WARMER MIXTAPES #484 | by Bob George [dreamcrusher]
1. Einstürzende Neubauten | Headcleaner
I was a freshman in high school when I first heard/saw videos of E.N. I heard them at a time in my life where I was either re-discovering all the oddities from my childhood, or making new discoveries based on music I've listened to for years [thanks to the Internet]. Middle school was a boundless path of discovering rare, interesting, gawkingly odd music as a form of escapism: this was also my introduction to the Internet, so in quick form, it became a necessity to make as much use out of it as possible. That year I had discovered that all of my favorite Noise bands [at that moment] were all similarly related or were contemporaries of one another: Swans, Death In June, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, etc. E.N. was one of them. One thing I liked about them was the intense performative element in their sound and in their live show: It encouraged experimentation where there otherwise wouldn't be any. Their instruments literally looked like they came from a hardware store up the road of a Berlin neighborhood.
2. G-Dep | Special Delivery (Remix) (feat. P. Diddy, Craig Mack, Ghostface Killah & Keith Murray)
I remember growing up thinking that Puffy was swimming in a sea of hundred dollar bills and that he wiped his ass with 1$. I also remember thinking that Bad Boy Records literally made the best remixes in Hip-Hop history. I wanted to be ghetto fabulous so fucking bad, not hood prom ghetto fabulous as it is coined now, I mean id-nineties Mary J Blige, Versace suit and dookie rope Diddy, gold sweatsuit Slick Rick kind of ghetto fab; AKA the black rich. Now, Bad Boy is most known for the Flava In Ya Ear remix by Craig Mack, but I prefer this one. The beat is really sparse and hyper-active: most underground beats from Harlem/the East Coast in general sound like that. It doesn't really sound like any other Bad Boy record to me. Plus, you've got a rare appearance from Keith Murray, who was my FAVORITE emcee growing up. It's sad to see that Bad Boy makes boy bands and boring personality-vacant rappers these days, because they kind of OWNED the 90s.
3. The Fall | Pat-Trip Dispenser
I've known about The Fall forever, but I only recently started liking them. One of my favorite visual artists, Gregory Jacobsen, is a little obsessed with them, and with good reason. Their stream-of-consciousness lyrics and inherently Post Punk presence to their sound that always changes yet is always the same. The bulk of their music I've only heard through live YouTube clips or through videos of Michael Clark choreographed performances, and I truly admire them for sticking around for so long, even if their new stuff makes them sound like old British guys with canes yelling at children playing in the street.
4. Nico | Janitor Of Lunacy
Ok, seriously, Nico is fucking amazing. My mom had a vinyl of Chelsea Girl when I was a kid, and before our record player broke, we used to listen to that and many other gems. Little did I know that Desertshore was basically 10000000000000x better. The whole record is magnificent, sparse, emotional, a bit dark, ominous and wonderful, but the first song had me.
5. Psychic TV | Just Drifting
One of my all time favorite love songs, as well as one of my favorites from PTV.
6. Rihanna | We Found Love (feat. Calvin Harris)
I'm not too big on liking anything top 40 but I've really become keen on Riri these days, and this is probably one of my favorite tracks of hers. It is a true feel good song, even though the lyrics come from a somewhat dark/heavy place. I hate the fact that the mec-du-jour of the video looks EXACTLY like Wife Beater, I mean, Chris Brown... How long ago did that happen?! She couldn't find any other relatively subversive male models to puppet around in a video about the highs and lows of reckless young love?! Jeez... Anyway, the song is fucking wonderful... !!!!!!!!!!!
7. Terence Trent D'Arby | Wishing Well
I used to act this song out in front of the mirror in my bathroom when I was little. This artist is obviously HEAVILY influenced by Prince [my favorite artist of all time], so of course I was drawn to him immediately - his clothing, his high vocal range, his production style, everything. I have a lot of friends who share my sentiment for 80s classics and one of these friends posted this on their Facebook recently and I freaked the fuck out!!! Ah memories...
8. Björk | Moon
Biophilia is probably Björk's most interesting album. This song in particular is one of my favorites from it because it has such an amazing melodic progression, plus, the harp being played in the song is also a fashion accessory [an instrument fashioned into a makeshift belt]. Björk is just a bad-ass period. Not only can she whoop an annoying reporter's ass, but she can make more musical and visual steps forward than any other artist could dream of doing within a single era of her present being. Yeah, you're jealous.
9. Artery | Into The Garden
Most of my favorite Rock bands are British Rock bands: Any era, and decade, and style. What makes most of them great is the fact that most of those bands were started by art school kids or people who were literally unwillingly sectioned away from the masses and left to experiment in order to keep themselves from being dangerous. I'm not sure if that is the case with Artery, but it sure as fuck sounds like it. When people talk about Post Punk, they usually only seem to want to refer to shitty Brooklyn bands that are comprised of closet-scene kids with skinny jeans and stupid songs with stupid lyrics; it hasn't always been that way. Post Punk means just that: Post PUNK. The era of music when Punk Rockers had to move on to something else. Artery doesn't quite fit the PUNK mold of most of the early post punk bands, but I always liked the amount of familiarity and emotion in their music, the lack of unnecessary gimmickry in their overall sound, their lyrics and their energy on stage. This song hits home pretty close because I had a dream about a melody like this before I heard it [I was age 12, I think...]. I first heard it in an old BBC documentary about Sheffield music, I can't quite remember the name, and for the longest time I couldn't get it out of my head. They have other EXCELLENT songs, hopefully they don't get back together and try to make the exact same kinds of songs again just to prove the non-point of them being halfway between old age and death... *blech*
10. Siouxsie And The Banshees | Dazzle
By far my favorite Siouxsie song! I only found out recently that Robert Smith co-wrote it, which makes since, because it kind of has The Cure smeared all over it. I have always thought that Siouxsie Sioux was one of the only GREAT female singers of all time, and one of the only interesting ones.
+11. Rye Rye | Hardcore Girls
I fucking LOVE Rye Rye!!! I also fucking love Baltimore club dances and their Dance music. High energy, noisy, sample-heavy, reverbed to death, glitchy, yet still danceable and interesting. Now, BANG! is probably her best song, but I chose this one because it is the most recent one I've heard. Plus, she's got a bunch of different women in this video: a bald model, two cholas, a female bodybuilder, a grandma, a geek, etc... I point that out because I'm sick of their being only one prototype for the America female population. It's skewed for no reason, everyone is different and we as artists should try and make that known.
