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“Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction… Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.”  Evan Parker

• Lotus Plaza-A Threaded Needle
  The Footlight Collective (Iris, 2009)
• Walls-Soft Cover People
  Walls (Kompakt, 2010)
• Heinali and Matt Finney-Repeated
  Lemonade Ep
• Ride-Somewhere
  Somewhere (Wea, 1990)
• Ametsub-Faint Dazzlings
  The Nothings Of The North (Mille Plateaux, 2009)
• Missing Human-A Cupple of  Coffe in a Clouddy Afternoon
  When the Rain Stops Stare at the Clear Sky, Stars Should Fall (2010)

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.” Robert Motherwell

The West Siberian Plain consists mostly of Cenozoic alluvial deposits and is somewhat low-lying. Many of the deposits on this plain result from ice dams; having reversed the flow of the Ob and Yenisei Rivers, so redirecting them into the Caspian Sea (perhaps the Aral as well). It is very swampy and soils are mostly peaty Histosols and, in the treeless northern part, Histels. In the south of the plain, where permafrost is largely absent, rich grasslands that are an extension of the Kazakh Steppe formed the original vegetation (almost all cleared now). - Geology of Siberia.

” Nearly Random Evening Electronic Mix ”

01. Nirvana vs. Adam Freeland - Smells Like Freeland
Smells Like Teen Spirit 2003-Whitelabel Vinyl (2003)
02. Royksopp - A Higher Place
Melody AM (2001)
03. Ralph Myerz and The Jack Herren Band - Feel It
A Special Album (Emperor Norton, 2003)
04. Kraftwelt - Wind blues
Electric dimension (Cleopatra, 1996)
05. Cantoma - Bill Morgan on The Organ
Cantoma (Quango, 2005)
06. Quantic - Snakes In The Grass
5th Exotic (Tru Thoughts, 2001)
07. Xploding Plastix - Working The Neck
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note: I am a little drifting, so this is a somewhat muffled evening electronic. I made this a while back, not even sure why I did it, but it is not entirely directionless. It has some nice head bopping tempo in it, mostly instrumental. It should work for quite evening working at the computer. I will make a nicer list later.

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• Lizzy Parks-Take Care
  Raise The Roof  (2008)
• Space Invadas-Done It Again
  Soul:Fi (Invada, 2010)
• Electric Wire Hustle-They Don’t Want
  Electric Wire Huslte (BBE, 2010)
• Andreya Triana-Lost Where I Belong
  Lost Where I Belong (Ninja Tune, 2010)
• Julien Dyne-Increduluos
  Pins & Digits (BBE, 2009)
• Full Create & Mar-She Was Fly
  Conversations With Her (Melting Pot Music, 2010)

El verano ha muerto para mi. Dentro de unas horas me tocará levantarme para volver a la escuela. Es un trayecto largo y subsecuentemente tengo que empezar a armar las listas que serán mis compañeras de viaje por las madrugadas: Música que me mantenga más o menos despierto y a tono para ser testigo fugaz del amanecer. 
Mi dia empieza a las 4:00 a.m. tomaré una taza de té y emprenderé el viaje por ese destino constante llamado “rutina”.

See also: Cottage & Better play the note you know

” Fun short pieces ”

01. Mozart - “L’ho perduta… me meschina!” Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 Act
Amoureuses / Patricia Petibon (2008)
02. J.S. Bach - Italian concerto in F major andante BWV 971
Bach: Italian Concerto; Partitas Nos. 1 & 2; etc. / Glenn Gould (2006)
03. Tomaso Albinoni - Oboe Concerto in D minor Op.9 No.2 - 3 Allegro
Albinoni: Oboe and Violin Concertos (Apex, 2002)
04. Bohuslav Martinu - Písnicky na dve stránky (Songs on two pages, seven songs an Moravian folk poetry) - 2. Súsedova stajna (The Neighbour’s Stable)
Songs My Mother Taught Me / Magdalena Kozena (2009)
05. Animal Collective & Vashti Bunyan - I Remember Learning How To Dive
Prospect Hummer EP (2005)
06. Bela Bartok - No.9 Round Dance II: Andante/No.10 Funeral Song: Largo
Bartók for Children / Jeno Jando (2006)

note: Shot evening pieces. Animal Collective request plus light melodic classics. Remember when you were a kid most of the time music never make any big thematic sense? The things they make you play. And later on you find out, they are all some kind of basic exercise to fit your limited attention span and fingering skill? Well, this is a tongue and cheek version of that. Short phrases and melody to barely fit attention span of a gnat. ha.. But I hope you enjoy them with a big smile, they are all very well executed too. cheers.

