Good Sleep

Let's be honest.  The older we get, the harder really good sleep comes around.  But apparently, good songs about sleep aren't difficult to find at all.  These are all songs I really really enjoy separately, and it made more sense that I do when I realized they all have "sleep" in their titles.  

Good Sleep

1. The Flaming Lips - Sleeping on the Roof

2. Sondre Lerche - Sleeping on Needles

3. My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep

4. The Radio Dept. - Sleeping In

5. Stars - Sleep Tonight

Second Year

I just recently stumbled upon this mix I put together awhile ago. Second Year is for the fact that I had put this together during my second year of college. But it's peculiar that I had chosen songs of liminality to be the soundtrack of my sophomore year. Take a listen. Every song sounds like it cannot stand on its own, like it is in between. Maybe at that time I felt very in between, which is a feeling that I think unfortunately go unnoticed too often. I want to cherish that feeling. Be in it as much as I can. Because ultimately, when will we ever not be in between?

Second Year

1. Broken Social Scene - Guilty Cubicles

2. Aphex Twin - Avril 14th

3. Mum - Green Grass Of Tunnel

4. Club 8 - Between Waking and Sleeping

The Whole World Dances

It's been awhile, sorry!

I'll make my re-entrance to blogging with some sweet, dance tunes from groups all over the world.  Because if there's one other thing than food that everyone in this world enjoys, it's got to be dancing.  

The Whole World Dances

The Virgins - Rich Girls (The Twelves remix)

Cut Copy - Zap Zap [Bright Like Neon Love, 2005]

The Twelves - When You Talk

Justice - New Jack  [Cross, 2007]

Thieves Like Us - Drugs In My Body

Both Cut Copy and The Twelves have upcoming US tours.  I plan on attending The Twelves' Brooklyn show on December 6.  Join me!

Strictly Un-American

On some days, I like to keep it strictly un-American.  Just a little reminder to the self that being American was not how I started.

Strictly Un-American

Sigur Ros - Gobbledigook [Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, 2008]

Acid House Kings - She Keeps Hoping [Mondays Are Like Tuesdays and Tuesdays Are Like Wednesdays, 2002]

Shugo Tokumaru - La La Radio [Exit, 2008]

My Bloody Valentine - On Becoming a Decibel

Just wanted to share with you all the review I wrote of My Bloody Valentine's show on September 23rd for Frederick Foxtrott. Read it, and read the other music reviews! It's a great way to learn new music that is much less pretentious than Pitchfork.

More mixes coming soon. The delay, I assure you, is for many good reasons, such as MBV.

2008: The Summer of C's

I was very surprised to know that not only anyone out there reads this, but that some of you also cared enough to tell me to continue posting! What a way to make a person feel better, especially in days like these when I reflect on having left one place for another with a heavy heart. Thanks to all of you for being such wonderful friends.

Though this blog was simply for mix EP's, I'm going to take the liberty to venture a bit out of my own mission statement and include a recap of the times spent not making mix EP's. After all, all things loose charm once a routine becomes of them. So, here it goes.

In a nutshell, the Cindiot has learned from a great many experiences in the past several months of summer that life is lived best when simple but active and with love. This summer's activities vary from such things like watching a Grand Sumo Wrestling Championship to purchasing the first-ever designer dress at Barney's Warehouse Sale, and from successfully understanding one Mandarin children's song in a CD of twelve to mediating cases of the Orange County Superior Court small claims court. Others that are especially enjoyable were playing beach volleyball and having out-of-state visitors.

Thus, I present to you this mix EP. It's for the sweetness of summer and the sour aftertaste that you get from it after the realization that it's gone past you. It's for the pang summer leaves and the jolt it gives that carries you onto times after. And for the way even in times after, summer still has the ability to conjure up memories of which you consciously try to keep stored "as it is" in the recessed parts of your heart, only to be sugarcoated later by none other than your own mind. The summer of C's is about how quickly it fleets, but not away.

Here is my musical ode to 2008: The Summer of Chinese, Cupcakes, Court Cases, and Cinta for/in California. And as you give these tunes a listen, remind yourself for me that my Cinta extends to you too.

The Summer of C's

Editors - Camera (SebastiAn Fader Remix) [SebastiAn Remixes, 2008]

The Black Kids - The Boyfriend (The Twelves Remix) [Works For Me, 2008]

Thao and the Get Down, Stay Down - Yes, and So On So On [We Brave Bee Stings and All, 2008]

Bon Iver - Lump Sum [For Emma, Forever Long Ago, 2007]

Radiohead - House of Cards [In Rainbow, 2007]

Nothing Wrong Here

Don't you sometimes wish there was a way to suspend time so that on those mornings you wake up and think to yourself, Oh, nothing wrong here, it would last for just a few more turns or a couple more stretches on the bed, maybe one more yawn, or another sweet thought--remnants of your dream--before you get up and walk your day?

I wish this all the time. These songs sometimes make pretense that my wish comes true.

Nothing Wrong Here

1.. Broken Social Scene - Guilty Cubicles [Feel Good Lost, 2001]
2. Aphex Twin - Avril 14th [Drukqs, 2001]
3. Múm - Green Grass of Tunnel [Finally We Are No One, 2002]
4. Club 8 - Between Waking and Sleeping [Strangely Beautiful, 2003]