Weekend (Demo Version)
Martha & the Muffins – Swimming
Men Without Hats – Pop Goes the World
Gowan – You’re a Strange Animal
The Payolas – Eyes of a Stranger
Bruce Cockburn – Lovers In a Dangerous Time
Honeymoon Suite – New Girl Now
Rough Trade – High School Confidential
Glass Tiger – Someday
Chilliwack – My Girl
Doug & the Slugs – Who Knows How (To Make Love Stay)
Kim Mitchell – Patio Lanterns
Corey Hart – It Ain’t Enough
Barenaked Ladies – What A Good Boy
The Tragically Hip – Wheat Kings
Stompin’ Tom Connors – C-A-N-A-D-A (Cross Canada)
 
Authors note: if anybody is thinking about writing a comment about Bryan Adams being excluded, or the Barenaked Ladies and Tragically Hip not being from the eighties, you might want to spend that energy explaining to your father why he shouldn’t expect grandchildren.

Electric Adolescence – we spell canada with lower case letters (right click to download) 45 mins/ 320 kbps/ 103MB

Electric Adolescence – I’m Not From the Streets but I’ve Seen Photographs

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Do you remember those old block parties? The girls hangin’ out on the stoop doing the wop? Do you remember the battles at Union Square? Kool Herc at Sedgwick Ave? Saturday nights above the rollerskating rink? Remember the Bridge Wars? The untouched white trains and the fat rope chains? What about the New York City Breakers and the Rock Steady Crew? Remember the “yes yes ya’ll”s and the 808 loops?

Me neither, but I’ve seen some shit in magazines that made it all seem pretty fly.

Sleeze Boys R N The House – Sleeze Boyz R N the House
Otis Clay – Love Bandit (Electro Vocoder Mix)
Clarence “Blowfly” Reid – Blowfly’s ABCs
Ray Gun Omics – Project Future
The Russell Brothers – The Party Scene
Kurtis Blow – AJ Scratch
Run DMC – King of Rock
The Fat Boys – Fat Boys
Grandmaster Flash – Larry’s Dance Theme
The Classical Two – New Generation
Levi 167 – Something Fresh to Swing To
MC Mitchski – Kool DJ Red Alert Is a Great Man
Grandmaster Melle Mel & the Furious Five – Internationally Known
The Sequence – Funk You Up (Long Version)
Frankie Smith – Double Dutch Bus (12″ Version)
The Rocksteady Crew – Get Back Baby Brother
Strafe – Set It Off
Zero Hour – The Dark Side
B Beat Girls – For the Same Man
Ose – Computer Funk
Extra T’s – E.T. Boogie
Steinski – Everything’s Disappeared
Gucci Crew – The Dating Game
Kevie Kev – All Night Long (Waterbed)
The Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long
The Kryptic Crew – Jazzy Sensation
Toddy Tee – I Need a Girl
B.O.S.E – Let’s Jam (Slow Jam)
Cherlie D – Your Love is Dead

Electric Adolescence – I’m Not From the Streets but I’ve Seen Photographs (right click to download) 60 mins/ 320 kbps/ 137MB

Electric Adolescence – The Many Moons of Digable Planets

Saturday, May 22nd, 2010

Unlike any other veteran rap act, the idea of rating the Digable Planets current output against that of their heyday is hardly laughable. Just as their easily digestible debut gave way to a more intricate and enduring sophomore release, the group’s afterlife has been riding a similar tide. 

Not that negotiating this post-Planets output has been easy. Ish “Butterfly” Butler seems to be deliberately keeping his comeback a secret, with the music press curiously playing along. 2004’s Cherrywine project spawned a grimy basement funk session that should have blown-up like a disenfranchised teenager in the Middle East, but went all but unnoticed. I then must have blinked during last year’s release of the lurid and unstructured Shabazz Palaces, which emerged as more aggressive and, true to form, more challenging than the music that paved its way.

Arranging this selection of Digable Planets remixes and rarities against highlights of Ishmael’s subsequent projects presents the same progression from accessibility to experimentalism that marked those first two albums, with the recent output comfortably standing on the same footing as anything the group did before and above anything anybody else does now.

Digable Planets – Intro from Amsterdam Reunion Tour
Digable Planets – Nickel Bags of Bites (Excerpt)
Digable Planets – Dedicated
Digable Planets – Where I’m From (Aural G Ride 12”)
Digable Planets – Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like That) (Crashing Giant Step Mix)
Digable Planets – Excerpt from CurrentTV Interview
Digable Planets – Nickel Bags (Sneak A Beshu Mix)
Digable Planets – Appointment at the Fat Clinic
Digable Planets – Califlower (Spiddyocks Go West)
Digable Planets – Three Slim’s Dynamite
Digable Planets feat Guru – Borough Check
Digable Planets feat. Jeru – Graffiti (Noise)
Digable Planets – Dial 7 (Axioms of Creamy Spies)
Digable Planets – 9th Wonder (Amina Remix)
Tek 9 feat. Butterfly – Gettin’ Down Again
Camp Lo feat. Butterfly – Swing
Cherrywine – See For Miles
King Britt feat. Cherrywine – The Sound
Cherrywine – Dazzlement
Shabazz Palaces – N. Splendored/ Find Out
Shabazz Palaces – Capital 5, Recorded After Hrs at the Gun Ballad Resource Centre
Cherrywine – 16th Minute
Cherrywine – Sleep Pretty Girl
Digable Planets feat. Lester Bowie and Melvin Watson – Flying High in the Brooklyn Sky
Digable Planets – Where I’m From (DJ Bonus Beats)
Digable Planets – Excerpt from CurrentTV Interview
Digable Planets – Marvin, You’re the Man

Electric Adolescence – The Many Moons of Digable Planets (right click to download) 60:00 mins/ 320 kbps/ 137MB

Based on the single and a dramatic new video referencing Charles Burnett’s remarkable film, Killer of Sheep, I’d suggest Shabazz Places is poised to turn things upside down had I not made similar claims about Blowout Comb and Bright Black just before hip-hop devolved into genre of ring-tones. This time I’ll at least put my oar in the water with some bonus material taken from the group’s appearance on Seattle’s KEXP radio.

