WARMER MIXTAPES #395 | by Luc Derks [Luisterwaar]

1. Salva | Wake Ups
Although I discovered Salva just recently, Wake Ups really blew my mind. Packed with synthesizers and summervibes, this is my personal 2011 summer-tune. The complete album Complex Housing feels like a vacation on the beach.

2. Krampfhaft | Perfect Gain Structure
I don't know why, but everytime when I listen to this tune, weird things happen. When the track in finished, I suddenly remember I've gotten out of my chair in an adrenaline rush, almost thrashing my room.

3. Raadsel | Ressurection
Now THIS is what I call The Future. Raadsel is a friend of mine who sneak-previewed this track of his upcoming album to me. It will melt off your face, you'll find out when it's released.

4. Shlohmo | Teeth
The name says it all, just put your jaws together and scrape your teeth back and forth. These sounds grind me into a psycho serial-killer (figuratively speaking).

5. James Blake | I Never Learnt To Share
The wizardry and creativity in this song is one of the biggest inspirational sources to me. It makes me feel everything is allowed in music.

6. Flying Lotus | Zodiac Shit
You don't need coffee in the morning, inject some Zodiac Shit in your veins and your good to go. The heroin of music.

7. Dorian Concept | Her Tears Taste Like Pears
I wonder how my tears taste... Yes, I cry when listening this one. It's just too beautiful.

8. Vlooper & KenLo Craqnuques | Lokombe
This one helped dragging me into the beat-scene or how you would like to call it. Filthy gated sounds with messed up drums. That's how you can touch my soul.

9. Slugabed | Titans
I think this is my oldest favorite of this list. Godlike power in this track! I think it's Slugabed who awaits you at the gates of heaven.

10. Herrmutt Lobby | Fat Manual
This track has one of the best arrangements I know. Nothing really pops out to be the main sound, everything is balanced into one big FAT bangin' track!


WARMER MIXTAPES #394 | by Dora Hiller of SNEAKPEEK

1. The Innocence Mission | Bright As Yellow
This song makes me feel warm inside. It always brings back memories of Summer, hot springs, rolling around on green grass and going on adventures with my best friends. It just has such a dreamy, heartbreakingly beautiful quality to it. Karen Peris of the Innocence Mission is one of the most underrated, amazing singers of our time.

2. The Beatles | Dear Prudence
My obsession with The Beatles began as a child. I used to lie back on my bed purely entranced by the loveliness that is Dear Prudence. It was incredible to me that its repetitive riffs could speak so directly to my soul. The sun is up, the sky is blue, it's beautiful and so are you...

3. My Bloody Valentine | Slow
My Bloody Valentine is definitely one of my biggest musical influences and this song encompasses everything I love about them; heavy, fuzzy Bass and ethereal melodies. Only Shallow comes in a close second as my favorite song by them.

4. The Clean | Sad Eyed Lady
The simpleness of this song is what makes it so great. The only way to describe it is groovy with its steady drum beat and psychedelic guitar. I love imagining the sad eyed lady sitting on the edge of town with a smile on her face. It's also a super fun song to cover.

5. Mazzy Star | Blue Flower
When I first started driving, all I would listen to in my car is Mazzy Star's She Hangs Brightly and Blue Flower is definitely my favorite song on the album. When I hear it now, it brings me back to those days; getting stuck on the 405 in Los Angeles being blissfully taken away to another dimension by Hope Sandoval.

6. Neil Young | On The Way Home
When my boyfriend Aric (SNEAKPEEK's guitar player) was in The Willowz he used to go on tour for months and months at a time and leave me lonely and sad. I used to put on this song and imagine him driving across the desert on his way home to me.

7. The Smashing Pumpkins | Bodies
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness is one of my favorite albums ever so it's hard to choose just one song. Bodies just pumps me up in the best way and has such a dark beauty to it. Cast the pearls aside, of a simple life of need, come into my life forever...

8. The Fun Boy Three | Faith, Hope & Charity
The Fun Boy Three is the best and not many people know about them. It features the singer of The Specials with two amazing backup singers who make caveman sounds. This album was always on repeat at The Winona House. The good old days...

9. The Cranberries | Dreams
I've always been a big Cranberries fan. I know how to play all their songs on bass and sometimes people tell me I sing like I have and Irish accent. Dreams will always have a special place in my heart because it is so full of magic and instantly makes me feel happier. Oh my life is changing every day, every possible way...

