Summer Animal (playlist)

my brother took this pic of me last year on Calle Ocho in Little Havana...

SUMMER ANIMAL - 55 free MP3Z...

this one starts with another classic from Les Paul: How High The Moon from 1951, then goes into tracks from the likes of A Flock of Seagulls to Survivor all the way down to South African DJ Mujava's "Township Funk," which kinda falls in line with this month's amazing District 9. GO SEE IT!!! Mujava was raised in a South African township where local taxi drivers started distributing CDs of his music to local fares, which trickled all the way down to some major indie record labels, such as Warp!

again, there's a little bit of everything i like, and in the spirit of the rare late nights i've managed to pull together, we end this set with some deep tech house i can either dance to or fall asleep to... anyhew, for more Les Paul, i posted Vaya Con Dios & some documentary footage of him here... this article is good too.

now that each box/playlist bandwith usually runs out before you all get to download the music, for those of you who don't make it early enough, i am now making my playlists available as downloadable folders via mediafire as well. that's just they way it's going to be for as long as i keep it lean & mean:

SUMMER ANIMAL - Part 1 (mediafire)
SUMMER ANIMAL - Part 2 (mediafire)
SUMMER ANIMAL - Part 3 (mediafire)
SUMMER ANIMAL - Part 4 (mediafire)

check out Bobby McFerrin demonstrating
the power of pentatonic scale at the World Science Festival:

for some of the songs on this playlist, the videos were posted earlier on this blog. here are a few more...

i love Miles Fisher's cover of Talking Heads (track #7). here's his homage to American Psycho showcasing the hooker acting talents of the delightful Lydia Hearst: Miles does Christian Bale so well. still, he looks a whole lot more like Tom Cruise whom he parodies even better here:

this is hysterical! read this if you want to know more.

i like fashion lookbooks, and lately i have really been drawn to lookbook videos, such as the ones by Acne Underwear and now Chris & Tibor. they are like beautiful little abstract films and sometimes they have equally beautiful soundtracks. in this case it’s the serene shoegazer "Digital Suicide" Lullaby by Heartsrevolution (track #21):

on an even artsier note, Daniel Rossa worked with urban screen to create the 555 kubik façade video projection at the kunsthalle in Hamburg (Germany). i love it! giant hands appear to manipulate the surface of the museum in a surreal sequence that is the result of Rossa asking the question 'how it would be, if a house was dreaming?' The conception of this 555 KUBIK project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers "Galerie der Gegenwart". Resultant permeability of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself...

ok, back to the music!

i really dig Stones Throw's Mayer Hawthorne (track #6):
here's La Roux (track #8 here) doing the song live:
here's an early 80s clip for song #26 by A Flock of Seagulls: this song is sooo amazing!!! so is the hair. i luuuuuuv it!!!

Lissy Trullie has grown on me. here's the video to song #46:

i haven't made it to one of those late night downtown LA loft parties in over a year or so, but my friend Catherine who's visiting from the small Caribbean island she lives on was in serious need of some big city fun, which got my ass out way past my bedtime on friday:

we go way back! here's a pic i took of her in front of the Bass Museum in Miami... here's another one of us from 10 years ago - Miami 1999 woohoo:

here's a different kind of animal... baby pandas are too cute:



check out this much sexier animal in another lookbook video:

i recommend you play song #37 while you watch it:
Animal by Miike Snow.
or try it with track #31 by Belgians Le Babar...
or better yet Nirvana's Lonely Boy...

humans are the only animals who can be made into synthesizers:


here's the bright & sexy Calvin Harris video by Ben Ib: