"DECK THE HALLS!" with the 12 Not So Days of Christmas

Christmastime is here again and while many people (myself included) love to get lost in the merriment and festivusness that is the season, there are times when we need a break from Bing Crosby and his three word jingles. In lieu of such music, here's a nice little collection of "Christmas-themed" music... and when I say "Christmas-themed" I mean completely unrelated.

As the title of this post suggests however, there are 12 tracks and with that comes the inspiration of the 12 days (actually I think it was the other way around). This may be the most bizarre mix I've made seeing as many genres do not correspond to one another outwardly, but innately ingrained I think there is something that pulls them together... something other than the "Christmas-spirit".

So grab so cider... and by cider I mean booze, sit down, and relax... and when the moment comes... DANCE, DANCE, DANCE!

Tracklist:
12. Islands The Drums
11. Nickodemus Feat. Jean Shephard Peace Pipe
10. Caribou Lord Leopard
9. Lykke Li Dance Dance Dance
8. Shearwater White Waves
7. Iron & Wine Swans & The Swimming
6. Hot Chip Feat. Robert Wyatt We're Looking For A Lot Of Love (Geese Mix)
5. Beck Halo Of Gold
4. Architecture In Helsinki Like A Call
3. Genevieve Toupin L'Hiver (French Winter)
2. Dirty Projectors Two Doves
1. Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy) Peach, Plum, Pear (Johanna Newsom Cover)

"Deck The Halls!" with the 12 Not So Days of Christmas

CoCo & JoJo's Suplendiferous Adventures in Careerdom!

So my friend Cory and I are doing our damnedest to find a job. Such pursuits have inspired this week's posting in which listening to this musical mantra will call on the job gods and offer up the opportunity that has been so elusive.

The playlist is in two parts... the first is for the soul lovers... sentimental of that sassy Chi-town aura. The second is a synthesized amped-up L.A. smackdown. All in all, it's a little something for everyone.

Enjoy.... and wish us luck!

Tracklist:
1. Shawna Feat. Johnny P. & Syleena Johnson In Tha Chi
2. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings Your Thing Is A Drag
3. Aretha Franklin Save Me [A Diplo Dub]
4. Santogold vs. Diplo Shuv It (Disco D Blend)
5. Chaka Khan Ain't Nobody
6. Ike & Tina Turner Bold Soul Sista
7. Ja'net Dubois Movin' On Up
8. Etta James Money (That's What I Want) [LIVE]
9. Diana Ross The Boss (Def Radio Edit)
10. Amerie Gotta Work
11. Nina Simone Work Song
12. The Noisettes Wild Young Hearts

CoCo & JoJo's Suplendiferous Adventures in Careerdom, Pt. 1

13. Elliott Smith L.A.
14. Little Boots Rich Boys (The Virgins Cover)
15. The Sounds Running On Turbo
16. The Kills Cheap & Cheerful
17. Santigold Creator (Konrad Old Money WTF Remix)
18. N.A.S.A. Feat. Kanye West, Santigold, & Lykke Li Gifted
19. No Age Loosen This Job
20. Wave Machines Keep The Lights On
21. Chromeo Fancy Footwork [KOLT13 Murdaphunk Remix]
22. Lissy Trullie Boy Boy
23. La Roux In For The Kill [Skream's Lets Get Ravey Remix]
24. Magic Wands Warrior [The XX Remix]

The Last Salesman

Today's post is difficult. Yesterday my stepfather died. I was having a difficult time processing it all, so I made a playlist to mull it over. I still have so much to process, but I think this will help.

It's not an easy listen. It will hurt at times. I'm ready for it.

I'm going to do a little something different this time around. I used to make poems out of the track names of the songs I'd put on a CD. Today, I'm bringing that back.

Here is one for my stepfather David, who I will miss for reasons unknown to me. He was a hard man, a cruel man, a bastard. I hated him for false reasons. Now when I reflect, I remember the good. It's what I'll keep. I hope it will change my perceptions.