10. Ty Segall | Finger
Although most of my favorite music is from the past, I thought I would add one cool current artist to the list. My boyfriend recently introduced me to Ty Segall and his album Melted. It is one of the better things I've heard come out of this decade. Anyone who likes sick fuzzy Garage Rock tunes should buy this album.

WARMER MIXTAPES #393 | by Stirling Myles of Alameda

1. Aloha | All The Wars
Walking to high school in Denver; I would have a morning walking path by the parks into downtown. I would start a mix that I made from the beginning and this song would always play by the time walked by the central park. This song was an incredible soundtrack to all of the vignettes of people and faces coming in and out of focus much like this song comes in and out of my life.

2. The Gloria Record | Cinema Air
I took a Greyhound trip from Denver to Gainesville, FL to visit my sister who was living there at the time. I felt very independent and I got to see very interested parts of the country at very interesting times (St. Louis bus station at 3:00 in the morning). When finally reaching Florida, I felt a calmness that I've rarely felt. My sister played this song when we were driving around the small city and I could not get it out of my head. I kept listening and felt baffled by how a group of people could create a song that was as beautifully arranged as this one.

3. Lack | Solispsist Letter To The World
The only time I've ever cried at a show was at a Lack concert packed in the back room of a now defunct Denver record store called Double Entendre. Lack was a Dutch band that wrote the most innovative Hardcore music for a while. I was up front right next to the plywood stage and there was such an incredible wave and swarm of connectedness, that I felt fully in tune with the music and people around me. This song presents a sense of urgency and beauty that I've always felt was encapsulated within their music.

4. Gillian Welch | My First Lover
This song will be on every road trip I go on! Even though I might not listen to it, it's still always an option that will put a smile on my face. Best to listen to the windswept landscape on Wyoming headed east, just when the buttes come into view.

5. Daniel Lanois | Frozen
I went to see Tortoise play in Boulder, CO years back and I was so pleasantly surprised to see their collaboration with Daniel Lanois. He played a set of songs by himself on the pedal steel and to the best of my memory, he said they they were a series of songs that he wrote in Alaska in a cabin. Nonetheless, they were gorgeous and I finally was able to track this song down and it such paints such a vivid imagery for me of a place that I've never been to, but feel that I have traveled.

6. Joseph Childress | 10,000 Horses
So much to say, but I'll simply say that Joseph Childress has been a mentor in many ways. One of the most incredible songwriters I've ever heard. A wonderful storyteller and one that constantly is expanding with his music.

7. Jeremy Enigk | Abegail Anne
Always a fan of Sunny Day Real Estate, and I found this way after he recorded it. I've always been inspired by the introspection and vulnerability of these songs. I feel that these songs were an outpouring; a moment of amazing inspiration.

8. Spiritualized | The Ballad Of Richie Lee
A very dear friend of mine introduced me to this band on an evening drive through the town we were living and I always will associate this with night drives. I learned about texture from this song, incredible simplicity and space. Portraying the evening of any memory and emotion.

9. Isis | Red Sea
I love to walk to this song on headphones, being covered with warm distortion. This song is great to listen to in motion as it keeps it place as bookmarks to whatever itinerary you have, being there even at your destination.

10. Ten Grand | Now You Got What I Got
I would go on road trips with friends to nearby cities like Albuquerque, NM and Lincoln, NE to see basement house shows that didn't make it to Denver. I saw this song played in a public park rangers hut in the middle of the city park. This band played some of the most creative interpretations to musical storytelling to date. I've always had immense respect for the place they hold in music exploration, I've always taken homage, but can never hold up a light to what they have done.

WARMER MIXTAPES #392 | by Tyson

1. Cerrone | Supernature
It reminds me of Grace Jones meets ABBA – I love it!!!

2. Michael Jackson | Who Is It
It's got one of the greatest bass lines ever ever made!

3. Laura Branigan | Self Control
This record made me love Italo music, it's so special to me, it's like my child!!

4. Bonnie Tyler | Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Hands down one of the greatest videos and vocals ever, the woman's got soul!!!

5. Jon Secada | Just Another Day
This is my guilty pleasure, I love the Soul To Soul kind of drums - it's just got feel!

6. Capleton | Slew Dem
Love that Jamaican shit great to dance to, I was the guy in the middle of 2 hot birds whining to the floor!!!

7. David Bowie | Ashes To Ashes
Sick vid and I'm loving the crazy Ziggy clothes and musical mash up... One of the best!!!

8. Alphaville | Big In Japan
The groove is to die for. This is one tune I wish I made but didn’t, so I just listen to it with a bitter ear!!!

