WARMER MIXTAPES #55 | by Joel Karlsson and Henrik Markstedt of Air France

SIDE A | by Joel Karlsson

1. Jeff Perry | Love Don't Come No Stronger
I got this song from my childhood friend Karl on my seventeenth birthday-party, and when my parents went to bed we went out in the snow chaos, in the middle of nowhere and danced to this on a cassette stereo and drank gin for the first time. It was all drunken and lovely days, or maybe that's just sentimental memories talking.

2. King Tubby & Clancy Eccles All Stars | Kingston Town
Got this one the other day sent to my email from a good friend. I have always loved when things sound cracked and when you find the sweetest and strongest melodies somewhere in the contours.

3. Saint Etienne | Avenue
Manifest choice, maybe. But this beauty has it all, when I hear this I'm sure the world is on my side.

4. Ellie Goulding | Starry Eyes
A favourite from this year. I like the very stressfull pace.

5. Lovejoy | Sunset Sky
There have been many many nights spent on green hills just outisde the city when I have been listening to this one as the lights from the party streets in the city centralight up.

6. Serge Gainsbourg | Je Suis Venu Te Dire Que Je M'en Vais
It's strange, this one. I have listened to this for many years, but I can't put a memory to it. It must be an inner longing of moving to Paris that makes me turn to this song over and over.

7. Marcos Valle | She Told Me, She Told Me
Can't remember how this sounded, it has disappeared from my life. But when you asked for my songs I thought of this immediately. I remember it as an open-hearted agreement between two young people going home on the beach under the moonlight.

8. Ben Watt - ?
I can't remember the title, but it was about him forgetting a pack of cigarettes in her case. Is there someone out there who could help me with this one? However, very romantic and strong.

9. Francis Lai | 13 Jours En France
Today it is very seldom that I hear new beautiful film music, the movie companies makes it too easy for themselves and miss a big part of what's so amazing with films; creating an impression that goes beyond everyday life. Francis Lai has opened so many doors for me and introduced me to sensitive piano music, to film music from South America and from the East, and of course to so much other music from France.

10. The Embassy | Call It What You Want
...Or any other song from the first record. I am proud that I'm today a friend of the singer, the guy with brown hair, even if I'm not sure he'd say he's a friend of mine. This record made me take the final step and move down to Gothenburg. I don't know if that means I am thankful or the opposite, but I am very glad that their record made me think of Gothenburg as a better place.

SIDE B | by Henrik Markstedt

1. Saint Etienne | Kiss And Make Up
I love love love the version they recorded with Donna Savage before the one that ended up on Foxbase Alpha. I didn't even know this version existed until a couple of months ago, when a friend sent it to me after a quarrel. Instantly, it made me forget what we were arguing about.

2. Laura Luca | Domani Domani
My Italian is rubbish, but I think this one is about unhappy love, and that it's not the end of the world. I always appreciate it when songs about loss have a silver lining, a belief that things are going to be ok.

3. Ellie Goulding | Starry Eyed (Jakwob Remix)
At my last dj set, I must have played this song at least three times. I guess it's kind of hard to dance to, but I don't care. I get dizzy, my knees starts to shake when I hear this, and even though it's not really dancing, it's close enough.

4. Luca D'Ammonio | Ragazzina
This song describes the feeling you get when you've turned the radio on and hear your own song on the charts, and as you stand half naked by the window listening, your baby comes along and tells you to put on a sweater.

5. The KLF | Madrugada Eterna (Club Mix)
I went to Slovenia with my girlfriend this summer. We spent three weeks driving through the wine districts, stopping at vineyards and filling the trunk with bottles from Kras, Goriška Brda, The Vipava Valley...And the bassline from this song, it's wobbly flow, together with the wine, makes you walk like a monkey.

6. Myd | Train To Bamako
Right now, this is one of my faves. Takes me places I'll probably never be able to go.

7. Caetano Veloso | Debaixo Dos Caracóis Do Seus Cabelos
I have no idea what this song is about, but I've learned it by heart so that one day, I'll be able to sing my children to sleep with it.

8. Prefab Sprout | Appetite
Most boys in my high school were in love with Christina Applegate, Cindy Crawford or Jenny Grönholm, who worked in the cafeteria. But I desperately wanted Wendy Smith to come sweep me off my feet on a motorcycle.

9. The Wake | Talk About The Past
I had a big crush on Carolyn Allen too. I still do.

10. The Isley Brothers | Footsteps In The Dark
One day, I'll sample the intro to this song, forget to make our publisher clear it, make it a hit, become a millionaire and then lose it all in a court settlement to Ice Cube.

WARMER MIXTAPES #54 | by Ben Daniels of A Sunny Day In Glasgow

1. The Magnetic Fields | Dancing In Your Eyes
I love songs that feel happy and sad at the time and this is the best one. And I am just a sucker for all of the imagery here...Young, in love, autumn...Kind of pathetic I guess, but yeah. Never regret your time with me...

2. Galaxy 500 | Tugboat
I feel like this song has followed me around more and had more of an impact on my life than any other song I've ever liked. I wish I wrote the lyrics to this song. They all seem like they should appear on billboards or something.

3. Buddy Holly | Rave On
My parents were barely alive when this was made and it feels weird to me to pick a song made decades before I was born, but I feel like this song sounds so pure and perfect. I think it's the best rock'n'roll/pop song ever of all time. The well-a-hell-a in the very beginning always gets me. I really wish I could go back in time and see a Buddy Holly concert, I bet they were so much fun.

4. Jonathan Richman | Don't Let Our Youth Go Waste
The version from Precise Modern Lovers. The only fun times in high school were when I was with my friends listening to Jonathan Richman. We all probably wasted our youths but this song made us all really try not to.

5. Kraftwerk | Franz Schubert / Endless Endless
This is the best song to take a nap to. When I first got computer audio-editing software, the first thing I did was make a hour+ long loop of this song so I could put it on and fall asleep to it. I mean that as a compliment. Also, I think if I ever have to kill myself or am executed for some reason, I will request that this be played as I die.

