Strip 4 Fall (playlist)

STRIP 4 FALL - 55 free MP3ZZZ...

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i kick this one off with another bit from La Decima Vittima but quickly leave the Marcello Mastroianni & Ursula Andress affair for another one of my faves: Peter Sellers & Sofia Loren!!! track #6 is their cute duet pulled out of The Millionairess in which Sellers (a doctor) has Loren (the millionairess) strip in his office for closer inspection... here are some stills of this unforgettable scene:

since my favorite Peter Sellers vehicle is The Party with
the adorable Claudine Longet, track #48 is the
tune she sings in the movie:

¿¿¿ know which other striptease makes me smile like this:



here's a hint:
Joe Cocker's "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (track #30)

yep, Kim Basinger is a HOT mess in 9 1/2 Weeks...



i threw in more music from movies...

track #4 is from La Strada, the splendid Fellini movie starring
his beautiful wife Giulietta Masina (at the top of this entry
in Nights Of Cabiria). she's adorable in La Strada:



Loose Caboose (track #8) is from Breakfast At Tiffany's, another
Mancini scored movie in which Audrey Hepburn
put the Wayfarer on the map:



i finally joined the masses this year & gave into their revival;
i love my alex & chloe turquoise dusk cape town shades:

that's Jeanie with her 6 weeks young living doll Sunny... there might be a few more of these shades on sale (for only $88) at Sirens & Sailors...

i had to include a remix of Time Of My Life from Dirty Dancing, the movie where Patrick Swayze won over our hearts...
you know Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson are having a helluva dance party in the sky!!!

this playlist starts out kinda mellow but there's plenty of good party tunes as well - lots of driving beats with a few breaks in between... Burns does another Hollywood hommage (track #19):

if you missed it, check out his nod to Warriors...

a brand new LP from the brilliant Riva Starr is upon us, as next month sees the release of his album If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade... isn't this what life is all about?!
the latest track to be lifted off said album is "I Was Drunk" with samples from Emir Kusturika's Black Cat, White Cat, and is one catchy nugget of gypsy house. you'll find a quick vox sample at #20. check out the remarkable edit with images from Black Cat, White Cat:

Time of the Gypsies and Underground are my 2 favorite
Kusturika films. Underground is about 3 hours long &
with subtitles but sums up life so well... a must-see!
i threw in a classic Bregovic piece at #15.

i also included a classic acid track (#36), which explains a little what acid is all about... i recently went to a screening of the documentary They Call It Acid. i can't tell if i was smiling or cringing at the film. probably a mix of both! it was fun to revisit the first days of my party life through the music culture covered by the film, but my take on it is that it won't really appeal to those who don't have an ounce of nostalgia or can't laugh at themselves for being part of an era we were fortunate to experience ourselves & even more fortunate to outgrow... anyhew, i recently posted about this type of music.
click HERE to check it out...

here are some rhonda snapshots from the screening night:

having DJ Pierre behind the decks was pretty special!
here's a clip of the club hosting that night:


i love the costume Nina recently performed in:

i've added another song from my all time favorite band of 2009: The xx! i really can't get enough of them. you'll find plenty more of their songs, covers & remixes in almost every single one of my playlists since April or May...

also some cool stuff from Allure, Boys Noize, Crayon Fields, Dam Funk, Empire Of The Sun, Fever Ray, Fredrik, Javelin, Kid Sister, Marilyn Monroe, Metronomy, Penguin Prison, Ringo Starr,
Sébastien Tellier, She's A Tease, Sorcerer, The Drums...



(#14 is a super chill remix & #42 is the super fun original)

...The Phenomenal Handclap Band, The Smiths,
The Sound Of Arrows, The Twelves, Vitalic,
Washed Out, Yacht... here are the zip files:

Strip 4 Fall ♥1
Strip 4 Fall ♥2
Strip 4 Fall ♥3
Strip 4 Fall ♥4

everyone is credited properly, so suit yourself with google, myspace or whatever if you need to know more about the music... i'll let you go with the video of track #31. as a kid, i went wild everytime it aired:

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September Shades (playlist)

SEPTEMBER SHADES - 36 free MP3Z
(scroll down for mediafire links to download zip folders)

La Decima Vittima is one of the coolest movies ever made. it's as if the filmmakers had gone into the future & come back to 1965 to make a clever mockery of today's reality tv shows, while staying true to their über cool sense of style & fashion. i've seen it over & over & never get tired of it! here's a killer excerpt:

i've taken this opportunity to sprinkle the playlistwith music of
the amazing film by composer Piero Piccioni.

Ursula Andress & Marcello Mastroianni are flawless:




alright, back to the music!

aside from another remix of The xx's Basic Space (check previous playlists on my blog for the original & other remixes), more from Little Dragon, Health (my favorite LA band of the moment), The Willowz, The Fiery Furnaces, The Lowbrows (i love their "Danse Macabre" at #24!)... i'm also really digging Freelance Whales (see track #28) for their dreamy Broken Social Scene vibes, as well as Holiday Shores (#29) for their beach reverb... as for the classics, i threw in Léo Ferré, France Gall & my favourite, LA LUPE also known as La Yiyiyi Queen Of Latin Soul!

this is basically my usual random mix of old & new:

September Shades - Part 1 (mediafire)
September Shades - Part 2 (mediafire)

here's the fun new video for Health's "Die Slow" (track #17):

i previously posted a cool remix of the song in Summer Stroll,
and here's a cool article about Health...

I love to see how many bands manage to make no-budget videos & still project some (usually scrappy) aspect of their personality. but it's things like the new clip for Dimmer's "Cold Water" (track #29 in this playlist), directed by Dylan Pharazyn & with 3D animation by this Kiwi band's drummer, Gary Sullivan, that remind us just how much can be done with the medium:

i'm really digging Pogo. this guy splices images/sounds/music of movies & blends in some of his own compostions when he puts it all back together. check it out:

(this one is track #12 in the playlist)

spending more time on the beach, i'm in an Alpha Blondy mood & included 2 of his songs. African reggae rocks my world. Alpha Blondy & the likes kept it fresh, especially when coming down from a big night out, waiting for the sunrise on the beach... it still puts me in such a great mood. over the weekend in the bu, i swam among the fish & the pelicans diving in all around. here are some photos:

click here for older photos of the same beach...



back in the big city, i grew some wings on the dancefloor: