Thursday, January 19, 2012

MP3 blog 2012/01/19

blog 2012/01/19 - because we're still on our holiday hangover

Yes, we have a massive backlog to sift through, so you get another dose of sweetness this week.


1,2,3 - Work:  It's a barrock sound, but a barrock sound with just enough hooks and slick.

Araabmuzik - Streetz Tonight:  I am kind of shocked how loved Electronic Dream was!  I think it's great, just not best-of material. But what do I know.  Here's some of the ravey hotness.

Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want (Cheapshot Remix):  The Beasties have always kind of annoyed me because of their stinginess in releasing instrumentals.  WTF is up with that?  Don't want anyone using your sampled riffs?  ANYWAYS, the gap is lessened by the plethora of dope remixes.  Like this one, digging in that 90s vault.

Big Tree - Seattle Bound
Big Tree - The Concurrence of All Things:  From the new album This New Year comes a rock/twee/folk convergence of grinnitude levels.

Demdike Stare - Violetta:  The "Elemental - Parts 1 & 2: Crysanthe" is one of my favourite Demdike Stare releases because it feels expansive without being at all exhausting.  I love heavily textured and abstracted electronic music albums.  This one falls more towards the fence of post-raver-flameout than total-Mego-ness, and so ends up surprisingly approachable.  Recommended!

Enduser & Architect - Decision (Late)
Enduser & Karsten Pflum - A Little While:  Enduser's been doing the mutant D&B thing for years and has really put best feet forward with Even Weight.  Amazing production values, intruiging guests, lots of variation and great moods.   If you wished 90s Amon Tobin continued more with the mainstream D&B threads (without the blandness normally associated with a typical D&B record...), this record is for you.

Gigamesh - So Intense (Fare Soldi Enrico Pallazzo Remix):  Nu-disco is jiving all over the world.  JAZZ HANDS!

Jacaszek - Dare-Gale
Jacaszek - Evening Strains To Be Time's Vast:  Glimmer is mesmerizing and fabulous.  Had I heard it in 2011, it would have been on my best of lists.  Highly recommended.

Jen Titus - O'Death:  I first heard this song in the (amazing) doc Harlem County USA.  And it's respectabley reprised here.

Parenthetical Girls - Don't Give Up:  Fabulous little track from Demos for the Dreaming.

The Weeknd - Dirty Diana (Michael Jackson cover)
The Weeknd - Initiation:  THIS WAS MEANT TO HAPPEN.  I can't think of a better take on MJ.  And while I still find much of the Weeknd output too douchey for my ears, these 2 tracks are golden. 

xxxy - Ordinary Things:  Just some sweet little groovebass.

Yelawolf - Hard White (Up In The Club) ft Lil' Jon:  Can't help it, just love that beat...

Zed Bias - Neighbourhood 09 ft McRumpus and Nicky Prince (Roska Remix):  And finish it off with some more groovebass goodness.  Shmexxy.




THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

1,2,3 - Work
Araabmuzik - Streetz Tonight
Beastie Boys - So Whatcha Want (Cheapshot Remix)
Big Tree - Seattle Bound
Big Tree - The Concurrence of All Things
Demdike Stare - Violetta
Enduser & Architect - Decision (Late)
Enduser & Karsten Pflum - A Little While
Gigamesh - So Intense (Fare Soldi Enrico Pallazzo Remix)
Jacaszek - Dare-Gale
Jacaszek - Evening Strains To Be Time's Vast
Jen Titus - O'Death
Parenthetical Girls - Don't Give Up
The Weeknd - Dirty Diana (Michael Jackson cover)
The Weeknd - Initiation
xxxy - Ordinary Things
Yelawolf - Hard White (Up In The Club) ft Lil' Jon
Zed Bias - Neighbourhood 09 ft McRumpus and Nicky Prince (Roska remix)


Oh you've been a good puppy:  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20120119.zip


Stay on top of everything new at http://djcpi.blogspot.com

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~CPI
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Monday, January 16, 2012

MP3 blog 2012/01/16

blog 2012/01/16 - stare forward and concentrate until you see the light

Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Not Enough Words:  Always have more room on my plate for some Action Bronson ish.  From the new record Well-Done.

Baby Sol - No No:  So straightforward as to almost be adult contemporary, there are some simple pleasures to be had here.

Cuff The Duke - Always Looking (Dum Dum Girls cover):  I think I even like this more than the Dum Dum Girls version.  The twang suits it really well.

Esben And The Witch - Skeleton Swoon (Worriedaboutsatan Remix):  Woah there, some gorgeous heavy magic going on here twisting around with my libido...

Hidden Orchestra - Dust (Floex Remix)
Hidden Orchestra - Flight:  Lush and enchanting, these tracks fuse some of the favourite smoothjazz Ninja Tune sounds with Ulrich Schnauss production values.  So so so good.

Jerreau (of Fly Union) - Dreams BankReau Can Buy:  Fricking smooooooth.

John Zorn - Dance of Albion:  Zorn has been making some sweet straight-ahead pleasant jazz these days.  And by "some", I mean "mountains".  But considering his total output, there's still mountains of scronk for everyone else.  I seriously think he doesn't sleep.  Someone check on him, make sure he's ok...   At the Gates of Paradise is smoothjazz wonderful.

Junior Boys - Banana Ripple:  My main problem with Junior Boys is that the best parts of their songs could be reduced to a 4 minute track, but ah well.  They're output isn't mostly for me, but this one is hard to shrug at.  Go ahead, try.  See?  No shrugs.  You can't do it.  Unshruggable.  The pop, she is too epic.

Justice - On'n'on:  Yeah, I'm as shocked that I like a Justice pop song just as much as you are.  Let's never mention this again and move on.

