smorelectric tunes

continuing with the dj mixes, soulwax put together nearly two hours of sixty-three sort of girl-talky jams that weave in and out of each other faster than a school of fish avoiding hungry dolphins. this comp will probably make you want to mix your own favorite songs down to one track just for ease and fluidity of listening.

soulwax - 50,000,000 soulwax fans can't be wrong (2005, pw: nodata.tv)



cd1 tracklist:
1. intro (0:43)
2. david bowie - rebel rebel (soulwax edit) (4:00)
3. soulwax - e-talking (soulwax nite version) (4:15)
4. märtini brös. - big and dirty (tiga remix) (2:50)
5. thomas anderson - washing up (1:14)
6. puffy & felix - jack u (4:08)
7. bob seger & the silver bullet band - ramblin' gamblin' man (1:26)
8. whitey - y.u.h.2.b.m.2 (2:09)
9. ladytron - sugar (1:52)
10. fischerspooner - just let go (thin white duke remix) (2:17)
11. sweet light - trixx (soulwax edit) (2:49)
12. puffy & felix - 20-minute versions (2:50)
13. vitalic - valletta fanfares (0:57)
14. miss kittin - requiem for a hit (soulwax edit) (3:06)
15. simian mobile disco - the count (1:38)
16. whomadewho - satisfaction (1:52)
17. jackos - bats danse (1:30)
18. zongamin - bongo song (1:42)
19. midnight mike - hot in the kitchen (2:10)
20. hot chip - over and over (3:16)
21. ampex link (0:21)
22. beastie boys - stand together (soulwax edit) (2:29)
23. annie - chewing gum (a cappella) (0:54)
24. [unknown] vs. first it giveth (nocturnal emissions vs. queens of the stone age) (2:26)
25. ol' dirty bastard - got your money (0:54)
26. fatal error - fatal error (1:14)
27. adriano celentano - prisencolinensinainciusol (2:00)
28. the girls - zebra jeans (2:36)

cd2 tracklist:
1. intro (0:06)
2. kling klang - heavydale (0:55)
3. lcd soundsystem - daft punk is playing in my house (soulwax shibuya mix) (3:59)
4. franz and shape - countach (3:16)
5. yellow house - jack my body (1:11)
6. jersey devil social club - homage at 121 bpm (1:13)
7. tiga - louder than a bomb (2:15)
8. !!! - hello? is this thing on? (thomas' n eric's rub and tug throwdown) (1:42)
9. whitey - leave them all behind (soulwax mix) (3:28)
10. blues explosion - mars, arizona (dfa remix) (3:12)
11. tiga - move my body (3:56)
12. linus loves - night music (1:35)
13. lopazz - blood (tiefschwarz remix) (1:34)
14. static - dream it (u.s. rave mix) (0:21)
15. cubik vs. dominator (808 state vs. human resource) (5:07)
16. audion - kisses (1:30)
17. mu - paris hilton (2:00)
18. mr. oizo - flat beat (1:44)
19. ark - sucubz (mr. oizo remix) (1:51)
20. soulwax - teachers (1:46)
21. gary numan - steel and you (1:59)
22. the jimi hendrix experience - little miss lover (0:07)
23. m.i.a. - galang (0:09)
24. jay-z - 99 problems (0:24)
25. zz top - cheap sunglasses (3:15)
26. public enemy - she watch channel zero?! (0:51)
27. snoop dogg - drop it like it's hot (0:22)
28. kraftwerk - the man machine (0:14)
29. dj shadow - the number song (0:29)
30. dutch breaks - full block (0:22)
31. ronnie james dio - dream diver (1:42)
32. the animals - a girl named sandals (1:35)
33. the chemical brothers - galvanize (0:23)
34. dizzee rascal - fix up look sharp (0:20)
35. db - future now (2:25)

madlib - beat konducta (vol. 5-6)



fantastic tribute to dilla recommended by avey tare. 'nuff said.

madlib - infinity sound (never ending) (vol. 5)
madlib - anthenagin' (?) (vol. 5)
madlib - first class (the best catalogue) (vol. 6)
madlib - smoked out (green blaze subliminal sounds) (vol. 6)
madlib - show me the good life (chip stack) (vol. 6)
madlib - smoke interlude (hawaiian punch) (vol 6)

toro y moi - causers of this (2010)



chill-wave.

toro y moi - lissoms
toro y moi - causers of this

omar rodriguez-lopez - solar gambling (2009)



dude from mars volta. solar gambling literally screams of the energy and intensity that comprises the former. i picked this up for the album art and thoroughly enjoyed parts of the record. if i were a hardcore mars volta van i'd probably love this a lot more. either way, it's worth hearing/feeling.

