The Morning After

Click to Listen: MIX: Vanilla, Lavender, Comfort

A collection of songs I discovered either as free downloads from http://pitchfork.com or trolling iTunes.

This mix takes on the same shape as my previous couple, starts out nice and calm before building to a more aggressive tempo, climaxing with some indie rock and then quickly calming down again with an instrumental from Real Estate.

Thank you for taking the time to listen to my selections.

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DJ Notes

01) A Tribe Called Quest – “Check the Rhime”
02) Blondes – “Spanish Fly” (mp3)
03) Toro Y Moi – “Talamak”
04) Twin Sister – “All Around and Away We Go” (mp3)
05) Dub Tractor – “It All Went Wrong”
06) Kisses – “Bermuda” (mp3)
07) Delorean – “Stay Close” (mp3)
08) Jay Reatard – “Can’t Do It Anymore”
09) Real Estate – “Saturday Morning”

I like these Blondes kids to start the set.  Brooklyn 20 somethings that like to “jam” electronic music?  Is that even possible?  It is for these cats.  Pitchfork was yapping about them as a rising artist.  The interview they did is pretty funny and will make you like this lead off cut all the more.

From Brooklym we had to the American south and some chillwave from Toro Y Moi… a graphic designer who’s Christian name is Chazwick Bundick…really?  that has to be someone fucking with me on wikipedia.  Your name is Chazwick and you need to change that to have a cooler stage name?  I don’t believe that for one moment, Chaz.

Twin Sister is from New York somewhere, the city of… maybe?  This song travels around space on a unicorn made out of drugs.  Super duper cute.  And beneath those jibberishy anti-gravity lyrics rests an unrelenting beat.  Locks this song down.

I love tractors and I love beats… so its about time someone put them together.  too bad it had to be a Dane.  We’ll never surrender an inch of Hans Island to you viking invaders! (but your music pretty darn rad).

Have you ever thought… “man, why did I go to BCIT, get a job, have a kid, get married and a mortgage?  I could have just as easily moved to Southern California,  invested in a quality pair of deck shoes and got a job as a hand claps artist.” Yeah, me neither.

The closest this set dives into house music is Spain’s Delorean.  Pitchfork calls their style Blisscore.  ha, I love that.

RIP Jay Reatard.  Earlier this year, Memphis punker Jay Reatard was found dead in his apartment.  He was 29.  What a downer.

The set ends with an instrumental from another Brooklyn based band, Real Estate. Wikipedia calls is Psychedelic Surf Pop.  Coming up with music genres must be the best time ever.  I bet some nerd is out there right now inventing an online genre generator that will put a lot of music critics out of work.  Damn you Obama.

I can’t do it anymore, go with yourself.