Shabazz Palaces – Live on KEXP (right click to download) 20:00 mins/ 320 kbps/ 45.8MB

Electric Adolescence – Raised on Cassettes

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

With vinyl aptly regarded for its sonic warmth and potential for album art, cassettes never gained the same fetishistic regard, regarded by many as an inferior stopgap between the adoption of records and compact disks. That said, this conventional wisdom is currently under siege by the growing trend of lo-fi bands running their recordings through analog tape as a means to remove the pristine polish and sharp edges that have dominated production since the personal computer became our generation’s electric guitar.

If the jury is still out on the issue of sound quality, it has surely adjourned on the fact that cassettes remain the greatest media for compilations, differentiating itself from digital mixes in the same way an original painting differentiates itself from a print. I’ve been lazily bridging this gap by creating digital mixes then dubbing them to cassette. My recent session has amounted to a schizophrenic bedroom mix, reflecting the severe extent to which my musical tastes are currently lost at sea.

How To Dress Well – How Could This Have Happened?
Atlas Sound – Reminder (Excerpt)
WU LYF – Concrete Gold
Cults – Go Outside
E and E – Gate
Shabazz Palaces – N. Spendored/ Find Out
Grand Puba – Get It (Caspa’s 80Eighties Remix)
War – Junk Yard (MTY Re-edit)
Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts & Dop – Can’t Have Everything
Narcotic Syntax – Romantic Infinity
Onze – Bambam
Bobby Kondors – The Poem
Blunted Dummies – House For All (House 4 All Robots Mix)
Matthew Herbert – Manchester
Thomas Bjerring feat. David Skog – 2.45
Pogo – Lost
The Knife – Tomorrow In a Year
Time For Dreams – Breathlessly (demo)
Farah – Gay Boy (Vocal Mix)
Microphones – Mt. Eerie
Diamond Vampires – Friday Nights
Instra:mental – Let’s Talk
Boswell – Escape
Coyote Clean Up – Can’t Shake the Full Moon
Double Dee & Steinski – Message To Young People
Double Dee & Steinski – We’re In a Lot of Trouble
El Michels Affair – Mystery of Chessboxin’
Public Enemy – Contract On the World Love Jam
Junior Mafia – Get Money (Remix)
Erykah Badu – Turn Me Away (Get Munny)
Trus’ Me – Can We Pretend?
Warpaint – Billie Holiday
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Today/ Tomorrow
Color of Clouds – Haunts Me (Acoustic)
Consequence – Farewell (Excerpt)
Cryo – Guantanamo Bay (Excerpt)
Dragging on Ox Through Water – Lilacs Sprang From These Apes
The Books – Beautiful People
Paul White – Anchor Records
The Wind-up Birds – There Won’t Always Be an England
Dr. Octagon – Blue Flowers (Instrumental)
Martin Buttrich – You Got That Vibe
Spiritualized – Angels Sigh (Alternate Mix 2)
Microphones – Do Not Be Afraid (Side B)

Electric Adolescence – Raised on Cassettes (right click to download) 80:00 mins/ 320 kbps/ 183 MB

Electric Adolescence – Guru Tribute mix

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Legendary rapper Guru died today, ending a short and private battle with cancer. Beyond the cultural significance of a hip hop artist dying of something other than a gunshot wound, the rap world lost a name that gets bandied about in “greatest emcee of all time” conversations as much as any. While even his biggest supporters tend to concede that the man has spit some fairly shoddy rhymes during his day, Guru’s tenor and flow is so perfect that criticizing his lyrics became like complaining about a lack of color in a black and white photograph.

To commemorate a carrier that pushed hip hop at exactly the time it needed it, the following is a quick mix of some of Guru’s best moments which, in turn, are some of the best in hip hop history.

Electric Adolescence – Guru Tribute Mix (right click to download) 30 mins/ 320 kbps/ 68.6MB

Electric Adolescence – April Fools Day (Comedy Mix)

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

I’d be just as curious to find out more about the origins of April Fools Day as I would to learn who decided it would be the only holiday to end midday. Perhaps someone realized how uncomfortable it would be to go to sleep on a night with those around you given license to fuck around; it actually wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the decision to cut the day short was made around the same time they discovered that putting a persons hand in hot water could make them wet the bed.

I’d personally be fine loosing the day altogether. Practical jokes have always made me uneasy, if only due to my general fear of anticipation: I’m the sort of guy that would rather just get punched in the face than have someone tell me they were going to punch me in the face at some indiscriminate time in the future. Or maybe my feelings stem from a practical joke played on me when I was twelve. I mean, at that age I probably should’ve known that Prince wasn’t going to sing at my birthday party, but that logic didn’t help dry the tears from my Purple Rain tour shirt.

No, I prefer a properly structured joke or well timed one liner. It doesn’t have to be fancy, something like “a skeleton walks into a bar and orders a beer and a mop” suits me fine. So, for this April Fools Day I thought I’d bypass the passive aggressive practical joke ritual and offer up a mix of proper comedy, from standup to sketches to amusing songs, all much wittier than the cling wrap on the toilet gag, and without the unsightly mess.

