Warmer Climes: June 2010

WARMER MIXTAPES #198 | by Zahira Gutierrez and Cody Swann of Wild Moccasins

1. The Beach Boys | God Only Knows by Zahira
I remember watching a movie and in the credits this song started to play. Listening to the melody and the words made me really emotional and harmonies really fascinated me. I had never really heard a song with such a powerful melody, and to this day it continues to amaze me.

2. of Montreal | The Party's Crashing Us by Zahira
When I listened to this album I felt like so many things changed. I was a late bloomer with some music but after I heard this song it made me realize that all I wanted to do was find the best pop songs and pop bands out there. I wasn't allowed to go to shows until I was 17 and of Montreal was my first show, I remember the costumes, lights, props, and when they played that song everyone started dancing. They continue to be my favorite band and that song continues to make me feel great.

3. Blondie | Heart Of Glass by Zahira
I used to dance to this song in middle school in high heels and ridiculous outfits in front of a mirror because Debbie Harry is a badass and everything she does is the definition of cool for me.

4. The Flaming Lips | Do You Realize?? by Zahira
Everything about this song is amazing. Cody put it on a mix cd for me when we started dating and it blew my mind. No matter where I am or what I'm doing that song makes me cry.

5. Belle And Sebastian | Funny Little Frog by Zahira
I used to love listening to this song when Cody and I would take road trips around Texas and now I listen to it a lot while on tour.

6. Bob Dylan | Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again by Cody
I used to love listening to this 7 minute long behemoth all the way through. Dylan's lyrics have always attracted me and the amount that he produced for this song without sacrificing quality for all of the quantity is great to me. Even more so than listening to it I have fond memories of attempting to play this song all the way through without forgetting the lyrics.

7. Voxtrot | Wrecking Force by Cody
I became a huge fan of Voxtrot pretty soon after they started. It is only a 3 hour drive from Houston to Austin, TX anyways so I got to see them pretty often. The last track on my favorite EP by them always stuck out to me. I was a huge fan of Ramesh's introverted lyrics and simple guitar playing. It was exactly what I needed to see and hear to give me the confidence to write and record myself. Which I started very shortly after.

8. Sufjan Stevens | Casimir Pulaski Day by Cody
I still remember my older and closest cousin introducing me to this record. I wasn't sure if I would like it when he told me I would. He and I had steadily grown further and further apart once he had become stronger in his faith. This was not a conscious decision but without shared interests it was quickly becoming harder to relate. It still saddens me that we are not as close as we once were, but I am thankful for the influence he has had on my life (i.e. teaching me to play guitar, the records he played me, and just as a person in general)

9. The Smiths | Heaven Knows I'm Miserable by Cody
I can't really say what makes a song a perfect song, but somewhere in my head this one measures as that. It has a memorable melody, an interesting structure, and great guitar work amongst other things. I don't think any of those have to do with what measures up for me though. The song carries a message of the endless battle in never feeling content that I seem to relate to. A message that I seem to run face first into time and time again. Maybe my perception of perfection lies solely in the ability to relate, but without a doubt this is a timeless song.

10. The Beach Boys | I'm Waiting For The Day by Cody
I (just like everybody) have heard songs from this record my whole life, but I did not start listening to the record as a whole until a few years back. I am glad I started when I did though. It allowed me to relate to this song in ways I probably would not have been able to had I started at a younger age. When Zahira and I started dating she had just gotten out of a long-term relationship that ended badly. It might not have been a great idea for her to start dating me so soon after, but she did and I am thankful for that as well, haha. I can't help but feel like the narration is screaming everything I felt at that time.

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SILENCE CAN BE A HEADLINE

WARMER MIXTAPES #197 | by Laurel Halo

Warmer Climes Mixtape | The Twilight Zone

I hope that before I die I can visit the twilight zone of the ocean. I once went swimming around a Japanese shipwreck off the coast of Bali - despite it only being 100 feet down, I was too frightened to go close. I could only imagine what being in a submarine 2000 feet down would feel like. Bioluminescence is prevalent in the twilight zone - anglers with flashlights to lure prey, shrimp that puke up glowing fluid to confuse predators - life is all about avoiding repetition and irrelevance. I find it amazing that more is known about the Milky Way than the oceans that cover 70% of the planet. Also, I am a huge fan of Ghost In The Shell - there's a famous scene where this female android goes scuba diving for relaxation. She knows that her metal skeleton would sink her, but the air tank on her back keeps her alive - she simultaneously finds coldness and hope when diving.

This mixtape is divided into three parts - Part I is The Dream, the excitement before departure; Part II is The Mission; Part III is Diving Far Past Sunlight, and the inevitable return to the surface.

DOWN FOCKIN' LOAD

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WARMER MIXTAPES #196 | by Xavier Paillat and Cyril McRummenigge of Splash Wave

SIDE A | by Cyril McRummenigge

1. The Wake | Talk About The Past (12" version)
Definitely one of the best things Factory produced in my opinion. I love so much the synth-strings sounds aswell as I love so much Carolyn Allen. Probably the biggest influence on a track like Outrunning, soundly speaking.

