January 2012
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Watch52 mixtapes: warm in the winter
hey kids! I know you think that I’m joking about us all moving here, but I am not. California in january is where it is at. Hopefully this playlist will communicate the sunset drives, desert wind and hollywood dreaminess of the golden state.
Warm and sunny on top, dark and desperate underneath.
Dance your hearts out friends!
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Watchjanuary: the chills
A little mix to keep your toes tapping and your heart warm during these chilly times.
Track List
Intro. Friendzone
Near. Main Attrakionz + Shady Blaze
Lana Del Rey. Born to Die (Woodkid Remix)
Brains. Lower Dens
Brothers. Tanlines
Know Me. Frankie Rose
Genesis. Grimes
With Just One Glance. Nicolas Jaar
In Real Life. Molly Nilsson
The Way Down. Die Jungen
Lord...
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♫ The Weeknd - Rolling Stone (Owls Refix)
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♫ The Weeknd - Rolling Stone (Owls Refix)
This “refix”, from Cardiff’s Owls, doesn’t stray too far away from the original, yet creates a whole new solemn atmosphere courtesy of dragged out vocals. Drenched in echo and often running parallel to pitch shifted vocals, it serves as an ode to abandonment and an urge for change. Gorgeous. Sndcld ♪ File under: electronic, refix,...
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Clams Casino and Woodkid remix Lana Del Rey's...
I like her. And I like what she is doing.
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Clams Casino chops Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die in pieces, as if she’s singing the song while slowly dying, in particular during the final minute. Woodkid gives it a baroq’esque vibe that fits the song surprisingly well with these perfect-timed drums (kind of balearic in a way), creating an image in my head where Del Rey reigns her...
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“No, the Lana Del Rey imbroglio points at something potentially worse: an...”
– Lana Del Rey Lights Up the Internet
Tom Ewing makes a very important point. Theatricality and reinvention are crucial parts of music and the arts — demanding “authenticity” is reactionary and mostly poisonous to creativity.
(via perpetua)
Look, I don’t really like the idea of another white body...
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WatchTreat your ears right. Listen to this album.
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SXSW
More bands have been announced and it’s shaping up pretty nicely!
Things I am looking forward to include:
Charlie XCX
Purity Ring
SBTRKT
And of course:
Grimes
Nicolas Jaar
Youth Lagoon
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WatchThis one goes out to all you David Lynch fans out there…
52 mixtapes: Ghost of Love
Track list
Ghost of Love. David Lynch
Falling. Julee Cruise
In Dreams. Roy Orbison
Lou Reed. This Magic Moment
Wicked Game. Chris Isaak
Song to the Siren. This Mortal Coil
Sixteen Reasons. Connie Stevens
Blue Velvet. Bobby Vinton
Be-Bop-A-Lula. Gene Vincent
The Locomotion. Little Eva
Monkey Gone to Heaven....
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Glory feat. B.I.C.
That’s right, you heard...
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Watch52 mixtapes: Real is a Feeling
“You watch too many films. Too many films for real.”
This week’s mixtape is inspired by… wait for it…
Deleuze!
Mainly, the maxim that “the brain is the screen” or as Gregory Flaxman puts it, “[t]his screen is a form of relation, of interchange, of mutual synthesis between the brain and the universe” and by...
Planningtorock and Austra. Love.
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We Are the Works in Progress →
This will be good.
The tracks by Four Tet and Karin Dreijer Andersson are on the interwebz already and so far so good! The compilation is organized by Blonde Redhead and the album will be available digitally on Jan. 10! Hoorah!
wearetheworksinprogress:
PREORDER THE VINYL (2xLP!)
Tracklist
Moma - Four Tet
No Face - Karin Dreijer Andersson
G Song - Terry Riley
Nightcrawler - Nosaj...
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Repeater: Joe Says
Repeater = Songs that go on repeat. At least for a little while.
The repeater this time?
Joe Says by The Sandwitches
These gals are out of San Francisco and used to sing with The Fresh & Onlys. Not a new song but one that has stuck with me for a while. Great voices, great lyrics.
I’ve got no one beside me.
I’ve got nothing inside of me.
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Watch52 mixtapes: week 1 (a.k.a. Illest Alive)
Mixtape numero uno coming right up! This week features some tracks that might be the ‘illest alive’ (I’m so lame). These songs are good for dancing.
In the dark.
Dressed in gold sequins.
By yourself.
With the curtains shut.
Track List
Clams Casino. Illest Alive (Main Attrakionz)
Grimes. Vanessa
Silky Johnson. Chasin Paper
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Week one of 2012 has begun. Can you believe it? Well, believe it!
In honour of this week and the next 51 that follow, I will be posting some tunes in the form of mixtapes. Surely the internet needs more mixtapes, right?!?
Right!
The mixtapes will include new and old stuff, perhaps themed, perhaps not. Mainly it is a chance for me to share things I love. With you.
Hopefully you can throw...
(music) New Years Resolutions for everyone →
hi54lofi:
As someone who dips his toes in a lot of the areas that WLFY’s excellent list of music resolutions touched upon (i.e. I blog, I read blogs, I run a record label, I sometimes attempt to make music, I go to concerts, and I buy and download music… I even send out and receive ‘PR emails’), I can say that this list really hits a lot of nails directly on the head. Almost all of these things...
# DELEUZE /// The Ritournelle →
The Ritournelle is therefore a form of incantation for a claimed spatiality, but it is also a sort of song that, despite is supposed lightness is calling for the power of the cosmos. As Deleuze turns it: “This is like if the stars would start to play a small song of cows’ bells or actually it’s even the opposite, that’s the cows’ bells that become, all in a sudden, promoted to the status of...
