LOREDANA - RAIN RAIN REMIXED | curated by Vlad Stoian

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Loredana Groza
(born Oneşti, Romania)
Singer, actress, TV hostess, mother and Romania’s greatest pop diva.

When Loredana’s new single Rain Rain was released in July, I fell in love like never before.
It arrived during the strangest time in my life so far.
It encouraged me to believe again that good will come.

I decided to invite the greatest lords of sound around the globe to remix Rain Rain in their own, inimitable way,
and together we built this awesome free collection of blissful tunes.

Rain Rain was composed and produced in New York by Loredana with Bruce Driscoll and Jeremy Adelman.
Completely 3D and featuring French comedian Nicolas Ullman, the video (soon to be released - June 14, 2011) for Rain Rain was filmed in August in LA and the Mojave Desert. (director: Julien Rocher; 3D director: Pitoff)

Another 10 remixes came from a remix contest with winners picked by Loredana herself.
Thanks also to the talented Alex Tânjală for his photography, and Silver ‘§‘ Strain for his cover art.

Endless sweet thanks to everyone involved, my precious friends.
The best artists I know creating an inspirational galaxy of new sounds.
I hope you enjoy my idea as much as I do.
It is a huge experiment, all for your pleasure - no money or commercial interests involved.

All for the love of magic sounds.

Copy, distribute, advertise, play.
Don't use this album for commercial purposes.
Give credit to the artist.
Don't alter, transform or build upon this album.

Music is power.

Vlad Stoian, Rain Rain Remixed curator
WARMER CLIMES
November 30th 2010


TRACKLIST:

Rain Rain Remixed 1

Loredana - Rain Rain (Panache Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Nicolas Makelberge Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Henning Fürst Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Kalle J Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Young Galaxy Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (feat. Autre Ne Veut) (Robin Goodfellow Edit)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Cosimo Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Minus Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Toujours Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Elite Gymnastics Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Montgomery Clunk Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (High Jet Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (PO§E§ION Remix by §)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Haunted by UNISON)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Ʌ DIAMOND CUTS Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Florene Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Drugs For Drunks Edit)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Pink Priest Edit)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Afraid Of Stairs Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (The !ntellivisionary's Rainy Rework)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Zana Johansson Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Tears Run Rings Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (A.D.'s Heavy Rain Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Azure Blue Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (b0g Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Captain Ahab Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (OK Corral French Touch)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Coma Cinema Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Pretty Boy Crossover Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Covered by The Carbuncles)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Past Tense Of Imagine by Lost Boy)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Noi Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Catalin Phossilah Airinei Trip-Hop Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Kapnobatai Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Hijack Remix)


Rain Rain Remixed 2

Loredana - Rain Rain (Sun Angels Dub Mix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Endiamonds Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (SugarDaddys Limestone Edit)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Seepryan's Sunshine Raining Edit)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Ishivu's Radiostar Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Indie Jules 90s Dub)
Loredana - Rain Rain (VEIT B Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Polarkid's Funk And Noise Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Bogdan Full Rework)
Loredana - Rain Rain (SRG Disco Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (John Simon Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Magic Production Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Sava Boric Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Edvard Hunger Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Frantz Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (DJ Enzo Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (DJ clauD & DJ Mixxmaster Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (LLP Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Romulus Constantinescu Remix)
Loredana - Rain Rain (Ciprian Blaga Remix)

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WARMER MIXTAPES #272 | by Agustin Benicode Ilya Santana Marrero [Ilya Santana]

1. The Alan Parsons Project | Mammagamma
I was really obsesed with this song, is so simple but have all that a good track need, intro, bridge, break and an end, only in 3 minutes!!

2. Ray Lynch | Celestial Soda Pop
Marvellous melody moving up and down with a very depressive background.

3. Andreas Vollenweider | Behind The Gardens - Behind The Wall - Under The Tree
One of the most impressives musical works I have been listen, it's like the hymn of Heaven...

4. Giorgio Moroder | Knigts In White Satin
I know that it's obvious but is one of the best re-interpretations of a classic of the Moody blues, this inspired me to make my version of Dolly Parton's Jolene.

5. Idris Muhammad | For Your Love
Amazing drums arrange and bassline, the background sound like the piano... Great!

6. Gaz Nevada | Special Agent Man (Female Version)
It's one of the dark italo tracks that still make thrilling me, I listen before go night hunting!

7. Edgar Winter | Above And Beyond
Great track, love the entire composition, perfect for a summer boat/beach party...

8. Lindstrøm | Long Way Home
I thought that I will never listen to something like this from a contemporary musician, it's like Tangerine Dream of the future.

9. Sumeria | Golden Tears
I discovered this record thanks to Daniel Wang, an amazing history... With a background of pure classic disco madness.

10. Tangerine Dream | Force Majeure
The last two years I was really obsesed with this, the very first time I listen I feel some familiar with this kind of making music, this record inspired me to make Burning Jupiter.

+11. Demis Roussos | L.O.V.E. Got A Hold of Me
It's not a very famous song, it's around 10 minutes long and the end is epic with a cool lead and the bassline rolling the instrumental part...

WARMER MIXTAPES #271 | by Tobias Isaksson [Azure Blue] of Laurel Music and Irene

I get inspired by everything from film to literature and music and my musical interest and taste is broad so this was pretty hard.
I could include new bands like Twin Shadow, Warpaint, Neon Indian and all that great new stuff...
But it would easily turn into some 2010 special similar to what's posted in a lot of hipster blogs out there.
Instead I've taken a trip down memory lane as the sentimental fool I am.

1. OMD | Secret
This is actually my favorite OMD song. Although the drum sound is a bit 90's fat and vulgar I love the atmosphere and play the song almost every time I DJ.

2. New Order | The Beach
Basically the same song as Blue Monday but on this instrumental version the drums and bass sound even hotter.

3. China Crisis | Working With Fire And Steel
Amazingly underrated song and album. Perfect guitar/synth interaction.

4. James | Sometimes
One of the best dramatic pop songs I've heard. You can almost see what Tim Booth is singing about as a movie before you.

5. Grant McLennan | The Dark Side Of Town
I love Australian pop from this era. The Go-Betweens are one of my favorite bands ever but both Grant McLennan and Robert Forster have written some really great solo material. I've recorded a cover of the song Fingers from the Fireboy album. Grant McLennan RIP.

