Having been introduced alongside Peter Kemper as the voice of Spacemen 3, Jason Pierce became the only permanent member of the band he reinvented as Spiritualized, and then kept reinventing with a fluxuating line-up of musicians that serve as his choir.

At once indecisive and self-assured, degenerate and holy, his signature sound pairs gospel with heroin haze, embracing the many contradictions that seem to serve as his muse. At times the music seems to be tearing itself in two – some songs start with whispering vocals and then crash into a wall of violent guitar riffs, others begin with a rebellious scream before descending into a copse of angelic strings. The result is inspirational, yet unsafe. Like an priest with a sordid past, it speaks to our better angels while giving a knowing wink towards our worst demons.

Spacemen 3 – Walkin’ With Jesus
Spacemen 3 – Feel So Good
Spacemen 3 – May the Circle Be Unbroken
Spacemen 3 – Let Me Down Gently
Spiritualized – Interview/ So Hot (Wash Away These Tears) (Live)
Spiritualized – Let It Flow
Spiritualized – Lay It Down Slow
Spiritualized – You Know It’s True
Spiritualized – Stay With Me
Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating In Space (Kate’s Phonecall)
Spiritualized – Cool Waves
Spiritualized – Stop Your Crying
Spiritualized – Lord Can You Hear Me
Spiritualized – Death Take Your Fiddle
Spiritualized – Harmony 2
Spiritualized – Harmony 4
J Spacemen – Musicbox Underwear
J Spacemen – Paris Beach
Spiritualized – Goodnight Goodnight
Spiritualized – Life Is a Problem

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Having recently embarked on a world tour to support their recently released album Sweet Heart Sweet Light, check these dates:

03/16 – Nottingham, UK @ Rescue Rooms
03/17 – Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms
03/19 – London, UK @ Hackney Empire
03/20 – Oxford, UK @ Academy
03/21 – Bristol, UK @ Academy
03/22 – Glasgow, UK @ ABC
03/23 – Belfase, IE @ Mandela Hall
03/24 – Dublin, IE @ Vicar Street
03/25 – Manchester, UK @ Academy
05/02 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
05/03 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
05/04 – Detroit, MI @ The Majestic Theatre
05/05 – Toronto, ON @ The Phoenix
05/07 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
05/09 – Boston, MA @ Paradise
05/10 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
05/11 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
05/12 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle
05/13 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse
05/15 – Dallas, TX @ Granda Theatre
05/16 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s East
05/18 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
05/19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
05/20 – San Diego, CA @ Belly Up Tavern
05/22 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
05/23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
05/25 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
05/26 – Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
05/30-06/03 – Barcelona, ES @ Primavera Sound
06/07-10 – Porto, PT @ Optimus Primavera Sound

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 with those around you given license to mess up your life. It 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 person’s hand in hot water would make them wet the bed.

I’d personally be fine loosing the holiday 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. Even at that age, I probably should have 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 this passive aggressive 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.

PART ONE – THE VIDEO MIX

The Bible and Gun Club – Opening Scene
Pineapple Express – Opening Scene
Funny or Die – Ladyrefs (First Episode)
30 Rock – Aaron Sorkin Cameo
Parks and Recreation – Season 2 Opener
Funny or Die – Ladyrefs (Last Episode)
Election – Excerpt
Fido Dido 7-Up Commercial
Tim and Eric Season Cinco Commercial
Tim and Eric Awesome Show – Gravy Robbers
Tim and Eric Awesome Show – Pepperoni (Excerpt)
Tim and Eric Awesome Show – (For Your Health, Wine)
Punch Drunk Love – Mattress Man Commercial
Onion News – Iron Man Trailer Adapted Into Feature Film
McDLT Commercial feat. Jason Alexander
Saturday Night Live – Schmitt’s Gay Commercial
Saturday Night Live – Sprockets feat Kyle McLaughlin
Saturday Night Live – Male Synchronized Swimmers
Saturday Night Live – Eddie Murphy Undercover
Bowfinger – Excerpt
The Jerk – Excerpt
Hi Mom! Trailer
How They Get There – Spike Jonze Short
Four Lions – Excerpt
BBC Terrorism Awards
The Day Today – Gay Desk
The Day Today – Motivational Speaker
The Day Today – Sports with Alan Partridge
I’m Alan Partridge – Excerpt
Armando Ianucci Show – Hello Hugh
Time Trumpet – Eastenders Special Effects
The Mitchell and Webb Look – Doctor and Ice Cream Maker
Peep Show – Excerpt
Brass Eye – Special – Closing Number
Little Gordon Commercial
Frankie Boyle Best Man Sketch
Little Gordon Commercial
News – Bjork Attacks Reporter
Comedy Central Roast (Various Zingers)
Sarah Silverman – Jesus is Magic (Excerpt)
Larry Sanders – Final Episode – Jim Carrey Segment
Team America – Everyone Has AIDS

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PART TWO – THE AUDIO MIX

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 Conchords – 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

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BONUS – THE WOODY ALLEN MIX

“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.” – Woody Allen

Woody Allen – The Vodka Ad
Harry James – You Made Me Love You
Harry James – I’ve Heard That Song Before
Louis Armstrong – Stardust
Woody Allen – Vegas
Television Personalities – Little Woody Allen
Woody Allen – Brooklyn
George Gershwin – Someone To Watch Over Me
Allo Darling – Woody Allen
Woody Allen – Oral Contraception
Woody Allen and His New Orleans Band – Last Night On the Back Porch
Woody Allen – Summing Up

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People naturally point to September 11th as the launch pad to a cynical decade, but I don’t think we were ever going to make it through with our optimism intact. The pageantry of the eighties had been muted by the nineties, when an ethos shared by hip-hop and grunge cultures declared selling out to be the ultimate sin and made it almost shameful for an artist to entertain. Rather than escapist fantasy, music culture became a sort of blueprint, if not an infomercial, for a lifestyle only slightly out of reach from its socially ambitious followers. A detachment from the industry also unleashed a new intimacy and creative control for a generation of songwriters, with isolation replacing love as music’s new ghost in the machine.