WARMER MIXTAPES #483 | by Lionel Kraft [Best Dressed Dog]
1. Philip Glass | Opening
I like to think.
2. Ernst Reijseger | Libera Me, Domine
I'm the solitary type.
3. The Weeknd | Coming Down
With less conviction.
4. Nicolas Jaar | WOUH
When the loneliness bites.
5. The Notorious B.I.G. | Juicy
I hit the bars.
6. Rhythim Is Rhythim | It Is What It Is
Then the clubs with the lights.
7. Slum Village | Fall In Love (Instrumental) (Produced by J Dilla)
I'm less alone.
8. Björk | Venus As A Boy
With a woman at night.
9. Jay Electronica | Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge)
How alone?
10. Aphex Twin | Avril 14th
So Alone.
WARMER MIXTAPES #482 | by Christian Lilja, David Tibblin, Victor Palm, Henrik Nordström and Johan Granath of The Pale Corners
SIDE A | by Victor Palm
1. The Bear Quartet | Sailors
For me, it’s a song about a searching for love, at first glance it resonates a rather melancholy vibe, but after a while it reminds you that love can be found in all places, a harbour perhaps?
2. Silverbullit | Knucklebuster
Pulsating energy, a seamless melody and memories of busted knuckles.
3. Andrew Douglas Rothbard | Wisely Wasted
Blurred-out shapes and knife sharp timing mixes to a otherworldly experience.
4. 13th Floor Elevators | Reverberation (Doubt)
Rocky Erickson’s harrowing, desperate vocals paving the way for echoing madness.
5. Ennio Morricone | Paying Off Scores
The lonely sound of the music box and yet majestic feeling of the trumpets shaking the Earth’s foundations.
6. Popul Vuh | Aguirre I
Popul Vuh managed to take me to the Andes Mountains, show me the dense mist covering the slopes and the unceasing rainforest below, without meeting the raving mad conquistador.
7. Xinlisupreme | Fatal Sisters Opened Umbrella
It’s simple and yet a fantastic feeling to be utterly swept away by this tune, over and over and over again.
8. Bo Hansson | Migration Suite
One of Bo’s best, the Hammond organ roams free together with the guitar and drums over green hills on, possibly, the best exodus one can undertake.
9. Soap&Skin | Thanatos
Not to long ago I was laying in a hostel bed in Berlin, hung-over and dead-tired when I suddenly hear this. The music, song and my vague consciousness developed into a maelstrom of hazy images consisting of endless forests in the Underworld.
10. Vangelis | Miami Vice Theme (Crockett's Theme)
The Sun, a helicopter, a beach, some nice synthstrings and no worries, ever.
1. The Velvet Underground | Pale Blue Eyes
This was the first song I heard of Velvet Underground. It's a song that I come back to all the time.
2. Pet Shop Boys | Can You Forgive Her?
My older brother was a huge Pet Shop Boys fan and played this single all the time when it came 1993. We had our rooms next to each other so I would sit in my room and build airplane models and hear this song pounding into my room day in and day out. I loved it!
3. The Avalanches | Frontier Psychiatrist
Awesome samples and just a fantastic song that I usually play in my DJ-sets as well.
4. The Clash | The Call Up
When I moved to Stockholm in 2004 I listened to the Sandinista album a lot. It's a beautiful mix of everything, Gospel, Calypso, Dub and the list goes on. It was very difficult to choose one song from this great and timeless album.
5. Broadcast | America's Boy
I always listen to her album when I'm traveling and this is my favorite.
6. The Magnetic Fields | The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing
From the fantastic album 69 Love Songs.
7. The Cure | Plainsong
The sound is so large and massive. Love it!
8. Depeche Mode | Everything Counts
This is one of my top 5 songs by Depeche Mode. A band I have listened to since I was very young.
I really like the Industrial feeling in the song.
9. New Order | True Faith
I always put this song in my DJ-sets. My favorite song by New Order.
10. The Jesus And Mary Chain | On The Wall
Today it was On The Wall, tomorrow it may be Darklands, my favorite songs shifting all the time with this band. They create an atmosphere full of volume, emotion and reverb that I seek in many bands. Even when playing their songs at low volume it sounds like the World's loudest band.
1. Air Supply | All Out Of Love
I think I heard this one in a documentary about truck drivers. It played on the radio when the driver was on the highway and I think he sang along. I've always had a soft spot for these kind of emotional ballads. This is the best one in the genre.
2. Anna Järvinen | Lilla Anna
My interpretation is that the song tells the story of a father reading his daughter (Anna) a fairy tale till she's asleep. The tale pushes them through the forest with all its beautiful dangers and eventually takes them home to safety where they can rest.
3. The Go-Betweens | Love Goes On!
I was introduced to this song by my friend Anton on my last visit to Gothenburg. Haven't been able to stop listen to it since.
4. Belle & Sebastian | Waiting For The Moon To Rise
My favorite Pop song.
5. Alphataurus | La Mente Vola
A few years ago when I worked as a postman I listened to this song a lot. The winters were really hard and you had to move fast between the houses to avoid freezing. This song takes me right back. A mix of adrenaline, frozen hands and discipline. Still enjoyable to some degree.
6. Nobuo Uematsu | Kids Run Through The City Corner
Fitting that a song about kids becomes a nostalgic memory. It kind of doubles the wave of nostalgia.
7. At The Drive-In | Rolodex Propaganda
Learned to love this band many years ago. They seem to have something very important to say but embed it in complicated metaphors and Rock noises. Very fascinating.
8. Shin Jung Hyun And The Men | Beautiful Rivers And Mountains
Makes me think of 80s Anime soundtracks. But Anime is fiction, this song has something more real to it. Call it an aura if you will.
9. Sagittarius | Another Time
The best of the era 1969-1972 in a nutshell (released 1968).
10. Chicago | If You Leave Me Now
We might as well end the list on the same note as we started. This is one of those amazing ballads that grows stronger for every year.
1. Moses | Hollow
It was many years since I listened to this one, but for some reason I came to think of it when thinking of making a playlist. Thought it might be a good starting point, something that could fill that hollow inside. (Warning: don’t watch the video that comes with this song on YouTube, it's really banal and forces you to interpret the song in a certain way, hate it when videos, or the artists in interviews, do that).
