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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 68: Summer Disco Special

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is one of my favorite yearly traditions, the summer disco special. Because summer is meant for twirling! Featuring a few of my favorite Paradise Garage-style longform bangers, a few more spacey and cosmic tracks, and (in my opionion) a very tasteful Latin closer. I hope you like it, and that June is treating you well. You can download an mp3 version here.

Previous summer disco specials: 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

Tracklist:
1. Aurra – When I Come Home (Larry Levan 12” Mix)
2. Dan Hartman & Loleatta Holloway – Relight My Fire (12″ Disco Remix)
3. Ecstasy, Passion & Pain – Ask Me
4. Skyy – Here’s to You (12″ Version)
5. Taste of Honey – Sukiyaki
6. First Choice – Let No Man Put Asunder (Shep Pettibone 12″ Mix) / The Player
7. Odyssey – Native New Yorker (12″ Disco Mix)
8. Stephanie Mills – Put Your Body In It (12″ Version)
9. Dee D. Jackson – Automatic Lover (Long Version)
10. A La Carte – Price Of Love
11. Sergio Mendes and the New Brasil ’77 – The Real Thing

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 67: Minimalism Special

This month’s episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a minimalism special. Largely Italian, mostly vocal-less, piano-heavy. Twinkly, meditative, excellent background music. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Arturo Stalteri – La Pescatrice Di Perle
2. Daniel Bacalov – Ishii
3. Franco Battiato – L’Egitto Prima Delle Sabbie (excerpt)
4. Sebastian Gandera – La Visite Au Musée
5. Charles Ditto – Eastern
6. Ludovico Einuadi – Talea
7. Riccardo Sinigaglia – Ringspiel (excerpt)
8. Dominique Lawalrée – Flight 3.0.5.
9. Ann Southam – Rivers: 3rd Set, No. 5
10. Michael Nyman – 1-100 (excerpt)

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 66: Country Special

This months episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio was a country special, a sequel to the previous one which you can find here. It’s largely my favorite kind of Golden Age country: mostly from the 50s and 60s, lots of reverb, warbly with ghostly backing choirs and hazy heatwavey pedal steel guitar. It also features “Wichita Lineman,” an all-time favorite which I sometimes think is the most beautiful song ever written. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Marvin Rainwater – Gonna Find Me A Bluebird
2. Brenda Lee – The Grass Is Greener
3. Loretta Lynn – Fist City
4. Jerry Lee Lewis – You Win Again
5. Hank Williams – Lovesick Blues
6. Jeannie Seely – Don’t Touch Me
7. Eddy Arnold – Cattle Call
8. Porter Wagoner & Dolly Parton – Last Thing On My Mind
9. Bobby Helms – My Special Angel
10. Webb Pierce – In The Jailhouse Now
11. Davis Sisters – I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know
12. Marty Robbins – Singing The Blues
13. Glen Campbell – Wichita Lineman
14. Lucille Starr – Heartaches By The Number
15. Don Gibson – I Can’t Stop Loving You
16. George Jones – The Race Is On
17. Wanda Jackson – Right Or Wrong
18. Little Jimmy Dickens – May The Bird Of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose
19. Roy Clark – The Tips Of My Fingers
18. Louvin Brothers – I Don’t Believe You’ve Met My Baby
19. Jim Reeves – Welcome To My World
20. Connie Frances – Your Cheatin’ Heart
21. Dave Dudley – Six Days On the Road

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 64

My newest mix for NTS Radio is exactly what I want during the coldest part of the year: cozy, warm-toned folk and blues, with a few leans towards classical, and lots of room tone and vinyl crackle. I hope you like it and that you’re staying warm, wherever you are. You can download an mp3 version here if you’re so inclined.

