Playlist: Turn City

01. Canned Heat - Jamiroquai

02. Running - Computer Magic

03. Andy - Last Dinosaurs

04. Sad Nile - The Whitefield Brothers

05. Boyfriend - Best Coast

06. Rawnald Gregory Erickson the Second - Starfucker

07. Snoopy Waves - Deerhoof

08. Walking On A Dream - Empire Of The Sun

09. Slayer - Giant Drag

10. Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap


Download the playlist here: Turn City

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Playlist: Leaps

New format. Took the dash away from the filename to better reflect the recent renaming of the entire music library which previously was a hindrance to making new playlists. I like making playlists. I still do. When I think about the music in my head, it means less space for the heavy confetti of ill thoughts. For as long as the music lasts, you umbrella through it. So hang on and hey-hey.

01. Sleepless Feat. Jezzabell - Flume

02. Hotel - Broken Social Scene

03. High - Sun Glitters

04. Midnight Eyes - Daydream Cycle

05. At Attentions - Daedelus

06. Otherside Of The Game - Erykah Badu

07. Let It Be (feat. Veela) - Blackmill

08. Tapedeck - Robot Koch

09. The Wheel - SOHN

10. This Ain't a Surfin' Movie - Minus the Bear


Download the playlist here: Leaps

Click. Play. Enjoy.

Playlist: The Burr

01. She Is Dancing - Brian Kelly

02. Asleep At The Trigger - Autolux

03. Farewell - Boris

04. Useless - Depeche Mode

05. You Are The Ocean - Phantogram

06. Abiento - Tommy Guerrero

07. Don't Cry - Deerhunter

08. Kimdracula - Deftones

09. Strangers - Portishead

10. The Good That Won't Come Out - Rilo Kiley
11. 198d - At the Drive-In
12. Looks Just Like The Sun - Broken Social Scene


Download the playlist here: The Burr

Click. Play. Enjoy.

Playlist: Oo

Sometimes you finish a playlist and try to add more tracks in, which makes you take songs out for a better feel and then you realize it messes up the transitions in the first half of the playlist so you go back to the original finished line-up and see it's dandy. So there. Can't change. It's fine the way it is, darn it.

01. Throwin' Shapes - Minus the Bear
02. Climb the Ladder - Of Montreal
03. Pug - Smashing Pumpkins
04. Fire Eye'd Boy - Broken Social Scene
05. Robots In The Garden - Autolux
06. Curly Lips - Th' Faith Healers
07. For Ex-Lovers - Black Tambourine
08. Hors d' ceuvre - Made in Heights
09. Hihache - Lafayette Afro Rock Band
10. As Far As I Can See - Phantogram

Download the playlist here: Oo

Click. Play. Enjoy.

Playlist: Arrow Bones

These playlists sit sans cover in an mp3 player, hence the "playlist" designation instead of "compilation album". Putting a face to these set of songs has been a bit of fun and for this night out, figuring out a cover for Arrow Bones took more time than expected. Look and play. Play and look? Or just play? So here we go . . .

























01. Crooked Crown - The Anniversary
02. Fall Together - Weezer
03. Chop 'Em Down - Matisyahu
04. Beautiful Machines - Pupil
05. Gotta Jazz - Count Basic
06. Pony - The Mongols
07. Quarter to Three - Taken By Cars
08. Fulfill The Dream - Minus the Bear
09. Bog - Be Your Own Pet
10. Almost Crimes (Radio Kills Remix) - Broken Social Scene
11. SPIRIT-SIMULATION - SELA.
12. Susie Q (Italian Version) - The Everly Brother
13. lopsided - At the Drive-In
14. The Other Side - Dismemberment Plan

Download the playlist here: Arrow Bones

Click. Play. Enjoy.

Playlist: The Sitter &

It will happen. You can't put it together in one sitting. So you'll check another day. Add a song. Take a song out. Then another day. Then a re-order. Then you put a song back in. It can take days. All for one playlist.

Yummo.

01. Piano Black - 菅野よう子

02. Swimmers - Broken Social Scene

03. What Would Wolves Do? - Les Savy Fav

04. Terra Unfirma - Tommy Guerrero

05. Dream Machine - Mark Farina Featuring Sean Hayes

06. I'm Only Human - Zo! And Tigallo

07. With Arms Outstretched - Rilo Kiley

08. The City - Dismemberment Plan

09. Looks Like We're Shy One Horse - Colourbox

10. Narcoleptic - People In Planes

Download the playlist here: The Sitter &

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Playlist: Peddle Peddle

How one tune relates to the song before and after it is taken into consideration, as well as the overall set. Why? Change a song on the playlist and the scene will change. Just one song can make a playlist feel unsettled. That's what playlist is: a collection of scenes or moods. All for one big picture. When you put songs together you want that sense of cohesion to feel just right (though admittedly, as subjective as playlist making may be). What is finally intended is left right there for all to hear as one set.

This one took a while to mesh.

Oh well, on with the jams . . .