Sonic Youth – I Love You Golden Blue
Electrelane – Birds
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Doubt/ Hope
Scritti Politti – The Boom Boom Bap
Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me
Boom Clap Bachelors – Combiner
Minilogue – Six Arms and One Leg
Mount Kimbie – 50 Mile View
Burial – In McDonalds
Max Richter – Shadow Journal
Schneider TM & Kpt Michigan – The Light 3000
Broken Social Scene – Feel Good (Last Reprise)
Alaska In Winter – Horsey Horse
Panda Bear – Take Pills
Bloc Party – Blue Light (Engineers Anti-Gravity Mix)
M83 – You Appearing (Addled Edit)
Dntel – Anywhere, Anyone
Gregor Samsa – Jeroen Van Aken
Microphones – Solar System
Gravenhurst – Tunnels
Yo La Tengo – Everyday
Wilco – Jesus, Etc.
Beach House – Master of None
Great Lake Swimmers – Long Into the Evening
Cass McCombs – Deseret
Gowns – Fargo
The Books – Lemon of Pink
Animal Collective – Loch Raven
Supersilent – 6.2
Deerhoof – Adam & Eve Connection
William Basinski – DIP 1.3
Matmos – Memento Mori
The Orb – Because/.Before
Prefuse 73 – Esta
Amnion – Praise God For the Light Within Me
Antony & the Johnsons – Hope There’s Someone
Color of Clouds – Haunts Me (Acoustic)
Scala & Kolacny Brothers – Heartbeats

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Acutely self-conscious and so less inclined towards the wide-eyed experimentalism of the 1980s, the internet became the primary tool for a generation that forged its identity through a collage of pop-culture references from previous decades. Music became more about revisiting old genres than creating new ones, with familiar sounds altered to exaggerate the most tantalizing elements, like what the people who make Kool Aid do with fresh fruit.

Cabaret Voltaire – Nag Nag Nag – Akufen’s Karaoke Slam Mix
The Strokes – The Modern Age
Liars feat. ESG – Tumbling Walls Buried Me in the Debris
Fischerspooner – Natural Disaster
Metro Area – Miura
Captain Comatose – Comatose Captain (5-8 Mix)
Zongamin – Tunnel Music
Seelenluft – Manilla (Ewan Pearson Mix)
Silver City – Blah Blah Blah
Le Tigre – Deceptacon (DFA Remix)
The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
The Faint – Glass Danse
Chicks on Speed – Kaltes Klares Wasser
Felix Da Housecat – Silver Screen (Shower Scene)
Linda Lamb – Hot Room (Tiga Remix)
Scissor Sisters – Comfortably Numb
Playgroup – Number One
Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Intro
Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away
Rye Rye – Shake It To the Ground
Radiohead – Idioteque
The Knife – Silent Shout (7 Inch mix)
St. Germain – Rose Rouge
Moodymann – Freeki Mutha F cker
Heiko Voss – I Think About You (Geiger Mix)
Konrad Black – Medusa Smile (Rocket’s Revamp)
Booka Shade – Body Language
Jurgen Paape – So Weit Wie Noch Nie
Ricardo Villalobos – Easy Lee
Matthew Dear – Don and Sherri
Closer Musik – One Two Three (No Gravity)
Telepopmuzik – Breathe (Marcus Nikolai Mix)
Invisible Conga People – Cable Dazed
Owusu & Hannibal – What’s It About
Chromatics – In the City (12 Inch Remix)
Fujiya & Miyagi – Collarbone
Air – Run
Benoit & Sergio – What I’ve Lost
Ytre Rymden Dansskola – Kahluha Madness
Herbert – Foreign Bodies
Luomo – Tessio
Elektrochemie – Don’t Go
Burial – Archangel
The Postal Service – Recycled Air
Daft Punk – Something About Us

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Unlike artists of the MTV generation, who had even less creative control of their video output than they did with their music, the 2000s saw to a welcome decline in studio crafted videos made for dated cable networks. YouTube links shared on Facebook became our democratic source for music videos, and an acceptance of a low-budget aesthetic put production back in the hands of the artists – a technical liberation similar to what hand-held cameras brought to French cinema in the sixties.