9. Gnarls Barkley | Crazy
The only modern song that brought me to my knees begging for mercy... It's just got everything any human with ears would need!!!

10. Sylvester | Do You Wanna Funk
Patrick Cowley and Sylvester made magic which will never be bettered, well... Maybe equaled but never bettered! - I heart this record, it means a lot to me!!!

WARMER MIXTAPES #391 | by Sebastian Döring [Lovebirds]

1. Kool & The Gang | Summer Madness
I first heard it in Jazzy Jeff's Summertime but when I listen to the original it is THE Rhodes track. I think this instrument was invented only for this one song!

2. Grant Green | Hurt So Bad
This actually hurts so very good. I just love the mood this song creates. I can listen to it anytime!

3. Gil Scott-Heron | We Almost Lost Detroit
The old drunk man - so honest, warm and direct. A song to fly away with…

4. Henri Mancini | Lujon
This takes me back to a time where the suits were tight and the trousers short! Love its appearance in one of my favourite movies too!

5. Bill Evans | Spartacus Love Theme
This has all the incredible beauty of Bill Evans in it...

6. Little Dragon | Feather
I could easily name 10 songs here that I love so much… This one Vincenzo played to me in Berlin last summer. Been played a lot since then...

7. Change | Hold Tight
One of my favourite Funk/Soul/Boogie tunes… Nothing compares to this!

8. B. B. & Q. Band | Dreamer
One of my favourite 80s Electronic Boogie tunes. Never getting tired of this!

9. Toro Y Moi | Talamak
This album has hit me big time… It was on repeat for a month or so. I was preaching this album!

10. Inner City | Big Fun
This got me into House music although I didn't know that it was called this way back then. I will always love the Inner City vibe. I think it will never go out of fashion!

WARMER MIXTAPES #390 | by Joseph Black, Marc Esterow, Erik Sandberg of Honeydrum

SIDE A | by Erik Sandberg

1. Hüsker Dü | Celebrated Summer
I've always loved the energy in this Bob Mould track, especially the way he sings (yells) the lyrics. Everything about the song is frantic, as if they were embarrassed about playing a pop song for the hardcore kids.

2. Archers Of Loaf | Web In Front
Pretty cool lyrics from a band with a shitty name. The gritty Sun-drenched guitars make me thirsty for some Arnold Palmer iced-tea.

3. R.E.M. | Life And How To Live It Obscure
R.E.M. track from the overlooked Fables Of The Reconstruction. The lyrics tell the true story of a Southern nutcase who split his house in two and constantly moved from one side to the other. Amidst the chaos, he found the time to write a book about how people should live. What's great is how the music fits the wacky imagery-the drums swing, the bass punches, the guitar rings... Listen to the holler.

4. Dinosaur Jr. | Lung
I really got into Dinosaur Jr. after hearing about their 2007 reunion and seeing them live in New York with Built To Spill and The Meat Puppets. J Mascis had a stack of amps that were positioned in a 180 degree arc behind him that sounded as epic as they looked. Lung is a song that takes me back to that night, and is a testament to J Mascis' indubitably creative guitar style.

5. The Smiths | William, It Was Really Nothing
What isn't to like about this song? I swear I can hear rainfall when Morrissey sings the line about the humdrum town. And I still shiver I still shiver every time I hear that staccato electric guitar line come in...

6. Wire | Ex Lion Tamer
When I first heard Pink Flag, I didn't notice any of the songs. I loved everything I heard, but I had to listen to the album several times before I started to get familiar with the songs. Ex Lion Tamer is one of those timeless anthem-tunes that won't leave you alone, probably because it's simple, smart, and genuine.

7. Dream Syndicate | Halloween
The way Steve Wynn enunciates Halloween makes the song for me.

8. Mama Cass Elliot | Make Your Own Kind Of Music
As an avid Lost fan, one of my favorite scenes was when the inside of the Hatch was first revealed. Seeing Desmond fumble around with the turntable and punch the numbers into the old terminal was both satisfying and unsettling. The song adds this layer of comfort and familiarity until you realize that something isn't quite right...

9. Love Tractor | I Broke My Saw
The opening guitar riff to I Broke My Saw lets you know exactly what to expect from the rest of the song. It's sharp, addictive, and it will go perfectly with whatever it is you are doing. And the refrain at the end of the song is brilliant.