Owl Service - Fine Horseman (full version)
Owl Service - When a Man's in Love:  I had been listening to The Pattern Beneath the Plow off and on for months.  It's a little bit WTF.  Dark and shimmering folk music that you expect to be delivered from darkage bards.  It's a sprawling double CD set that might even give Joanna Newsom fans pause.  But it's totally hypnotic and worth just letting yourself be at it's mercy. 

Rich Aucoin - All You Cannot Live Without:  Aucoin gives us that refined ecstatic Canadian pop music that you know you love.  We're All Dying To Live is out now!

Star Slinger - Dumbin' ft Reggie B (Diplo Remix):  2 of my favourite beatsmiths drop another gem.  Classic.

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - No One Is (As I Are Be):  I wasn't in to much of Malkmus' discordant solo material but oh he's winning me over here.  From the new album Mirror Traffic.

Thee American Revolution - Electric Flame:  The way the guitar is in the mix reminds me of both 90s grunge and 60s psych.



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Action Bronson & Statik Selektah - Not Enough Words
Baby Sol - No No
Cuff The Duke - Always Looking (Dum Dum Girls cover)
Esben And The Witch - Skeleton Swoon (Worriedaboutsatan Remix)
Hidden Orchestra - Dust (Floex Remix)
Hidden Orchestra - Flight
Jerreau (of Fly Union) - Dreams BankReau Can Buy
John Zorn - Dance of Albion
Junior Boys - Banana Ripple
Justice - On'n'on
Owl Service - Fine Horseman (full version)
Owl Service - When a Man's in Love
Rich Aucoin - All You Cannot Live Without
Star Slinger - Dumbin' ft Reggie B (Diplo Remix)
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - No One Is (As I Are Be)
Thee American Revolution - Electric Flame


Your heart is a laser that could melt these banks:  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20120116.zip


Stay on top of everything new at http://djcpi.blogspot.com

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~CPI
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

MP3 blog 2012/01/12

blog 2012/01/12 - AND WE ARE AT IT AGAIN!

Welcome back everyone, we're here with a brand new year and as always, more amazing music to neurotically sift through.

But first, some amazing upcoming events I am involved in:

On the 21st I'll be playing at
Pitch Black: an evening of noise & experimental music
and then headling....
Ceratin Sort

Then on the 27th I'll be dropping beats at Confederation Park as part of the NHL All-Star weekend.  No, seriously.
On the 28th, Q-BOUNCE premiers!  I'll be spinning before and after the always-amazing Rae Spoon.
Get the details here:



Now, on to the music!

A Tribe Called Red - Electric Pow Wow Drum:  The first of a number of tracks in this update representing some hotness from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.  ATCR throws down some awesome parties, and here they drop this amazing beat.

Adam Saikaley - St. Andrews Church:  There was an interesting project called Polytectures where Ottawa buildings' architecture was discussed, and music set to them by various local musicians.  While the concept was often more interesting than the musical output, there were a number of gems in that project.  Local wunderkind Saikaley of course being one of those highlights.

Charles Bradley - Heartaches and Pain
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away (Nirvana cover):  While dude kind of reminds us all of James Brown while being simultaneously uber-religious and hungover from PCP, he's got a glorious voice.  And covering Nirvana?  Woah.

CHLLNGR - Ask For (Cubic Zirconia Remix)
CHLLNGR - Haven :  Bouncing chill beautiful beats that are oh yes yes yes wonderful.

Heems - New York City Cops (The Strokes cover):  Yes, a Strokes cover, but oh Heems makes this his own.  One of my favourite things out of the Das Racist crew in a while.  Love the noisey El-P -ish beat.  Is it him/

Julianna Barwick - Vow (Diplo & Lunice remix):  Echoey ambient vocals!  Mixed by a beatmaster!  Yes it works.  And it works well.

Kool Krys - Let Me Play It
Philly Moves - Life Is Grand:  2 tracks taken from the 613 House Of Paint sampler!

Megafaun - Hope You Know
Megafaun - Real Slow:  2 otherworldly country/folk songs from the self-titled album.  I didn't like the whole thing, but these ones are gems.

Ólafur Arnalds - Lag Fyrir Ömmu
Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light:  Quiet piano-based IDM/ambient stuff is a huge weak-spot on my heart. From the new album Living Room Songs.

Sleeper Agent - Get Burned:  Totally rockin' driving music powerpop fun.

Sunn O))) meets Nurse With Wound - Ra At Dawn Part I {Rapture, At Last}:  The new collab album The Iron Soul Of Nothing isn't getting a huge wave of interest, but for fans of either it is pretty much a definitive purchase.  You know you want to.

Your Infamous Harp - Fading Star:  Probably my favourite track from 2010's Forever Transient.



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

A Tribe Called Red - Electric Pow Wow Drum
Adam Saikaley - St. Andrews Church
Charles Bradley - Heartaches and Pain
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band - Stay Away (Nirvana cover)
CHLLNGR - Ask For (Cubic Zirconia Remix)
CHLLNGR - Haven
Heems - New York City Cops (The Strokes cover)
Julianna Barwick - Vow (Diplo & Lunice remix)
Kool Krys - Let Me Play It
Megafaun - Hope You Know
Megafaun - Real slow
Ólafur Arnalds - Lag Fyrir Ömmu
Ólafur Arnalds - Near Light
Philly Moves - Life Is Grand
Sleeper Agent - Get Burned
Sunn O))) meets Nurse With Wound - Ra At Dawn Part I {Rapture, At Last}
Your Infamous Harp - Fading Star


These are my hands and this is the situation and it's all downhill from here:  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20120112.zip


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~CPI
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