Tracklist:
1. All In One – In A Long White Room
2. Lee Hazlewood – Your Sweet Love
3. Emitt Rhodes – Somebody Made For Me
4. Arthur Russell – Instrumentals 1974 Volume 1 Part 02
5. Ted Lucas – It Is So Nice To Get Stoned
6. Rosa Ponselle & Carmela Ponselle – Where My Caravan Has Rested
7. Richard & Linda Thompson – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
8. The Durutti Column – Madeleine
9. John Jacob Niles – Go ‘Way From My Window
10. Nino Rota – Sarabande
11. Fred Neil – Little Bit Of Rain
12. Linda Cohen – The Dust
13. Patti Page – Confess
14. Unknown Artist – IV
15. John Cage – In A Landscape (excerpt)
16. Dan Reeder – Nobody Wants To Be You
17. Washington Philips – Train Your Child
18. The Roches – Runs In the Family
19. Mother Nature – Orange Days And Purple Nights
20. Elizabeth Cotten – Mama, Nobody’s Here But The Baby
21. Mark Fry – Song For Wilde

22 Favorite Releases of 2021

In the spirit of the season, I wanted to share my favorite releases of the year. Not exhaustive, just some personal highlights. Happy new year!

Previously: 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
A Tribe Called Quest – The Low End Theory, 1991
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Beat Happening – Dreamy, 1991
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Carlos Maria Trindade & Nuno Canavarro – Mr. Wollogallu, 1991
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Dip In The Pool – Aurorae, 1991
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Enya – Shepherd Moons, 1991
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Flipper’s Guitar – Doctor Head’s World Tower, 1991
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Harold Budd – By The Dawn’s Early Light, 1991
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The Hilliard Ensemble – 
Carlos Gesualdo: Tenebrae, 1991
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Jean C. Roché – Rossignols: A Nocturne of Nightingales, 1991
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Keisuke Sakurai – Is It Japan ?, 1991
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Laurie Spiegel – Unseen Worlds, 1991
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LFO – Frequencies, 1991
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Main Source – Breaking Atoms, 1991
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Mariah Carey – Emotions, 1991
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Massive Attack – Blue Lines, 1991
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My Bloody Valentine – Loveless, 1991
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Mychael Danna – Sirens, 1991
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Nirvana – Nevermind, 1991
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The Orb – The Orb’s Adventures
Beyond The Ultraworld, 1991
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Primal Scream – Screamadelica, 1991
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Roberto Mazza – Scoprire Le Orme, 1991
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Talk Talk – Laughing Stock, 1991
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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 62

My latest mix for NTS Radio is a chilly, moody descent into winter: minimalist avant-garde, icy synths, a David Sylvian sandwich, echoey whistles, and another surprise Bono cameo. I hope you like it–and if you do, you can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. David Sylvian – Preparations For A Journey
2. Dory Previn – Mama Mama Comfort Me
3. Muslimgauze – Sapere Aude
4. Viola Renea – Chariot of Palace
5. Mabe Fratti ft. Claire Rousay – Hacia el Vacío
6. Edson Natale – Nina Maika
7. Lucille Starr – Wooden Heart
8. Larry Chernicoff – Woodstock, New York
9. Svitlana Nianio & Alexander Yurchencko – Prologue
10. Unknown Artist – Siciliana (comp. Ottorino Respighi)
11. Daniel Lentz – Midnight White
12. Uakti – Montanha
13. John Cale – Please
14. Chas Smith – October ’68
15. Osnabrücker Jugendchor – Tibi Soli (comp. Gregorio Allegri)
16. Passengers – A Different Kind of Blue / Beach Sequence
17. David Sylvian – Silver Moon Over Sleeping Steeples