omar rodriguez-lopez - un buitre amable me pico
omar rodriguez-lopez - miel del ojo

related: the mars volta - frances the mute (2005)



the mars volta - l'via l'viaquez

sort of related: spoon - gimme fiction (2005)



spoon - the two sides of monsieur valentine







fader media collaborated with animal collective on their latest mag. this issue includes noah lennox interviewing eric copeland of black dice and brian weitz interviewing cast members from the state, among many other ac-related goodies, including music, film and art. the mag is fully and freely downloadable here in print and here as a beautifully mixed audio playlist starting with an abby portner jam that segues into what would i want? sky, which in turn morphs into black dice's earnings plus interest. so on and so forth for 45+ minutes, including the new panda bear/pantha du prince track, the splendour. this production offers an amazing recent insight to the band and the current goings-on of its affiliated, artsy compadres. this is super duper bluper highly recommended, especially if you dig ac.

related: here is an old pitchfork interview with a pre-feels animal collective from 2003.



there is so much life-affirming music out there. you should experience it.

much love

headphones times! rounding out december, eeking in my last picks for music we like--and music i affirmatively love very much--before the year ends.

four tet - much love to the plastic people



mexcellent new mix from four tet, set to release his upcoming there is love in you in late january. just over 78 minutes of reasonably moving music from what is, perhaps, plastic people's favorite man at the helm of a set of turntables. what starts out as a compilation of four tetty dancefloor jams relaxes into some truly fonkay jazzy and tropically inspired afro tunes. this mix is perfect for starting out in a certain headspace and ending up in a completely different, albeit wholly pleasant, mindset.

related: burial/four tet - wolf cub/moth



i listen to this pretty much every night on the way home from work as the clock nears midnight. sharp, invisible, complex beats that skate on thin ice and keep me conscious enough to speed over it with them.

four tet/burial - moth

also: white rainbow - new clouds



upward dripping, otherworldly elements floating up into the ether and bumping each other harmoniously along the way, melding and morphing into sonic dreamscapes. bottoming out at twelve minutes and topping out at over twenty, new clouds will please and ease your unwinding mind. mmmm.

white rainbow - tuesday rollers and strollers

with special guest: washed out - fantastic symphony mix



twenty-some minutes of music like a sunset.

1. arch m – bedrm band at caf nva (edit)
2. the samps – magnetic thys
3. samiyam – wrap up
4. toro Y Moi – brubek
5. koushik – homage
6. osborne – afrika (bullion remix)
7. iasos – inter-dimentional music
8. jack nitzsche – untitled (edit)
9. the khalsa string band – song of bliss

bonnaroo is in six months

yesssssss bonnaroo 2010 yessssssssssssss.



las grecas - gipsy rock (1974)




las grecas - la zarzamora
las grecas - asingara

soul jazz records presents: tropicalia - a brazilian revolution in sound


soul jazz records can do no wrong. every compilation they put out is phenomenal and chock full of completely unheard of, incredible songs from around the world. this comp is full of scratchy, sharp guitars and brillo paddy horns ranging from ultra soft to wholly assertive. soaring brazilian vocals. super duper highly recommended for people who enjoy music.

os mutantes - a minha menina
gilberto gil & os mutantes - domingo no parque
caetano veloso - alfômega

black dice - repo (2009)


on repeat. textures, textures, textures. sounds a lot like the album art looks, and i picked it up in amoeba because it caught my eye and i'd been meaning to give black dice another serious go around in my headspace since hearing two excellent compilations featuring their music.* the more you get into this album, the more it gets into you. repo is sort of the aural equivalent of putting all kinds of toys, children's or otherwise, into a garbage compactor and squeezing it out of a massive playdough extruder.

black dice - glazin
black dice - earnings plus interest
black dice - vegetable



*black dice - pigpen (from the ultrafluid two-part living bridge comp; pigpen is also on black dice's load blown, released in 2007)

other notables on living bridge (2008):
avey tare - i'm your eagle kisser
telepathe - i can't stand it
fischerspooner - amuse bouche



*black dice - trip dude delay (from hisham bharoocha's they keep me smiling... compilation, released april of 2004. the above image is not the album art as drawn by hisham, but it conveys his similarly happy, confused, bubbly vein of collage/line art. zang.)

other notables on they keep me smiling...:
gang gang dance - rugs of prayer
animal collective - the kite
delia gonzalez & gavin russom - relevee
tes - it's like dat

dreamweapon

spacemen 3 - dreamweapon (1988)







spacemen 3 - ecstasy in slow motion

planetary scientist carolyn porco shows images from the cassini voyage to saturn, focusing on its largest moon, titan, and on frozen enceladus, which seems to shoot jets of ice.



brightblack morning light - s/t (2006)



brightblack morning light - everybody daylight
brightblack morning light - star blanket river child

with new data from the keck telescopes, andrea ghez shows how state-of-the-art adaptive optics are helping astronomers understand our universe's most mysterious objects: black holes. she shares evidence that a supermassive black hole may be lurking at the center of the milky way.