JANGLE ALL THE WAY!: A Xmas Mixtape

 Here's a Christmas mixtape for your yuletide feels! 

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SUMMER MIXTAPE 2013

Sea, sand and surf music! Here's my second playlist for this hot season because I want to and summer's the best time to make one! This mix is more upbeat than the first so you might want to download this for your holy week beach-capade(so wrong).

Listen to a one-track continuous mix of the playlist below and DOWNLOAD HERE.

I didnt post a tracklist for this one. You have to listen to the mix to know and It's going to surprise you, I promise. But if you really want the complete track by track mix, you can also DOWNLOAD HERE. Enjoy the sun! Cover art by Nicolo Balao

PBR&B Mixtape

R&B never sound this good. Sorry no Frank Ocean.

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BAND CRUSH: Hospital

There's nothing clinical about this Moscow-based band but their name. First time to hear Hospital's Time Will Tell, I never thought that these guys were from Russia. I mean, I havent heard anything from there specially with their brand of music that can be mistaken as something British or Scandinavian or from elsewhere. According to the band's site, they try to fuse classical brit-pop, shoegaze, power-pop and even post-punk. And the result is this amazing seven-track EP When The Trees Were Higher which you can download for free. (Image by Anna Kova)

BAND CRUSH: Northern Spies

Hey guys! Check out this amazing indie-pop act from Stockholm, Sweden- Astrid a. k. a. Northern Spies. She plays calming indie-pop tunes in sweet acoustic numbers. Her EP My Middle Names is released under Eardrumspop and you can download it for free here! The track one is a major catch! Perfect song to reminisce your first date with your loves!! hahaha Stream the whole EP below :p

H.H.W.W. MIXTAPE

Drawing by Edrick Bruel

That's Holding Hands While Walking y'all! haha I must say, this is the sweetest mix i've done so far. If you're a big fan of indiepop/twee then this one's for you. It includes some new tracks that I got from my mail and I threw in some of my old faves. You can download the entirety of the mix here. Now, let's go to the park! :)


TRACKLIST:
0:00 - 3:14        Advantage Lucy - Windy Sunny Friday
3:14 - 6:38        Allo Darlin' - Wonderland
6:38 - 10:22        Saturday Looks Good To Me - Sunglasses
10:23 - 14:30      Kisses - Funny Heartbeat
14:31 - 17:17      The Proctors - Fun Sunday
17:18 - 21:41      Blueboy - The Joy of Living
21:42 - 23:52      Thee AHs - Bronwyn
23:23 - 28:05      The Cherry Orchard - Love Among The Stars
28:06 - 31:00      The Softies - You and Only You
31:01 - 34:29      The Gentle Waves - Pretty Things
34:30 - 36:40      The Sunbathers - Hope
36:41 - 38:58      The Hermit Crabs - Stop This Now
38:59 - 44:04      White Shoes & The Couples Company -  Selangkah Keseberang
44:05 - 48:00      Sambassadeurs - Memories
48:01 - 51:41      LMP (La Musique Populaire) - Show Some Heaven To Me Baby
51:42 - 55:02      Sleeping Policeman - High Skies
55:03 - 57:11      The School - Why Do You Have To Break My Heart Again
57:12 - 59:39      Fear of Men - Mosaic
59:40 - 1:02:42     The Happy Balloon - Among The First To Know

A Halloween Mixtape

How about a mix for your trick'r treatin? DOWNLOAD HERE

Random Mixtape

Here's a mix of tunes for your steady afternoon siesta :)DOWNLOAD HERE

BAND CRUSH: Eyedress

photo by Ecks Abitona

Idris Vicuña aka Eyedress' debut solo EP is Half Japanese half genius = 100% awesomeness!

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WHATEVER MIXTAPE

You might want to update your iTunes with these catchy tracks! Some of it are from last year, some are new and some I dunno! Enjoy!

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Here's one of my favorite tracks from the mixtape. Expect to hear similar radio-friendly songs here. So download the mixtape now if you dig those kind of tunes! You're welcome :p

Cruiser - The Fritz

MIXTAPE: The End of Summer

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A Summer Mixtape 2012

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Here's last year's playlist

MUST LISTEN: Pipes and Palindromes by Modulogeek

Check out Pipes and Palindromes, the new EP of Joon Guillen aka Modulogeek. After remixing Outerhope’s The Man with the Pipes, he got so inspired and wrote some tunes about it. The result is a 5-track EP which shows Joon's melancholic side.

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You can also check Modulogeek's Transition EP and my interview of him here

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Since my flight to Singapore for the Laneway Festival is not gonna push through, I think it's time for me to post these amazing, long over due music submissions I've received on my email. I am sorry I've been lazy for the past weeks but I'm back with some must-listen tracks! You can also download the songs. Just right click on the title. Enjoy!