Goodbye David.


The Last Salesman

1902.
From the deep ocean,
a beached baby was born
and inhabits
stolen houses
for shelter.

He was young when he left home.
It was a sort of revolution:
renegade, ruanaway, bad kid.
He would jangle on a bayonet
under the Milky Way:
murky white stars.

He turned from them,
to become a traveling salesman;
the last one.
Hands on the radio,
in that big red
machine.

Red lights,
black tables.
Action, reaction.


Breathe?
It was his time to die.

There's a boy who builds coffins,
Harry Patch.
"In memory of," was engraved.

We walked the wake
and I bent to kiss
you on the cheek.

Ma said,
"it was something
to have wept."

We danced on his grave,
to the burial sounds of seagulls,
all to avoid the void;
the void
of sailing home,
of the sequel.

We are the souverians,
waiting,
for the first days of spring.



*Please take special note that there are four files to this set (so download them all!) and if you put them in order you'll hear the story.


Tracklist:

1. The Uglysuit 1902 Deep Ocean
2. Bon Iver Beach Baby
3. Iron & Wine Stolen Houses (Die)
4. The XX Shelter
5. Antony & Bryce Dressner I Was Young When I Left Home
6. Fink Sort of Revolution [The Cinematic Orchestra Remix]
7. Kings Of Convenience Renegade
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Runaway
9. Black Lips Bad Kids
10. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Janglin'
11. Beirut On A Bayonet
12. Sia Under The Milky Way
13. Warpaint Stars
14. Patrick Watson Traveling Salesman
15. Au Revoir Simone The Last One
16. Chris Garneau Hands On The Radio
17. Justin Vernon & Aaron Dressner Big Red Machine
18. Vib Gyor Red Lights
19. Other Lives Black Tables
20. Choir of Young Believers Action/Reaction

The Last Salesman: Disc 1, Pt. I
The Last Salesman: Disc 1, Pt. II


1. David Gray Breathe
2. The Dodos A Time To Die
3. Florence + The Machine My Boy Builds Coffins
4. Radiohead Harry Patch (In Memory Of)
5. The Antlers Wake
6. Desmond & The Tutus Kiss You On The Cheek [King Of Town Remix]
7. El Perro Del Mar It Is Something (To Have Wept)
8. Paper Route Dance On Our Graves
9. The Phantom Band Burial Sounds
10. Motorama Seagulls
11. Atlas Sound Avoid The Void
12. Papercuts The Void
13. Karen O & The Kids Sailing Home
14. St. Vincent The Sequel
15. Andrew Bird Souverian
16. Noah & The Whale The First Days of Spring

The Last Salesman: Disc 2, Pt. I
The Last Salesman: Disc 2, Pt. II

Treasure Island: The Butter

So I planned my move to Southern California around the Treasure Island Music Festival. I have never been to a major music festival and after seeing the line-up I knew this was the one for me. It was insanedible.

Knowing that I would be driving down to and through San Francisco it meant that I had to do a lot of soul searching and by soul searching, I mean downsizing. That was hard. I got rid of nearly half my stuff just moving from college, but now I had to make it all fit into the back of my 1995 Ford Escort Wagon. This was no easy task. Then again, there were a few items (such as a bottle of Log Cabin Syrup, or 2 dozen pairs of straightedge scissors, or a t-shirt with a cowboy and his horse drinking from the same trough, caption reading "Best Friends) that would suggest downsizing was still a viable option.

Thus I scrapped and scrapped and dumped and pawned and gifted and re-gifted and stuffed that car like a turkey for twelve. I even fit my 8' carved wooden statue from Borneo in there! So the girl and I sat off for the show the night before the concert and drove for 12 hours to get to the gloriousness that is San Francisco.

Along the way I had an epiphany... in the seven years of ownership that I had on my car I had yet to name the beaut. And around 3am, just after crossing Grant's Pass (a real mammoth of a mountain pass) her name came to me. LOLA PEPITA ESTEBAN RUIZ. She'll kick your ass any day. She's bad like that.