6. Cocteau Twins | The Spangle Maker
No one has any idea what Elizabeth Fraser is singing in this song and it's so much better because of it. It's pure emotion, and there's so much emotion. It builds up steadily for a few minutes and then just gushes. It's overwhelming.

7. Nirvana | Milk It
The first concert I ever went to was Nirvana with The Breeders and Half Japanese. It was one of the best nights of my life, I can't believe I was allowed to go. I was a scared kid and got thrown into the mosh pit during One Divine Hammer by The Breeders. But the one song that has always stayed with me was Milk It by Nirvana. I had In Utero then and had listened to it a million times before the show and never liked that song. But seeing them play it and hearing him scream during the chorus was too much. It just blew me away. I still remember how I felt seeing that. Now it's easily my favorite Nirvana song ever.

8. R.E.M. | I Believe
I love Michael Stipe's lyrics and these are up there with my favorite of his. Always liked I believe in coyotes, and the version of this song from Tourfilm is even better when he adds the poem and sings the song before hand. I usually hate it when songs try to tell me to do things like dance or have fun or feel better about myself or make the world better, but this song does that in such an inspiring and wonderful way.

9. jj | Masterplan
I just got this record a few weeks ago but I can't stop listening to it. I'm in love with this band. Fear my masterplan...Me and my bay bee...

10. Sam Cooke | Bring It On Home/Having A Party (Live At The Harlem Square Club)
Bring It On Home is the most intense song I've ever heard. It starts with this really soulful version of You Send Me that is pretty crazy and then out of nowhere the band just kicks in and the songs gets so much more intense...Everybody's with me tonight!...And then the crowd starts singing along and it's just amazing. The last song on this record is the song Having A Party, which is this nice little whatever pop song, but somehow here it is the saddest most beautiful thing you will ever hear. If you listen to the whole album all the way through, but the time you get here you just get this sad feeling in your stomach, like summer is ending, there's nothing you can do, but you really really want the song to keep going. Sam Cooke was insanely talented.

WARMER MIXTAPES #53 | by Keith Kelly of Monogold

1. Michael Jackson | Thriller
Well, I guess I'll go with the first song that truly blew me away and that I can remember being my first real obession. I was probably 5 or 6 at the time and I like almost every other kid was obssessed with the song and the video. I always liked horror and monsters as a kid and I loved to dance and this song had everything. It was catchy, it was scary, it was fun, the dancing was awesome, the video was great and it had Vincent Price in it! Seriously, what else do you need!?

2. Kiss | Cold Gin
I loved Kiss as a kid even though they were not of my time but none the less it really pissed my parents off! I used to go to 2nd grade and paint my face like Gene Simmons! That song always makes me think of the performances I would have, dressed up like Kiss playing a broom as a guitar. Again it really pissed my parents off.

3. Radiohead | Paranoid Android
I remember sitting in my buddies car and this came on and I was completely blown away! It was everything I wanted to hear at that time. It was like Pink Floyd for kids my age. That song really affected me musically at that time. It got me into the album and really gave me confidence in trying some new things, most importantly I stoppped being a drummer and started singing.

4. Bob Dylan | Subterrnean Homesick Blues
This isn't a song that I will call a favorite because of the song itself, but it holds a sentimental value for me in that its my father's favorite Dylan song and whenever I hear it automatically makes me think of him. I laugh because it will remind me of him trying to get me to learn it and memorizing those crazy lyrics. Man, that songs a pain in the ass to remember, hahaha!

5. Santo & Johnny | Sleep Walk
This came out in like 1959 or something, and still to this day I think it's probably the most beautiful guitar track I've ever heard. No matter where I am or what I'm doing when this song comes on I stop dead in my tracks.

6. Nirvana | Where Did You Sleep Last Night
This was a cover of a Lead Belly tune, and I'll never forget the first day I heard it. I was like in 10th grade or something and it was right around Christmas and I supposed to be helping put up the tree with my family and instead my friend and I drove aimlessly around town for hours with this song on repeat. His voice at the end still gives me chills.

7. Talking Heads | Nothing But Flowers
This song is off the Naked album where their punk and synthesizer eras come to an end. This song is just about running naked over a cornfield thats covering what used to be a pizza hut, and getting back to nature. The lyrics are quirky and beautiful.

8. The Mothers Of Invention | Any Way The Wind Blows
This song was the catalyst to a whole new world of music for me. Frank Zappa completely shook up everything I thought how music was supposed to be. There were no rules or boundaries and for me at that time in my life that was exactly what I wanted and needed!

9. Sonic Youth | Hoarfrost
This was my real introduction into how melodic and subtle they could actually be. I realized how much more powerful they were to me in this style than their punky/noise stuff.

10. The Beatles | Fool On The Hill
This album to me is The Beatles at their most exciting, and this song especially always got me. It just sounds exactly like the year it was made. This is one of those strange songs where from the first time you hear it there's this automatic connection, like it's always been there just waiting for you to hear it.

WARMER MIXTAPES #52 | by Max J. Hansson [Night Minutes] of Cut City

Looking back at the selections I've made it makes no sense at all stylistically to forge these songs together on an imaginary cassette but I sure as fuck couldn't care less. These are songs that in one way or another made a huge impact on me and the way I play music.

1. Faust | BBC 1.3.73
A session medley Faust made for BBC which comprises the songs The Lurcher, Krautrock and Do So. It's around twenty-two minutes long and is what got me hooked.

2. Flipper | Way Of The World
Punk rock doesn't get more ugly than this. Sinister yet joyous in a weird sonic amalgamation.

3. Guns N' Roses | One In A Million
The lyrics are dogshit but the songs ranks as one of the best songs I've ever heard. GNR these days is nothing more than a joke without a punchline.

