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It always feels like there’s so much to do once springtime rolls around. It’s not that daunting, overwhelming, too-much-to-do-what-am-I-going-to-do feeling, it’s more like that yay-there’s-too-much-to-do kinda feeling. It’s partly because there’s been so much you haven’t been able to do all winter that it’s like a total release of bottle necked plans. That release is what makes spring so liberating. It’s like no traffic and all green lights ahead. These are the songs you play on that utopian roadway. This mix is all sunny-fresh songs from 2013 with no braking necessary. So get going, I know you have a million places to be, just enjoy the drive.

Feb 14

My Valentine’s Day card this year comes in the form of a steamy kissing mix. Pop this on with the one you like and see what happens when eighty minutes of the latest and sexiest jams fill your ears up. There’s a few new tracks here but it’s mostly flirty remixes and covers from the past couple months. Happy V-day to all and to all a goodnight.

Track list:

1. High For This / Ellie Goulding 4:08

2. The Zone (D. Fine Remix) / The Weeknd 5:11

3. Suit & Tie (Chris Hurst Remix) / Justin Timberlake (Feat. Jay-Z) 5:28

4. Constant Conversation (St. Lucia Remix) / Passion Pit 3:45

5. & It Was U (Elite Gymnastics Remix) / How To Dress Well 3:57

6. Send Me Down (Kisses Remix) / Haim 5:32

7. Goldmine / Kilo Kish 3:37

8. If You Love Me / Benzel & Jessie Ware 2:56

9. Sure Thing (WISKIM REMIX) / Miguel 3:14

10. Doing It Wrong (Figgy Remix) / Drake 3:26

11. It’s All Over Your Body (Oddisee Remix) / Jose Jones4:20

12. Freedom (Kool & Kabul Edit) /Anthony Hamilton & Elyna Boynton 5:38

13. Stay (Them Jeans Remix) / Rihanna (Feat. Mikky Ekko) 4:12

14. Everything Is Embarassing (Krystal Klear Remix) / Sky Ferreira 6:01

15. Angels (Andrea Remix) / The xx 3:20

16. Retrograde / James Blake 3:34

17. So Many Climaxes (Usher vs. Toro Y Moi) / The Hood Internet 3:36

18. Wiseman / Frank Ocean 3:47

19. Swim Good / Indiana 4:08

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Dec 31

Happy New Years everyone! I have a one track, two and a half hour party mix with all you and your friend’s favorite songs of 2012. Have a great night and an even better 2013.

Spotify (Not all tracks will work on Spotify and you don’t get my cool editing transitions so download is recommended but you kids just love Spotify)

(This is just a post, no music here, but my NYE Party mix is coming super soon.)

Some people say they’d prefer to have one best friend then a whole mess of “good friends”. Just one person who have a blast with and can rely on to hang all the emotional support you need instead of spreading that out over a bunch of people. In this thinking, if friends equal albums (f=a), I didn’t really have a best friend this year. No offense to Frank Ocean but he didn’t really get the number one spot on my list, I mean, he’s on the top spot and his album is great, a classic even, but I didn’t fall head over heels in love with any singular album this year. My personal equation for album assessment is something like personal taste + cultural significance + overall ascetic value (pt+cs+a=x). Frank had the best score with those qualifications yet it still didn’t take over my own zeitgeist the way a top album usually does for me (x). Now, If I sound down on the albums of 2012, I’m not at all. As usual it was difficult to cut down the list to even fifty albums and even more so this year, the lower ranked albums are stronger than lower ranked albums of year’s past. It was just a totally well rounded gang of albums. There was a deep wealth of varied genres, exciting emerging artists and old favorites delivering new gems. Yet there just wasn’t that one album that said: Hello, I am your 2012. Hopefully I’ll meet this album again next year, but until then I have these fifty albums in my life to challenge me, inspire me and get me going. So is one best friend more valuable than a bunch of pals? I guess it just depends on the year.

Dec 22

“Old Long Since” is the literal English translation of the late 18^th century Scottish poem “Auld Lang Syne”. Like most of the season’s traditions, singing this music-set-poem at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve is a multi-generational old ritual. Just think about all the people, all over the world, for centuries who have marked the end of the year with the same old song. That tradition and others like it is what makes holiday music so special. The music becomes soaked in the memories of the songs sung. It’s exciting every year to hear an artist’s new interpretation of an old tune or what new song they have to offer to the already overflowing holiday music cannon. Year after year, by continually covering these traditional Christmas songs and also writing new ones, artists are keeping alive the traditions of the holiday season through the universal langue of music. So next time you roll your eyes over the millionth “Jingle Bells” rendition, keep in mind that it’s not just someone’s cover of an overly covered song, it’s someone’s memory of a personal holiday moment. More loosely, “Old Long Since” can be read as “For sake of old times”. I hope this collection of songs soaks up some of the happy moments of this Christmas and brings you back to the happy ones of the past. For auld lang syne.

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