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Okay. So we”™re getting there. Here is the deal. At present, Dave and I are swapping playlists daily. I”™m taking Monday and Wednesday and he”™s taking Tuesday and Thursday. Friday we had planned to do a collaborative playlist and then leave it for the weekend. Instead I want someone to put”¦
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Post date February 24, 2010

Link: NEWS: Mukinabaht: Friday Morning Guest Spotisfaction?

Okay. So we”™re getting there. Here is the deal.

At present, Dave and I are swapping playlists daily. I”™m taking Monday and Wednesday and he”™s taking Tuesday and Thursday. Friday we had planned to do a collaborative playlist and then leave it for the weekend. Instead I want someone to put”¦

Submissions to: spotisfaction@googlemail.com

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Day 3. The playlist is up early. I actually struggled with this one. Dave”™s playlist was fantastic yesterday. I had already put a playlist together today earlier in the week, and another one as backup. However neither really stood up to yesterdays so I tried to bastardise the two. It didn”™t work. I tried to salvage what I could and put something together and I think the playlist suffered as a result, but hey. I”™ll put it out there.

With this one, I”™ve decided to get most of the “heavier” stuff out the way first with the intent to finish on the atmospheric and textured tracks. Doesn”™t quite blend, due to numerous amendments, but hell – after listening to it I can confirm that I love every track on here.

03 Spotisfaction Wednesday (24 Feb) – TLavelle

Started Out With Nothing – Seasick Steve
The Age Of The Understatement – The Last Shadow Puppets
Hearts On Fire – Clor
This Love Is Fucking Right – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
Everything”™s Explodin”™ – The Flaming Lips
Here Comes The Summer – The Fiery Furnaces
Mental – Eels
You! Me! Dancing! – Los Campesinos!
Summer Away – Aloha
The Movers And The Shakers – Herbert
Id Engager – Of Montreal
Light & Day – The Polyphonic Spree
Tokyo – The Books
Lord Leopard – Caribou
Desert Eagle – Ratatat
The Upwards March – Bell Orchestre
From Off To On – The Knife
Gone To Earth – The American Analog Set
The Outer Banks – The Album Leaf
Leviathan, Bound – Shearwater
Knife – Grizzly Bear
Everything In Its Right Place – Radiohead
Black Swan – Thom Yorke
The Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix) – Kings Of Convenience
You Are The Worst Thing In The World – Telefon Tel Aviv
Floating Points – Ellen Allien
Leaving You Behind – Herrmann + Kleine
On A White Lake, Near A Green Mountain – M83
Allt varÃ° hljÃ³tt – Ã“lafur Arnalds

Today”™s highlights: Forgive me, it”™s been a long morning and I”™m pretty tired. There are too many words to be written today”¦

When I saw Seasick Steve live I was humbled by his raw honesty and passion. “I Started Out With Nothing” and it”™s driving blues progression is a fitting track for the start of a day.

Further on in the playlist you”™ll find something to compliment the Ringo Deathstarr I had on my Monday Spotisfaction. Been going through a bit of a shoe gaze thing for a while. I got a chance to see The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart recently with The Depreciation Guild and was amazed. “This Love Is Fucking Right” is saccharin noise pop bathed in distorted guitars and upbeat melodies. Or something. Anyway, watch out for The Depreciation Guild too, as I will no doubt be featuring them shortly.

I haven”™t got anything clever or interesting to say about The Fiery Furnaces – “Here Comes The Summer” but I wanted to give it a mention because it is a fantastic track.

Going back a few years courtesy of the long suffering Mark Everett of Eels fame with the well crafted “Mental”. Verse-chorus-verse formula dripping with emotional angst, complete with a fantastically surreal almost surf-esq breakdown.

The intro to “You! Me! Dancing!” by Los Campesinos!, especially after the last track in the playlist, really tugs at your soul before unleashing a frenzied torrent of modern indie rock with a light smattering of Patrick Moore-like percussions. Oh my, I”™ve given myself images of “The Gamesmaster” playing Xylophone with Los Campesinos! I”™d pay to see that. I”™d pay to see Patrick Moore playing with any modern band though, to be fair.

Herbert”™s “The Movers and the Shakers” starts out meek enough with simple beats and an organ loop to get you hooked, laying on the vox, the beat and the crazy before the horns signify that it is time to start dancing. Yes, dancing. It”™s a warm and fantastically well topped slice of dance pizza pie. It probably has pineapple on. Although given Herbet”™s outlook on life and the subversive tone on the album, the pizza is likely to contain traces of chewed up aluminium.

“Tokyo” by The Books serves as an interlude. A fantastic interlude, mind, with the first of two Japanese transport soundbytes in (the second being “Leaving You Behind” by Herrmann + Kleine later in the playlist).

I”™m sorry Caribou. I think you”™re fantastic but I was only able to squeeze you in this time with the sublime but short “Lord Leopard”. To me, this song is akin to walking up a flight of stairs, only you have three knees in each leg, the stairs are synths and there is a drummer following you up on one of those Stannah stairlifts.

Ratatat”™s “Desert Eagle” continues from the Caribou stairway. You reach the top only to find more stairs, some lava and 50% more apocalypse. The distorted guitar riff here really emulates the feeling I get walking up apocalyptic staircases surrounded by lava that I encounter on a daily basis. Oh also, in this analogy, the drummer in the stairlift has fallen into the lave and been replaced with a sequencer.

