:: Dan Deacon ::

Dan Deacon’s songs are like three seven-layer burritos stacked upon each other and compressed to the density of a star core. Listen at your own risk.

In this episode: 1990s, Dan Deacon, Evil Wiener, Guv’ner, Hello The Band, Jan, Kinky, Metal Molly, Ministry, Polysics, Ten Years After, The Dissociatives, Thee Oh Sees, This Mortal Coil, White Williams, Willy DeVille

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Snake Mistakes

   Dan Deacon

   Super slippy sounds

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3. Enemy Destruct

   Thee Oh Sees

   Going out to Iceberg Defect

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4. Paris Circa 2007 Slash 08

   The Dissociatives

   Featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair

   [asa]B004P8BRUU[/asa]

   

5. I’d Love To Change The World

   Ten Years After

   Is that freedom rock?

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6. BREAK

7. Uruapan Breaks

   Kinky

   Bring on the Mexican non-stop

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8. Baby’s Way Cruel

   Guv’ner

   Because my baby’s way cruel… WAY cruel

   [asa]B000U7VTHG[/asa]

   

9. Juliet Was The Sun

   Jan

   Breezy easy pop

   [asa]B0019BFBUI[/asa]

   

10. Hello Hello

    Hello The Band

    With John from TMBG

11. BREAK

12. The Vis-Art Song

    Evil Wiener

    A good customer with a distortion pedal

13. The Box

    1990s

    That’s the place I keep my spare set of socks

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14. Small Supernova

    Metal Molly

    Dig the William Gibson reference

15. Just Got Paid

    Ministry

    From their Cover Up album

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16. BREAK

17. New Violence

    White Williams

    Born of the Cincinnati scene

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18. Buggie Technica

    Polysics

    Unquestionably, the Japanese Devo

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19. It’s So Easy

    Willy DeVille

    From the Death Proof soundtrack

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20. BREAK

21. I Am The Cosmos

    This Mortal Coil

    Originally by Big Star

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Never Going Back Again ( Queen Of Scots )

   Eddi Reader

   Gimme that Stevie Nicks.

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3. BREAK

4. Golden Phone

   Micachu & The Shapes

   This is… out there

   [asa]B001R3YJ10[/asa]

   

5. Freakin’ Out

   Graham Coxon

   Lay it on thick, guitarist of Bleh

   [asa]B000THGPAI[/asa]

   

6. El Rayo-X

   David Lindley

   Is there anything he can’t do?

   [asa]B001MEBI90[/asa]

   

7. Super Afro-Beat

   The Daktaris

   Mythical funk band (literally)

   [asa]B000QZXVAK[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Compulsion

   That Petrol Emotion

   Going back 20 years or so

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10. Fuzzy Little Piece Of The World

    The Pontiac Brothers

    Collectible band name, now that there’s no Pontiac

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11. El Cuchipe (Cancion Boliviana)

    Los Lobos

    Genuine sounds of… Bolivia?

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12. Tightly Wound

    The Capes

    Very, very tightly wound

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13. BREAK

14. The Strangers

    St. Vincent

    Moody to the max

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15. The Trouble With Those Mothra Girls

    Daikaiju

    Instrumentals have the best names

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16. My Friend

    Jimi Hendrix

    My favorite obscure Jimi track

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17. BREAK

18. Nothing’s All Right

    Golden Shoulders

    More from their 2007 reissue

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19. Oxygene 4

    Jean Michel Jarre

    Inspired by the Moog Cookbook’s Buddy Holly

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20. J’ai Faim Toujours

    Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks

    Hongry every day

21. Haitian Frustration (Remix)

    The Toasters

    From the seminal Thrill Me Up album

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22. BREAK

23. Snake Mistakes

    Dan Deacon

    Super slippy sounds

    [asa]B001EJWV3A[/asa]

    

24. Enemy Destruct

    Thee Oh Sees

    Going out to Iceberg Defect

    [asa]B003P7QZ86[/asa]

    

25. Paris Circa 2007 Slash 08

    The Dissociatives

    Featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair

    [asa]B004P8BRUU[/asa]

    

26. I’d Love To Change The World

    Ten Years After

    Is that freedom rock?

