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/Scholastics-Hollowtongue_Hymnal.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download Scholastics has taken the feeling of existential dread that can be experienced at 4 am in a dead town and has transmuted it into an hour and a half of chills-up-your-spine bone-rattle music. A spiritual cousin to Golden Ghost Forest. 1. Rachel’s – Cypress Branches 2. Castanets – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/cos3.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The third in the ongoing Chapter of Seas ambient mixtape series ventures out into deepier, choppier waters. But the brutality of the opening third gives way to an ocean of celestial drone. Salvation is reserved for those who endure. Tracklist: 1. Superstorms – Part 1 2. RxRy – …
http://tmwk.com/lampshade/Live-Library-Two.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The second mix in the Live from the Library series is a lot brighter and more sprightly than the first. It’s also about 15 minutes longer, clocking in at just over an hour. Scholastics – Live from the Library, Volume Two 1. Philip Jeck and Jacob Kirkegaard – …
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/Live-Library-One.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download As much as I love doing heavily plotted, extensively planned concept mixes, they take me a pretty long time to do. And I haven’t had as much free time on my hands recently, so I’m starting the Live from the Library series. The concept of this series is …
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/lies.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download I started playing this in the car and my two-year-old son said “Scary music!” but when I asked him if he wanted me to turn it off, he said no. Scholastics has put together a little over half an hour of Halloween slasher music that uses synthesizers instead …
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/Chapter-of-Seas-2.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download The second in what has become an ongoing series of collaborative ambient mixes between Scholastics and Moon Cities. The unsaid theme of this one was for more “organic” sounds. We <3 you, Hearts of Space. 1. Serifs – There Is an Inaudible Roar Underneath All Things 2. Arp …
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, …