SUMMER LOVE 2011

We're making some summer mixtapes, and this is one of them.  It's called Summer Love 2011 and the link is the mp3 which has a little something special at the end but here is the tracklisting w/ some other mp3s, too:



1. "Good Stuff" - UGK
2. "Give Me Your Love" - Curtis Mayfield
3. "LAst Night" - BeachesBeaches
4. "Cowboys In The Void" - QUILT
5. "Got A Feelin'" - The Mamas & Papas
6. "I'd Rather Be With You" - Bootsy Collins
7. "Whxt Txrns U Xn?" - Teams
8. "Playing Your Game Baby" - Barry White
9. "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" - Dionne Warwick
10. "Paranoiyalackofcommunication" - Flash Forest
11. "Lady Dub" - The Widdler
12. "Touch" - Holy Other

Basically it's some songs that I really think will be nice for driving around with the windows open or drinking beers on the po'ch or laying in the grass or in the sand or travelling, even, and so it's a nice mix for summer.  It's got a lotta soul.  Some of the songs were inspired by mixes from Yvynyl, Flashlight Tag, and The Captain.  Most of the other songs were straight from the heart.

Have A Good Summer and love one another.

Coma Cinema and Teams/Forty Ounce Mix

Last night Coma Cinema was like "I've decided to release the new EP a couple of days early," and I mean I know it's early but in my opinion the new EP, Abandoned Lands, is pretty solid.  The songs come off as successful experiments, smart and vibrant and wild, with lots of blown out synth tricks and fucked up wry attitude.  It's actually pretty weird but its weirdness is a testament to its accomplishment, let's say.  Here's this song where you can kind of tell what I'm saying, with like a metronome of a crystalline beat and lyrics about Satan and it seems like the kind of song you could listen to on a summer night road trippin, so right on.
"Burn a Church" - Coma Cinema


Then, too, a couple weeks ago, versatile kind of avant-electro guy Teams and those busy British entrepreneurs at Forty Ounce who yeah were in the previous post too--together they made a mixtape called the Teams Mixtape, I guess, that is in any case all I've wanted to listen to since I downloaded it.  I've been into mixes lately, and this one is one where I'm listening to it and I can't help but keep re-affirming to myself how cool I think it is.  There's some Pictureplane and Nguzunguzu and James Blake and Lil B so I mean--it's one of those that kind of makes you feel cooler just because you're listening to it and you have it and stuff.  So it's a hot commodity, right?, and it'll get you dancin.  And this summer why the fuck you wouldn't want to be dancin.
Teams Mixtape - Teams/Forty Ounce
And if you haven't already, don't forget to pick up the Teams LP Dxys Xff, available at Bandcamp and AMDiscs.  That album is heavy, but bright you know?  Here, check it out:
"Whxt Txrns U Xn?" - Teams