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01. Merge (DNTel Remix) - Grizzly Bear
02. The Dutch Fist - Thee More Shallows
03. Boat Friend - Black Moth Super Rainbow
04. House of Cards - Radiohead
05. I Feel Good - Metaform
06. Call it a Ritual - Wolf Parade
07. Ancient Curse - Peter Bjorn & John
08. Cobwebs - Animal Collective
09. Mahalo - Ratatat
10. Never my Love - Evan Voytas
11. Hey - Born in the Flood
12. Mess Your Hair Up - White Denim
13. Blackeyed Birds - Twain
14. Crowds - The Parson Red Heads
15. Campus - Rostam Batmanglij

If anyone is wondering what I've been doing recently - this video should explain it:

March 2008 - Console

01. Swell - Growing
02. Tane Mahuta - The Ruby Suns
03. Brain & a Vegetable - Hotpipes
04. No Man - A Fir-Ju Well
05. Too Young - Taken By Trees
06. Roll On (feat. Jenny Lewis) - Dntel
07. The Ball - The Dodos
08. Trashcan - Delta Spirit
09. Dreaming of the Plum Trees - White Hinterland
10. Deception Island Optimists Club - Laura Barrett
11. Down with teh Sun - Lost in the Woods
12. Dome Branches - Nat Baldwin
13. Wait for the Summer - Yeasayer
14. Head Spins - High Places
15. Kenya Dig It? - The Ruby Suns

January's mix has some live links! Just click and you will be presented with an option to download. Enjoy. If you have a problem with any of these files being 'shareable' - let me know, I'll take them down.

01. Tinariwen - Matadjem Yinmixman
02. Hang Me Up to Dry (Ingo Star Cruiser) - Cold War Kids
03. Men - The Dodos
04. Welcome Home, Son - Radical Face
05. Julia - Taken by Trees
06. Everbody But Me - Lykke Li
07. No One Does it Like You - Department of Eagles
08. Old Flames - Harlem Shakes
09. Love Set Fire - Moxy Fruvous
10. The First Time it Happens - Frank Oz / Jim Henson
11. Hush if you Must - Brooke Waggoner
12. The Ides - frYars
13. Alarm Clock - The Rumble Strips
14. The Song is You - Antarctica Takes It!
15. Anyone Else but You - The Moldy Peaches

01. Barbappapa's Groove - Barbatuques
02. General Lafayette! You Are Not Alone! - Ravens & Chimes
03. Heart it Races - Dr. Dog (Cover of Arch. in Helsinki)
04. There are Too Many Birds - Arthur & Yu
05. Wrapped in Piano Strings - Radical Face
06. Wedding Day - Marla Hansen
07. Family Tree - Sandro Perri
08. Trumpets - Zookeeper
09. Dreams in the Hollow - Jesca Hoop
10. Corazon - Bishop Allen
11. Svengali What's the Caper - Russian Spy Camera
12. Get Mad - Kyle Andrews
13. Shadow Falls - Hello, Blue Roses
14. Hljomalind - Sigur Ros
15. Cutup Piano and Xylophone - Fridge

1. I Saw The Bright Shinies - The Octopus Project
2. We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! - Le Loup
3. Code Orange - Birds & Batteries
4. Glitter Pills - HEALTH
5. Sugar Waltz - Morning Recordings
6. Spook House - Clear Tigers
7. Bat's Mouth - Bat For Lashes
8. Fraulein - Pale Young Gentlemen
9. Tigers - Division Day Beartrap
10. Master of None - Beach House
11. Valessa - Glossary
12. You're A Wolf - Sea Wolf
13. As Good As It Gets - Jay-Jay Johanson
14. Baby I'm Yours - Math And Physics Club
15. Chico (Avalanches Remix) - The Concretes

It is Saturday morning - Boston is rainy, drizzly. I am coffee, yogurt, watercolors. The sound is Caribbean jazz with trumpets. I am reminiscing Chick Corea the night before and drumming out of this world at the Lily Pad. The weather puts me in a reflective mood and I harken back to my friend's post about rainy day music. So in an effort to pair sounds with moods - here are several songs and bands I've enjoyed in the past couple weeks.



HEALTH - The song Glitter Pills kills me. The mix here is just right. Blunt and subtle. Robust and fragile. They are friends with Dan Deacon (or so MySpace tells me) and I really like that Electro Punk Sound. See also Pterodactyl.


Birds and Batteries - I don't know, was it the 'Light Bright' picture? This song - Turnstyles - just struck me. It has some ELO style grandeur (guilty pleasure), but also a healthy dose of irony (another vice). Then the end of the song takes a twist and gets really weird.


Portugal, The Man - has that nice, classic, throbbing rock sound - I like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and so I like this band. Here are two songs - Marching with 6 and Stables and Chairs.

1. Mic Check - Cornelius
2. May Banners – Tree Wave
3. Atlas - Battles
4. Esses - Pterodactyl
5. Spring Succeeds – The Olivia Tremor Control
6. It’s already here (4th draft) – Bill Bard
7. Footprints – Bill Callahan
8. My Children, Be Joyful – Rock Plaza Central
9. Sitar Folks – Peter Bjorn & John
10. Colours (DFA remix) – HOT Chip
11. Landscape (With Grass) – Azeda Booth
12. Sway – The Annuals
13. Pretty Voice – Cloud Cult
14. Beautiful Machine, Parts 3 & 4 – The Apples in Stereo
15. Pagina Cuatro – Books vs. Prefuse 73

1. Underground – Nina Nastasia
2. The Twist – Frightened Rabbit
3. That summer, at home I had become the invisible boy – Twilight Sad
4. Boxphones – Black Moth Super Rainbow
5. Conductor 71 – Fujiya and Miyagi
6. Memories of Jacqueline 1906 – the Olivia Tremor Control
7. Devastation – the Besnard Lakes
8. I’m Set Free – the Velvet Underground
9. Bluebirds fall – the Autumn Defense
10. Change in the Weather – the Concretes
11. This Little Garden – Michael Nau
12. Paisley park – Richard Swift
13. Complete or Completing – Annuals
14. No Growing – the Olivia Tremor Control
15. Chemicals Collide – Cloud Cult

1. The Melody of a Fallen Tree – Windsor for the Derby
2. I don’t know what I want us to do – Peter Bjorn and John
3. For Agent 13 – The Besnard Lakes
4. Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods – Black Moth Super Rainbow
5. Dear Grandma and Grandpa - Tortoise
6. My Horse must Lose – The Sound of Animals Fighting
7. My Sword Hand’s Anger – Apostle of Hustle
8. Muscle’n Flo - Menomena
9. Victorian Ice – British Sea Power
10. Adem Mix (Bonus) – Explosions in the Sky
11. The City, The Airport – Loney, Dear
12. Farther On - Vetiver
13. Tones of Town – Field Music
14. Man Must Dance - Johnossi
15. You’re Beautiful – The Faintest Ideas