    [asa]B000S58860[/asa]

    

27. BREAK

28. Uruapan Breaks

    Kinky

    Bring on the Mexican non-stop

    [asa]B0045DF6UM[/asa]

    

29. Baby’s Way Cruel

    Guv’ner

    Because my baby’s way cruel… WAY cruel

    [asa]B000U7VTHG[/asa]

    

30. Juliet Was The Sun

    Jan

    Breezy easy pop

    [asa]B0019BFBUI[/asa]

    

31. Hello Hello

    Hello The Band

    With John from TMBG

32. BREAK

33. The Vis-Art Song

    Evil Wiener

    A good customer with a distortion pedal

34. The Box

    1990s

    That’s the place I keep my spare set of socks

    [asa]B001UOP6Z4[/asa]

    

35. Small Supernova

    Metal Molly

    Dig the William Gibson reference

36. Just Got Paid

    Ministry

    From their Cover Up album

    [asa]B0016ECKNY[/asa]

    

37. BREAK

38. New Violence

    White Williams

    Born of the Cincinnati scene

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39. Buggie Technica

    Polysics

    Unquestionably, the Japanese Devo

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40. It’s So Easy

    Willy DeVille

    From the Death Proof soundtrack

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41. BREAK

42. I Am The Cosmos

    This Mortal Coil

    Originally by Big Star

    [asa]B000S58QCQ[/asa]

    

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Never Going Back Again ( Queen Of Scots )

   Eddi Reader

   Gimme that Stevie Nicks.

   [asa]B001YXZWXW[/asa]

   

3. BREAK

4. Golden Phone

   Micachu & The Shapes

   This is… out there

   [asa]B001VL5818[/asa]

   

5. Freakin’ Out

   Graham Coxon

   Lay it on thick, guitarist of Bleh

   [asa]B000THGPAI[/asa]

   

6. El Rayo-X

   David Lindley

   Is there anything he can’t do?

   [asa]B001MEBI90[/asa]

   

7. Super Afro-Beat

   The Daktaris

   Mythical funk band (literally)

   [asa]B000QZXVAK[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Compulsion

   That Petrol Emotion

   Going back 20 years or so

   [asa]B001UNRAU4[/asa]

   

10. Fuzzy Little Piece Of The World

    The Pontiac Brothers

    Collectible band name, now that there’s no Pontiac

    [asa]B002I5YZDS[/asa]

    

11. El Cuchipe (Cancio Boliviana)

    Los Lobos

    Genuine sounds of… Bolivia?

    [asa]B0013AZLHI[/asa]

    

12. Tightly Wound

    The Capes

    Twangle bangle

    [asa]B000TPTGRE[/asa]

    

13. BREAK

14. The Strangers

    St. Vincent

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15. The Trouble With Those Mothra Girls

    Daikaiju

    Instrumentals have the best names

    [asa]B002NHDOX8[/asa]

    

16. My Friend

    Jimi Hendrix

    My favorite obscure Jimi track

    [asa]B003AX0X3I[/asa]

    

17. BREAK

18. Nothing’s All Right

    Golden Shoulders

    More from their 2007 reissue

    [asa]B002U3LPLS[/asa]

    

19. Oxygene 4

    Jean Michel Jarre

    Inspired by the Moog Cookbook’s Buddy Holly

    [asa]B00189I00E[/asa]

    

20. J’ai Faim Toujours

    Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks

    Hongry every day

21. Haitian Frustration (Remix)

    The Toasters

    From the seminal Thrill Me Up album

    [asa]B0012ADPF4[/asa]

    

22. BREAK

23. Snake Mistakes

    Dan Deacon

    Super slippy sounds

    [asa]B001EJWV3A[/asa]

    

24. Enemy Destruct

    Thee Oh Sees

    Going out to Iceberg Defect

    [asa]B003P7QZ86[/asa]

    

25. Paris Circa 2007 Slash 08

    The Dissociatives

    Featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair

    [asa]B004P8BRUU[/asa]

    

26. I’d Love To Change The World

    Ten Years After

    Is that freedom rock?

    [asa]B000S58860[/asa]

    

27. BREAK

28. Uruapan Breaks

    Kinky

    Bring on the Mexican non-stop

    [asa]B0045DF6UM[/asa]

    

29. Baby’s Way Cruel

    Guv’ner

    Because my baby’s way cruel… WAY cruel

    [asa]B000U7VTHG[/asa]

    

30. Juliet Was The Sun

    Jan

    Breezy easy pop

    [asa]B0019BFBUI[/asa]

    

31. Hello Hello

    Hello The Band

    With John from TMBG

32. BREAK

33. The Vis-Art Song

    Evil Wiener

    A good customer with a distortion pedal

34. The Box

    1990s

    That’s the place I keep my spare set of socks

    [asa]B001UOP6Z4[/asa]