2. Jonas Reinhardt | Atomic Bomb Living
I'm wondering if I don't prefer actual krautrock bands which are obviously kind of anachronic, but you know, when I listen to this last LP by Jonas Reinhardt or the Lie In Light one by Cloudland Canyon (still on this great Kranky label) I just have the feeling that they managed to take advantage of what was boring with German bands of this era.

3. Nite Jewel | What Did He Say
I don't know if we have to say them or she because I guess that Ramona Gonzales is still the brain of this great project, but this is Brilliant. I love the way she writes music, her singing and the way the tracks are slightly produced. Maybe I just love her, I don't know, but I could eat kebab with chocolate sauce, or something as gross, to get the LP release of Good Evening.

4. Trans Am | Run With Me
Trans Am are simply the #1 band for me. It's difficult to pick just a track, cause I quite love everything. This Run With Me on the TA album is a simple & perfect demonstration of how this band is great and could easily do anything they want till this kind of Stadium-rock Hit.

5. Devo | Theme from Doctor Detroit
What could I add about Devo? Anyway I've kind of a passion with 80's movies (and aesthetics in general of course), and this movie with Dan Aykroyd is not so good... But the Theme song is one of the most efficient Synth-Pop track from Devo, and the clip is a pure gem. Such a shame that it's a bit put aside compared to their other hits.

6. DMX Krew | Hard Times
Ed Upton caught the recipe to make an old-school hit, and when he wants to, he does. Besides, his side-projects are always lots of fun and exploring diverse ways (Computor Rockers, Bass Potatoes, Knight Ryder, Private Lives w/ Cylob...). I remember the first contact I had with him and the front picture of We are DMX. It was just something like What the fuck?. I guess it took me months to be striked by the evidence. This guy is a total killer.

7. Disasteradio | Digitial Pop
Disasteradio is the project of Luke Rowell, an awesome guy from New Zealand. I couldn't stop listening to this track on my iPod for a long time, that was the only thing I got from him, until I bought the Digital Release of VISIONS. That record truely blew my mind, it's a kind of Geek-Pop masterpiece, the perfect mix between 80's videogames soundtracks (I could almost see myself ridin' a superbike in Hang-On while listening to Believe In Yourself) and Pop Music format. He's got a real science of composition and his music is pictorially so powerful!

8. Ministry | What He Say
A Ministry track opening with synthetic trumpets, with slap bass and Al Jourgensen pronouncing kingdom of Swaziland, it's simply Priceless. But besides that, this is a great catchy song on a very good debut album. Unfortunately disawoved by Jourgensen. I used to be a big fan of the 90's Ministry (I guess I still am), and discovered that early period way much later. Even in my dreams, I couldn't have imagine a craziest turnover.

9. Eight Dayz | What's So Strange About Me?
A bit of Skate-core won't hurt us. I love so much watching skateboard, especially Bones Brigade's VHS, but being hurt is precisely why I'm not good at skateboard. So, I've recently seen this Video by a french artist named Raphaël Zarka called Topographie Anecdotée du Skateboard. It's a video made upon 40 skate videos/documentaries excerpts in which this Eight Dayz track figures. But the point here is to say that 1) Skate videos' soundtracks can be really great, hiding some true gems 2)This Eight Dayz' track is a perfect minimal paranoid pop-punk song. Less is More is probably a real true motto, no shit it's really hard, but on this track, Eight Dayz got it right.

10. Joe Satriani | Driving At Night
For most of all, Joe Satriani is something like really gross. And I guess that's mostly true, but I must confess loving some of his 80's tracks. This one in particular because the synth pads + the funky-junky chords + the dry bassline balances the shreddy stuff, and that just does a pretty good theme for a potential B-movie with Car Racing, a phantom driver that vanishes in the air doing sparks & lightnings , and maybe Charlie Sheen. Oh wait, that already exists ?

SIDE B | by Xavier Paillat

1. Stereolab | Crest
I love this band and I think this is my favorite song from them...I had a band a few years ago, we tried to do someting à la Stereolab/Electrelane and we did a cover of Crest. It was super great but ridiculous in comparison with the real one! I've seen them live two years ago, it was perfect. Of course their scenic prestation isn't huge but this isn't what I ask when. The sound was perfect, all the keys, synths and guitars...Laetitia was wearing really weird clothes but I'm still in love with her! There was a frenchie with them, the leader of a kraut-prog band called Aquaserge, he has the tough task to replace Mary Hansen did before.

2. 808 State | Pacific 707
Both the name of the band and the song reveal our taste in matter of vintage drum machines....808 State inspired us at the beginning of Splash Wave, the aesthetics for example: they had a really cool/chill way of doing electronic music, very different than the rigidity of Kraftwerk... It's not an obligation when you do music with machines to act like a robot!

3. Model 500 | The Chase
I discovered this track by a synth demo on YouTube, made by an unknown guy in his living room! Then I listened to the real one and I loved it, but I think I prefer the Youtube vid! Also I'm a bit dissapointed by the sound Model 500 have today on stage.

4. Cylob | I Believe In Braindance
I don't know this song for a very long time. In fact I guess I missed it because the guy did recently a lot of noisy/expe works, he left synths for Super_Collider and MaxMsp... I'm not into this kind of things... But this anthem which take the form of a lament seduces me.

