Here's another long one, a bit different from the others as I made this mix partially to listen back to and hypnotize myself to sleep. It worked as I didn't make it more than a third of the way through. So... if you're suffering from a bout of insomnia, give it a shot!

 

1. Dick Sutphen - 4 Hour Restorative Sleep Hypnosis
2. The Bangkok Starters - Glass Off
3. Flowchart - Nationwide Sleep Disorder
4. The Changeworks - Hypnosis Session
5. Pink Floyd - A Pillow Of Winds
6. Belbury Poly - Pan's Garden
7. Fill The Heart Shaped Cup - High Heavenly
8. Alpha - Could Have Missed It
9. Alpha - Watergate
10. Hooverphonic - Revolver
11. Nature Program - Tree Line
12. Spark - Marshmallow Roast
13. Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds For Baby - Sleepy Time
14. Dr. Lee Pulos - Meditation Warner Audio Self Hypnosis
15. Antenne - Blue Light
16. Bop - Forms - Forms, Ideas and Chips
17. Mount Kimbie - Taps
18. The xx - Islands (Nosaj Thing Remix)
19. Robot Koch - People Are Strange (feat. Grace)
20. Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange
21. Jay Jay Johanson - Jay Jay Johanson
22. Portishead - Glory Box
23. Tricky - Hell Is Round The Corner
24. Rockabye Baby - Paranoid Android
25. Cocteau Twins - Whale's Tails
26. Underneath Blue Skies - For Quxka
27. The Observatory - Incastrate
28. Izaak Stern - Fuzzed Signal
29. Black Moth Super Rainbow - Fields Are Breathing
30. Pip Estrelle - Audio Scattering #5
31. Bonobo - Noctuary
32. Smashing Pumpkins - Soma
33. Beach Boys - The Old Master Painter
34. Isao Tomita - The Old Castle
35. Maata Haari - Butterfly
36. Beach Boys - Wonderful
37. Matt Elliot - The Sinking Ship Song
38. Bows - Cuban Welterweight Rumbles Hidden Hitmen
39. Empress - The Summer December Starts
40. Zai Kuning - Melancholy Of A Flowering Plant
41. Faithless - Evergreen (Dusted Remix)
42. Alva Noto - Xerrox Monophaser 2
43. Dane Spotts - SuperBrain Power
44. Waking Life clip
45. Locust - The Girl With The Fairytale Dream
46. Laika - Spooky Rhodes
47. Cualquiera - I'm Only Sleeping
48. Dick Sutphen - 4 Hour Restorative Sleep Hypnosis

I should mention that I researched Singapore this week, and because the show ended up having such a strange format, i only fit on some of the more serene songs I found. Those would be Underneath Blue Skies, The Observatory, Izaak Stern and Zai Kuning. The Observatory for one blew me away, that's definitely a band to look out for.

However if anyone every wants to look up any more music from this very unique city-state, particularly more upbeat stuff, check out Clash the Disco Kids, Inquisitive (Singapore DMC champ), Kiat, Cherry, Ashidiq, The Mighty Doosh, Sweetalker Sleepwalker and Ming.

For this show we focus on Mexico, mostly the northern mountanous area, where the wild things definitely are. And in doing so we take a close look at Gangster Folk.

Also I played a couple of songs from the dearly departed Lhasa.

By the way if any of you have suggestions of communities to focus on in the future, let me know!