    

35. Small Supernova

    Metal Molly

    Dig the William Gibson reference

36. Just Got Paid

    Ministry

    From their Cover Up album

    [asa]B0016ECKNY[/asa]

    

37. BREAK

38. New Violence

    White Williams

    Born of the Cincinnati scene

    [asa]B001I520T0[/asa]

    

39. Buggie Technica

    Polysics

    Unquestionably, the Japanese Devo

    [asa]B000R033UC[/asa]

40. It’s So Easy

    Willy DeVille

    From the Death Proof soundtrack

    [asa]B003YMTHD2[/asa]

    

41. BREAK

42. I Am The Cosmos

    This Mortal Coil

    Originally by Big Star

    [asa]B000S58QCQ[/asa]

    

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Wuthering Heights

   The Puppini Sisters

   Kate Bush retro-futurism

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3. BREAK

4. Mister Heavenly

   Mister Heavenly

   Somewhat TMBG-y

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5. Black ‘n Blue 4 U

   Cookie

   Sabrina Rockarena, where are you?

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6. Touch My Horn

   Jesse Rose

   Balkan batucada

   [asa]B0032XCAVE[/asa]

   

7. Okie Dokie

   Dan Deacon

   He’s got a rattlesnake gun!

   [asa]B001EJWV3A[/asa]

   

8. BREAK

9. Hardest Geometry Problem In The World

   Mark Mothersbaugh

   It’s the opening theme to a daydream

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10. Big Noise From Winnetka

    Asylum Street Spankers

    The one and ever-only Spankers

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11. In The Summer

    The Fastbacks

    Seattle crunchpop

12. Jumpin in Havana

    Chinese Man

    Blabbering is the key

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13. BREAK

14. Sahib Balkan

    Buscemi

    Goin’ out to John’s neighbors!

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15. Howlin’ For You

    The Black Keys

    Sawampalicious

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16. Bird on a Wire

    The Bobs

    Leonard Cohen is spinngin. Good.

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17. Eat

    Flop

    More Seattle pop!

18. BREAK

19. Stumble Out of Bed

    Bran Flakes

    Can you hear the ELO?

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20. Museum Of Love

    Meat Purveyors

    From the mind of Daniel Johnston

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21. Sunlight

    Tune-Yards

    Angular yet hypnotic

    [asa]B001W9GTVM[/asa]

    

22. Sunny Afternoon

    Baby Gramps

    Reso-kinks

23. BREAK

24. 99%

    The Mooney Suzuki

    No need for the other 1%

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25. This Will Be Our Year

    OK Go

    Dig the key modulation, guys

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26. Food in the House

    The Pilgrims

    Eating it every day!

27. Breakfast

    The Evolution Control Committee

    Don’t you hate it when your amphetamine omelette is all rubbery?

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28. BREAK

29. Malanga

    Natty Bo

    Ska cubano!

30. Go It Alone

    Noonday Underground

    Sounding more like Portishead than usual

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31. Penguin / Powerhouse

    The Coctails

    All hail Raymond Scott!

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32. Wise Up

    Bim Skala Bim

    From before ska was cool again

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33. BREAK

34. The Right Track

    Seks Bomba

    Dirty dirty jazz

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35. Four Dreams

    Jesca Hoop

    Babysitting for Tom Waits

    [asa]B003URDM1O[/asa]

    

36. Framed Profile

    Source

    Not Everything But The Girl, but close

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37. Right Before My Eyes

    Cage the Elephant

    Not the same as the other “Right Before My Eyes”

    [asa]B004GNQ6UA[/asa]

    

38. BREAK

39. Genius Of Love

    Tom Tom Club

    A classic return

    [asa]B002Q6ON72[/asa]

    

40. Girls and Uniforms

    The Quiet Ones

    Mounting frenzy chorus

    [asa]B001F8ZWB8[/asa]

    

41. New Amazing Buzz

    Nevada Bachelors

    How can there be only two NB albums?

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42. Yippie

    Mouse on Mars

    Spazzy and teutonic

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43. BREAK

44. Gershwin

    Arling + Cameron

    Only 10 seconds! Gasp!

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Muswell Hillbilly

   Southern Culture On The Skids

   From their fabulous Countrypolitan Favorites album

   [asa]B000QZZ5SG[/asa]

3. BREAK

4. Psychobilly Freakout

   Reverend Horton Heat

   Familiar to guitar heroes everywhere

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5. Here At The Home

   Tribe

   From Boston and 20 years ago

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6. Paddling Ghost

   Dan Deacon

   Noise trance induced

   [asa]B001W2DB6U[/asa]

7. Bad Idea

   Ben Folds Five

   Bashing on the keys

   [asa]B000002G4Y[/asa]

8. BREAK

9. Baby Fratelli

   The Fratellis

   Here comes the Glasgow!