2. Nick Drake | Time Has Told Me
When I heard this song for the first time it was hope so pure that I immediately ran off to Gitarrtorget at St. Eriksplan to buy a classical guitar. I started practicing and painfully realized that Nick had tuned his guitar differently for each song. I also realized that I couldn’t play the guitar...
3. Neutral Milk Hotel | Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two
Luckily, a lot of music that I loved comprised just a few simple, but beautiful, chords. This is the last song on one of my favorite records. I usually like to listen to whole records rather than individual songs. That is, of course, if the band put enough effort into it to make the record a whole instead of just a collection of songs.
4. Spacemen 3 | Lord Can You Hear Me?
Sometimes an individual song can outperform the record too. I’m not saying that Playing With Fire isn’t an excellent record, it is! However, this song stands out in its simpleness and the way it makes me float into the hope of religious comfort and to wake up to the brilliant relief of getting no answer.
5. Can | Thief
One of the most important things about music is that you can escape almost any hopeless situation. Take this summer for example, it was stolen by greed. I had two jobs and almost no days off. This was the soundtrack and at the end of August I got out with just a small twitch in my left eye.
6. Madrugada | Norwegian Hammerworks Corp.
I tell myself I'm going too hard, too rash, too long. But this is not the truth. There's no sign of no big breakdown, it's just these little things that keep putting me of the track. I have a notion of moving around in circles; things just keep getting worse and worse til they get all the way around and then everything turns out alright.
7. Julee Cruise | Into The Night
Falling. Floating. Music is escaping. Forgetting who I am, where I am or about those things I was supposed to do, so urgent, just a short while ago. Falling asleep to this is like listening to a blurred out episode with endless reverb.
8. Hans Appelqvist | Underbar Var Jag Ännu
However, Naima doesn’t like when I forget to confront my fears. Her knowledge just knocked me off my feet! Eventually she picked me up again and now I can’t live without her. When it comes to Hans Appelqvist it's almost pointless to listen to individual songs. This is the first time you actually feel the presence of Naima in this beautiful story of spiritual development. There is something very strange about the way she sings though.
9. The Beach Boys | All Summer Long
Here, something’s definitely not right! I love these careless summer tunes where something so obviously is buried in the back yard. I thought of this talking about my summer but it just had to wait a while.
10. The Magnetic Fields | California Girls
The connection to The Beach Boys is just too obvious but it's a fantastic song and I love the idea of just adding noise to a song and see what happens to the atmosphere of it. Well, the lyrics might also hint of just a tiny bit of insanity.
1. Wim Mertens | Birds For The Mind
One of my favorite directors in Cinema is Peter Greenaway. His movies always let the music play a big part, and for the movie The Belly Of An Architect it was Wim Mertens who made the film score. As in all Greenaway movies, the music is a almost kitchesque take on Classical Music, the songs often reveals melodies that seem familiar, and should be, because they are beautiful.
2. Khonnor | Megan's Present
I remember listening to this a lot when it was released, on the bus home from late parties in my home town, with drunken people screaming around me.
3. Audionom | Inside
Great Swedish band. Intense and angry: It reminds me of my days off playing guitar in a Hardcore/Post Rock band.
4. AFX | Analogue Bubble Bath
After a long day of listening to people you have no interest in, this makes everything clear again. Besides Radiohead, Aphex Twin is one of the biggest contributors for my changing taste in Music going from guitar noise to Electronic… Noise.
5. Out Hud | It's For You
I heard this track for the first time listening to a Soulwax-mixtape when I was going for a afternoon walk around my neighborhood. I got so curious about the song that I instantly turned back to my apartment and found out what artist made it. It's one of those songs that fascinate me because I would never be able to compose it myself. It's sort of walking on a thin line between nonsense Electro Pop and a very sincere love letter ending on the right side.
6. The Whitest Boy Alive | Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
Melancholy on a Dance floor. Many artists have tried to capture that feeling, but never as good as Fred Falke. When he put those heavenly arpeggios and a steady House beat together with Erlend Øye's desperate vocals from the original song, he made the ultimate ending theme for any good discothèque.
7. The Tough Alliance | 1981 -
So it is obvious, I have a soft spot for arp synths. It's kind of the same feeling as in the underrated artist Enya's song Storms In Africa. This one takes me back to moments when a lot was at stake and you couldn't be any surer of what to do.
8. New Order | Temptation
I discovered New Order rather late, at least if you mean beyond the most obvious hits of theirs. This one is my favorite. It slowly grows on you, and although the song is all about monotony, you will find yourself listening to it on and on and on.
9. Lo-Fi-Fnk | Want U
Many years of playing records at nightclubs has made me listen mostly to music with the ambition to make people dance rather than anything else. And that’s not all a bad thing. You can't feel sorry with a balloon in your hand, and the same goes for this song in your stereo.
10. Logh | An Alliance Of Hearts
Most of the songs I’ve chosen are songs I’ve become fond of over the last years, but if there is a song that has been my companion for a longer time, it’s this masterpiece. When the World one day goes under, I hope it sounds like the end of this song.
1. The Bear Quartet | Sailors
For me, it’s a song about a searching for love, at first glance it resonates a rather melancholy vibe, but after a while it reminds you that love can be found in all places, a harbour perhaps?
2. Silverbullit | Knucklebuster
Pulsating energy, a seamless melody and memories of busted knuckles.
3. Andrew Douglas Rothbard | Wisely Wasted
Blurred-out shapes and knife sharp timing mixes to a otherworldly experience.
4. 13th Floor Elevators | Reverberation (Doubt)
Rocky Erickson’s harrowing, desperate vocals paving the way for echoing madness.
5. Ennio Morricone | Paying Off Scores
The lonely sound of the music box and yet majestic feeling of the trumpets shaking the Earth’s foundations.
6. Popul Vuh | Aguirre I
Popul Vuh managed to take me to the Andes Mountains, show me the dense mist covering the slopes and the unceasing rainforest below, without meeting the raving mad conquistador.
7. Xinlisupreme | Fatal Sisters Opened Umbrella
It’s simple and yet a fantastic feeling to be utterly swept away by this tune, over and over and over again.