Rodney Dangerfield – No Respect Intro
Steve Martin – Hostages
Woody Allen – The Lost Generation
Richard Pryor – Wino
Charlie Murphy – Tsunami
Eddie Murphy – Singers
South Park – Colfax Point
Chris Rock – No Sex
Flight of the Concords – Think About It
Chris Rock – Roger & Zapp
That Mitchell & Webb Sound – Relaxed DJ 7
On the Hour – Intro, News
On the Hour – TAB FM Audio Pullout
On the Hour – Sports Desk with Alan Partridge
The Day Today – September 11th
On the Hour – Sports Desk with Alan Partridge
The Armando Iannucci Show – Interview with Steven Spielberg
Blue Jam – Ambivalent Parents
That Mitchell and Webb Sound – The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Leicester Comedy Festival
Frankie Boyle – Various
Demetri Martin – Sitting Guitar
Steven Wright – Kitten Song
Steven Wright – Various
Woody Allen – Down South
Monty Python – The Galaxy Song
Bill Hicks – Sleep and the Message
Rodney Dangerfield – Song of No Respect
Flight of the Concords feat Rhys Darby – Leggy Blonde

Electric Adolescence – April Fools Day (Comedy Mix) (right click to download) 60 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB

Electric Adolescence – Elephant Carving

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Centuries ago, a British curator travelled deep into Southeast Asia on a quest to find the artisan responsible for an exquisitely crafted statue of an Elephant, carved from a single piece of wood with what the man assessed as a preternatural level of skill. After months of trekking the unforgiving continent, he eventually met a slight and humble Indonesian woodworker living in poverty, though not in discontent.

Sharing a pot of tea inside a ramshackle workshop, the curator was awestruck to learn that such primitive tools were responsible for bearing such majestic artifacts. Eagerly, he pressed the craftsman to explain the nuances of his technique. Taking a wear-worn chisel in his hand, the craftsman replied, “I start with a block of wood and then I chip away the bits that don’t look like an elephant”.

Le Loup – Outside of This Car, The End of the World
Whitey – Can’t Go Out Can’t Stay In
Benoit & Sergio – What I’ve Lost
Felix Da Housecat – He Was King
No Regular Play – Owe Me
The Armaberokay – The Hype (Marc Schneider and Ralf Schmidt Remix)
Wolf – Papa Was a Rolling Stone
Unknown Artist – Maximal Michael
Ytre Rymden Dansskola – Bange Aneiser
Laurent Garnier – It’s Just Muzik
Birds and Souls – Birds and Souls
Giorgos Gatzigristos – Sporting Dark Stuff
Mr. C – Full Moon
Minilogue – Giant Hairy Super Monster
International Pony –The Royal Pennekaums
Nicolas Jaar – Time For Us
Trusme – War
Ark – Back to Sleep Back
Paul Simon – Can’t Run But (Jerome Covington Remix)
Inch Time – Crystal Visions
The One – Double Life
International Pony – Goodbye

Electric Adolescence – Elephant Carving (right click to download) 60:00 mins/ 320 kbps/ 137MB

Electric Adolescence – Bring Back the Slow Dance (Valentines Day Mix)

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

While a decision was made upon this blog’s inception to stick strictly to music and not splinter off into weightier topics like philosophy or politics, I seek a reprieve this Valentines Day with an issue that encompasses a bit of both. I’m writing, of course, about how people don’t slow dance at clubs anymore. Like the unfortunate phasing out of bench seats in automobiles or dueling to settle a grievance, our generation forgoing the slow dance strikes me less like a cultural evolution as it does a misguided regression by a society that has lost its way.

It might sound fantastical to readers born post Purple Rain, but it wasn’t so long ago that a DJ would pitch things down and play a ballad at peak hour, and why not? It’s well recognized, if not largely unspoken, that an establishment can charge eight dollars for an ounce of down-market alcohol in exchange for creating an opportunity for semi-consensual human contact. So why have we forsaken an imbedded social custom whereby a simple change in music would speed this process along?

Perhaps it’s a cultural shift from those of us raised in an era where sexuality was presented bathed in blue light and accompanied by a saxophone solo on scrambled pay per view, to a generation whose visual representation of sex comes by way of sallow pornography made on the brutally honest medium of digital video. For all of the drawbacks of prudishness, maybe having a bit of shame about sex forces one to be more seductive when asking for it. Or maybe we’re just living through the blowback from rave culture and the libido crushing stimulants that traded the ritual of a slow dance for a 90 minute shoulder rub in the “chill-out room” like members of a benign, sexless cult.

Whatever the reason, I’d like to take this day of romance to offer a plea to those responsible to drop a few ballads at the club so we can all get a bit of touch. The following is a slow dance starter kit, a selection which also makes for a compelling Valentines Day mix whether you’re celebrating with a long time partner, courting someone new, or are at home alone, cutting yourself to recapture an ex-lover’s fancy.

Winter Family – Garden
Soko – I Will Never Love You More
The Velvet Underground – Some Kinda Love (Closet Mix)
Tommy James & the Shondells – Crimson & Clover
Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg – Je t’aime moi non plus
Beach Boys – Disney Girls
Hall & Oates – I’m Just A Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like A Man)
Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – The Way
James Carr – What Can I Call My Own
Natural Four – Can This Be Real?
Otis Redding – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long
BloodStone – Natural High
Johnny Daye – Stay Baby Stay
The Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes for You
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane – In a Sentimental Mood
Chet Baker – My Funny Valentine
Os Mutantes – Baby
shelly duvall – He Needs Me
Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters – Tonight You Belong to Me
Leo Sayer – When I Need You
Prince – International Lover
D’Angelo - Feel Like Makin’ Love
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan – Sweet Thing
Shirley Murdock – As We Lay

Electric Adolescence – Bring Back the Slow Dance (right click to download) 80:00 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB

Electric Adolescence – The Cover Up

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

Musicians covering each others work has been as longstanding a staple in music culture as substance abuse and misogyny. While the motivation to do so is often the child of an unholy marriage between lazy opportunism and musical sacrilege, in worthy hands it can be the most respectful of endeavors, often providing a useful roadmap to the covering artists influences. With emphasis on the latter, the following post is a mix of some of the more interesting cover versions I’ve collected on my travels.

