With my musical tastes in flux, it seems to have taken me the better part of a year to assemble a mix of new dance music, which makes this mix something of a year-end selection of my favorite tracks; aimed just as much as those who dance as is towards those who only dream about it.

Daft Punk, TRS-80 & Ariel Pink – Sky Sailor (Float Away)
Nicholas Jaar – Don’t Break My Love
M83 – Midnight City (Trentemoller Remix)
Benoit & Sergio – Around The World
Matthew Dear – Headcage
Aquarius Heaven – Can’t By Love
Lonely C & Baby Prince – I Remember Those Days
Murk Intruder – Amame feat. Jei (Long Ass Mix)
Mongolian Jetset – Moon Jocks & Prog Rocks (Montezuma Remix)
Maceo Plex – Ain’t That Love
DJ T feat. James Teej – Sense (Tale of Us Remix)
Hamid & Arnaud LeTexier – The Price of Beans
Coma – Fiction
The Field – Is This Power
Luomo – Medley Through
Andrea Martin feat. Switch – I Still Love You
GusGus – Over (Life and Death)
Virgo Four – It’s a Crime (Caribou Mix)
Terranova feat Khan – Boogie For the Dollar
The Brandt Brauer Frick – Pretend
Walls – Into Our Midst
Co-Op – For Real Good
No Ceremony – Hurtlove
Active Child feat. How To Dress Well
Pallers – Another Heaven
The Weeknd – Gone
Kollektiv Turmstrasse – Goldmarie
Elite Gymnastic – Here In in Heaven (How to Dress Well)
James Blake & Bon Iver – Fall Creek Boys Choir
Altered Zones – Altered Zones (Excerpt)

Electric Adolescence – For Those Who Forgot How They Used To Love Dancing
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While researching a forthcoming audio dissertation of music from the eighties, I came across a handful of new wave, synth pop, and krautrock rarities that warranted a renewed exposure, with content that in places is so forward thinking that it could be released next year and would still sound ahead of its time.

Age of Mirrors – The Day the Earth Stands Still
A Popular History of – Guernica
Robert Gorl – Mit Dir (Extended)
Play – You Don’t Look the Same (De-Mix)
Platinum Blonde – All Fall Down
Resistance – Die Out
Royal Family and They – Art On 455
Thick Pigeon – Pope
Logic System – Automatic Collect Automatic
23 Skidoo – Version (In the Palace)
Deekay Jones – New York, New York
Boulevard Circulaire – Boulevard Circulaire
Philipe Laurent – Systeme Clair
Personal Effects – This Is It
Duet Emmo – First Person
The Passage – Armour
Silent Types – Surveillance By Car
Electric Circus – Kamarac
Yachtclub Buchteln – Age Geige
Shock Headed Peters – The Kissing of Gods
Mikael Diser – Min Vaen Porlinhunden Vaen
A.T.R.O.X. – New York Race
Etienne Daho – Sunday Morning
Yello – Thrill Wave
Duetsher Wald – Deutshe Wertarbeit

Electric Adolescence – Secrets They Tried To Keep From You 60 mins

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For those who find themselves pining for more, follow this link to hear my underappreciated mix of underappreciated music from the eighties.

While we mostly crave some force of personality from our music, from the soul song that councils you through heartbreak the way bartenders only do in the movies, to the dance song that gets the party started like the reckless friend who makes the night magical, but is best avoided during the day, sometimes the requirement of sound is simply to fill in blank spaces, and to cancel out the din of this unnatural world.

Machinefabriek – Maris
Velvet Cacoon – A St. Michaels Midnight Under the Saltwater Moon
Brian Eno – Imagine New Times
Pjusk – Skumring
Olan Mill – Spare Smoke Template
Nest – Koretz’s Meteor
Spectra Ciera – A New Name
Mark Harris – A Place of Safety, All Things Will Change
Supersilent – 8.4
Alva Noto – Villa Aurora
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno –Wind on Wind
Electric Adolescene – A New Life
Emanuele Errante – Made To Give
Olan Mill – Spare Smoke Template
Future Sound of London – Ill Flower
Boards of Canada – Wildlife Analysis
The KLF – 3am Somewhere Out of Beaumont
Jane Weaver, Demdike Stare – Europium Alluminate
Trent Reznor & Atticus Rose – Hand Covers Bruise
Imps (Minilogue & Decoy) – Jonty’s Way
DJ Sprinkles – Grand Central Pt. 2
D_rradio – Rain On the Rocks
How To Dress Well – Suicide Dream (Solar Bears Remix)
Empyrean – Empty Space
Greg Haines – Industry v. Inferiority
Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer – Recurrence
Date Palms – Psalm 7
Bill Wells, Annie Whitehead – Brown Recluse
Herbie Hancock –The Kiss
Robin and Harold Budd – A Silhouette Approaches
Brian Eno – Bottomliners

Electric Adolescence – For Those Who Forgot How They Used to Love Silence
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One in the few things in this hyperbolical world that actually lives up to its hype, the music of Can is like a great Russian novel in that it is intimidating upon first approach, but soon becomes all-consuming. While appropriately credited as one of the founding fathers of Germany’s current electronic sound, the band was also in many ways its antithesis, with an emphasis on improvisation and human interaction, and an apparent disdain for genre and formula.

Comprised of members with drastically different tastes and musical backgrounds, these Krautrock pioneers were never afforded the luxury of a comfort zone. This forced them to reinvent themselves with every new album or band arrangement, which in turn reinvented the sonic palate from which so many future genres would eventually be defined.

VIVA II Special – I Want More – Top Tin Intro
I Want More
Vitamin C
I’m So Green
Krautrock: Rebirth of Germany Documentary (Excerpt)
Dizzy Dizzy
Sing Swan Song
Halleluwah
Don’t Turn The Light On, Leave Me Alone
You Do Right
Come, Sta La Luna
Moonshake
Mother Sky
One More Night
Spoon
All Gates Open
Shikaku Maru Ten
Hunters and Collectors
Fizz (Live)
Man Named Joe (Bootleg)
Father Cannot Yell
…….and more
Rite Time Documentary (Excerpt)
Soup – Improvisation (Edinburgh, Scotland 8-73)

Electric Adolescence – Top Tin – Best of Can 60 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Fans of the genre are encouraged to visit my previous Krautrock post, which features both audio and video mixes highlighting Germany’s avant-garde scene, including documentary footage and live performances by Can.

She likes to dance, but not just anywhere. She reacts to flat screen televisions the way vampires do to sunlight, and to digital music the way trees do to chainsaws. The venue must be at least as old as she is, and equally ashamed of the modern age. From cracks in the architecture to storied stains on dated upholstery, she reads wear and tear like a novel, wishing her own flaws would say so much.

The Royal Family and the Poor – Motherland
Zapp and Roger – Ja Ready to Rock
Grace Jones – Art Groupie
OMD – Talking Loud and Clear (Alternate Version)
Roxy Music – The Main Thing
Zodiac – Pacific
Escape From New York – Save Our Love
Material – Ciquri
Van Halen – Push Comes to Shove
Liquid Liquid – Lock Groove
Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days (Extended Version)
Project Future – Arcade Lover
Malcolm McLaren – El San Juanera
The Eurythmics – Somebody Told Me
He Said – Pump
Red Lion – Living Together
Telex – Drama, Drama
Double – Captain of Her Heart
Art of Noise – Opus For Four
Kate Bush – Watching You Without Me
Talk Talk – The Rainbow
Malcolm McLaren – It Was a New York Phenomenon
The Time – Gigolos Get Lonely Too

Electric Adolescence – Unsung in the Eighties 60 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Poet, songwriter, and activist Gill Scott-Heron died yesterday at the age of 62. Having recently broken retirement with a solo album, his body of work spans four decades, a career bookended by the death of Martin Luther King Jr and the election of the first black president.

While descriptions of his legacy in early media reports of his death seem to be highlighting his activism, too much emphasis on that important factor betrays his prowess as a songwriter and his diversity as an artist; Scott’s political funk and pre-slam poetry was tempered by plaintive ballads wrought with an emotional vulnerability that even the most audacious emcees of today remain too substantially under confident to bare. All are highlighted in this 45 minute retrospective of his work.

The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gun
Hello Sunday, Hello Road
Johannesburg
Lady Day and John Coltrane
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
We Almost Lost Detroit
Give Her a Call
Did You Hear What They Said?
Pardon Our Analysis (We Beg Your Pardon)
Song For Bobby Smith
Your Daddy Loves You
The Other Side, Part I
Peace Go With You, Brother

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Dating back to the silent era when music was the only audio component to the cinema experience, save the din of depression era gossip, music has remained as important an attribute of film as butter has to popcorn. The following is what I consider to be among the best uses of music in film.

