It's late, and I hate Ikea.

before we kick things off... a moment of silence and of song: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/music/audio/
mp3/we_shall_overcome.mp3

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sorry, i spent waaaaaay too much time at ikea today...

1. sufjan stevens - in the devil's territory
2. banda uniao black - yeah yeah yeah
3. the strokes - killing lies
4. stars - my radio (fm mix)
5. chris lightcap - lay-up
6. wayne shorter - over shadow hill way
7. architecture in helsinki - maybe you can owe me
8. reid anderson - todos las cosas se van
9. bloc party - two more years (mstrkrft remix)
10. feist - gatekeeper
11. m. ward - big boat v. 3
12. m. ward - hifi v.2
13. something for rockets - the line
14. martin dosh - nothing new
15. la volee d'castor - la voisine
16. kanye west - golddigger (DIPLO mix)
17. fourtet - smile around the face
18. nickel creek - toxic
19. iron & wine | calexico - all tomorrow's parties
20. mark turner - zurich
21. wilco & billy bragg - airline to heaven

download: http://bazoomercom.com/ari/January%20'06.zip

*updated april 25th, 2006

sufjan makes it onto the mix for the second straight month. i'm determined to get you all to love him, so damnit, get to it! banda uniao black's yeah yeah yeah is dedicated to my audio ergo sum/shari p'oons brothers and sisters. called "one of the most important bands of the black rio movement" by seu jorge (pele in the life aquatic with steve zissou and knockout ned in city of god), this track funks hard, and it funks right. with killing lies, the strokes take their sound in a new direction. i'm not going to try and sell anyone on the strokes, but i love this track. i'll even go as far as to say i think the strokes are pulling a radiohead on this one... stars are back for another go at it, and although this track is even cheesier than my last contribution, it has a kickass trombone part for mr. david lindholm. this mix is going to be pretty jazz heavy, mostly because of my personal attempt to renew my vows to jazz, and mr. ando helped me out by introducing me to chris lightcap last week. listen to that groove on lay-up, it's ridiculous... from sir edward comes this catchy architecture in helsinki track, which of course i had to follow up with an amazing jazz composition by reid anderson (of last month's the bad plus fame) entitled todos las cosas se van from the album, "abolish bad architecture." bloc party makes it back with an awesome remix of their new single two more years (which i'm pretty sure is a thinly veiled message of hope to those who aren't... mm... huge supporters of the current administration... but maybe that's my reading). feist is also back, with gatekeeper, a great semi-bossa nova track that highlights her gorgeous, er, voice. yes, there's a lot of repeats, with m. ward making it on TWICE in a row, with two of my favorite songs from his new album transistor radio. some of you are going to hate something for rockets, and some of you are going to love it, and some of you hate the postal service and will possibly like this instead. i dont' know which camp you'll fall into, but i'm curious! martin dosh i across with all my fine wrmc friends when we saw him perform with andrew bird in montreal back in november of '05. if you guys don't listen to acadian music yet, you're missing out. the most well-known is la bottine souriante, once dubbed the "best live band in the world," but this little ditty by la volee d'castor (french for... volleyball?) might be a nice little intro. golddigger: you've heard it in the clubs, at mccullough, played relentlessly, and maybe, if you were lucky, you won the super bowl and drove off in a hyundai. however, for the rest of us, thanks to kremnuts (aka hebrewtronix), you can check out this amazing remix by diplodocus, the hottest dj on the streets. fourtet's smile around the face says it all. nickel creek doing britney? why not! and iron & wine + calexico manage to extract all the epicness of the velvet underground's all tomorrow's parties and concentrate it into a beautiful, lush, americana-ish arrangement. zurich by mark turner has one of my favorite grooves in any jazz composition ever, plus a really cool floating melody. and finally, airline to heaven is one glorious piece of wilco, destined to become your favorite.