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and every summer Lissie comes back to me

By chrome June 28, 2011

As soon as it gets hot – and its 37 degrees today in Berlin, Lissie instantly pops back up on my headphones, her smooth, enchanting folky, country music is made for the good weather and thats one but not the only reason she is featured on my new Sweet Serenade Mixtape, out in July. If your not one of Lissie 100k facebook fans, you probably dont have her 2010 album “Catching a Tiger” either… but you should! Here are two of my favourite pieces which have been all over blogland for the past 10 months or so.Beautiful music, and just perfect for a hot day at the lake..

Lissie: Website / Facebook

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Lissie – Record Collector from her album “Catching a Tiger”

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Lissie – Everywhere I Go from her debut Ep “Why you running”

Lissie – Pursuit of Happiness (Kid Cudi cover) by Anclin

Firewall Mixtape by chrome

By chrome June 27, 2011

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Firewall Mixtape by chrome

***a mixtape when travelling. sunny days on the road, cool wind in your hair…

Firewall Mixtape by filip bakija

tracklist:

1. Firewall – Bright Eyes
2. You know what i mean – Cults
3. Rolling Stone – the Weeknd
4. The Vision – Joker
5. Wildfire – SBTRKT
6. Swervin’ – XV (Lunice Rmx)
7. Skinny Love – Birdy
8. Go Outside – Cults
9. Go Hahaha – Hood Intenet (Cults & Das Racist)
10. No Diggity – Chet Faker
11. The Wilhelm Scream – James Blake
12. The Sweetest Kill – Broken Social Scene
13. Who makes your money – Spoon
14. Keep on shining – CSLSX
15. Novacane – Frank Ocean
16. Brutal Hearts – Bedouin Soundclash & Coeur de Pirate

the Cults – debut album “Cults”

By chrome June 13, 2011

Their debut album “Cults” (sorry for the itunes link, LPs not on bandcamp), IMHO, delivered everything the first three songs promised it to be – here is a previous post to their 2010 songs. The Cults has to be the best band of 2010/11 so far and their mixture of aplocalyptic pop, soulful basslines and lofi rock has my media players working hard ever since i first heard them. If you havent heard of them already (what country doesnt have internet?) lets go jump into their music:

Cults – Abducted from Jonathan Wang on Vimeo.

The music video to “Abducted” sets the mood and here are a few more of my favourites. One of the nicest tracks (especially when on the road) has to be “Bumper”, it just goes on & on w/o ever getting boring, incredible.

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Cults – Bumper

Once again, actual tunes that i am playing, at big room gigs but nobody else is, except your occasional bar djs. This is just too good not to be shared with the entire world. Whats up people, make sure to put this on your tables, decks, sticks, seratos, traktors – whatever you are using. I have been to about 20 different spots this holiday weekend and have not a SINGLE time heard anything by this band, one of the hottest groups in the world right now. Back to my favourites:

One of their best tarcks has to be : You know what i mean
Cults – You Know What I Mean by cultscultscults

The remix to last years tune “go outside”:
Cults – Go Outside (2 Bears Remix) by cultscultscults

*now that you are hooked*

Links: official website / bandcamp / facebook / soundcloud

Lenka – Album Two

By chrome June 13, 2011

Australian singstress Lenka delivered her second album Two (released April 19th) a few weeks ago and i have listened to it occasionally after actually liking the first one quite a lot, but none of the songs would stick in my head. Its feelingwise a summer album, or filled with summer tunes, but not as catchy as the first one or maybe even too catchy – so that its hard to have one particular song remembered (?), but of course thats up to everyone else to decide. Perfect pop music, maybe a bit too perfect. I still like her and i like people that make positive pop music, and thats already worth acknowledging and after 2 months i finally figured out which songs i like the most, but check out the entire album “Lenka: Two“yourself. PS i think this lady has a lot of talent which should be paired with the best producers out there, to still make positive pop music, but give the music more deepness, so that her vocals can unfold even more. and make the music more interesting, cause i think thats what it is in the end. Thats at least what i want to see, at little edgy material paired with her great vocal talents. Pls surprise me with Three.

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Lenka – everything at once

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Lenka – everythings ok

Lenka: official website / facebook

Foster the People “Torches”

By chrome June 8, 2011

Foster the peoples new album “Torches” has been doing the trick for me for over a week now and i like it better the more i hear it, so i guess its worth a suggestion to you guys. You will definitly hear at least two of these three tunes wherever i play out, but thats just my dj favourites – the rest of the album is packed with great music. Have fun with their album, all tracks from the preceeding EP are included on the album release and in case you wanna more go check them out on

Foster the People: official website / facebook / myspace

Music

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Call It What You Want – Foster the People

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Love – Foster the People

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Pumped Up Kicks – Foster the People

The Slackers – You must be good

By chrome April 18, 2011

You must be gOOd! This amazing tune by the Slackers is taken from their amazing 1997 album “Redlight”. Its a pice of feelgod music and the entire album ranks in my all time top album charts, somewhere in my top 5. Open up inside and enjoy this one with the sun shining on you. Love, love, love…

Ps . this tune will be included on my new mixtape “Pacifics” and more info on that, coming soon.

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The Slackers – You Must Be Good

Ps get all the Slackers material via their website or buy Redlight via itunes. Its definitely worth it. I just hope the Slackers will mve over to bandcamp.com , cause i feel like paying for good music, especially if its this gOOd, but i dont feel like promoting itunes or amazon at all.