(Artist - Album - Title)

1. Helios - For Nihon - Sing The Same Song Twice
2. Nigel Godrich - Scott Pilgrim vs The World - Hillcrest Park
3. Olafur Arnalds - Found Songs - Ljósið
4. Bent - Intercept! - As Seen From Space
5. Caspian - Tertia - Vienna
6. Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd - For Nihon - We Enter The Night
7. Jacaszek - Context - Elegia
8. Yoko Kanno - Mizu no Onna - The Wave Of Flame
9. Peter Broderick - Float - A Glacier
10. Yoko Kanno - Mizu no Onna - The…

Two weeks ago I wrote this.

Now it has a soundtrack.

1. U2 - Pop Muzik (Pop Mart Mix)
2. U2 - Mofo
3. U2 - Discotheque
4. Fluke - Switch/Twitch
5. Fluke - ykk
6. Nero - My Eyes
7. Massive Attack - Risingson
8. Massive Attack - Inertia creeps
9. Darkside - Golden Arrow
10. U2 - Gone
11. U2 - Miami
12. U2 - Please (video version) - U2

I am old and have no dignity. This I have accepted.

It's only the beginning of Spring in Melbourne by damn if it isn't already warming up a ton. I'm usually a winter creature and suspect always will be, but summer's growing on me. Plus it's always nice cruising around in the car with groovy tunes.

1. Chicane - What Am I Doing Here Part 1
2. Classixx - Hanging Gardens
3. Crazy Penis - Lie Lost
4. Mint Julep - Invisible Waves
5. Washed Out - Soft
6. Low Motion Disco - Love Love Love
7. Gypsy & The…

This is what happens when you can't sleep.
Take heed, kids. Go to bed early. Establish and maintain a regular sleeping pattern. You may turn out ordinary but at least you won't do dumbass shit like this:

1. BT - 13 Angels on My Broken Windowsill (14:08)
2. Björk - Jóga - Björk (5:05)
3. Massive Attack - Risingson (4:58)
4. Fluke - ykk (6:44)
5. Fluke - Bermuda (7:57)
6. James Blake - Limit To Your Love (4:36)
7. A Perfect Circle - The Noose (4:52)
8. Telefon Tel Aviv - Mostly Translucent (4:15)
9. BT - See You…

I just used these tracks to diagnose my new setup.

1. Planet Funk - Where Is The Max (4:40)
2. Eric Serra - Little light of love (6:45)
3. Grand Avenue - She (Cashback Version) (5:34)
4. Kyte - Boundaries (3:52)
5. The Wallflowers - Heroes (3:59)
6. Steely Dan - Gaslighting Abbie (5:53)
7. Steely Dan - Jack Of Speed (6:17)
8. Rebirth Brass Band - Feel Like Funkin' It Up (3:29)
9. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Strange Meadow Lark (7:24)
10. Harry Gregson-Williams - Crusaders (1:41)
11. Harry Gregson-Williams - Coronation (3:03)
12. John Williams - Prologue…

I was a bit disappointed in Fun's album of the same name to be honest, but that one song was quality enough that I built a playlist around it.

Naturally I've also been listening to a shitload of Passion Pit and there's just something about their songs that makes me want to see a film based on their music. I'm marvelling at their exuberant sound yet sobering lyrics and just how well they work together. Make Light definitely feels like the right kind of opener for the main title, probably after a brief scene prior to the opening credits, and…

I had to make a Sawdust & Diamonds compilation for a few reasons, firstly so that I had the song more readily available in the car without just having the Ys disc in there, and also just to get a few other songs in that I've been listening to, particularly Passion Pit's Swinning In The Flood.

So this is it.

1. Bat For Lashes - Bat's Mouth (4:25)
2. Björk - All neon like (5:53)
3. Passion Pit - Swimming in the Flood (4:58)
4. Bent - Sing me (5:17)
5. dZihan & Kamien - Drophere (4:29)
6. Washed Out…

It's been a long time since I've posted.

I've been doing a lot of listening and not a whole lot of writing, that's how life is sometimes.

In my long and winding music tourism journey, I've come to revisit After by dZihan & Kamien (not sure how this will format so bare with me). It's a killer track from way back in 2000 and I realised I was really missing the electronic jazz sound (Nu-Jazz I guess, I'm not fond of that term).

This is a comp I quickly worked on over a couple of days and am finally happy…

One of the most useful things on Last.fm is the ability to see when you first scrobbled a track and artist. I first discovered Helios (aka Keith Kenniff and Goldmund) in 2008, polling my first play-through of his album Eingya on the 1st of October of the same year. Just over two years later, I have purchased every piece of music of Keith's that I can find which is actually quite easy in the modern age as it's all available from his own site Unseen Music.

Addendum: I realise I hardly discussed the sound of the subject and that's…

I'm about to resume the Music That Changed Everything series but before I do, I have to post the quick comp I made of some of the most outstanding modern synth-pop/electro that I made for the car.

Grum has blown me away with his album Heartbeats, so too Junior Boys with their album Begone Dull Care. Probably the two most delightful and astounding discoveries of lively electronic music I made in 2010 were Melbourne band Miami Horror's debut album Illumination and Sydney band Bag Raiders' self titled release. I'm bloody proud of the exceptional quality of…