Midnight Jazz

Hello, sons and daughters, heroes and villains. Today is a good day, I've decided to share some music with you. Strictly, jazz music. I want to share it because, they have been good to me, and I want to be good to you too. But, you don't like jazz? Oh, it's okay, you don't have to listen to it, or you can give it a try and you might surprise yourself that you actually like it. As far as the selection goes, it's pretty mild and melancholy, just like whiskey on rocks. That's why I call it midnight jazz. Here, drink it.

Dopest Dope

a mixtape of laid-back hip-hop with awesome beats

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Less Is More Pianotape

Dear Friends

Lately, I have been feeling weary. Life has stopped moving. I feel like the unbearable weight of life is wearing me down. But, I tell myself, "it's just a phase we all have to go through sometime." And I hope it is. Just be okay, and be nice. It is okay to feel down, but it is nice to fill your heart with joy. Now, totally unrelated to what I just said, I have put together a mixtape full of beautiful melody played by piano. Most of the songs are just instrumental.They may not be the best piano songs, but I think they all possess a pure and translucent quality. I hope you would enjoy them too. Remember, less is more.

yours sincerely

fuse

ps. download link and song list after the jump

Lazy Afternoon Mixtape

這個下午不小心又聽了Weezer，好久沒聽了。聽著聽著發現這些九零年代的搖滾團體還蠻適合這樣的下午，無所事事的慵懶下午。所以決定做一個Mixtape給自己聽，同時也回味以前喜歡的歌。

Life is a Mix Tape Vol 8: Blue

鬱卒歌單。

Korallreven Mix

It’s simply just some of our favourite songs at the moment, favourite songs that makes us feel the pure ecstasy of what in popular terms use to be called ”life”.  
1. Korallreven - Sa-Sa-Samoa
2. Ghostape - My Country (A Thousand Mandolins Version)
3. Madlib - J’s Day Theme #3
4. DJ Screw - Sippin’ Codeine
5. Pure Ecstasy - Voices
6. Teengirl Fantasy - Now That’s What I Call Volume 2
7. Toro Y Moi - Blessa
8. 101 Strings - Seas of Samoa
9. Korallreven - The Truest Faith
10. Joy Orbison - The Shrew Would Have Cushioned the Blow
11. Kingdom Featuring Shyvonne - Mindreader (CFCF Remix)
12. Bien - Sunny Side
13. Korallreven - As Loved-Up As Ever
via Viceland


New awesome single, The Truest Faith.
A nod to New Order, even the cover.
Listen from their Myspace.

10 Songs About Me

it's not easy... to describe myself in 10 songs.

i have so many songs i could relate to but yeah...

these are not my top 10 favourite songs, but they're all great!

these are 10 songs about me, obviously from lyrical content.

1. Guided By Voices - I Am A Scientist

2. The Replacements - Swingin' Party

3. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Never Understand

4. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

5. The Smiths - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now

6. The Replacements - Unsatisfied

7. Neil Young - Oh, Lonesome Me

8. Tricky - Overcome

9. New Order - Regret

10. Pavement - Range Life

floating in a dream

i suppose this is a real dream-pop compilation mix. selections from 1990 to 2010. if you like dream-pop and haven't heard some of these names, might as well try them out. i made this mainly for my own listening pleasure, but no harm sharing with those of you who are interested. btw, the cover people is my recent crush - Swallow.

01. Cocteau Twins - Bluebeard
02. Ghost Society - Better Days
03. School of Seven Bells - Connjur
04. Swallow - Lovesleep
05. Low Sea - Save My Soul
06. Cranes - Beautiful Friend
07. Mazzy Star - Disappear
08. Blonde Redhead - The Dress
09. Slowdive - When the Sun Hits
10. Black Tambourine - Dream Baby Dream
11. Pale Saints - Sea of Sound
12. The Fauns - Lovestruck
13. Asobi Seksu - Taiyo
14. My Bloody Valentine - Blown a Wish
15. A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Close Chorus

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Art of Noise

Listening to the mixtape made by your favorite artist is just great.

I've listened to the mixtapes made by Jens Lekman and Air France.

I got to know so many good bands that I didn't know before.
Anyway, download this. This stuff is gold, if you like Air France.

mp3: Air France: ‘Art of Noise Mixtape’ (right click and choose “save as…”)


Bill Withers : ‘Lovely Day’

Can liven a funeral, I tried and It worked. Makes you move on.

Museum of Bellas Artes: ‘Who Do You Love‘
They will run this show in a few months. They released their first single some days back.

Lemonade: ‘Big Weekend (Delorean remix)‘
Sets us tumbling down heights every saturday. Makes you feel good looking and drink faster.

Walker Brothers: ‘Make It Easy On Yourself‘
Breaking up is hard to do. A friend of a friend’s ex-gilfriend always send a tape with this song instead.

Ilona Staller – ‘Pane, marmellata e me‘
Sophisticated Italian 70s dub and giggles.