PITCH BLACK ft Kingdom Shore, January 21st




Saturday, January 21st, 8pm:
PITCH BLACK, featuring
Kingdom Shore [ 613 / punk electro-acoustic / kingdomshore.ca ]
James Annett, Linsey Wellman, Jamie Gullikson Trio [ 514 / free jazz ]
CPI [ 613 / noise / thetastates.com ]

Guest DJ: Jairus Khan [ 416 - ambient - ad-ver-sary.com ]
8pm / $8
Raw Sugar Cafe, 692 Somerset St.
facebok event:  http://www.facebook.com/events/261804873874943/
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Q-BOUNCE featuring Rae Spoon, January 28th



Saturday, January 28th:
Q-BOUNCE premiers!
featuring Rae Spoon [ http://raespoon.com/ ]
with CPI [ http://djCPI.com/ ]

A massive evening of sweaty dance music, Q-Bounce is a new series happening quarterly from CPI. The focus is on quality underground bass music for queers and their friends.

Polaris-nominated Rae Spoon bring his Berlin dance party sensibilities to Canada's capital, complete with full video accompaniment.
CPI has been pushing the boundaries of contemporary DJing for 14 years and is here to pay homage to the things she loves: Queers. Underground sounds. and BASS.


a dance party benefit for Divergence Movie night and The Venus Envy Bursary Fund
@ SAW Gallery, 9pm. $10-$15
Q-Bounce is the new QUEER BASS UNDERGROUND. http://q-bounce.ca/

Advance tickets AVAILABLE NOW at Venus Envy

poster: http://thetastates.com/images/qbounce01.jpg
facebook event:  http://www.facebook.com/events/265886433468691/

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Monday, December 26, 2011

warning!

Warning!  Warning!  Warning!

Once the clock flips over to 2012, we will be deleting all of the blog files from 2009!
If you wanted to grab any of them (check http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog_history.txt for the breakdown and http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/ for the links) do it ASAP.
As per usual, the "best of 20xx" posts and the holiday posts will stay online, but all other shall vanish.

~Caitlyn / CPI
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Friday, December 16, 2011

MP3 blog 2011/12/16 - happy whateverthefuckyoucelebrate! Last post of the year!

blog 2011/12/16 - ye' ol' holida' pos'

The annual tradition continues!  Another 2 CDs of oddball holiday renditions, newfound classics, indie rock interpretations and a bunch of silly goofball messes, in 2 parts.
And another part of the tradition:  All years of this are available!  8 CDs of holiday terror/cheer in total.
My recommendations:  start with the older ones, work yr way forward. 
Put all on random, calm your gag reflex.

Get yourself a motion sickness bag, we're going in for a barrelroll!



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111216a.zip
Anamanaguchi - All I Want 4 Xmas Is U
Anima, Floyd & Zoot - The Man with the Bag
Basia Bulat - You Are A Gift
Blondie & Fab Five Freddie - Yuletide Throwndown (Christmas Rapture)
Bootsy Collins - N-Yo-City
Eurythmics - Winter Wonderland
James Brown - Go Power At Christmas Time
John Zorn - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Lord Beginner - Christmas Morning The Rum Had Me Yawning (1939)
MCM - Chris Kringle Is A Black Man
Ohbijou - Last Christmas
Parenthetical Girls - Wait Another Year
Paul Simon - Getting Ready For Christmas Day
Salem - King Night
Slow Club - Christmas TV
Star Wars Christmas Album - R2-D2 We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Sufjan Stevens - I Saw Three Ships
The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Go Tell It On The Mountain ft Tom Waits
The Superions - Fruitcake (YACHT Remix)
Tom Waits - New Year's Eve
Vince Guaraldi - O, Tannenbaum (A Charlie Brown Christmas OST)

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111216b.zip
2.3 Children - Santa's Just An Anagram For Satan
Big Bird & The Swedish Chef - The Christmas Song
Billy Elliot OST - Merry Christmas Maggie Thatcher
Bootsy Collins - Chestnutz (The Christmas Song)
De La Soul - Millie Pulled A Pistol On Santa (Full Mix)
Electric Amish - Christmas Time In Amish Land
Goldfrapp - Winter Wonderland
John Zorn & Mike Patton - The Christmas Song
Johnny Cash - O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Live Wire - Gift Card
No Fixed Abode & Son Of Kick - Xmas Dubmas
Okkervil River - Listening To Otis Redding At Home During Christmas
Parenthetical Girls - Flowers For Albion
Sleepy Rebels - California Christmas
Slow Club - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
The Blind Boys Of Alabama - Little Drummer Boy ft Michael Franti
The Executor - Christmas Is A Joyful Day (1937)
The Residents - Mr. Skull's New Year's Eve Song
Tom Waits - Silent Night
Venture Brothers (21, 24 & The Mighty Monarch) - Hard Candy Christmas (Dolly Parton cover)




And as is the tradition in these here parts, let's link back to the past entries, so you can now download EIGHT CDS OF THIS CRAP.
Woot.  Party.


http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20101220a.zip
Atom and His Package - What WE Do on Christmas
Bing Crosby - White Christmas (Kaskade Remix)
Bosque Brown - Silent Night
Bright Eyes - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
Charles Brown - Merry Christmas Baby (MNO Remix)
Chris Garneau - It's Almost Christmas
Culturcide - Depressed Christmas
Daz Dillinger - Christmas In the Hood
Doctor Octoroc - Icarus! the Angels Sing
Doctor Octoroc - Ryu, the Red Nosed Ninja
Dolly Parton & Cast - Hard Candy Christmas (The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas OST)
Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
Hybrid Kids - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)
James Brown - Funky Christmas
Lee Perry and Sandra Robinson - Merry Christmas Happy New Year
Lisa Hannigan - Silent Night (Damien Rice hidden track)
Matisyahu - Miracle (youtube rip)
Nat King Cole - Chestnuts Roasting (V_VM Remix)
Parenthetical Girls - Carol Of The Season
Parenthetical Girls - Festive Friends (Forever)
Star Wars Christmas Album - Christmas in the Stars
Star Wars Christmas Album - What Can You Get a Wookie for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb)
The Found Sound Orchestra - Holiday Jangle
The Residents - Jingle Bells
Vandals - Oi To The World
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Skating (A Charlie Brown Christmas OST)