8. Bo Hansson | Migration Suite
One of Bo’s best, the Hammond organ roams free together with the guitar and drums over green hills on, possibly, the best exodus one can undertake.
9. Soap&Skin | Thanatos
Not to long ago I was laying in a hostel bed in Berlin, hung-over and dead-tired when I suddenly hear this. The music, song and my vague consciousness developed into a maelstrom of hazy images consisting of endless forests in the Underworld.
10. Vangelis | Miami Vice Theme (Crockett's Theme)
The Sun, a helicopter, a beach, some nice synthstrings and no worries, ever.
SIDE B | by Christian Lilja
1. The Velvet Underground | Pale Blue Eyes
This was the first song I heard of Velvet Underground. It's a song that I come back to all the time.
2. Pet Shop Boys | Can You Forgive Her?
My older brother was a huge Pet Shop Boys fan and played this single all the time when it came 1993. We had our rooms next to each other so I would sit in my room and build airplane models and hear this song pounding into my room day in and day out. I loved it!
3. The Avalanches | Frontier Psychiatrist
Awesome samples and just a fantastic song that I usually play in my DJ-sets as well.
4. The Clash | The Call Up
When I moved to Stockholm in 2004 I listened to the Sandinista album a lot. It's a beautiful mix of everything, Gospel, Calypso, Dub and the list goes on. It was very difficult to choose one song from this great and timeless album.
5. Broadcast | America's Boy
I always listen to her album when I'm traveling and this is my favorite.
6. The Magnetic Fields | The Sun Goes Down And The World Goes Dancing
From the fantastic album 69 Love Songs.
7. The Cure | Plainsong
The sound is so large and massive. Love it!
8. Depeche Mode | Everything Counts
This is one of my top 5 songs by Depeche Mode. A band I have listened to since I was very young.
I really like the Industrial feeling in the song.
9. New Order | True Faith
I always put this song in my DJ-sets. My favorite song by New Order.
10. The Jesus And Mary Chain | On The Wall
Today it was On The Wall, tomorrow it may be Darklands, my favorite songs shifting all the time with this band. They create an atmosphere full of volume, emotion and reverb that I seek in many bands. Even when playing their songs at low volume it sounds like the World's loudest band.
SIDE C | by David Tibblin
1. Air Supply | All Out Of Love
I think I heard this one in a documentary about truck drivers. It played on the radio when the driver was on the highway and I think he sang along. I've always had a soft spot for these kind of emotional ballads. This is the best one in the genre.
2. Anna Järvinen | Lilla Anna
My interpretation is that the song tells the story of a father reading his daughter (Anna) a fairy tale till she's asleep. The tale pushes them through the forest with all its beautiful dangers and eventually takes them home to safety where they can rest.
3. The Go-Betweens | Love Goes On!
I was introduced to this song by my friend Anton on my last visit to Gothenburg. Haven't been able to stop listen to it since.
4. Belle & Sebastian | Waiting For The Moon To Rise
My favorite Pop song.
5. Alphataurus | La Mente Vola
A few years ago when I worked as a postman I listened to this song a lot. The winters were really hard and you had to move fast between the houses to avoid freezing. This song takes me right back. A mix of adrenaline, frozen hands and discipline. Still enjoyable to some degree.
6. Nobuo Uematsu | Kids Run Through The City Corner
Fitting that a song about kids becomes a nostalgic memory. It kind of doubles the wave of nostalgia.
7. At The Drive-In | Rolodex Propaganda
Learned to love this band many years ago. They seem to have something very important to say but embed it in complicated metaphors and Rock noises. Very fascinating.
8. Shin Jung Hyun And The Men | Beautiful Rivers And Mountains
Makes me think of 80s Anime soundtracks. But Anime is fiction, this song has something more real to it. Call it an aura if you will.
9. Sagittarius | Another Time
The best of the era 1969-1972 in a nutshell (released 1968).
10. Chicago | If You Leave Me Now
We might as well end the list on the same note as we started. This is one of those amazing ballads that grows stronger for every year.
SIDE D | by Henrik Nordström
1. Moses | Hollow
It was many years since I listened to this one, but for some reason I came to think of it when thinking of making a playlist. Thought it might be a good starting point, something that could fill that hollow inside. (Warning: don’t watch the video that comes with this song on YouTube, it's really banal and forces you to interpret the song in a certain way, hate it when videos, or the artists in interviews, do that).
2. Nick Drake | Time Has Told Me
When I heard this song for the first time it was hope so pure that I immediately ran off to Gitarrtorget at St. Eriksplan to buy a classical guitar. I started practicing and painfully realized that Nick had tuned his guitar differently for each song. I also realized that I couldn’t play the guitar...
3. Neutral Milk Hotel | Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two
Luckily, a lot of music that I loved comprised just a few simple, but beautiful, chords. This is the last song on one of my favorite records. I usually like to listen to whole records rather than individual songs. That is, of course, if the band put enough effort into it to make the record a whole instead of just a collection of songs.
4. Spacemen 3 | Lord Can You Hear Me?
Sometimes an individual song can outperform the record too. I’m not saying that Playing With Fire isn’t an excellent record, it is! However, this song stands out in its simpleness and the way it makes me float into the hope of religious comfort and to wake up to the brilliant relief of getting no answer.
5. Can | Thief
One of the most important things about music is that you can escape almost any hopeless situation. Take this summer for example, it was stolen by greed. I had two jobs and almost no days off. This was the soundtrack and at the end of August I got out with just a small twitch in my left eye.
6. Madrugada | Norwegian Hammerworks Corp.
I tell myself I'm going too hard, too rash, too long. But this is not the truth. There's no sign of no big breakdown, it's just these little things that keep putting me of the track. I have a notion of moving around in circles; things just keep getting worse and worse til they get all the way around and then everything turns out alright.
7. Julee Cruise | Into The Night
Falling. Floating. Music is escaping. Forgetting who I am, where I am or about those things I was supposed to do, so urgent, just a short while ago. Falling asleep to this is like listening to a blurred out episode with endless reverb.
8. Hans Appelqvist | Underbar Var Jag Ännu
However, Naima doesn’t like when I forget to confront my fears. Her knowledge just knocked me off my feet! Eventually she picked me up again and now I can’t live without her. When it comes to Hans Appelqvist it's almost pointless to listen to individual songs. This is the first time you actually feel the presence of Naima in this beautiful story of spiritual development. There is something very strange about the way she sings though.