Fischerspooner – Sweetness
Playgroup – Number One
Basement Jaxx – Romeo
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
Armando Iannucci – Ibiza Uncovered
The Maury Povich Show – Not My Baby
Snoop Dogg – Sensual Seduction
Simian Mobile Disco – Hustler
Miss Teen USA – Miss South Carolina
Frankie Valin – Beggin (Pilooski Re-Edit)
Feist – I Feel It All
Kylie Minogue – Come Into My World
Flight of the Concords – Choir of Ex-Girlfriends
M83 – Kim and Jesse
Bat For Lashes – What’s a Girl to Do
Fever Ray – If I Had a Heart
Battles – Atlas
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – Maps
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Doubt/ Hope (Live)
Sigur Ros – Untitled
Gary Jules – Mad World
Tim and Eric – The Universe Pt. 1
Carl Sagan feat. Stephen Hawking (Symphony of Science) – A Glorious Dawn
Tim and Eric – The Universe Pt. 2
Air – Surfing on a Rocket
R Kelly – Trapped in the Closet
Jermaine Jackson Announces Michael Jackson’s Death
Michael Jackson – Rock My World

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The nineties were allusive years when the alternative became main-stream, the underground crept onto terra firma, and when previously segregated subgenres aligned more closely with club DJs than with pop charts and traditional radio jocks. The Cinderella story of the day was how an unlikely experiment called hip hop became the guiding light for a new generation tired of old methods, with samples and break-beats emerging as the most influential evolution in music since the rise of the electric guitar.

Mogwai – Yes! I am a Long Way From Home
The Sundays – Can’t Be Sure
Cornershop – Wog
Boards of Canada – In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country
Everything But the Girl – Low Tide of the Night
DJ Vadim – London Mind State
DJ Shadow – Stem/ Long Stem
Portishead – Mysterons
Monolake – Mass Transit Railway
Scott Walker – Bolivia ‘95
Julian Cope – Las Vegas Basement
Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
Sugarcubes – Birthday
Love Spirals Downwards – Will You Fade
Julee Cruise – Falling
Smog – Teenage Spaceship
Massive Attack – Exchange
Air – Ce Matin La
Lemon Jelly – His Majesty King Raam
Paul Weller – Above the Clouds
The Chemical Brothers – One Too Many Mornings
Nightmares on Wax –Nights Introlude
Pulp – Ladies Man
Melaaz – Non, Non, Non
Tricky – Makes Me Wanna Die
The Cardigans – Happy Meal
The Olivia Tremor Control – NYC-25
Mercury Rev – Holes (Jonathan)
Stereolab – Anonymous Collective
Blur – To the End
Sigur Ros – Svefn-G-Englar
D’Angelo – Africa
Shai – If I Ever Fall In Love (Original Acappella Version)
Basic Channel – Mutism
Rhythm & Sound – Distance
Irmin Schmidt – Dreambite
Aphex Twin – (Rhubarb)
REM – Nightswimming
The Verve – Drive You Home
Daniel Johnston – Some Things Last a Long Time
Arthur Russell – Another Thought
Songs: Ohia – Soul
Terrance Blanchard feat. Brandford Marsalis – Mo Better Blues

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If the ingredients of dance music had all been added to the pot by the end of the eighties, the 1990s were when their flavours fully emerged. Young and clumsy genres like house and techno acquired a European pedigree with the fetish of German minimalism, the flourish of Parisian jazz, and with the force of the most influential British music scene since the sixties. In America, New Jack Swing marked a marriage between hip hop and r&b that crept upon standard radio pop and redefined mainstream charts forever.

Leftfield – 21st Century Poem
Happy Mondays – Step On (Twisting My Melon Mix)
Saint Etienne – Only Love Can Break Your Heart (Andrew Weatherhall Remix)
Primal Scream – Loaded (Terry Farley Remix)
La Funk Mob – 357 Magnum Force
Beats International – Dub Be Good To Me
Soul II Soul – Back To Life (12 Inch Version)
The Blueboy – Remember Me
Bell Biv Devoe – Let Me Know Something
Boyz II Men – Motownphilly (12 Inch Version)
Chubb Rock – Treat ‘em Right (Cribb Mix)
Daft Punk – Teachers
Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat
Armand Van Helden – The Funk Phenomena
Sneaker Pimps – Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix)
The Kid Chris – Big Time (Carlito’s Dream)
Hardrive – Deep Inside
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
Cassius – Feeling For You
Les Rythmes Digitales – Sometimes
Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
Underworld – Cups (Salt City Orchestra’s Vertical Bacon Vocal)
Roy Davis Jr. – Gabriel (Live Garage Version)
MJ Cole – Sincere
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy
The Orb – Blue Room (7 Inch Mix)
Deee-Lite – What Is Love?
Olive – You’re Not Alone (Rolo and Sister Bliss Remix)
Artful Dodger – Rewind (Bump & Flex Remix)
DJ Luck & MC Neat – A Little Bit of Luck (Oracles Remix)
Goldie – Timeless (Inner City Life)
Roni Size and Reprazent feat Bahamadia – New Forms
The KLF – Church of the KLF
Aphex Twin – Windowllicker (Acid Edit)
Isolee – Beau Mont Plage
Round Two feat Andy Caine – New Day (Club Vocal Mix)
Pepe Bradock – Deep Burnt
Plastikman – Consumed
Maurizio – M-4A (Full Length)
Jeff Mills – Fly Guy
Speedy J – Beam Me Up!
F.U.S.E. – Theychx
Frankie Knuckles – The Whistle Song (EK 12 Inch Mix)
Blunted Dummes – House For All
MRM – Walking In Memphis (Club Mix)
DHS – House of God ($50 Mix)
Fila Brazillia – New Chaos
Autechre – Lowride
Sagat – Funk Dat (Philly Smooth Hip-Hop Edit)
The Herbaliser – A Mother (For Your Mind)
Moby – Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?
Beastie Boys – Something’s Got To Give
The Future Sound of London – Domain
Blaze – Lovelee Dae (20/20 Vision Accapella)
LTJ Bukem – Horizons
Pulp – Ladies Man
Guardians of Dalliance – Blue Green
Global Communication – Sensorma
Flex – It’s So Hard to Say Goodbye To Yesterday (Reprise)

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For more about the sub genres that make this decade such a standout, check my post on Golden Age Hip-Hop, another on New Jack Swing, and even a mix of Drum and Bass.