   [asa]B000MXPE74[/asa]

10. Stinky Stinky

    The Fil Lorenz Soul-Tet

    Groovy, and still in my car

    [asa]B000R00OWC[/asa]

11. Cuchi-Cuchi

    Los Amigos Invisibles

    Vengan Venezolanos!

    [asa]B000S98WCG[/asa]

12. Roda

    Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66

    The classic sound of Brazil

    [asa]B000W1RE5Q[/asa]

13. BREAK

14. Free Peepshow

    Fallopian

    Wait, how much?

    [asa]B0013RAZ7M[/asa]

15. Start Button

    2 Many DJs

    PAUSE Button!

16. My Evaline

    Soft Boys

    Hallucinatory psychedelia indeed

17. Flesh Number One (Beatle Dennis)

    Robyn Hitchcock

    Who was Beatle Dennis?

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18. BREAK

19. Intermediate

    Uptown Sinclair

    Featuring the very funny Dave Hill

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20. Cosita Rica

    Bomba Estereo

    Suggestive, to say the least

    [asa]B002VIU5PE[/asa]

21. The Star Position

    White Hassle

    Wail on that harmonica, Marcellus

22. Cheney Piñata

    The Bad Plus

    Dated? You be the judge.

    [asa]B0014LRNGI[/asa]

23. BREAK

24. Ruby

    Apples In Stereo

    Handclaps are the frosting

    [asa]B001RMD57K[/asa]

25. Ruby

    Les Baxter & His Orchestra, Danny Welton

    Where’s my Mai Tai?

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26. Ruby

    The Monolith

    Bring on the strings

    [asa]B000QZTEI8[/asa]

27. Pearl’s (Submarine #2)

    The Starlight Mints

    Very different from the Submarine #3

    [asa]B000EQ46X2[/asa]

28. Pearl

    The Minders

    Bookending some Elephant 6

29. BREAK

30. Record Stack

    Fluid Ounces

    Vinyl fetishist’s tango

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31. Summer Blue

    Money Mark

    Quite Monsieur LeRoc-ky

    [asa]B000V9D106[/asa]

32. Blackhole Dub

    Painkiller

    No mistaking the Zorn horn

    [asa]B000WYB5US[/asa]

33. Brain The Size of a Rock!

    HisCheapMoves & The Real Dolls

    By request!

34. BREAK

35. Wandering Stars

    Shantel

    Is that the Balkan chord change?

    [asa]B002IEXTHM[/asa]

36. Wandering Star

    Portishead

    A song in dark blue

    [asa]B000W022XG[/asa]

37. Night On Fire

    VHS Or Beta

    Disco fever!

    [asa]B000T1JODE[/asa]

38. Scott Cronce Is The CEO

    Global Goon

    Very Numanesque

    [asa]B00005UO42[/asa]

39. BREAK

40. Love Cry

    Four Tet

    Zone out…

    [asa]B0034E4JA6[/asa]

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Never Going Back Again ( Queen Of Scots )

   Eddi Reader

   Gimme that Stevie Nicks.

3. BREAK

4. Golden Phone

   Micachu & The Shapes

   This is… out there

5. Freakin’ Out

   Graham Coxon

   Lay it on thick, guitarist of Bleh

6. El Rayo-X

   David Lindley

   Is there anything he can’t do?

7. Super Afro-Beat

   The Daktaris

   Mythical funk band (literally)

8. BREAK

9. Compulsion

   That Petrol Emotion

   Going back 20 years or so

10. Fuzzy Little Piece Of The World

    The Pontiac Brothers

    Collectible band name, now that there’s no Pontiac

11. El Cuchipe (Cancio Boliviana)

    Los Lobos

    Genuine sounds of… Bolivia?