In honor of this moment I decided to make a playlist of the show that inspired the trip that would henceforth conjure up the name of names for my queen of cars. Here are some of my favorites from the show.

Tracklist:
1. The Management (MGMT) Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix)
2. MSTRKRFT Breakaway (Feat. Jahmal from The Carps)
3. Girl Talk Hands In The Air
4. The Brazilian Girls Last Call (Disco Pusher Remix)
5. Passion Pit Sleepyhead (Joel's Inch From The Edge Of The Bed Version)
6. Federico Aubele Su Melodia
7. Dan Deacon Slow With Horns/Run For Your Life
8. Murs What Do You Know?
9. The Decemberists The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid
10. Beirut La Llorona
11. Grizzly Bear About Face
12. Yo La Tengo Gentle Hour
13. The Walkmen On The Water
14. Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Beat (Health, Life and Fire)
15. Vetiver You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix)
16. Tommy Guerrero Falling Awake
17. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Home

Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. I
Treasure Island: The Butter Pt. II

Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain

Influenza... it's a bitch, especially when it's 70 degrees outside and the sun is shining down and all you can think is... "my body is hotter than the earth right now. What's up with that?"

So as to distract myself from this thought, I've been whiling away the hours on a pharmaceutical cocktail codeine cough syrup and various pills coaxing the fever from my system and the phlegm from my chest. The past five days have been MAJOR to say the least.

Just prior to this infection I was in Seattle and it had just begun it's transition from pristine, crisp, autumnal afternoons to the rather dreary, slippery, wet ones. And that's how this playlist started. When I got to California however, it seemed a bit contrived and so I lost interest.

But then I got sick, and I craved soup and the weather that called upon such a state as I was in.

Here's the result of it all...

Tracklist:
1. Otis Redding Cigarettes & Coffee
2. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings Humble Me
3. Jaime Lidell Wait For Me
4. Amy Winehouse Me & Mr. Jones
5. Mayer Hawthorne One Track Mind
6. The Noisettes Never Forget You
7. Aretha Franklin Day Dreamining
8. Miles Davis & John Coltrane 'Round Midnight
9. Etta James Stormy Weather
10. Jamie Cullum Fascinating Rhythm
11. Mint Royale Singin' in the Rain
12. Feist Inside & Out
13. CéU Grains de Beauté
14. Cat Power Naked If I Wanted To
15. Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra I Cover The Waterfront
16. Nina Simone I Put A Spell On You
17. Ray Charles Just For A Thrill
18. Duffy Hanging On Too Long
19. Neko Case Runnin' Out of Fools [Aretha Franklin Cover]
20. James Brown Please, Please, Please
21. Miles Davis So What

Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain, Pt. I
Tut, Tut... Looks Like Rain, Pt. II

Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Musical Playthings

So by Tuesday, I meant Friday... HA!

Um, so this week is a bit off the deep end. I started noticing a lot of numerical references in songs this year and drew up the idea to see how far I could get making a playlist directed by the fibonacci sequence. Surprisingly, 70% are from this year! The art that resulted from this looks like some conspiracy theorists' homage to Nostradamus... if only the numbers could glow and enlarge like they do in those cheesy reenactments on the History Channel, like guiding stars in the night sky only words on the page that miraculously highlight as you read them... like... Astronomy by Nostradamus... NOSTRONOMY... know what I mean? That would be something.

No tracklist this week... it's all in the (ch)art.

0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377

Follow it and you shall see.

Links:
Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Muscial Playthings Pt. I
Nostronomy, Fibonacci & Their Muscial Playthings Pt. II

Humandroid

This is way overdue... and I want to do my best to keep this a weekly thing... every Tuesday do a new music segment... but it's a bit taxing for some reason... I'm a busy boy and blogs get pushed back to the wayside. I'll do what I can to keep up on it though from this point forward.