6. The Triffids | Save What You Can
The sad story of David McComb of The Triffids is similar to Grant McLennan's. Another sensitive songwiter from Australia who passed away too young. This is one of the most heartbreaking lyrics I've ever heard.

7. Lloyd Cole | Man Enough
I love Lloyd Cole. I just saw him do a PR gig in Stockholm in a small bar that only holds 50 people. He came up to me and said That's the exact mustache I was trying to grow but it was too grey so I had to shave it off.

8. Roxy Music | More Than This
One of the most perfect songs and albums ever. Bryan Ferry seems to be the perfect gentleman and his voice is Godlike.

9. Todd Rundgren | It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference
For Todd Rundgren it seems so easy to write the perfect ballad that he had to choose a more experimental path for the bigger part of his carrier. Another true hero of mine.

10. Margo Guryan | Someone I Know
I love female voices but somehow this list was accidentally dominated by male singers. I'm a big fan of sunshine pop and soft rock and I'm actually working on a soft rock album as a long term project. For a while I corresponded with Margo Guryan. It was totally surreal to read her personal reflections about making this beautiful music in 1969 and her in person meetings with Astrud Gilberto, Harry Nilson and Dion!

WARMER MIXTAPES #270 | by Teaadora Nikolova

1. Bo Knows | The Ninth
My first record was produced by the man behind Bo Knows, Jeremy Armstrong, who is a prolific painter, Aquarius-Dog, objective critic, outsider, tattoo artists, future primitive of Normal, IL where I grew up. We found each other in the fringes of the emotional hardcore community, which was relevant because when my band broke up he gave me the assurance and insight to find my own way. I find my greatest inspiration from his music, which he once made me cry when he was excited to tell me about his new record... I cannot explain. Either way, as he said once taking the Sonic Youth song/record Kill Your Idols, Kill your idols, do something better, which I am trying. Lastly, Bo Knows recently put out a split with The Rebel, aka Country Teasers, certainly worth checking out.

2. End Me | Boring Sydney Boring
This is the song that introduced me to the brilliance and beauty of noise, which was blended with simplified type of hardcore, maybe related to Burmese, early Black Dice, etc... Vince, the drummer of this band went on to perform with Witch Hunt, of Philadelphia, who was a kindred spirit in the sense of remain drug-free and vegan as myself. He is an exemplifier of the self-disciplined artist with succinct climbing potential.

3. Prince Rama | Everything
Once again, these are my friends, I am greatly open to the influence of my friends, as is the community of Jamaica Plain in 2008 to Prince Rama, in this area we both lived in Boston. Prince Rama represented the band who was able to accumulate a great deal of success while remaining at a level of artistic integrity in the humble DIY spirit. I enjoy this song because it is unlike their other songs, not to say I don't love their other music because I think it fills me with life. In May or June of 2009, they came and visited me while I was living in Boise, ID, I had only heard Everything played before by Greg Beson of Manners at a house show at The Spook Cat the year before, so, it was meaningful to. This song is a stripped down version of their usual song, which I usually search out in bands with such unique sounds.

4. Saetia | The Burdens Of Reflecting
The reason I am making music. This music.

5. Simon Joyner | I Will Find You
Simon Joyner I feel is a greatly underrated musician, who has influenced such people as Beck and the whole Saddle Creek music scene, which I prefer not to align myself with but know these among many other song artists have been.

6. OCS
The OCS records found me after I started making records myself, it wasn't influential as relevant to opening to this sound. This band went to be known as The Ohsees, which I am less interested in to mention for this mixtape since their sound is unrelated to me personally.

7. Sonic Youth | Confusion Is Sex
One cannot fathom this happening in 1981, I was instantly in love with it when I heard it, which usually means such art or music effect will wear off over time but I have been returning to this record for many years now.

8. Diamanda Galas
Generally enjoyed.

9. Meredith Monk
Both Diamanda & Meredith Monk are artists I found by the nature of what I was doing, they were attracted to me by The Universe. I enjoy them mostly conceptually and enjoy a wide range of both their work. This was brought to me by the world by the action of myself performing with elements outside of music, that which you cannot see, greatly in the metaphysical and gesture plane.

10. Sebadoh | Bake Sale
I am fond of the lyrics, and was not interested in Sebadoh because of Lou Barlow's involvement or any relation to Dinosaur Jr. I found an especial affinity with this record, as my friend Pilar at Waiting Room Records, in Normal, IL said It is the ultimate break up album, which I identified with the record quite easily after a falling out with love myself as she suggested. The record has remained in circulation in my life for many years now, which is greatly rare.

+11. Silver Apples | Contact
Back to the future, with Banjo's, percussion and Oscillators when visiting this record. Its beautiful to listen to and to see such a veteran of the synth world find such wide approval in the present. I think of this being rather sophisticated and futuristic music myself, these jams open one up to a greater world of possibilities, aka this band is very inspiring.

+12. Laurie Anderson | Big Science
In 2006, I was hanging out in a record store with my close friend than Rai Rish, when we decided to purchase the record we felt after judging the cover would exemplify what we thought would be fulfill our taste. When we played the first side with O, Superman, we were put into a trance of amazement that we were actually attracted to such an object to mirror our perceptions of our identity at the time, when I was 19. This again is something I have kept in circulation in my life ever since, however, I would not pinpoint Laurie Anderson as being an influence but who can truly understand this idea anyways of how one perceives their influences. I do not even understand why I make the music I do, it came to me, I fulfill its life.

+13. Ten Grand | Ten Grand
Ten Grand, which was originally called The Vida Blue, until the keyboardist (?) from Phish offered The Vida Blue $10,000 or Ten Grand for their band name. Ten Grand to me sounds like an indifference and ignorance to music, some kind of subtle fashion of turning away while using traditional instruments. I knew Matt Davis before he died, he lived in Normal, IL where I grew up. He got me into a lot of things and it wasn't until after he died that I was able to truly realize the meaning of his art. RIP MATT DAVIS.

+14. Neil Young | On The Beach
Necessary to everyone's record collection, Ambulance Blues is my favorite off of this album.