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20101220b.zip
Afrika Bambaataa - Deck the Halls
Annie Lennox - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Baron Zen - My Lovely Christmas
Byron Lee and the Dragonaires - Winter Wonderland
Casiotone For The Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas
Crocodiles & Dum Dum Girls - Merry Christmas, Baby (Please Don't Die)
Darlene Love - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
DYM - Little Drummer Boy
Glee Cast - Baby It's Cold Outside
Mavado, Flexxx & Savage - Gully Christmas
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - This Time
Sufjan Stevens - Do You See What I See
Sufjan Stevens - Put The Lights On The Tree
Swastika Girls - Tinseltown
Swastika Girls - When It's Time For Christmas
The Black On White Affair - Auld Lang Syne
The Cathedral Brass - Joy To The World (Mocean Worker Remix)
The Deer Tracks - Christmas Fire
The Jon Matthy Quartet - The World is Waiting for Misery and Suffering Forever
The Moog Machine - Deck the Halls
The Moog Machine - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
William S. Burroughs & The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy - The Junky's Christmas

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20091219a.zip
Andy Williams - It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year (A Shrift Remix)
Brak - 12 Days of Christmas
Bright Eyes - White Christmas
Coil - Christmas Is Now Drawing Near
David Hasselhoff - Joy to the World
Dean Martin - Baby, It's Cold Outside
Death Cab For Cutie - Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
DJ BC - You Shook Me All Noel
Doctor Octoroc - Have Yourself a Final Little Fantasy
Duke Ellington - Jingle Bells (Robbie Hardkiss Remix)
Eazy-E - Merry Muthafuckin' Xmas
Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Frightened Rabbit - It's Xmas So We'll Stop
John Denver & The Muppets - Deck The Halls
Paddy Roberts - Merry Christmas You Suckers
Pizzicato Five - Silent Night
Ren and Stimpy - Cat Hairballs
Sex Pistols - Jingle Bells
Skindred - Jungle Bells
Stevie Wonder - The Little Drummer Boy
The Berlin Symphony Orchestra - The Nutcracker Suite (Baz Kuts Breaks Mix)
The Long Blondes - Christmas Is Cancelled
The Muppets - One More Sleep 'Til Christmas
The Simpsons - Jingle Bells
Tittsworth - Titts'mas Time (2007 Edit)
Weird Al Yankovic - The Night Santa Went Crazy

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20091219b.zip
Atmosphere - If I Was Santa Claus
Bing Crosby - Happy Holidays (Beef Wellington Remix)
Circlesquare - Untitled (For Christmas)
Dean Martin - Jingle Bells (Dan The Automator Remix)
DJ John - The Christmas Massacre of Charlie Brown
Fats Waller & His Rhythm - Swingin' Them Jingle Bells
Frieder Butzmann - White Christmas
Hard Call Xmas - My Christmas Bells
In Memory - The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
Jill Sobule - Jesus Was A Dreidel Spinner
John Denver & The Muppets - We Wish You a Merry Christmas
King Of Pants - Alala Falala Hasselhoff
Lou Rawls - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (awayTEAM Remix)
Michael Palmer - Happy Merry Christmas
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - This Time Of Year
Milly & Silly - Getting Down For Xmas
Rick Potts - Santa's Assasins
Sonic Youth - Santa Doesn't Cop Out on Dope
Stars - Fairytale Of New York
The Bloody Beetroots - Little Stars
The Harlem Children's Chorus - Black Christmas
The Nat King Cole Trio - All I Want For Christmas (MJ Cole Remix)
The Soul Saints Orchestra - Santa's Got A Bag Of Soul
The Walkmen - No Christmas While I'm Talkin
Ween - Silent Night

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20081221.zip
A Band Called Quinn - Its Christmas Time
A plus D - Give Da Jew Girl Toys
Big D and the Kids Table - A Wicked Hardcore Christmas
Bright Eyes - Little Drummer Boy
Dar Williams - The Christians And The Pagans
DJ Flack - Hanukkah In Dub
Frieder Butzmann - Stille Nacht Goes Disco
Hybrid Kids - Deck The Halls (excerpt)
John Denver & The Muppets - Twelve Days of Christmas
Ludacris - Ludacrismas
Mojochronic - Whoville (Won't Get Yuled Again)
Monty Python - Christmas in Heaven
nullsleep - silent night
Sam Flanagan - Frosty DMC
Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her - Here Comes Santa Claus
Secret Chiefs 3 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
The Jackson 5 - Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town (Rock Steady Drew Happy Hollabass Mix)
The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
The Raveonettes - Christmas In Cleveland
Treacherous Three - Xmas Rap
Wham - Last Christmas

http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20071224.zip
Calexico - Gift X-change
Cap'N Jazz - Winter Wonderland
David Bowie & Bing Crosby - Little Drummer Boy & Peace On Earth (Full Version)
God Is My Co-Pilot - Marshmallow World
John Denver - Noel, Christmas Eve, 1913
John Denver & The Muppets - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Melt-Banana - White Christmas
Merzbow - Silent Night
Poxy Boggards - Santa Dog (The Residents cover)
Run DMC - Christmas In Hollis
Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Let's Boogey To The Elf Dance!
Sufjan Stevens - Only At Christmas Time
Tes La Rok - Santa Claus Is Lost
The Muppets - Christmas is Coming
The Residents - Seasoned Greetings
They Might Be Giants - Christmas Cards
They Might Be Giants - Feast Of Lights
William S. Burroughs & Kurt Cobain - The Priest They Called Him



PS:  I miss getting nude, rolling in the snow, and then jumping in a hottub.  Universe:  make it happen.