Up for this week is a playlist I've been working on off and on for about a month. It's called Humandroid and is a mix directed by the theme of Humans/Androids and the creation of a new race. Bionics here we come!

So much inspiration from the new music this year... and I've done what I can to draw parallel threads throughout multiple genres. Give it a listen and hear what I mean.

Until next time...

Tracklist:
1. Röyksopp The Girl & The Robot
2. La Roux I'm Not Your Toy
3. Marina & The Diamonds I Am Not A Robot
4. Andrew Bird Not A Robot, But A Ghost
5. The Juan MacLean A New Bot
6. Patrick Watson Wooden Arms
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy Heart's Arms
8. The Features Wooden Heart
9. Florence & The Machine Hardest of Hearts
10. Bike For Three! More Heart Than Brains
11. Spoon Stroke Their Brains
12. Ted Leo & The Pharmacists The Numbered Head (Robert Pollard Cover)
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Heads Will Roll
14. The Juan MacLean Human Disaster
15. Rodrigo y Gabriela Hanuman
16. Stardeath & White Dwarfs New Heat
17. Spinnerette Distorting A Code
18. Papercuts The Machine Will Tell Us So
19. Justin Vernon & Aaron Dessner Big Red Machine

Links:
Humandroid Pt. I
Humandroid Pt. II

animalia

Sometimes it's hard to figure out who we are... what we are... why we are. Nothing makes sense, we're just... lost. It's in times like these that I find the simplicity of the primal of greatest comfort. In honor of that, this playlist is all about returning to the carnal... the thoughtless... the animal. 2009 has been so gracious as to offer up a menagerie of fauna to identify with. So give this record a spin, like the carousel at the fair, spot your favorite animal as it spins... follow it with your eye... and when the gate opens race to it and snatch it up and call it your own.

Tracklist:

1. Miike Snow Animal
2. Andrew Bird Anonanimal
3. Neko Case I'm An Animal
4. Patrick Watson Where The Wild Things Are
5. Wildbirds & Peacedrums Liar Lion
6. Paper Route Tiger Teeth
7. The Antlers Bear
8. Wavves Vermin
9. Beirut The Shrew
10. Diplo Smash A Kangaroo
11. Empire of the Sun Swordfish Hotkiss Night
12. Architeq Birds of Prey (Fulgeance Emotronical Mix)
13. Chris Garneau Fireflies
14. Buildings Breeding Beesting
15. Passion Pit Moth's Wings
16. Dan Deacon Wet Wings
17. Motorama Seagulls
18. Antony & The Johnsons One Dove
19. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Dragon Queen
20. Sunset Rubdown Nightingale/December Song

Links:
Animalia EP Pt. I
Animalia EP Pt. II

Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Deep Laze & The Long Kiss

Just got back from the beach... and I realized that I missed this Tuesday's posting... in that respect I'm going to be preemptive post a doubleheader edition which includes both the belated posting from this week as well as the following for next. So without further adieu, here is the next installment of the Dog Days EPs. Links and tracklist to follow.



Tracklist:
1. Yellowhammer Lazy (Album Version)
2. Scarlett Johansson Anywhere I Lay My Head
3. St. Vincent & The National Sleep All Summer (Crooked Fingers Cover)
4. Trevor Lissauer & The Glass Plastiks About The Sun
5. Pete Philly & Perquisite Lazy

Link:
Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Deep Laze



Tracklist:
1. The Shins Kissing The Lipless
2. The Teenagers French Kiss
3. Florence + The Machine Kiss With A Fist
4. Patrick Wolf Teignmouth
5. RJD2 Someone's Second Kiss

Link:
Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Long Kiss

Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Big Step

All this past week I've really been trying to change my outlook... be more positive, more encouraging. Over the past few months (if not longer) there's been this lingering negativity that I've clung to, some might refer to it as a "chip on one's shoulder" (I see it as more of a berg). In any case, it's brooded this sarcasm which while initially quick whitted and humorous because nastilly causting and unflattering. This is no good thing. It festers in relationships and causes too much tention. So, I'm changing things up... smiling more, avoiding agitants and just bringing to the forefront the philosophy I've always kept off in my mind (which tends to burgeon when things go awry). "Things happen"... whether you want them to or not. There's no rhyme or reason, just happenstance, so if you want something to go in your favor, you've got to set the motion into action and most importantly follow through with it. So I think today is all about taking that step towards something... in the Nike sort of way... you know, JUST DO IT!

