Perhaps some songs are thorough enough that any supplemental text would just be wasting space.

Wire – Heartbeat (right click to download) 3:16 mins/ 224 kbps/ 5.25MB

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Jesus loves the Republican party because the Republican party loves Jesus. He loves the Republican party because He believes the second amendment is more important than the first, that military spending is holier than heathcare, and that the government has no right to regulate corporations, but has an obligation to regulate homosexuals.
 
Jesus watches Fox because he likes his news delivered by professional wrestlers. He thinks America was better in the fifties, and can’t understand why so few black people agree. He one of millions who bought Sarah Palin’s book, and one of hundreds who read it. He doesn’t think Glen Beck is crazy. Jesus Christ has a reoccurring nightmare about Michelle Obama’s arms, and wakes each morning with clenched fists and the American Flag he wraps himself in drenched with sweat.

Neu! – Weissensee (right click to download) 6:46 mins/ 128 kbps/ 6.21MB

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Fans of their earlier work should be quite pleased of the (currently available for pre-order forthcoming Books Album, The Way Out. While much of the album has the outfit refining a sound cultivated over a series of experimental yet unalienating albums, they forge a new sonic territory somewhere between Sgt. Peppers and Prince Paul.

The Books – I Didn’t Know That (right click to download) 5:10 mins/ 320 kbps/ 5.92MB

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The Books – The Story of Hip Hop (right click to download) 4:30 mins/ 320 kbps/ 7.74MB

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For those that slept, the first single from the album was included in the Raised In Cassettes mix a while back.

With decades having lapsed since Michel Hutchence’s impeccable hairdo outpaced the 90210 sideburns as the north star of white guy grooming, is seems surprising to regard the sometimes overpolished radio darlings as being ahead of their time, but this lesser known single from the bands early days could have just as easily been a blog-era hit. A cool reminder that any band that ends with the lead singer killing himself invites a revisit to their back catalog.

Let’s not pretend we’re too cool to dig the hits.

INXS – To Look At You (Extended Version) (right click to download) 6:32 mins/ 320 kbps/ 14.9MB

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INXS – Need You Tonight (Mendleston Mix) (right click to download) 7:04 mins/ 320 kbps/ 16.2MB

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INXS – Guns In the Sky (Kick Ass Mix) (right click to download) 6:02 mins/ 320 kbps/ 13.8MB

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Taken from the second volume of an off genre remix project, cinematic dubsteppers Mount Kimbie get a deep and minimal 4/4 treatment by Tama Sutro & Prosumer.

Mount Kimbie – William (Tama Sutro & Prosumer) (right click to download) 7:37 mins/ 320 kbps/ 17.4MB

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I don’t know much about the broad behind these vocals, but when I hear this song I want to learn to knit and make her a sweater. And just to prove it’s not purely sexual, I’ll even make the dude a pair of mittens.

More than just a passing fancy, the song was also featured on my best of last decade mix.

Alaska In Winter – Horsey Horse (right click to download) 3:16 mins/ 320 kbps/ 7.47MB

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Forged from the same spirit as that YouTube video of the fat kid playing with a lightsaber, here’s a playful slice of unhip-hop for those who sacrificed the ability to please a woman in favor of dreams of a galaxy far away.

Sir Oj – Lightsabermass (right click to download) 3:08 mins/ 320 kbps/ 7.18MB

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A product  of the puckish Italians Do It Better label, Glass Candy doppelganger Farah recreates the sentiment of an unsent letter confessing an unrequited crush on her gay best friend.

Farah – Gay Boy (Vocal Mix) (right click to download) 5:51 mins/ 320 kbps/ 13.4MB

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A thunderous applause bursts from the stands of the ancient arena. With his head drenched in sweat from the simmering Spanish sun, the matador deftly shifts in place as the bull passes like a hostile freight train. Securing his stance on the vibrating sand, he subdues the beast with a stroke of his satin cape. His sword rests heavy on his waist, and the volume from the crowd seems suddenly cruel.

Flying Canyon – The Bull Who Knew the Ring (right click to download) 3:12 mins/ 320 kbps/ 5.32MB

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As hip-hop heads know, the habit of producers and DJs saying their name, usually the year, and various ‘uh’ and ‘uh yeah’s, throughout a track has been as longstanding a tradition in the genre as date rape is in college fraternities. 

On one end of the spectrum is the DJ Clue approach which, for those that aren’t familiar, involves yelling shout-outs over the entire track with an echo effect apparently designed by black business-owners to keep white people from loitering outside. At the other end, Pete Rock takes a less invasive approach, and as far as I know invented the practice, with stoned and subtle flourishes that tend to add more than they subtract. Saying that, when asked to remix the new, Beatlesesque Yo La Tengo single, you’d think he could have taken the cue from producers like Brian Wilson or Martin Hannett and left the mic off on this one.

Yo La Tengo – Here to Fall (Pete Rock Remix) (right click to download) 6:11 mins/ 160 kbps/ 7.08MB

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