Updated March 1, 2010

The following is a listing and summary of one of my Music Library entries recorded since 1982. They are picked totally at random. Track number in dark blue highlight indicates that the track appears on one of my "special" series ("Best Of".."Decade".."Year End" and/or "500")...If a track appears on my "500"..its ranking is shown on the far right column.

 

#572
recorded August 31, 2009

Trk #
Artist
Title
Album / CD
"500"
1

Air

Do The Joy

Love 2

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2

Clan Of Xymox

Emily

In Love We Trust

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3

William Orbit

White Night

My Oracle Lives Uptown

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4

The Crystal Method

Slipstream (feat. Jason Lytle)

Divided By Night

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5

Marconi Union

Temperature Drop

Tokyo

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6

The Durutti Column

A Beautiful Thought (Pt. 1)

Treatise On The Steppenwolf (OST)

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7

The Durutti Column

A Beautiful Thought (Pt. 2)

Treatise On The Steppenwolf (OST)

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8

Robin Guthrie

Waiting By The Carousel

Carousel

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9

Hammock

Mono No Aware *video*

Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow

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10

Blue Stone

Deja Vu

Messages

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11

Imogen Heap

2-1

Ellipse

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12

Zero Cult

Walking On The Moon

Dreams In Stereo

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13

Clan Of Xymox

Sea Of Doubt

In Love We Trust

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14

Side Liner

Crying Cities Remix (Cydelix's Ambient Version)

Crying Cities

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15

Blue Stone

Ancient Echoes

Messages

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16

Mark Knopfler

Remembrance Day

Get Lucky

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17

Emiliana Torrini

Ha Ha

Me And Armini

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18

Jean Michel Jarre

Chatterbox

Teo & Tea

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#572
highlights

 

Track 1
"Do The Joy" -- Air

Love 2 is the sixth studio album by French electronic pop duo Air. The album was released on September 30, 2009 in Japan, and in the first week of October in the rest of the world. It is the first production recorded at their own recording facility, Atlas Studio. On July 6, 2009, a viral single, "Do the Joy", was made available as a free download to existing Air newsletter subscribers. The album's first proper single "Sing Sang Sung" was released digitally on August 25. The name Air is a backronym for Amour, Imagination, Rêve which translates to Love, Imagination, Dream. Air's music is often referred to as electronica; their form of electronic music was influenced by the synthesizer sounds of the 1970s such as Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis and Francis Lai. Other influences include psychedelic rock pioneers Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream. Consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, Air use many of their studio instruments (like Moog synthesizers, the Korg MS-20, Wurlitzer and Vocoder) live on stage, where their ability to improvise is more clearly highlighted. Air wrote and played the music of the album 5:55 by French actress and singer Charlotte Gainsbourg, which was released in August 2006. The band has placed 40 tracks on my Music Library, four of those tracks as "best ofs" ...

 

"Do The Joy"

Track 9
"Mono No Aware" -- Hammock

Mono No Aware ("The Sadness of Things"), is taken from Hammock's 2008 album, "Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow." Hammock is an American two-member post-rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. With music created in between production and songwriting projects over the course of two years, Hammock combines live instrumentation, electronic beats, and droning guitar into atmospheric music similar in style to the work of Boards of Canada, Explosions in the Sky, and Stars of the Lid. Hammock is a collaboration between Marc Byrd and Andrew Thompson that developed out of informal recording sessions between songwriting projects. Hammock initially had no intention of releasing their studio efforts. After building up a collection of almost 40 songs, however, they changed their minds. Hammock's music has been featured three times during NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics. The track "Winter Light" was heard during a special piece about the emotional comeback story of Russian skaters Tatiana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin on February 13, 2006. "Rising Tide," the final track from the Kenotic full-length was heard during a piece about Canadian skaters Marie-France Dubreuil and Patrice Lauzon. Finally, "What Heaven Allows," the thirteenth track off of Kenotic, was played during NBC's coverage of the figure skating competition. Maybe They Will Sing for Us Tomorrow (featuring cover art by Riceboy Sleeps), was recorded entirely live save a few overdubs, and is the group's most ambient release to date...

 

"Maybe They Will.." 

 

Track 17
"Ha Ha"-- Emiliana Torrini

Emilíana Torrini (born May 16, 1977) is an Icelandic singer, best known for her 1999 album Love in the Time of Science and for performing "Gollum's Song", during the ending credits of Peter Jackson's film The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Torrini grew up in Kópavogur, where, at the age of 7, she joined a choir as a soprano, until she went to opera school at the age of 15. In 1994, she became well-known in Iceland after winning the song competition of junior colleges in Iceland, at the age of 17. She has been a member of Icelandic artist group GusGus, and contributed vocals to several songs on their debut Polydistortion (1997), most notably "Why", which she sometimes still performs live. Me and Armini is the fifth (third released outside Iceland) studio album by Torrini. It was produced by Dan Carey. The album entered the U.S. Billboard Heatseekers Chart at #30. Torrini has toured with Moby, Sting, Dido, Travis, Tricky, and Adem...

 

 "Me And Armini"

 

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