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Tuesday, December 13, 2011

[BEST OF 2011] favourite albums #20-1 !!!!

blog 2011/12/13 - [BEST OF 2011]  TOP 20 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR!

This is it folks, the best of the best!
3 hours of MP3s covering my favourite albums that this year has offered up to me. 


Notes:
 - My list is of course rather Canadian heavy, but that is perfect for Canadians because you have probably have a chance to see many of these people on tour.  And great for everyone else because you will hear some magical sounds that you might not have been exposed to otherwise.
 - You can buy the Yamantaka // Sonic Titan album at http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com
 - And remember:  These albums make the perfect holiday gifts.
 - holiday music post, the final post of the year, coming soon!
 - TURN UP THE SPEAKERS, FLICK ON THE SUBWOOFER


CAITLYN'S FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2011

1)  Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
2)  Young Galaxy - Shapeshifting
3)  Tune-Yards - W H O K I L L
4)  Beirut - The Rip Tide
5)  Jessica Lea Mayfield - Tell Me
6)  The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
7)  The Mountain Goats - All Eternals Deck
8)  Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
9)  Hey Rosetta! - Seeds
10)  The Antlers - Burst Apart
11)  Tom Waits - Bad As Me
12)  Yuck - Yuck
13)  Action Bronson - Dr. Lecter
14)  Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
15)  Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
16)  M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
17)  Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes
18)  Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - YT-ST
19)  Feist - Metals
20)  St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

21)  EMA - Past Life Martyed Saints
22)  Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
23)  Big K.R.I.T. - ReturnOf4Eva
24)  Cults - Cults
25)  James Blake - James Blake
26)  Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
27)  OST - The Book Of Mormon
28)  Aurelio - Laru Beya
29)  Class Actress - Rapprocher
30)  Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
31)  Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
32)  Sidi Toure - Sahel Folk
33)  The Horrors - Skying
34)  PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
35)  Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
36)  Bon Iver - Bon Iver
37)  Braids - Native Speaker
38)  Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
39)  Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
40)  The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts

#01-20: http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111213.zip
#21-40: http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111212.zip
Best experimental/instrumental albums:  http://djcpi.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-experimentalinstrumental.html
2011, Year In Review:  http://djcpi.blogspot.com/2011/12/best-of-2011-2011-in-review.html

And in case you want some more cream-of-the-crop albums as last-minute stocking-stuffers, a quick review of my top albums from prior years that you really should own by now...
2010:  The National - High Violet
2010:  Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
2009:  Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
2009:  The Antlers - Hospice
2008:  Rae Spoon - SuperiorYouAreInferior
2008:  The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
2007:  El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
2007:  Beirut - The Flying Cup Club


THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Action Bronson - Moonstruck
Action Bronson - Shiraz
Beirut - Goshen
Beirut - Santa Fe
Bill Callahan - One Fine Morning
Bill Callahan - Universal Applicant
Elbow - Dear Friends
Elbow - Lippy Kids
Elbow - Open Arms
Feist - Graveyard
Feist - How Come You Never Go There
Gang Gang Dance - Glass Jar
Gang Gang Dance - MindKilla
Hey Rosetta! - New Sum (Nous Sommes)
Hey Rosetta! - Yer Spring
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Our Hearts Are Wrong
Jessica Lea Mayfield - Run Myself Into The Ground
Lykke Li - Get Some
Lykke Li - Sadness Is A Blessing
M83 - Claudia Lewis
M83 - Intro (ft Zola Jesus)
Okkervil River - Hanging From A Hit
Okkervil River - Wake and Be Fine
St. Vincent - Neutered Fruit
St. Vincent - Surgeon
The Antlers - French Exit
The Antlers - Putting The Dog To Sleep
The Decemberists - Rise To Me
The Decemberists - This Is Why We Fight
The Mountain Goats - Estate Sale Sign
The Mountain Goats - High Hawk Season
Tom Waits - Satisfied
Tom Waits - Talking at the Same Time
Tune-Yards - Bizness
Tune-Yards - My Country
Yamantaka __ Sonic Titan - Hoshi Neko (single version)
Young Galaxy - B.S.E.
Young Galaxy - Blown Minded
Young Galaxy - Cover Your Tracks
Yuck - Holing Out
Yuck - Sunday


EXUENTE!  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111213.zip


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~CPI
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Monday, December 12, 2011

[BEST OF 2011] favourite albums #40-21

blog 2011/12/12 - [BEST OF 2011]  Favourite albums, # 21 - 40

Let's get it started!  I am declaring my favourite 40 pop albums of the year, and here's the first 20.

No apologies, the awesomeness speaks for itself!



CAITLYN'S FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF 2011 #40-21...