Tracklist:

1. Radiohead w/ Dave Brubeck 5 Step (15 Step/Take Five Mashup)
2. Girl Talk In Step
3. Junior Senior Move Your Feet
4. R. Kelly Step In The Name of Love (Remix)
5. De-Phazz Steps Ahead

Link:
Dog Days! 5 Things EP: The Big Step

Fuck A Twat

This post is for a friend of mine who's going through a rough time. I don't need to get in the details but basically his girl did him wrong, so this playlist is meant to help him (and anyone for that matter) get over all that shit... besides, sometimes, you just need to fuck a twat.

For great fun, click on the pic and print out a copy... then fill in the name of the person who has really messed your shit up... because we all know, they're a bloody twat... and validating it makes us feel better.

Tracklist:

1. Neko Case The Next Time You Say Forever
2. The Sounds No One Sleeps When I'm Awake
3. Peter Bjorn & John It Don't Move Me
4. Datarock Give It Up
5. Martina & The Diamonds I Am Not A Robot [Starsmith 24 Karat Remix]
6. Faunts It Hurts Me All The Time
7. Passion Pit Folds In Your Hands
8. MSTRKRFT Feat. John Legend Heartbreaker
9. Empire of the Sun Half Mast
10. Beirut My Wife, Lost in the Wild
11. Kevin Drew Love vs. Porn

Fuck A Twat, Pt. I

12. Dan Deacon Build Voice
13. Florence + The Machine Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) [Radio Edit]
14. N.A.S.A. feat. Spank Rock, M.I.A., Santigold & Nick Zinner Whatchadoin?
15. Rye Rye feat. M.I.A. Bang (Nancey Remix)
16. Prodigy Smack My Bitch Up
17. Tiga Turn The Night On
18. Phoenix Lisztomania! (Classixx Version)
19. The Juan MacLean The Future Will Come
20. Discovery I Want You Back (Jackson 5 Cover)

Fuck A Twat, Pt. 2

Dog Days, 5 Things EP: The Big Swim

What the hell happened here? It looks like my last blog post miraculously disappeared. Well, here it goes again (abridged if you will)... Fucking technology.

Dog Days... Article A: Hot Fucking Weather. Article B: They're here.
DDPlaylists = There's 5, with 5 tracks each.
Timing, once a week for five weeks... starting now.

Numero Uno: The Big Swim. Because I lost my skinny dipping virginity on the 4th and though I should share. Go Booze.

Tracklisting:
1. Tim Delaughter & The Polyphonic Spree Skinny Dip
2. Iron & Wine Swans & The Swimming
3. Andrew Bird Headsoak
4. Architecture In Helsinki Underwater
5. Passion Pit Swimming in the Flood

Link:
Dog Days, 5 Things EP: The Big Swim

sumMErsize: vol. 2

Coke my cola! We've reached the midpoint of June, which means it's time for another installment of sumMErsize. This time, I've taken a few playlisting liberties and gone perhaps off the deep end with some music choices. For some reason right about this time of year, all I can think about is food... maybe it's because all I do around this time of year is cook. But I think it's more than that. I think it has something to do with the fact that all my favorite bits are in season... plus, there's no better time for a picnic. To mix things up a bit, I've added in some patriotic gems just in time for that blessed day of barbecues and beer and bottle rockets. So cheers to the 4th, cheers to good food and cheers to it all with the people you love (and the one's you're stuck with).