5. Jean-Michel Jarre | Oxygène
My dad brought me a tape of JMJ from a work travel, his greatest hits (I have sometimes the idea that this guy release more Best Ofs than studio albums!!!). Anyway I had this tape and a green toy truck! Great day!!! Oxygène is the path of my discovery of electronic music, with OSTs by Vangelis and Eric Serra maybe.

6. Swiss Vikings | Shave The Razor Wheels
This is an unknown track of an unknown band...We worked for another project, Splash Wave did not take form yet and in fact we spent our time watchin' old skatebording videos! We watched the Future Primitive tape, from Bones Brigade and after the intro there's a bowl scene with this Shave The Razor Wheels, we watched/listened to extensively! Then we looked at the credits but the name said nothing to us, so we googled it, and nothing! Frustrating. We just had this 40 seconds excerpt of a track. A kick/snare motorik beat but also very agressive, a melodic synth bass and these analo-luminous chords...We were sad to just have this piece of track, so we simply did the rest by ourselves! Our Shake The Razor Wheels is based on this excerpt, it's a tribute, you could listen to it on our demo tape and on MySpace. It's quite the birth of Splash Wave in fact.

7. Neu! | Hallogallo
My first contact with krautrock! In fact the first conctact after having learned the word krautrock!
Before, with my friends we have scoured our parents dusty closets full of abandonned vinyls and found much of Tangerine Dream, Klaus Schulze or Popol Vüh records...Four Tet mixed this Neu! song in a set during a summer festival in France. His dj set was on the beach and there was speakers on the sand AND under the water! I borrowed a diving regulator and a mask for underwater listenning! Puzzling.

8. The Durutti Column | Otis
I am surprised of this track's simplicity. The sounds (especially the guitar) are perfect and I love the sample while I really don't like this Tracy Chapman's song...

9. Oppenheimer Analysis | Radiance
I discovered this band recently by a compilation, a collaborative work between Stones Throw and Minimal Wave, called The Minimal Wave Tapes. I became a huge fan of their work! I haven't so much things to say, I just love the way that the very melodic vocal part is very different but well mixed with the entirely electronic music part. It looks like Gary Numan's demos, before a greater production in studio, but in my opinion it's way better.

10. ABC | Nuclear Apocalypse THX
I like rap music, and I had my peplum hip hop period, you know this songs with an antic production, with samples of trumpets or Renaissance with harpsichords... They EVOQUENT arenas or battlefields...I think ABC has well understood this stuff and if you speak French, the lyrics are really awesome!

WARMER MIXTAPES #195 | by Erik De Vahl

1. Lambchop | Caterpillar
I once tried to write a novel with this song as a soundtrack. I deleted everything from my computer by mistake and perhaps that was for the best. This song and the record Is A Woman meant a lot to me a couple of months when I was unemployed and miserable in Oslo. A couple of years later I started to understand what it was really about.

2. The Triffids | Save What You Can
I've been listening a lot to the Triffids lately but this song have been following me for many years. I like the sad contrast to the early singles. It's a beautiful song about leaving and I don't think I understand it.

3. My Favorite | 17 Berlin
This song makes me both sad and pleased that I'm not 17 anymore. Real good music is always better than literature and this song feels like a a sharp knife to me.

4. Soft Machine | A Certain Kind
This song is for Lisa and takes the sting out of all the madness in the world.

5. John Phillips | Topanya Conyon
This is my idea of vacation. Vacation is always best achieved through a lazy song in your mp3-player at work. It never gets as laid back and cool as John Phillips when it comes down to the real thing.

6. Elvis Costello | Human Hands
Costello's early records are usually my Friday joy at work. I love the mix of desperation and kockyness. This might be one of my favourite songs ever and I like read a lot into the lyrics.

7. Paddy McAloon And Jimmy Webb | The Highwayman
This is too good for music. The epic claims of the song almost kills it, but I just can't stop listening. Music has a lot to learn from this, I think.

8. Michelle Phillips | Aching Kind
There's nothing more sad than sadness wrapped in the easy joy of staying alive and doing it quite well. When I discovered this song early this winter it felt like a summer rain. If I'm ever gonna try to figure out why sad music makes me happy I will probably start with this song.

9. Lone Pigeon | Unkonown Yesterday
I realized that I had forgotten why I do like music when I got this song from a friend a couple of weeks ago. It's easy, important and hard to get a grip of.

10. Phil Ochs | No More Songs
A magnificent farewell song. If I were just a little bit more pretentious and actually care about it, this would be the song I wanted to be played at my funeral.

WARMER MIXTAPES #194 | by Dave Miller and Richard Pike of PVT (Pivot)

SIDE A | by Dave Miller

1. INXS | Guns In The Sky
The opening track of the first record I owned. It was on cassette and was the only record I had for so long I wore the tape out.

2. Joy Division | Decades
Probably one of the most depressing songs I know. The sound of it is incredible - it sounds like a morgue or a cemetery.

3. The Necks | Sex
This band got me (back) into listening to real instruments. Amazing minimalism.

4. New Order | Age Of Consent
A song of heartbreak and letting go. The synth line and sound is incredible.

5. Talking Heads | Mind
It's too hard to pick my favourite Talking Heads song. I remember hearing this on a dancefloor at 6am on night and realizing how much it grooves.