01. End of Small Sanctuary - Akira Yamaoka

02. Telecommunication - A Flock Of Seagulls

03. Would I Be The One - Sean Lennon

04. Pedestal - Portishead

05. Soul Kitchen - The Doors

06. Piano Na Manguiera - Raul de Souza

07. Eastwest - Mama Oliver

08. 'En Gallop' - Joanna Newsom

09. Dreams Never End - New Order

10. Call All Destroyer - Cornershop

11. Good Morning Beautiful - Deftones

Download the playlist here: Peddle Peddle

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Playlist: Marwood

Here's another reason for these playlist hops. When listening to a run-through of an album there are times when an awareness is built that what you're hearing is all too much the same. A band is defined by what they create. They'll quicken the tempo or break it down but it all is a variation of the sound that defines them. Sometimes my attention just can't hold on for the album haul. Instead of single songs, all I can hear is one symphonic flush.

So out with a playlist.

Cherry pick those songs out of its intended context and spin 'em to the order that tap dances in my head. No longer lost in the flush of one sound, now each tune takes its own stage, individually highlighted. It's easier to appreciate something when you place it where you want to be.

01. Change (In The House Of Flies) - Deftones

02. The Face of the Earth - Dismemberment Plan

03. Starring - Freelance Whales

04. Certainly (Flipped It) - Erykah Badu

05. Gone - Urbandub

06. Ohio - Chin Chin

07. Soul Meets Body - Death Cab For Cutie

08. Put Your Records On - Corinne Bailey Rae

09. By All Accounts (Today Was A Disaster) - Emery

10. Naked Burn - Mastodon

11. Keep It Together - Aqueduct

12. My French Brother - Bobby Hughes Experience

13. Phat Peace - Rebels To the Grain

14. Rapture Rapes The Muses - Of Montreal

15. If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) - Nas

16. chanbara - At the Drive-In

17. Women We Haven't Met Yet - Minus the Bear

Download the playlist here: Marwood

Click. Play. Enjoy.

Playlist: Clifton Taxi

Hello again. Having put up the new header made my feet kick. A kick brought back by the creative spirit. Since then I've plunked a few chords on the guitar, hints of perhaps a new song accompanied of course by vocal melody gibberish. No lyrics, you see. Not at infancy. Just a lot of "hoobah-rah-dee-dahs" and "suh-vuh-shuh-rumdums," etc., strum-strum, etc. With a want to keep the mind chattering, it would not be long before a new playlist would be served up. Ordering these songs into a personally considered sense of order is a good time indeed. Since I'm posting these playlists, I thought it would be nice to put a face to these song sets aside from the playlist name, you know? So back into photoshop and out with a cover. There ya go. Done. Kick.

Here's the new joint. It's a playlist with more upbeat bites, unlike the relative dysphoria of the previous playlist, the dead december. To think that life can be tracked by what one listens to is a phenomenon.

And a beautiful one, at that.

I present to you:

01. Moontime - Dudley Moore

02. LUCOUTU - SELA.

03. Organism - Tommy Guerrero

04. Stinkfist - Tool

05. Trying - AD

06. Exotic Animal Paradise - Asobi Seksu

07. Hey is that a ninja up there? - Minus the Bear

08. When Day Is Done - Django Reinhardt

09. 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins

10. Lorca And The Orange Tree - The Mummers

11. Save My Soul - Wimple Winch

12. Pickpocket - At the Drive-In

13. Yellow Panic - Dave Grusin

14. Plantlife - Autolux

15. Bedazzled - Dudley Moore

16. Logistical Nightmare - Taken By Cars

17. Messenger - Blonde Redhead

18. October, First Account - Be Your Own Pet

19. Pack You Up - Black Tambourine

20. Souvlaki Space Station - Slowdive

21. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled - Meshuggah

22. Dulcinea - Isis

23. Not A Goodbye - Contrived

Download the playlist here: Clifton Taxi

Click. Play. Enjoy.

Playlist: the dead december

I haven't had much to say recently. Lost. Turned off. Gone. It would be a fine thing indeed to have a bustle and buzz to speak of, to type up some newfound wow and remark in sweet glee, "Yeah, I thought this."

But no.

One romp that keeps my mind up is I enjoy making playlists. With a set of songs is a reflection of a mood or a time that occupied me so much so that my brain whispered in clicks, "Rink 'em together yeah!" So in place of the silence that has haunted this blog, I offer you the latest set knitted together during this Winter Down. Seeing as how it's Santa Claus season, the track listing shall remain hush-hush. Oooh what can it be?

Download the playlist here: the dead december
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Click. Play. Merry Christmas.

* !UPDATE! 1/30/2012: This playlist has been reposted for better ease of play by numbering the file names in intended order instead of the inclusion of a separate playlist file. Also, now included is a cover:

Yup, still a mystery song list. Santa is vacationing now, but this present remains wrapped.

Download the playlist here: the dead december

Click. Play. Enjoy.