Glass Candy – Iko (Dixie Cups)
Vampire Weekend – Everywhere (Fleetwood Mac)
Magic Arm – Daft Punk Is Playing In My House (LCD Soundsystem)
The Flaming Lips – Money (Pink Floyd)
JJ – Ecstacy (Lil’ Wayne)
3 Teens Kill 4 – Tell Me Something Good (Rufus & Chaka Khan)
Peter Bjorn & John – Summer Breeze (Seals & Croft)
The Cloud Room – Blue Monday (New Order)
Plaintains – I Feel Love (Donna Summer)
Monsters Are Waiting – I Wanna Be Adored (Stone Roses)
The Go! Team – Bull in the Heather (Sonic Youth)
California Poppy Pickers – Why Don’t We Do It In the Road (The Beatles)
My Brightest Diamond – Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey (The Beatles)
The Puppini Sisters – Walk Like an Egyptian (The Bangles)
Clare and the Reasons – That’s All (Genesis)
Thao – You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me (Smokey Robinson)
Chromatic Flights – I Am a Rock (Simon & Garfunkel)
Casiotone For the Painfully Alone – Streets of Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)
You Say Party! We Say Die! – Nightswimming (R.E.M.)
The Chromatics – Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush)
Hot Chip – Transmission (Joy Division)
Fischerspooner – The 15th (Wire)
Theophilus London feat. Lykke Li – Computer Love (Kraftwerk)
White Hinterland – My Love (Justin Timberlake)
Idiot Glee – Ain’t No Sunshine (Bill Withers)
Ryan Adams – Everything In It’s Right Place (Radiohead)
Phoenix – Playground Love (Air)
Annie Hart and Slow Club – Killing Moon (Echo & the Bunnymen)
The Last Town Chorus – Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me? (Culture Club)
Taken By Trees – Sweet Child of Mine (Guns & Roses)
The Old Believers – This Must Be the Place (Talking Heads)
Kevin Davis – Fuck Tha Police (NWA Cover)
Antony and the Johnsons – Crazy In Love (Beyonce)
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra – Condition of the Heart (Prince)

Electric Adolescence – The Cover Up (right click to download) 80 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB

Electric Adolescence – Baited Breath

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

breathe

The turning over a new year can feel a little jarring, like the moment after a record skips when a confused room attempts to regain their collective rhythm. With the mayhem of the holidays now shrinking in the rearview mirror, ‘tis now the season for exercise regiments marked with a shorter shelf life than that of the bushels of fresh produce bought in earnest, but destined to rot in the crisper drawer. As scores of people line up to start a race that few will ever finish, I stand boldly apart, letting myself off the hook in the area of physical improvement, even if my body is starting to resemble something one might find hanging in the window of a Chinese restaurant. 

Instead, my delightfully achievable New Years resolution involves a shift to more organic music, if that word still has any meaning. Having spent the better part of last year compiling mixes of obsessively arranged electronic music, I now find myself craving some audio roughage. In that spirit, this month’s mix forgoes laptops and synthesizers for a deliberately inconsistent blend of punk, funk, soul and psych; sounds to fill the silence as we sit with baited breath, waiting to see what the New Year might bring.

Eddy Current Suppression Ring – You Let Me Be Honest With You
Yuya Uchida & the Flowers – Intruder
The Pixies – Hey
Underworld feat. Brian Eno & Karl Blau – Beebop Hurry
WU LYF – Heavy Pop
Om – Cremation Ghat I
Andwella’s Dream – Cocaine
Mandre – Masked Music Man
Ofege – It’s Not Easy
Mister Holmes and the Brotherhood – Thrift Store Find
Soulphiction – Intermission
13th Floor Elevators – Blue and Peaceful
Paul Parrish – English Sparrow
Idiot Glee – All Packed Up
Nite Jewel – The Kamera Song
Airport One – Two Days
Gil Scott Heron – Where Did the Night Go
Ian France – High Places
David Shrigley – Don’t From Bits and Bobs
The Knife feat Mt. Sims and PlanningtoRock – Coloring of Pigeons
Prince – People Without (Live)
Sarah Webster Fabio – Juju For Grandma
Skull Snaps – It’s a New Day
The South Side Movement – Everlasting Thrill
Bob James – Nautilus
The Crystal Mansion – Somebody Oughta Turn Your Head Around
Moodymann – The Day We Lost the Soul
O.V. Wright – Motherless Child
The Persuasions – Another Night With the Boys
Black Merda – Think of Me
24 Carat Black – I Want to Make Up
Jackie McLean – Soul
Sam Cooke – Medley: It’s All Right/ For Sentimental Reasons

Electric Adolescence – Baited Breath (right click to download) 80 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB

Electric Adolescence – A Decade In Review

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009

computers

Evaluating this decade from a cultural standpoint feels, to paraphrase a report card comment from my 11th grade English teacher regarding my ability to focus, a little like nailing Jello to the wall. Unlike the eighties which brought us Back to the Future and hip hop and crack cocaine, this decade was rather short on original iconography, defining itself more by the manner in which past trends were recycled than the rate at which new ones were created. Even Bin Laden’s iconic attack of the World Trade Centre was so obviously lifted from the 1992 Steven Segal action blockbuster, Under Siege.

If forced to find a label, this decade this could perhaps be regarded as the age of irony, a generational fetishizing of bad taste that allowed brashness to trade as talent and cynicism as charm. While certainly a cultural masterstroke on the part of reality television hopefuls and sallow hipsters with no fashion sense who could pass themselves off as hip by hiding under fluorescent sweatshirts and trucker hats, what should have been a summer fad has all but consumed an entire decade, leaving some of us feeling how one does after eating dessert in lieu of dinner.

In summing up this decade’s output, I refrained from doing the standard list of the hundred or so greatest albums and songs, assuming I’d wind up with something as arbitrary as those greatest films lists which attempt to put titles as diverse as Star Wars, Annie Hall, and Casablanca in a definitive order of quality. Instead, I assembled a couple of super-sized mixes of some highlights from a decade when we used to listen to music on CDs, talk about how the Iraq war was really over oil, and about how we still had time to save the environment. It seems like only yesterday.