9. The Beach Boys | All Summer Long
Here, something’s definitely not right! I love these careless summer tunes where something so obviously is buried in the back yard. I thought of this talking about my summer but it just had to wait a while.
10. The Magnetic Fields | California Girls
The connection to The Beach Boys is just too obvious but it's a fantastic song and I love the idea of just adding noise to a song and see what happens to the atmosphere of it. Well, the lyrics might also hint of just a tiny bit of insanity.
SIDE E | by Johan Granath
1. Wim Mertens | Birds For The Mind
One of my favorite directors in Cinema is Peter Greenaway. His movies always let the music play a big part, and for the movie The Belly Of An Architect it was Wim Mertens who made the film score. As in all Greenaway movies, the music is a almost kitchesque take on Classical Music, the songs often reveals melodies that seem familiar, and should be, because they are beautiful.
2. Khonnor | Megan's Present
I remember listening to this a lot when it was released, on the bus home from late parties in my home town, with drunken people screaming around me.
3. Audionom | Inside
Great Swedish band. Intense and angry: It reminds me of my days off playing guitar in a Hardcore/Post Rock band.
4. AFX | Analogue Bubble Bath
After a long day of listening to people you have no interest in, this makes everything clear again. Besides Radiohead, Aphex Twin is one of the biggest contributors for my changing taste in Music going from guitar noise to Electronic… Noise.
5. Out Hud | It's For You
I heard this track for the first time listening to a Soulwax-mixtape when I was going for a afternoon walk around my neighborhood. I got so curious about the song that I instantly turned back to my apartment and found out what artist made it. It's one of those songs that fascinate me because I would never be able to compose it myself. It's sort of walking on a thin line between nonsense Electro Pop and a very sincere love letter ending on the right side.
6. The Whitest Boy Alive | Golden Cage (Fred Falke Remix)
Melancholy on a Dance floor. Many artists have tried to capture that feeling, but never as good as Fred Falke. When he put those heavenly arpeggios and a steady House beat together with Erlend Øye's desperate vocals from the original song, he made the ultimate ending theme for any good discothèque.
7. The Tough Alliance | 1981 -
So it is obvious, I have a soft spot for arp synths. It's kind of the same feeling as in the underrated artist Enya's song Storms In Africa. This one takes me back to moments when a lot was at stake and you couldn't be any surer of what to do.
8. New Order | Temptation
I discovered New Order rather late, at least if you mean beyond the most obvious hits of theirs. This one is my favorite. It slowly grows on you, and although the song is all about monotony, you will find yourself listening to it on and on and on.
9. Lo-Fi-Fnk | Want U
Many years of playing records at nightclubs has made me listen mostly to music with the ambition to make people dance rather than anything else. And that’s not all a bad thing. You can't feel sorry with a balloon in your hand, and the same goes for this song in your stereo.
10. Logh | An Alliance Of Hearts
Most of the songs I’ve chosen are songs I’ve become fond of over the last years, but if there is a song that has been my companion for a longer time, it’s this masterpiece. When the World one day goes under, I hope it sounds like the end of this song.
WARMER MIXTAPES #481 | by Ant Pomponio [S U R F I N G] and Hayden Luby of Cadillac
SIDE A | by Hayden Luby
1. Phoenix | If I Ever Feel Better
This is definitely my favourite Phoenix track. My older brother introduced me to these guys when I was 15. I still think it's the best Phoenix record. One of my other favourite Phoenix tracks is on this album too - Funky Squaredance... Wow!
2. Crazy Penis | There's A Better Place!
This track features a sample from the Chocolate lord, Willy Wonka. The way they use the sample and build around it is just awesome. It turns into a 7min Funk/House jam that leaves me in a good mood.
3. The Rolling Stones | Miss You
It's all about the bass lick for me. So much attitude and passion!!
4. America | A Horse With No Name
I always use to hear this song at dinner parties my folks would have when I was young. I love listening to it now because it brings back those memories.
5. The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations
I usually burn a CD for the drive to the beach. This track is on every one of those CDs. It is drenched in Summer vibes. Just ridiculous!
6. Dire Straits | Sultans Of Swing
The only artist I listened to when I drove from L.A. to Vegas last year. The perfect soundtrack when driving through the desert. Can't get enough of that guitar melody.
7. Michael McDonald | I Keep Forgettin'
I only discovered Michael McDonald about a year ago. He is quickly turning into one of my favourite song writers.
8. Chuck Berry | Johnny B. Goode
This was one of my favourite tracks growing up, and it's also featured in one of my favourite films - Back To The Future (Part 1). Double YES!
9. Al Green | Let's Stay Together
I was lucky enough to see Al Green live in San Francisco at Outside Lands Festival in 2010. He came on late afternoon and killed it. So glad I got to see him perform live!
10. Fleetwood Mac | Dreams
Fleetwood Mac has a major influence on me when I'm thinking about lead melodies and structure of what I'm writing. Timeless, powerful songs!
SIDE B | by Ant Pomponio
1. Eddie Hazel | California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas Cover)
I've always wanted to go to California, to me it seems like the birthplace of Summer. This version by Eddie Hazel is pretty rare, it's not often you hear a cover song that's this good.
2. Future World Orchestra | Desire
I'm pretty big on Eighties Pop music and as far as songwriting goes, this is as simple and catchy as it gets. If modern bands could write these kinds of songs, then I’d have no problem listening to the radio.
3. Washed Out | Feel It All Around
The best Chillwave jam ever made I reckon. If I'm having a bad day or feeling a little stressed, this one gets me back on track every time.
4. Cream | Tales Of Brave Ulysses
These lyrics were written by Australian artist Martin Sharp and it's pretty much a major reference for our songwriting, if it's not on this level, it's no good. The cover art for this album is amazing, also done by Martin Sharp.
5. Pond | Sunlight Cardigan
An odyssey of a song, by probably the most gifted group of dudes in Australia. These guys have pure energy and their live shows are the closest thing you can get to the 1970’s. If you haven't got their recent album, you've been left behind.
6. The Dee Dee Dums | The Serpentine
Early Tame Impala... This is one many foreigners probably haven't heard, it didn't make their album. It's about the Serpentine Falls, a huge water dam that people go swimming in back in my hometown Perth, reminds me of home everytime.