Prince – Let’s Go Crazy – Film Edit (Purple Rain)
The Time – Jungle Love (Purple Rain)
Appolonia 6 – Sex Shooter – Rehearsal (Purple Rain)
Big Fun – Teenage Suicide (Heathers)
Gleaming Spires – Are You Ready For the Sex Girls? (Revenge of the Nerds)
Simple Minds – Don’t You Forget About Me (Breakfast Club)
Echo and the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (Donnie Darko)
Mick Smiley – Magic (Ghostbusters)
Ice T – Colors (Colors)
Fat Boys – Fat Boys (Krush Groove)
Public Enemy – Fight the Power (Do the Right Thing)
Marvin Gaye – Trouble Man (Trouble Man)
Willie Hutch – Brother’s Gonna Work It Out (The Mack)
Holger Czukay – Fragrance (Morvern Callar)
Unknown Artist – She’s Got To Have It (Deep Throat)
Mello – Take Me Higher (CQ)
The Beatles – You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (Help!)
The Kinks – Nothing In This World (Rushmore)
High Numbers – I’m the Face (Quadrophenia)
Muddy Waters – Mannish Boy (Goodfellas)
Jimi Hendrix Experience – If Six Were Nine (Easy Rider)
Ry Cooder feat. Mick Jagger – Memo From Turner (Performance)
John Hiatt – Spy Boy (Cruisin’)
Tangerine Dream – Guido the Killer Pimp (Risky Business)
Neil Young feat Bill Murray – Ode to Wild Bill (Where the Buffalo Roam)
America, Fuck Yeah – Bummer Mix (Team America)
The Kalikak Family – Top Gun
Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Top Gun)
John Carpenter – He’s Still Alive (Escape From New York)
Daft Punk – The Grid (Tron Legacy)
Mark Mothersbaugh – Ping Island (Royal Tennenbaums)
J Spaceman feat. Diego Luna – Michael’s Opening (Mister Lonely)
Kermit the Frog – Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie)
Sigur Ros – Staralfur (Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou)
Max Richter – On the Nature of Daylight (Stranger than Fiction)
Jon Brion –He Really Needs Me (Punch Drunk Love)
Dooley Wilson – As Time Goes By (Casablanca)
Gene Kelly – Singing in the Rain (Singing in the Rain)
George Gershwin – He Love and She Loves (Manhattan)
The Bee Gees – How Deep Is Your Love (Saturday Night Fever)
Spandau Ballet – True (Sixteen Candles)
Elton John – Tiny Dancer (Almost Famous)
David Foster – Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire (St. Elmo’s Fire)
The Flamingos – I Only Have Eyes For You (American Graffiti)
Cool Change – Streets of the Bronx (A Bronx Tale)
Air – Playground Love (Virgin Suicides)
Sebastian Tellier – Universe (Daft Punk’s Electroma)
Bernard Herman – Main Title (Taxi Driver)
Brad Fiedel – Terminator Love Theme (Terminator)
Vangelis – Deckard and Rachel (Blade Runner)
Giorgio Moroder & David Bowie – The Myth (Cat People)
Giorgio Moroder – Tony’s Theme (Scarface)
Pearl’s Song – Dirty Reissue (Night of the Hunter)
Trent Reznor & Atticus Rose – Hand Covers Bruise (The Social Network)
Jocelyn Pook – Masked Ball (Eyes Wide Shut)
Gyorgy Ligeti – Musica Ricercata II (Eyes Wide Shut)
Gyorgy Ligeti – Lux Aeterna (2001: A Space Odyssey)
Maria Callas – La Mamma Morta (Philadelphia)
Sonic Youth – Slambient Desire (Demonlover)
Neil Young – Why Does Thou Hide Thyself, Clouds (Dead Man)
Gabriel Yared & Underworld – Not Talking (Breaking and Entering)
Ry Cooder feat Harry Dean Stanton – Cancion Mixteca (Paris, Texas)
The Ink Spots – I Understand (Trees Lounge)
Percy Sledge – The Dark End of the Street (This is England)
Bette Midler – The Rose (The Rose)
Pinocchio – When You Wish Upon a Star (Pinocchio)
Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again (Dr. Strangelove)

Electric Adolescence – Music In Film – Audio Mix 120 mins/ 320 kbps/

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The Best of Music In Film – The Video Mixes

Chapter One: The Sixties and Seventies

George Gershwin – Rhapsody In Blue (Manhattan)
Machine – There But For the Grace of God (Summer of Sam)
Bee Gees – Night Fever (Saturday Night Fever)
Rolling Stones – Jumping Jack Flash (Mean Streets)
Mick Jagger – Memo From Turner (Performance)
Jimmy Hendrix – Voodoo Child (Withnail & I)
Love – Red Telephone (Taking Woodstock)
The Doors – This Is The End (Apocalypse Now)
Simon & Garfunkel – Sounds of Silence/ April Comes (The Graduate)