4. Kiss | Love It Loud
My cousin handed me a compilation cassette when I was around ten years old. This was back in '85 and it was probably the heaviest shit around or at least that's what I thought. I convinced all my friends it was the best song ever and forced them to listen to it many times in a row.

5. Journey | Anyway You Want It
This was on the b-side of same cassette. I listen to it a lot way back when but I forgot (or supressed) their existance after a while. Ten years ago I rediscovered Journey through my friend's mutual love for the band. Anyway You Want It isn't their best song but it's the one that sticks.

6. Brutal Truth | Stench Of Prophet
If being fast is a discerning quality check then this song. Is the best song in the world. If not, then it still is. Period.

7. The Replacements | Can't Hardly Wait (Acoustic Demo)
There are several versions of this song but it's the home-recorded version with Paul Westerberg alone that stands out. Suicide songs are plenty but the ones that actually makes you feel anything are few. Only one actually.

8. Sade | By Your Side
Just a sad song.

9. Richard Lloyd | Wild Child
Heavy on the eighties. Great song from one of my favourite guitarists of all time.

10. Johnny Thunders | Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory (live on some cd I bought)
Way wasted and some bantering between song but when this gem is played there are no dry eyes.

WARMER MIXTAPES #51 | by Sebastian Blomstrand [The !ntellivisionary]

1. Mini Viva | I Left My Heart In Tokyo
One of the few songs being played by radio in the past months that make me turn up the volume to max. The killer bass line kills me every time and the Mini Viva’s themselves are hot as hell.

2. The Blow Monkeys | Atomic Lullaby
Such a beautiful song from these exquisite Brits’ debut album back in '84. Dreamy, sublime and saxophone sexy.

3. Man Parrish | Boogie Down Bronx
Early electro-masterpiece from New Yorker Man Parrish. Groovy, techy and still today a source of inspiration.

4. Japan | Canton
This haunting, peculiar tune viciously pierced my heart when I heard it for the first time. Coming from Japan’s last studio album Tin Drum in '82, the band gets to show off their insanely wondrous skills as musicians. Mick Karn is without a doubt the coolest bass player ever.

5. The Stone Roses | Fool's Gold
One of my favourite songs shaking ass to. There’s not really much to say except that it’s funky as shit.

6. David Bowie | The Width Of A Circle
The intro is epic. The lyrics are awesome. Mick Ronson is a guitar god.

7. Orange Juice | Rip It Up
Last year I went to Rome with my ex-girlfriend. We kind of had this fight and we went separate ways for the day. I spent the day alone, taking a hike up one of Rome’s seven hills with this song on repeat. That day was in fact the best day that I spent in the Italian capital and I’ve been loving this song ever since.

8. Henry Mancini | Moon River
This old classic was written for the movie Breakfast At Tiffany’s and has then been covered by uncountable artists. I don’t know which version I prefer, but the song is almost too beautiful; just like Audrey Hepburn…

9. Alizée | J’en Ai Marre
I don’t know why France never seems to be fed up on the whole Lolita concept, but nevertheless, I love this song to oblivion. Alizée has an amazing voice and I just love the production of the song. It takes me right into the imaginative arms of a French beauty. Guess I’m really weak for French girls…

10. Michael Land | Monkey Island
Monkey Island is one of my favourite video games of all time. It’s extremely funny, witty, challenging and even arty. Michael Land composed its music and the music kicks ass.

WARMER MIXTAPES #50 | by James Scott Tamborello [Dntel/James Figurine] of Figurine, Strictly Ballroom, Headset, Antihouse and The Postal Service

1. Berntholer | My Suitor
When people ask me what my favorite song ever is I usually say this. The ratio between how much stuff is going on in a song vs. how much it affects me emotionally has a lot to do with my appreciation for music. I love when a song is really minimal but each detail is really important and moving.

2. Jack Nitzche | Starman Theme
I’ve used variations on this melody in almost every project I’ve ever worked on. I was probably around 19 years old and my roommate and I turned on the TV and Starman was just ending, the credits rolled and this song came on. We were both mesmerized. I didn’t even actually see the whole movie until a couple years later (it’s good).

3. Brian Eno | (An Ending) Ascent
A friend put this song on a mixtape. I was listening to it while driving to work and as I drove through an intersection I imagined another car crashing into me and me dying in the wreck as this song played. It was the start of my obsession with good songs to die to.

4. Aphex Twin | Xtal
When I got interested in making electronic music I was always intimidated by the glossy production on most rave tracks I was listening to. Then I heard this song, it was so good but so lo-fi, it sounded like it was recorded on a bad cassette (it probably was). It encouraged me to keep making music and changed my idea of what was acceptable to release to the public.

5. My Bloody Valentine | To Here Knows When
In high school I was listening to Loveless and I fell asleep and the music worked its way into my dreams. I’ve always remembered that as one of my favorite musical experiences, the way the already dreamy music warped in my sleep.


6. Big Star | Holocaust
I love sad music and this is one of the saddest songs…

7. Ennio Morricone | The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
My brother and I had this record when we were little and we used to dance to it with our friends and act it out. I rebought it a few years ago and was surprised by how weird the production is.

8. This Mortal Coil | Song To The Siren
I love the Cocteau Twins and Elizabeth Fraser’s voice, and this song is so sparse, it’s almost accapella. It’s nice to hear her voice come out from all that Cocteau swirling.

9. Popol Vuh | Brüder Des Schattens - Söhne Des Lichts
I discovered Popol Vuh through watching Werner Herzog’s movies so all of their music conjures really great visual memories. But I feel like if I had heard their music before I saw the movies they would still have brought similar visions into my head.

10. Eyeless In Gaza | Invisibility
I love Martyn Bates’ voice, especially on this song. He walks a line between pretty and scary. This is another example of my stuff vs. emotional impact ratio…

WARMER MIXTAPES #49 | by Andrew Diver of Soda Shop and Horse Shoes

1. The Field Mice | I Can See Myself Alone Forever
What person doesn't feel this way from time to time? Love is very complex and Bobby Wratten is great at helping you cope with it.