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By the 1990s, a generation of artists had been brought up on the notion that the music video was as essential to an albums release as the quality of its first single, a concept they would eventually grow tired of. Even the dominance of the almighty MTV was being challenged by an audience increasingly divided by culture and genre subsets. What would eventually become the death of the coaxial experience was given a last burst of creative inspiration at the end of the decade when directors like Chris Cunningham, Michael Gondry, and Hype Williams inspired a new aesthetic for music television’s impending digital age.

Pulp – This Is Hardcore
Siouxsie & the Banshees – Kiss Them For Me
Blur – Parklife
Mr. Oizo – Flat Beat
Daft Punk – Around the World
News Report – Chicago Rave Scene
Massive Attack – Protection
Nightmares on Wax – Les Nuits
DJ Shadow – Midnight in a Perfect World
DJ Roc Raida – DMC Championship
Juice – Trailer
Digable Planets – 9th Wonder (Blackitolism)
In Living Colour – Main Titles
Twin Peaks – Georgia Coffee Commercial
Julee Cruise – Falling (Twin Peaks Video)
Air – All I Need
Bjork – It’s Oh So Quiet
Kids – Trailer
Spiritualized – Let It Flow
UNKLE feat. Thom Yorke – Rabbit In Your Headlights
News Report – Kurt Cobain Dies
Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
The Stone Roses – Spike Island 1990
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
The Verve – On Your Own
The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends

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Unlike the age we live in, which fetishizes a post-teen predilection for self-worship; pop culture in the eighties was fascinated by early adolescence. Blockbuster filmmakers like Lucas and Spielberg channelled cinema through a child’s unbridled imagination, and prominent sit-coms featured kids as leads rather than sidekicks, all during a golden age of breakfast cereal and the rise of video games. The music world seemed affected by the same wide-eye wonder that made this decade an innovate highpoint in our history of pop.

Bruce Springsteen – State Trooper
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
Till Tuesday – Voices Carry
The Stones Roses – Shoot You Down
Chills – Pink Frost
The Smiths – A Rush and a Push and the Land is Ours
The Jesus & Mary Chain – Just Like Honey
The Replacements – Swingin Party
Sugarcubes – Birthday
Personal Effects – This Is It
Pixies – Hey
Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup (12” Version)
Peter Gabriel – Lay Your Hands On Me
Talk Talk – The Rainbow
Joy Division – The Eternal
Eloy – Horizons
Spacemen 3 – Walking With Jesus
This Mortal Coil – Song to the Siren
The Cars – Drive
Sade – Love Is Stronger Than Pride
Commodores – Nightshift
Art of Noise – Moments In Love (12” B Side Idea)
Laurie Anderson – O Superman (For Massenet)
Vangelis – Blush Response
Brian Eno and David Byrne – Mountain of Needles
Dream Academy – Life in the Northern Town (Extended Version)
Robert Wyatt – At Last I’m Free
Elvis Costello & the Attractions – Shipbuilding
Billy Bragg – Tender Comrade
Paul Simon – Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes (Unreleased Version)
Young Marble Giants – Final Day
Jane – It’s a Fine Day
New Order – Dreams Never End
Jane’s Addiction – Thank You Boys
Culture Club – That’s the Way
Prince – Old Friends 4 Sale
The Family – Nothing Compares 2 U

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From the almost inappropriate lack of cynicism to the hapless technology that dated faster than the hairstyles, the eighties were so impervious to embarrassment that it made subsequent decades feel like a walk of shame after a brilliantly regrettable night. This unchecked bravado contributed to a brash experimentalism that smashed music into as many sub-genres as we could count, and made its future seem as limitless as the power of a Commodore 64 computer.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard (The Young Person’s Guide to the 12” Mix)
Human League – Fascination (Improvisation)
David Bowie – Fashion
Talking Heads – Girlfriend Is Better
Yazoo – Goodbye 70’s
Eddy Grant – Nobody’s Got Time
ESG – Moody (Spaced Out)
Wham! – Everything She Wants
NYC Peech Boys – Don’t Make Me Wait
The Stone Roses – Fools Gold
George Clinton – Atomic Dog (Extended Mix)
Indeep – Last Night The DJ Saved My Life
Blondie – Rapture
Rockmaster Scott – Request Line
Herbie Hancock – Rockit
Midnight Star – Headlines (12” Inch Version)
Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls (Alternate Extended Version)
The Art of Noise – Paranoimia (7” Version)
Yello – Live at the Roxy NY Dec. 1983
The Human League – Things That Dreams Are Made Of
Alexander Robotnick – Problemes d’Amour (Francois Kevorkian Remix)
Strafe – Set It Off
Double Dee & Steinski – The Payoff Mix
JM Silk – Music Is The Key (House Key)
dB feat. Bambi – I Have a Dream
Mr. Fingers – Can U Feel It
Cultural Vibe – Ma Foom Bey (Love Chant Version)
Zapp & Roger – I Can Make You Dance
Malcolm McLaren – World’s Famous
Tears For Fears – Shout (Refine Tuned Mix)
Tones on Tail – Go! (Club Mix)
Joy Division – Digital
Eurythmics – Jennifer
Echo & the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon (All Night Version)
Roxy Music – More Than This
INXS – To Look At You (Extended Version)
Erasure – Blue Savannah (Der Deutsche Mix II)
Talk Talk – It’s My Life (Tropical Love Forest Mix)
OMD – If You Leave (Extended Version)
When In Rome – The Promise (7 Inch Mix)
Madonna – Live a Prayer (Church-a-pella)
Thompson Twins – Hold Me Now (The Cassette Remixes)
Wang Chung – Dance Hall Days (12 inch Version)
ABBA – The Day Before You Came
Empire – Big City (Extended Version)
Womack & Womack – Conscious of my Conscience
Prince – Purple Music
Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
Depeche Mode – And Then…
Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face
Spandau Ballet – True (12 inch Mix)

