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[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 53

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a very slow and drippy soundtrack to snowmelt season. Normally this time of year I make mixes that are explicitly springy, full of bird sounds and optimism. I’m definitely feeling some optimism–I imagine most people are, after the grimness of the past winter. But it’s difficult not to feel a little suspicious of that impulse, when everything seems like such a wash. So: this mix is drippy, with a few small green things poking out, but there’s plenty of mud in it too. I hope you like it. You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You
2. Sundari Soekotjo – Bengawan Solo
3. The Sweet Inspirations – Why Am I Treated So Bad
4. Mojave 3 – Love Songs On The Radio
5. Scott Walker – It’s Raining Today
6. Eileen Farrell – Beau Soir
7. The Crystals – Please Hurt Me
8. Esther & Abi Ofarim – Oh Waly Waly
9. Woo – It’s Love
10. Connie Francis – Half As Much
11. Barbara Lewis – Baby I’m Yours
12. Céline Dion – Falling Into You
13. John Foxx & Harold Budd – Stepping Sideways
14. Ziemba – Brazil
15. Gordon Fergus-Thompson – Suite Bergamasque: III. Clair De Lune
16. Craig Armstrong ft. Elizabeth Fraser – This Love
17. The Roches – Losing True

15 Favorite Releases of 2020

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

Previously: 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

	Ali Akbar Khan – Signature Series: Three Ragas, 1990 buy / download
	Angelo Badalamenti – Twin Peaks, 1990 buy / download
	The ARC Gospel Choir – Bound For The Promised Land, 1990 buy / download
	The Art Of Noise – The Ambient Collection, 1990 buy / download
	Cocteau Twins – Heaven or Las Vegas, 1990 buy
	Dead Can Dance – Aion, 1990 buy
	Deee-Lite – World Clique, 1990 buy / download
	Depeche Mode – Violator, 1990 buy
	Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey, 1990 buy
	No Smoke – International Smoke Signal, 1990 buy / download
	Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour, 1990 buy / download
	Pixies – Bossanova, 1990 buy
	Prefab Sprout – Jordan: The Comeback, 1990 buy / download
	Soul II Soul – Vol. II (1990 – A New Decade), 1990 buy / download
	Woo – Into The Heart Of Love, 1990 buy / download

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 47: Late Summer Ambient Special

Here’s my most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. It’s two hours of late-summer ambient and ambient-adjacent sounds, meant to capture the hazy, humid, golden quality of August and September, featuring field recordings, sunbeams, and bugs. It’s ideal for mid-day napping. (It’s also kind of a sequel to this mix from two Augusts ago, if you’re curious!) A modified one hour version of this was broadcast live on the air last week, so this extended two hour version is a director’s cut of sorts. Thanks as always for listening and being here; I hope this can serve as a moment of quiet in what, to me, feels like a very loud time. You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Richard Burmer – Riverbend
2. Jean C. Roché – Nightingales: In A Waste Ground Beside A Stream In Provence, June
3. CFCF – Lighthouse On Chatham Sound
4. Finis Africæ – Ceremonia Màgica En El Estanque (Magical Ceremony In The Pond)
5. Elicoide – Mitochondria
6. Takashi Kokubo – 満月の木陰
7. Notte & Bush – Wake Up In Baby’s Room
8. Steven Halpern & Daniel Kobialka – Pastorale
9. Toshifumi Hinata – ミッドサマー・ナイト (Midsummer Night)
10. Hiroshi Yoshimura – Green Shower
11. The Durutti Column – Vino Della Casa Bianco
12. Susan Mazer & Dallas Smith – Kalimbo
13. Haruomi Hosono – Wakamurasaki
14. Joanna Brouk – The Space Between (Excerpt)
15. Goddess In The Morning – 14
16. Virginia Astley – It’s Too Hot To Sleep
17. Constance Demby – Om Mani Padme Hum
18. Michael Stearns – As The Earth Kissed The Moon (Excerpt)
19. Ghostwriters – Slow Blue In Horizontal

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 46: Summer Disco Special III

Here’s my newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio. In keeping with tradition, it’s a disco special made with summer in mind. I have a confusing relationship with joy at the moment, feeling as alienated and scared as I imagine many people do, so I can’t help but feel a little bittersweet about listening to disco: it’s the most joyful music I know of, but it reminds me so much of how badly I miss dancing with large groups of people. I miss the way living in a city used to present you really magical opportunities to commune with strangers, and the cathartic joy that only a long night of dancing to the best music in the world can provide. I miss so many things. I hope this mix brings you some form of joy, and in the meantime that we have songs to tide us over until we’re able to dance together again. You can download an mp3 version here. Thank you as always for listening!