21)  EMA - Past Life Martyed Saints
22)  Dan Mangan - Oh Fortune
23)  Big K.R.I.T. - ReturnOf4Eva
24)  Cults - Cults
25)  James Blake - James Blake
26)  Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
27)  OST - The Book Of Mormon
28)  Aurelio - Laru Beya
29)  Class Actress - Rapprocher
30)  Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
31)  Nicholas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise
32)  Sidi Toure - Sahel Folk
33)  The Horrors - Skying
34)  PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
35)  Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
36)  Bon Iver - Bon Iver
37)  Braids - Native Speaker
38)  Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
39)  Cloud Nothings - Cloud Nothings
40)  The Go! Team - Rolling Blackouts



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Aurelio - Lubara Wanwa
Aurelio - Mayahuabá
Big K.R.I.T. - Country Shit (remix)
Big K.R.I.T. - Rise And Shine
Bon Iver - Calgary
Bon Iver - Minnesota, WI
Book Of Mormon OST - Hello!
Book Of Mormon OST - I Believe
Braids - Plath Heart
Braids - Same Mum
Class Actress - Keep You
Class Actress - Missed
Cloud Nothings - Heartbeat
Cloud Nothings - Should Have
Cults - Bumper
Cults - Go Outside
Dan Mangan - About As Helpful As You Can Be Without Being Any Help At All
Dan Mangan - Post-War Blues
EMA - Anteroom
EMA - California
Girls - Forgiveness
Girls - Vomit
James Blake - Lindisfarne II
James Blake - Unluck
Nicolas Jaar - I Got A Woman
Nicolas Jaar - Keep Me There
Patrick Wolf - Bermondsey Street
Patrick Wolf - The City
PJ Harvey - The Words That Maketh Murder
PJ Harvey - Written on the Forehead
Sandro Perri - How Will I
Sandro Perri - Wolfman
Sidi Touré - Bon Koum
Sidi Touré - Haallah
The Go! Team - Buy Nothing Day
The Go! Team - T.O.R.N.A.D.O.
The Horrors - Changing The Rain
The Horrors - I Can See Through You
Youth Lagoon - July
Youth Lagoon - Seventeen


check back tomorrow for another bucket of fish:  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111212.zip


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~CPI
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

[BEST OF 2011] experimental/instrumental albums

blog 2011/12/08 - [BEST OF 2011] Best of instrumental and experimental albums


Let's get things started!  Wooot!

Experimental, contemporary instrumental, noise, classical, it's all here!  Why?  Well I generally listen to this stuff in a way separate from most pop music (i.e. contemporary song structure, usually with vocals).  Instead of focusing on genres, I am all about categorizing music on the CONTEXTS IN WHICH I UTILIZE IT.

For example:
Dance music and hiphop:  For the most part, I utilize these genres as a DJ and am purging mercilessly, which is why a lot of it does not make my best-of-2011, which focuses on COHESIVE ALBUMS.  Often my favourites will just get played at my gigs.
Pop music:  general listening, particularly in the car.
Experimental/instrumental:  I usually listehn to this stuff alone (because my wife's not too in to it,) and often with more specific focus.

I have assembled the playlist file in the post to descend from my favouritest, down.


CAITLYN'S FAVOURITE INSTRUMENTAL / EXPERIMENTAL ALBUMS OF 2011!!!!!!!!
1)  Colin Stetson - New History Warfare Vol. 2; Judges
2)  Vladislav Delay Quartet - Debut
3)  Maps And Diagrams - The Town Beneath The Sea
4)  Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - The Goat Rodeo Sessions
5)  Fourcolor - As Pleat
6)  Deaf Center - Owl and Splinters
7)  Balam Acab - Wander Wonder
8)  RxRy - A (Alpha)
9)  Ø - Heijastuva
10)  Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko
11)  Kid Koala - Space Cadet
12)  Jim O'Rourke - Old News #5
13)  VA - Tasogare Live in Tokyo
14)  Natural Snow Buildings - Chants Of Niflheim
15)  Daniel Menche - Feral
16)  Field Rotation - Regenzeit 10
17)  Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer - In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes
18)  Cut Hands - Afro Noise 1
19)  Demian Johnston & Kevin Gan Yuen - Keep Your Hands
20)  Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place
21)  Stephan Mathieu - Remain
22)  Gianlucca Becuzzi - [In]visible Fields (2 CD)
23)  Reve Steich - Stunning for 18 Miles
24)  Being - Quiet Rain
25)  Vampillia - Alchemic Heart
26)  Bellows - Handcut
27)  Valerio Tricoli & Thomas Ankersmit - Forma II
28)  Loscil - Coast; Range; Arc
29)  Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place
30)  Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light I

AND YES, the playlist is like 6 hours long.  For large works that are a single track, I have excerpted them to give a sense of what they are about.
Please listen deeply, and then go purchase your favourite releases from this list!



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS

Balam Acab - Apart
Balam Acab - Oh, Why
Being - Partical Stream
Being - Quiet Rain (The Boats Remix)
Bellows - Traccia 01
Bellows - Traccia 05
Colin Stetson - A Dream Of Water
Colin Stetson - Judges
Cut Hands - Ezili Freda
Cut Hands - Welcome To The Feast Of Trumpets
Daniel Menche - Feral One
Deaf Center - Close Forever Watching
Deaf Center - New Beginning (Tidal Darkness)
Demian Johnston & Kevin Gan Yuen - Told Outloud Indoors
Earth - Descent To The Zenith
Field Rotation - Regenzeit
Fourcolor - Carmine Fall
Fourcolor - Quiet Gray 1
Gianlucca Becuzzi - For E.A.P
Jim O'Rourke - Detain The Man To Whom
Julianna Barwick - Cloak
Julianna Barwick - Envelop
Kid Koala - Main Title Theme (Open Your Book)
Kid Koala - Recyclotron (Page 110)
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko III. Sarma
Kronos Quartet, Kimmo Pohjonen & Samuli Kosminen - Uniko VI. Emo
Loscil - Névé
Maps and Diagrams - Lorentzen
Maps and Diagrams - Ukiyo-e
Minamo - Live In Tokyo April 11 2010
Natural Snow Buildings - Chants Of Niflheim Part II
Ø - Heijastuva
Reve Steich - Stunning for 18 Miles (excerpt)
RxRy - Elipsis
RxRy - Stag
Stephan Mathieu - Remain (excerpt)
Stephan Mathieu - Schwarzschild Radius
Taylor Deupree + Marcus Fischer - In A Place Of Such Graceful Shapes (excerpt)
Valerio Tricoli & Thomas Ankers - Zwerm Voor Tithonus
Vampillia - Sea (excerpt)
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Des Abends
Vladislav Delay Quartet - Santa Teresa


love and noise and noise and love:  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111208.zip