+15. No New York
One of the last inspiring things for me when in high school, one of the last inspiring thins to instill the feeling of un-abandoned chaos or a sense of teenage revolution before the choas of the art category brings itself into a period of meaningless, where all art is art because everything is art.

WARMER MIXTAPES #269 | by Jordan Lee of Mutual Benefit

1. Del Shannon | Runaway
As an adult, I had little interest in singing in a rock band for a variety of reasons. That all changed when I sang this song at the diviest karaoke bar in Dallas.

2. OOIOO | KMS
These ladies are an offshoot of The Boredoms. I am in awe of how talented they are. It's like tropical punk jazz or something. Even the way they use their voices amazes me. The opening song on this album is pretty much them chanting for three minutes but it hypnotizes me every time. It sounds like their throats are going to fall out.

3. Pere Ubu | Life Stinks
Jay, the guitarist in the live version of Mutual Benefit, turned me onto these guys. They play amazing, arty, punk rock. When we played our first show my amp decided to mess up in between sound check and when we were supposed to play. For some reason Jay started playing the riff to this song while I was trying to figure out the problem. I figured out what was up and we ended up starting our first set ever with this song. For some reason that is hilarious to me.

4. Beat Happening | Teenage Caveman
When I was just out of high school I landed an awesome job at this hip small business in a converted garage. At that point of my life I was an indie kid that pretty much just listened to Arcade Fire and The New Pornographers. My coworkers were older and cooler than me and spent everyday showing me bands and movies that I should know about. Those two years feel like that scene in the Matrix where they would just keep loading new skills into Neo's head. This song was on the first mix cd they made me. I miss those girls.

5. Sam Cooke | Cupid
I can't get enough of this song lately! Sam Cooke is one of my all time favorite singers. I recently learned this on the banjo so I could croon it to cute girls at my house.

6. Neutral Milk Hotel | In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
I remember being on acid and feeling like the musical saw that keeps rising during this song was a laser piercing my ego/soul and making me a new person. I was reborn. How strange it is to be anything at all...

7. Elizabeth Cotten | Freight Train
I was listening to a lot of early American folk music when this song came flying out of left field. Elizabeth Cotten wasn't discovered until she was in her 60's so it pretty much sounds like my grandma singing. It is so disarming, it makes me believe every word she is saying. One of the things I enjoy about this era of songwriting is how squarely they look death in the face. This is a song written by a women who has made her peace with the world.

8. Taken By Trees | Too Young
I had the first Taken By Trees album on repeat for probably a month straight last winter. The melodies sung are so beautiful and there is almost no instrumentation behind it. Everything has so much space! This song in particular strikes me because of the seemingly random piano noodling that happens in the last half. I think this song more than any other on the list has really changed how I write music.

9. Teenage Reverb | Damp For A Good While
The sounds in this are incredible. It's another case where the minimalism really gives you room to appreciate everything that is happening. I remember thinking that the distorted guitars in this particular recording sound just as beautiful and rich as a whole symphony. It is so enveloping.

10. Lau Nau | Painovoimaa, Valoa
I could easily say that this record changed my life. Lau Nau is a town librarian in Finland, I believe. She wrote most of these songs with folk instruments and children's toys laying around her house. Each part had to played quietly enough to not wake up her newborn child. This album was bought on a total whim at a record store. I knew nothing about it but I just had a weird feeling. To me this song transcends traditional song structures and chord changes. It is just a beautiful sound for five minutes. It just is which, of course, is perfect.


WARMER MIXTAPES #268 | by Jeremy Krinsley [Human Resources]

Been making tapes and CD-Rs as Human Resources since 2008. I recently released Oxyc Woody, a free CD-R of pissed-out synth chop stuff, and I have some singin' hazey pop songs coming out in early 2011 on Ghosthunters Club Co-Op to be accompanied by a VHS tape by Eye Bodega: First vinyl release ever. First VHS tape release ever.

1. Unknown Artist | 543 Years Ahead Of You
This is a sort of arbitrary choice within the radio-focused Sublime Frequencies releases. People can get their panties twisted about some kinds of musical tourism and appropriation, but these releases are tap water straight from the source and thanks to the limited recording techniques available in a lot of the countries where these releases were made, there's an eerily familiar quality to the warm and fuzzy production. And while I'm on that kick...

2. Omar Souleyman | Jani
This is a track off of Souleyman's newer Sublime Frequency release, Highway To Hassake. If you're uninitiated, he's one of Syria's most popular wedding singers, no small order in a country where that's a lucrative gig for musicians. Omar Souleyman's voice is obviously the center of gravity in his music, but the way his keyboardist blends Syrian traditional scales (on a pitch-adjusted synth!) with straight balls-out techno beats makes this stuff my favorite to blast in cars. (Especially while rolling past custom officers and homeland security dogs?) Another cool note: Much of the singing is actually dictated into Souleyman's ear live, by a poet, Mahmoud Harbi. Another cool note: Souleyman has recorded 500 albums??

3. Missy Elliot | Work It
My favorite pop music video. How did she hang out with all those bees? Every time someone says they got their hair did Missy should get some residuals.

4. This project called Opiate I think | This song I heard seven years ago by that project I can't find it anywhere
I used to use Soulseek a lot, and I downloaded a project called Opiate (I think) on a whim in 2003. One track was a repetitive sample, probably of backwards Rhodes or something synthetic and it was, yes, opiate-like, and I was pretty sure it was just a one-off bedroom recorder who made it, circulating his stuff slightly before the explosion of blogs made this even less of a big deal (and way before I dipped my hand in that trough). Beyond the short track being something I returned to regularly for pleasure, I fantasize that some of my *most obscure stuff that I release unannounced lands in stranger's files in the same kind of ways. If this guy is in fact a Billboard 200 artist, let me know.

5. Sister Nancy | Bam Bam
Whenever I DJ, this song brings the room together into worldly sisterhood like no other. The way the opening bass drops in and out and then IN is also genius.