6. Theo Parrish | Overyohead
Slowly evolving chugging Detroit house keeps me dancing.

7. Boards Of Canada | In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
They synths are so warm they feel like a blanket wrapping you up. I remember distinctly listening to this on light blue vinyl on a hot summer's day in a dusty record store in Perth.

8. Brian Eno | St. Elmo's Fire
This chorus always puts a smile on my face and makes me sing along.

9. Sam Cooke | Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
An amazing song (and my favourite version) to hear when you are feeling a little hard done by.

10. The Triffids | Wide Open Road
One of my favourite Australian songs of all time. Makes me feel homesick whenever I hear it when I'm away from home.

SIDE B | by Richard Pike

1. Smog | I'm New Here
Gil Scott Heron covered this recently, he did a great version, but the original's better. Laurence did a tour playing drums with Bill Calahan. Was great to watch.

2. Beck | Hollow Log
Beck has a great talent of writing funny songs that are sad at the same time. Like a weeping willow on fire. Like a drunk in a midnight choir.

3. The Drones | Locust
When they do this live the room gets electrified and voodoo shit starts going down. Lightning and fire and inner storms.

4. Duke Ellington | Isfahan
While we're in a quiet mood, thought I'd throw this in. Saxophone sounds best played like this. Johnny Hodges on lead.

5. John Maus | Do Your Best
This album came to me when I just couldn't find anything satisfying to listen to. Now I can't stop playing it. The vinyl version is translucent white. Go out and get it now.

6. Laurie Anderson | O Superman
Maybe not in my top 10 songs ever, but discovered this recently and was blown away by the confidence and stillness. And the amazing mellotron voice sounds of course.

7. Tom Waits | Martha
Martha and old Tom Frost haven't spoken in 40 years, they have their own marriages/grandkids now, but he calls to tell her he still loves her. Big emotions.

8. Suicide | Ghost Rider
Great sounds. Dionysion. Alan Vega always makes you want to drink or give in to some sort of reckless act. M.I.A. just massacred this track recently. Not sure why.

9. Talking Heads | No Compassion
Be a little more selfish, it might do you some good. Classic David Byrne-isms and psychobabble. Great muppet-style yelps too. His vocals turned everything upside down for me.

10. Björk | Hyperballad
Reminds me of high school. Björk changed a lot of ideas musically for me.

WARMER MIXTAPES #193 | by Michael Collins, Taraka and Nimai Larson of Prince Rama

SIDE A | by Taraka Larson

1. Psychic Ills | Electric Life
I just moved to NYC recently and for whatever reason Psychic Ills really helped me through my first month here. I remember one morning particularly lucidly when I was walking across the Manhattan Bridge listening to this song on repeat and suddenly feeling the electricity of the city as though it were the electric current coming off a single human being...Like an aura or something. It was a totally utopian moment.

2. Tater Bug | Chemical Vacation
All throughout our tours through the Midwest, we kept hearing the name of this legendary figure Taterbug being uttered in whispered reverance. Finally I got around to checking out this mysterious man and have since fallen completely in love with the resulting assault of what sounds like greased magnetic tape loop knooses suspending serial killers with angel’s voices, their feet swinging between old pop radio stations on a hazy fm dial blaring urgently pounded guitars, ghostly choirs of corn, and amnesiac love ballads.

3. Exuma | Damballa
I could listen to this song forever. Exuma is an Obean voodoo priest from the Cat Islands and Dambala is a hymn of sorts to the serpent deity from which it derives its namesake. Oh yea and those hissing sounds in the background? Totally the sounds of people being possessed by the Snake God. As the song goes on the hissing gets more and more intense and the melody gets more and more insane. That is what I’m talking about right there. Straight up voodoo shit.

4. Runa Pacha | Pachamama
I saw this tape for 35 cents at a thriftstore in upstate New York and on the cover was a levitating Incan priest summoning a glowing eagle swooping over Machu Piccu with rainbows and purple lightning coming out of its wings. Of course, it ended up being the most magical tape known to humankind, DUH. The pan flutes in this song in particular though cast the most insane spell when I listen to it...It’s as though the flutes become the whole world.

5. Amen Dunes | Diane
This song has become like a Rosetta Stone for me to decode realities that have fallen prey to mundane obfuscations. Such a gem of concentrated raw emotion and beauty, its strength is drawn from a variety of tensions of paradoxes...The dark fingers of chaos clench tightly to form ecstasy’s fist and suddenly the fringes of everything you thought you knew about the deepest joy and the most profound sadness unravel to unfold the most magnificent cloak of moonlight.

6. Indian Jewelry | Excessive Moonlight
I slowed this song down the other night DJ Screw-style and had no idea how dark this band could be. I swear Indian Jewelry has EVP all over their recordings. That would explain the drum machines that sound like the first tombstones being clanged together and the eerie whispers that swoop inexplicably across this haunted highway of pure divine riff. New Age Nightmare.

7. Amon Duul | Big Sound
The only way to describe this song is the sound of God’s fist pumping in the air.

8. Vishnujana Swami | Gaura Nityananda Bol
Back in the 60s, Vishnujana Swami shaved my dad’s head, gave him a new name, and initiated him into the Hare Krsnas. Apparently he mysteriously disappeared a few years later somewhere in the Himalayas, but luckily my dad recorded him chanting this ecstatic bhajan on cassette which I dubbed and totally cherish every time I pull it out.