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For those wishing to dig further into the decade, check my recently expanded mix of
Krautrock, Electro and New Wave rarities, along with my sub-genre features on Soul in the Eighties, Canadian Radio Rock, and A Mix of Songs to Breakdance To.

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On August 1st, 1981, MTV became the first 24 hour music station in the world, broadcast with a charming naiveté of a format still unsure of what it supposed to be, as if the network itself was mirroring the awkward teenager it was trying to captivate. The filmmakers behind the videos seemed just as unsure of how to handle this new art form, which somehow straddled an existence between being television commercials and works of modern art.

MTV Launch – August 1, 1981 12:01am
David Lee Roth – Just a Gigolo
Talking Heads – And She Was
Weird Science Trailer
The Waitresses – I Know What Boys Like
The Cure – Close to Me
Fast Times at Ridgemont High Trailer
The Smiths – This Charming Man
Joy Division – Atmosphere
Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock
Wendy’s Where’s the Beef Commercial
Maxell Cassettes Commercial
Pet Shop Boys – What Have I Done To Deserve This
Godley and Crème – Cry
Downtown 80 Trailer
20/20 Report – Rap Music
Public Enemy – Night of the Living Baseheads
NWA – Straight Outta Compton
LL Cool J on Hip Hop Slang
Alfonso Riberio – Breakin’ and Poppin Commercial
Michael Jackson – Pepsi Generation Commercial
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (Live Motown 25th Anniversary)
Prince Talks About Michael Jackson
Prince – Sign O times
Ronald Regan “The Bear” Commercial
Paul Hardcastle – 19
Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F-11
The Terminator Trailer
CBS Premiere Week Promo
Magnum PI Promo
The Cosby Show – Stevie Wonder Guest Appearance
Lionel Richie – Hello

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Because U can’t stop thinking about Prince.

The softer side of music in the seventies was replete with the same plush and natural aesthetic that inspired the decade’s natural hair styles, the shag carpeting, and the wood panelled walls. It was an age of punch bowls and muscle cars, of Quaaludes and roller-skates, a decade embellished by sun-spotted photographs and lush music on the hi-fi.

Steve Miller Band – Intro/ Fly Like an Eagle
Timmy Thomas – Why Can’t We Live Together (45’ Version)
Shuggie Otis – Aht Uh Mi Hed
Cymande – Genevieve
Black Sabbath – Planet Caravan (Alternative Lyrics)
Wire – Heartbeat
Pink Floyd – Another Brick In the Wall, Part 1
Brian Eno – Another Green World
Neu! – Seeland
Michael Rother – Katzenmusik 3
Tangerine Dream – Bent Cold Sidewalk
Serge Gainsbourg – Cargo Culte
Specials – Doesn’t Make It Alright
King Tubby Meets Rockers Hi-Fi – King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
Lizzard – Fight I Down
RAMP – Everybody Love’s the Sunshine
The Undisputed Truth – (Unite the World) Friendship Train
Black Merda – Think of Me
Lou Reed – Street Hassle
Neil Young – Motion Pictures
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young – Find the Cost of Freedom
David Crosby – Kids & Dogs
Richard & Linda Thompson – Calvary Cross
Nick Drake – Fly
Daryl Hall & John Oates – I’m Just a Kid (Don’t Make Me Feel Like a Man)
The Modern Lovers – Hospital
The Rolling Stones – Cocksucker Blues
Sarah Webster Fabio – If We Come As Soft Rain
Bee Gees – Stop (Think Again)
The Dramatics – In the Rain
Al Green – Simply Beautiful
Supertramp – Home Again
Ten Wheel Drive – Come Live With Me
Throbbing Gristle – Hometime
Gil Scott Heron – Song For Bobby Smith
Bernard Hermann – Taxi Driver Main Title
Minnie Riperton – Expecting
10cc – I’m Not In Love (Rework of Art Mix)
Leo Sayer – When I Need You

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For those wishing to stay lounging in the seventies, move on to my feature on Krautrock
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Having been born halfway through the seventies, the sound of this era was as formative to me as a person as it was to dance music as an art form. Providing a digital contrast to an emerging punk scene, drum machines and synthesizers became the tools a new generation of dance artists used to build a structure of music aimed straight at the clubs and at those, like my adolescent self, who wished they were there.

