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i little mix i've made. thursday night into friday morning.

oh so good. a mix with the feel of a road trip, windows down, last days of summer.

click the image to get the tunes. enjoy and happy thursday/friday.

soft bits of color mix

a soft mix i made over the weekend and into monday nightenjoy

photo from hawaii 8.4.09

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still crazy after all these years (paul simon cover) - deer tick

summer windows - the cave singers
foreground - grizzly bear
miracle - cocorosie
city rain, city streets - ryan adams
royal lawns - the cave singers
beautiful boyz - cocorosie
california - joey ryan
relator  - pete yorn and scarlett johnansson
what kind of fool am i? - deer tick
let's go surfing - the drums
country - empire in the sun

click to download

sotd

tonight by lykke li

Lykke Li - Tonight from Lykke Li on Vimeo.

Song if the day

Taking the farm by war on drugs

Turntable

New turntable!!!!

sotd: empire of the sun "walking in a dream"

black cab sessions with ryan adams

sotd: bon iver covers feist

bon iver - "park" cover by feist (mp3)

OTHER SUPER GOOD COVERS 

> Bon Iver covers the outfield's "your love" (mp3)

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an afternoon mix

posting a few favorite songs and the soundtrack of imagery i can see these songs going with. (think of it as a movie)
so just dig it.
dig it. dig it. dig it.

1. empire in the sun - walking in a dream
download:link

the imagery scene:
(10 years old . high tops . dreamy afternoons with golden sun light casts . cannon balls in the pool . lemonade stands down the block . kids running to the ice cream truck .  sprinklers and roller skates)

2. mgmt - kids
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the imagery scene:
(group of "scene'sters" or hipsters . busy city with cars . on bicycles . buddy on pegs. stripes . 80s style sunglasses . dancing on top of cars in time square . pure fun . hyper color tshirts)

3. dr. dog - heart it races
download: link

the imagery scene:
(two best friends .  now 80 years old . sandy feet . wrinkles . swinging in a park . sunny skies . reflecting the past good life)

4. girl in a coma - their cell
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the imagery scene:
(big windows .  historic downtown white painted apartment . getting ready for the day . cigarettes .  white tshirts and black underwear . high heels . messy eyeliner . no time)

5. great dj - ting tings
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the imagery:
(fast forward motion . night . city lights . whiskey shots . dirty cab drivers . beautiful people . drugs)

5. bon iver - beach baby
download:link

the imagery:
(two turtles scooting along the beach in love leaving a sandy trail)

6. velviter - roll on babe
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imagery
(its a mashup.... scenes from almost famous with a mix of shawnee national forest at 17 or 18 years of age . camping on the weekends . jackson creek . camp fires . mosquito bites . milwaukees best . stars . midnight swims . smelly hippies)

7. Okkervil River - Lost Coastlines
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imagery:
(road trip . windows down . sunkissed skin)

8. maps and atlases - you and me and the mountain
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Imagery:
(picnics and love)

9. apollo sunshine - breeze
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(a sigh . a breath of fresh air .  a first kiss . psychedelia fields of color)

sotd: lykke li covers kings of leon

Lykke Li - Knocked Up (Kings Of Leon Cover)

most for sure one of the best things i've heard in a long while! a mashup of two of my fave artists.