Chapter Two – Youth Angst

Zapp and Roger – More Bounce (La Haine)
Curtis Mayfield – Billy Jack (Electroma)
Tears For Fears – Head Over Heals (Donnie Darko)
The Creation – Making Time (Rushmore)
Arnold McCuller – Nowhere To Run (The Warriors)
Sharon Green, Lisa Counts & Debbie D – Us Girls (Beat Street)
LL Cool J – Radio (Krush Groove)
Karla DeVito – We Are Not Alone (The Breakfast Club)
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes (Say Anything)
Prince – Computer Blue/ Darling Nicki (Purple Rain)
Irene Cara – What a Feeling (Flashdance)

Chapter Three – Love and Happiness

Flight of the Bumblebee – (Clockwork Orange)
Nicolas Cage – Love Me (Wild at Heart)
Sylvia & Mickey – Love is Strange (Badlands)
Guitar Break – (Eagle and Shark)
Instrumental Excerpt – (All the Real Girls)
Ray Charles – Mess Around (Planes Trains and Automobiles)
Steve Martin & Bernadette Peters – Tonight You Belong To Me (The Jerk)
Cole Porter/ Christopher Walken – Let’s Misbehave (Pennies From Heaven)
Shelly Duvall – He Needs Me (Popeye)
Shelly Duvall – He Needs Me (Punch Drunk Love)
Goldie Hawn & Woody Allen – I’m Thru With Love (Everybody Says I Love You)
Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a Girls Best Friend (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)

Chapter Four – Loneliness and Despair

Kim Jong Il – I’m So Lonely (Team America)
Elliot Smith – Needle In the Hay (Royal Tennenbaums)
Aimee Mann – Wise Up (Magnolia)
The Mamas and the Papas – Dedicated to the One I Love (Morvern Callier)
Roy Orbison – In Dreams (Blue Velvet)
Taral Hicks – Sax, Cantor, Riff (Subway Stories)
Terrance Blanchard & Brandford Marsalis – Mo Better Blues (Mo Better Blues)
Dooley Wilson – As Time Goes By (Casablanca)
Pearl’s Song (Night of the Hunter)
Pete Seeger – Guantanamera (Last Night)
Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again (Dr. Strangelove)
Judy Garland – Somewhere Over the Rainbow (The Wizard of Oz)

Bonus Material: David Lynch fans might be interested in this earlier post, which features soundtrack selections from his films and from the Twin Peaks series, with a particular appreciation for the compositions of Angelo Badalamenti.

Germany’s avant-guarde scene in the sixties and seventies established a relationship with modern music similar to the one “Citizen Kane” eventually forged with film, in that basically everybody working today is either directly influenced by it or they’re influenced by someone who was. Welcome to this distillation of a scene than has received an abundance of credit, but still seems underrated. Meine damen und herren, dies ist krautrock.

Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
Kraftwerk – Neonlicht (Single Edit)
Eloy – Horizons
Phew – Closed
Can – Moonshake
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
Moebius, Dueka, Konrad Plank, Neuemeier – Recall
Holgar Czukay, Jah Wobble, Jaki Leibzeit – How Much Are They?
Jaki Leibezeit, Pantom Band – This Is the Rule
Can – Mushroom
Amon Duul II – I Can’t Wait (Electric Adolescence Edit)
Guru Guru – Immer Lustig
Neu! – Leb Wohl
Hubert Bognermayr & Harald Zuschrader – Selig Die Barmherzigen
Phantomband – Nervous Breakdown
Agitation Free – Khan El Khalili
Damenbart – Message to the Hippies (Excerpt)
The Durutti Column – Sketch for Winter
Terre Thaemitz – D.C.D.O.A.
Harmonia – Gollum
Kraftwerk – Europe Endless
Roedelius – Wenn Der Sudwind Weht
Cluster – Marzipan
Ash Ra Tempel – Nightdust
Ash Ra Tempel – Interview
Paul Lansky – 6 Fantasies on a Poem by Thomas Campion
Holger Czukay & U She – Trum
Holger Czukay & U She – Sunday Morning (Live)
Kraftwerk – Endless Endless
Kraftwerk and the Electronic Revolution Documentary (Excerpt)
La Düsseldorf – Time

Electric Adolescence – Dies Ist Krautrock 90 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Electric Adolescence – Dies ist Krautrock – The Video Mix

Electric Adolescence – Dies Ist Krautrock from Scott Eastlick on Vimeo.