6. Peaking Lights | Silver Tongues Soft Whisper
I caught Peaking Lights open for Indian Jewelry at Cake Shop a few years ago. As far as I could tell they brought their entire basement with them. Record players, shelving for record players, modified pre-amps, radios, thrift store gadgets, and of course Indra Dunis' keyboard, which she played on this song, one of my favorites bummer piano ballads of all time, in no short order thanks to the tinkered-with side-effect feedback mazes her hubbie Aaron Coyes conjures. That show marked the moment I was inspired to fuck with EQ-controlled feedback, a bedrock of the past two years of my home recordings.

7. The Beatles | Blue Jay Way
A true George Harrison sneak attack that pulls the rug from under my favorite album by those guys. Highly influential for my little kid self hearing glimpses of Weird in a household that organized its classical music chronologically but stopped a little past Schubert.

8. Ela Orleans | Myriads
The overall production quality Ela achieves approaches that watery dream state I think we'd all like to imagine we get to now and then. This is a very pretty song.

9. Sparkling Wide Pressure | Facing The Nothing World
Very well known to those who know him, Frank Baugh puts out truckloads of gorgeous music as Sparkling Wide Pressure, basically every fricking month. Facing The Nothing World is actually the whole Stunned Records CD-R he released at some point last year. If you're a long-spun instrumental freak than you probably have already felt kind of emo and squishy off the first track on this one, called Mood.

10. The Velvet Underground | Who Loves The Sun
Perfect. In any clime.

+11. Psychic Ills | I Knew My Name
I love what Psychic Ills are doing now with their long form slinky music that doesn't build or collapse and just kind of keeps going for ten minutes, but there are a few tracks on Dins that go really far towards being timeless rock music. I return to the vinyl of this like it came out yesterday. Especially this song.

WARMER MIXTAPES #267 | by Matt Bahamas (Fantastic Magic) of Heavy Hawaii


1. Santo And Johnny | Deep Purple
Through all the covers, Deep Purple showcased Santo And Johnny's genuine writing talent. Something I've been trying to emulate for years. Never this good.

2. Eydie Gorme Y Los Panchos | Sabor A Mi
We started drinking as soon as we woke up. The night before was a slumber party of unfamiliar friends. One girl woke up early went to the market to buy booze and to make everyone breakfast. By noon we were all drunk and I was lying on the ground asking for Eydie And Los Panchos.

3. The Beach Boys | I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Once someone asked me who my favorite band of all time was. What a bull shit question. I told her The Beach Boys. She made this awful face when I gave her the answer.

4. Weezer | Buddy Holly
Undeniably the most solid, most genius pop song. This came out when I was 11. I almost want to list every song from the blue album for this mixtape. I'm listening to it right now.

5. Orange Juice | Falling And Laughing
Right outside of High school I was obsessed with Morrissey. David Byrne was another one of my all time favorites. I felt this band was almost a perfect meld of the Smiths and the Talking Heads. The bass is phenomenal.

6. Talking Heads | With Our Love
You avoid the trouble, deny the trouble, resist the trouble until you forget the trouble. Then you're in deep trouble.

7. Queen | My Melancholy Blues
I was 19. I would sit in the library and listen to this song over and over. My baby left me for somebody new.

8. Swans | Black Out
I had never heard a recording as honest as Cop/Young God. My best friend and I managed a used cd store and we used get extremely high and crank this over the speakers. Scare all the locals.

9. Weezer | Undone - The Sweater Song
Its production is perfect. The chorus comes in and melts my heart.

10. Beck | Alcohol
It's difficult to list 10 meaningful songs. This song's lyrics are dead on and could be played at my funeral.

WARMER MIXTAPES #266 | by f4690t/ponyboy and Ian Heil of ___N___

SIDE A | by f4690t/ponyboy

1. Róisín Murphy | Off & On
I'M NOT SURE IF THIS TRACK is released, officially by Róisín? Anyway, Róisín is such a fucking brilliant singer, she's sort of like a contemporary Dusty Springfield with synthesizers and a wardrobe by Gareth Pugh? How much more amazing could you get? I could have chosen something from her last album Overpowered but every track on that album is so good, I couldn't choose. So I chose this, I guess b-side? It's really good, it sort of alternates between a punchy synthesizer riff/swirly synthesizer riff, and Róisín sings over it really fantastically, she always has such fantastic sort of acrobatic vocals, really I just want to write about Róisín ten times over, but I can't do that, I don't think??????????????????????????????????????????????? Oh God, I love Róisín so much, all I want to do is listen to this track over and over again. Also Sophie Ellis-Bextor covered this song almost exactly, sometimes I listen to her version instead. I really hope Kylie doesn't cover this track. Because then my favorite version would, by default, become Kylie's.

2. Pearls Before Swine | Rocket Man
This track is sort of extremely epic in a really profound almost freakishly profound way. I read somewhere that Elton John's Rocket Man was based on this song, which makes sense as it's earlier, Elton would have had some sort of contact with this music, and this song is maybe 100000000000000.666 times better than Elton's version. It's sort of a really sick sad song too, it's about a boy who's father is an space explorer, his father dies because his rocket ship got too close to The Sun, so the boy and his mother never go out into the daylight, they only go out when it rains. Almost every line in the song is some sort of poetic masterpiece. I don't have a problem with spoiling the story of the song, because the song really is so extraordinarily beautiful that nothing could ever spoil it? It recurs to me often that this may be one of the saddest lyrical narratives I've ever heard.

3. The Associates | Party Fears Two
Oh my God, what can I possibly tell you about Billy Mackenzie's voice? It's probably one of the top ten voices in late 20th century pop music? Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Billy Mackenzie. The synthesizers in this glisten, literally glitter like diamonds, and Billy's voice just keeps going higher and higher until he's just screaming into some sort of New Wave existential disco void. He sings about smashing glasses and getting drunk and calling up family, it's a dance song, but it's something else entirely, I think there's a really dramatic opera crammed into it somewhere. The whole album, that this track is from, is actually the same, meaning it's brilliantly genius dance music. It gets at me that Billy committed suicide so soon before people started rediscovering Associates music. But at least he left us stuff as magnificent as this.