7. Sun Araw | All Night Long
This hazed out jam goes for 12 minutes, I wish it went for 212 minutes. You can literally leave this on repeat all night.
8. Omar Souleyman | Atabat
A Syrian Pop star, who goes well and truly in. Really keen to watch him play live.
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Bright Lit Blue Skies
I was pretty late catching onto this album. It's so catchy, the whole album is incredible, but to me this one is the winner.
10. The Doors | My Wild Love
My favourite band. To do a song like this on an album in 1968 is probably crazy. Jim is timeless.
1. Phoenix | If I Ever Feel Better
This is definitely my favourite Phoenix track. My older brother introduced me to these guys when I was 15. I still think it's the best Phoenix record. One of my other favourite Phoenix tracks is on this album too - Funky Squaredance... Wow!
2. Crazy Penis | There's A Better Place!
This track features a sample from the Chocolate lord, Willy Wonka. The way they use the sample and build around it is just awesome. It turns into a 7min Funk/House jam that leaves me in a good mood.
3. The Rolling Stones | Miss You
It's all about the bass lick for me. So much attitude and passion!!
4. America | A Horse With No Name
I always use to hear this song at dinner parties my folks would have when I was young. I love listening to it now because it brings back those memories.
5. The Beach Boys | Good Vibrations
I usually burn a CD for the drive to the beach. This track is on every one of those CDs. It is drenched in Summer vibes. Just ridiculous!
6. Dire Straits | Sultans Of Swing
The only artist I listened to when I drove from L.A. to Vegas last year. The perfect soundtrack when driving through the desert. Can't get enough of that guitar melody.
7. Michael McDonald | I Keep Forgettin'
I only discovered Michael McDonald about a year ago. He is quickly turning into one of my favourite song writers.
8. Chuck Berry | Johnny B. Goode
This was one of my favourite tracks growing up, and it's also featured in one of my favourite films - Back To The Future (Part 1). Double YES!
9. Al Green | Let's Stay Together
I was lucky enough to see Al Green live in San Francisco at Outside Lands Festival in 2010. He came on late afternoon and killed it. So glad I got to see him perform live!
10. Fleetwood Mac | Dreams
Fleetwood Mac has a major influence on me when I'm thinking about lead melodies and structure of what I'm writing. Timeless, powerful songs!
1. Eddie Hazel | California Dreamin' (The Mamas & The Papas Cover)
I've always wanted to go to California, to me it seems like the birthplace of Summer. This version by Eddie Hazel is pretty rare, it's not often you hear a cover song that's this good.
2. Future World Orchestra | Desire
I'm pretty big on Eighties Pop music and as far as songwriting goes, this is as simple and catchy as it gets. If modern bands could write these kinds of songs, then I’d have no problem listening to the radio.
3. Washed Out | Feel It All Around
The best Chillwave jam ever made I reckon. If I'm having a bad day or feeling a little stressed, this one gets me back on track every time.
4. Cream | Tales Of Brave Ulysses
These lyrics were written by Australian artist Martin Sharp and it's pretty much a major reference for our songwriting, if it's not on this level, it's no good. The cover art for this album is amazing, also done by Martin Sharp.
5. Pond | Sunlight Cardigan
An odyssey of a song, by probably the most gifted group of dudes in Australia. These guys have pure energy and their live shows are the closest thing you can get to the 1970’s. If you haven't got their recent album, you've been left behind.
6. The Dee Dee Dums | The Serpentine
Early Tame Impala... This is one many foreigners probably haven't heard, it didn't make their album. It's about the Serpentine Falls, a huge water dam that people go swimming in back in my hometown Perth, reminds me of home everytime.
7. Sun Araw | All Night Long
This hazed out jam goes for 12 minutes, I wish it went for 212 minutes. You can literally leave this on repeat all night.
8. Omar Souleyman | Atabat
A Syrian Pop star, who goes well and truly in. Really keen to watch him play live.
9. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti | Bright Lit Blue Skies
I was pretty late catching onto this album. It's so catchy, the whole album is incredible, but to me this one is the winner.
10. The Doors | My Wild Love
My favourite band. To do a song like this on an album in 1968 is probably crazy. Jim is timeless.
WARMER MIXTAPES #480 | by Andrey Gurov [DJ Vadim/Andre Gurov] of Little Aida, The Isolationist, One Self and The Electric
1. Ebo Taylor | Love And Death
Amazing Afrobeat album. Got no info on it but it's the dogs bollocks.
2. Colonel Red | Each And Every Way
Wicked Soul album and love this track.
3. Gramatik | Lonely & Cold
I know this came out a few years back but I never heard it then. Love it.
4. Immortal Technique | Mark Of The Beast (feat. Akir & Beast 1333)
Turn off ya news channel and listen to this. More truth in 3 min than all years news...
5. Shook | Picture Moment
Just found out about this track. Don't know if it's new or old or released. It's not on iTunes but I love it. Super chilled.
6. Kingpin | Out The Box (feat. Deadly Hunta)
Wicked new UK Hip Hop track blowing up rite now feat. UK Ragga Don - Deadly Hunta.
7. Roots Manuva | Here We Go Again
Favourite song from his new album.
8. Zed Bias | Fairplay (feat. Jenna G)
Heavy UK Garage/Dubby remix of Soul 2 Soul classic. Wicked b line!!! I love Zed Bias.
9. Buraka Som Sistema | Vem Curtir (feat. Stereotyp)
Heavy slow bass Dancehall heavy track!!!
10. Jakwob | Let It Fall
Heavy heavy heavy Dubstep track. Rips up the dance floors with wicked vocal...
WARMER MIXTAPES #479 | by Sam Knowles [Karma Kid] of Olive Lian
1. James Blake | Wilhelm's Scream (James Litherland's Where To Turn Cover)
This has been my go-to song for most of this year. It's one that I listen to when I'm upset or grumpy, and it has the supurb ability to lift my mood for some reason. The emotion that the track emits is quite unique. The lyrics are very basic, as is the structure, but I think that it's the repetition and constant swelling that really let's this track run deep.
2. Moby | Go (Woodtick Mix)
For me, Moby has been one of the most influential producers in Modern Music. His songs have broken down boundaries between what we percieve as being old and new and when I listen to his music I can feel the blood, sweat and tears that were shed creating them. This is probably my favourite Moby song, as it plays just as well on the dancefloor as it does in my earphones before I fall asleep... It takes real talent to fufill both of those scenarios in a Dance track.
