WARMER MIXTAPES #438 | by Bernhard Mueller [the boy called hedge] of $chwarzer Freitag

1. Kraftwerk | Autobahn
In the early 70s at school, a music teacher played the LP Autobahn of Kraftwerk, a new Krautrock group, who came, nearby my home, out of Düsseldorf, during his lesson. This didn’t interested me very much at that time – but looking back, I should have been thankful for this lesson. It was a new form of music composing.

2. Golden Earring | Radar Love
The first albun I bought, was the first long-player of the Dutch group Golden Earring, with their famous song Radar Love, which I loved for the strong rhythm and vocal part.

3. Uriah Heep | Lady In Black
In the mid 70s I went to a dance school for pair dances. I heard a lot of chart busters. Out of that time I will mention Uriah Heep - Lady In Black. At home I rebuilt a cellar to a part room. A good friend of mine installed coloured Disco lights and we made parties there, having a lot of fun. I loved this song for its strong melody and I could dance cheak Blues with the girls.

4. David Bowie | Wild Is The Wind
Meanwhile my music taste changed, when I heard the first David Bowie songs. Wild Is The Wind (a great Rumba or Beguine Rhythm song on Station To Station with a melanchic melody. I loved it.

5. The O’Jays | For The Love Of Money
One of the most impressive Black Soul song for me was the O’Jays song For The Love Of Money, which I loved for its special effects, (Funky rhythm, Dub-delay, reverse tape in the vocal tracks).

6. Steely Dan | Kid Charlemagne
At the end of the 70s I also heard Amercian Alternative Jazz Funk bands like Steely Dan (The Fez, Kid Charlemange, The Royal Scam) or Nu Wave bands like Talking Heads (Once In A Lifetime, Psycho Killer). Until that time I only consumed music, f. e. to dance on it or only to listen to it.

7. Sex Pistols | Pretty Vacant
For my younger brother and me, this was – as for many others of my generation – the last impulse to create alternative D.I.Y. music by ourselves. So it was not easy to compose songs by my own. But we started, like may other ones with simple – mainly naive – plastic punk songs, which we recorded and overdubbed on two compact cassette players.

8. Yazoo | Don’t Go
My sisters boyfriend and a DJ in Oberhausen brought new Post-Punk music stuff to Germany. We heard John Peel on BFBS every saturday night, too. So in our prefered New Wave Discos... Yazoo - Don’t Go and many other first electro tracks were played. I loved this song for its strong analogue bass, which seems to be produced with a Sequential Pro One, that I owned too at that time. But the perfection of glamour was the strong voice of Alison Moyet as singer.

9. Blancmange | Blind Vison
Like many other English bands of that time Blancmange used only Electronic music instruments. They combined lovely melodies with strong, dancable rhythms. My brother worked at a local young city magazine. So, we were able to interview this band in the Bochum Zeche during their first concert tour in Germany.

10. Bronski Beat | Smalltown Boy
What a unique debut, what an amazing voice (Jimmy Sommerville)! Some of the most imaginative and strongest and soulful Dance songs of the eighties.

+11. Heaven 17 | The Best Kept Secret
At the end of 1982 we decided to form a new band. At that time Heaven 17 were our biggest idols. Their 2nd album Luxury Gap was our music Bible - our personal benchmark. One of my favorite songs of that album is: The Best Kept Secret. There had been many parallels between them and us - we thought: their industrial environment (they came from Sheffield, we from the Ruhr Area), their preference of Black Funk and Soul Music, the electronic touch and sometimes lyrics with social relevance. In 2010 I visited the first Heaven17 concert in Germany. I’m glad to have gotten a signature from Glen Gregory and Martyn Ware, two of the original band members, on my Luxury Gap album cover.

+12. Run-D.M.C. | It’s Tricky
In 1986 my band split off. I finished my exame at a German Design College. So my song-writing was interupted for a while. But I used Run-D.M.C.’s It’s Tricky for my exame as soundtrack for an unpublished trickfilm.

+13. Depeche Mode | Behind The Wheel
In 1990 I had the luck to create the promotional graphic artwork for TDK and the European part of the Urban Jungle Tour of the Rolling Stones in my agency. The promotion was a great success for both. But while working on the layouts, I heard the famous 101 album of Depeche Mode with the great life recordings of: Behind The Wheel and other famous Depeche Mode songs. The strong hook melody comined with the straight 4/4 rhythm turned me on. But the magic of many Depeche songs is the harmonic chord movement.

+14. Prince & The New Power Generation | Walk Don’t Walk
On a shooting trip in Miami, I bought the Diamonds And Pearls album with a holographic cover and this song. I loved this genius musician for years. This song and album, I think, is a bit more Jazzier, than many before.

+15. Talk Talk | Life Is What You Make It
Beside of these main artists, I intensively heard Talk Talk in the 90s. I loved this crazy rhythm, but also the melody instrument and the melancholic singing.

+16. Alexander O’Neal | What Is This Thing Called Love?
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis were one of my my most loved and visible producers. They produced the first albums of Alexander O’ Neal. So this great song, too. For me this is a perfect combination of Dance Music and sensible Rhyhthm And Blues lyrics, sung by a black artist. I bought a songbook!

+17. $chwarzer Freitag | xx4
In 1984 and 1985 our band $chwarzer Freitag released two tracks on two rare alternative synth samplers in Germany: Trigger In Trigger Out and xx4 on Confirm Conformity and xx4 on Elektronische Klangesellschaft. Both songs were mainly instrumental songs and stood under the influence of minimal synth sound with a bit of Black Hip Hop music. By using the Roland TB 303 Bassline and the TR808 drum computer, these songs can be seen as one of the first Acid or Detroit Techno tracks, which didn’t come out of Detroit - related to Paul Haig’s 19, Afrika Bambataa’s Planet Rock or Grandmaster Flash’s The Message, too. Shortly after my 50th birthday I found a book in a Cologne book shop about the German New Wave scene in the 80s. It is written by Frank Apunkt Schneider and named Als Die Welt Noch Unterging. I was perplex, when I read the name $chwarzer Freitag and a small text about the samplers in the discography of this book. So I thought: Could eventually someone be interested into my music?... I contacted the author and gave him some more background information onto these obscure minimal synth band and researched on the web. There I found some information on Discogs.com. about the albums, too. My brother and I decided to publish there a small band info. And I decided to come out of my home-recording studio in March 2010 to go public. So, you can hear my songs on my websites on MySpace, Lastfm.de and Soundcloud.