10. The Church | Almost With You
Is that a 12 string Rickenbacker? I dig it.

SIDE B | by Marc Esterow

1. This Heat | Cenotaph
I don't even know where to begin with these guys...This Heat, and Charles Hayward in particular, has influenced my musical tastes and playing style more than any other band on this list. I have searched for years for another group that sounds even remotely like them and haven't even come close. This is my favorite track off of their 1981 Deceit, an album that defies categorization and remains at the top of my list of favorite albums of all time.

2. Sun City Girls | Space Prophet Dogon
The Sun City Girls might just be the most innovative, ahead-of-their-time band of the last 25 years. With this song off of their brilliant record Torch Of The Mystics, Alan and Richard Bishop and Charles Gocher redefined the boundaries of sonic exploration, and have forever shaped me in my attempts at creating meaningful experimental music. Today the Bishop brothers release field recordings from all over the world through their label Sublime Frequencies, which has put out some truly superb releases such as Guitars From Agadez.

3. Devo | Uncontrollable Urge
Watching videos of Devo performing this song back in the late 70's, I can't help but wonder how Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerry Casale came up with this stuff. To be so indescribably cool and quirky, and to play so fast and make it look effortless, all the while injecting such a high level of satire into their approach... I still can't get over it. Devo reminds me to never take anything I do too seriously.

4. Black Dice | Scavenger
It was really hard for me to pick a favorite Black Dice song, but I went with this one because I've listened to it the most. Black Dice, who I've seen live a handful of times, are setting musical trends that will be in place for years to come. Their approach is so methodical yet they possess the ability to reinvent themselves over and over again, and this to me is the most important part of creating new and exciting music today.

5. James Brown | Cold Sweat
What can I say about James Brown that hasn't already been said... The man is a complete maniac. As a drummer, I can't even begin to tell you what this beat has done for me. I hear this song and I am instantly locked into the groove - the raw energy, repetition, soul, and power of this song puts me in a trance. I love it and I never want it to end.

6. Sun Ra | Dance Of The Cosmo Aliens
I will try to express my love and admiration for Sun Ra in this brief paragraph, but I don't think I will be able to get it across. The man has changed my life. His cosmic philosophies combined with the mezmerizing performances of the Arkestra bring me to a higher level of consciousness, and this is exactly what his goal was. This track comes from Disco 3000, a live record recorded in Italy in the late 70's, and a personal favorite of mine in his vast, expansive discography. Please, everyone, listen to this album and take part in something bigger than yourselves.

7. The Beach Boys | I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
I threw this song on here because I felt that it wouldn't be right of me to list some of my favorite songs of all time and not include the Beach Boys. I mean come on, really. Pet Sounds is the pinacle of genius, and without a doubt the greatest album ever. This song is just so bittersweet it hurts - it makes me feel happy and sad at the same time. I will never understand it but I keep coming back for more.

8. Simon & Garfunkel | Cecilia
Without a doubt the greatest love song ever written for a dog (is there even any comparison?), Cecilia might just be my favorite song of all time. I remember my parents playing this song all the time when I was a kid and hearing it now reminds me of where I came from.

9. Can | Vitamin C
This is the song that introduced me to Krautrock. I swear I could listen to that drum and bass combo on loop for eternity. I've heard this song ten thousand times and still can't figure out what Damo is singing about and honestly don't even care, just please, God, give me more of that beat.

10. Bob Dylan | You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
The simplicity and playfulness of this song continues to blow my mind every time I hear it. I remember being 19 and sitting on my porch in the middle of summer smoking joints and listening to Side 4 of Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 2 on repeat for hours at a time. I didn't have a job, I didn't have any money, and I truly didn't care.


SIDE C | by Joseph Black

1. Bruce Springsteen | Atlantic City
This song perfectly encapsulates the feelings of quiet desperation, disgust, and hope that one experiences living in a place as expansive as New Jersey. Listening to this song makes me realize that I have indeed been shaped by where I live in ways that I am only now beginning to understand.

2. Aphex Twin | Goon Gumpas
I must admit that this song is a song and an album that I constantly find myself coming back to. When I was still in high school, a group of friends and I used to gather at my friend Carleen's house and distract ourselves from the frustrations of teenage life through the use of various mind-altering substances and music. In that room was the first time I experienced many things including the genius of Richard D. James. When this song came on my friend put on a wig on and started goose-stepping along to it. That was the first time I fully appreciated that music can be serious and humorous at the same time, I don't think I've peed myself from laughing since then.

