Texas only kept me awake

01. Burial + Four Tet - Wolf Cub
02. Neko Case - The Pharoahs
03. Tortoise - The Fall Of Seven Diamonds Plus One
04. T. - A Gun in My Hat
05. Max Richter - Campana: The Tartu Piano
06. Tindersticks - The Other Side Of The World
07. Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Broken Line 1
08. City Center - Killer Whale
09. Have a Nice Life - Bloodhail
10. Paavoharju - Tuoksu Tarttuu Meihin
11. Sebastien Schuller - Weeping Willow
12. Mount Eerie - The Mouth Of Sky
13. Mus - Embalses y Rios
14. Martyn - Is This Insanity? Ft. Spaceape
15. Grizzly Bear - While You Wait On The Others
16. Meso Meso - Night River
17. Life Without Buildings - Sorrow (live)
Total Time: 75:24 after edits
Crossfaded Tracks: 1&2, 5&6, 7&8, 10&11 -- burning to disc only works if you have audacity to convert to wav, otherwise there may be a weird click in the middle of the transition which is not cool, but maybe most of you have ipods or could just listen on the computer :P

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The cover art is def. photoshopped. the original photo was from that same Ohio trip from '06... I can't help that I took good photos then (Original)
The liner notes aren't going to be very informative considering I don't feel like doing research right now and am watching, of all things, The Bachelorette (the men tell all episode! harrr). maybe one day I will edit this and just alert everyone on that day... or not

Also, please let me know if the links all work and the songs sound okay 'cause it's always worrisome when technology is involved and well, typing any code... hah (all I know is that it finally sounded good on disc :P)

( Liner Notes )

This year, I decided I was just going to play an album association game instead of going into great detail like I usually do (though I kinda broke this rule a slight tad on the top two and added detail to the words). it's a lot more efficient and still at least kinda makes it interesting.

( #s 10-1 )

( Other Notable Mentions )

( #s 5-1 songs )

( #s 5-1 Disappointments )

Anyway, have a happy new year everyone!

01. Arovane - The Storm
02. Shearwater - Seventy-Four, Seventy-Five
03. The Black Heart Procession - Voiture En Rouge
04. Tindersticks - For Those...
05. Gravenhurst - Trust
06. Herbert - Something Isn't Right
07. T - Dancing Together
08. Swod - Tucholskystr. 34
09. TV-Resistori - J.O.V.H.M.L.S.O.A.M.O (love)
10. Kode9 & The Spaceape - Quantum
11. Angil & The Hiddentracks - Trying To Fit
12. Machinefabriek - Afgebroken flats in Presikhaaf
13. Sandro Perri - Dreaming
14. The National - Santa Clara
15. Skallander - Forgiven
16. Part Timer - Theme from Part Timer
17. Ella Guru - On A Mountain
18. Richard Buckner - The Ocean Cliff Clearing
19. El Hijo - Los reyes que traigo
20. Ticonderoga - Why Do You Suppose?
21. Robert Wyatt - Just As You Are
22. Angil & The Hiddentracks - lift trip to mars (clip) [hidden track !!!]
Total time: 75:08 after edits.
Crossfaded tracks: 1&2, 4&5, 8&9, 11&12, 15&16 -- you know the drill.. convert crossfaded mp3s to wavs if you want it on disc


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Since I put this off for so long, I warn you... it's a long set of liner notes... eesh. I didn't think I had that much to say!

( liner notes )

Finally I'm back home and have finished this list. it took longer due to deciding to elaborate on all 10 instead of just the top 5. it's longer than I anticipated.. I figured I'd just type up a few sentences each, but I'm not good at being concise even with writer's block, sorry.

( #s 10-1 )

( world music I liked )

( dvd )

So, that's it!
Perhaps this list'll provide you with some ideas for what to spend your holiday cash on or at least provided you with some entertainment for the day.

p.s. my connection is being an ass today, so I'm unsure if the songs I uploaded play all the way through, if it's bandwidth or what, but some stop streaming before the end. who knows. let me know if it's an overall problem beyond my connection

By chance, I finally found that Hot Chip b-side I wanted in mp3 format that I was looking for last month:
A Glue Too Thick

Ahh... the good of browsing mp3 blogs randomly.

Downloaded Recently:
alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto- revep ep
Brightblack Morning Light- s/t
Calexico- Convict Pool
Corker/Conboy- 3º Colder [sndtrk]
Corker/Conboy- In Light Of That Learnt Later
Gilles Peterson- Back in Brazil
Mike Fellows- Limited Storyline Guest
My Latest Novel- Wolves
Parenthetical Girls- Safe As Houses
Portastatic- Who Loves The Sun [sndtrk]
Sunset Rubdown- Shutup I Am Dreaming
Tunng- Comments Of The Inner Chorus

Albums purchased the past couple months:
Adem- Love and Other Planets
(this one is decent enough, but still like the first better)

Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
(about time I got a real copy)

David Thomas Broughton- the complete guide to insufficiency
(heard this awhile back. I think the song 'execution' is the most disturbing/witty song I've heard this year.. the cover art is cute)

Felt- Gold Mine Rush
(I recently discovered them -- yes, I know.. where was I? this is some compilation of some of their best I think.. it's nice)

The Futureheads- News and Tributes + free 7"
(there were four songs at the end that were not on the downloaded version I had, so this was a nice surprise. I don't have their first album, so have nothing to compare it to, but I find this catchy. hopefully it's the sort that sticks)

Guillemots- From the Cliffs EP
(it sounded a bit like arcade fire at first....)

Hot Chip- Boy From School (Part One) 7" (single)
Hot Chip- Boy From School (Part Two) 7" (single)
Hot Chip- Boy From School (Erol Alkan Mix) (single)
Hot Chip- Boy From School (promo single)
Hot Chip- The Warning
(I got all of these around my bday... obsessed a bit? I still want an mp3 version of the song "A Glue Too Thick".. I could only find it on the danish version of the iTunes store through my ongoing google searches. sad)

Howling Bells- s/t
(this one was supposed to come out in April, but didn't seem to appear till May. it was well worth the wait though.. despite having it on my HD for months! in case you missed the earlier posts I made, this'll sum it up: Australian Neko Case)

manyfingers- our worn shadow
(it finally was released last week. well worth the effort. there's an added song plus dvd of a live show + interlude! if it weren't already on last year's top list, it would've been on this year's. I found it cute he wore a Hood shirt in the video... hah! I want a Hood shirt!)

Juana Molina- Son
(Spanish songs over nice electronic soundscapes of sorts... I've only listened to this one once, so haven't formed a solid opinion, but yes, the cover art is cool.. it has texture!)

The Mountain Goats - Babylon Springs EP
(really, as shown on the last mix, I bought it for that Trembling Blue Stars cover, but the rest is okay. I've never been a big fan of them -- apparently there's such a thing as too lo-fi/same-y, but some songs are decent as the ones on this EP were)

Soul Jazz Records Presents Tropicália: A Brazilian Revolution in Sound
(basically summarised in the title... it comes with a rather lengthy booklet discussing the content of the 20 tracks. I haven't read it yet, but it looks interesting.. it's like a mini-book)

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This doesn't count downloads. I've been slacking with that though.