4. Joe Smooth | Promised Land
Classic Chicago house, it's basically a four to the floor beat, bass synth, e-piano, and some strings (probably the best string synth riff in all of house music?) It could just be any house track but the strings are so sad, I dunno what key they're in, but they're in a sad key. And Joe Smooth just sings sort of about religious imagery and brotherhood throughout the entire track. It's very rare, for me personally, to be inspired and filled with hope by a song, and this song does that. I often listen to it and imagine riding in a convertible down the side of lake Michigan with tons of cash and booze and lovers and mansions and like the wind flying through my hair, all of that sounds really materialistic and shallow, but in actuality the real gift would be that there was some sort of spiritual predestination involved with my success and because all of these prizes were gifts from some mystical higher being, I wouldn't be selfish about it, I would buy houses for all of my friends and I would open a house for homeless HIV+ youth and play this song 24/7.

5. Big Black | Passing Complexion
Big Black are so sick and angsty, Steve Albini basically just screams some sort of weird story about racism over the most iconic guitars in proto-industrial rock, uhhh. The guitars in this shred. THEY SHRED. LIKE SHRED YOU ASS TO A BLOODY BOMBED OUT MESS.They're so distorted and screeching they barely sound natural, the drum machines are fighting each other, it's all totally extreme, and somehow still remains a catchy pop song. It's hard to write a good pop song, it must be extra hard to write a good pop song and then turn it into a good experimental pop song? This isn't necessarily pop in the classic sense, but it's catchy. Big Black aren't Pig Destroyer, but they still edge along the extremities of rock music, it's a very confrontational song, is Albini singing WHITE POWER over and over in there? I can't remember, I hope he is.

6. Destroy All Monsters | You Can't Kill Kill
OH. M. JAY. I lol'd when I wrote this down as #6 it's such an absurd song, it sort of meanderingly opens with the worst worst worst guitars ever, like not even The Shaggs recorded guitars this bad, and then Niagara (often the singer for the band) starts singing YOU CAN'T KILL KILL CAUSE IT DOESN'T HAPPEN TWICE, NO ONE DIES BACKWARDS IT ONLY WASTES TIME... lollololollololoollo... Oh my God oh my God, it's so fucking brilliantly fucked up and weird to listen to. Not to mention that DAM is one of the greatest noise projects ever to exist in the history of recorded sound, and half of it's members went on to become conceptual art superstars, this is definitely the crown jewel in all of their careers. Music right now, even experimental music, is so produced, you can tell what programs people use, what mics they even use, this sounds like it was recorded with like a broken microwave or something? It gives me alot of hope to listen to this song and realize that anyone can record music with a broken microwave and still go on to be tremendously influential. L.O.FUCKING L.

7. Burzum | Dunkelheit
Shredding shoegazy HI FREQUENCY guitar shards of noise and tinny decrepit mumbling, grunting, and moaning. Alot of people give me shit for being such a devoted Burzum follower, yeah, I know there's alot of better Norwegian metal. But Varg killed, he MURDERED, and that basically places him on the TOP GANGSTA, of Norwegian black metal, list. He's a murderer, a cold blooded, sick, racist, Evil murderer. And he recorded this song, it's one of the first Burzum songs, I believe. I like dark music, and sometimes I feel that listening to this song is like staring directly into the darkest pit of someone's personal hell. I also like listening to the Manson family jams, and if Jeffrey Dahmer recorded disco albums, I'd love those too.

8. White Car | Hearths Hymn
The best track, I love to put this on and then like dance on my bed, it's so good, it's so thumpy, somehow White Car have perfected so many iconic industrial music sounds, it's sort of stupefying to listen to, it's like you can pinpoint exactly where certain sounds come from down to like albums by specific artists, but it's not at all derivative because they construct such interesting melodies and beats with these sounds, not to mention Elon Katz sings so luridly over it all, he's all tall and porcelain skinned and he sort of looks really sketchy like maybe he could be a pedophile priest or something. His vocals sound the same way, they're all jittery and sort of delayed here and there and he always uses alot of SHhsaa in his words or like KaKahhsss or something, if that makes sense, if you listen to as much industrial music as he probably does, then you would know exactly what I'm talking about. Anyway, it's so fresh and dark, in a vague contemporary way that abandons all the cheesiness that alot of industrial/dark music has grappled with for so long.

9. Felix Da Housecat | Madame Hollywood (feat. Miss Kittin)
I used to listen to this song obsessively in high school, when Ii thought I was Andy Warhol or something. Why do all art students go through such an extreme Andy Warhol phase in their youth? I had it bad, I would listen to recordings of him talking, he had a really deadpan voice. Miss Kittin sings in this song, about being a Hollywood madame with astronomical real estate, and total power. With this minimal synth bass line that repeats throughout the entire song. It's really fucking good. She sings EVERYONE WANTS 2 B HOLLYWOOD, MAYBE 1 DAY U CAN VISIT MY CONDO ON A BIG HILL U KNO LIKE 90210... Oh yeah... lol she sings it like a computer would say it. I'm pretty sure that Andy Warhol was one of the most evil, vile, destructive things that could have happened to the art world, but I still love this song.

10 Cathy Dennis | Just Another Dream
This list really had alot of dance music on it, but I honestly don't care, I'm a gay man, dance music is an integral part of my spiritual and physical existence, especially HOUSE MUSIC, which Cathy Dennis is the master of. IN fact, Cathy Dennis is the master of ALL MUSIC. Because she's mastered pop music. I can't believe that Cathy Dennis composes songs, and that she's won Ivor Cutler awards for composition? It's sort of mystifies me that someone can master the art of writing a pop song, it's sort of like thinking about painters in the 18th Century who mastered still-life painting. I often try to imagine how contemporary pop songs are composed, and especially how they're composed by the masters. I guess Lady Gaga goes into the studio and doodles around on a Korg synth for a couple hours, records some shit on Cubase, adds for autotune to vocals from yesterdays recording sessions and three weeks later she has Bad Romance, which has to be a modern classic by now, right? Well before there was Gaga and Katy Perry (who also wins awards for composing her own songs) there was Cathy Dennis! I guess there STILL IS Cathy Dennis, as she's the same person who wrote Can't Get You Out of My Head for Kylie and also Toxic for Britney Spears. HOW FUCKING BRILLIANT DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO COMPOSE ALL OF THESE HIT POP SONGS? What does she do? Does she sit down and say OK, FOR THIS ONE I WANT REALLY SIMPLE 909 BEATS!! THE SYNTH HAS TO GO LIKE THIS AND I ALSO WANT LIKE SAMPLES OF SOME WEIRD DUDE JUST LIKE REPEATING THE CHORUS WITH ME!... It must be so cool to watch her make this shit up, I guess there are producers somewhere in there too, BUT SHE'S ALSO A PRODUCER?!?!? So basically she single handedly writes this stuff. Anyway. Yeah, Just Another Dream is like that.