2. The Smiths | Accept Yourself
This band changed my life (whose life hasn’t The Smiths changed in some way?). I love everything about this song...It is impossible not to turn your head and listen closely when Morrissey opens with Every day you must say, So how do I feel about my life?.

3. Blueboy | To Good To Be True
I can put their entire catalogue on shuffle and never grow tired.

4. Blur | No Distance Left To Run
The ultimate farewell song. Somehow a beautiful pop song that still manages to unorthodoxly encompass an aspect of blues. And, let's not forget Albarn's beautiful voice.

5. Starflyer 59 | Housewife Love Song
This band always gives me a warm & fuzzy feeling inside. I remember when I first discovered Starflyer 59...I was overwhelmed! I thought, This is it! This is the sound I’ve been looking for!. This is the first song of theirs I heard and so I thought it was worthy of being chosen.

6. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart | Falling Over
A more recent obsession. This song just blows my mind.

7. The Smashing Pumpkins | 1979
The first band I fell in love with and was just downright obsessed with. They are the reason I picked up drum sticks, and later, the guitar. I saw a performance of theirs on television when I was young and thought This is it! This is what I want to be when I grow up!. They have a sound and presence no one can emulate. Well, at least The Smashing Pumpkins used to. But, that’s a different conversation altogether.

8. The Cranberries | Salvation
I was obsessed with The Cranberries at a very early age in my life. Dolores O'Riordan’s voice always sent chills up my spine!

9. Boat Club | Warmer Climes
What can I say, this was the band that pulled me into the Swedish pop scene in early 2008. I played Caught The Breeze over & over & over....

10. The Embassy | Some Indulgence
The whole album Tacking was phenomenal...This was my first favorite song from The Embassy. I loved every single song on Tacking. I played it so much a friend ejected it from my car stereo and said, Enough! Don’t you have any other CD’s?!

WARMER MIXTAPES #48 | by Alexander Gustafsson [Portrait Painter(s)]

1. Faust | Jennifer
I first heard the Swedish legend Freddie Wadling’s version of this song but I love the original just as much. It’s rough but still as beautiful.

2. Cortex | The Freaks
Speaking of Freddie Wadling, this must be he’s greatest song made for his band Cortex. Enough said.

3. Wayne Wonder | No Letting Go
I’ve never heard such great melodies like this. Also listen to Taken By Trees cover!

4. Olle Ljungström | Vila Vid Denna Källa
I first heard this Bellman cover on a commercial but in a acoustic version, just as beautiful as this one. I love the harmonies and Olle's fragile voice.

5. The Ocean Blue | A Separate Reality
I want to float in water and listen to this song for the rest of my life.



6. Mazzy Star | Blue Flower
One of the best songs made in the 90’s. Glasvegas will never make a song like this how hard they’ll even try.

7. The Pretenders | I Go To Sleep
It all sounds so wrong...I think that this is the sound of being drunk. All the way to 1:35 when you wake up and explore all the beauty in the world, oh, how I wish I wrote that refrain.

8. Avner | Besatt
You can say and think anything about Avner but you can’t deny the beauty in this song.

9. Delorean | Deli
If there’s one song I want to dance to all this night it’s this one.

10. Horslips | You Can’t Fool The Beast
No, you can’t!

WARMER MIXTAPES #47 | by Daniel Hedin [Le Days]

1. Sigur Rós | Samskeyti
It wraps you around your own soul and it start to look inside you with its tunes. And with every keynote the song produce it punches you over and over, to see yourself and suddenly you can't run anymore and you just give yourself out. And the inside of you turn to the outside. Honest, so pure, so beautiful that it forces you, to just cry.

2. Yann Tiersen | Comptine D'un Autre Été: L'Après-Midi
When you just don't think anything...You just sit and see, inside yourself on the outside of the world. Not happy, not sad, it's like the music helps you to go through the history and story of your life and your just watching it play...Playing the tunes of the soul.

3. Radiohead | We Suck Young Blood
It just stops me. It's like every clock stops and I just see the world through its true eyes of dust and every clap followed by words makes me breath heavier, like if he tells me what his soul says...His feelings coming through me with every tune they take, amazing, making me think of everyone that are special...We suck young blood, yeah, we all do.

4. The Veils | Jesus For The Jugular
The pain I see inside my mind is this man's air, when listening to this song. Every sad thought, every painful feeling that have gone through his body, he makes me feel. Right into my spine with uncunny feelings and those drumbeats kicking on the side of my head. Cold.

5. Bob Dylan | Masters Of War
I can't explain what he does with words...But something no other man could ever do. When he tells the story...He really tells it. I feel small.

6. Radiohead | You And Whose Army?
This makes me feel strong. Makes me feel like nobody could take me down...I love that feeling. Thank you, Radiohead.

7. The Smashing Pumpkins | To Sheila
This song I just listened to when I travelled by bus at night from Gothenburg home to my place...It made me feel so warm...Like for once in my life I felt safe and warm in the state of being alone...Like every light getting closer and talks to me. When I looked out through out the black glass and the bus was all warm and dark, I just felt so fine...Like every time when listen to this song. I felt so enjoyed with life when listen to this song. It embraces cold and create something else.

8. Ólafur Arnalds | 3055
The world stops when I listen to this. It's just drains me and for seconds I don't exist. It feels good.

9. Tom Waits | God's Away On Business
He makes me feel the dirt inside every man's head, dirty mean and so unpure and so true, he makes me feel the unclean sidewalk where the nowhere men lives and where the people with no name do business, it's so raw, just like life...

10. Bright Eyes | First Day Of My Life
Where a person comes to a stage, where he suddenly realize his love for someone, everything about the person...How she/he move, talk or how she/he look upon life with so different eyes and you realize you can't lose now, you can't lose this person, 'cause you're no one without her/him. This is the stage, this song is the stage and that is beautiful. That is love.