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~CPI
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

[BEST OF 2011] 2011 in review

2011 in review
Wow, another year!  They are positively cascading away from me.  All downhill from here…  Are you reading this?
I'm doing things slightly different now.  A few changes this year:  I am only going to bother with the top 40 albums.  Not 50.
I am not going to bother with listing my favourite mixtapes (because obviously they are the ones I made), nor best EPs nor reissues.  I will still post a selection of my favourite experimental records.
I will write less about the albums.  I will write more about myself.  I will offer a schedule.
Dec 07: this.
Dec 08: best of instrumental & experimental
Dec 12: BO2011:  40-21
Dec 13: BO2011:  20-1
Dec 15: annual holiday music post



So what did I accomplish this year?
I spent most of my time on the Chosen Families series and am incredibly proud of them.  Download them ASAP if you have not already…
The development of my "dreamer beats" aesthetic has resulted in mixes that are very rewarding for me.  They are their own little worlds that span genres and conventions, but give me the emotional hooks I am looking for.  All the while being as smooth as possible.
CPI - Directions To My Special Place (chosen families 1)
CPI - Glittering, Waiting (chosen families 2)
CPI - Always More Than This (chosen families 3)
CPI - Oh, Glorious Perversions (chosen families 4)
Combine that with last year's Moonchild (in memoriam) and you have over 7 hours of musical mixes that you probably can't find anywhere else.  If there's anyone else doing this, I'd love to know because I would want people making stuff like this for me.

I released a new single by Lesbians On Ecstasy featuring bounce sensation Big Freedia, including my own DJ edit of it.   Check the video and get the MP3s.

I have an art book collection which you can browse over at Librarything,  I just set up my profile there this year.  I like to get my books as cheap as possible though, so to assist I created a new tool.
Amazon Used Deals Finder scans anyone's wishlist and finds the best deals on it, and as well tracks historical trends in an item's used price.
It's pretty damn cool, even if like my mixes, I have no idea how to promote it and get it in to the hands of those who need it.
But that is how I work:  focus on a project, make it as best I can, dump it online to be obscured by the sheer volume of the internet and then move on to the next.

I set up a lot of different sites.  Like http://caitlynpascal.com for starters.  I also got on twitter at and tumblr.

In Ottawa, in collaboration with Ad-ver-sary, I started a new noise & experimental performance series called Pitch Black.  Check us out at http://PitchBlackNoise.ca if you are in to weird sounds and/or want to perform for us.
My jadedness about queer clubs/DJs in Ottawa boiled over and I decided fuck it, I'm starting my own.  It will be called Q-Bounce and shall debut in January.   QUEER BASS UNDERGROUND.  Http://q-bounce.ca to get on board for that.  CPI favourite Rae Spoon will be performing at the opening night.
I also still run an LGBT-focused underground documentary series called Divergence Movie Night, http://DivergenceMovieNight.com and we just finished our SIXTH YEAR.
Q-Bounce will be a joint fundraiser for Divergence Movie Night and the amazing people at the Venus Envy Bursary Fund.  Pitch Black and Q-Bounce will be quarterly.  For the next year or two I will probably move DMN to being bimonthly, just so I can fit it all in sanely.

I had the magical opportunity to score a new sound-piece for contemporary dancer Lana Morton.  It debuted in May.

Posted 63 mp3 blogs.
Uploaded a bunch of youtube videos.
We had 11 Divergence Movie Night screenings.
Curated 2 art shows.



THE FUTURE

There is just SO MUCH MUSIC nowadays, it's pretty foolish to think you can ever be on top of it.
This year I spent most of my time listening to new music, let's say a few hundred albums from 2011, and still there are tonnes of BEST OF lists out there with albums I have never heard.
I found a crapload of amazing music. And that also means there is also a crapload of amazing music out there that I didn't hear.
It is exciting! And terrifying!
Every once in a while I feel I have to abdicate some internal desire to check out everything that people hold high and exclaim about. Every once in a while I have to remember to go back and listen to records that didn't just come out this year.
My joy received from hearing great music must be tempered by the realization that there is far more amazing music out there than I will ever properly consume. That the vastness of talent out there is well beyond my grasp.  That I barely even listen to classical genres, that I barely watch any contemporary dance!  The world spins fantastically.
Back in the pre-Internet days, the music world consisted of what the 2 or 3 awesome records shops had stocked and what ended up on traded mixtapes you dubbed. It seemed much more containable.  You felt like you could hold it in your hands if you tried hard enough.
I want to feel more content with the reality that I am just scraping the surface, to just be happy with that, and enjoy that small amount with as much prescience (and fidelity!) as I can reasonably accommodate.

I do not know how much longer I will continue doing this blog.  I am not really sure if a significant number of my friends use it at all.  Every day 10 new music blogs spring up by people who know how to wite and have more time on their hands.
Even if sometimes I feel like a mid-size fish, the world is a gigantic pond, and so it can feel discouraging to continue.  Do people still download these?  Do I still bring anything to the table?



ALL I ASK
If I can ask for one holiday gift, please just pass my new mixes along to whomever might enjoy them.  I put a lot of work in to them.
If you can write about them, or know someone that can, please please please any press is great.  No blogs write about my mixes.  The internet is a deafening silence.

