Ecstatic Sunshine, "Turned On"

"Outside the record there are many sounds. Some of those sounds were moved, through memory, into the record. We would hear soft bass through the windows of a car, or listen to birds waking up before dawn, and learn to remember those sounds and later draw them out of synthesizers or guitars. In this way we could hear the record before it was made. It is like John Cage’s ideas about incidental sound, except instead of composing with those sounds, we composed for them. The record is an homage to the Everyday. It is music that happens, and is heard, and then said." - Matthew Papich on the new album, Yesterday's Work

Mixtapes: MEL-SIN-MNL

(image via milkpack)

This is coming a bit late, but I wanted to share the mixtapes I made out of my flight playlists for this trip back home. There are two (more-or-less coherent) mixes here, mostly made up of the stuff I've been really into over the past couple of months/year. Will hopefully make the mixtapes a regular part of the blog.

Tracklisting

Small Black - Despicable Dogs (Washed Out Remix)
Taken by Trees - Watch the Waves (Memory Tapes Version)
Memory Cassette - Last One Awake
Au Revoir Simone - Shadows (The Teenagers Remix)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher than the Stars
M83 - Teen Angst
Moscow Olympics - No Winter, No Autumn
Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday
Asobi Seksu - Pink Cloud Tracing Paper
The Morning Paper - Always Real
Washed Out - New Theory
Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse
Beach House - Take Care
Cold Cave - Double Lives in Single Beds

http://www.mediafire.com/?gzit4yzjr2h



Tracklisting

Le Loup - Forgive Me
Bear in Heaven - Wholehearted Mess
Fluffy Lumbers - Harry Dolland's
Andrew Cedermark - Hard Livin'
Surf City - Autumn
Girls - Lust for Life
Papercuts - Future Primitive
Kurt Vile - Overnite Religion
Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - Know Better Learn Faster
Holiday Shores - Phones Don't Feud
Best Coast - Sun Was High (So Was I)
Real Estate - Snow Days

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Memoryhouse

I'm flying home soon and really couldn't ask for a better time to discover Memoryhouse and, in particular, their track "To the Lighthouse." It's a perfect song for long drives and idle time in airports, things we tend to associate with "supermodernity," but which I've always linked to older forms of travel like sailing.

Memoryhouse - To the Lighthouse

Also check out the Memoryhouse cover of Grizzly Bear's 'Foreground' on MySpace.