Facts & Figures | with Johan Angergård of Acid House Kings, Poprace, Club 8, Pallers and The Legends

Warmer Climes: How did you become interested in music?
Johan Angergård: I grew up with music all around me. My parents were always playing records at home and I especially got to hear a lot of Elvis as my father is a very big fan of him. So, music has always been a natural part of life. When I started listening to synth pop like Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk around 9 years age I wanted to make my own music and got a keyboard. I didn't come very far with that though. When I started listening to guitar pop like The Smiths and The Jesus And Mary Chain when I was 13 year old I wanted to learn how to play guitar so I could make music myself. That was the start of my music career I think! I played with my best friend Joakim first and then with my older brother Niklas too. The first years we sang in Swedish and called ourselves En Regnig Dag (means A Rainy Day) and then we changed to English and became Acid House Kings.

What advice would you have for other aspiring artists trying to get noticed in the big industry?
I think they should concentrate on making honest and good music first and not care so much about the world around them. If they tried to hard to get noticed they might loose sight of what's really important, i.e. the music and what and give you to make it. If they want to make money or something it's better to sell computers, work at a bank or something and not do music...

How did you learn to be perfect?
I'm far from perfect, but I always aim at making my music as close to the visions in my head as possible. The feeling when I've just written a new song and think it's great is exterely satisfying and rewarding. I listen a lot to my own music...

What is a perfect song to you?
Something that really moves me or takes me to new places. Most of the time it takes a lovely pop melody to do that, but not always.

Your new stuff sounds more noisey…Is this a backlash to your more pure sounding pop?
I only follow my heart and what I want to do in this very moment and with The Legends, which is only me, it's easy to make sudden changes in style to adjust the music after my state of mind. 2008 kind of sucked on a personal level so I needed noise to distract me from myself. Also, it seems like each album, each new album, tends to be a bit of a reaction to the previous one. The last one was clean and electronic so that probably inspired me to do someting dirty, noisy and full of guitars. And it's always most fun to do something I've never done before and exploit new types of sounds.

Are you political?
I'm not active politically, no. But I vote of course and agree and disagree with a lot of things. The Legends is not a political band though.

How do you begin a song? How do you know it's good enough to finish?
If I want to listen to it over and over again after I've made a first demo I know it's good enough to finish. I usually have an idea of what I want to do before I go to the studio, but I don't start writing anything before I go there. Once there I start experimenting with drums, bass and maybe a guitar to capture the mood I had in mind. Sometimes it becomes what I had in mind, sometimes something completely different but maybe even better. I try out a lot of things and experiment before I settle with a certain style or melody for a song.

Why aren't The Legends the biggest band in the world?
Because too many people have bad taste in music perhaps?

What is your favourite song? From The Legends? From other artists?
Right now it might be Heartbeats from Over And Over, but it depends on what kind of mood I'm in. That's perhaps the most emotional song I've recorded, but some days I'm more into noise and prefer Always The Same or Recife. I Know It's Over by The Smiths is the best song ever.

Was there a driving concept behind your new album?
Noise can clean and distract a troubled mind like few other things. There's a particular type of harmony that can be found in the noise, it's like all these layers of distortion, feedback and fuzz has a life of it's own in which you can sink into. So, that's how the making of the album started. As life started to suck a bit less the music became a bit happier. Monday To Saturday was the last song I wrote for the album and that definitely has a lighter sound and it's about everyday life and the troubles about living together with someone.

What's the most exciting part of the music-making process for you?
The first stages of making new song.

If you could pick a dream band to open for, past or present, who would it be?
Television Personalities.

Do you have direct writing influences? Someone special for you?
No really.

How do you fit into the Swedish music scene? What's it like at the moment?
I feel close, at least on one level, to the bands on Labrador as it's my label and I think they're all great bands. But when it comes to music style The Legends is like an island and I'm sort of living my own life and I'm not really part of any scene here. At least that's how I see it.

How would you describe your music to somebody who wants to listen ?
Hypnotic washes of distorted synthesizers and sweet bouncy melodies echoes under walls of feedback and crushingly loud shimmering guitars in modern mix of white noise, 60’s girls pop, indie and krautrock. And I'd add that I'd give to the new album (Over And Over) 9.0 out of 10!

Who or what inspires you to make music?
My own life and the music I listen to. It's that simple I'm afraid.

What is one thing a musician cannot be without?
For me, a computer.

What was your most memorable concert moment?
My very first Morrissey concert in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1991 was truly amazing. And I even got a piece of the shirt he threw out to the audience with me back home! My Bloody Valentine in Lund the same year was also amazing. When they played You Made Me Realize it was like a jet plane starting in your head. I couldn't hear for days.

The internet?
It's good! It makes it easier to compete with larger labels when distribution can be dealt with so easily. And also promotion becomes easier.

Do you have a favorite new band?
Perhaps not a favourite band that can compete with The Smiths and Television Personalities, but Little Big Adventure are really wonderful.

Mention 5 (or more) records that had been influencing you until now?
I think the ones that have affected me the most are all albums I bought before I turned 16 or something. So it might be something like these...
The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead
Various Artists | Shadow Factory
Depeche Mode | Speak And Spell
The Jesus And Mary Chain | Psychocandy
Fad Gadget | The Fad Gadget Singles

What do you love to do when you're not singing?
I like elements of nature like water and snow. So I like going swimming, try surfing (but I suck at it), waterskiing, skiing, snowboarding or just do nothing by the water or in the snow.

Any of the songs from your debut that you particularly enjoy performing live?
Everything You Say. Especially in the very first gigs. It was the first song I wrote for The Legends and it marked a start of something brand new.

Did anybody told you that you are a genius?
It has happened. But it's difficult for me to take that in - to say the least!

What's your biggest wish? …For the world, for yourself…
I'd wish that something nice and bright awaited me when I'm dead and not eternal darkness. For the world, I just wish people were kinder.