3. The Streets | Weak Become Heroes
This song epitimises the very height of my summer - Leeds Festival, one of their last ever gigs. The energy in the crowd was insane, and as this is my favourite Streets song anyway, it was one of the most perfect moments imaginable when I heard it. I think that the song itself is quite special. Never before has a song portraid such a beautiful picture about such a modern day tabboo - drugs. Imagine the World's leader's on pills. Everyone needs to listen to this song at least once in their lifetime, I think many questions will be answered.
4. Dave Brubeck | Take Five
Nothing quite compares to taking five with a glass of wine. The coolest Jazz song ever created, genius.
5. Blawan | Getting Me Down
I have only come across this tune recently, but I fell in love with it on my first listen. I can't wait to unleash it on a club or rave, I can picture the jaws falling open already.
6. All Saints | Pure Shores
When I first heard this tune, I was only very young and I hated it. Purely because I was a young boy and this was classed as girl's music. Many years later, I came accross it on the soundtrack of my favourite film of all time, The Beach. I've chosen this to be in my top 10, because I really believe that it fit the film perfectly, and now every time I listen to it, I'm taken to the Phi Phi islands in my head. I can't wait to travel there.
7. John Frusciante | Murderers
A straight up classic. THE catchiest guitar riff I've ever heard, and all in all one of the coolest tracks I've ever heard. The first time I heard this tune was at a small festival this year, where DJ's rinsed it all weekend. The riff became engraved in my memory and it took my very stoned friend a few attempts to find the artist and song title. I'm very pleased he confirmed it for me!
8. Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie xx | I'm New Here
This is my favourite Electronic album of the year. I think that it has a massive musical significance, in the sense that it was the last musical venture that Gil Scott-Heron was a part of. Gil's story is both fascinating and tragic, and I believe that Jamie made a fantastic job with this track in particular at portaying Gil's vocal emotion. Perfect.
9. Curtis Knight | Voodoo Woman
I love Soul music, and recently I came accross an awesome sub genre of soul - Popcorn Top Soul. It just makes me want to get up and shake my hips around really. This is by far my favourite Popcorn Top Soul tune, I think that it's brilliant. If you get the chance, you have to check out Curtis's early collaborations with Jimi Hendrix, they're something to behold.
10. Stardust | Music Sounds Better With You
Last but not least! THE BEST HOUSE TUNE OF ALL TIME. Full stop. I really wish that Stardust released more material, but none the less, they left behind some amazing memories with this banger. Many dancefloors have been destroyed because of this song in the past, one of my all time favourites.
WARMER MIXTAPES #478 | by Miguel Barros [Pional]
1. Harmonium | Si Doucement
The first time I listened to them (specially this song) I thought: 70's Kraut era, a very interesting song… An influence to the guys from Radiohead on In Rainbows? Definitely yes! It's astounding the similarity with A. Kapranos' voice (Franz Ferdinand).
2. Matthew Herbert | Something Isn't Right
Perfect song to drink beer at your summer home. It reminds me of my holidays with friends in France.
3. Sébastien Tellier | Broadway
This guy is a genious, I adore him, to me this song with La Ritournelle are a 10.
4. Grizzly Bear | Deep Blue Sea
It was one of the first songs I learnt to play with the ukelele.
5. Electric Light Orchestra | Mr. Blue Sky
I love this song, Jeff Lynne's voice hooks you in from the first moment. Perfect to make a cover with friends while having drinks.
6. Moondog | Utsu
It's not this track in particular, but any from him, a freak & genious.
7. Robin Thicke & Pharrell | Wanna Love You Girl
I'm a huge fan of Pharrell and everything he does. I thinks it's a super sexy song, hahaha, I love it.
8. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead | Relative Ways
This song (and almost all the LP) gives me such a hype, it has lots of energy, it's a pity he's changed so much… But his first albums were bombs. ...Trail Of Dead's music has kept me & my skate company for quite some time.
9. Nada Surf | Icebox
It's curious, this band never caught my eye until I went on a trip with my best friend by car from Spain to Switzerland, almost eight years ago. Most of the cd's were scratched, so we could only listen to the radio (when the sound was OK or when you could hear it) and Nada Surf's first two albums. I still don't understand why I brought them, but anyway… I remember September's contrast, raining, very cold... The sky was grey and we were listening to happy music… It was bizarre; when I listen to any of their songs, they take me back to that spectacular country.
10. Phoenix | Sometimes In The Fall
Once again, it marks a great memory from another trip I did by car (this time with another three friends) to the South of Germany. I perfectly remember being in the car at neuschwanstein and listening to this song. i was undoubtedly the trip's song.
+11. Department Of Eagles | Flip
Pfff… This track is way too much, it's really good, just like everything Mr. Rossen does.
WARMER MIXTAPES #477 | by Ellen Davies [/Please/]
1. Fight Bite | Swissex Lover
I’m finding it difficult to articulate how lovely I think this song is, it’s probably the most lovely thing I’ve ever listened to and I routinely cry at I am sure that I will never ever love again when the key changes. The synth pushes the song along, and I always seem to try to do that before realising I haven’t got any sounds as nice and resonant as this and turning up my drums.
2. Coma Cinema | In Lieu Of Flowers
There’s a ridiculous amount of good Coma Cinema, I love his voice and how he seems to be able to come out with so much non-assumingly brilliant music all the time.
3. Elvis Depressedly | I’m Never Going To Understand
Elvis Depressedly is a name Coma Cinema’s been releasing things under over the Autumn and I’ve loved it all. This is one of the final songs he’s released and my favourite, there’s so much nice reverb and organ.
3. Hooray! | Went To Bed With (Bedhead)
I spent a couple of months earlier this year going to sleep to this pretty much every night, until listening to it automatically made me feel really lethargic and it felt too much like a trigger-it’s really nice though. Hooray! isn’t going anymore, I hope he does something else.
4. Algebra Suicide | Please Respect Our Decadence
This song’s full of enviable beats and really nice effected guitar and I envy Lydia Tomkiw for having such a cool voice.