Tracklisting:

1. The Maccabees The Picnic Song
   
2. Future Clouds & Radar Feet On Grass
   
3. The Dodos Park Song
   
4. Chicago Saturday In The Park
   
5. Elliott Smith Independence Day
   
6. The Beatles Mean Mr. Mustard
   
7. Mo Horizons Southern Fried Funky Lovesong
   
8. Kelis Sugar Honey Iced Tea
   
9. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings This Land Is Your Land
   
10. Booker T. & The MG's Green Onions
    
11. Nina Simone Gimme A Pigfoot (And A Bottle Of Beer)
    
12. Ryan Adams Firecracker
    
13. British Sea Power Waving Flags
    
14. New Kids On The Block Popsicle
    
15. Desario Cane Cola
    
16. Cat Power & The Dirty Delta Blues Amazing Grace
    
17. Tahiti 80 Cherry Pie
    
18. Muscles Ice Cream
    
19. Coldplay Strawberry Swing
    
20. Ray Charles America The Beautiful
    
21. Santigold Lights Out (DJ Mehdi Buddy Light Mix)
    
22. The Whitest Boy Alive Fireworks
    
23. 100 Year Picnic Everything's Perfect

Links:
sumMErsize: vol. II, pt. 1
sumMErsize: vol. II, pt. 2

the perks of being a wallflower

Tracklisting:

1. The Smiths Asleep
2. Ride Vapour Trail
3. Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough Fair/Canticle
4. Procol Harum Whiter Shade of Pale
5. Nick Drake Time Of No Reply
   
6. The Beatles Dear Prudence
   
7. Suzanne Vega Gypsy
   
8. The Moody Blues Nights In White Satin
   
9. The Smashing Pumpkins Daydream (Demo)
   
10. Genesis Dusk
    
11. U2 MLK
    
12. The Beatles Blackbird
    
13. Fleetwood Mac Landslide
    
14. The Smiths Asleep (Soundcheck)
    

Link:
The Perks of Being A Wallflower: Winter Songs


When I was reading Wallflower, it occured to me that I needed to share a little of what it offered. It's superb. When I came upon this passage:

"I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of htese memories adn feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand. And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote on of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope that they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

it was as if reading a passage from my mind... except made profoundly clear so that others could understand. Understand what it is that I get out of making playlists. The following is a playlist made from and inspired by the music from the book. In the style of Charlie I hope.

"I hope it's the kind of second side that [you] can listen to whenever [you] drive alone and feel like [you] belong to something whenever [you're] sad. I hope it can be that for [you]"

Enjoy.

Tracklisting:

1. Regina Spektor Laughing With
   
2. David Bowie Rebel Rebel
   
3. Red Light Company With Lights Out
   
4. The Beatles Something
   
5. Gary Jules Falling Awake
   
6. James Blackshaw Infinite Circle
   
7. Billie Holiday Solitude
   
8. Arcade Fire Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)
   
9. Blondie Union City Blue
   
10. Mr. Mister Broken Wings
    
11. Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit [LP Version]
    
12. Pink Floyd Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. II
    
13. Tim Curry (Frank N' Furter) I'm Going Home
    
14. Glen Hansard Lies
    
15. The Wallflowers Another One In The Dark
    
16. Adam Lambert Mad World (Tears for Fears Cover)
    
17. Matt Nathanson Bulletproof Weeks
    
18. Jeff Buckley Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Cover)

Links:
B-Sides: Music From & Inspired by the Book, Pt. I
B-Sides: Music From & Inspired by the Book, Pt. II

Instrumentality.

Instrumentals offer a plethora of possibilities when it comes to the emotional experience. If culminated properly there is the prospect of the picturesque portrayal... perhaps at times too perfect. Even still, the idea of collecting worldess psalms, ones which celebrate and lament life is throughly promising to me. Below is a collection of instrumentals from what I consider the great contemporaries of composers. The 25 track collection covers the epic journey of a single person through a great many tribulative triumphs, to the ultimate conclusion of life... death. I hope you enjoy.