Part One – A Decade in Computers

Dapayk & Padburg – Black Beauty
Matthew Dear – Don and Sherri
Mandy vs. Booka Shade – Body Language (Konrad Black Remix)
Roxy Music – The Thrill of it All (Mandy & Booka Shade Mix)
Alex Smoke – Make My Day (Luisine Mix)
Matias Aguayo – New Life
Dave Aju – Crazy Place
!!! – Shit Scheisse Merde, Pt. 2
Chromeo – Needy Girl
Junior Boys – In the Morning
Metro Area – Miura
Miss Kitten & the Hacker – Madame Hollywood
Fischerspooner – Horizon
Radiohead – Idioteque
Ricardo Villalobos – What You Say (Edit)
Stephen Beaupre – Fish Fry
(a)pendics Shuffle – Looking for Me (Mossa Remix)
SCSI 9 – Mini
Enliven Dop Acoustics – The Dust (Enliven Deep Acoustics Mix)
Moodymann – Freeki Mutha F cker
Soulphiction – Get It Right
Elektrochemie – Don’t Go
Invisible Conga People – Cable Dazed
The Knife – One Hit
The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
Amadou & Mariam – Sabali
Woofly vs. Projections – Starlight
Jurgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie
Kraftwerk – Elektro Kardiogramm
Air – Run
Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart (Familijen Remix)
Clipse – Grindin’
Aaliyah – Try Again
Farah – Law of Life
Cassie – Me & U (Chopped & Screwed Version)
Theophilus London – Aquamilitia
Kid Cudi – Day and Night
Tessio – Luomo
Mount Kimbie – 50 Mile View
Damian Lazarus – Moment
Daft Punk – Something About Us
Playgroup – Hideaway
The Chromatics – Night Drive
The Orb – Before Because
Dntel – Anywhere, Anyone
Burial – Archangel
Ratatat – Cherry
Cassius – Nothing
Schneider TM vs. Kpt Michi Gan – The Light

Part One – A Decade in Computers (right click to download) 120 mins/ 256 kbps/ 162MB

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 Part Two – A Decade in Bands and Singer/ Songwriters

Andrew Bird – A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head
Fujiya & Miyagi – Collarbone
Of Montreal – Gronlandic Edit
Takka Takka – Everybody Say
These United States – First Sight
Angus & Julia Stone – Paper Aeroplane
Stars – This Charming Man
American Analog Set – Aaron and Maria
The XX – Basic Space
Phoenix – If I Ever Feel Better
Yeasayer – 2080
The Polyphonic Spree – Solider Girl
The Duke Spirit – Masca
The Strokes – Last Night
The Concretes – You Can’t Hurry Love
You Say Party! We Say Die! – Downtown Mayors Goodnight, Alley Kids Rule
Serena Maneesh – Her Name is Suicide
Sonic Youth – Peace Attack
American Watercolor Movement – Sweet Thursday
Panda Bear – Take Pills
Electralane – The Valleys
Amnion – Praise God For the Light Within Me
Wilco – Radio Cure
Yo La Tengo – Don’t Have to Be So Sad
Gregor Samsa – Jeroen Van Aken
The Owls – Isaac Beshevis Singer
The Wooden Birds – Seven Seventeen
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – I Can’t Tell in His Eyes
Taken Too Young – Too Young
Brightblack Morning Light – Everybody Delight
Sam Baker – Odessa
Alela Diane – The Rifle
Gravenhurst – The Diver
Goran Gora – Slow Down
Kings of Convenience – I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From
Iron and Wine – Lions Mane
The Rosemont Family Reunion – Ho Ho Ho
Sebadoh – Beautiful Friend
Antony & the Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone
Papa M – So Warped
Sigur Ros – Staralfur
Alaska In Winter – Horsey Horse
D’Angelo – One More Gin

Part Two – A Decade in Bands and Singer/ Songwriters (right click to download) 120 mins/ 256 kbps/ 165MB

Electric Adolescence – The Year 2000

Monday, December 21st, 2009

2000

In the year 2000, flying cars will be everywhere, and doors will open with a swish; a sound we will never grow tired of. The government will tattoo UPC codes into the back of our necks in a move that recalls the most harrowing aspects of Orwell’s dystopian vision of the future; surprisingly, we’ll eventually realize that it is actually an efficient system and that we all overreacted. In the year 2000, scientists will discover a cure for AIDS, however, the following year a new disease will emerge that will make HIV feel like a case of “the Mondays” and a new generation of Jews and Palestinians will have totally gotten over the whole Israel issue, electing to settle Gaza with a region-wide game of Laser Tag. In this new century, every household will have its own computer with which people will make music and exchange pornography, though not remotely in that order.

Lil Louis – I Called U (A Series of Events)
File 13 – Taste So Good
Benoit & Sergio – Full Grown Man
Marek Memmann – NTMYT
Session Victim – Memory Lane
Captain Comatose – Up In Flames (Glove Mix)
Underworld – Show Some Emotion
Lil Louis – I Called U (But U Went To the Party)
Move D & Namlook – Civilization There!
Ytre Rymden Dansskola – Kahluha Madness
Optic Nerve – Orgins Interlude
Optic Nerve – Orgins
Konrad Black & Selfparttwo – Still Waiting… Haven’t Even Started Yet
Gaiser – Oolooloo
In Flagranti – Brash and Vulgar
Circlesquare – Dancers (Taras3000 Remix)
Eberhard Schoener – Why Don’t You Answer
Billy Dallessandro – Fondue
Ricardo Villalobos and Los Updates – Driving Nowhere (Audio George Mix)
Oni Ayhun – OAR001-A
Jaydee – Plastic Dreams
Moodyman – On My Way Home
Stewart Walker – LA Walker
Omar S – 100% House
System 01 – Family Drugs
David Hasert – You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Melody
System 01 – Disembodied Voices
Philip Seymour Hoffman – Firing Missiles at Christmas and Easter Island
Instra:mental – Watching You
Colorpulse feat Carl Sagan & Stephen Hawking – Glorious Dawn
Steve Mason – All Come Down
King Midas Sound – Sometimes

Electric Adolescence – The Year 2000 80:00 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB

Electric Adolescence – Elsewhere Elsewhere

Friday, November 20th, 2009

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I don’t know what’s going down. When I tried to be down, down wasn’t around, so I went around and found that down went elsewhere. So I went there, then there came here, where here went became unclear, so I went back there and there went back elsewhere.