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 61

A kind of sequel to last month’s mix, this month’s episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is more deeply autumnal sounds: private press folk, psych, early Fleetwood Mac, a very good and strange Bono cameo, Bridget St. John covering Buddy Holly, and many more great things. I think of it, very loosely, as a “70s meltdown,” even though there are plenty of non-70s things in here–it feels very 70s in spirit. I hope you like it! If you do, you can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Hudson Brothers – So You Are A Star
2. Wool – If They Left Us Alone Now
3. Virginia Tree – Make Believe Girl
4. Gavin Bryars – Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet (Tramp With Orchestra III, No Strings)
5. Dave Van Ronk – Hang Me, Oh Hang Me
6. Fleetwood Mac – Man Of The World
7. Durutti Column – William B
8. The Fleetwoods – Truly Do
9. John Martyn – Don’t Want To Know
10. Emitt Rhodes – Lullabye
11. Bill Fay – I Hear You Calling
12. Fairport Convention – Who Knows Where The Time Goes
13. The Feelies – On The Roof
14. Karen James – The Morning Dew (James McHree)
15. Bridget St. John – Every Day
16. Daniel Lanois – Falling At Your Feet
17. Lou Reed – Satellite Of Love
18. Judee Sill – The Kiss

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 60

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is meant to evoke the mania that I feel every fall, though this year it feels even moreso. I tend not to listen to as much music in the summer, but as soon as the temperature starts to drop music feels much more compelling to me, much more intense and moving and somehow adjacent to my impulse to “burrow.” Lots of things in here that I really love, so I hope you do too–and you can download an mp3 version here. Flyer photo by Georgia Hilmer.

Tracklist:
1. Frank Sinatra – Nature Boy
2. Travesía – En Este Momento
3. Yo La Tengo – You Can Have It All
4. Faye Wong – 天使
5. Barbara Lewis – Hello Stranger
6. Holger Czukay – Persian Love
7. Aretha Franklin – Bridge Over Troubled Water (Long Version)
8. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile
9. Jane Siberry – The Lobby
10. Beat Happening – Godsend
11. John Prine – Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)
12. The Roches – Losing True
13.  Brian Eno & John Cale – Spinning Away

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 59

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a mix of some of my favorite high-drama extra slinky synth pop, and proof positive that my musical brain will perhaps always be trapped in the late 80s. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Alexander O’Neal – Hearsay ’89 (Remix)
2. Cliff Richard – Lean On You
3. Icehouse – Paradise
4. Lauren Wood – Fallen
5. Freur – Doot-Doot
6. Billy Mackenzie – In Windows All
7. Level 42 – Children Say
8. Peter Cetera – Body Language (There in the Dark)
9. Vanessa Paradis – Joe Le Taxi
10. Martin Page – In the House of Stone and Light
11. Pet Shop Boys – Being Boring
12. Phil Collins – One More Night
13. Boy George – The Crying Game

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 56: Summer Disco Special

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a summer disco special, in the vein of previous years. It also marks my five year anniversary of NTS residency, which has easily been one of the most cool and rewarding experiences of my life, so I’m really appreciative of everyone who has listened.

To me disco is the perennially perfect soundtrack to sweaty season: great for car rides, barbecues, beach trips, rooftops, and anywhere there might be dancing. It is also probably my favorite genre, a drug in music form–just pure euphoria, which I think is something many of us in the states are feeling something adjacent to at the moment. Whatever your life looks like these days, I hope this helps provide a moment of joy. If you like it, you can download an mp3 version here. Flyer photo by Eric Epstein.

Previous summer disco specials: 2020 | 2019 | 2018

Tracklist:
1. The Jones Girls – You Gonna Make Me Love Somebody Else
2. B.T. (Brenda Taylor) – You Can’t Have Your Cake And Eat It Too (Remix)
3. A Taste of Honey – Boogie Oogie Oogie
4. Scotch – Take Me Up
5. Charles Mann – Do It Again
6. Colors – Am I Gonna Be The One
7. Jackie Moore – This Time Baby
8. Stephanie Mills – What Cha Gonna Do With My Lovin’ (12″ Version)
9. Lemelle – You Got Something Special (Club Mix)
10. Firefly – Love (Is Gonna Be On Your Side) (12″ Version)
11. Geraldine Hunt – Can’t Fake The Feeling
12. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes – Don’t Leave Me This Way