3. Liars | The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack
I had liked the Liars for some time before I heard this song. It came on the radio one night during a period of time in my life that I would describe as stagnant and rough. It's elegant simplicity and stark instrumentation underline it's beautiful lyrics which became my mantra for the next month. More recently this song has cropped up again in my daily listening habits, but for different reasons.

4. Guided By Voices | Mincer Ray
Guided By Voices recently got back together and played some shows, none of which I had the slightest interest in seeing. Their songs are great because they are these ephemeral glimpses into some alternate dimension; their recordings are pieces of a composite reality that is magical because we only catch bits and pieces of it through their music. For them to exist here and now would somehow cause me a lot of cognitive dissonance.

5. Big Star | September Gurls
Sun-drenched harmonies and jangly guitars; this may just be the most perfect pop song ever constructed. It is one of those songs that makes you feel like you're 16 and riding your bike to your girlfriend's house on a hot summer day.

6. The 6ths | Falling Out Of Love (With You)
There are only two people on the face of this planet that can make me laugh while tugging at my heartstrings and those two people are Morrissey and Stephen Merritt. The upbeat, happy backing track wonderfully juxtaposes the hopeless, down-trodden lyrics. Context can sometimes be the most powerful tool in music and this song makes full use of it.

7. My Bloody Valentine | She Loves You No Less
The dark interweaving guitar sounds and frenetic drums are a wonderful backdrop for the even and emotionless vocal melody. There is something so perfect about the way this recording sounds. It has all of the qualities of some of my favorite C86 tracks but it sounds like someone put them through an evil filter.

8. The Human League | Empire State Human
Another song that I continue to revisit. This song was in my heavy rotation senior year of high school and it was on a CD I had in my car when I gave this girl I liked a lift home from school. She also happened to love the Human League and we wound up talking about music for hours, it was great. I love that this track is both electronic yet raw at the same time. There is a very tangible and real element to the sounds that they use that almost feels organic. The synthesizer sounds are rudimentary but they are somehow more vital and exciting than most of the stuff you hear nowadays.

9. Fist City | Debbie Get YR Boa
This song makes me want to run as far and fast as I can while screaming until I completely collapse from exhaustion. High energy punk with snippets of great jangle pop guitar hooks and a punchy beat. What more could one ask for?

10. Mimi & Richard Fariña | Celebration Of A Grey Day (Instrumental)
This is one of the many incredible tracks by the totally underrated and under-listened-to Mimi & Richard. My favorite always changes but lately this song stands at the top of the list. It has this wonderful wintery feel to it which is to say that it is warm and welcoming. The vibrant melody perfectly intertwines with the pulsing percussion and curly cue dulcimer lines.

WARMER MIXTAPES #389 | by Patric Fallon [Courtship]

1. Boards Of Canada | Dayvan Cowboy
For me, good music should be a journey, as cliche as that may sound. A song that touches me is one that either takes me to another time or place in my mind, moves me to feel something uniquely and viscerally, or introduces to me a sound that I've never heard before. Boards Of Canada's impeccable discography has delivered those experiences to me in spades, and Dayvan Cowboy comes pretty damn close to hitting all three points at once. And that's not to mention the song's guitar tone is absolutely perfect. I strive for that kind of wavering sound every time I record a guitar track.

2. The Microphones | Solar System
I'm a fan of Phil Elvrum's prolific output more or less as a whole, but Mount Eerie by The Microphones is, in my opinion, his best work. It's a perfectly envisioned and executed concept album about, well, basically everything: the experience of living and dying as one small thing within an immense universe. While the whole record speaks volumes to me, I find this song to be its most personal and most haunting. I know you're out there. I know you're out there.

3. How To Dress Well | Suicide Dream 1 (Orchestral Version)
Tom Krell's voice is easily one of the strongest in music today. You can certainly tell how gifted he is as a singer on his Love Remains album, but sometimes the lo-fi quality of the recordings--while I would never change a thing about them--shroud his vocal power. When I saw him perform live (it was an amazing show, might I add), I realized that was the case. Since then, I've wondered how he'd come across in a higher quality studio setting. This alternate version of Suicide Dream 1 is more than I could've hoped to hear, a choral arrangement of How To Dress Well's intimate ballad with the soul of Krell at the forefront in crystalline sound.

4. Light Asylum | A Certain Person
Another one of my favorite singers right now is Shannon Funchess of Light Asylum. The first time I heard the anthemic gallop of A Certain Person I practically lost my breath. The first time I heard her voice my heart nearly stopped. She's at once commanding, vulnerable, completely original, and classically inspired with a vocal range rarely heard these days. The music certainly brings the '80s to mind, but for me, this song is timeless.

