http://tmwk.com/lampshade/WASA.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download I was gonna write a big thing about this, but I think the thing speaks for itself. Dancing about architecture, etc. Three things you need to know: 1. Wakanda is a fictional African country from the Marvel Universe. The mix follows W.A.S.A. from its tribal origins to deep …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/chapter_of_seas_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download An ambient collaborative mix. We both grew up hugely inspired by long-running “slow music” NPR show Hearts of Space. The Chapter of Seas series of mixes are our tribute to Hearts of Space and ambient music in general. 1. Murcof – Cosmos I 2. Oneohtrix Point Never – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/COOLFUZZ.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download A cassette style mix of timeless cool summer evening jams. 1. The New Pornographers – Failsafe 2. Damien Jurado – Caskets 3. The M’s – Big Sound 4. DM Stith – Suzanne (Randy Newman cover) 5. Here We Go Magic – Tunnelvision 6. Citay – Final Fantasy 7. …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Scholastics-You_Have_Been_Our_Dwelling_Place.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is a mix designed around gospel house music. Although there’s a lot of the wonderful soulful vocal house sound that’s associated with that phrase, it draws from other traditions in house music as well, dipping into 90s deep house and bass-influenced house music. I tried to create …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/30000-is-the-New-8.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Inspired by the BBC Radio One Essential mix, this is a wide-ranging 2 hour dance mix designed to work in your headphones or on a dance floor. It starts off with some weaponized pop sugar, but quickly becomes more complicated, blending together afrobeat, nu-disco, rap, post-punk, and deep …
http://www.tmwk.com/lampshade/shibuya_summer_2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHere’s part 2 of the shibuya-kei primer, this time focusing on influences of the genre, artists who were influenced by it, and music that co-evolved along the same lines. It also happens to be some great summer fun time music! 1. Primal Scream – Loaded 2. Gorillaz – 19-2000 …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/shibuya_summer_1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is something of a primer on that mid-90s Japanese melting pot sound, shibuya-kei. Drawing equally from Brazilian bossa nova, French nouvelle chanson, electronic experimentalism, synth-pop and twee, this sound exploded into life in the early 90s and was heavily influential through the late 90s and early 2000s. …
http://www.tmwk.com/lampshade/RQA810K.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Twenty minutes of thoroughly modern electro-disco woven together into a dense mat of beats and crazy synthesizer hooks. And Karen O. 1. Metronomy – Heartbreaker (Discodeine remix) 2. Rafale – Everglades (Voyou remix) 3. Dragonette – Mixin To Thrill (Villains remix) 4. Hot Chip – Ready for the …
http://www.tmwk.com/lampshade/The_Elephant_Gambit.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is an old (December 2009) collaborative mix from both of us. We traded songs back and forth in an attempt to make a coherent whole. This mix is much more pop-focused than the previous two. Tracklist: 1. DM Stith – Pity Dance 2. Celestine Ukwu & His …
http://www.tmwk.com/lampshade/A_December-Adventure-Mix.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download An instrumental mix of sylvan reading music for the December Adventure Hobbit book club. (decemberadventure.tumblr.com) 1. Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Title 2. Jim Guthrie – Dark Flute 3. Ombre – Cara Falsa 4. Clams Casino – Wizard 5. Bibio – Saint Christopher 6. Candy …
http://www.tmwk.com/lampshade/direct-from-the-islands.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This is an hour long exotica mix, mixing classics and rarities, Golden Age and modern era. If you’re not familiar with the “genre” of exotica, there are a couple of great primers here (www.ambientexotica.com/aboutexotica/) and here (exoticaproject.com/about.php), but the basic idea is that it’s white people making an ersatz, …