1. Marty Robbins - El Paso

2. Lhasa - La Llorona
3. Massive Attack feat. Hope Sandoval - Paradise Circus
4. Owen Pallett - Keep The Dog Quiet
5. Dangermouse & Sparklehorse feat. James Mercer - Insane Lullaby

6. Celly - Bump Story
7. Moloko - Party Weirdo
8. Katapulto - Striptease

9. Volumina - Twist
10. Klaatu - California Jam
11. Kyrie Kristmanson - Song X
12. William D. Drake - One Armed Bandits
13. Where The Wild Things Are

14. Grupo Exterminador - El Judicial Y El Traficante
15. German Montero - De Esta Sierra A La Otra Sierra
16. Larry Hernández - El Taliban
17. El Chapo De Sinaloa - Quisieron Tumbar al Jefe
18. El Chapo De Sinaloa - Para Que Regreses
19. La Arrolladora Banda el Limon - Para Que Volver
20. Silent Light
21. Lucha Villa - No Discutamos
22. Ruby Lane - Love Me

23. Hong Kong Blood Opera - Hear You Scream
24. Pepepe - El Nueve es un Globito
25. Bleeptor V. Telescope - We Will Dance To Tokyo Waltz
26. Quiero Ser Bonita - Cavernario Por Ti
27. Plastilina Mosh - Millionaire

28. Reso - Hyperglide
29. Lucio Aquilina - My Cube
30. James Figurine - Stop
31. George Gould - Dark Eyes
32. George - Slow Wave Sleep

32. Lhasa - Bells

I should probably point out that the Ruby Lane song was added after the live broadcast so that's why the description afterwards sounds a bit tacked on, cause it was... I just really wanted to include a song from Ruben Ruiz, who's a very colourful character in the book of real-life adventures that inspired this session, and he was up at his Sierra Madre ranch that week... the book by the way is God's Middle Finger by Richard Grant, I highly recommend it.

The first mix of the new year, included is a set of music from Shanghai, as well as some fine instruction on recognizing verbal attack patterns...

1. Belbury Poly - Hidden Door

2. The Advisory Circle - Civil Defense Is Common Sense
3. Broadcast and the Focus Group - To Be Colony
4. Monk & Canatella - Darkus Twisted
5. Blockhead - Farewell Spaceman
6. The Langley Schools Music Project - Good Vibrations

7. 100dBs - Dancer In A Daydream
8. Anni Rossi - Living In Danger
9. Thiaz Itch - Young and Proud
10. The Freja Bluegrass Band - The Sign
11. Black Black - Waiting For Magic
12. Candy Claws - Don't Turn Around

13. The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by Suzette Haden Elgin
14. Creaking Planks- Closer

15. The Buri Buri Sound Collective - Don't Push
16. Cha Cha - Kingdom Riddim
17. Dj Ssoso - Six HAL remix
18. Mr. Tsang - My Beltbeat
19. Dj Lj - Shan Xing
20. Amnik remix
21. Fish remix
22. I-GO - Holy Mood
23. Mr. - La Song

24. Dr. Clarke - H1N1 Rap
25. Themselves - Oversleeping
26. Secret Mommy - Surgery
27. The Get Busy Crew - Bustin' Lines
28. Alpinekat - Large Hadron Rap

29. Sukpatch - Lake Funt Property

This is a long one, 3.7 hours or so... good luck!

50. Laika - Black Cat Bone
49. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
48. Splashdown - Dig
47. Wheatie Mattiasich - Dirty Moses
46. Alice Rose - Carousel
45. Rafter - Long Time Ago, A Bull As Big As A Rodent Lurked In South America
44. Bran Van 3000 - More Shopping
43. Lovage - Book Of The Month
42. Maata Haari - If It's Alright
41. Primix For Kids - Preebok Pump
40. Sparks - The Rhythm Thief
39. Bjork - Cvalda
38. The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
37. Monk & Canatella - Slagger
36. Blackalicious - First In Flight
35. Cualquiera - Me fui de la fiesta, dos veces (I Left The Party, Twice)
34. Bat For Lashes - What's A Girl To Do
33. José González - Heartbeats
32. Ghost Bees - Did The Red Sea Part?
31. Russian Futurists - It's Not Really Cold When It Snows
30. Lady & Bird - Suicide Is Painless
29. Chad Vangaalen - TMNT Mask
28. Simian Mobile Disco - I Believe
27. The Advisory Circle - Mind How You Go
26. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
24. The Postal Service - Nothing Better
23. Montag - Scrabble Heart
22. Language-Arts - Tuck It In
21. Magnetic Fields - I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
20. Cocorosie - Hairnet Paradise
19. Candy Claws - Catamaran
18. Killing Joke - Walking With Gods
17. Antenne - Dead Dreams
15. Modest Mouse - World At Large
14. Via Tania - Mosquito Lights
13. Stereolab - Margarine Melodie
12. Skeletons & The Girl Faced Boys - Fit Black Man
11. Skeletons - This Is My Dreams Come True
10. Jay Jay Johanson - Kate
9. Hot Chip - Careful
8. Astronaut Wife - Superpowers
7. Future 3 - Alison
6. Maata Haari - The Mountains
5. Clark - Herzog
4. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
3. Bangkok Starters - Dancing Naked In The Mindhead
2. Bows - Ali 4 Onassis
25. A$A - Merci, Sexi
1. Maata Haari - Asa On My Arm