Sinead O'Connor - How About I Be Me

Yasmin - American Wedding [Frank Ocean Cover]

120 Days - Dahle Disco

Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong

I Was A King - Happy (Feat. Robyn Hitchcock and Emil Nikolaisen)

Say Anything - Burn A Miracle

Peasant - The Flask

Nada Surf - Waiting For Something

Newtimers - January Love

School of Seven Bells - Lafaye

Now, Now - School Friends

The Lighthouse and the Whaler - Pioneers

Benji Mann - Fallin' To The Ground (feat. Jonathan Lee)

Mansions on the Moon - Athens

Yellow Ostrich - Marathon Runner

Yukon Blonde - Stairway

I will be posting the second half sooner and it's gonna be as awesome as these tracks! ;p

INDIEBON MIXTAPE: Live and Stripped

Live performances by the @LanewayFestSG bands/artists! I cant wait!!!

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Merry Xmas from Lykke Li!!

How about an early Christmas present from Lykke Li?! Here's her The Lost Sessions Vol. 1 which you can download for free!

MUST LISTEN: Number Line Records Sampler No. 2

The Number Line Records Sampler is out! The Volume 2 includes new releases and demos from the artists under NLR. I totally enjoyed the Volume 1 and this new compilation is also a winner! Covers by Poklong Anading, Louie Cordero, Nicole Coson, Dan Matutina, and Luis Antonio Santos.

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GET TO KNOW: Modulogeek

Photo by Bobby Benedicto

I am so excited to introduce to you guys this amazing musician! He is Joon Guillen aka Modulogeek. He just came out with an amazing new EP this year called Transition (Number Line Records) and it might just be THE best local release of 2011. I bugged him with some silly questions which he gamely answers below...

When did you start as Modulogeek?

It was mostly an act of desperation. When I moved to hk I found it increasingly frustrating to not being in a band (as was the norm in Manila). Eventually I decided to go solo and what better way to start by trying electronic music? 

How would you describe your music?

It's pop music that has had quite a few drinks in a bar, hooks up with a nice cute girl, then wakes up the next morning in a tub of ice with its kidney removed.  

What’s the story behind your name?

I took a class in cryptography and learned that modular arithmetic (where modulo is always used) plays a major role in modern encryption (as in, how we keep our Internets secure and such.)  At the same time I associated modulo operations with how my interests wax and wane periodically, as if in a cyclical manner - it could be film one moment, then books the next, then taxidermy, then back to film etc etc. Geek is kinda obvious ;)

How would you describe Transition in one sentence?

Kidney removal trial runs!

You played Mandolin in the track The Tail of Mr.Fox? Can you tell us what other musical instruments you play?

I didn't play them. A handful of the tracks in Transition are results of remix projects by the monome.org community.  The idea is to create a song out of only a handful of participant-submitted samples and nothing else. So The Tail of Mr. Fox is 100% samples, as are Spectre and No Laughing Matter. I *can* play instruments (to some degree).  Just the usual rock band components - guitar, bass, drums, keyboard. 

Were you in Hong Kong when you made Transition? If yes, would you say that the culture/vibe in HK inspired you to make this EP and in what sense? 

Yes I made the tracks in HK.  I guess there is some influence, but I can't tell exactly how.

Photo by Camilla Pante

 WHAT'S...

...your worst vice?

gaming marathons!

...your favorite website?

rockpapershotgun.com, xkcd.com and slashdot.org 

 ...are you listening right now?

Deerhoof

 ...your secret talent?

none worth telling :D

 ...your worst fashion advice? ;)

i have no fashion sense so anything i say is bad fashion advice.

 ...song/band/artist you'd never admit you listen to?

i dunno.. i have no shame in music. i just listened to "Tomorrow" from Annie several times in a row, does that count?  

So there! Now it's time for you to listen to his music. Download it. Love it.Share it.

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Tuesday Not so Morning Music Bonanza!

You can laugh at the title of this post all you want but I assure you that the following bands you're about hear are such winners! (or your money back)

I will start with this awesome band from Brooklyn called Fort Lean. I am not really good at categorizing a band in which genre it falls in to but Fort Lean's music is somehow different from the usual sound Brooklyn bands produce. Their music is a mixture of vintage rock & roll, grunge, melodic indie-rockish music with some surf rock edge. It may look complicated but their music says otherwise. They have a self-titled EP out which you can download for free on their Bandcamp site but you can stream it right here


They just released a music video for their song Beach Holiday (my fav track from the EP)

Another must listen band is Juveniles. They are hairy. They are French and they make amazing new wave indie-pop sound with the right amount of synths. They just signed in to Kitsune few months ago and you can stream their first EP We Are Young below...
We Are Young by Juvenilesmusic
Night Nights by Juvenilesmusic

...and download their current single Hard Working Girls too! J'adore!

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Merry Christmas from the DDC...

Was just listening to Daydream Cycle's My Lucius Star last night and here you are, an early Christmas treat from the band! Here's Christmas is Here from their 2008 recording.

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Christmas Is Here (The Synth Experience Remix) DOWNLOAD

Itodo na natin! I found this cover track of The Sherman's  Lousy Judge Of Character by Daydream Cycle...

 

One of my Christmas wishes now is to hear new materials from this awesome band. Here's my favoritest song from Daydream Cycle...