SIDE B | by Ian Heil

1. DJ Screw | Freestyle
So I could pretty much listen to this beat all day long everyday, I remember the days of lightin up some purp, the taste just lingers in your mouth, syrup in a cup, trunk knockin into the middle of nowhere in Alabama, money in my pocket ya know, but fuck shits different now but I still got this to remind me of good days and let me have some new good ones. R.I.P. DJ Screw one of the most influential djs or artist period to me and apparently so many other people and its growing everyday all around the world, cravin that drank.

2. Devourment | Babykiller
This is by far the best guttural death metal bands there is, if you think differently I would like to kill you. With killing aside, I used to be in a death metal band that changed names and styles a lot and eventually this is what influenced my vocals the most. How can anyone not love this song Here I come, a beast like none before I suck the abscess of dead infants, I want some more, I am baby killer, I kill pregnant sluts and whores… Brutal…I love this band so fucking much I actually tattooed a maggot that Mike Majewski (the current singer/underground artist) drew for one of the bands graphics. It’s on my leg right now and makes me happy whenever I see it.

3. Deadsy | Antipop
Maybe one of the most important songs I chose, this is one of their older songs from a self titled album which was their first on a label, it was released in 1996 promotional only on…Hey check this shit... Witchhouse (Elektra/Warner) Records. This was my favorite band of all time in my teen years; I spent all of my free time on their message board like a family away from my family and spent a lot of time promoting to increase the fan base. I was also completely obsessed with Orgy and Jay Gordon (who was their first bass player), Elijah Blue Allman was a genius but I mean who can’t love the offspring of Cher and Greg Allman, no one. Exactly.

4. Akercocke | Of Menstrual Blood And Semen
Classsickk, the opening song on the Goat Of Mendes album, they are an amazing perfect blend of metal, serious black-death metal, this just happens to be one of my all-time favorites, although every song by them is wonderful. You should listen to all of it.

5. Diamond Black Hearted Boy | Burn The Cross
Great artist, period. Chino Amobi is a genius, and I have a crush on him, he asked me to be his boyfriend once and I checked yes like omg. Well ok but seriously this song is great, I remember stumbling upon his MySpace a long time ago when I was just starting to make the ___n___ page and putting up music. Of course I had to send him a message telling him how amazing all of it was and I happened to be heading on a trip to the beach and stayed up all night and he sent me this song and a few others to help me embark on a early and great drive thanks to this song and some others. Everyone in the car, including the people trying to sleep while getting a back massage was digging this hard.

6. Mac Dre | Fast Money
This song kept playing through my mind while in population, wondering if I was actually gonna ever get out jail or not, fuck, scary shit, this song is so fucking real, Mac Dre is the shit (R.I.P.), every song by Mac Dre would be on here if I didn’t have to name 10.

7. Ghoul | Boneless
Just another one of my favorite most unique metal bands and also another great blend, some true grind thrashin death metal, the lower growling vocals are like a fucking gruesome monster that makes you afraid to even have kids because you know they will be mangled and eaten. I used to blast this driving around school campus at night freshman year of college, or in my dorm room to keep everyone away from the weed smoke coming from under my door.

8. Leviathan | Fucking Your Ghost In Chains Of Ice
Ahhh black metal at it’s purest and finest. Makes me feel like I’m embracing this hell we live in and reminds me of cold days, long hair and an agenda to be completely evil. This is everything you need in life, I wish this was the soundtrack to every movie/television show.

9. The Roots | Criminal
I don’t know, this song just is a classic for me and hits hard, it’s beautiful even though the guy singing the chorus shit on it sounds kind of lame. But I love it regardless. It reminds me of several periods of my life and always makes me think critically. That’s an important aspect to any song I believe.

10. 196 Clique | Crucifixes
Fuck this is so good, if your not down with these guys you are a square and don’t ever come near me. If I could sling verses like this I would be throwin diamonds at bitches just to watch them scramble while I stabbed them all repeatedly, take everything from their purse and listen to this song at the same time. Then I would rob every bank in your neighborhood.


WARMER MIXTAPES #265 | by Mauro Remiddi [Porcelain Raft]

1. SALEM | Asia
There's something about this track, the fear of silence. There's no space for nothing else, every frequency is been occupied by those keyboards and beats, at the same time it's not in your face, it's in the air. Like a cloud made of iron. I had this weird feeling when I heard it, like when you are a kid and you think you saw the devil. As a kid what do you know about the devil? Yet you do believe you saw it and run to tell everybody. It's the same with this track, they saw the devil, like a child would. There's purity in it.

2. Deerhunter | Desire Lines
This track is CMJ for me, walking in Brooklyn, hanging out with friends, soft sunbeams in our faces. Top roof silence, colours and pattern. This is NY and me swimming in it.

3. How To Dress Well
Any tracks from him, I have the album and I put it on repeat. At first I couldn't really get his music... 'Till I saw him live. Everything clicked at once and I was projected in a world of beauty that slowly was fading away under my own eyes, leaving me thinking, I want more of this.

4. R. Stevie Moore | Answers
I discover Stevie Moore one year ago and still I don't understand how come I didn't come to know his music before. This man wrote amazing songs. I don't really care about him recording his music in his house with a lo-fi attitude when the word lo-fi didn't mean anything to anybody. I just like the songs and the lyrics... This guy is has a beautiful weird little world and he threw the key right in our hands.

5. Yuck | Weekend
I made a little video for this song not because I love every single one in Yuck... 'Cause it's an amazing track. Daniel voice is so beautiful and it keeps you awake while he's dreaming. I had to listen to it 20 times while I was editing and still now it's one of the most played tracks on my MP3 player.