Tracklist:
1. Sandy Barber – I Think I’ll Do Some Stepping (On My Own)
2. Barbara Mason – Don’t I Ever Cross Your Mind Sometime
3. Roy Ayers Ubiquity – Running Away
4. Margaret Singana – Why Did You Do It
5. Charo & The Salsoul Orchestra – Dance A Little Bit Closer
6. Raw Silk – Do It To The Music
7. Sirarcusa – Streap Tease In The Stars (The Way I Do)
8. Dynasty – I Don’t Want To Be A Freak (But I Can’t Help Myself)
9. The Gap Band – Outstanding
10. Beauregard, Violletti & Ste-Claire – Ce Soir (Je Sens Que Tout Peut M’Arriver)
11. Ben E. King – Made For Each Other
12. Trio Ternura – A Gira
13. Theo Vaness – No Romance Keep On Dancing

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 43

My most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is a mix of future escapist pop and lo-fi loneliness, with a few off-kilter moments of muddled optimism–just a few of the conflicting facets of the experience of being alive in April 2020! Thanks for being here, sending love to you and yours. Mp3 download is here if you’d like it.

Tracklist:
1. John Martyn – Over The Rainbow
2. Michael Small – Alone in the Night
3. Bill Evans – What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life? (Quartet)
4. Irma Thomas – It’s Starting To Get To Me Now
5. Toshifumi Hinata – Broken Belief
6. The Sundays – Here’s Where the Story Ends
7. Владимир Леви, Ким Брейтбург – Млечный Садf
8. Roy Orbison – Only the Lonely
9. David Garland – I Am With You
10. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Flux
11. Roxy Music – Always Unknowing
12. Sven Grünberg – Kuulake Koik
13. Googoosh – Mikham Aroom Begiram
14. Masami Tsuchiya – Fear for the Future
15. Iegor Reznikoff – Alleluia Ego Sum Pastor
16. Sally Oldfield – Morning of My Life

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 42: Pipe Organ Special

My most recent episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is an organ special. While I’m sure many of us are looking for music that’s relaxing, reassuring, or generally positive during this high-stress time, I should give you a heads up that this mix isn’t really any of those things. It does, however, feel like an appropriately hellish soundtrack to the apocalypse.

I recently had the pleasure of hearing the second piece in this mix, the Finale of Jean-Pierre Leguay’s Sonate I pour Orgue, performed live at Saint Thomas Church by Nicholas Capozzoli. As easy as it is to sometimes feel jaded about the possibility of total musical novelty, it was a truly life-changing experience to hear it in the acoustics of a cathedral, to feel it reverberating in my chest, to let it properly melt my face off. I didn’t know that organ music so deeply avant-garde and strange existed–it was easily the craziest thing I’ve ever heard.

I don’t think the internet needs another personal narrative about how this current global crisis is affecting somebody, but I will say that I’m grateful that my last concert experience for the foreseeable future was this one, seated next to a friend I’ve been missing recently, in a church full of strangers. I’m currently scrambling to get as much work as I can while it exists, but once that work dries up I hope to get back into blogging here, as I’d love to be able to share more music in this chaotic time. In the mean time, please enjoy this mix, which you can download an mp3 version of here. Sending love to all, everywhere.

Tracklist:
1. Olivier Latry – Improvisation (Trois siècles d’orgue à Notre Dame de Paris)
2. Olivier Latry – Sonate I Pour Orgue: Finale (Jean-Pierre Leguay)
4. 3. Terry Riley – A Rainbow in Curved Air
5. Jean-Pierre Leguay – Deux improvisations: No. 1, Improvisation I
6. Palestine / Coulter / Mathoul – Schlongo!!!daLUVdrone Revisited #3
7. Peter Michael Hamel – Organum Part 3 (excerpt)
8. Unknown – Toccata und Fugue d BWV 565 (J.S. Bach)

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 41

My newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio is an hour of housey favorites with a few R&B and trancey moments thrown in. I hope you like it! You can download an mp3 version here; thanks as always for listening.