5. The-Dream | Put It Down
God bless Mr. Terius Nash. He reaches my heart in ways no man really can. What makes his music so perfect is that he can wrap a song that's purely about sex in sounds that invoke love, romance, and tenderness. Everything I write owes something to The-Dream and his ever-growing collection of pop music gems.

6. Ciara | Ride (feat. Ludacris)
Another pop/R&B hit produced by Mr. Nash, but this one moved me enough that I had to write my own cover version. I was first introduced to this song through its unbelievably sexy music video, which--if you ignore Ludacris' intrusion--is a whole other piece of beauty on its own. Ciara is a true star, a constant inspiration, and an utter dream.

7. Jason Burns | Back 2 You
Jason Burns is actually a friend of mine who currently lives in Cleveland, Ohio. He's a great DJ, and has also produced a wide array of electronic music through the years. After getting back in touch with him recently, he started sending me tracks to check out and possibly post online (I work as a writer for a music magazine). He'd sent me a few I liked, but when Back 2 U made its way to my ears, he might as well not have sent me anything else. This track drips with a kind of shimmering soul that more club productions should.

8. Clams Casino | All I Need (Instrumental)
Clams Casino is easily my favorite new producer right now. His consistent outpouring of free downloads and his upcoming debut EP for Tri Angle Records all lay testament as to why. Among his collection of beautifully blown-out instrumentals, this one gets me every time I play it without fail. The veil of fuzzy distortion, the disjointed and skittering rhythms, the swells of ghostly vocal sounds, and the sluggish pace of it all couldn't fit together any better. It's otherworldly hip-hop for souls who can't find rest.

9. Burial | Fostercare
There's nothing I could really say about Burial other than how he personally effects me. I talked about music taking me to a time and place at the beginning of this, and none can do it quite like Burial's. His Untrue LP, his collaborations with Four Tet and Thom Yorke, his singles for Hyperdub--all of it transports me to those lonely nights spent walking the streets, watching the bars let out, and refusing to go back to the only place that'll have you, your empty house. Also, Fostercare is quite possibly the finest example of R&B vocal sampling available today.

10. Me'Shell NdegeOcello | Hair Of The Dog
Me'Shell NdegeOcello is a very strange and very talented artist. Her albums can be very hit or miss, but when they hit you, they hit hard. Hair Of The Dog is one such hit (though I also highly recommend checking out her cover of Love You Down), and the perfect closing track for any mix monomaniacally focused on love and sadness. It's a soulful slice of downtrodden R&B. It's an end of the night song for those of us who are broken and without someone to help carry us home.


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 (released - June 14, 2011) for Rain Rain was filmed in August 2010 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)
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WARMER MIXTAPES #388 | by Michael Rintoul [Beaumont]

1. Arthur Russell | See Through
This song gets me every time. It sends shivers down my back. Hard to believe it's just one guy and a cello. It's so hauntingly beautiful, something which is really difficult to capture. I heard it in autumn after a summer of pure joy - it marked the end of it with an aching nostalgia... Still does.

2. Burial | Shell Of Light
It's like a moment of hope, a turn of optimism, sense of innocence, a clearing in the rain. Feels good to be alive.

3. Michael McGloiry | Love Every Inch Of Me
The pure energy and driving force of that bass line is amazing, it's a real epic disco tune with awesome production. I love the way it builds itself up again with the vocals, you can feel the passion!

4. Kenji Kawai | Nightstalker
I love it when movies and music blend well. In a film so dark as Ghost In The Shell the soundtrack really brings it to life, you can feel the human sounds, even though it's mostly about cyborgs.

5. D'Eon | Transparency
I've got this one on repeat, I love the melodies and the thoughts of eternity in the lyrics. It's got that R&B vibe I love, makes you feel like a top dawg.

6. Mike Mareen | Dancing In The Dark
Awesome italo tune. Forget everything. Feel the power in the synth. Obey the vocoder. Hit the dance floor.

7. Mr. Fingers | Can You Feel It
Walking in the night through Glasgow all lit up. Cold, wet, city grime. Shimmering hi hats, pulsating beats, glowing neon. Embrace the night.

8. William Pitt | City Lights
This track is so chic. I imagine I'm in a film noire or something when I hear it. I'm in a hot city car park, heading down town for the city lights...

9. Shocking Pinks | Dressed To Please (Deepchord Remix)
I heard this at a festival in Barcelona and it really took me like a drug. Intoxicating. Like diving into a mythical bay of crystal clear water, being embraced by mermaids, pure bliss. It's got that pounding like a heartbeat throughout. Music at its finest for me.