Perhaps elsewhere isn’t anywhere – it seems I’ve looked for elsewhere everywhere, and anyway everywhere could be anywhere, I fear. So if you find yourself there and wind-up finding elsewhere, then please find me, it seems I’m always here.

Tracklisting

Exile – Kiss You All Over (Brennan Green 6:59 Edit)
The XX – VCR
Pogo – Alice
The Bee Gees – Love You Inside Out
Rockets – One More Mission
Circuitry starring Sam Bostic – Computer
The System – You Are In My System
The Mary Jane Girls – All Night Long
Curtis Mayfield – Underground (Demo Version)
Loose Ends – Hanging On a String (Contemplating)
Sly & the Family Stone – Family Affair
Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts – Safety Meeting
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – You’ll Disappear (Prins Thomas Diskomiks)
OMD – Talking Loud and Clear
The Talking Heads – Psycho Killer (Live – Greg Wilson Edit)
Clapz II Dogz – Can You Stand the Rain? (Edit)
Sigur Ros – Gobbledigook (Gluteus Maximus Mix)
Enliven Dop Acoustics – The Dust (Enliven Deep Acoustics Remix)
Strobocop – Love is Music Music is Love
Magnum Force – Cool Out
Prince – Irresistible Bitch
KRL – Remember Donny
A Setting Sun – 33
Moodymann – Rectify
Herbert – Foreign Bodies
Massive Attack – Hymn of the Big Wheel
Oni Ayhun – OAR002-B
Faux Hoax – You Friends Will Carry You Home
Abakus – How Does It Feel To Be Real
Yoko Kanno – Radio Free Mars Talk 7
Nina Gordon – Straight Out of Compton

Electric Adolescence – Elsewhere Elsewhere 80:00 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146MB

The Music of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

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It would be difficult to exaggerate Angelo Badalamenti’s contribution to David Lynch’s body of work. Unlike other director/ composer teams such as Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herman or Stephen Spielberg and John Williams, where the music was written to existing film, this collaboration began when the stories were still part of Lynch’s meditations. Like a patient to a therapist, Lynch would describe moods and feelings, dramatic through-lines that were yet to be connected, with Badalamenti at the piano improvising a musical response. This might explain how the music feels so integrated within the films, seeming to know what transpired behind the white picket fences in the suburbs of Blue Velvet, or between the owls in the forest surrounding Twin Peaks.

Theirs was a perfect pairing of two men who were equal parts twins and opposites: Badalamenti found life in Lynch’s imagination, in turn, the auteur found a welcome restraint in the composer’s formality. The result is a union forged so seamlessly that it becomes impossible to determine where one of them stops and the other begins.

The following is a mix of collaborations between the two, as well as selected pieces of pre-recorded music from Lynch’s films, without which some of Badalamenti’s efforts might feel incomplete.

“My musical world is a little bit dark… a little bit off-center. I think of it as tragically beautiful. That is how I would describe what I love best: tragically beautiful.”

- Angelo Badalamenti

Tracklisting:

In Heaven – The Lady in the Radiator (Eraserhead)
The Elephant Man Theme – John Morris (Elephant Man)
The Prophesy Theme – Toto w/ Brian Eno (Dune)
Sandy’s Dream – Excerpt from Blue Velvet
Main Title – Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet)
Mysteries of Love (French Horn Solo) – Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet)
Love Letters – Ketty Lester (Blue Velvet)
Blue Velvet, Blue Star (Montage) – Angelo Badalamenti (Blue Velvet)
Frank’s Toast – Excerpt from Blue Velvet
In Dreams – Roy Orbison (Blue Velvet)
Twin Peaks Tapes (Excerpt) – Special Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
Twin Peaks Theme – Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks)
Fire Walk With Me Poem – The One Armed Man (Twin Peaks)
The World Spins – Julee Cruise (Twin Peaks)
Just You – James, Donna and Maddy (Twin Peaks)
Best Friends – Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks)
Twin Peaks Tapes (Excerpt) – Special Agent Dale Cooper (Twin Peaks)
Sycamore Trees – Angelo Badalamenti (Twin Peaks/ Fire Walk With Me)
Love Me – Nicolas Cage (Wild at Heart)
Be-Bop A Lula – Blue Caps & Gene Vincent (Wild at Heart)
Perdita – Rubber City (Wild at Heart)
Song to the Siren – This Mortal Coil (Lost Highway)
Blue Spanish Sky – Chris Isaak (Wild at Heart)
Rose’s Theme – Angelo Badalamenti (Straight Story)
Laurens Walking – Angelo Badalamenti (Straight Story)
A Man’s Attitude – Excerpt from Mullholland Drive
Dinner Party Pool Music – Angelo Badalamenti (Mullholland Drive)
I’ve Told Every Little Star – Jerome Kern (Mullholland Drive)
Crying (Llorando) – Rebekah Del Rio (Mullholland Drive)

For those wishing to delve deeper into the world of Twin Peaks, friend of the blog Tom Huddleston has co-written an outstanding guide to the series, including a particularly insightful essay on the feature length prequel, Fire Walk With Me.

NotComing Guide to Twin Peaks

Electric Adolescence – The Music of David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti 100 mins/ 256 kbps/ 109MB

Electric Adolescence – Dancing in the Kitchen

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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An invitation to a house party presents an exhilarating dilemma. On one hand, you run the risk of entering what has been misdiagnosed as a house party but is actually a “gathering” which, like attempting to occupy a hostile Middle-Eastern country, can be uncommonly grueling and difficult to leave. Alternatively, there are those blessed nights when a perfect storm of people and substances gratefully consumes all in its path.