The Cars – Moving In Stereo
Tubeway Army – We Have a Technical
Heart – Magic Man
Blondie – Once I Had a Love (1975 Version)
Andrea True Connection – More More More
George McCrae – Rock Your Baby (12 Inch Version)
Aretha Franklin – Rock Steady
James Brown – Funky Drummer (Bonus Beat Reprise)
The Blackbyrds – Rock Creek Park
Sister Sledge – He’s the Greatest Dancer
Syreeta Wright – I Love Every Thing
Stevie Wonder – Boogie On Reggae Woman
The Rockets – On the Road Again
Giorgio Mororder – Evolution
Gino Soccio – There’s a Woman
Lonnie Liston Smith – Expansions
Michael Viner’s Incredible Conga Band – Apache
Trussel – Love Injection
Roy Ayers – Running Away (Long Version)
Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
Jackson 5 – Hum Along and Dance
Dennis Coffey – Scorpio
Jimmy Castor Bunch – It’s Just Begun
Pleasure – Joyous
War – Me and Baby Brother
Rotary Connection – I Am the Black God of the Sun
Giorgio Moroder – Tears
Nina Simone – Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter
Adrenne Ste-Claire – Ce Soir (Je Sens Que Tout Peut M’Arriver)
The Last Poets – When the Revolution Comes
Funkadelic – Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Gang of Four – Natural’s Not In It
The Modern Lovers – Someone I Care About
The Ramones – Let’s Dance
The Clash – Police & Thieves
Television – Friction
Can – Spoon
Ace – How Long
T Rex – Cosmic Dancer
M – Pop Musik
Kraftwerk – Europe Endless
Deutsche Wertarbeit – Auf Engelsflugeln
Suicide – Cheree
Steve Reich – Section 1
Talking Heads – Take Me To the River
The Five Stairsteps – O-o-h Child

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In the days before the launch of the world’s first dedicated music channel, the 1970s found music television still struggling to find itself. Labels were producing music videos to insert into whatever youth programming was available. Upstart variety shows from the glorious Soul Train series to Germany’s Muzikladen brought a new perspective and a fresh set of artists to the fore; all of which paved a way for the impending arrival of MTV.

K-Tel Record Selector Commercial
Soul Train Line
Aretha Franklin on Soul Train
James Brown – The Payback (Live in Zaire)
Foxy Brown Trailer
Funkadelic – Dr. Funkenstien Trailer
Giorgio Moroder TV Promo
Donna Summer – I Feel Love (Live)
Cerrone – Je Suis Music
Saturday Night Fever Trailer
Southwest Airlines Commercial
David Bowie Interview
Iggy Pop & The Stooges – The Passenger
The Ramones – Blitzkrieg Pop
The Clash – Armageddon Time (Live)
Sex Pistols – Anarchy In the UK
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
KISS Album Commercial
Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Interview – New York 1970
Led Zeppelin – Whole Lotta Love (Live at Royal Albert Hall)
The Rolling Stones – Hip Shake
Tab TV Commercial
Kraftwerk – The Hall of Mirrors
Grace Jones – Libertango
Woody Allen Banana’s Trailer
Dodge Charger Commercial
Richard Nixon Resignation
Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On
Al Green – People Get Ready (Live)
Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are
ABBA – The Winner Takes It All

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Indulgent and dreamlike, the sixties were a paradox of narcissistic abandonment and heightened social consciousness. Dark shadows cast by escalating wars, racial strife, and political assassinations were dispersed by the light of a generation who became empowered by their aspirations for a more promising future. This confluence of weariness and hope was reflected in the music, which was fighting a struggle for its own liberation.

The Mamas & the Papas – Dedicated to the One I Love
The Shangri Las – I Can Never Go Home Anymore
OS Mutantes – Baby
The Association – Never My Love (Single Version)
Nico – I’ll Keep It With Mine
The Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
Van Morrison – Slim Slow Slider
The Troggs – Cousin Jane
The Zombies – The Way I Feel Inside
Charles Mingus – Haitian Fight Song (Live)
The Staple Singers – New Home
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (1967 Rehearsal)
The Beach Boys – Radio Promo
Beatles – In My Life
Simon & Garfunkel – April Comes She Will
Bob Dylan – One Too Many Mornings
Van Morrison – Slim Slow Slider
The Moody Blues – Nights In White Satin
Procul Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
Aaron Neville – Tell It Like It Is
Aretha Franklin – Do Right Woman
The Originals – Baby I’m For Real
Donald Byrd – Cristo Redentor
Stanley Turrentine – Since I Fell For You
Duke Ellington & John Coltrane – In a Sentimental Mood
Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon
Sarah Vaughan – If I Had You
Caetano Veloso – Nenhuma Dor
Vashti Bunyan – Rose Hip November
Sandy Denny – Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Karlheinz Stockhausen – II Berstend (Krachend)
Grateful Dead – What’s Become of the Baby
White Noise – The Visitation
Jack Kerouac – Charlie Parker
Yusef Lateef – Blue Rocky
Rod Freeman & the Blue Men – I Hear a New World
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Struktur III
Christian Wolff – Paris 1968
Sam Cooke – Medley – It’s All Right/ For Sentimental Reasons

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By the 1960s, a societal smoke-screen that masked the tumult behind a nation beset by war, greed, and social injustice was blown away by a forceful gale of artistic experimentalism, one which blew well past American shores. With musical ambassadors like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones sending shockwaves across the pond, with the emergence of reggae from Jamaican communities, and with a new avant-garde pop scene flourishing in France, the rest of the world seemed unwilling to appreciate American music merely as a spectator, and dance music became a global phenomenon.

