one for summer, one for the desert

what a week it has been! a most excellent kick-off to the summer months. congratulations to the newlyweds; enjoy the honeymoon!

this month is a double whammy of mixes, one to kick off the summer and one to celebrate a fantastic week in the desert, kicked off by a calexico concert in williamsburg last tuesday. for those of you that gave such positive feedback on the all-vinyl mix, thank you! i will definitely do it again, but it's going to be a little while before i do. as some of you know, i'm heading up to beantown and i'm going to have to get settled in first.



*courtesy of buck

where to begin... well, in honor of a week in tucson and a calexico concert to kick it off, i have created an all-calexico mix originally created for ara and cicely that i now share with you all. it's a great introduction to their music:

1. sunken waltz
2. quattro (world drifts in)
3. alone again or
4. crystal frontier
5. corona
6. across the wire
7. dub latina
8. cruel
9. service and repair
10. roka
11. el picador
12. ballade of cable hogue
13. not even stevie nicks
14. woven birds (cinematic orchestra remixico)
15. cast your coat
16. all systems red
17. sonic wind
18. muleta

download: http://www.bazoomercom.com/ari/Calexico%20Mix.zip

the summer mix, complete with the usual description:

1. wilco - summer teeth
2. chris miller - ton bec est doux
3. tim seeley - funeral music
4. daniel lanois - the unbreakable chain
5. mos def - umi says (zero 7 remix)
6. brian eno and david byrne - help me somebody
7. jon brion - i believe she's lying
8. the beta band - broken up adingdong
9. chris potter - shadow (for joe henderson)
10. john legend - she don't have to know
11. the chemical brothers - surface to air
12. sufjan stevens - no man's land
13. neko case - that teenage feeling
14. phoenix - consolation prizes
15. regina spektor - carbon monoxide
16. sigur rós - glósóli

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

wilco's summer teeth is my perennial kickoff to summer. no summer mix would be complete without it. chris miller's ton bec est doux is largely responsible for my current cajun obsession. nothing like a bunch of happy, french gibberish to put you in a good mood (see: la bottine souriante). thanks to šara for introducing me to tim seeley. funeral is surprisingly catchy, given its title, and especially given the line "it's that look in your eyes that pictures me dead when i am sleeping." can't help but chuckle. i love daniel lanois' ethereal solo stuff. inadvertently, this mix ended up being a mix of people that have worked with u2 i suppose, as both lanois and eno are on this mix. mos def gets remixed by zero 7 to great effect. it really brings out the classic soul feel in the original. man, listen to the groove on brian eno and david byrne's from help me somebody on the my life in the bush of ghosts re-release. hard to believe it's 20 years old. jon brion's i believe she's lying is for conor, who, after seeing brion, felt inspired enough to call me and tell me all about it. the beta band is immortalized by the line "i will now sell 10 copies of three ep's by the beta band," delivered by john cusack in high fidelity. but contrary to popular belief, there are other songs besides dry the rain, such as broken up adingdong. chris potter's tribute to joe henderson, shadow, is meant for those quiet summer nights of introspection. john legend's she don't have to know is the closest i'm going to come to a pop radio plug. this song came on my itunes randomly a couple of months ago, and i became obsessed with the beat and legend's amazing harmonies. plus the lyrics are hillarious. then, less then a week ago, i heard the song randomly played on the radio. go figure. i only have one description for the chemical brothers' surface to air: where the streets have no name for the new millenium. astonishingly enough, sufjan's most perfectly-orchestrated ode to illinois came on the outtakes album, with no man's land. that teenage feeling by neko case brings back that whole AM radio feel, a new summer regular for me. and because it's summer, sometimes we just need to be happy, so here is phoenix's consolation prizes. regina spektor's carbon monoxide is the happiest tune about suicide since anything that elliott smith wrote. take that for what it's worth. and i've always wanted to end a mix with sigur rós' glósóli. so there it is.

Tags:

• july summer