Beyond being an occasion to see Asian girls vomit offline, the house party is also a time honored way for cash strapped cats to keep the wolf from the door. The rent party’s that emerged in Harlem during the depression became a Petri-dish for the forthcoming “jazz age”, and a hotbed for social change. And well before that, an upstart profit named Jesus Christ would pack many a room with his ability to turn talcum powder into ketamine, which gained him an attentive audience that was willing to excuse his tendency to fly off the handle whenever someone knocked the decks, and for his constantly checking the bedrooms to make sure people weren’t fucking.

Like violence, innovation, and the inclination to laugh at the sight of someone else falling down, our party predilection remains a common link to our ancestors, forged by an inherent desire to witness the exquisite sight of girls dancing in the kitchen.

AFTA-1 – Love Suite 2 (Sit Still)
Private – My Secret Lover (Diplo Remix)
The Knife – You Make Me Like Charity
The Orb – DDD (Original Mix)
Sa Ra – Hollywood
Playa – Ms. Parker
Wu Tang Clan – It’s Yours (Instrumental)
Audio Two – Top Billin’ (Instrumental)
Manuel Tur feat Alexander East – Will Be Mine
Owusu & Hannibal – What It’s About (DJ Tom Thump Extended)
Woolfy vs. Projections – Absynth
Lovelock – Don’t Turn Away (From My Love)
Touch Sensitive – Body Stop
The Kindness – Swinging Party
Montell Jordan – Let’s Get It On Tonight
Mewzic Monsterz – Champ
The Heavy – How You Like Me Now? (Joker Remix)
Riskotheque – Def Disco
The Cool Kids feat Jahda – The Last Stretch
Eagger & Stunn Gunn – Morder Dem (JSL Remix)
DJ Assault – She Was
X-Osborne – Our Definition of a Breakdown
Hardrive – Deep Inside (Mr V Sole Channel Remix)
20 Fingers featuring Gillete – Short Dick Man
Sagat – Funk Dat
Dapayk Solo – Didn’t I
Siopis – I’m On Miami
Lee Curtiss – South Aphrika
Ame Strong – Tout Est Bleu (Francois Kevorkian Remix)
Ost & Kjex feat. Mung – Dirty Mind
Felix Da Housecat – We All Wanna Be Prince
Prince – Partyup
Daft Punk – Teachers
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – 15 to 20
Architecture In Helsinki – Do The Whirlwind (Yacht Remix)
ESG – Insane (Tambourine Mix)
Matias Aguayo – Rollerskate (Solomon Edit)
Run, Stop, Restore & Click Box – Magic Juice
Altz – Olympia Rocks
Beastie Boys – Something’s Got to Give (Live in Sidney)
Beastie Boys – Something’s Got to Give (Album Version)
Chromeo – Night By Night (Skream Remix)
2000F & J Kamata – You Don’t Know What Love Is
Burial – Fostercare
Mount Kimbie – 50 Mile View

Electric Adolescence – Dancing in the Kitchen 120 mins/ 256 kbps/ 146 MB

Cornershop Mix

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

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After a seven year hiatus (since their last proper album, they released the delightful “Topknot” single in 2004), British indie stalwarts Cornershop recently dropped their latest full length, “Judy Sucks a Lemon for Breakfast”. While failing to meet the arguably unfair standards I set for the release, it compelled a trip through the band’s back catalog, which is wonderfully difficult to get ones arms around.

From the basement punk affected by a traditional Indian pedigree that became their signature sound on the first two albums, through the Beatles for the hip-hop generation (but in a good way) sound of 1997’s “When I Was Born for the 7th Time”, to their disco inspired side project, Clinton, which spawned the highly overlooked “Disco and the Halfway to Discotent” two years later; it’s admirable for a band to attempt such a range of genres, and almost unthinkable that they would pull it off so convincingly. Also, if they are touring the new album, I highly recommend the live show. I saw them open for Oasis years ago, which came off like Prince opening for El DeBarge.

For those unfamiliar with anything other than the Norman Cook remix of Brimful of Asha, this should act as the Coles Notes to a band worth knowing. For the superfans out there, however many might exist, the playlist pays particular mind to the band’s impressive battery of b-side and ep releases.

Sounds Super Recordings
Call All Destroyer
Jullandar Shere (Jeh Jeh Mix)
Wog
Camp Orange
Tera Mera Pyar
My Dancing Days are Done
Brimful of Asha
Easy Winners (Part Two)
People Power In the Disco Hour (as Clinton)
Slip the Drummer One
Wogs Will Walk
Music Plus
Buttoned Down Disco (as Clinton)
Sleep on the Left Side
The Dixons D90 Series
Hip-Hop Bricks (as Clinton)
Electric Ice Cream (Miami Jammy Jam) (as Clinton)
Topknot (feat. Bubbley Kaur)
Chamchu
Shut Southall Down
The Turned on Truth (the Truth is Turned On)
Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again (feat. Paula Frazer)

Electric Adolescence – Cornershop Mix 60:00 mins/ 192 kbps/ 82.4 MB

End of the Season

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

summer

There is something wonderfully uncomplicated about summer- life seems to move a little slower and fewer things seem to happen at once, so it stands to reason that the feelings that arrive with the seasons end seem more complex: a collision between the effortless joy of summer and the exhilarating change that is the earmark of fall.

I expect this imprint was made during our school days; while I’m sure I was among the loudest to curse the end of summer vacation – waxing pessimism over stale trading card gum and cold Slurpees – the thrill of change that came with each new school year now feels more vivid in reflection. And so, this months mix is dedicated to the intangible feeling we shared on that first day of class, the elation that came with a freshly cracked notebook and sharpened pencils, contrasted by the sight of the sun still shining out the window and the realization that the Slurpees we lazily sipped would no longer taste so sweet.

