New Year's Eve Playlist - Off Topic


Well, I have a tradition with the lads from TVset Under Repair that each New Year we make a playlist for each other. Here's my playlist for this year:

1. Air France - June Evenings
Electro indie pop from Gothenburg, this track was taken from their recent 'No Way Down EP'.

2. Squarepusher - The Coathanger
a track taken from this year's album 'Just a Souvenir' by the Warp Records stalwart.

3. Cruyff In The Bedroom - Hakuchume
Another track from an album that came out this year. This one is from everyone's favourite Japanese shoegazers and sees them return to form with their third album, 'Saudargia'

4. Gordon's Tsunami Week - Seldom
Gordon's Tsunami Week are a German post rock band, I heard them first on Last FM at work. They've been going since 2001, as far as I know, but don't seem to be that prolific. This track was taken from a demo produced then.

5. Paavoharju - Alania
This track by the Finish folk band comes from this year's album, which is catchily titled 'Laulu Laakson Kukista'

6. Myrakara - Las Minna
Electronic music from Estonia this year and available on a free download album at Sutemos.

7. This Town Needs Guns - Panda
Math Rock (whatever that is, they sound a bit like Russian band Everything Is Made in China to me) from Oxford's finest. This track was taken from their 'Animals' album that was released in October and has the novelty of every track being named after an animal.

8. Mellonta Tauta - Yini Mijain
One of 2 bands that share this name, there must be quite a few Edgar Allan Poe fans out there. This is the Argentinian dream pop version rather than the Italian band with the same name. They are clearly heavily influenced by MBV and Curve. This album came out in 1994, but I heard it for the first time last week.

9. Flying Lotus - Taken
A track from Warp's Spring Sampler by the LA based experimental hip hopper.

10. Hello Saferide - Sancha Panze
More Swedish indie music. This track was taken from this year's album 'More Modern Short Stories from Hello Saferide'.

11. Sleeper Kinney - The Size of Our Love
An old song from a band who I first heard of when they were referenced on the Brakes single 'Your Band'. Some of their songs are a bit grating, but this one is a classic.

12. Condo Fucks - Watch'a Gonna Do About It
This track was taken from Matador's Autumn Sampler and covers the Small Faces. I know they have an album out next March, but other than that I don't know a great deal about them. Obviously with a name like that they aren't exactly craving for air play and commercial success, but well worth a listen to.

13. Billy the Vision & the Dancers - A Man from Argentina
Yet another Swedish band, this comes from their 2005 album 'The World According to Pablo'. They've had a new album out this year and you can download all of their albums for free over at their website.

14. Drugs Made Me Smarter - I Wanna Feel Your Soul
I first came across this Mexican minimal techno artist on a variety of free German net labels, but this track was from Kompakt, so things are loking up for him.

15. Plaistow - Aki's Apple
This Swiss electro jazz band are named after a Squarepusher track, but they remind me more of another Warp act, Red Snapper. You can download the whole EP for free at 12rec.net, unlike most net labels they produce a real depth of variety, so have a look round there is tons of great stuff there.

16. Je Reve De Toi - Decoracoa
This track comes from 'The best free downloads of 2008', which is an annual compilation voted for by the readers of the soon to become defunct indie-mp3.co.uk so get it while you can. This band are from Brazil and it's a nice track, although @I don't know much about them.

17. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone
I don't know why but at Christmas time I quite like this band. The rest of the year they make me want to puke. It must be something in the air.

18. Los Campesinos! - We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
Indie Pop from Wales. I'd heard a few of their tracks over at indie-mp3.co.uk and thought that they were OK, but after Last FM kept putting them in my recommendations I decided to research them a bit more, and this year's album 'Sticking Fingers into Sockets' is certainly good stuff.

Here's the link:
www.megaupload.com/?d=G94RGEU2
Hopefully, it'll go and make you want to buy the records or go and explore some of the net labels these tracks were taken from

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