10. Holger Czukay | Fragrance
I heard the soundtrack to the film Morvern Callar at an impressionable age, and it's stayed with me in spirit. This song feels like having had a bit too much but still enjoying things.

WARMER MIXTAPES #387 | by Shane Johnson of Fish Go Deep

1. The Unthanks | Close The Coalhouse Door
Pitch black Northern English folk music. The Unthanks played a spellbinding concert here in Cork a couple of months ago, mixing jazz and classical with their dark Northumberland stories. And clog dancing.

2. TV On The Radio | Will Do
Their recent album is another gem and producer, David Sitek, has a great sound. You're never quite sure where their songs will take you and, in a time of increasingly formulaic music, that is so refreshing. The whole record works as a piece and I could have picked any of the tracks really.

3. Fela Kuti | Water Get No Enemy
One of those songs that I could never ever get tired of. It takes just about everything that I love about music - soul, spirit, space, celebration, dancing - and wraps it in an irresistible groove that seems short at eleven minutes.

4. Eric B. & Rakim | Follow The Leader
Another one of these ten that visited Cork recently. Rakim has been my favourite MC from when I first heard him as a teenager and, although Eric B. wasn't around this time, he can still kick it live. Rakim doesn't travel by plane so it's, ahem, been a long time since he's toured in Europe. It took him seven days to cross the Atlantic by ship but it was a journey well worth making. He encored the show with probably his greatest lyric, Follow The Leader, starting it with the regular beat before breaking into a fantastic drawn out acappela. Stunning.

5. Moodymanc | Black Paint (Larry Heard Remix)
The original was already a fine track but Larry Heard has turned this into a deep and dark masterpiece with one of the best remixes I've heard all year. It samples a very early Gil Scott-Heron poem, Paint It Black, and layers it a with one of those classic Mr. Fingers chord sequences that somehow makes you want to rejoice and cry at the same time.

6. Vijay Iyer Trio | Somewhere
Beautiful take on the Leonard Bernstein tune from West Side Story. Plays every which way around the theme and hints at so much more. I saw the trio at last year's Cork Jazz Festival in a very cramped and stuffy room and they were superb. The way the band as a unit can shift the tempo and emphasis within a song blows me away. New album due any minute.

7. Charles Mingus | Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
Apart from being an amazing piece of music in it's own right, this whooping, hollering, joyous jam from 1959 encompasses a whole century of American music - reaching fifty years into the past to the beginnings of modern popular music and fifty years into the future to where we are now. Never gets old.

8. Joanna Newsom | Good Intention Paving Company
I'm still listening to last year's beautiful Have One On Me triple - yes, triple! - album and this is one of the more uptempo numbers from it. It's a killer bluesy piano stomp with daffy but deep lyrics. It's far from a club track but I'm convinced that it would make sense at the right moment on the right dancefloor. Still waiting for that moment though.

9. The Jimmy Cake | Jetta's Palace
In the continued absence of long-awaited new material I'll pick this storming piano and horns driven number from their superb 2008 album, Spectre And Crown. If you don't already know Ireland's finest group do yourself a musical favour and go get this record.

10. Gil Scott-Heron | Lady Day And John Coltrane
A poem to the healing powers of music and art and one of the greatest songs ever written. Gil's death hits hard but he leaves a serious legacy.

WARMER MIXTAPES #386 | by Victor Holmberg and Johan Cederberg of Montauk

SIDE A | by Johan Cederberg

1. Belle And Sebastian | The State That I Am In
One of my all time favorite bands. I saw them play live a few weeks back for the first time. The amazing thing is that Stuart Murdoch, now 42 years old, still sounds like a little boy. The State That I Am In opened the concert and by the first line I was back in 2000, being a teenage boy, listening to Tigermilk in my portable CD-player on my way to school.

2. The Juan Maclean | One Day
A perfect song. Often when I listen to electronic music, almost every time, I find something I would like to change in it. This is one of the few exceptions.

3. Ned Doheny | I’ve Got Your Number
Found this track pretty recently. We made an edit of another one of his tracks, Get It Up For Love for our Boys EP. This song is on the same album. Just so smooth, so easy to listen to. Everything just falls into place on this one.

4. Kraftwerk | Autobahn
Arpeggios, gotta love it! And this is pretty much as good as it gets when it comes to that. And the synthesized car-sounds are just too good to be true.