9. El-g | Priere Sesual
We awoke in Brussels after a 17 hour flight to the sound of the most arresting of bass and drums. What could that be? I kept floating in and out of sleep to the score of what sounded like a three hour long goth-disco epic, sung by the spectre of Serge Gainsbourg. Turns out the dude we were staying with, Laurent, was in the other room composing this rare feat...Which actually only ended up being only about a minute and a half in the end, but I still listen to it on repeat like it’s three hours. Trance kingdom.

10. Fleetwood Mac | That’s All For Everyone
What more is there to say? Lindsey Buckingham. True Taoist. That’s all for me.

SIDE B | by Nimai Larson

1. Scott Fitzgerald | Thunderdrums
This song reminds me of driving through the deserts of the Southwest. So much mystery, enchantment and vast expanses. It's a place that I feel humbled and grounded. As a drummer, I strive to sound thunderous. If my drums don't sound as good Scott Fitzgerald's, then I might as well quit.

2. Ananda Shankar | Raghupati
The sneaky cartals and winding sitar introduce this traditional sanskrit chant. It transcends pop, it transcends sexuality, it transcends distractions. It's pure ecstasy, tastefully orchestrated.

3. Fleetwood Mac | What Makes You Think You're The One
The drums are so immediate. There is an anxious energy in Lindsay's voice. It's a sassy line, What makes you think you're the one? and What makes you think I'm the one?...Though the verses are simple, there is complex emotion that burst through the lines totally making my eyes open wide while I'm knocked over on the wood floor. It's like Lindsay is screaming See?? I told you!

4. Kitaro | Kaiso
Try this: go to a graveyard. Bring Tarot cards. Play this song. New age night party.

5. Quiet Hooves | Feelin' Down
You know how it feels when everything is going wrong and if you don't make yourself start laughing about it, you'll turn into that crybaby that everyone thinks is a pussy? This is why I love Quiet Hooves. Shit happens, but instead of writing poor-me emo songs, Quiet Hooves writes honest and endearing lyrics set to triumphant music that you can totally smile and dance to. Life ain't such a wreck.

6. T.I. | Why You Wanna
I got really into this song while living in Austin, TX during college. My friend and I would blast this song in her Prius with all of the windows rolled down drinking strong coffee. T.I. describes his interest in this woman very sensitively. All the synth strings and casual groovy beats are so suave. Women will be won over and turned on by this song.

7. Amen Dunes | By The Bridal
The way Amen Dunes sings this song, stretching out every word, creates a yearning, reaching, stretching feeling. The web of guitar shredding shoots through the minimal yet heart-wrenching chord progression. The whole song has a journey-type of mood which is the kind of mood I find myself in a lot.

8. Bad Company | Wild Fire Woman
I have a huge soft-spot for 70's rock music. It's just so masculine! And I'm a girl so I get sick of having emotions all the time. These dudes in bands like Bad Company, KISS, Def Leppard, and Dokken are all so manly and seem to have zero emotions. It's the most refreshing music to listen to when you just don't want to have feelings. You just want to feel ON TOP OF THE WORLD.

9. Woody Guthrie | Going Down The Road (I Ain't Gonna Be Treated This Way)
I have recently become fiercely infatuated with Old Time Folk music. It's so stripped down and honest. This particular Woody Guthrie song carries the weight of a man feeling a life-time of why me's?...I'm in a time of my life right now where I ask that a lot.

10. Mickey Avalon | So Rich, So Pretty
I went to a Mickey Avalon concert with a good friend of mine a couple of years ago. We knew every word of every song. Mickey kissed both of us after the show. Whoever this rich and pretty girl is, she sounds just like the type that is encircled in scandal and is a total glamorous slut-bag. I don't identify with her situation (what's a mani-pedi?!?!!) but boy does it sound seductive.

SIDE C | by Michael Collins

1. Chhoun Vanna | Birds Are Singing But My Lover Won't Return
I don't understand a word of Khmer, but I still sing along every time I hear this track. Vanna's voice is the sound of the sublime...It's tragic beauty is haunted by her death at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, alongside 2,000,000 other Cambodians.

2. Crumb Brothers | Seat In The Kingdom
Take this kid seriously, cause he's filled with the fire of God. His soul scream rips like a sanctified sword, ready to battle with anybody who underestimates his righteousness.

3. The Rollers | Play With Fire (Part One)
I could just ride this chorus out forever...The reverb is so heavy, the vocals are belted out like there's no tomorrow...It sounds like the ladies of The Rollers are singing in a cathedral for the broken-hearted that's burning to the ground.

4. Prince Far I | The Right Way
Prince Far I is the true savior of dub, he spread the gospel of Jah righteousness and peace on Earth. Put this one on repeat and you will soon find yourself surfing saturated waves of tape delay to heavenly planets of melodica mountains and oceans of bass...Trust me, you'll want to stay for a while.

5. Stellar Om Source | Time Sensitive
Let Christelle Gualdi abduct you with her astral synthesizers and her milky ways. She hails from the Nebulalands but is visiting our planet, elevating human consciousness with revelations of aural galaxies in the universal language of analog synthesis. Her live shows are truly cosmic affairs, check her out if she's in your area...

