A Narration of Melancholic Elation

Part II of Sedatives for 2007 is just over an hours worth of mostly rock and hip-hop tracks. It’s got a fine dose of vibrato voices, melodic pop songs, and a couple booty shakers. The last track is a short piano ballad called, “Sonata for a Good Man,” from the German film, The Lives of Others - a highly recommended flick and excellent song. It gripped me during the scene in which it is played. After the main character Dreyman plays it he says, ‘Do you know what Lenin said about Beethoven’s Appassionata? “If I keep on listening to this I won’t be able to finish the revolution.” Can anyone who heard this music – who really heard it – be a bad man?’

Sedatives for 2007 II - Upside Vibrato Bumps

1. Wilco – Impossible Germany – Sky Blue Sky [2007]
2. Beirut – Cliquot – The Flying Club Cup [2007]
3. Magnetic Fields – A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off – 69 Love Songs (vol. 1) [1999]
4. Jens Lekman – Your Arms Around Me – Night Falls Over Kortedala [2007]
5. St. Vincent – Now Now – Marry Me [2007]
6. The National – Slow Show – Boxer [2007]
7. Stars – Take Me To The Riot – In Our Bedroom After The War [2007]
8. Silversun Pickups – Little Lover’s So Polite – Carnavas [2006]
9. Fujiya & Miyagi – Ankle Injuries – Transparent Things [2006]
10. LCD Soundsystem – Someone Great – Sound of Silver [2007]
11. Justice vs Spank Rock - Thunderous Bumps (back from japan edit) - Pop Salvation [2007]
12. Girl Talk – That’s My DJ – Night Ripper [2006]
13. Brother Ali – Pedigree – The Undisputed Truth [2007]
14. Blue Scholars – Burnt Offering – Blue Scholars [2004]
15. Madlib – Movie Finale – Beat Konducta Vol. 3-4: In India [2007]
16. Die Sonate Vom Guten Menschen - Gabriel Yared & Stéphane Moucha - Das Leben Der Anderen [2007]

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For this year’s mixtape I tried to take it to the next level with the podcast. It was the second year of podcast discoveries, with some of my favorites coming from Mad Decent Radio, Dhundee, and Stones Throw Records. David & Sparsh have also been making a few here and there. So here, I’ve compiled two podcasts with some of my loves over the past year.

This first installment is a bit more conceptual than the next one that I’ll post. Sedatives for 2007 I exploits the cerebral sounds of instrumental electronic music that we hope will launch thought patterns. The first four songs definitely invoke this idea.

Though avant-garde is not used as a descriptive label much these days, it definitely exists. It’s the art that pushes the boundaries, forming a new edge. So the overall concept of this mix combines the idea of listening to these technological sounds on our modern, cutting edge devices - it just makes sense.

Sedatives for 2007 I - downside think labtop

1. Apostle of Hustle – Gleaning – Folkloric Feel
2. The Field – A Paw in My Face - From Here We Go Sublime
3. A Sunny Day in Glasgow – 5:15 Train - Scribble Mural Comic Journal
4. Prefuse 73 – Pagina Dos – Prefuse 73 Reads The Books E.P.
5. People Press Play – These Days – S/T
6. DNTEL - To A Fault [ft. Grizzly Bear] – Dumb Luck
7. Casiotone for the Painfully Alone – Young Shields – Etiquette
8. The Real People – Untitled – The Joys of Losing Weight
9. Tommy Guerrero – Just Ain’t Me – From The Soil To The Soul
10. Madlib - Pyramids (Change) - The Beat Konducta Volume 1-2: Movie Scenes
11. Amon Tobin – Nova - Permutation

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