Yppah – ‘Gumball Machine Weekend‘
No fucking clue who this is, but it sounds like a Japanese Lo-Fi version of Saint Etienne’s “Nothing can stop us now”, innit?

Altered Images: ‘I Could Be Happy‘
Maybe this years best evening so far must have been when we put this on at Old Blue Last and David from Sic and his wife Melissa danced like two teenagers in love and the last sunrays slipped in through the windows and covered them in the warmest light you have ever seen.

A.R. Kane: ‘A Love From Outer Space‘
I think Tahiti 80 did a great version of this too some years ago. It’s the feeling you get when you land a girl that plays in a completely different, and better, league.

CFCF: ‘You Hear Colours‘
I have had this in my head for a while now. Really suits days when the flowers on my balcony dies after too much rain and nothing seems to happen.

Sylvie Vartan: ‘La plus belle pour aller danser‘
Some days you just want to die and wake up in Paris in the 60s.

Loved-Up Playlist

I thought I should post some fantastic songs I have been listening to over the last two weeks. They are mainly electro pop. These sunny music really get me into the mood of summer. Enjoy!

Air France | gbg belong to us - new song dedicated to their city Gothenburg. Free download from their website. Part I is a tour guide to Gothenburg. Part II is where you can download the song.

Saint Etienne - Spring (Air France Remix) “This is the answer to our prayers. ‘Spring’ is the song we fucked to when we were eleven and took rohypnol raw”

Miami Horror | Sometimes - This is truly one of the best single of the year! When I listen to the song, I cannot help singing the chorus, also linking the music with this beautiful music video. God, I wanna go to the beach again... These guys are from Melbourne, Australia. New album will be out next year.

The Millioners | My Great Regret - I actually don't know much about these guys. But their album Most Sexist Music sounds good.

The Embassy | It Pays To Belong - Awesome Swedish electro pop band. Already released two albums, Futile Crimes and Tacking. Both are magical. They also released some other singles/EPs through their label Service. I haven't got my hands on those... but I will!

The Embassy | Stage Persona

Lake Heartbeat | Mystery - I've posted them before. Anyway, their album is definitely one of my top albums of the year.

The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa | What's - I don't know much about them either. Shoegaze, dream/noise pop. This is the openning song from a four-track EP called Pigment. Please do yourself (or me) a favor and check out this phenomenal piece of music.

The Studio | West Coast - Maybe this video really got me hooked with The Studio. I mean their music is like a perfect pop soundtrack, but nothing like the pop music you have heard. Blending the good pop elements with experimental approaches. Very cool stuff!

Saint Etienne | Only Love Can Break Your Heart - from St. Etienne's classic album Foxbase Alpha. All the songs on the album will be remixed by Richard X, and will be released soon in an album called Foxbase Beta. I'm not sure why they wanna do that. Foxbase Alpha is already flawless...

Last thing... about the photograph above. It's a cover of a single called Loved-Up by Korallreven. This song is all that Korallreven has ever released under Service label. "The sounds of Korallreven's tropical shoegaze can be found at the battle front between civilization and nature." I can't wait for their debut album, which will be released in spring 2010. By the way, I still think buying mp3 is such a weird thing. You paid, and you get something in ones and zeros...

Be Happy

I've tried really hard to put this together. There are not many happy pop songs , but these songs are super happy and positive! Listening to it in the morning makes me feel so happy and makes want to swing!

1. Acid House Kings - Summer's On It's Way

2. The Cure - Mint Car

3. Felt - Don't Die On My Doorstep

4. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out Of This Country

5. Leslies - Take A Look

6. Belle & Sebastian - The Blues Are Still Blue

7. The Lucksmiths - Sunlight in a Jar

8. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Lift Me Up

9. Magnetic Fields - You and Me and the Moon

10. The Tough Alliance - Holiday

11. The Honeydrips - It Was A Sunny Summer Day

12. Julie Doiron - The Life Of Dreams

anyone want it? give me a shout.

Indie-Pop Breaks My Heart

1. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken?

2. The Sweetest Ache - Briaris

3. Death Cab for Cutie - A Lack of Color

4. Brittle Stars - Souvenir

5. Jens Lekman - Jens Lekman's Farewell Song to Rocky Dennis

6. Camera Obscura - Pen and Notebook

7. Sun Kil Moon - Lost Verses

8. The Sundays - Leave This City

9. The Weepies - Not Your Year

10. East Village - What Kind of Friend is This

11. Emmy The Great - The Easter Parade

12. Belle & Sebastian - Judy And The Dream Of Horses

13. Trembling Blue Stars - Moonlight on Snow

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Sincerely Swedish Synthpop

I recently discovered Sincerely Yours' new band, jj. Fucking great!

They sound so "sincerely yours", which means awesome.

It's really hard to define genres these days.

So, I put together some songs that are alike.

