It’s taken me a minute…but hopefully it’s something that you can booze to, cruise to, and keep you warm at night. These are just some of my most beloved jammers, painstakingly collaged/arranged, and imbued/mixed with a lot of love and magic, for your enjoyment! <3

EX ANIMO/AD ASTRA

It’s essentially a live mix (hence the f&*k ups…eeeep! —- channeling the philosophy of wabi-sabi), but was minimally and masterfully edited by musical maestro himself, DJ Maestro P aka Matt Pace, a fellow Shrugger. (Alliteration much?!) He basically salvaged what could be salvaged…BIG UPS!!!! So many thanks to you again Matt

I hope you enjoy these songs as much as I have, and I hope it makes you feel like you’re flying, or maybe even disco dancin’ amongst the stars. I’ll meet you on the astral plane babies

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Tracklisting.

These New Puritans / Navigate-Colours
Woolfy vs Projections / Neeve (Permanent Vacation Tropical Heat Mix)
Freddie Mercury / Message of Love (Leo Zero Re-edit)
Yacht / Psychic City (Classixx Remix)
Sammy Barbot / Mexico (Lovefinger’s Barrio Edit)
Hot Chocolate / Heaven’s In The Backseat Of My Cadillac (Revenge Rework)
The Revenge / Hotz 4 U
The Lovin’ Spoonful / Summer In The City (Peter Visti Edit)
LCD Soundsystem / Sound of Silver (Tim Fuchs Rework)
Lifelike / L.O.V.E. Is What You Need
Alexander Robotnick / Problèmes D’Amour
Connie Case / Get Down
Jacques Renault / Sweet Rollin’ On
War / Galaxy
In Flagranti / Louvre For Yo
La Bionda / I Got Your Number
Still Going / Spaghetti Circus
DJ Kaos / Love The Night Away (Tiedye Mix)
Electric Light Orchestra / All Over The World

… is how I feel when I listen to this dreamy, gorgeous song.

DJ Kaos, Love The Night Away (Tiedye Remix), 2009

A writer from Pitchfork (I know, I know) actually encapsulated an impressive and accurate description of this song: “‘Love the Nite Away (Tiedye Remix)’ is a perfect embodiment of that instant blend of lust and hope and potential, the timeless, youthful search for sensation, visceral feeling and social unity and love, even if it’s only real for that one night, or even that one moment; it’s about losing yourself to another person, when joyful emotion overpowers everything else, neuroses ignored in the wake of unconcerned bliss. How pure and simple life can be.”

Yes, yes indeed.

somehwere i have never travelled,gladly beyond
any experience,your eyes have their silence:
in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me,
or which i cannot touch because they are too near

your slightest look easily will unclose me
though i have closed myself as fingers,
you open always petal by petal myself as Spring opens
(touching skilfully,mysteriously)her first rose

or if your wish be to close me,i and
my life will shut very beautifully,suddenly,
as when the heart of this flower imagines
the snow carefully everywhere descending;

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals
the power of your intense fragility: whose texture
compels me with the colour of its countries,
rendering death and forever with each breathing

(i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens;only something in me understands
the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses)
nobody,not even the rain, has such small hands

e.e.cummings

Dusty Springfield, That’s The Kind Of Love I Got For You, 1978

On my brain, all day

I wanted to upload the actual song, but for some reason it’s not working. Here’s a track from Yura Yura Teikoku’s new album “Hollow Me/Beautiful,” entitled “Ohayo Mada Yaro”:

D R E A M

This song is so beautiful, and I just can’t stop listening to it. It’s so dreamy, and I feel encapsulates so many feelings. Nostalgia, heartache, and probably a lot of emotions that don’t even have names yet. I felt so obsessed by it, and I just wanted to know what he was saying. It was like watching a movie on mute or something. So I had one of my dearest friends Sara translate it, bless her! And the lyrics are just as ethereal as the melody of the song. Enjoy.

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Bibio, Lover’s Carvings, 2009

And days and days and days go by

Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles, 1998

Today was a sad day. Not only did one of Charlie’s Angels, Farrah Fawcett die, but so did Michael Jackson, the King of Pop. I don’t know why, but I’ve always sympathized with MJ. I guess because his life was so tragic, all whilst being so completely legendary. He changed the face of music, and has and will continue to influence music, for generations to come. Even though he definitely had his dark days, I always felt like he was such a tender and fragile soul.

I also finally finished a relatively decent first live mixtape today. This was all unrelated to the events that happened today, but right as I finished, I got a text from my friend saying MJ had died. Though this wasn’t recorded with this intention, I sort of hope it can be an ode to MJ in some way. Strangely enough, I have a Jackson 5/Mike Simonetti edit on it. Rest in peace, Michael, you are cherished and missed!

A k!O MONEY SHOT (Live) MIXX

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Suspiria, Goblin, 1997

Just finished watching this Argento masterpiece. I have to say, he never fails to impress. I downloaded the entire soundtrack, all of which was done by Goblin[s], and it’s truly a masterpiece in and of itself. I apologize for the pretty lame visuals, but this particular video stayed the truest to the film + audio’s sound. Hot damn!

Little Joy, Evaporar, 2008