The Knife – “From Off to On” makes me want to commit Enocide. Simple as that.

“Everything In It”™s Right Place” by the mighty Radiohead, then. I don”™t think I have to say anything about this track. As soon as I hear the opening; I”™m smiling. The tune is going to stay in my head all day, for sure. I followed this up with “Black Swan” by the man himself, Thom Yorke. As his solo stuff is still nothing short of excellent. As I said to David – big name bands can be good too, they just have more to prove, which is something Thom Yorke and Radiohead have been doing for quite some time now.

I picked the Four Tet reworking of the Kings Of Convenience classic “The Weight Of My Words” from the album Verses because Four Tet managed to add so much more to an already fantastic and sincere track. None of the haunting sadness of this song has been lost in translation.

The next few tracks are just fantastic, I haven”™t the vocabulary to express their brilliance so I will just shut up and let you listen.

Rounding this playlist off however, is Ã“lafur Arnalds. From what I can tell, this guy is a genuine god damn talent. Not content with drumming for hardcore/metal bands but he also appears to be gifted in the languages of guitar, piano and banjo. He is such a nice chap he even did string arrangements for 65daysofstatic. “Allt varÃ° hljÃ³tt” is taken from his latest release “Found Music” and I urge you to give it a listen in it”™s entirety.

Give the playlist a listen and let me know what you think. I”™m thinking of doing a bit of a radical change of style for my next time (Which is likely to be Monday again). We”™ll see what develops.

[Thom]

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Day number Thursday. This one”™s going to split people right down the middle – some people will *get it* and some people will wonder why the hell I”™ve added William Shatner. The playlist as a whole aims for a “Hey, it”™s almost the weekend, it”™s payday, let”™s start dancing!” kind of a vibe, and hopefully it”™ll help get you through a dreary day.

04 Spotisfaction Thursday (25 Feb) – DProwse

Lars Bartkuhn – Goodby Dancing Hello God
Mr. Scruff, Alice Russell – Music Takes Me Up
SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS – Mars
The Quantic Soul Orchestra – Melodius Wayfarer (Soul Montuno)
Quantic – Wider Than The Sky
Caribou – The Spiritually Immature Mansion
Handsome Boy Modeling School – The Truth
The Heavy – Coleen
Madvillain, Medaphor – Raid
The Herbaliser, Roots Manuva – Lord Lord
The Roots – What They Do
The Cuban Brothers – Miguel For President
Jazzanova, Phonte Coleman – So Far From Home
Breakestra – Show and Prove
Bonobo – Transmission 94 – Parts 1 & 2
Four Tet – You Could Ruin My Day
William Shatner, Lemon Jelly – Together
Digitalism – Taken Away (Instrumental)
Miike Snow – Silvia, Robotberget Remix
The Whip – Divebomb, Crystal Castles Remix
Boys Noize – & Down, Extended Mix
Daedelus – Fair Weather Friends
Metric – Monster Hospital, MSTRKRFT Remix
Felix Da Housecat – Radio, Shinichi Osawa Remix Radio Edit
Disasterpeace – Win

Got a bit busy today, so apologies for this being a bit shorter than normal”¦

Mr. Scruff going into SOIL & “PIMP” SESSIONS – foot-tapping ridiculousness. Completely wonderful two tracks. Not really much more to say than that. If you don”™t like them then this probably isn”™t the playlist for you – be warned. After The Quantic Soul Orchestra”™s carnival feel, I wanted to use Quantic as a tempo shift, and I think it works pretty well. It”™s just a nice chillout song. I really love this section of the playlist, to be honest.

I adore everything that Madvillain (aka MF Doom, and a million and one other pseudonyms) does. His wordplay is completely amazing, it”™s like watching a really talented butcher cleaving words instead of steaks. In a lot of ways he reminds me of Roots Manuva, which is why I threw them both together. Intelligent hip-hop is just not given enough credit in these days of autotune, identical beats and hooks, radio edits and crunk cups.

Now, I”™m pretty sure the Jazzanova and Breakestra tracks will go either way. Personally, I love them, but then I love me a bit of funky soul. It”™d be interesting to see what others think of them. For me, they brighten up my day. I find it impossible not to smile to these two bands, really, and coming from a grumpy sod that”™s pretty good going.

William Shatner plus Lemon Jelly. A bit oddball, but I love it. You will too.

I added Miike Snow at the last second when I was reminded by a friend how awesome a track “Silvia” is. The original is haunting and beautiful, but didn”™t really fit – I”™ve added the Robotberget remix, which builds slowly but segues perfectly into the ”˜house”™ section of the playlist. Definitely check out the original edit of “Silvia” if you get a chance. Maybe I”™ll fit it into my next playlist.

I quite like MSTRKRFT, but for me, their remix of Metric”™s “Monster Hospital” is the best thing they”™ve ever done. I”™m a massive fan of Metric, but I”™d go so far as saying that this remix is better than the original. I the powerful buildup into that, frankly, kickass house section. Perfect synths, perfect layering, perfect compliment to Emily”™s perfect voice. Great track.

Disasterpeace. Oh, Disasterpeace. Enjoy.

[David]