the ritournelle: Archive

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Red Comet Dust

This is a most beautiful thing. Red Comet Dust by CFCF

Apr 22nd

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Laurel Halo :: Throw

More like ‘Laurel Hero’. I fucking love this.

Apr 19th

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Apr 19th

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Majical Cloudz :: Childhood's End

May 21 is the day. New album from the very magical Majical Cloudz. Called Impersonator. Out on Matador Records. MARK YOUR CALENDAR.

Mar 26th

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52mixtapes :: sounds of sxsw (a preview)

It’s about a week away. Here are just a few sounds to get you excited. swimming pools (sounds of sxsw 1) from the ritournelle on 8tracks Radio. turns turns turns (sounds of sxsw 2) from the ritournelle on 8tracks Radio. get free (sounds of sxsw 3) from the ritournelle on 8tracks Radio.

Mar 7th

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Mar 1st

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52mixtapes :: I Know Places

I Know Places from the ritournelle on 8tracks Radio. Who is the boss? You or your heart? Your heart is your employee. Now tell your heart to get off its butt and do something.

Feb 23rd

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Ce soir. Mixtapes live.

Tonight I will be playing songs sequentially once again with Sloop Sean B. Going to start by slowing it right down. Expect deep and dope all night long.

Feb 7th

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Feb 4th

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My Bloody Valentine :: M B V

Bloody 403 error. New album. Download it! But probably not tonight…

Feb 3rd

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Feb 2nd

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Jan 31st

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Jan 31st

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Jan 25th

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In need of some hazy beauty? Here you go.

Jan 24th

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52 mixtapes :: C E R E M O N Y This is why events unnerve me. Okay, so I didn’t meet my goal of 52 mixtapes in 52 weeks. But sometimes goals are stupid, as are other meaningless ceremonial processes (cue New Years resolution speech here). Fuck your goals, fuck ceremony.

Jan 19th

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Jan 19th

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Matthew Dear :: Gem →

This. Loud. All night long.

Jan 5th

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Jan 3rd

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Dec 31st

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Lonerism

I’m not that interested in ‘best of’ lists for the year. Well, not creating them anyways. That being said, this is the time of year when I take a look at what I have been listening to and reflect (once again) on its relation to my existential ennui. And hello Tame Impala. Lonerism. Cover work featuring les Jardins de Luxenbourg. Song titles like “Apocalypse Dreams”...

Dec 17th

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52mixtapes :: a lion in winter (a december mix) Eleanor: How dear of you to let me out of prison. Henry II: It’s only for the holidays.

Dec 15th

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Laurence, Anyways.

You should really see it. And hear it. Soundtrack highlights:

Dec 4th

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Nite Jewel :: P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)

Sexy times up in here. Love love love.

Nov 29th

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Julia Holter covers Fleetwood Mac

Two of my favourite things combined: Julia Holter and Fleetwood Mac Swoon.

Nov 26th

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52mixtapes :: We might be dead by tomorrow. Or maybe not. Come on people, let’s feel ways about stuff.

Nov 26th

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Nov 15th

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Thomas Barfod :: November Skies (Jerome LOL mix)

November skies indeed. A pretty rad remix of Barfod’s (ft. Nina Kinert) lovely track November Skies.

Nov 15th

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52mixtapes :: Tú serás mi baby Eu falo um pouco português, mas com sotaque francês.

Nov 11th

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52mixtapes: PSYCHE (Songs for ghosts). I can feel ghosts. These are the songs they want to hear.

Oct 31st

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52mixtapes :: Into Dust (90s nostalgia) A musical fix for those nostalgic for a time that wasn’t ours.

Oct 11th

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Peaches :: Burst (planningtorock remix)

Peaches is back and ready to burst! Heh, heh, get it? She is back with an all new EP and video for her new single “Burst!” The EP is available via Boysnoize Records and it includes some great remixes. Especially this planningtorock mix below. Whaaaaaaaaat.

Oct 10th

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Oct 10th

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Oct 9th

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Jessie Ware :: Night Light (Wild Beasts Remix)

Nice job Wild Beasts.

Oct 9th

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Oct 4th

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Bat For Lashes :: All Your Gold

Hello Bat For Lashes. Where have you been? Will your next album be as haunting as the last? I sure hope so. Also, I can’t but help thinking of Francoise Sullivan while watching this.

Oct 3rd

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Let's Buy Happiness :: Better on Paper (Memory...

good morning! sway, swoon, sigh, repeat.

Oct 3rd

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Les Surfs :: Tú serás mi baby

“You know what dreams are like…We can’t command them.” Last night I dreamed of crocodiles. In black and white.

Sep 30th

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52mixtapes:: HEART + SOUL (a september mix) September, you’re breaking my heart. And I like it. Voila, some selected music for fall(ing).

Sep 27th

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Crystal Castles :: Wrath of God

Dialed down and eery, the new Crystal Castles track is just what the end of this month needs. Bye bye September sun, hello October hauntings.

Sep 27th

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Grizzly Bear ::Yet Again

New video. Emily Kai Bock at it again.

Sep 27th

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Andy Stott :: Numb

I need you, music.

Sep 26th

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Tamaryn :: Heavenly Bodies

Hazy, grey days call for equally hazy shadow music. Like this.

Sep 18th

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Groundislava :: Suicide Mission ft. Baths (Ryan...

I like Ryan Hemsworth these days.

Sep 14th

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52mixtapes :: Heaviest Head in the West “We will live in this world, which for us has all the disquieting strangeness of the desert and of the simulacrum, with all the veracity of living phantoms, of wandering and simulating animals that capital, that the death of capital has made of us—because the desert of cities is equal to the desert of sand—the jungle of signs is equal to that of the...

Sep 13th

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Sep 12th

Sep 11th

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Feist :: Graveyard (TRUST remix)

This is a very good remix.

Sep 10th