How is to be a part of magic Labrador? You look like a big family…Anyway, all Swedish music gives this impression…
It's a small label so I do most of the things on the label. So, it's a bit like a part of myself. I still enjoy it just as much as I've ever done and it's still my overall goal to make as many people listen to the same music as I listen to. I do meet some of the bands on the label quite often and it's very important for me to like not only the music the bands put out but also the people behind it. So, in a way it's a bit like big family.

Do you have fears?
Death is the major one which makes all other fears looks small and un-important.

What is music for you?
It's an escape, revelation, fun, a chance to be together with people I like, I way to express myself, a way to feel ok with myself, something that keeps me busy and curious...It means the world to me.

WARMER MIXTAPES #46 | by Thomas Meluch [Benoît Pioulard]

1. Nat "King" Cole | A Blossom Fell
A wonderful song on its own, to be sure, but the true significance of this one to me is its use in a stunning passage of Terrence Malick’s Badlands - which I count unequivocally among my few favorite films - where its understated melodrama adds an amazing depth to a desolate nighttime scene. The first time I saw the film I caught myself with an unconscious look of bewildered amazement during this section, and on each successive viewing the effect has been no less intense.

2. Autechre | Rettic AC
My favorite piece from one of my favorite records; upon first hearing Chiastic Slide at age 15 this track floored me with its seemingly organic progression and richness, though it’s obviously the product of extreme digital manipulation. How they were able to achieve that effect, I’ll never know, but it remains a highlight of an immensely illustrious catalog to me and I’ve always admired the restraint that Autechre displayed in keeping it so short and sweet.

3. SSAB Songs | SSAB Songs
This is technically a full-length but it plays as one continuous piece that shifts between humming glitch cascades and dilapidated Appalachian folk ditties, every weird second of which is utter brilliance. Harmony Korine (perhaps my favorite film director) made this on a four-track with Brian DeGraw of Gang Gang Dance but it sounds like the last 100 years of music condensed into a half hour.

4. Godspeed You Black Emperor! | Motherfucker=Redeemer (Part II)
Unfortunately the recording quality of Yanqui UXO leaves a good bit to be desired but the beauty and surge of this piece (the album’s denouement) shines through regardless. This record came out just before I began my University studies, so that autumn I was away from home and essentially friendless, so I would listen to its entirety under falling leaves in a secluded park off campus, each time anticipating the conclusion with bated breath. It felt like the end of the world.

5. Billie Holiday | You Go To My Head
Maybe cliché, but she’s easily got one of my all time favorite voices, and by my assessment this is her best rendition of any tune. The lyrics also contain some of the most beautiful, evocative similes I’ve ever heard, and when she sings about a summer with a thousand Julys my heart just melts.

6. Gonzalez | Overnight
One of the finest uses of half-step descensions in any piano piece I’ve heard; its heart-rending, endlessly lovely melody makes this a personal classic and remarkably, the rest of the Solo Piano record backs it up quite ably. This guy made beats for Peaches??

7. Kurt Vile | My Sympathy
I only heard this relatively recently but it already carries a significant personal weight. After playing a particularly satisfying show in Asheville, North Carolina this past spring, we went to stay at the house of our promoter, who also runs a record store called Autumn Leaves. He put on this mysterious, hazy and gorgeous record while we all unwound, and I instantly perked up and had to know what it was, which seems to be a rarer and rarer occurrence for me lately. It was God Is Saying This To You…And as soon as I he told me they had his albums in stock, I made haste to get both and have definitely made some serious wear on their grooves since then.

8. The Breeders | Invisible Man
Last Splash was definitely one of my first favorite albums, and remains so today - something about what the Deals did on this record seems so timeless and I’m a little sad that none of the rest of their oeuvre has struck me nearly as profoundly. I remember staying up late to watch the Cannonball video on MTV when I was 9 or 10 years old, then getting the CD through my Columbia House account and keeping it in constant rotation for months. Invisible Man is such an effortlessly beautiful song, backed by super gnarly guitar tones and perfectly raspy vocals - hell it sounds like she’s smoking while singing - that I can’t get enough of.

9. Aphex Twin | Flim
Not to be overly dramatic about it, but I think of this as one of the very few songs that completely changed my view on music in an instant. The Come To Daddy video appeared on TV when I was 13 and I was many things - appalled, enthralled, confused - when I saw it…Shortly thereafter the album was posted on a listening station at a store called Harmony House so I boldly decided to see what else this weirdo could possibly be making. I skipped track one since I’d seen the video and Flim was its successor; that little sigh of an intro drew me in and I stood there as though removed from myself and my surroundings for three mesmerizing minutes. It was exactly what my brain needed to hear at that moment, and an obsession with all things Warp Records was begun that lasted the rest of my teen years.

10. John Fahey | The Death Of The Clayton Peacock
A wonderfully simple motif and some incredibly creative playing carry this memorable little fugue into my list of classics... On its surface there might seem to be little of a remarkable nature but the subtlety of Fahey’s dynamics and slight variations in repetition are key elements, and to me they’re endlessly fascinating. It also really makes me want to learn to play better with a slide, but I think I’m from the wrong part of the country to be able to justify that in good conscience.

WARMER MIXTAPES #45 | by James Glaves and Jeremy Wagner of The Wagner Logic

SIDE A | by James Glaves

1. Daniel Johnston | Walking The Cow
Daniel creates music in it's purest form. He couldn't be pretentious if he tried. This song evokes a childlike inspiration in me that an over produced song could never do. This is a one of kind rough performance with little mistakes that actually make the song better. Incredibly well written pop song, gives me chills every time.

2. The Smashing Pumpkins | Soma
I'm still waiting for someone to top Siamese Dream...This dreamy and epic masterpiece rocked me to sleep literally every night for over 6 months straight. I love the way that Corgan's guitar sounds like it is going to explode towards the end of the guitar solo.