6. Lonely Galaxy | Bible Truth Depot
Harry's voice is like Arcade Fire and Echo & The Bunnymen whispering to us the way out from all this madness. So powerful yet intimate. It could be the perfect soundtrack for the movie Les Enfants Du Paradis.

7. Silent Portrait | Washed Away
She is a friend of mine that lives that suddenly started to make music... And I like it very much. I like the sparse sounds and the field-recoding-like atmosphere. So incomplete that makes you wonder if it's better to dream of a piece of art or make one for real. She's in the middle, she just woke up and randomly saying what she saw in her dreams.

8. Blonde Redhead | Messenger
I have to say that usually I tend not to listen to music... I record my stuff most of the time so when I stop I just want silence, the only moments when I hear music is on the bus with my headphones or at gigs. I supported Blonde Redhead few months ago...14 dates around Europe. I didn't miss none of their sets. Every night I was there watching them, my heart swollen from emotions that came from their music and from the people I met. This band is one of my favourite ever, I don't understand why someone like David Lynch or Jarmush don't make a movie-documentary about them, the subject is like a fractal image, more you get closer more it reveals what you saw already in the biger picture and it never stops unfolding itself.

9. Anika | Terry
Her voice is vague, the bass is the room where the smoke machine is unleashed. I like this post industrial dub imaginary...

10. Roy Orbinson | In Dreams
His voice, the chord changing... Man, when I grow up I want to be just like him.

WARMER MIXTAPES #264 | by Colin Browne [late light]

1. High Places | The Longest Shadows
A classic waiting to be forgotten and rediscovered. The video is like encountering sunlight for the first time.

2. Art Of Noise | Moments In Love
Immediate and sustained satisfaction. Early use of samples. My first favorite band that nobody else listened to.

3. New Musik | Areas
Waking up outdoors. The only moment of peace during a winter living with hockey players and a manic-depressive husky dog. We used a coat hanger to unclog the bathtub.

4. Mouse On Mars | Frosch
Driving across Canada on a bus to spend the summer with a new girlfriend. Original 9 minute Vulvaland version only please. Guy next to me eating peanut butter packets with his fingers. 30 hours later, still in Ontario.

5. Bobby Brown | Roni (Dance!... Ya Know It! Remix)
In my opinion, Dance!... Ya Know It! is Bobby Brown's best album, even though it was apparently released as an afterthought to cash in on the success of his debut. Grade 6, dancing in my bedroom with headphones on so my parents won't know what I'm up to. Should be studying.



6. Eddie Money | Take Me Home Tonight
I remember listening to this song on a tiny am/fm radio while falling asleep as a child and not having a clue what he was saying at the end of the chorus. Thanks to the internet, I finally found out.

7. Hieroglyphics | Halo
Who can touch this beat?... Seven years ago, I had all but given-up on hip-hop and was lamenting this fact to a co-worker named D'arcy, revered around the office for his Dr. Phil impression. The next day, he showed up with one of the greatest mixtapes of all time. Simply put, this beat is not to be futzed with.

8. The O'Jays | Cry Together
Pained soul at its finest. Honestly, this song reminds me of being drunk and moved to tears, as I feel those perfectly strained vocal chords stretching just a little further.

9. Guided By Voices | Kicker Of Elves
Short and not sweet at all. Take that, elves.

10. The Fleetwoods | Come Softly To Me
You are alone in a city that hates you. You stumble upon a 1950's music compilation. Suddenly, the day is not lost. Surely you do not need me to point out why this song is so beautiful.

WARMER MIXTAPES #263 | by LG of Dead Leaf Echo


1. Adorable | Favorite Fallen Idol
Because Ian, I've gotta do my hair, I gotta do my hair!!

2. Chaptehouse | Breather
We just played with the reunited Chapterhouse and seeing this right in front of me was a 2nd revelation.

3. Spoonfed Hybrid | Boys In Zinc
I'm the only person that bought this video on iTunes. I know I checked. What is wrong with the world?

4. Area | I'll Gather Flowers
Hearing this ambient masterpiece, made me want to fuse Super 8 with reverb.

5. Elika | Trying Got Us Nowhere
Amazing glittered with tragic... Sometimes I'll play this song on acoustic guitar early in the mornings as The Sun comes up.

6. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti | Beverly Kills
DLE album of the summer. Hanging in the car listening with my bandmates... Surfing out to Long Island... Took me back to my youth hanging with rastas and popcorn bums listening to IRS Records Comps.

7. Frank Black and the Catholics | Ole Mulholland
Saw this on a Lost Surfing video I think it was 5'5 x 19 1/4... Was a teenager when it came out... So I guess this song made me feel like the Teenager of the Year. Also this was when Frank was still amazingly prolific as his life as a Pixie, and also and finally this album was like Frank had made it to the point where not only did he but his band truly resemble the 75' version of Lou Reed's band with Hunter/Wagner on guitars.

8. Kitchens Of Distinction | Drive That Fast
Bass and Bongos with Julian's Guitar make for a place you can only dream escaping to. This is straight from the Guthrie guitar school and remains one of the finest examples of it. Decent Lyrics from Pat.

9. The Cure | Closedown
The drums just bore down into me. I've have heart palpitations when I hear it.

10. Ce-Lo Green | Fuck You
Damn this shit is hard to resist, sure it's kinda of like prom music and silly, but I was raised on Motown so hey if you don't like it - F*ck U...

+11. Antoine Dobson | Bedroom Intruder
Honorable mention.

WARMER MIXTAPES #262 | by Star Quach and Harrison Russell of le Verita

SIDE A | by Harrison Russell

1. Prince | Little Red Corvette
A nice little dark pop song. I probably first heard this back on the Mom's tape deck when I was too young to appreciate it. Years later I listened to it and appreciated the dirty, sweaty feel of the track. The whole song really tells a story - something modern pop music has lost the ability to do - and Prince displays conflicted emotions over the whole ordeal. A lot of people hate on Prince without actually listening to his music, or they just hate the hype around him. Even if you don't like his music, respect the fact that he plays all the instruments in his songs, which he writes, and then on stage does a guitar solo wearing a purple cape and 4 inch heels.

2. Nas | Life's A B****
Everyone, at some point in their life, has related to the chorus of this song on some level. The track is so effortless and breezy, even though the chorus is rather nihilist. I love the saxophone outro - it's got this great sense of despair and longing.

