Photo: Hotel Basico. Playa del Carmen.

Belated summer / continental nostalgia.

• Andrew Sisters – Rum & Coca Cola
  Rum & Coca Cola (1944)
• Cesaria Evora – Sodade
  Miss Perfumado (Lusafrica, 1992)
• Os Mutantes – Bat Macumba
  Os Mutantes (1968)
• Seu Jorge – Bem Querer
  Cru (Naïve, 2004)
• Vinícius Cantuária – India
  Silva (Hannibal, 2005)
• Arto Lindsay – Simply Beautiful
  Mundo Civilizado (Bar None, 1996)

I’ve gone missing for the best part of the summer. Not really doing anything meaningful, mostly hypnotized and reckless.  Love will do that to you. No excuses this time.
Right now the hurricane Jova is painting the Mexican coast with rain and it’s forcing me to stay indoors all week (good news for MdM) and since I’m all sorts of a rebellious escapist I’ll call in the hidden suns with some warm, sensuous – mostly – brazilian music. I owe you a whole summer after all. Please enjoy this playlist as an apology.

note: In the past few years we were using the playtagger script to stream mp3s. As some of you may know, Yahoo! has sold the delicious to Avos and playtagger has been axed by their development team. And so, we’re left with two options: Yahoo!’s webplayer or Aol’s streampad, the former is the most similar to the one we had before and the later is less invasive but it’s hard to notice if you don’t know it’s there (check the bottom of the page as it is the one we’re currently using). The good thing about both is that they allow a continuous stream of the playlist, a feat missing from playtagger. Comment away if you know about a third option or if you’d like us to switch to the yahoo! webplayer.

Photo: Charles Bergquist

In summer we go to lie together beside the wather all of the things of the city mean half as much when we finally take them inside
ourseleves.
The slow water lapping the sun on our skin and the shadows we cast echo fr ages dogs also happy lying like this huddled together
on the beach in and out of sleep with ancientness hovering over like a protecting hand. [1]

• Daniel Melero – Descansa en mis brazos
  Rocio (1996)
• Star You Star Me – A Place In My Heart
  Simple Things (Force Tracks, 2006)
• Benjamin Diamond -The Rain
  Strange Attitude (Diamond Traxx, 2000)
• Everything But The Girl -Five Fathoms
  Temperamental (1999)
• Husky Rescue -Sweet Little Kitten
  Country Falls (Castkills Records, 2004)

When we are sleeping, aeroplanes carry memories of the horrors we have given
our silent consent to into the night sky of our cities and leave them there to gather
like clouds and condense into our dreams before morning. [2]

There is no changing of the seasons, in the electric city and no real darkness.
The street is iluminated all night with orange light and the concrete is like a carpet.
We have dreamed the street as a room and it has become true
There is no indoors or outdoors anymore. [3]

Let’s get drop out the funky beats of the last playlist.  Keep on the way to bed time, without losing pace.
Enjoy!

Image via: Foldedmemos

• Stretch-Why Did You Do It?
  Why Did You Do It?  (Anchor, 1975)
• Steve Miller Band – Fly Like An Eagle
  Fly Like An Eagle (1976)
• Boz Scaggs -Lowdown
  Silk Degrees (1976)
• Stevie Wonder -Too High
  Innervisions (Tamla, 1973)
• Sebastien Tellier -La Ballade Du Georges
  Universe (Lucky Number, 2006)

Es sábado por la noche, lo sé…
Este playlist va dirigido a quienes muy probablemente, en estos momentos, se encuentran en una fiesta o una reunión, y no tienen en mente más que iniciar el exilio de ahi; no un exódo, es decir, mudarse a un ambiente más pausado, pero sin sacrificar ritmo.  O simplemente como yo, irse a dormir, pero abriendo paso al sueño con intermitente sigilo.

Photo: Richard Misrach

“When I think that I’m over you,  I’m overpowered”

• Tracey Thorn – It’s All True
  It’s All True (2007)
• Lacquer – Behind
  Behind (2003)
• Robyn – With Every Heartbeat (Feat. Kleerup)
  With Everyheartbeat (Konichiwa, 2007)
• Róisín Murphy- Overpowered
  Overpowered (2007)
• Bot’Ox – Blue Steel
  Babylon By Car (I’m A Cliché, 2009)

Behind this playlist isn’t there a mood, an “idea”, a moment, etc…Just the intention to share to you, what sounds on my ipod this summer.
Enjoy it.

Image: Creator’s Inn.

“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends disaster.” Or: “the disappointment of sleeping with one’s fantasy.” I’d like to show how “intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members” connects with “the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age.” I’d like to have a word for “the sadness inspired by failing restaurants” as well as for “the excitement of getting a room with a minibar.” I’ve never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I’ve entered my story, I need them more than ever. “
- Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex.

• Dillard & Clark – Don’t Let Me Down
  Through The Morning, Through The Night (1969)
  
• Tony Joe White - Thing About You Baby
  Train I’m On (1972)
• Alexander – Truth
  Alexander (Rough Trade, 2011)
• Syd Matters – My Lover’s On The Pier
  Ghost Days (Because, 2008)
• Conner Youngblood – A Summer Song
  TBA (2011)
• Bedouin Soundclash – Brutal Hearts
  Light the Horizon (Pirate’s Blend, 2011)

Look at me, all grown up and still pretty naïve. I already know much of the things that I like and those I don’t. I feel both happy and sad most of the time and I don’t really know what that means or what to do with it. There was a time where I devoted most of my energy trying to decode it. Now happiness and sadness reveal themselves as emotions that can’t really be narrowed down into simple words. For all I know they might be the same thing.
This playlist is an exploration of sorts of the colliding hues of happines and sadness. Debased by a feeling that these might just be the last days of summer. Hazy, laidback and breezy but wistful and yearning at the same time. They don’t realize that when the end of the night comes and you say goodbye you’ll truly mean it, but we’re all having fun so why ruin it with drunken ruminations. Take your picture and keep on dancing. The sun will keep on rising with or without you.