+18. Depeche Mode | Corrupt
At the moment I often hear songs out of the Deluxe Box of Depeche Mode’s Sound Of The Universe with a remix of Corrupt by Efdemin, a Berlin electronic artist. I love this song for it’s reducement in rhyhthm, esp. the percussion part, which carries the whole song.

+19. Faithless | Miss You Less, See You More
On my intensive playlist is a Best of Faithless album, also this track. I love the fast rhyhtm combined with the aggressive synth part.

+20. Hot Chip | One Life Stand
A newer group, I hear is: Hot Chip. On their album One Life Stand are many other outstanding songs. I love the vocal combination, the often singing in duets of two band members. F. e. on Keep Quiet, too.

+21. The Boy Called Hedge | To Be A Punk
Perhaps any of you would like to listen now into my own songs, too. Someone compares the music style with The Wake or Section 25 - but that’s a matter of opinion. This song is an outstanding part of my personal and music history.

WARMER MIXTAPES #437 | by Michelle Bee [Miss Bee/musicformovingimage/Crooked Baby]

1. Leonard Cohen | Famous Blue Raincoat
Reminds me of being young and falling in love with music and poetry. My parents listened to so much amazing music and I have them to thank for igniting my passion and life long obsession with the earlier songs of my dear LC. Lyrically I've yet to hear or feel something that touches me quite like this. Whenever I listen to it, I regress to being 5 years old and see my Dad wearing a thick white jumper rocking the most amazing beard and haircut playing along on his guitar.

2. Helene | St. Lawrence
The most under-rated band in history I think. I can never get over quite how much I love the music and the incredible vocal from Helene - Fragile, vulnerable and strong. Takes me back to lyring in bed and listening to the album over and over again, in particular this track which just does something to my insides.

3. Lindstrøm | Limitations
How can anyone not get lost in this? I don't think a week ever goes by without me listening to it. It's literally been on repeat for years and shows no sign of waning on me. I see a kaleidoscope when I listen to this that I can make appear on the floor until it swallows me up and I come out of the other end being someone else.

4. Isolée | Enrico
Makes me feel like I have no bones. I like to wobble to this. I like to let go.

5. Cat Stevens | Was Dog A Doughnut?
I adore how cheeky and beautiful this is. I always dance when I listen to it and it makes me spin around with a smile on my face. It also makes me wish I could bodypop properly. I try my best but it just looks like I've got some kind of motor-neuron disease.

6. Prince | U Got The Look
Makes me want to strut on a catwalk wishing I looked like a model (when no one is around) and makes me feel mucky, sexy and shy.

7. Plaid | Air Locked
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. This makes my sporadic synesthesia go fantastically into overdrive. I feel I can work out riddles and find answers to questions that I've never even asked before. Then as soon as it stops I forget everything. Bummer.

8. Jimmy Edgar | Hot, Raw, Sex
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I want to sex up Jimmy Edgar. That's what his music does to me. He is filth incarnate. I want to sing for that little dirtbox. It's what I dream about.

9. Maceo Plex | Your Style
Deep. Dirty. Dope. Definitive.

10. Chicken Lips | On The Box
Me and my lifelong obsession with Chicken Lips! Just reminds me of everything I like about music, synthesizers, patterns, triangles, maths, precision, co-incidence. Otherworldly genius. Makes me want to digitize myself and go and live inside a robot then sabotage it from the inside.

WARMER MIXTAPES #436 | by Thomas Reah [BETAMAXX]

1. How To Dress Well | You Won't Need Me Where I'm Goin'
One of my favourite albums from last year. I just love how haunting it is.

2. Kate Bush | Cloudbusting
This song is based on A Book Of Dreams, which Peter Reich wrote about how his dad claimed he'd invented a Cloudbuster machine to control the rain. In 1954 the FDA ordered all his books burned and he got jailed. The song and the video's lyrics capture the respect Reich had for his father so well.

3. Telepathe | Chrome's On It (Gold Panda Remix)
Gold Panda is my favourite remix artist. I like how he's reworked this song into something so simple, but it still sounds so perfect.

4. Washed Out | Belong
The song that got me into Chillwave. It's just so laid-back; perfect for long summer days.

5. David Bowie | Sound And Vision
This album came out in 1977, but it sounds so 80s. I don't know how Bowie managed that. Maybe he has a time machine. Or maybe he just hired Brian Eno.

6. Sleep ∞ Over | Romantic Streams
Sleep ∞ Over are genius. I love how dreamy yet dark their songs are. I can't wait for an album.

7. Phil Collins | In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins is one of my dad's favourite artists of all time. When me and my sister were kids, he would put a Collins record on and we would go crazy for that, dancing around the house singing along and things. Everytime we hear this my dad still says It's amazing how they got that gorilla to play the drums!

8. Daft Punk | Digital Love
Discovery is possibly my favourite album of all time. From when I was 11 years old taping this song off the radio because I thought it was the perfect pop song, to when I started producing sampled music, Daft Punk always managed to sound incredible.

9. SebastiAn | Arabest
I waited years for SebastiAn to release an LP. Little did I know that when he did he would've produced some of the most stunning Disco songs. This and Embody are perfect for getting down at the club or just chillin' at home.

10. Neon Indian | Ephemeral Artery
Another chill pioneer. This song perfectly captures the party feel of Chillwave. A proper club hit.

WARMER MIXTAPES #435 | by Christopher Schreck of In Tall Buildings and Icy Demons

1. Caetano Veloso | Onde Andarás
When I was living and traveling in Argentina a couple of years ago, I had a small nylon-string guitar with me and spent my low-key moments learning how to play Bossa Nova. While I was staying in a town called La Plata, I hung out with a Brazilian musician who shared my admiration for Caetano Veloso, and sitting on the front steps together one afternoon, passing a joint and watching girls walk by, he taught me how to play this tune. It’s from Caetano’s self-titled Tropicalia debut from 1968, and although it’s not as adventurous as some of the other tracks on that record, it’s still impeccably crafted and perfectly executed - a simple, lovely song by a seriously brilliant writer.

2. Francis Bebey | Ngoma Likembe
This summer I made a habit of staying up and biking to Lake Michigan to watch the Sunrise. Usually I’d just sit with the sound of the waves, but when I felt like listening to music, I put on Francis Bebey’s Akwaaba. This is beautiful, weird, hypnotic trance music, built upon dense layers of thumb piano, pulsing bass, haphazard percussion and double-tracked vocals that moan, drone, chant and strain. The production is lo-fi and heavily atmospheric, which adds an eerie but beautiful color to the tunes. Similar-sounding African records have been making the rounds for years now, but this one really is a standout, definitely worth a listen.

3. Brian Wilson | Surf's Up (Demo)
In 2005, I was somehow afforded the opportunity to talk on the phone with Brian Wilson. We covered a few different topics, but when given the chance, the single music-related question I chose to ask him was about the origins of this song. It’s definitely a high point in the Beach Boys catalogue - it’s so romantic, sophisticated, and dense, with the music building and cascading beneath that gorgeous vocal melody. To think that he was writing stuff like Surfin’ Safari only three years earlier is pretty staggering. I’ve always preferred the demo version of this tune - a simple 1966 recording featuring Brian alone at the piano, his vocals double-tracked - to the fleshed-out, (over-)produced version the band eventually released in 1971; it’s much more intimate and haunting and profound. When I asked Brian where this music came from, he said that he wanted to create something that showed the love he felt at that time, and explained that the music’s constant shifting was intended to reflect the changes he saw happening in the World. That’s fine, but in retrospect, it was probably a dumb question to ask him - why should anyone want to reduce something this expansive and beautiful to a simple, verbal explanation? It’s better just to sit and listen in astonishment.

4. Moondog | Bells Are Ringing
Moondog composed in a few different modes, but my favorite is the exotic Chamber Music you find on records like Moondog 2: brief, percussion-heavy exercises built on odd time signatures and featuring interweaving vocal rounds, dulcimers, horns, and ambient sounds (dogs, traffic, babies, lions). The work is intricate and intelligent, but there’s something strangely naïve-sounding about it at the same time, sort of like combining Native American chants with Bach and ending up with children’s songs. That his biography is so unusual (a classically-trained blind man who chose to busk on Sixth Avenue dressed in full-on Viking garb) certainly adds to the mythology, but it doesn’t overshadow how singular and special his music is. Truly a man making his own way through the wilderness.

5. Faust | The Faust Tapes
I went through a phase in 7th grade where my favorite thing to do after school was assemble sound collage cassettes. I’d gotten really into things like Revolution 9, Kurt Cobain’s Montage Of Heck, and Lumpy Gravy, and would spend hours with my mom’s two-tape-deck stereo, randomly bouncing and overdubbing layers of found sound I’d taken from TV, my CDs, or the radio. I didn’t hear The Faust Tapes until a few years later, but listening to it always reminds me of that period of my life. This is a collection of home recordings haphazardly edited into a single 43-minute collage that covers a lot of ground: noisy art rock jams, acoustic interludes, psychedelic echo exercises, whimsical piano pop, spoken word, minimalist doodling, and on and on, all crammed together into a loose and messy mosaic. Admittedly, some of the individual passages aren’t all that compelling, but the point here really is the overall effect, making your way through this weird hallucinatory soundscape they’ve constructed. It’s strange and adventurous and unpredictable, which is how I like things to be.

6. Lizzy Mercier Descloux | Room Mate
Our buddy Scott from Chandeliers (best band in Chicago, check them out) turned us on to Mambo Nassau a few years back, and hearing this record for the first time was one of those great, rare moments where you get an incredulous grin on your face and proceed to replay an album endlessly for weeks. The record features an incredibly tight, Funky band playing some mutant strain of cubist Caribbean Disco Art-Rock, fronted by a girl who doesn’t sing so much as chant, hum, and yell with total exuberance and abandon. The guitar work on this record is incredible - clearly African-flavored but really inventive, very angular and intricate, always working off the bassline in surprising ways. It’s definitely had an impact on my own playing. This music is exciting and totally out of nowhere - just a really, really fun listen.

7. Can | Halleluwah
A monster 19-minute Psychedelic Krautrock jam and probably my favorite Can song, featuring a series of improvised sonic elements (hazed-out organ washes, warped tape loops, noodly guitar solos, overdubbed tom-tom circles, tape-delayed vocal rants, etc.) painted over a huge, relentless syncopated rhythm section. I like listening to this song on buses and trains – its length lets you get thoroughly lost in the unfolding sounds, and even if your attention strays for a moment, you come back and inevitably find the groove still barreling forward. It’s the kind of music that can make you lose your sense of time, like Indian Classical music or extended dance mixes. This tune exemplifies why Can were my favorite kind of experimental musicians: as uncompromising and unconventional as they were, they could still serve up the jams. The dudes were visionaries.

8. Emitt Rhodes | Promises I've Made
This is taken from his self-titled debut, which is a totally flawless record – perfect Pop music that bears an obvious McCartney influence but rivals anything the Beatles ever put out. This song is typical of his writing in that it's catchy as hell and perfectly constructed - every element is simple but thoughtfully precise, the playing is never showy, and nothing's there that doesn't need to be there. He plays all of the instruments on this record himself, and while he’s solid all around, I think his drumming stands out on this track: it’s the most basic beat ever, but the restrained hi-hat patterns he uses on the verses really make the tune move. Very tasteful and intuitive playing. On a personal level, listening to this song brings me right back to dating a girl in college and going through one of those prolonged breakups that takes a few tries before you get it right.

9. Miles Davis | Maiysha
How many nights have I spent getting high with friends and listening to this? The track is from Get Up With It, which is the last of Miles’ Electric albums from the 70’s. His sound during this period tended to be pretty sinister and intense, but Maiysha has a decidedly laid-back, almost tropical vibe to it, with washes of wah-pedaled organ (beautifully played by Davis) and affected trumpet hovering over shuffling drums, echoed claves, lazy electric guitar, bouncing bass, and tape-delayed flute solos. Some people complain about Miles’ lack of discipline during these years, but I’ve always loved this era of his work - it’s such visual music, totally unprecedented in its arrangements, production (look up Teo Macero), and attitude. I respect anyone who runs towards change rather than away from it, and Miles clearly made a point of never looking back.

10. Roy Ayers | Chicago
I recently moved to New York, but I'll always be from Chicago, and this track is definitely the hometown anthem for my friends and me. Listening to it brings to mind so many good times: dancing after-hours with friends at the Hideout, commandeering stereos at House parties and blasting this song whenever the scene got boring, etc. My buddy Jeremiah and I played in another band together before we joined Icy Demons, and we closed a show once with a cover of this tune that turned into a 15-minute dance party. I still have this vision of our friend Mike B (who's this shy, quiet 6'5" dude) grabbing the mic and completely going off, wading through the crowd and barking those ad-libbed party calls: I REALLY THINK THAT I’M MARCHING AT THE BEAT OF A DIFF-ER-ENT DRUMMERRRRRRR!... It’s one of my favorite memories ever of playing live; the whole scene was wild and totally fun. It seems like this track just has that kind of effect on people.

WARMER MIXTAPES #434 | by Elizabeth Rose Maniscalco [Elizabeth Rose]

1. Tyler, The Creator | Analog (feat. Hodgy Beats)
Quite simply this is one of my favourite songs at the moment. This kid is a year younger than me (I'm 21) and it's incredible just how talented he is and how much he has achieved! His production on this track is what attracts me to it, groovin' beat and sweet vocals.

2. The Wiseguys | Cowboy '78
This track takes me back to the early years growing up... My older brother Anthony had a great stereo system in his room with turntables set up. I would dance around the room as he would play it! Probably my favourite musical memory.

3. Ryuichi Sakamoto | Bibo No Aozora
This is an old favourite of mine. It featured in the film Babel, one of my favourite movies. I love the interaction between the piano and the violins - just beautiful.

4. Anna Turnheim | Terrified
Two words come to mind instantly when this song pops up on my iTunes: First love. Excuse the cheesiness of that answer! Everyone has one of those songs, you know?

5. The Chemical Brothers | Three Little Birdies Down Beat
Another great track that I LOVED when I was quite young all thanks to my brother. It's scary the amount of times I used to dance to this song in his room - the soles of my feet would suffer of bad carpet burns after spinning around so much!

6. Bon Iver | Woods
The first time I heard this song I was instantly brought to tears... I'm still not sure why, I think it is one of those songs that really hits me somewhere down deep inside. It's hauntingly-beautiful.

7. The Knife | Colouring Of Pigeons
All I can say that this song is epic. It encompasses so many vibrant sounds and the operatic vocal ad lib is just so Funky. I love to listen to this song very loud, there's such a great build up in it.

8. Mount Kimbie | Maybes (James Blake Remix)
I had never heard of James Blake (or Mount Kimbie for that matter) before I heard this phenomenal remix about a year ago now. Such a great introduction to two incredible artists at once! James Blake has single handledly inspired the use of side-chaining in my tracks from this one song. Ahh, I love a good side-chain...

9. Björk | Pleasure Is All Mine
Hands down the best track on the album Medúlla. I only came across this song recently actually and I can't stop listening to it. I love to close my eyes and listen to all of the different vocal parts - every single sound you hear in this track is made by various voices, such a unique concept for an entire album!

10. Chairlift | Ceiling Wax
This is the last track of the album Does You Inspire You and it took me the whole album to find this hidden gem... It really takes me to another World every time I hear it. What I love most about it is the lyrics, so emotional.

WARMER MIXTAPES #433 | by Trey A. McCoy [Traci Lords]

1. Traci Lords | Steeple
I guess I'd have to start off with Steeple. Sounds pretentious; since I had a hand in this song, but it has a lot of meaning to me. Right before my brother shipped out on his long self-discovery hichhiking all over the US he sat me down and pointed out he really enjoyed one of my songs, one that would of sat rotting away since I couldn't really see where to go with it or that it was much of anything... But he saw something in it, that he saw, or wanted to see within' himself. So, we recorded, only getting about a minute or so of recording before things got in the way and we had to stop, and we never had time to finish it before he left... But I took what we had recorded and did with it the best I could, since I saw how much passion and heart he poored into just those few lines. It's still to this day one of my favorite songs of all times and when I listen to it it just brings me to other worlds, other times... Like a scent you smell randomly, but it's so comforting and holds such dear memories and warmth.

2. Holy Other | We Over
I've been following Holy Other for a good while, but this song has really hit me hard within' the last few days... I've been dealing with a lot of heartache and self-re:discovery and this song holds such a warm comfort, such a peace-of-mind and kindness to it. Like I'm floating on my back as the ocean waves softly sweep over my body. Feels almost like salt in the wounds you know?... Stings like hell, but you know it's for the better, that pain only brings healing of the body, mind and soul.

3. jj | Baby! (Lorentz & M. Sakarias Cover)
Number three has to be Baby. I just came across this song recently and it has such great elements that I feel I can't put into words... But the best way I can would have to be when I sent it to my brother with the line of: Life is a pretty cool guy, he gives us shit, and isn't afraid of anything. With all the shit life seems to throw at as, we only take it from one view, from a self-harming Why is this happening TO me?; when in reality, or lack of; it's us that putting everything else thru all of our shit... Maybe if we just stop, even for a minute and look what we're putting out into the World, we'd see that it's only our eyes we view from, and maybe, just maybe, our morals and beliefs are almost wrong and self-harming, and it's the World, reality, whatever trying to slap us on the back of the head and say Hey... Stop it!... This song is kind of a reflection of that for me.

4. The Similou | All This Love
This song is so overwhelming for me. Like a flash-flood of good times of the good old days of summers past. Driving with my girlfriend on a warm night with all the windows down, blasting this as we drive at unsafe speeds on back-country roads just to feel some sense of freedom, some grasp of control on this crazy life. Skinny dipping with friends in a random lake we find, only to be chased off by very unhappy land-owners, and laughing as we run thru the woods together, with clothes in-hand. Laying on car-hoods star watching on random beach trips, the kind where you just look at each-other and smile, and then drive 4 hours there, just to drive back with the dawn. This song is that for me, those good times and people I'll never seemingly touch again, that can't be recreated again.

5. HIM | Shatter Me With Hope (oOoOO Remix)
My most recent ex was in-love with HIM the band, and I don't care much for them, or a lot of things she cared for that matter... But we found ways around all that, we were connected thru connections. Like this song, we both enjoyed it and could agree to listen to such songs on long-road trips to pick up all my stuff to move to her state. But, connections are made only to be broken, 'cus you only understand what a bridge helps you with until you burn it, then try to cross it again, only to find that you've lost your support, and it's time to find out how to get across with only yourself to help. This song is a reminder of connection, and how it can be easily lost, but also how you should stick to your mistakes, and do the best you can to add them to becoming a stronger you.

6. CRAVE | Young
One of my favorite songs of all time. Just how the vocals truly paint a scene of somebody older; doing things to strike up old fears just to feel that childhood adventure. 'Cus all males remember as a child, we called fear and events that scared us adventure... This song holds, for me, a sense of CRAVing that misunderstanding of the dangers of life, and turning them into something to overcome and slay with your wooden sword... Or just stealing your mothers eyeliner, playing Batcave 1982 in the mirror and rushing to wash it off as she pulls up to the house like I did... Hahaha. But anyways. Song has a strong message of the innocent lust of seeking, understanding and overcoming. We all grow up, and with growth, comes a growth of new fears of feeling as though we do understand now, and sometimes we just want to get back to that point where the World seemed new and fresh, and seemed to offer so many new things. This song to me, is looking back to those points, and wishing to reach it once again.

7. PARTY TRASH | Drunk-Dial (feat. Raw Moans)
Song is golden. And also a perfect example of how you feel when you've had too much to drink, and you've been hit with the knowagle of how much you miss someone (who, most of the time, don't really miss you) and has all the passion and emotion when your on the phone trying to connect them again... Just kind of the words you think you have perfectly written out, but will mostly come out as ME, YOU, UGHHHHHH. COME BACK TO ME. /sobbing... Haha. Just a great one-point perspective song that I feel we can all relate to at one point in life or another. Just if you could reach them, if they'd pick up the phone, your love would be so undeniable, that'd have to return to you. Often, you'll regret all of this in the morning, or if you're lucky; you won't even remember.

8. Sopor Aeternus | Consider This: The True Meaning Of Love
I honestly feel I can say anything that's already been stated within' this song. It's that perfect.

How often have I heard these words:
I love you so much, dearest dear,
that I would die for you, right now, right here!
Sure, doing this they're sitting pretty,
but I say: piss on it,
because this way is far too easy.

and

But: do you also have the strength
to be there for me till the end?
Would you have courage, live for me,
respect my wishes, my decree?
Would you defend me against the World,
fight the doctors playing God,
slap your priests, if they came near,
or anyone who interferes?

and then it's all tied together with:

Is the version of your Love as true,
that you would use all means within your power
just to meet the urgent plea,
that solemn, final wish for dying
of a helpless her or him,
who lies in pain, who's suffering,
now only begging for the end ... --
is your Love that of a true friend?

If I lay crying in my bed,
waiting, no longing for the end,
if I decide my time has come,
would you then be that trustful one
to guard this chamber, break this shell,
and free me from this living hell
by making sure my death is swift.
Would you grant me that sacred gift?

Hope within' the hopeless. An asking if love can be so pure as to give up everything to help them within' their pain. Even if it be wrong, to fight for them for what they believe in, for what they long for. To help free them from what the believe holds them back from a greater sense of understanding; or lack of. But what I feel is so amazing about this message and song is that he kind of mocks what most call love now-a-days, a statement of would you help me end it all, for that is what I call love knowing that that sense of love is almost unreachable... Which I feel is what true love is, unreachable... It's just those who look passed themselves, their beliefs, their own suffering or what would happen to them after granting such a wish. This kind of pure love is unrealistic and comprehensible to most, if not all humans.

9. Kid Smpl | Understand
Paints a perfect mood, feeling of longing. Sitting up on the edge of something high above looking over everything you feel binds you, and feeling a sense of overcoming. A feeling of looking out into the sea line, trying to make out the line where the sky touches the sea, and wondering if they're not but one 'n the same. Drifting aflote in an abyess, darkness, warm and welcoming. A string of white lights covering the trees of an old forest, you feel as though you could call an old friend.

10. Satra | Loli Phabay (Hop, Hop, Hop)
And for my last I have to end it with this song from the movie Queen Of The Gypsies. I feel I am a gypsy at heart, an outcast of outcasts. I have what it takes to make it in this day-and-age, but I don't feel any of it fits with my moals. I move from place to place each few months, making a home in every state I move to. I make my money by sewing clothes or making jewrely or even fortune telling/palm/card-reading. For my money. I'm a gutter punk gypsy. GYPSIE. I'll live day to day. You're forced to stand by your morals and beliefs, when they're all you have in life. GYPIE4LIFE YO. But this song really is amazing, really brings into light the happiness that comes from this kind of lifestyle, though dirty, hard and painful.

WARMER MIXTAPES #432 | by Philip Gayle

I have a new album titled Babanço Total to be released by Public Eyesore Records in October 2011. It's my first full-length solo album in 6 years. I play mandolin and guitar with many artists of many genres of music and I'm a writer and translator as well. I will be touring around the World in 2012.

1. Chaya Czernowin | Sheva
This is one of 6 amazing pieces of music composed by Chaya Czernowin on the Wergo release titled Shifting Gravity. So far, this is the album of the year in 2011 for me. All of the music is exciting and fresh. Honestly, I am just randomly picking this song, for all of them are equally fantastic! Performed by Quator Diotima & Ensemble Nikel.

2. Brötzmann/Parker/Drake | Never Too Late But Always Too Early, Pt. 1
I don't listen to Improvised Music much anymore, it's more fun to play it... Here, Hamid Drake and William Parker are fantastic together in this trio with Peter Brotzmann in a tribute to one of my heroes, Peter Kowald, someone who I wished I could have played with. The whole album is great, long songs but continuously full of energy and unexpected turns. Personally, it's always late and never too early... R.I.P Peter Kowald.

3. José Manuel López López | Concierto Para Violin Y Orquesta
This piece and the other two pieces on the album are really strong concertos of new music by this Spanish composer I hadn't heard of until recently. Looking forward to another release soon!

4. The Timers | Melt Down
This is from a demo tape someone gave me back in 1988. A song written by Zerry (Imawano Kiyoshiro) as an anti-nuclear power song has been showing up on Japanese social media sites over the past few months in response to the nuclear nightmare that the Japanese government and TEPCO officials have been lying about. Kiyoshiro was the truest voice of the anti-nuclear movement anywhere in the World until his untimely death from cancer in 2008.

5. Willie Nelson | Hands On The Wheel
This whole album is sublime. Willie is just Willie. Ain't no one like him, anywhere. This song and many of his songs are honest, real feelings that people can related to. One of my all-time favorite albums. Whoever busts Willie is a fucking tight-ass mother-fucker. I put doodoo in the chili con carne of any Republikan asshole who busts anyone for weed.

6. Ember Schrag | Jephthah's Daughter
This song and the rest of the album are beautiful songs. Ember is one of my favorite songwriters. Her lyrics are sublime.

7. Novos Baianos | A Menina Dança
This Brasilian band is one of my favorites. This song and all the others are great. Baby Consuelo (now Baby Do Brasil) is almost hard not to dance to! I can't dance worth a shit, but I wiggle...

8. Olga Neuwirth | Akroate Hadal
It's one of my favorite pieces by one of my favorite composers. The Talea Ensemble performed this piece beautifully in May in NYC, and it almost made me fart golden rainbows out my nostrils. Perfecto!

9. Dirty Projectors | Cannibal Resource
I've always dug what Dave has been recording. This album is more slickly produced Pop, but is fantastic. There is something spastic about his work that so many of us have thought of but could never make it work. He is able to do that.

10. Dan Knudsen | The Emperor Lucifer
Dan is a genius from Maine, USA. I'm a huge fan. He writes songs from the heart and its his honesty that comes through his songs so well. People there call him the Daniel Johnston of Maine, but that's not fair to either party. Both brilliant writers, but nowhere near the same in any regard... Check him out, if you're ever in Portland, Maine.

WARMER MIXTAPES #431 | by Dennis Kane [Citizen Kane]

Photo by Ruth Bartlett.

1. John Williams | The Missouri Breaks (Main Title)
John Williams is best known for scoring a lot of really heavy handed soundtracks for Steven Spielberg's heavy handed movies... For this Arthur Penn Anti-Western though, he composed this Minimal haunting title track, great harmonica, nice dark vibe. Marlon Brando is insanely brilliant in this film - one of his many unbelievable performances.

2. Arthur's Landing | Love Dancing (Is It All Over My Face) (feat. Joyce Bowden and Nomi of Hercules And Love Affair)
Comprised of a number of the late great Arthur Russel's friends and colleagues, Arthur's Landing takes the Loose Joints classic and turns it into a sultry aubade. The rhythm unwinds like a sated body slowly waking, the trombone both sad and lurid... Sweet sparse murmured vocals.

3. Marvin Gaye | Heavy Love Affair
This song swings so easily, it has an amazing walking bass line. His vocals slide behind the beat, and then he catches up - like he's chasing a lover he desperately wants... The song is saturated with longing, what are these things I'm feeling, baby, what are these strange emotions...

4. Apollo Heights | Sad Cabaret (Phil Mison Remix)
This will be out this fall, Apollo Heights are a great band, the original is beautiful as well, and my man Phil Mison gives it a balearic bounce, great acoustic guitars, and Daniel's voice shimmers... More from these gents soon.

5. Herb Alpert | Beyond (Nelue Rework)
Pulsing synths and a building wall of sound, a super evocative and atmospheric track with HA's muted trumpet soaring over it. Nelue actually slows it down, gives it room to breathe, his edit makes the track seem more monumental.

6. Jerry Williams | Easy On Yourself (Beat Broker's Remix)
My fav song of the past year or so, Jerry Williams was a talented and eccentric man from Texas who made a serious splash in the LA scene as a songwriter. Hearing his vocals and playing on this, it is a shock that he didn't become a huge star. Country heartbreak, Soul bounce and amazing musicianship set this song miles ahead of its time. Ryan delicately adjusts the original, heightens the dramatic effect, and steps on the gas ever so gently.

7. The Super Disco Band | Bedside Manners
A great Funky album cut, Chicago nasty, terrific groove, this is getting dressed and going out Funk Disco. Where is my motherf***ing yellow hat dammit?

8. Purple Flash | We Can Make It
My pal Darshan Jesrani did a great edit of this for The Unclassics series on Environ, but the original is also pretty sublime. Really sweet strings and synth a nice lyric theme, it feels like twilight driving in Los Angeles, Italo smoothness done right!

9. Jovonn | Vital Sound (Jovonn Next Moov Club Mix)
Danny Krivit put me up on this record, it's such a haunting Minimal House track, it has a lonely nocturnal vibe and a steady pulsing rhythm, a super elegant jam, perfect for the late night dance floor...

10. Nel Olivier | You Are My Dream
I love playing sweet stuff at night's end, the crowd has been rocked hard (hopefully) and in that last part of the set it's great to get a sweet groove going. Benin's Nel Olivier made this lovely Soul/Disco jam in the 80's, it bounces like a body in heels should. You got what I want, you got what I need...

WARMER MIXTAPES #430 | by Andrew Clarke

1. Ali Love | Late Night Session (Ali Love - Midnight Mix)
I just love this song and it always make me smile!! It's got everything, a thumping bass, lyrics about late night dancing and its seriously funky!!

2. New Order | Mr. Disco
New Order was the first proper band I got into and probably the band that got me into electronic music. I got slightly obsessed with them collecting everything, vinyl, magazine interviews, tv clips etc.

3. Faze Action | In The Trees
What can you say about Faze Action!! Apart from being dons of House music, I wasn't listening to a lot of Dance music when this came out but this definitely put me back on the right path!!

4. The Grid | Floatation (Subsonic Grid Mix)
A classic Balearic track given the once over by the genius that is Andrew Weatherall. Put this on and whatever the weather, close your eyes and you'll be transported to Warmer Climes!!

5. 40 Thieves | Don't Turn It Off (feat. Qzen) (Hot Chocolate Cover)
I wasn't aware when this came out that it was a Hot Chocolate cover but it's a great track with amazing production and lovely vocals by Qzen.

6. Downtown Party Network | Days Like These (Vocal)
Who would have guessed that Lithuania was a hotbed for great production talent. Along with Mario Basanov these guys are doing everything right for me!!

7. The Blow Monkeys | La Passionara
Another classic Balearic track that I can't get enough of!! A lot of Pop stars jumped on the Balearic bandwagon but this is pure Sunshine for your ears!!

8. Still Going | Still Going Theme
I love Still Going and don't think they've done a bad track or remix. Quite a simple track in that there's not many elements to it but it shows that sometimes less is more!!

9. Talk Talk | Give It Up
I remember buying The Colour Of Spring LP when I was about 13 and putting it on the turntable and my jaw dropped. It was such a departure from they're previous pop sound and I loved it. Mark Hollis is a genius, fact!!

10. Slow Hands | Headgear
Probably the newest track here but again outstanding production and has all the elements I love about House/Dance music. Production that I can only aspire to!!

WARMER MIXTAPES #429 | by Gary Baldi of Drop Out Orchestra

1. The Human Beinz | Nobody But Me
This is such a party starter! Originally an Isley Brothers song, but this version has so much attitude, gotta love it!

2. Gladys Knight And The Pips | It's A Better Than Good Time (Walter Gibbons Mix)
One thing about the old disco records that people seem to forget some times is that the songs were so great, the actual songwriting was on another level completely. Just listen to this track; the little bridges, the energy burst when the major chords in the chorus kick in... Magic! And I love the way Walter Gibbons holds the bass back for half the song.

3. Jackie Wilson | (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher And Higher
Possibly the best song ever written. There is something about this chord progression that sometimes makes me cry like a little girl, especially if I'm really hungover haha. Lovely bass playing by James Jamerson.

4. Loose Joints | Tell You (Today)
I'm a big fan of Arthur Russell's music but for some reason I wasn't aware of this fantastic song until recently. I'm very proud to say that I've now been working with Steven Hall - who sings harmony and does the whistling on this track - remixing his Buddhist Army project. Loose Joints and other Arthur Russell bits have been such an inspiration, these guys are real heroes, true Disco originators.

5. A Tribe Called Quest | I Left My Wallet In El Segundo (Vampire Mix)
This track still puts a smile on my face. Great remix by Norman Cook too, proper party music. This takes me back to being 18, having a party in one of my first own rented flats, lots of Sol beer in the fridge, summer vibes...

6. Ajello | Chocolate Black Leather (feat. Hard Ton) (Tempelhof Remix)
I have no idea who Tempelhof are but I love this remix. Razor sharp synth bass that reminds me a little of Queen's Radio Ga Ga and really cool beats.

7. The Style Council | Shout To The Top
I still can't believe we were asked to remix Paul Weller's new single. It's not like I'm his biggest fan or anything but his music has always been there, you know? This is such a classy pop song, uplifting and clever at the same time.

8. Frank Wilson | Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
Bring on the peak time tracks! This one gets me every time, it hits the same spot as Higher And Higher. I'm not a religious man but there is definitely something about certain tunes that makes you feel you're part of something bigger. Very emotional stuff, in a party rocking way, kind of.

9. Stephen Stills | Love The One You're With
Time to wind down now. One of the best sing-a-longs this is, I'm also a big fan of Crosby, Stills & Nash. Not Neil Young though, I find 90% of his solo stuff unbearable.

10. The Beach Boys | Carry Me Home
For almost two years I listened only to the Beach Boys, day and night. I was totally obsessed with them. This is a Dennis Wilson song, it's an unreleased outtake from the Holland sessions. It was later covered by Primal Scream for their Dixie Narco EP, that version is almost as good as the original; Bobby G turned the song into a heavy comedown 90s Blues.

WARMER MIXTAPES #428 | by James Curd [Greenskeepers]

1. Del The Funky Homosapien | Burnt (feat. Hieroglyphics)
I first heard this song in a skate video for Mike Carroll's part. My friends and I would drive downtown to skate the city and this was one of the songs that we couldn't get enough of. My friend Scott had it on a mix tape (for real cassette tape) and refused to make any of us a copy. We decided the only thing to do was to pick a fight with him when we where getting close to his house in hopes he would jump out of the car and forget to take the tape with him. It worked and we all dubbed a copy!

2. Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen | Forever (Mix 1)
This is a Chicago loft party classic. I was only around 16 years old when I was spending hours at the record shop looking for a copy. I spent months searching and was never able to find it. Then one night a DJ named Diz played it at a party. When he was finished playing I asked him to sell me the record on the spot for all the money I had in my pocket. He laughed and asked me how much I had and I think it was around 40 bucks. He said that he liked my attitude and gave me the record for free. That was the first night of Diz and I's long friendship.

3. LCD Soundsystem | Losing My Edge
I used to live in Paris for three months of every year in my early twenties. My friend Romain used to dig and dig for the most obscure Disco records at flee markets and record shops. His living room was four walls of records from floor to ceiling. He played me this song and said that this was the best new song and everything was going to be changed by it. He was right.

4. Pailhead | I Will Refuse
Going out in Chicago in the 90's was really a special time. I don't want to sound old and talk about how things where better in my day but there is no comparison. I used to go to a club called Medusa's and it was full of every type of person you could think of. White, black, Puerto Rican, gay, straight, punk, house it was anything goes. The feeling was indescribable when this song came on. All the punks would rush the dance floor and mosh and go mental. The best part was everyone else joined right in with them.

5. Yellow Magic Orchestra | Tong Poo
I love this song and YMO in general. I always knew Computer Games but didn't listen in depth to their entire catalog. On a drive from the Tokyo airport to my hotel my friend Daiskie played the ultimate collection of the band about two times though (Tokyo Traffic) and it became my theme music for my travels in Asia. When I wrapped up the tour in Australia I started my set with this song and was the perfect start to one of my best experiences as a DJ ever. There where Synth Disco bands before and after YMO but to me they did it best.

6. Tommy Guerrero | Flux And Meter
Tommy Guerrero was already a child hood hero to me as a pro skater in Bones Brigade. I bought this CD in a small Paris record shop and it became my theme song for my summer there. Whenever I hear this song I feel like I'm from San Francisco. I know it's strange being from Chicago and living in Paris but feeling like I was from San Francisco but maybe there was another version of me running around Market Street and buying prints from Future Primitive.

7. Romanthony | The Wanderer
One of my favorite Chicago house songs and still makes rare appearances in my sets. At my first DJ gig when I was 15 years old I played at a festival. I got to the tent I was playing at and it was empty which I was kind of ok with because I was nervous to play. I pulled out The Wanderer as my first song and the tent was packed to the gills before the song was finished. Thanks to Romanthony for making a great song and giving me a career.

8. Womack & Womack | Baby I'm Scared Of You
I first heard this song as an edit so it was speed up. My favorite part was the back and forth between the man and the woman. The song builds up to that part and I used to sing along to it. I was all wrong and thought the female vocal was saying I'm Feeling Bored and was pretty embarrassed when I was corrected on the spot... It's I Need A Little More. Could have happened to anybody!

9. Locussolus | I Want It (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Remix)
Such a great song. I have always been a fan of DJ Harvey and his productions. It's a song that is the perfect combination of live and electronic dance music. I'm also a big fan of Lindstrøm and have enjoyed watching his music grow from some of the first songs he released early in his career on my label G-Swing!

10. Electric Light Orchestra | Mr. Blue Sky
Hard to be in a bad mood after listening to this song. It's a bit like a math problem as well. Just for fun I have played along a few times and it's not easy! I saw Mayer Hawthorn cover it live and I felt happy not only that he was singing the song but it felt like we had something in common in the fact that we both love Mr. Blue Sky!

WARMER MIXTAPES #427 | by Steven Hall [Buddhist Army] of Arthur's Landing

Photo by Chaturon Konghin.

1. Poolside | Harvest Moon
Poolside music has invented a new genre - Daytime Disco.

2. Hurts | Sunday (Seamus Haji Remix)
Seamus Haji’s mixes are seamless and stellar. He’s maybe the best.


3. Omarion | Ice Box (Futuresecks Remix)
This young team transformed a generic R&B song into metaphysics.

4. John Denver | Country Roads (Pretty Lights Remix)
A definition of remix. Recycling and re-inventing at the same time.

5. Arthur Russell | This Is How We Walk On The Moon (Luke Foskey Re-Edit)
This excellent remix by young Luke from Oz made him an overnight star.

6. Black Tiger Sex Machine | Girls Of Winter
Hook-filled killer groove from my favorite Canadian mixing tribe.



7. RS2 | Keep It Hot (Freaky Meltdown)
My favorite skate rock band from California. Wonderful bass player.

8. The Boy Called Hedge | Don't Behave As A Hedgehog
My favorite singer/songwriter these days. Haunting voice and atmosphere.



9. Selection | Rebel On The Run (Andrew Clarke Re-Edit)
The best re-editor on the scene. His productions are funky elegante.

10. Bee Gees/Cole Medina | Cole Loves Your Insides Out (Internet Thieving Mix)
There are thousands of Bee Gees reworks. This puts them all to shame.

+11. Imagination & Missy Elliot | Gotta Keep Workin' It (Greg Wilson Mash-Up)
Two classic hits combined to create an inspired synergy. Juicy fruit!

+12. Drop Out Orchestra | The Swedish Taboo (Sade’s The Sweetest Taboo Remix)
Sade plus the best mixing team from Sweden. You can't go wrong!


+13. 31G | Logan's Run
31G is one of my fave indie bands from Hong Kong. I did a free street concert with them last April in Hong Kong in the rain. There is a very healthy indie music scene in Hong Kong despite the fact that there are very few places for live music there. My good friend Kung runs this monthly series of concerts in various outdoor locations because that way he can reach new audiences directly and by word-of-mouth.

+14. Buddhist Army | Way He Looks (feat. Hung Chui Fung) (Lan Kwai Fong Mix)
I wrote this song in my early twenties. I think it is one of my best songs because the ideas are so simple and heartfelt. It is about the great love of my life Johnny. We were together for fifteen years and we are still best friends. He is a living angel and the biggest regret I have is that I took him for granted when we were together. Because I thought we would be together for ever. But life is full of surprises and mystery. In this version of the song recorded last April in Hong Kong my friend Kung plays the electric viola (he recorded with Arthur’s Landing many years ago) and another old friend Hung Chiu Fung sings the Mandarin vocal (HCF also did the translation).


+15. Miss Bee | Fly Away
Michelle Bee aka Miss Bee is well-known as a disco singer in the UK, but what is more interesting is her own improvised songs... Both intimate and engaging with her sweet voice tinged with vulnerability... She has been a source of inspiration to me because listening to her improv songs gave me the feeling to start writing songs again through improvising myself after a long dry spell. So my newest song is for her.

+16. Recent Memory | I'll Be Outside (Arthur Russell)
Recent Memory is a side project done by myself and Joyce Bowden. Joyce is one of the original members of Arthur's Landing and was Arthur’s favorite female singer. Several of his songs were written with her in mind. The poignant aspect of all this is that we are no longer good friends because of arguments over Arthur's Landing and we no longer sing together.


+17. Stylish Nonsense | Undercovers Agent
Stylish Nonsense is my fave band in Bangkok where I spend a lot of time. I first saw them play at a Nike fashion show. Two scruffy hippy type guys who seemed to be just goofing around but through their funky jazzy improv they gradually built up a warm wall of sound that engulfed the event and made the fashion show much more glam. Since then I have been following their trajectory like the last Space Shuttle launch!

+18. PO-TENCH! | Introducing: The Dalai Lama
My fave track of last year. A fabulous romp. I love its wild changes and the sense of humor which informs every turn. Of course the idea of adding the Dalai Lama to a dubby mashup track is wild enough yet somehow it works. I love the combo of high and low style here. Of course as a Buddhist myself I love the Dala Lama although I would love him much more if he would say that it was okay for gay people to have sex!!

+19. Buddhist Army | Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Bob Dylan Cover)
One of the most powerful political songs ever written. For years I tried to resist liking Dylan’s work but this song broke my heart when I first heard it. The raw emotion it portrays comes from somewhere deep inside and evokes a primeval feeling of longing and melancholy. If a song can change the World then this would be a good candidate as a pure entreaty. A document from the anti-war protests of the sixties.