6. Daniel Higgs | Living In The Kingdom Of Death
Higgs is a witness to the stark illusion of the material world...For the duration of this haunting mantra he transmigrates with you to the kingdom of death...Accessible only by the aid of his shamanic incantations. Turn out the lights for this one.

7. Visnujana Swami | Vasanti-Rasa
These are transcendental sound vibrations ripped from decaying magnetic tape, sung by one of the most revered Swami's in ISKCON history. The harmonium resonates throughout the temple room while Visnujana describes Vrindavan, the supreme transcendental abode of Radha and Krishna. You can tell by his voice that he's already there.

8. Abner Jay | I'm So Depressed
I first met Abner Jay in a dumpster back home in Gainesville, via some weary worn out records somebody unwittingly threw in the trash. On the cover was a grainy photo of the man layin' on his belly drinking straight out of the Suwanee river...That's why his voice is so deep. He was the self-declared last black minstrel, and wandered from Miami to Detroit in his log cabin RV spreading the good word about cocaine, unemployment, his 12 wives, and innumerable children. give him a listen, you'll be laughing through your tears.

9. Henry Flynt | You Are My Everlovin'
Henry Flynt merges tambora cassette loop drones with menacing cosmic mountain fiddle. Find a comfortable seat because, for 40 minutes, Flynt will hypnotize you like a snake charmer.

10. Krishna Dasa | Sita Rama
Krishna Dasa sings 2 octaves lower than Johnny Cash. Like what a well trained alligator might sound like. This is one of the first bhajans I learned...It's call and response, you're supposed to sing along.

WARMER MIXTAPES #192 | by Michael Bond of Coltrane Motion

1. Yo La Tengo | Stockholm Syndrome
I've been listening to a lot of Yo La Tengo here lately, but this song's still my favorite. I'm currently tryin to figure out how to work it into my wedding.

2. The Shangri-Las | Give Him A Great Big Kiss
I've listened to so much girl group stuff over the last few years, but The Shangri-Las are still the best (and weirdest). The first talk-breakdown in this song brings me indescribable joy.

3. Hefner | Lee Remick
My favorite sad song - learned to play this on the piano the other night, I always misheard that one line as drank so much his heart stank, but still like my version better. An ex once told me she couldn't listen to it because it reminded her too much of her family, then threw the cd at me during our first breakup. The second half skips, but this track still sounds perfect.

4. The Idle Race | Big Chief Woolly Bosher
I think I've listened to this more than anything in the last month. Not sure exactly why pre-ELO Jeff Lynne's politically-and-factually incorrect take on native American history speaks to me this summer, but there it is.

5. Dr. Dre | Fuck You
This record always sounds like it's blaring out of someone's car. Reminds me of summer, and the moment I realized that most 'gangsta rap' was supposed to be funny. I've been listening to this album a lot here lately, every time someone reminds me that 'Detox' is supposedly on its way.

6. Belle & Sebastian | Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying
I don't thing I've ever liked a band as much as I liked Belle & Sebastian ten years ago. I've been reading the 33 1/3 book on If You're Feeling Sinister in short bursts, and this song keeps getting stuck in my head.

7. Leonard Cohen | Tonight Will Be Fine
Leonard Cohen will always be intertwined with the last two winters for me, where I listened to his first three records, Pants Yell, and little else.

8. The Magnetic Fields | When My Boy Walks Down The Street
The first dozen times I heard this were on a mixtape that cut it off before the bridge. Finally hearing the ending a year later was a near-religious experience.

9. The Outcasts | Loving You, Sometimes
Finding music on the internet doesn't tend to lead to the youthful waiting-outside-the-record-shop memories of other first listens, but I can still clearly remember tracking this amazing garage-soul gem down on garage hangover, and constantly playing it on repeat for the rest of the day.

10. Tap Tap | Half Moon Street
Whenever I get frustrated about making music and getting people to listen to it, I just remember that Tap Tap has made two records in the past few years that are not only better than anything I'll ever do, but also better than nearly anything else released during that time, yet still isn't well-known. Oh, and that they're for his side project, cast-offs from his real band. So I should probably just shut up and write better songs.

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WARMER MIXTAPES #191 | by Dan Mangan

1. Bon Iver | Blood Bank
The most beautiful use of the word fuck in a song... Such an amazing sentiment - wondering if the colour of the blood matches the names on the tags...The song starts like a post-grunge 90's rock song and transforms in to the most incredibly driving harmony-drenched sonic blanket.

2. The National | So Far Around The Bend
There's a playfulness in this song that's a little different than most of their material...The crashing snare tone is killing, and though they usually rely on warm electric guitar tones to drive their songs, this one is carried with an acoustic. The whole Dark Was The Night compilation is amazing, but this is a highlight for me.

3. The Daredevil Christopher Wright | We're Not Friends
Perfect pop song. 2:42. It's upbeat but somewhat sorrowful. This band is amazing live. The moment near the end where the drums go to cut time for just a couple of bars is genius. They've captured such an interesting arrangement between the drums, electric guitars, claps and killing harmonies.

4. Aidan Knight | Altar Boys
Aidan's voice is so silky, but it still has this great crackly-delivered edge to it. Like a male Feist. I love the line Same discotheque, same crowd. Great use of the horns here also - just a beautifully written song.