And for posterity's sake, I'll write down my favorite 25 albums of the same time period:

1. Maata Haari - Fantisimo's Beach
2. Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
3. EeL - Little Prince
4. Broadcast - Ha Ha Sound
5. Maata Haari - Art & Money
6. Bangkok Starters - Vapir
7. Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basement Of Hell
8. Bows - Cassidy
9. Modest Mouse - Good News For People That Like Bad News
10. Boom Bip & Doseone - Circles
11. Gangpol & Mit - The Hopelessly Sad Story Of The Hideous End Of The World
12. Jay Jay Johanson - Antenna
13. Hot Chip - The Warning
14. The Postal Service - Give Up
15. The Advisory Circle - Other Channels
16. CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
17. Duran Duran Duran - Blow Job Breaks
18. Food For Animals - Scavengers EP
19. Monk & Canatella - Do Community Service
20. Bjork - Selmasongs
21. A$A - I'm The Shaaah...
22. Candy Claws - In The Dream Of The Sea Life
23. The Fiery Furnaces - Blueberry Boat
24. soundtrack - O Brother Where Art Thou
25. Peppermill Records - The Box

Here's a bit of a Christmas special, well it contains at least some holiday music, also we featured the closest city I could find to the North Pole with any sort of music scene, Reykjavik....

1. Albert Hague - Welcome Christmas
2. Soul Coughing - Suzy Snowflake
3. Cornelius - Fantasma
4. Amon Tobin - Chronictronic

5. Danny Elfman - Making Christmas
6. Esquivel - Jingle Bells
7. Sufjan Stevens - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
8. Gangpol und Mit - La Sévère Conscience Politique
9. Tyonday Braxton - Opening Bell

10. Prince - 2 Nigs United 4 West Compton
11. George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars - Atomic Dog
12 Electric Jungle - Funky Funky Christmas
13. Wonder Wonder Wazun - Reconstructing
13. Jr. and His Soulettes - Rock N Roll Santa

14. Golan Levin, Scott Gibbons, Gregory Shakar et al. - Dialtones (A Telesymphony): part 2
15. The Boston Typewriter Orchestra - Pyramid Scheme

16. Kópavogsdætur - Eignir Karls
17. Lay Low - My Second Hand Heart
18. Hermigervill - Sleazy
19. FM Belfast - Synthia
20. Mugison - Mugiboogie
21. Kira Kira - Bless
22. Múm - If I Were A Fish
23. Worm Is Green - Love Will Tear Us Apart
24. Lára - In Between

25. Montag - Small Town Boy / Never Gonna Cry Again (Bronksi Beat / Eurythmics cover)
26. Charlotte Gainsbourg - Heaven Can Wait
27. Dan Deacon - Woof Woof
28. Shel Silverstein - Someone Ate The Baby
29. Seelenluft - Baby Baby

30. Bjork - Hidden Place (PK's ancient mix)
31. Emiliana Torrini - interview
32. Mileece - Nightfall
33. Airships - O Holy Night
35. Jim Reeves - Distant Drums

36. Candy Claws - Snow Girl