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Happy Birthday Baby Jesus 2011

Lots of instrumentals this year. In that vein, I’ll let the mix speak for itself. Enjoy! Merry Christmas.

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And the Angel Said Unto Them - David Axelrod
White Christmas - He5
Christmas Time Is Here - John Zorn
Joy To The World - Lalo Schifrin
Hot Club Of Christmas - Aztec Camera
All I Want For Christmas (Is A Little Bit Of Music) - Huey "Piano" Smith & The Clowns
Little Drummer Boy - Lenox Avenue
Run Rudolph Run - Richards, Keith
Jingle Bells - The Blues Magoos
Christmas Bop (version 2) - Bolan, Marc
Christmas for the Free - Argent
Merry Christmas Baby (alt edit) - Elvis Presley
White Christmas - Les Paul & Mary Ford
The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) - The Jackie Davis Trio
Every Day Is Christmas (When I'm Lovin' You) - Charles Bradley
Christmas On Riverside Drive - August Darnell
Things Fall Apart - Cristina
This Christmas - Shoes
Please Come Home for Christmas - The Uniques
Christmas Eve Can Kill You - Everly Brothers
Blue Christmas - Sharon Van Etten
Silent Night - Charles T. Chapman (Carillonneur on The Luray Singing Tower, Luray, VA)
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Synthesizers in the Sand II

Looking overhead he saw that the stars had come out, but why should he seem to see Andromeda, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia? What had become of the constellations of midsummer? He began to cry.*

Summer sunset. Just time for one last dip.

SYNTHESIZERS IN THE SAND II

Bonny ( Leo Zero Re-Work ) - Prefab Sprout
Streetz Tonight - Araabmuzik
Curtains - Solvent
The Bay - Metronomy
Beat and the Pulse - Austra
Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix) - Everything But The Girl
My Love Won't Let You Down - Nathalie
ANGELS - jj
A Seed's a Star/Tree Medley - Stevie Wonder
Run to the Sun - Chad Hugo/N.E.R.D.
Indian Summer Love - Con Funk Shun
Life in Tokyo (12' version) - Japan
Tarzan Loves The Summer Nights - Big Ben Tribe
E fatto e sorde! E? (Money Money) [Club Mix Edit] - Tullio De Piscopo
Twift - Mouse On Mars
Pacific 707 - 808 State
Summer Madness - Kool and The Gang
Listening Wind - Talking Heads

This mix dedicated to my sweet on the eve of our second wedding anniversary. I love you.

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(Limited supplies of Volume I still available. Act now!)

*John Cheever, “The Swimmer”

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Happy Birthday Baby Jesus 2010

Stephanie finds this mix my “coziest” yet. And its cold out there!

You’re going to need some of this:

  • Santa & The Satellite Pt.1 – Buchanan & Goodman
  • Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas – The Going Thing
  • Who Took The Merry Out Of Christmas? – The Staple Singers
  • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen – Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
  • Christmas Blues – Ramsey Lewis Trio
  • Merry Christmas, Baby – Charles Brown & Band
  • Presents for Christmas – Solomon Burke
  • Sleighride – Lloyd Glenn
  • Holiday On Skis – Al Caiola & Riz Ortolani
  • Christmas Day – Detroit Junior
  • Baby, It’s Cold Outside – Pearl Bailey & Hot Lips Page
  • Twistin’ Bells – Santo & Johnny
  • Jingle Bells Part 2 – Pastor T.L. Barrett
  • Holy Babe (edit) – Kelly Pace, Aaron Brown, Joe Green, Paul Hayes, Matthew Johnson
  • Santa & The Satellite Pt.2 – Buchanan & Goodman
  • Winter Wonderland – Ruth Welcome
  • We Four King (Little Drummer Boy) – The Blue Hawaiians
  • Noelle A Hawaii – Antena
  • Got Something for You – Best Coast, Wavves
  • Time of the Season – Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan
  • The Chipmunk Song – Canned Heat
  • Must Be Santa – Bob Dylan
  • (I Want a) Rock and Roll Guitar – Johnny Preston
  • One Of You (In Every Size) – Marty Robbins
  • Santy’s Movin’ On – Homer & Jethro
  • Rockin’ Santa Claus – The Moods
  • Santa Claus – Sonny Boy Williamson
  • In the Bleak Mid Winter – Bert Jansch
  • Happy New Year Blues – Mary Harris

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A New Mix: 40 Songs

I compiled a bunch of songs for a friend’s birthday present. A mix of Christian (loosely interpreted) songs. Gettin’ spiritual on this one!

