http://tmwk.com/lampshade/moon_cities_silent_sandy_circuitry.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download A fall-oween mixtape for 2016. 1. Aaron Roche – Giganova 2. Akron/Family – I’ll Be On The Water 3. Castanets – No Voice Was Raised 4. Danielson – Jokin’ At The Block (Dymaxion remix) 5. Vapor Lanes – Mary 6. Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory – Music of the …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/from_ore_i_labored_you.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download From Ore I Labored You is at once crisp and dreamy, nestled halfway between an arid autumn and a sharp winter. It’s full of small, delicate moments which are rendered grand by the intimacy with which they are viewed, a drama in miniature that grows in scale as …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/MBM.m4aPodcast: Play in new window | Download Like a lot of people on the internet, I was enamored with Mad Max Fury Road from the moment the film started. Elements of it crawled up into my brain and began leeching weird feelings, all shiny and chrome, into my body. Weirdly enough, this mix, its name an …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Padded-Sun-Room.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Moon Cities takes you to outer space and inner space, playing Pied Piper with a mix that’s by turns hazy and sharp, woozy and swaggering. You won’t know where you are or how you got there, but you’ll be happy to be there. 1. The Bobby Fuller …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/sylvansummerspectre.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Sylvan Summer Spectre, Moon Cities’ long-awaited proper follow-up to Golden Ghost Forest, has arrived in its proper timing, on the fall equinox. Like the mix it follows, it’s full of perfect, moody segues that move fluidly and unselfconsciously between genres without being showy, distracting or disturbing the spell …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/closingshift1.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The first volume of Moon Cities’ live mix series is here, and it’s a slab of amped up, genre-agnostic electronic dance music. His mixing’s got a raw immediacy to it that’s thrilling – my favorite moment is when a the bassline from a significantly sped up “You’re Nasty” …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/PF.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download “Feels”, that piece of post-Tumblr Millenial slang, is as much misunderstood as it is derided. But let’s get to that later. Pure Feels (the name chosen as a homage of the iconic Pure Moods compilation) draws from ambient music, not the genre proper, but the music that was …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/direct-from-the-caribbean.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Just in time for summer, Moon Cities’ Direct from the Caribbean is a warm breeze of tropical mood music. It starts in a sort of woozy 60s California nostalgia, but quickly becomes blissfully unmoored from both time and space, effortlessly leaping across decades and international borders alike. Just …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/A+Very+Christmas.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download I’m a man who loves Christmas music. I’m also a hardline no-Christmas-until-after-Thanksgiving seasonal separator. So the few weeks between Christmas and the new year are filled with wall-to-wall Christmas music for me. Over the years, I’ve amassed quite a collection, and I’ve become something of a connoisseur of …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Golden+Ghost+Forest.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download This started as a Halloween mix and transmogrified into more of a Fall-oween mix, it seems. It’s not so much spooky and ghosty (though there is that) as much as it is music for cold, windy nights, full of moonlight and magic. 1. Tim DeLaughter – Pink Trash Dream …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Halloween2012mk2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Halloween 2012 (mark 2) by Moon Cities Here’s a redone version of last year’s Halloween mix tape. It’s spooooooooky! Tracklist: 1. The Revival Hour – Hold Back 2. M83 – In the Cold I’m Standing 3. Spoon – The Ghost of You Lingers (Daytrotter version) 4. Dead Man’s …
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://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/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 …