The Mothers Of Invention – Are You Hung Up?
Terry Riley – A Rainbow In Curved Air
The Beatles – Tomorrow Never Knows
The Temptations – Cloud Nine
James Brown – Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
The Turtles – Buzzsaw
The Meters – Cissy Strut
Isley Brothers – It’s Your Thing
Diana Ross & The Supremes – You Can’t Hurry Love
Brenda Holloway – When I’m Gone
Bridget Bardot – Contact
Mel Torme – Comin’ Home Baby
Ray Charles – Night Time Is the Right Time
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
The Chiffons – He’s So Fine
Nina Simone – Sinnerman
Big Brothers & the Holding Company – All Is Loneliness
Silver Apples – Oscillations
The Monks – Monk Time
MC5 – Kick Out the Jams
The Stooges – No Fun
The Sonics – Have Love, Will Travel
July – The Way
Jaggerz – The Rapper
Geno Washington and the Ram Jam Band – Raise Your Hand
Wilson Pickett – In the Midnight Hour
Bobby Marchan – There’s Something On Your Mind (Part 2)
Desmond Dekker & the Aces – Israelites
Toots & the Maytels – Pressure Drop
Question Mark and the Mysterions – You’re Telling Me Lies
Sir Douglas Quintet – She’s About a Mover
Cream – I Feel Free
Count Five – Psychotic Reaction
Creation – Making Time
Love – My Little Red Book
Small Faces – Tin Soldier
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Where There’s Woman
Jimi Hendrix Experience – If Six Was Nine
Led Zeppelin – What Is and What Should Never Be (Live)
Animals – Don’t Bring Me Down
The Millennium – To Claudia On Thursday
David Bowie – Memory of a Free Festival (Part 1)
Otis Redding – Try a Little Tenderness
Edwin Hawkins Singers – Oh, Happy Days

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With the continued success of music television mainstays like American Bandstand, the 1960s saw Britain respond with the creation of Top of The Pops, a BBC variety show to showcase the country’s increasingly influential music scene. The relationship between these two musical superpowers was personified in the Beatles appearance on Ed Sullivan, which instigated an enduring connection between television and popular music.

The Beatles – First Appearance on Ed Sullivan
The Kinks – You Really Got Me
Commercial Break
The Rolling Stones – Get Off of My Cloud (Live 1967)
The Hollies – Bus Stop
Movie Trailer – Teenage Gang Debs
Movie Clip – Teenage Gang Debs
Movie Trailer – Blow Up
BBC News Insert – The Mod Generation
The Who – I Can’t Explain
The Ronettes – Be My Baby
Question Mark and the Mysterions – 96 Tears
Booker T and the MGs – Green Onions
Commercial Break
News Bulletin – Announcement of JFK Assassination
The Four Tops – Reach Out (I’ll Be There)
The Animals – House of the Rising Sun
CBS News Break – Reporting Murder of Sharon Tate
Procol Harem – Whiter Shade of Pale
Radio Report w Photographs – Woodstock Festival
Canned Heat – Goin’ Up To Country w Woodstock Footage
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit – Live at Woodstock
Janis Joplin – Work Me, Lord – Live at Woodstock
Medley of Vietnam Footage
James Brown – It’s a Man’s World – Live
Sam and Dave – When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
Dave Brubeck – Take Five – Live on Jazz Casual
Woody Allen – CBC News Feature
News Report – Martin Luther King Assassination
Excerpt of Martin Luther King Jr. Speech
News Report – Stanley Kubrick at Premiere of 2001
Movie Trailer – 2001: A Space Odyssey
News Footage – Neil Armstrong Lands on the Moon
The Beatles – Marlboro Commercial
The Beatles – Don’t Let Me Down – Live Rooftop Performance

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Having taken this trip through popular music in reverse chronological order, there was something restorative about ending the project in the 1950s. Like an overdue vacation from the city to the countryside, this return to the fundamentals of melody and composition served as a gentle reminder of what was left behind on the road to musical modernity.

John Cage – Imaginary Landscape No. 4
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Studie I
Edgard Varese – Poeme Electronique
Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer – Klangstudies
Billy Ward and the Dominoes – Stardust
The Flamingoes – I Only Have Eyes For You
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles – You Can Depend On Me
Jerry Butler & The Impressions – For Your Precious Love
Beach Boys – Disney Girls
Andy Williams – A Summer Place
Santo Farina & Johnny Farina- Sleepwalk
Les Paul & Mary Ford – I Really Don’t Want to Know
Eartha Kitt – Never On Sunday
Elvis Presley – Loving You
Dean Martin – Let Me Go Lover
Pat Boone – September Song
Nat King Cole – A Blossom Fell
Art Tatum and His Orchestra – My Ideal
Chet Baker – Embraceable You
Ella Fitzgerald – Someone To Watch Over Me
Frank Sinatra – How About You?
John Coltrane – I’m Old Fashioned
Sam Cooke – When I Fall In Love
Nina Simone – Don’t Explain
Lester Young – I Can’t Get Started
Billie Holiday – Come Rain Or Come Shine
The Orioles – Crying In the Chapel
The Hilltoppers – If I Didn’t Care
Timi Yuro – Hurt
Hermann Heiss – Elektronische Komposition
Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer – Klang im Unbergrenzten Raum
Louis Armstrong – La Vie En Rose
Andrews Sisters – Down In the Valley
Montovani & His Orchestra – Charmaine
Russ Hamilton – Little One
Perry Como – Catch a Falling Star
Sam Cooke – So Long
John Cage – Imaginary Landscape No. 4