Krautrock: The Rebirth of Germany Documentary (Excerpt)
German Oak – The Third Reich
Liliental Adel – Adel
Cluster – Hollywood
Manuel Gottsching – Echo Waves
Kraftwerk – Austrian TV Documentary Part One
Kraftwerk – The Telephone Call
Kraftwerk – Music Non Stop
Kraftwerk – Austrian TV Documentary Part Two
Notwher Trailer feat Guru Guru
Guru Guru – Der LSD Marsch
Can – Documentary (Excerpt)
Can – Mother Sky
Can – I Want More, TV Appearances
Can – Documentary (Excerpt)
Can – Vitamin C (Live)
Faust – 1971 Documentary Footage
Neu! – Documentary (Excerpt)
Neu! – Hero (Live)
Aera – Mechewind
Tangerine Dream – Klaus Schulze
Tangerine Dream – Ossiach Lake
Popol Vuh – Improvisation

For those valiantly attempting to live life fast enough to outrun consequence, Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll have been as big a part of youth culture as Jesus, fear and platitudes have been to American politics. While there are apparently repercussions to such indulgence, I’ve met people who have stayed clear of sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll, and while most would beat me in a footrace up a hill, I wouldn’t describe them as healthy. As far as I can tell, living with envy isn’t much easier than living with a tumour.

Steinski – I’m Wild About That Thing (The Lost Sex Tapes – Position 2)
Flying Lizards – Sex Machine
Prince – The Sex of It
Bar Kays – Sexomatic
Clarence “Blowfly” Reid – Blowfly’s ABC’s
2 Live Crew – If You Believe In Having Sex
Jimmy Edgar – Hot Raw Sex
Avenue D – Do I Look Like a Slut?
Timbaland & Magoo – Sex Beat (Interlude)
Terrace Martin feat. Wow Jones – Cum Baby
Black Sheep – La Menage
De La Soul – De La Orgy
Bill Cosby – Bill Talks About Pushers and Other Things
Mr. T – No Dope No Drugs
Ice T – I’m Your Pusher
London Funk Allstars – Junkies Bad Trip
Drugs – Brain on Drugs (Chateau Flight Remix)
System 01 – Family Drugs
jj – Ecstasy
The Weeknd – High For This
Amy Winehouse – Rehab (TDYLN Remix)
Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock
Blue Oyster Cult – Cities On Flame With Rock n’ Roll
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts – I Love Rock n’ Roll
The Beatles – Rock n Roll Music
Peter, Paul and Mary – I Dig Rock and Roll Music
Joe Piscopo – I Love Rock n’ Roll Medley
The Gospel Quartet – We Need a Lot More Jesus (And a Lot Less Rock n’ Roll)
Mylo – Destroy Rock n’ Roll
Ian Dury & the Blockheads – Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll

Electric Adolescence – Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll 60 mins/ 320 kbps/

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Born in the 70s, we grew up in the 80s then went so hard in the 90s that we all lost our minds. Now our men look like ladies, which makes our women act shady. Ask us why we’re lazy, we’ll say we’re born to recline.

We only have wet dreams, like cheap clothes have weak seams. We upload the obscene contents of our minds. We download our opinions and conceptions of women. We only love mirrors and we only fear time.

This life ain’t fantastic, that’s why our parents did acid. It’s why our smiles are so plastic, and why our jokes are so dry. It’s far but we’ll get there, with ripped jeans and wet hair. We walk like we don’t care, but one day we’ll arrive

Nicolas Jaar – Etre
Suuns – Up Past the Nursery
Junior Boys – EP
Raime – You Can’t Hide Your Headcrack
Burial – NYC
Thom Yorke, Burial, Four Tet – Ego
Jensen Sportag – Everything Good
Benoit & Sergio – Boy Trouble
Clive Tanaka U Su Orchestra – New Chicago
Ghibli – Hollywood Snow
Maria Minerva – Hagasuxzzvol
Koudlam – See You All (Voldelpark Rework)
Matthew Dear – Slowdance (How to Dress Well Séance)
The Weekend – What You Need
Unknown – There
Andras Fox – I Don’t Wanna Go (Vocal)
James Blake – Wilhelms Scream
PM Dawn – I’d Die Without You
Tyler Parker – Quistgard

Electric Adolescence – Born To Recline 60 mins/ 320 kbps/

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