Tracklist:
1. Bappi Lahiri – Dream
2. Sybil – Don’t Make Me Over (Daytime Mix)
3. Craig T. Cooper – Sweet Water
4. Marco Tegui, Max Almazorra & Cari Golden – Next To Me
5. Artful & Ridney ft. Terri Walker – Missing You (Eric Kuppers Directors Cut Tribute FK Mix)
6. Crazy Penis – Keep On (Daniel Wang & Brennan Green Vas Referens Mix)
7. Chris & Cosey – One Minute More
8. Frankie Knuckles, Director’s Cut, Sybil – Let Yourself Go (A Director’s Cut Master)
9. Laava – Wherever You Are (I Feel Love)
10. Kim English – HIgher Things

25 Favorite Releases of 2019

In the spirit of the season, I wanted to share some of my favorite releases of the year. Such a brooding year for music, with some really strong aesthetic and political statements and boundary-pushing uses of both guitars and electronics, suggesting many exciting changes on their way in the next decade. Obviously this isn’t meant to be exhaustive or authoritative; just some personal highlights. Quite a few of these are giant major label releases, so I’ll be taking down those download links quickly or leaving them off accordingly. Let me know if links are broken. Happy new year!

Previously: 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015

	A.C. Marias – One Of Our Girls, 1989 buy / download
	The B-52’s – Cosmic Thing, 1989 buy / download
	The Blue Nile – Hats, 1989 buy / download
	The Cure – Disintegration, 1989 buy
	De La Soul – 3 Feet High And Rising, 1989 buy
	dip in the pool – Retinae, 1989 download
	Forrest Fang – The Wolf At The Ruins, 1989 buy / download
	Galaxie 500 – On Fire, 1989 buy
	Harry Case – In A Mood, 1989 download
	The Hilliard Ensemble – Pérotin, 1989 buy / download
	Haruomi Hosono – Omni Sight Seeing, 1989 download
	Inner City – Paradise, 1989 buy
	Janet Jackson – Rhythm Nation 1814, 1989 buy
	Joan Bibiloni – Born, 1989 buy / download
	Julee Cruise – Floating Into The Night, 1989 buy
	Kate Bush – The Sensual World, 1989 buy
	Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine, 1989 buy
	Nirvana – Bleach, 1989 buy
	Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis – Deep Listening, 1989 buy / download
	Piero Milesi & Daniel Bacalov – La Camera Astratta, 1989 buy / download
	Pixies – Doolittle, 1989 buy
	Ryuichi Sakamoto – Beauty, 1989 buy
	Soul II Soul – Club Classics Vol. One, 1989 buy
	The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses, 1989 buy
	Woo – It’s Cosy Inside, 1989 buy / download

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 39

Here’s my most recent mix for NTS Radio, in which I’m still on an autumnal tip. Psychy acoustic folk, dreamy shoegaze, and a really gorgeous, tears-inducing children’s choir rendition of a song from my childhood favorite, Watership Down. I hope you like it, and that you’re staying warm! You can download an mp3 version here.

Tracklist:
1. Woo – Fanfare
2. Eloy – Horizons
3. A.C. Marias – Looks Like
4. Maxine Funke – Make That Dream
5. April Stevens & Nino Tempo – You’ll Be Needing Me Baby
6. Esther & Abi Ofarim – Every Night
7. Woo – When You Find Your Love
8. Kyu Sakamoto – 上を向いて歩こう
9. Hydroplane – Wurlitzer Jukebox
10. Judee Sill – Jesus Was A Cross Maker
11. Colin Blunstone – Misty Roses
12. The Small Choir Of St. Brandon’s School – Bright Eyes
13. Ichiko Hashimato – A Stranger In Paradise
14. Cocteau Twins – Round
15. Linda Cohen – Madman Samba
16. Karen H. Oznick – I Miss You
17. Scribble – Mother Of Pearl

[Mix for NTS Radio] Getting Warmer Episode 36

Here’s my newest episode of Getting Warmer for NTS Radio, also marking my show being three years old! I tried to get slightly out of my wheelhouse with this one and be a little braver about mixing genres and moods, but it still feels very airy and spacey and summery to me. I hope you like it. Mp3 download is here if you’d like it. Flyer image by Eric Epstein.

Tracklist:
1. Sandy Salisbury – Come Softly
2. MJ Lallo – Before Brazil
3. Goddess in the Morning – Ucraine
4. UCC Harlo – Ceres
5. Yumi Murata – TOKIの音
6. CFCF – Closed Space
7. Enno Velthuys – In the Royal Woods
8. Annie Haslam – If I Loved You
9. Kissing the Pink – How Can I Live
10. Mouth Music – Hoireann O
11. Matt Bianco – Half A Minute
12. Masashi Kitamura + Phonogenix – ヴァリエイション・III
13. All In One – Rich Man, Poor Man
14. Sth Notional – Yawn Yawn Yawn
15. Björk – Come To Me