5. Armand Van Helden | U Don’t Know Me
I think the first electronic dance music I listened to was 2 Future 4 U by Armand Van Helden. And that was entirely because of this track. Just perfect house music. A nice disco sample, drums from Plastic Dreams, soulful vocals and this (3:10 in)...

6. Steve Reich | Electric Counterpoint - Fast
Steve Reich is really one of my, and our, greatest inspirations. He has done so much for modern music, I don’t even know where to begin. This is such a beautiful piece of music, truly inspirational.

7. Flash & The Pan | Walking In The Rain
Feeling like a woman, looking like a man. Great lyrics on this one. And the beatbox-snare-hihat-thingy is just pure genius.

8. LCD Soundsystem | All My Friends
Oddly enough, this isn’t my favorite LCD Soundsystem-song, that’s Sound Of Silver, but I think this is one of the best pop-songs ever made.

9. Steely Dan | Deacon Blues
A few years ago, I watched this documentary about the making of Steely Dan’s Aja. I had never heard them before, but the show just blew my mind and I bought the album the next day. They’re so slick and everything is so perfect in their music, and usually I think that kind of music is complete rubbish, but somehow they can do all of this and still have soul.

10. Bon Iver | re:Stacks
I’ve really thought about this, and I truly think this is the most beautiful song ever written.




SIDE B | by Victor Holmberg

1. New Order | Regret
I see myself walking down the road outside a small village in England. Perhaps it's me in 30 years. Looking back at my life, what I've become and what I've done with all the possibilities I've been given. When I was a kid wondering what it would be like being an adult. How I became what I am now from what I was like as a kid. Walking. Thinking. I would like a place I could call my own. Have a conversation on the telephone. Wake up every day that would be a start. I would not complain of my wounded heart. I was a short fuse burning all the time. You were a complete stranger. Now you are mine...

2. Low Motion Disco | Things Are Gonna Get Easier
She just kissed me. And I'm so drunk I can't even respond. I just stand there like a fool looking into her eyes. What's your name? Where are you from? Did you just kiss me? Everything starts spinning… So many stars… So many people.. I like this…

3. Joy Division | Atmosphere
I'm at the beach. Looking out over the vast sea. Squinting my eyes. Feeling the warm winds blowing in my face. In my headphones the hard drums kick me like the beat of my own heart. Some kids are playing. Some of them are lying next to their mothers in the Sun. This is good I think. It's already four o'clock. I take my bike home.

4. Wookie | Battle
In the cab on my way to see Gisele. She has bought some good weed. We're gonna hang out on her roof. It's fucking warm outside. Hope she's got some beers or some pimms… Last time we broke the fridge she has up there. Someone filled it up with sake, i think the fridge was to heavy and it just like cracked when someone accidentally hit it… Think tonite is going to be a good night..

5. Lifelike | So Electric
I can't see anything. To much smoke. The volume is so high right now wonder if people can hear what they are talking about. She hits me in the face and I wake up. She takes my hand pulls me to her. She looks like a cartoon character with that cigarette in her mouth. She laughs like a crazy person and starts jumping... I look at my shoes. I look at her.

6. Mother Love Bone | Chloe Dancer/Crown Of Thorns
Walking home. Tired. I want to lay down in my bed. Sleep. Talk to no one. Just lay there for two days and listen/do music. Watching the Sun rise outside my window. Drink a glass of milk. Make some toast and a cup of tea. Wait for someone to knock on my door.

7. Chet Baker | The Thrill Is Gone
Looking out the window. People are doing stuff. Seeing other people. I really should get out. But I don't got the strenght. I've gotta sleep. Sleep is good. Hope I'll fall asleep fast.

8. Temple Of The Dog | Hunger Strike
Me and my dog. She is walking ten feet infront of me sniffing around. The Sun hasn't come up yet. There's a warm breeze coming in over the fields of wheat. Everybody's sleeping in the house. I'm walking home.

9. Van Morrison | Sweet Thing
In my chair in the garden. The Sun is high. I can relax for the first time in a long time. I just bought this place. It's my fortress of solitude. Gisele made me a Campari & Cava. She's in the kitchen making dinner with Jocelyn and John. I scream to her, Turn Up The Volume!... I like it when you can feel the music in your heart. Fill me up.

10. Bruce Springsteen | I'm On Fire
Sometimes things are difficult. Sometimes everything's fine. I don't want to spend my life worrying. I want to sit back and enjoy, whatever is happening. When life hands me lemons I make beef stew.