The blogs are filled with mixes that just don't interest me.  Bleeding-edge tracklists that aren't interesting and shoddy mixing.  Poorly thought-out transitions and massive key clashes abound.
I feel like I've produced something worthwhile.  The music world reflection tells me otherwise.
I've written to over a hundred music blogs in the past, but no replies.  There are thousands of people flogging their unheard masterpieces out there.

If you can signal boost, in any capacity, it would be greatly appreciated.

At the very least, I am going to keep working on my mixes since in the end I make them for me and me alone.  I got addicted to the joy of having other people love them too, and it is a harsh crash when expectations aren't met.
I will continue to work on producing local events here for my communities.  At least with that the change can feel palpable.  I'm not the anonymous millions on the internet flogging their toss-off mixes, I am actually doing real things with real people.
Real movement, real smiles.

Thanks for sticking with me for so long.  Let's see what 2012 has in store.
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

MP3 blog 2011/12/06

blog 2011/12/06 - the end slithers in and we barely notice

This is it, people.  This is the last normal mp3 blog entry for the year.

Did you notice yesterday?  Did you?  Well I dropped the final and ultimate mix in the Chosen Families series.
I wish you had been paying attention.

But here it is again.  This is your chance.

CPI - Oh, Glorious Perversions (chosen families 4)
http://thetastates.com/mp3s/CPI_-_Oh_Glorious_Perversions.mp3

01) Ken Nordine - The Wet Stranger
02) Alva Noto - Argonaut (Version)
03) Telefon Tel Aviv - Sound In A Dark Room
04) Young Galaxy - We Have Everything (Adam & The Amethysts Remix)
05) Pawn - Morning Tone
06) Four Tet - This Unfolds
07) Lali Puna - Remember
08) Chew Lips - Slick
09) Purity Ring - Ungirthed
10) Run Toto Run - This Is A Lull
11) Alan Pownall - Colourful Day (Seams Remix)
12) No Ceremony - Hurtlove
13) Balam Acab - See Birds (moon)
14) CocoRosie - Werewolf
15) Zola Jesus - Sea Talk
16) Air France - It Feels Good To Be Around You
17) The xx - Islands (CHLLNGR Remix)
18) The Big Pink - Velvet (Mount Kimbie Remix)
19) Foals - Spanish Sahara (Mount Kimbie Remix)
20) Jamie xx - Far Nearer
21) Sub Compression - When It All Comes Back (Vladimir Corbin & Peddy's Sunshine RMX)
22) Lali Puna - Out There ft Yukihiro Takahashi
23) Elbow - The Night Will Always Win
24) DNTEL - Rock My Boat ft Mia Doi Todd
25) Papercutz - Do Outro Lado Do Espelho (Taylor Deupree Remix)
26) Sufjan Stevens - I Walked
27) The Memory Band - Green Glows The Laurel (John Hopkins Remix)
28) The Antlers - Shiva


And now, the rest of the blog...


Anna Rose - My Body Is A Cage:  Smooth folk with the meditativene sorry of Kate Bush.

Artist Unknown - Burn (Fear of Tigers Remix):  All hands up for the europop funtimes!

Beat Culture - Before You Go:  Happy pianos out in the ocean always need more breakbeats

Bonnie Prince Billy - We Are Unhappy:  The new album is Wolfroy Goes To Town, and yes, *SPOILER ALERT* he is still unhappy.

Field Rotation - Regenzeit II:  The gorgeous little Regenzeit 10 is a gem for fans of ambient/classical/minimalist lovers out there.

Hackney Colliery Band - No Diggity:  Funk cover of the classic.  Seriously good.

Jeffrey Lewis - I Got Lost
Jeffrey Lewis - Time Trades:  A Turn in the Dream-Songs might not grace the best of 2011 lists, but oh it deserves a listen from everone.  There are quaint hypnotic nuggests of truth to be had.  And for those that need him and for whose lives will be changed, Jeffrey Lewis will be essential.

MC Chris - MC Chris Is Back ft Jesse Dangerously:  Race Wars has some absurdly amusing skits, but the star of the show here is really the guest appearance by one Jesse Dangerously stealing the show and then not giving it back.

Nicolas Jaar - Don't Break My Love:  New single from Jaar to melt minds and somehow increase global sales of beanbag chairs.  So amazing.

Radical Face - Always Gold:  Total pop action!

Sandro Perri - How Will I?:  Impossible Spaces is sprawling and haunting, like a proggier Bill Callahan meets a less-sleazy Toro Y Mori.  Highly recommended.

Sepalcure - See Me Feel Me:  Finally, the post-dubstep generation rediscovers the horror that is Tommy!

Silver Swans - Secrets (Number Stations Remix):  The pop layer was perfect enough as it in, but hey, let's dump the drugs all over it and we got ourselves a new kind of party!

Slyy - Booze Crooze:  The scene is the members of Stomp are in a bar, one thing leads to another...

The National - Think You Can Wait:  Amazing track from the Exile Vilify single.  Stunning.  The perfect way to wind up the year.



THIS WEEK'S TRACKS:

Anna Rose - My Body Is A Cage
Artist Unknown - Burn (Fear of Tigers Remix)
Beat Culture - Before You Go
Bonnie Prince Billy - We Are Unhappy
Field Rotation - Regenzeit II
Hackney Colliery Band - No Diggity
Jeffrey Lewis - I Got Lost
Jeffrey Lewis - Time Trades
MC Chris - MC Chris Is Back ft Jesse Dangerously
Nicolas Jaar - Don't Break My Love
Radical Face - Always Gold
Sandro Perri - How Will I?
Sepalcure - See Me Feel Me
Silver Swans - Secrets (Number Stations Remix)
Slyy - Booze Crooze
The National - Think You Can Wait


Goodbye and we shall meet again:  http://thetastates.com/mp3s/blog/blog20111206.zip


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~CPI
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