An Optimistic Sun: The Mix
1. Tortoise -- On The Chin
2. Sun Ra -- A streetcar named hell
3. Peanuts -- Oshima
4. Madlib -- Eternal Broadcaster (Authentic)
5. Cornelius -- The Micro Disneycal World Tour
6. Battles -- Leyendecker
7. Love and Rockets -- Shelf Life
8. Focus -- House Of The King
9. Br. Danielson -- Perennial Wine
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -- City Of Refuge
11. Cornelius -- Scum
12. Squarepusher -- My Red Hot Car
13. The Sea and Cake -- Up on Crutches
14. Read Yellow -- Bigmouth Strikes Again (Smiths Cover)
15. White Rabbits -- While We Go Dancing
16. Radiohead -- Permanent Daylight
17. Mission of Burma -- That's When I Reach for My Revolver
18. I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness -- Your Worst Is The Best
19. Spoon -- I Summon You
Grab the mix here - http://www.sendspace.com/file/t3r466
Some album art and info on a few notables
Battles
This is the first full-length album called Mirrors from the band Battles. Its mellow, mathy, and a nice stray from the norm as far as electronic-rock goes. I picked up this album and have since rocked it several times.
Check them out on myspace here.
Br. Danielson
Yes, I know, these guys are marketed on the Christian circuit. I'll tell you that straight up. But my God (no pun intended), thank you for this band. Inventive, haunting, sometimes funny and always artful Danielson is a band bringing back passion to music. I invite you to listen to this and try and to not hit repeat.
Read Yello
If the rest of this album is as great as this Smiths cover, then I ache even more for it. This version of Bigmouth Strikes Again makes me think about being crouched on the souls of my Chuck Taylors and smoking behind A1 records, hoping the boy I liked might walk by. Ah, youth.
Here is a sweet video by Cornellius