3. Modest Mouse | Alone Down There
This song is undeniably amazing. His lispy first verse puts me in a really dark, and awkward place. Once the chorus hits it is all over, such intensity. I waited their whole set for this song at a Chico, CA show years back when suddenly I realize my girlfriend at the time left me at the show in a rage because I was in the mosh pit checking out the guitar pedals and not tending to her needs...Cheap orange vodka = drama. Not as tipsy as Brock though.....

4. The Flaming Lips | Do You Realize??
Some of the most beautiful and inventive lyrics I have ever heard. It's true that we all are just floating in space...

5. Nirvana | Serve The Servants
Just a great pop-rock song. Steve Albini's drum sounds on this record really caught my attention.

6. Metallica | Fade To Black
Greatest power ballad of all time. Hands down. I was rocking this shit in the 5th grade, pretty much the reason why I started playing guitar. Return to me, Metallica!...

7. ELO | Strange Magic
Gorgeous love song from one of the most under-rated bands of all time. Jeff Lynne was way ahead of his time.

8. Barbara Mason | Yes, I'm Ready
This song makes me want to fall in love in slow motion and have that big TV embrace. My face feels like breaking off from smiling so hard.

9. The Ghost | My First And Last
One of my favorite bands of all time, I just found out that they reunited while researching for this top ten list. Another great Steve Albini recording. Singer Brian Moss croons with a blood-curdling, punk tinged, and emotional snarl that will literally make your throat hurt, and your heart spill blood through your eyes. Look out for this great band.

10. The Tea Party | Psychopomp
Dramatic, dark, epic, emotional, rocking, unique. Everything I look for in a song. Unfortunately this classic Canadian trio is now disbanded, but their first 3 records are still some of my most played albums.

SIDE B | by Jeremy Wagner

1. Queens Of The Stone Age | Auto Pilot
A laid back song by the kings of stoner rock.

2. Elliot Smith | Son Of Sam
His voice was soothing and calm, and he his guitar playing was untouchable.
I always get excited when I hear this intro.

3. Sonic Youth | Dirty Boots
It's hard to pick just one cause i love this album alot. But the main guitar riff of this was a big influence on me growing up.

4. The Pixies | Trompe Le Monde
A fuzzy reverb soaked masterpiece.

5. The Rolling Stones | Mother's Little Helper
Great feedback and slide guitars. Clever lyrics about pharmaceuticals.

6. Deerhunter | Agroraphobia
I just recently discovered these guys. Guitars and vocals of this song put you in a trance.

7. David Bowie | Young Americans
I love the frantic tone of Bowie's voice on this. Featuring Luther Vandross and Bowie's then Mistress on backing vocals. This is messy plastic soul era Bowie at it's best.

8. The Beatles | Long, Long, Long
A beautiful Psychedelic waltz. One of George Harrison's finest song.

9. Built To Spill | Distopian Dream Girl
One of of my favorite bands of all time. Go buy their records.

10. The Gun Club | Thunderhead
The way Jeffery Lee Pierce's voice screeches amazes me every time I hear it.

WARMER MIXTAPES #44 | by Johan Hedberg of Suburban Kids With Biblical Names

1. Bill Callahan | Too Many Birds
This is pure poetry for me. No bullshit. A little song about too many birds in one tree. The first lines in this song is so beautiful and the end with the extremely stiff white slow mo funk is one of the best moments in music this year.

2. Mistral | Starship 109
This sensual song about space has one of the best grooves I've heard in ages. Starship 109. This year I have had a thing about cheezy pop songs in outer space. If you wanna follow up this song with something quite similar both musically and textwise, check out Rah Band - Clouds Across The Moon.

3. The Divine Comedy | A Lady Of A Certain Age
This is so english. Neil Hannon croons away over a fantastic melody. He sings about an old rich very lonely lady and he somehow manage to go through all of her life in 5:48.

4. Jay-Z | Brooklyn's Finest (feat. Notorious B.I.G.)
Two hungry guys who love Brooklyn.

5. The Real Thing | You To Me Are Everything
I've been listening to this song so many times the previous months it's silly. I love these guitars, the melody, the piano, the breeze. I'ts a perfect song for the autumn.

6. Cat Stevens | Whistlestar
I remember playing this song from a car in Malmö at the summer of 2004, waking up neighbours on a Sunday morning. I remember going to a festival in Kroksjö and listening to this song and the alf theme over and over again until people would hate us forever.

7. Kjell Höglund | Genesarets Sjö
My girlfriend got me into this. It's kinda annoying in a sweet way. I like the idea about no refrain and so many words. The guitar solo actually fits in the song it's not often that happen. I like that it's hard to recognize if the guy is down or happy. I think he's a little bit down.

8. Luva | Bermuda Raindrops
What happens about 1:30 and goes on until the end in this song is amazing.

9. Sylvester | Over And Over (Special 12'' Disco Mix)
Disco classic, the trumpets and the special voice play a very special role here.

10. Depeche Mode | A Photograph Of You
I'm not much of a Depeche Mode fan but I can't resist this pop song. It's very playful and has great lyrics. This is one of those songs that I often listen to on my way to work when I'm not taking the bicycle.

WARMER MIXTAPES #43 | by Mike Diaz [MillionYoung]

1. The Strokes | Hard To Explain
Definitely one of those songs that just cheers me up no matter how down I am. Always reminds me of high school house parties, and how much fun life is.

2. The Beach Boys | I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
This song just sums up how I feel sometimes. It's pretty direct, which I usually don't like in songs, but it just can't be said any other way. I always wish I had been born in the late 40s so I could be a teenager in the 60s.

3. Animal Collective | Flesh Canoe
Whenever I hear this song I just picture being tangled in sheets with the one I love on a breezy weekend morning just laughing about everything. It just makes me feel really chilled.

4. Panda Bear | Bros
I have never had such an easy time listening to a 12 minute song, in fact, every time I listen to Bros I need to make sure I have enough time to listen to the whole thing because it feels necessary. The way this song washes over you and swirls in circles just makes life feel easy. I've actually been late to work because I've sat in my car listening to this song start to finish.

