Playlists

Posted verbatim from my Last.fm journal. In August 2009, I auditioned and created The New Cruise. As with all of my compilations, they form two main purposes; primarily CDA length for running a burn to play in the car (no aux input for the S9), and secondly because I believe in albums/playlists s...

Posted verbatim from my Last.fm journal. The Summer Edition of Cruise started with a whole bunch of left-overs I'd had from the process of auditioning The New Cruise. I've recently gotten heavily into Schema Records and the whole modern bossa movement. As a result, when I was hunting through my C...

In late September 2009, I picked up a punt from the JB Hi-Fi dance-music bargain bin, a collaboration under the name of Voom Voom. It was $7 and I was banking on Peter Kruder to make something good of it but the album ended up not really being to my tastes with the single exception…

Posted verbatim from my Last.fm journal. One of my very first compilations that I mastered on CD was a Summer Days album. A few tracks from it have landed on more recent compilations I've done, however with the exception of Cruise - Summer Edition, most of the compilations I make these days will ...

Posted verbatim from my Last.fm journal. - In July this year a few things came together; a thorough listen-through of Yuki's best-of Five Star, Perfume's smashing new album Triangle (OD won't let me post the entry with the symbol), and my first, prolonged exposure to the many wondrous joys of Ker...

Posted verbatim from my last.fm journal, originally posted May 11th, 2009. - April of this year brings J-Pop 3, not only taking on the tradition of including western tracks that fit the mood (Coup Debam - Thanks), but for the first time including two tracks from Korean group Girls' Generation (SN...

Posted verbatim from my last.fm journal, original entry date 5th May, 2009. - The second compilation comes with the first addition of a non-Japanese track, Do you want to by Franz Ferdinand, though of-course it was used as the outro to ParaKiss. Some Ouendan and Hachikuro greats in there, along w...

Posted verbatim from my last.fm journal, as are almost all of the playlists here. I wrote this in April this year, but created the compilation in 2008. There are now four in total. - Part of a habit I'm now in of making 60-80 minute CDs for the car since it doesn't have a 3.5mm…

Write 4 begins where 3 ended, Mark Isham's With Us Alone. This playlist expresses the birth and death of all things. It is both celebration and mourning. Hope tempered by reality. Mostly it's acknowledgement. Acknowledgement of the singularity and isolation of life. The specific experience that w...

It's interesting what Write to stay alive has become. Each of the four playlists so far maintains the themes of introspection and healing, yet each one is quite different and I find myself listening to different iterations depending on my emotional state. Having closed the second compilation, Gir...