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P.S. Somehow track #6 is wrongly titled. It should be Abraham instead.
P.P.S. Track #16 should be Myrrh instead.

Tracks

  1. I Could Drive Forever—Smog
  2. (That’s How You Sing) Amazing Grace—Low
  3. Rejoice—Pedro the Lion
  4. Rutti—Slowdive
  5. Somewhere—Sun Kil Moon
  6. Abraham—Sufjan Stevens
  7. If Only They Knew—Ester Drang
  8. Under the Milky Way—Starflyer 59
  9. Faces in Disguise—Sunny Day Real Estate
  10. High Rising—Suede
  11. This Corrosion—Sisters of Mercy
  12. Rise—American Music Club
  13. Clean—Depeche Mode
  14. This Time of Night—New Order
  15. Herculean—The Good, The Bad & The Queen
  16. Myrrh—The Church
  17. Raise Her Hands—Wovenhand
  18. There is a Kingdom—Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
  19. My Love Paramour—Cocteau Twins
  20. Thursday—Asobe Seksu
  21. Send His Love To Me—PJ Harvey
  22. You’ll Never Walk Alone—Elvis Presley
  23. Look Into Jesus—Larry Norman
  24. I Believe in You—Bob Dylan
  25. Rationale—Bill Mallonee
  26. Into Dust—Mazzy Star
  27. Prayer for the Paranoid—Mojave 3
  28. Sketch for Dawn 1—The Durutti Column
  29. Weightless—Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois
  30. Stand on the Word—Joubert Singers
  31. Forever Heavy—Black Moth Super Rainbow
  32. All Neon Like—Bjørk
  33. Nothing Can Stop Us—Saint Etienne
  34. We Could Forever—Bonobo
  35. Hung Up On A Dream —The Tough Alliance
  36. In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country—Boards of Canada
  37. Traveling Through a Sea—Grouper
  38. Love—The Art of Noise
  39. Obsession (live)—Delirious?
  40. “40″—U2
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It was a graveyard smash!

I’m not gonna do a Halloween mix this year because the dudes at ArawaFM took all the hot tracks. None left for me.

First mix is a compilation of horror movie tracks from the 60s to present with a few choice Halloween/novelty records thrown in:
T.Scatola- I Suoni Neri Dell’orrore Vol. 1

Second mix is from our good buddy JAZ, an eighty minute trip through the darkest corners of the boogie:
JAZ- The Minister

Love is kinda spooky!

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Beachy

Around this time of year I start to have a major beach craving. With the weather getting cooler I feel such nostalgia for the warm weather and the time I spent at the ocean during the summer. (Some of you might notice that I tend to mention the beach alot on here). I do like Fall and the changing season, but feel sad at the same time with the thought that I might not be at the beach for a while. Earlier this week I spotted these great photographs of a beach in Portugal by artist Christian Chaize on 20×200. His photos document a small stretch of coastline in southern Portugal and just jumped out at me. I love the composition and palette. I can almost smell the saltwater and hear the soft muffled chatter of other people as the waves break and slap on the wet shore. Makes me miss the ocean all the more…

So I made a quick mix this morning with songs that convey a longing for the sea and posted it on 8tracks. Click to listen.

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Mixes for Anne

My sister-in-law attended a Hindi wedding last weekend. She fell in love with the music and on her way home she called me asking, “Steph, do you have any Bollywood or Hindi-type music? Can you make me a mix?” Do I ever! I put together my top choices in Filmi music for Anne this past week. It was so fun to get back into the music that I sort of got carried away and found some new gems.


Disco, funk and even acid house plus a lot of danceable tracks and a few contemporary hits for good measure.
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Mystery and intrigue! Think Jaan Pahechan Ho-esque plus some weepy scores.
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Down-tempo and lounge…not really all Filmi, but mostly…
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