The XX – Basic Space
Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Starsmith Remix feat. Ellie Goulding)
Free Blood – Never Hear Surf Music Again
John Forde – Stardance
Osborne – 16th Stage
Discolexia – How Long
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams (Demo Version)
The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky
Erlend Oye w/ Morgan Geist – Ghost Trains
Isolee – Beau Mot Plage
Data 80 – Faded Photographs
Joakim – Love & Romance & a Special Person
The Phenomenal Handclap Band – All of the Above
Boris – Buzz In (Nosajthing Remix)
Flying Lotus with the Life Force – Auntie’s Lock
DJ Enne – The Impatient Man
Birk Storm – Resignation (Boom Clap Bachelors Remix)
Nightmares on Wax – What a Feelin’ (Rae & Christian Mix)
Dubble D & Rakim – Soul Squelch (Greg Wilson Mash)
Yacht – Psychic City (Joe Goddard Mix)
The XX – Teardrops
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You (Mux Mool Remix)
Example – Watch the Sun Come Up (Joker & Ginz Remix)
The Hasbeens – I Fall to Pieces
The Knife – Forest Families (Live)
Underworld – Confusion the Waitress
Massive Attack – Unfinished Symphony (Kamoflage Loves Fred Remix)
A Sunny Day in Glasgow – Life’s Great
JJ – Ecstasy
Pogo – Expialidocious
Iori’s Eyes – As Always
94 East feat Prince – Better Than You Think

Electric Adolescence – End of the Season 120 mins/ 192 kbps/ 109 MB

A Tribute to John Peel

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

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Under the forgiving guise of radio, John Peel never really aged- throughout his 37 years playing records on BBC 1, his aptitude for discovering talent stayed consistently ahead of his peers, from first plugging Captain Beefheart and David Bowie back in the seventies, to being the reason any of us ever heard of The Strokes.

Apart from directly or indirectly informing a majority of bands working today, John’s most potent recorded legacy resides in the vast number of “Peel Sessions” he recorded with some of the most notable acts of the last few decades. Originally conceived in 1986 as a means to fill air time with consideration for the BBC’s rigid broadcast standards, which limited the amount of recorded music each program could play, Peel had his favorite bands record what were normally four song setlists, rendering versions that sounded somewhere between a studio recording and a live set, with an added intangible quality that came from the legacy of studio and of the man behind the glass.

Had Peel not died of a sudden heart attack back in 2004, today would have been his 70th birthday. To mark the occasion, what follows is a compilation of some of the best of the Peel Sessions.

“Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don’t have any surface noise. I said, “Listen, mate, *life* has surface noise.”

- John Peel

The Peel Sessions.

The Wire – I Am The Fly
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
The Strokes – The Modern Age
Gang of Four – I Found That Essence Rare
Pulp – Babies
New Order – Dreams Never End
Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
The Cure – All Cats Are Grey
Young Marble Giants – Final Day
Mira Calix – She Keeps Her Secrets
The Human League – Being Boiled
cLOUDDEAD – Side A Part 1
Apparat – Van
Aphex Twin – Pancake Lizard
Autechre – Drane
Boards of Canada – Happy Cycling
Spritualized – Don’t Go
The Pixies – In Heaven (Lady In the Radiator Song)
Slowdive – Shine
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – The Film that Changed My Wife
Smog – I Break Horses
Graham Coxon – Shipbuilding

Electric Adolescence – A Tribute to John Peel 80:00 mins/ 192 kbps/ 109 MB

Sexier Than Lingerie

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

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Girls on Bikes

While I’m sure we’re not the first to say it, it really isn’t mentioned enough- there’s nothing quite like the sight of a woman on a bicycle. This largely unsung summer treat can often be seen crossing the frame with all the breathtaking spectacle of a shooting star: a blur of blushed cheeks and cotton, leaving you feeling a little bit better about the world we live in.

During the decadent eighties our sexual idolatry was, to some bizarre extent, directed towards images of women in florescent bikinis and matching pumps seductively posing on or around expensive Italian cars, and so it is perhaps appropriate for these leaner economic times that the clever girls can do much more with a summer dress and a charity shop bike. We never really know where these girls are riding to, but we imagine it’s a place as magical as whatever they might have in that basket.

For these reasons, and many more that I would be unable to put into words, we at Electric Adolescence dedicate this installment our monthly mix series to all the pedal pushing women of the world, at the same time boldly declaring that bicycles are officially sexier than lingerie.

Electric Adolescence – Sexier Than Lingerie 120 mins/ 160 kbps/ 91.5 MB  

Tracklisting: 

Chelonis R. Jones – Bathroom Mirror Legend
Jakob Hilden – Glamouflage
Ada feat. Raz Ohara – Lovestoned
Dop – Dein VerlangenMinilogue – Hitchhiker’s Choice
Hecuba – Miles Away
The Juan McLean – One Day

Feygin – Budva (Slum Dop Remix)

DJ Ali – You Don’t Know (Ruff Cut)
Jamie Jones – Should have Gone Home
The Emergency – Fantasy (Bottin’s Morriconey Island Mix)
Mikael Stavostrand – Die a Little (Bruno Pronsato Remix)
Harry Axt – She Is Different
Different Gear – One Thing More
Faunts – Feel Love Thinking Of (Lemonade Remix)
Martin Solveig – I’m A Good Man
Joakim – Ad Me
Underworld – Cups (Salt City Orchestra Remix)
Ernest Saint Laurent – Perfect Love
Metro Area – Dance Reaction
Plej – Seasons
Walter Jones – Living Without Your Love
Holy Ghost Inc – Walk On Air (Sun and Moon Mix)
The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Pal Joey Mix)
The Whitest Boy Alive – 1517 (Morgan Geist Remix)
Bodycode – What Did You Say
Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan (DJ Steef Remix)
Massimiliano Pagliara – Sometimes at Night
Woolfy vs. Projections – Neeve (Permanent Vacation Tropical Mix)
Ost & Kjex – Have You Seen the Moon in Dallas (Maurice Fulton Remix)
Daft Funk – Something About Us (Love Theme From Interstella 555)
Banzai Republic – Loungin With Jacko
Pogo – Go Out and Love Someone
Phoenix – 1901 (Pete Herrs Symphonic Mix)