They are all from Sweden, synthesized I think.

I love this music...

1. The Tough Alliance - Leg 1

2. jj - from africa to málaga

3. Air France - No Excuses

4. Boat Club - Memories

5. Most Valuable Players - You're All I Can Think Of

6. Tribeca - Black

7. The Radio Dept. - This Past Week

8. The Honeydrips - Fall From A Height

9. The Tough Alliance - 25 Years and Runnin'

10. The Legends - Play It For Today

11. The Sound of Arrows - M.A.G.I.C.

12. Club 8 - Missing You

13. jj - masterplan

Electrified, Hypnotized

Baby, here you go! I've put together some nice electronic songs. These songs are not made for dance I don't think... just sound refreshing and relaxing hopefully. Get electrified, hypnotised! Yeah!!!

1. Tribeca - Solitude
2. The Notwist - Consequence
3. Röyksopp - Sparks
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Beauty Mark
5. Everything But the Girl - The Heart Remains a Child
6. Hercules and Love Affair - Iris
7. Thom Yorke - Harrowdown Hill
8. Home Video - I Can Make You Feel It
9. Zero 7 - Destiny
10. Moby - Forever
11. Dntel - Last Songs
12. The Postal Service - Sleeping In

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Labrador Spring Sampler 2009

TRACK LIST

1 Club 8 "Spring Came, Rain Fell"
2 [ingenting] "Här Kommer Solen"
3 The Sound of Arrows "M.A.G.I.C."
4 The Mary Onettes "Dare"
5 Little Big Adventure "The hateful eye"
6 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names "1999"
7 Irene "Stardust"
8 The Sound of Arrows "Danger! (Ice cream shout version)"
9 Pelle Carlberg "1983 (Pelle & Sebastian)"
10 Club 8 "Whatever you want"
11 Acid House Kings "This Love Is All We Need"
12 Sambassadeur "Between The Lines"
13 The Radio Dept. "Where Damage Isn't Already Done"
14 Acid House Kings "Brown And Beige Are My Favourite Colours"
15 Loveninjas "Keep your love"
16 The Legends "Lucky star"
17 Pelle Carlberg "Clever Girls Like Clever Boys Much More Than Clever Boys Like Clever Girls"
18 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names "Rent A Wreck"
19 Tribeca "The Sun Always Shines On TV"
20 The Legends "Over And Over (Remix By Pallers)"

Download from Pirate Bay here >>

Labrador is such a cool label.
They just let you download all these for free.
But I still buy their albums... because it's really good!

Self-indulging Playlist

Come on, let's leave
this suffocating river
in which we swim with other fish
from dawn to shifting night
and now in this discovered space
let's fly to a pure solitude (by Pablo Neruda)



I don't remember the particular time of my life
I became outsiders
That does not make me better than others

Music is the way...

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Soft Shock
The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work
The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
Pavement - Shady Lane
Joy Division - Digital
East Village - Circles
Bright Eyes - The Difference in the Shades
The High - A Minor Turn
Elvis Costello - High Fidelity
Tom Waits - The Heart Of Saturday Night
Deerhunter - Never Stops
Everything But The Girl - Meet Me in the Morning
Tribeca - Solitude

Head to the Darkland

1. Jeff Buckley - So Real
2. The Mary Onettes - Explosions
3. My Bloody Valentine - What You Want
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ain't No Easy Way
5. Ceremony - Miss You
6. The Legends - Make It All Right
7. Queens of the Stone Age - Go With the Flow
8. A Place To Bury Strangers - To Fix the Gash In Your Head
9. TV on the Radio - Wolf Like Me
10. Eagles Of Death Metal - I Only Want You
11. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
12. The Stills - Yesterday Never Tomorrows

This is quite a depressing and violent mixtape.
Chaotic maybe, but I do need this sometimes.
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Let's Party Mixtape

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular - Time to Pretend

2. Depeche Mode - The Singles 81-85 - Just Can't Get Enough

3. The Tough Alliance - New Waves - Silly Crimes

4. The Legends - Facts And Figures - Darling

5. Johan Hedberg - Labrador Summer Sampler 08 - Grammisgalan

6. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing - Great DJ

7. Primal Scream - Dirty Hits - Rocks

8. The Pipettes - We Are The Pipettes - Pull Shapes

9. The Sounds - Dance With Me

10. The B-52'S - Time Capsule - Rock Lobster

11. Le Tigre - Le Tigre - Deceptacon

12. C.S.S - Donkey - Rat Is Dead (Rage)

13. The Strokes - Room On Fire - 12:51

14. Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have it so Much Better - The Fallen

15. Muse - Black Holes And Revelations - Supermassive Black Hole

16. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not - I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor

17. The Killers - Hot Fuss - Somebody Told Me

18. New Order - (The Best Of) New Order - Regret

19. Joy Division - Permanent - Transmission

20. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico - All Tomorrow's Parties

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