5. Broken Social Scene | Lover's Spit
I keep coming back to this song. It's so goddamn huge. The swell of strings at the beginning to the heavy, brooding, sloppy drumbeat and dominating piano. One of the band's greatest legacies, to be sure. I think it's time that we grow old and do some shit.

6. Plants And Animals | The Mama Papa
I was so huge on their last album - and this is likely my favourite song from their newest La La Land LP. It's just a kicking rock song. Great hooks, great playing, great tones.

7. Timber Timbre | Lay Down In The Tall Grass
Spooky and glowing. I love Taylor's delivery. His voice is really unique, and more like an arranged instrument than a lead vocal. Such great imagery in this song - being dug out of a shallow grave with a swiss army knife. The organ and strings play off of each other so well. Amazing.

8. Zeus | Marching Through Your Head
This band is brilliant with pop songs - they're likely tired of Beatles comparisons, but their hooks sound like the 60's and their tones sound like the 70's. Wicked harmonies - and there's such a winning feel all throughout this song.

9. Jason Collett | Almost Summer
Another older tune I just always come back to when playing iPod DJ. Here's a 40-something year old guy singing a song about being a 17 year old girl at a highschool dance. Amazingly written lyrics, and great arrangement...I love when the upright bass kicks in - you figure it wasn't going to. This song gets stuck in my head endlessly.

10. Jenn Grant | Where Are You Now?
Jenn's voice rules. This song is my favourite of hers. When she hits that highest note for I'll be alright, stay up too late it's shiver time. I always wish she'd sing that part again, but perhaps it's holding back from reusing that moment that makes it so special.

+11. Grizzly Bear | Deep Blue Sea (Odetta Cover)
The first time I heard this song I played it about 6 times in a row. It's a cover of an Odetta song. The vocals, the weird reverby whipping sound for a snare, the acoustic guitar tone. Amazing. Also from the Dark Was The Night compilation. This band's ability to arrange a song is nearly unparalleled. Vibe incarnate.

+12. M.I.A. | Paper Planes
Cheeky. Huge. Playful. Dancy. Killer single. I got more records than the KGB...

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WARMER MIXTAPES #190 | by Vladislav Parshin of Motorama

1. Hercules And Love Affair | Shadows
That's my fave track of the last days, it's Blind single b-side. Sound like oldschool house track, I'm very into 70's, 80's Chicago dance scene/ hope they'll play it this summer in Moscow.

2. Sébastien Tellier | Universe
It was the very first song of mister Tellier I've heard. Also he got very good video for this song. Smoky room, relaxed company, wierd lo-fi scenes, candles, crowd with torches, mountains and Sébastien on a rope. Pure inspiration.

3. Antony And The Johnsons | You Are My Sister
Warm warm warm warm warm warm warm warm warm warm warm feelings.

4. Xiu Xiu | Vulture Piano
Danceable, painful, sad song with beautiful noise in the end. I'm big fan of J.Stewart.

5. The Smiths | Well I Wonder
Slow, calm and simple song. Love when he starts: Gasping - but somehow still alive...This is the fierce last stand of all I am... And it's easy to keep it in mind. Oh, and the rain at the end. Beauty.

6. Jens Lekman | Sipping On The Sweet Nectar
Here starts scandinavian part...It's the greatest summer song for me, I know that it's about spring, but nevertheless. Bright melodies, wise honey voice singing: That's when the feeling hits, so just lick your lips. Here comes goose bumps...

7. ceo | Come With Me
Very nice fresh track from the part of The Tough Alliance. Come with me to the place I call reality and also I love the video. Sleeping with Totoro in sweater in sweat. By the way Marcus Söderlund (director of this video) also made jj's Let Go and xx's VCR videos.

8. The Embassy | State '08
I'm big fan of The Embassy. Epic pop from Sweden. And it's easy to play it on guitar and sing. And their wierd photos on boat...

9. Irene | By Your Side
I like the name of this band, discover them not so long ago. They are little bit naive but listen to their vocals. I wanna thank you, 'cause you're light of my life...

10. Erlend Øye | Sudden Rush
Sound reminds me of Berlin dance scene and it goes perfect with Erlend's soft voice. The video for this song was made by Jarvis Cocker. In 2006, I was nineteen.

WARMER MIXTAPES #189 | by Peter Pearson, Emilie Friedlander, Jon Williams and Toshio Masuda of La Big Vic

SIDE A | by Emilie Friedlander

Songs I like listening to on YouTube on repeat (with suggested listening scenario):

1. Public Image Ltd. | Poptones (live)
Lying on the couch after a long night of work, drinking a tall boy, feeling generally beat-up by the world, and kind of reveling in it.

2. Christian Death | The Drowning
Getting revved up on busy work of any kind.

3. The Shocking Blue | Love Buzz
Getting fresh at the weekend.

4. Michael Bundt | Neon
Cooling down after band practice, drinking Arizona iced tea.

5. Amon Duul II | Surrounded By The Stars
Feeling revolutionary.

6. The Electric Prunes w/David Axelrod
Waking up, brewing some coffee, and checking your morning email.

7. The Incredible String Band | Creation
Walking in any park in New York City after Sunday brunch, late April.

8. Pure Ecstasy | Alexandria (Live at the Tortilla Factory)
Hanging out on a roof with your buds on a summer's eve and falling silent when you're all talked-out.

9. Mulatu Astatke | Tezeta
Idealizing the one who got away, in that liminal zone between sleep and waking life.

10. Steve Hillage | All Too Much
Starting a road-trip.

SIDE B | by Toshio Masuda

1. Steve Reich | Music For 18 Musicians
This is my masterpiece.

2. Stevie Wonder | Too High
Been listening to it since I was 9.

3. Steve Vai | Tender Surrender
I like Zappa.

4. Stevie Salas | Third Eye
This band is dreamin’ band. It’s awesome.

5. Stevie Ray Vaughan | Pride And Joy
His blues guitar was great.

6. Toto | Africa
This was my theme song when I was in the college.

7. Steve Perry | Foolish Heart
Very sentimental.

8. Stevie Nicks | Landslide
Of course everybody loves.

9. Stevie B. | Because I Love You (The Postman Song)
Because he is the king of freestyle.

10. Steve Griesgraber and Redhooker | Trip And Fall
He is the most talented young composer and Guitarist in New York City.

SIDE C | by Peter Pearson

1. Universe | I
Universe makes some of my most favorite sentimental synth-pop ever. His newest album Gazing Gazing should be out soon and it's going to be (gazing) amazing.

2. The Beach Boys | Feel Flows
Beach Boys + Moog synth = I'm in love. I used to play this song on repeat while I was sleeping when I was in college.

3. The Beach Boys | Holidays
Just when you feel like you have this song down, the drums kick in and take you that much higher. Perfect music for a sunny afternoon.

4. The Beach Boys | Big Sur
The version of this song that made it on album is great, but this early version blows it away.

5. The Beach Boys | Let Him Run Wild
You can hear the band reaching for the kind of production that would later show up on Pet Sounds on this track. Pure genius.

6. The Beach Boys | Surf's Up
Can you tell I've been listening to lots of Beach Boys?

7. Mark Verbos | Frozen In Time
There's a story about Steve Reich and Ramon Sender doing mushrooms on the Haight back in the 60s. I imagine this song sounds like their jam session that night.

8. Jamie Principle | Baby Wants To Ride
I love trippy synthesizer music and early Chicago House is some of the best.

9. Hans-Joachim Roedelius | Schoner Abend
Roedelius recorded this while on break from recording Cluster. The track is off one of his Selbstportrait (self-portrait) albums, which is a perfect description for the music. It's a 5 minute long personal moment in a private world.

10. Ash Ra Tempel | Deep Distance
Head trip music with enough of a beat that it makes you feel like dancing.

SIDE D | by Jon Williams

1. Yello | Homer Hossa (At 45)
I grabbed this pitched-up jam off the Dream Chimney a few months ago. Sort of a spiritual sibling to the more cosmic of Sega Genesis jams; ECCO The Dolphin soundtrack (via-a-vis John C. Lilly), Spyro The Dragon etc. The atmospherics (elephant, birds) sound as if they were recorded on the warmest night of the summer.

2. Spacemen 3 | I Love You (Remix)
I'm a latecomer to the Sonic Boom oeuvre, not sharing the teenage fandom of my friends. I dig the interplay between their rock elements, and textural & spatial elements - the radio noise (referenced in the lyrics, natch), the whisperings of an attentive audience heard in the 45 minute An Evening Of Contemporary Sitar Music. Hot clarinet riff at the end!

3. Guru Guru | Samba Das Rosas
This one is sort of an oddity in Guru Guru discography, a Spanish-guitar / hand percussion campfire freak-out with sandwiched between the hard psych of their earlier material and the Talking Heads-inflected prog of the late 70s.

4. The Human League | Empire State Human
Heard this on a DJ Chaos X mixtape a few years back at the height of my Boredoms trainspotting years, and I keep coming back to this choon. Pretty essential vocal round at the end, plus a helium-vox call-and-response!

5. Pom Pom | Untitled (from Pom Pom #1)
Stupid people think it's cool, smart people think it's a joke - also cool. (See also, Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing)

6. Telex | Plus De Distance
Telex has a reputation for their sense of playfulness in both their lyrics and production, but I think this sentimental francophone electropop might have their tongue planted most firmly in their cheek.

7. Model 500 | The Flow
1990's Juan Atkins production with a raw, syncopated 303 line underneath ice-cold shimmering crystals with a fractured amplitude envelope. I've been spending some time considering the lyrical move from a lover's attributes to Christ's.

8. Faust | Liebeswehen 2
Late-era Faust gets a bad rap, but this stuff holds up well. I used this synth-drenched 90s tune in a short film in which comedian Rodney Dangerfield performs the improbable Triple Lindy dive in the 1980s comedy Back To School superslow.

9. Hans-Joachim Roedelius | Johanneslust
The pastoral themes of kosmiche music have always touched a sentimental streak inside of me. Sunlit pools in the forest by day and the far-off sound of the stormy ocean at night.

10. ALTZ | Hilltop Greeting
First heard this song during one of my semi-monthly bicycle pilgrimages to the funerary greenbelt in Queens. Japanese DJ bros in chill Kangol hats on a John Oswald rampage through the Windham Hill catalog, afrobeat comps, steel guitar samples; ends up sounding like an urban Neu!, but more of a J Dilla groove that a Bohannon stomp.