1. Michael Brook Carte Noir [From "Into the Wild"]
2. Mark Isham Building a Family [From "Life as a House"]
3. Hans Zimmer Gumption [From "The Holiday"]
4. Nico Muhly Reading [From "The Reader"]
5. Ennio Morricone Deborah's Theme [From "Once Upon a Time in America"]
6. John Williams Destiny's Path [From "Memoirs of a Geisha"]
7. Thomas Newman Dead Already [From "American Beauty"]
8. Piero Umiliani Crepuscolo Sul Mare (Twilight on the Sea) [From "Ocean's 12"]
9. Nicola Piovani Vita É Bella (Life Is Beautiful) [From "Life is Beautiful"]
10. Rachel Portman Chocolate Sauce [From "Chocolat"]
11. Christopher Gunning L'éveil [From "La Vie En Rose"]
12. Adrian Johnston With Terry Davies & The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra Fantasy-Impromptu in C Sharp minor, Op. 66: Always Summer [From "Brideshead Revisited"]
13. Christophe Beck Blue Umbrellas [From "Under the Tuscan Sun"]
14. Nicola Piovani Caro Diario [From "Caro Diaro (Journal Intime)"]
15. Itzhak Perlman & John Williams With The Boston Pops Orchestra film score Theme [From "Now, Voyager"]
16. Janusz Olejniczak Nocturne For Piano in C Sharp minor (Doubtful), KK Anh. Ia/6 [From "The Pianist"]
17. Ryuichi Sakamato Bibo No Aozora/04 [From "Babel"]
18. Ennio Morricone The Crisis [From "The Legend of 1900"]
19. Dario Marianelli Your Hands Are Cold [From "Pride & Prejudice"]
20. Patrick Doyle & Miriam Stockley Love Theme (Kissing In The Rain) [From "Great Expectations"]
21. Philip Glass The Poet Acts [From "The Hours"]
22. Thomas Newman Road to Chicago [From "Road to Perdition"]
23. Dario Marianelli Elegy for Dunkirk [From "Atonement"]
24. Jake Parker (Performed By Isobel Griffiths & Conducted By Nick Ingman/Jake Parker) Title Theme [From "The Life of David Gale"]
25. Ennio Morricone (Performed By Yo-Yo-Ma) Ecstacy of Gold [From "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"]

Links:
Instrumentality. Pt.1
Instrumentality. Pt.2

sumMErsize: vol. 1

Mixtape Numero UNO...of 3. This baby is all about the hot, hot heat... what with it reaching the mid 80's here and sky rocketing past 90 elsewhere, I think it's the best way to kick off the summer. So lather up with your SPF 5000, don some booka shades, grab yourself a towel the size of texas and plug this playlist in.

Tracklisting:
Pas/Cal - The Bronze Beached Boys (Come On Let's Go)
Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer
Girl Talk - Summer Smoke
Modest Mouse - Summer
Shy Child - Summer
The Republic Tigers - Golden Sand
The Cloud Room - We Sleep in the Ocean
Lupe Fiasco - Sunshine
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
Weezer - Island in the Sun
Neko Case - I'm An Animal
Belle & Sebastian - Song For Sunshine
Pogo - Alice
Jay-Z - Sunshine (Ratatat Remix)
Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Damn It's Hot, Pt. 1
Katy Perry - Electric Feel (MGMT Cover)
Colin Meloy - Summertime (Sam Cooke Cover)
Muse - Feeling Good (Nina Simone Cover)
Air France - Beach Party
J Dilla Feat. Common & D'Angelo - So Far So God
Bon Iver - Beach Baby
Blue Sky Black Death - Hot Night
Emiliana Torrini - Unemployed in Summertime
Jens Lekman - A Sweet Summer's Nigh On Hammer Hill

Links:
sumMErsize: vol. I, pt. 1
sumMErsize: vol. I, pt. 2