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While people have been dancing to music since the invention of the drum, pop music as we know it was codified in the 1950s with the emergence of rhythm and blues and its privileged stepchild, rock ‘n roll. With the clash and the cohesion between these forces mirroring the country’s own racial tensions, leaving skin color from an analysis of the music can be like removing slavery from discussions of the civil war. Just as the industry exemplified both integration and segregation, the music spoke to America’s most admirable aspirations while offering a coded admission of its most notorious sin.

Anthony & the Sophomores – Play Those Oldies Mr. Dee Jay
Little Richard – Rip It Up (Rehearsal, Take 14)
Chuck Berry – Rock and Roll Music (Alternative Mix)
Ray Charles – I Got a Woman
Danny & the Juniors – Rock and Roll Is Here To Stay (Mono)
Elvis Presley – That’s All Right
Buddy Holly – Not Fade Away
Clarence “Frogman” Henry – Ain’t Got No Home
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers – Why Do Fools Fall In Love?
The Diamonds – Little Darling
The Coasters – Searchin’
Chris Montez – Let’s Dance
Jerry Lewis – Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On
Big Joe Turner – Shake, Rattle, Roll
Rocket 88 – Jackie Brenston
Wilbert Harrison – Kansas City
Bo Diddley – Who Do You Love?
Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
The Del-Vikings – Come Go With Me
The Everly Brothers – Till I Kissed You (Rehearsal Recording)
Jackie Wilson – Lonely Teardrops
Dion and the Belmonts – A Teenager In Love
The Cleftones – Little Girl of Mine
The Penguins – Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
The Imperials – Tears On My Pillow
Cardinals – One Love
Lonnie Donegan – Love Is Strange
Gene Vincent – Be-Bop-a-Lula
Jimmy Nelson – T’ 99 Blues
The Clovers – Fool, Fool, Fool
Screaming Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell On You (Mono)
Ruth Brown – Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
Jimmy Forrest – Night Train
Hank Williams – Long Gone Lonesome Blues
Johnny Cash – Folsom Prison Blues
Percy Mayfield – Please Send Me Someone To Love
James Brown – Please, Please, Please
Fats Domino – Blueberry Hill
The Five Satins – In the Still of the Night
John Cage – Imaginary Landscape No 4. (March 1951)

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If the 1950s saw the invention of popular music, it also created what would be the early stages of music television. From Elvis Presley’s iconic performance on the Ed Sullivan show in 1956, to the emergence of American Bandstand, music would forever seem incomplete without a visual accompaniment. During this time, soul music left the church in pursuit of the pop charts, with television highlighting race in way that radio was relieved to avoid. All the while, rock n’ roll became the canvas upon which a generation would paint a picture of their newfound independence. All eyes were on the American teenager, who walked with a post-war swagger born of a victorious nation’s still unquenched thirst for glory.

Buddy Holly – Everyday
Richie Valens – Come On Let’s Go
The Big Bopper – Chantilly Lace
News Report – Buddy Holly Plane Crash
Everly Brothers – Bye Bye Love
Budweiser TV Commercial
Camels TV Commercial
Newsreel – The Fifth Wheel
Chuck Berry – Maybelline
Elvis Presley – Heartbreak Hotel
The Wild One Trailer
Wanted Criminal Alert
NBC TV Promo
Howdy Doody Time
Rocky Fellers – Little Darling
Dion & the Belmonts – Teenager In Love
The Stroll – February 1958
Boys Beware – Homosexual Alert
Dion – The Wanderer
Jackie Wilson – Lonely Teardrops
Marilyn Monroe Coke Commercial
Some Like It Hot Trailer
Some Like It Hot feat. Marilyn Monroe – I Wanna Be Just Like You
Sweater Girls – 1952
Le Notti Di Cabria Trailer
Sam Cooke – You Send Me
Johnny Mathis – Someone
R.C.M.P. TV Promo
1957 Chevrolet Bel Air Commercial
Duck and Cover Commercial
Platters – Smoke Get In Your Eyes
The Five Satins – In the Still of the Night
News Magazine of the Scene – Atomic Energy
Cab Calloway – Minnie Moocher
Charlie Parker feat. Dizzy Gillespie – Hot House
Jazz and Philharmonic 1953
Louis Armstrong – Mack the Knife (Live London, 1956)
Sarah Vaughan – These Things I Offer You
Billie Holiday Interview – Sweden 1954
Billie Holiday – I Only Have Eyes For You
Frank Sinatra – I Get a Kick Out of You
Jack Kerouac and the Steve Allen Show

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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 it 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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