3. Common | Faithful
I started getting into rap/hip-hop after high school. A misconception is that it's all guns and ho's - that's the crap on the radio because that's all companies know how to sell. This song talks about the way men tend to treat women, something I've always been intrigued by. I also think Kanye's production has always been overshadowed by his public hijinx, which is a shame cause he's a good producer.

4. Baustelle | La Guerra E' Finita
I first heard this song on a trip to Italy my first year in college. It's funny to me most people claim they don't listen to lyrics when they listen to music, but don't like foreign music. When I listened to the song (which was all over Italian MTV) I loved the marriage of classical music with the rock/pop format. It's such a sophisticated track. Francesco's baritone was also a strong influence on my singing style.

5. Björk | Harm Of Will
The sparse arrangement and instrumentation on this song is really beautiful. The lyrics, on paper, are very opaque, but when you listen to the track, the marriage of the music and the words, the whole thing comes together. The track is very sexual, not in a vulgar or vapid way at all, but in a very sensual way. The first time I listened to it was back in high school, and I would play this song on repeat, trying to dissect it and unravel it.

6. Kent | Kevlarsjäl
Kent has probably had the biggest impact on me in terms of songwriting and song arrangement. The attention to guitar tone is impeccable, and the way they treat the instrument is something I've tried to emulate. This song combines a lot of different styles (country, electro, pop, rock), which is something I strive for myself. Their singer, Joakim Berg, once said that the way he knows a song is good or not is if it raises the hairs on the back of his neck. Again, this litmus test is something I've adopted.

7. The Beatles | A Day In The Life
The Beatles did this trick a couple of times, combining two or three songs into one. John's part is so typical John - the somber mood, the dry opaque lyrics, abrasive chord changes, the 20th century modernist influence. Paul's part is just a perfect folky story-telling pop song that's stuffed there in the middle. This song opened my mind to how to compose a song. The way it closes the album too is brilliant, with that big swell and monstrous piano chord. The whole thing is a four minute piece of art.

8. Radiohead | Talk Show Host
I heard this song when I was 14 or 15. What 15 year old has not identified with the lyric: I want to, I want to be someone else or I'll explode? Really, the music you listen to when you're 15 or so is the stuff that really sticks with you. Every note is imprinted on your heart, every lyric resonates with you in this way that you'll just never replicate. This song was my theme music for being 15. That guitar line is so simple and effective - every instrument and sound on this track is so understated and perfect. This song was on the Romeo And Juliet remake soundtrack, too, so again, it's the perfect song for being 15.

9. Marvin Gaye | Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
This song reminds me of hanging out with my Dad (who is an interesting character) and going to Oakland A's games, taking the bus, walking the streets. My Dad always loved soul music, and probably had some influence in steering me in that direction. The song, and the whole What's Going On album, is about looking at the world and just saying, what the hell happened?... Funny thing is Motown didn't want him to put it out, cause they thought the content wouldn't sell (funny how little things have changed) but it was really successful critically and commercially.

10. Joy Division | Love Will Tear Us Apart
It took me a while to understand and appreciate Joy Division. This song is what cracked the shell for me. Ian Curtis's robotic monotone has this unique soul to it, and the track has this infectious dancy energy to it, which is interesting for a song that's about the guy's failing marriage. I think a lot of people have listened to Joy Division and realized that you don't have to be a great singer to lead a band, as long as you're doing something unique and genuine people will understand that.




SIDE B | by Star Quach

1. Kent | Chans
I heard Chans for the first time back in high school. This track was given to me by a guy I liked and I remember listening to it over and over to try to grab any feelings he was trying to show me through this song. I love this song because I knew it was given to me out of genuine feelings. And because (the singer) Joakim's cry feels so genuine it makes me weak.

2. Kent | Whistle Song
It's too bad Kent is not well-known outside Scandinavia because their music and lyrics are quite poetic. They did two English version albums, but they never really caught on in the U.S. This song is the last track of one of those English version albums, Hagnesta Hill. This song fuels my fascination of obsessive love and what it can do to people. The honesty in the song undoubtedly infects my ears every listen.

3. Kent | Hjarta
(Last Kent song, I promise.) Kent has had such a major impact on my musical taste and style. This music video is beautiful, exquisite and effectively hits the right chords. Not only that, but the song's subject matter makes me feel such melded physical and emotional pain, I'm literally fighting tears by the end of the song.

4. UNKLE | Rabbit In Your Headlights
This song and its music video gives me shivers - extremely stimulating and empowering. All my senses are satisfied all at once. I feel I can accomplish anything with this soundtrack. This music video is also one of my top 2 favorite music videos to date - Jonathan Glazer executed this so well, I wish I had thought of it.

5. Travis | The Humpty Dumpty Love Song
Probably one of the best love songs in my book. The opening children's book imagery makes the heartache in the song so much more pure and sweet.

6. Bloodgroup | My Arms
If someone forced me to get into a trance, this is the song I would request they play before I dance my limbs off. As a good friend of mine says, it's a swirling swirly swirl within a swirly swirling swirl.

7. Björk | Jóga
I heard Jóga when I was trying to find who I was at the start of college. At that time I couldn't put my emotions in any communicable or understandable form, but once I heard this, I experienced the this is exactly how I feel and what I think moment. I was so happy to find someone else who had felt the same way.Jóga helped to teach me that taking the time to know myself is the best thing I can do for myself.

8. Coldplay | A Rush Of Blood To The Head
I like seriousness and people who know what is truly important to them. This song is like someone begging or threatening humanity to return to its serious state. A Rush Of Blood To The Head realizes that there are fewer good, genuine people out there.

9. Baustelle | Groupies
Part opera, part western tale - I love that it makes me think of a fantasy landscape. It's as if a man is caravan traveling across unrealistic desert terrain to escape tragedy-inflicted women. Great theatrical imagery!

10. Baustelle | Andarsene Cosi
A song that sounds like a soundtrack for the end of the world or end of one's lifetime. Every time I listen to this song, I am left feeling incomplete because it sounds like the music should go on, but it doesn't. It just ends... perhaps like things should.