12. Tightly Wound

    The Capes

13. BREAK

14. The Strangers

    St. Vincent

15. The Trouble With Those Mothra Girls

    Daikaiju

    Instrumentals have the best names

16. My Friend

    Jimi Hendrix

    My favorite obscure Jimi track

17. BREAK

18. Nothing’s All Right

    Golden Shoulders

    More from their 2007 reissue

19. Oxygene 4

    Jean Michel Jarre

    Inspired by the Moog Cookbook’s Buddy Holly

20. J’ai Faim Toujours

    Little Jack Melody & His Young Turks

    Hongry every day

21. Haitian Frustration (Remix)

    The Toasters

    From the seminal Thrill Me Up album

22. BREAK

23. Snake Mistakes

    Dan Deacon

    Super slippy sounds

24. Enemy Destruct

    Thee Oh Sees

    Going out to Iceberg Defect

25. Paris Circa 2007 Slash 08

    The Dissociatives

    Featuring Daniel Johns of Silverchair

26. I’d Love To Change The World

    Ten Years After

    Is that freedom rock?

27. BREAK

28. Uruapan Breaks

    Kinky

    Bring on the Mexican non-stop

29. Baby’s Way Cruel

    Guv’ner

    Because my baby’s way cruel… WAY cruel

30. Juliet Was The Sun

    Jan

    Breezy easy pop

31. Hello Hello

    Hello The Band

    With John from TMBG

32. BREAK

33. The Vis-Art Song

    Evil Wiener

    A good customer with a distortion pedal

34. The Box

    1990s

    That’s the place I keep my spare set of socks

35. Small Supernova

    Metal Molly

    Dig the William Gibson reference

36. Just Got Paid

    Ministry

    From their Cover Up album

37. BREAK

38. New Violence

    White Williams

    Born of the Cincinnati scene

39. Buggie Technica

    Polysics

    Unquestionably, the Japanese Devo

40. It’s So Easy

    Willy DeVille

    From the Death Proof soundtrack

41. BREAK

42. I Am The Cosmos

    This Mortal Coil

    Originally by Big Star

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1. Song
   Artist

2. Mala Vida

   Gogol Bordello

   Originally by Mano Negra… some Mano Negra later!

3. BREAK

4. Lost & Found

   Taken By Trees

   Not M.I.A. as expected… stand by… technical difficulties

5. Girls and Uniforms

   The Quiet Ones

   From the Blitzen Trapper, Fleet Foxes Seattle scene

6. New Ways Of Living

   Destroyer

   Anguished AND tortured

7. BREAK

8. Paper Planes

   M.I.A.

   By request! As heard on Slumdog Millionaire. Bonus Clash sample

9. 10 Dead Dogs

   Wild Sweet Orange

   From Birmingham, Alabama

10. Kung den knege

    Pluxus

    Swedish moogcore for you moogspazzes.

11. BREAK

12. Lake Michigan

    Rogue Wave

    Look up real rogue waves on the google… fascinating

13. Sound Check (Gravity)

    Gorillaz

    Classic Gorillaz

14. Hir aj kam, hir aj go

    Magnifico

    More Magnifico, because he lives up to his name

15. Magic Dice

    Mano Negra

    Going out to Ariela, in East Santanay

16. BREAK

17. I Feel Pretty

    Schlong

    Dedicated to Dave R., whose band played with Schlong

18. Thou Shalt Always Kill

    Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip

    I can dig the audio pixelation

19. Marian

    SSM

    Extended jam city and we’re cruising Peanut Butter Ave.

20. BREAK

21. Lies On Your Lips

    Franklin Bruno

    How does he do it?

22. The 88

    French Kicks

    Brooklyn tranpslants

23. No Baguettes In The Ghetto

    HaBiluim

    Polka Tel Aviv!

24. BREAK

25. Okie Dokie

    Dan Deacon

    Crazy composer genius

26. Season Of The Witch

    Donovan

    Heavy, Donovan. Heavy.

27. Born to Be Wild

    Fanfare Ciocarlia

    From the Borat soundtrack

28. BREAK

29. Re-Format

    MOTOR

    Don’t stop teh electrobugie

30. Mama Loves Nortec

    Nortec Collective Presents: Bostich + Fussible

    From Tijuana, Mexico!

31. It Started With A Mixx

    Los Campesinos!

    From Wales!

32. Bag of Hammers

    Thao (with the Get Down Stay Down)

    Haunting track, this one

33. BREAK

34. Havana Nagila

    Hip Hop Hoodíos

    Cumbia klezmer hip hop… only from Brooklyn

35. The Ocean

    Led Zeppelin

    What’s up with the squeaky bass pedal, Bonzo

36. Astro Kopp

    Low Frequency In Stereo

    From Norway

37. El Microphono

    Mexican Institute of Sound

    From Mexico, again. Que extraño,

38. BREAK

39. Walcott (Insane Mix #2)

    Vampire Weekend

    Good night!