5. The Beatles | The End
It's pretty dangerous to play this song in the car if I'm driving because my hands immediately get distracted by air guitar. I love the back to back solos and how you can distinctly tell who's playing which parts. The song comes together so well as a whole, and at the same time, manages to highlight each member's personality.

6. Broken Social Scene | Looks Just Like The Sun
This song has been my alarm clock for years now. My mornings are usually pretty frantic to begin with, but something about starting the day with this smooth song just sets everything up so well.

7. Justice vs. Simian | We Are Your Friends
I'm not sure I could say it's one of my favorite songs ever, but the fact that I can remember a time I've danced to it with every last one of my best friends makes it hard to imagine life with out it.

8. The Decemberists | I Was Meant For The Stage
I've always felt this song is more about just finding what makes you feel happy and whole and going for it than it is about just wanting to play music. Definitely one of the most inspiring songs I've ever heard.

9. Mogwai | The Sun Smells Too Loud
Simply put, the last time I really fell in love it was to this song. That guitar riff just aches in a way that no words could ever express. Unfortunately the nostalgia is slightly overwhelming when I listen to it now, but I listen anyway.

10. French Kicks | All Our Weekends
I do this thing every time I go on a long trip where I compile a few albums I've yet to hear and make it a point to listen to them in their entirety along the way. The French Kick's Swimming was just such an album and it just fits right in with the feeling of being on vacation, escaping, experiencing something new. This song specifically reminds me of kicking my feet up on the dash with the windows down.

WARMER MIXTAPES #42 | by Romain Tranchart of A Thousand Names, Funk Legacy and Modjo

1. Neil Young | Cinnamon Girl
Best guitar sound I've heard. The guitar parts are amazing and the sound is bigger than life.

2. Neil Young | Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
Pure beauty, the song structure is just perfect... I’ve gotta get away from this day to day running around...

3. Neil Young | Round & Round
And round & round again...

4. Chic | Rebels Are We
Pure groove, it's gonna get you dancing.

5. Jeff Buckley | Grace
I'm a Led Zeppelin fan so I'm a Robert Plant fan so I'm a Jeff Buckley fan...

6. Ian Pooley | Chord Memory Daft Punk Remix)
What a motherf.....! Bass line/sound...

7. Procol Harum | Broken Barricades
One of the most innovative bands ever.

8. Stevie Ray Vaughn | Pride And Joy
SRV!!! That guy can play guitar!

9. Tom Petty | I Won't Back Down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell but I won't back down...

10. Tom Petty | Don't Come Around Here No More
Love this one or maybe this one loves me... Dunno why...

WARMER MIXTAPES #41 | by Hanna Lovisa of Cat5

1. Talking Heads | This Must Be The Place
I've had a special friend since three years back. We care massively about each other but recently had a falling out so we don't really speak anymore. Anyways. When we first got to know eachother we emailed alot. Wrote love letters back and forth and in one of those he sent me the words to this song. So whenever I listen to it I think of him. To me this is him in a nutshell. And also my favourite record.

2. Prince | I Feel For You
I love spending a friday night sitting on the floor drinking red wine watching live dvd's of Prince doing his thing. Very sexy...

3. Was (Not Was) | Shake Your Head
Want to get me in a good mood? Put this on. Great record. You can't become invisible, can't bullshit the devil. Shake your head. You can't ban the bomb, and there's no way to stay calm. Shake your head (lets go to bed).

4. Donna Summer | I Feel Love
Huge inspiration for my own music. How cool is the arpeggio bass line! Mega.

5. Joe Jackson | Steppin' Out
There's not a cloud in the sky when I listen to this. So hopeful. Feels like I'm walking on a catwalk while strutting down the street with this on. Love the lyrics.

6. Paul McCartney | Check My Machine
I wonder what state he was in while writing this one. Brilliant though. This is always on playlists I make for some reason. I don't know why really. I suppose I just find it really good.

7. Janet Jackson | Funny How Time Flies (When You're Having Fun)
My brother used to play this record when I was little. I've discovered loads of tracks recently that I know by heart that I haven't listened to for years and years. It's interesting how music can bring you back to a certain time and make you feel the same way you felt back then. I was the baby in the family and my 11 year older brother Henrik played lots of great records in the 80s. I think it has had a huge impact on me musically.

8. The Durutti Column | Tomorrow
This song to me is a rainy Gothenburg. Melancholy. Wet pavements. Trams. I can listen to this album over and over again.

9. Daniel Lanois | San Juan
A few years back one special evening in Gothenburg I went with my big brother Kristofer and his friends to see Daniel Lanois play at Trägårn. Afterwards Mr. Lanois came off stage and went out thanking people in the crowd. My brother so wanted to go up and take a photo of him but felt silly so we all giggled and laughed at him. Lanois came up to us asking what it was that was so funny. He started chatting to me and I guess (age wise) inappropriatly enough - flirted... He invited me and my brother to join him backstage. We had some whiskey and chatted about guitars and recordings for a bit. He then asked if we wanted to join him for a drink at his hotel. My friends were thrilled so I couldn't say no to that. Much later that night we ended up having a party in a studio flat where he played this song to us. It was magical. He kissed me on the forehead and I went home. I still got his number to L.A. on a little note somewhere.

10. Taken By Trees | Only Yesterday
I lived in London for a few months back in 2007. I moved there much because of a boy I was fond of at the time. But also because I felt the need to leave Sweden. I ran away from everything that I had going for me at home and started working in a shop by Oxford Circus. I was so tired that summer. I felt lonely. I drank too much. I had no money. The guy cheated on me and I missed my friends at home. I didn't really let anyone close. I sat in Victoria Park reading almost everyday the last couple of weeks with my iPod plugged to my ears. Sometimes crying behind my sunnies. This song takes me back to that time. No matter how tough it was I miss London so much.