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When Brad said he wanted to learn a musical instrument, Donna said nothing. When he bought the drum, she still said nothing. Now with that awful orange sweater and the maracas, Donna could no longer hold her tongue.

Image: VivStrauss.

• Little Barrie - Green Eyed Fool
  Stand Your Ground (Genuine, 2007)
• The Monkees - Goin’ Down
  Daydream Believer 7″ (Colgems, 1967)
• Royal Trux - Stevie (for Steven Seagal)
  Accelerator (Drag City, 1998)
• Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks
  Website download - 2010
  
• Penguin Prison - A Funny Thing
  Animal animal 7″ (Neon Gold, 2010)

In limbo. I remember it as a more comfortable place, it felt so young and simpler back then… this time it’s making me feel like a spoiled, bourgeois kid. This heaven gives me migraine.
I will come back to you soon. I promise.

‘Tis midnight now.  The bend and broken moon,
Batter’d and black, as from a thousand battles,
Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.
~Joaquin Miller, Ina

• Cerati / Melero -Cozumel
  Colores Santos (1992)
• Dj Krush-Big City Lover
  Krush (Shadow Records, 1994)
• Thom Yorke-Black Swan
  The Eraser (XL, 2006)
• Modeselektor-Edgar
  Happy Birthday! (BPitch Control, 2007)
• Motor City Drum Ensemble-Raw Cuts # 6
  Raw Cuts Vol.1 (Timothy Really, 2009)
• Fudge Fingas-It’s about time
  Prime Numbers 3 (Prime Numbers, 2010
• Outkast-Prototype
  Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (La Face, 2003)

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs
And as silently steal away.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

This Midnight Tempo is a jump to beats more rythmical but no in another tune, all is arund the midnight.
It’s bed time with the right mood.

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.  Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages.  Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.  My companion and I were alone with the stars:  the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.  It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.  But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
Rachel Carson

• Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia - Soldiers
  Left (Buzzin’ Fly Records, 2010)
• Zoot Woman-It’s Automatic
  Living In A Magazine (Wall Of Sound, 2001)
• Popnoname -Hello Gorgeous
  Hello Gorgeous  (Kompakt, 2010)
• The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart-Higher Than The Stars (Saint Etienne Remix)
  Higher Than The Stars (Slumberland Records, 2009)
• Ada-Lovestoned
  Adaptations (Kompakt, 2009)
• Massive Attack-Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
  Heligoland Remixes (The Vinyl Factory, 2010)
• Arandel-#1
  In D  (Infiné Music, 2010)

This is the first of the “Midnight tempo” series. You can find some rhytmical pop sound to surfing or traveling  across the midnight. 
See you in the next time.  While enjoy it.   

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Photo: Nickolas Muray via GEH.

Allez donc vous faire bronzer
Sur la plage, sur la plage.

• Allen Toussaint - St. James Infirmary
  The Bright Mississippi (Nonesuch, 2009)
• Paris Combo - Señor
  Living Room (Tinder, 2000)
• Sacha Distel - Allez Donc Vous Faire Bronzer
  Allez Donc Vous Faire Bronzer (La Voix de son Maître, 1968)
• Sisters Love - Give Me Your Love
  Give Me Your Love (1973; reissue on Soul Jazz, 2006)
• Dusty Springfield - Spooky
  Spooky 7″ (1970)
• Kinobe - Slip Into Something More Comfortable
  Slip Into Something More Comfortable 7″ (Pepper, 2000)

An all-weekend getaway to the beach. A subtle and clumsy dance on the pool. I love this Nickolas Muray photograph. I had no idea they had such bright, colourful photographs in 1932. I’d love to lie and tell you I created this playlist inspired by it. Maybe I will.
I created this playlist inspired by today’s photograph. Manouche jazz, soul funk, rare groove… it’s a nice, vibrant soundset for warm summer days. It might just scare the rain away.