5. The Kinks | I Go To Sleep
Or The Pretenders/S.Maharba/Anika versions... I couldn’t decide which version of this song I wanted to include so I’m counting these 4 as one. The Kinks come first because it’s the actual song I absolutely love-all the elements are so simple and it’s so sweet lyrically. s.maharba does this song so well, makes it all sound really delicate and unhinged which The Pretenders didn’t really manage. I listen to this song in some form or other all the time at the moment and I don’t know if I was already feeling a bit delicate and dejected or if it’s as a result of this.
6. Crystal Castles | Vietnam
I really want Crystal Castles to put out a new album and I’ve always been a big fan. This song reminds me of driving to Tesco in the dark with my dad.
7. Kate Bush | Suspended In Gaffa
Kate Bush means a lot to me! For some reason most people I know aren’t very interested in her, at best they’re impartial and I can’t understand it at all. I love the lyrics, how there isn’t any spaces to stop for breath, all the different tones she uses in the chorus and the fact that it’s in Waltz-time, I’m drawn towards almost anything in Waltz-time.
8. Iran | Buddy
Apparently Iran are the side project of someone from TV On The Radio which I didn’t know. Buddy gets me really nostalgic and makes me feel like I’m the pretentious 14 year old I was when I first heard it, all the sounds in it are amazing.
9. Cocteau Twins | Crushed
No one does Celestial/Ethereal/Unworldly like Cocteau Twins do and I love things I can describe like that.
10. Elliott Smith | No Name #1
One of my favourite ever songs.
+11. Grandpa Was A Lion | Belgian Waves
I’ve been recommending this song everywhere I go for quite a while, it’s so sentimental and dreamy and perfect, all his stuff’s good actually and makes me feel like not bothering with my own.
+12. Fostercare | Cold Arms
This song reminds me of flying to New York and suddenly becoming aware of the fact that I was hurtling through the air away from most of the people I liked best. Six months ago it seemed to disappear online, I can’t find it anywhere and I’m starting to doubt it existed.
+13. Salem | Skullcrush
Best Salem song.
+14. Serge Gainsbourg | Hold Up
Perhaps the least cool Gainsbourg song I could choose, it makes me so happy and want to be French.
+15. Sleep ∞ Over | Stickers
I can’t explain how much I love Sleep Over, I think this album is so good.
+16. Dream Boat | Summer Solstice
Plus imissu... I put both because I couldn’t choose. Dream Boat are my favourite thing to have come out of Witch House and there’s loads going on in their music - they’ve made me love Like A Prayer by Madonna because they use the first couple of lines in it at the beginning of Your Beaches.
WARMER MIXTAPES #476 | by Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond
1. Roberta Flack | The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Songs can slow your heart rate down and make time itself seem to suspend. This song does that. It is a song of complete love and wonder. A performance that transfixes. The song She Does Not Brave The War was my attempt at writing something that felt unrushed, that the space between the notes would remain empty. We also modeled the approach to the drums after this tune, that the brushes would very lightly suggest the rhythm, propelling the ship forward like a very gentle quiet motor.
2. Violent Femmes | Blister In The Sun
By using brushes on the drums, instead of sticks, the VF was able to blend Punk and Folk idioms in a really unique way. We used them as a model for the way we approached the drums on our new album.
3. Nick Drake | River Man
This is one of those songs that you can listen to a thousand times and never get tired of hearing. The arranging here is so beautiful and rich.
4. Annie (The Musical) | It's The Hard-Knock Life
The horn section for this is so amazing and the arrangement is Hard Core.
5. Björk | Hyper-Ballad
I love the drums, the quiet quick pace.
6. Édith Piaf | L’Hymne À L’Amour
One of the most profound songs, a message that Love is stronger than Death.
7. Tom Waits | Flower’s Grave
I remember the showers, but no one puts flowers on a flower’s grave. So priceless, elegant, haunting, beautiful, comforting and sad.
8. Otis Redding | These Arms Of Mine
The architecture and marriage of lyrics with melody as well as Otis’ gripping vocal performance are perfection.
9. Tom Waits | Chocolate Jesus
If Tom Waits was the pastor, I’d be a parishioner.
10. Sam & Dave | When Something Is Wrong With My Baby
A song of great empathy and compassion, something we need a lot of these days.
WARMER MIXTAPES #475 | by Nonno Drougge [Nottee]
1. Frida | Heart Of The Country
Produced by Phil Collins. I’m not a big fan of Collins, maybe it’s because of his voice. I’m very sensitive to voices generally, especially male voices, I prefer female voices most of the time.
2. ABBA | Name Of The Game
Oh, the drums! The beat starts immediately and you can imagine the drummer nailing the beat in the first recording session in the Polar Studio. (Today the Polar building is providing one of Sweden’s biggest fitness companies with gym spaces).
3. ABBA | If It Wasn’t For The Nights
Somehow I’d be doing alright, if it wasn’t for the nights. Not one of their best productions, it feels very typical for that time.
4. ABBA | Chiquitita
I thought the lyrics were Chiquitita you and I cry, but the Sun is stealing the sky and shining above you. I thought stealing the sky was so beautifully written. So I pretend they sing stealing the sky, instead of still in the sky. Stealing the sky sounds more overwhelming and dramatic, more hopeful. Still in the sky is more, you know, you are sad, but the World goes on anyway. I want it to be like, now it’s getting better, because you are so strong that when you get through the sadness, the Sun will steal the sky for you.
5. ABBA | Two For The Price Of One
The song gets quieter when the refrain starts. And then, then, the girls voices come sneaking in. My ears are melting! It’s the opposite to the sort of dynamic most Pop songs have.
6. ABBA | Slipping Through My Fingers
The only time I like electric guitars is when they sound like The Queen guitars, when they play melodies in harmonies.
7. ABBA | Under Attack
This song has what I would describe as the typical ABBA sound. The sound is very compact but still big. And all the different pieces and melodies fit together so well. It’s just very rich and dynamic.
8. Agnetha Fältskog | Wrap Your Arms Around Me
Amazing production, amazing song, amazing vocals, fantastic beat.
9. ABBA | Eagle
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10. ABBA | One Of Us
The fourth song I chose from their last album, The Visitors. I didn’t enjoy writing about these songs. And I don’t like reading what I wrote either. I can’t really see why you should write about Music. And it’s even harder when you write in a foreign language. The words and emotions are already in the songs, no one has to explain those emotions for you. The music communicates itself. I think you know what I mean.
