Swoon 308 - January 4, 2010

STL - A Beautiful Mind (Echospace)
Slacker - Start a New Life (Godlike & Electric)
Deadmau5 - Working Squid
Hellothisisalex - The Paper Horse
Aphex Twin - Vordhosbn (Leila remix) (Warp)
NAW - Harborline Rendered (Noise Factory)
Citywide Vacuum - Track 6
Sandro Perri - Romeo Heart
Mike Shannon - Under the Radar (Deadbeat remix) (Cynosure)
Lucio Aquilina - Out Run (Hideout)
Cortney Tidwell - Palace (Michael Cleis' "Too Late" Remix) (Simple)
Nightmares on Wax - Cabasa Cabasa (Russell Haswell remix) (Warp)
Bitcode - For Trash (Jimmy Edgar mix)
Boys Noize & Erol Alkan - Waves (Boys Noize)
Boys Noize - Not (Boys Noize)
Mike Mind - Resonate (Kebacid mix) (Turbo)
Hakan Lidbo - Bad Girls Go To Hell (Antichrist edit) (Complot)
Tok Tok - Jay Cube (Tok Tok)
Woodhands - Pockets
If Then Do - Strathcona Park
Yacht - I'm In Love With a Ripper (Dfa)

Next week will be my Best of 2009

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Swoon 307 - December 21, 2009

Danuel Tate - Remember Me (Wagon Repair)

Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts - The Pussy Shepherd (Musique Risquee)

John Selway & Dave Turov - Jazz Hands (CSM)

Touane - Rare Beauty (Left handed)

Wareika - King's Child (Ricardo Villalobos mix) (Motivbank)

Union Jack – Vowel (Platipus)

Jamie Anderson – Predator (Jerome mix) (Artform)

Agoria - Libellules (Infine)

Minilogue - Mr. Mustafa A (Minilogue)

Margot - Vorticcione (Dyno remix)

Danton Eeprom - Confessions Of An English Opium Eater (Infine)

Brendon Moeller - Big Shot (Dub mix) (Connaisseur)

My My - Price Tag (Appleblim & Komonazmuk Remix) (Aus)

Mike Mind - Satellite Son (Turbo)

Deadmau5 - The Big Difference (Mau5trap)

Danuel Tate - La Boite (Wagon Repair)

Clark – So Malleable (Warp)

Slacker - Come With Me (Godlike & Electric)

Mastrzofthayoonavrce – Is There Anyone Out There

Robofloyo - 37OH55V

Corboe - C-notes

Cfcf - Half Dreaming (Paper Bag Records)

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Out with the old

I will be deleting all Swoon episodes from 2008 before 2009 is over, to make space for 2010. Fair warning.

Rolling Stone's Top 100 of the Decade

I'm tempted to proclaim "Rock Is Dead", but it certainly isn't. Four guys on a stage with guitars, drums and a singer will always be a killer combination. However, looking at Rolling Stone's Top 100 Tracks of the Decade, it's clear that this decade, rock bands have been lapped by a bunch of guys with samplers and soul.

Songs of the Decade

1 | Gnarls Barkley — "Crazy"

2 | Jay-Z — "99 Problems"

3 | Beyoncé — "Crazy in Love"

4 | Outkast — "Hey Ya!"

5 | M.I.A. — "Paper Planes"

6 | The White Stripes — "Seven Nation Army"

7 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs — "Maps"

8 | Amy Winehouse — "Rehab"

9 | U2 — "Beautiful Day"

10 | Eminem — "Stan"

11 | MGMT — "Time to Pretend"

12 | Eminem — "Lose Yourself"

13 | 50 Cent — "In Da Club"

14 | Missy Elliott — "Get Ur Freak On"

15 | Johnny Cash — "Hurt"

16 | The Strokes — "Last Nite"

17 | Bob Dylan — "Mississippi"

18 | Kelly Clarkson — "Since U Been Gone"

19 | Kanye West — "Jesus Walks"

20 | Justin Timberlake — "Cry Me a River"

21 | OutKast — "B.O.B."

22 | Amerie — "1 Thing"

23 | Rihanna — "Umbrella"

24 | Radiohead — "Everything in Its Right Place"

25 | Missy Elliott — "Work It"

26 | Coldplay — "Clocks"

27 | The Postal Service — "Such Great Heights"

28 | Randy Newman — "A Few Words in Defense of Our Country"

29 | Kanye West — "Gold Digger"

30 | R. Kelly — "Ignition (Remix)"

31 | The Flaming Lips — "Do You Realize?"

32 | Franz Ferdinand — "Take Me Out"

33 | Daft Punk — "One More Time"

34 | Coldplay — "Yellow"

35 | Bruce Springsteen — "The Rising"

36 | U2 — "Moment of Surrender"

37 | LCD Soundsystem — "Losing My Edge"

38 | Gorillaz — "Clint Eastwood"

39 | Modest Mouse — "Float On"

40 | Kelis — "Milkshake"

41 | LCD Soundsystem — "All My Friends"

42 | Arcade Fire — "Wake Up"

43 | The Roots — "The Seed (2.0)"

44 | Britney Spears — "Toxic"

45 | Kylie Minogue — "Can't Get You Out of My Head"

46 | MGMT — "Kids"

47 | Green Day — "American Idiot"

48 | The Killers — "Mr. Brightside"

49 | The Walkmen — "The Rat"

50 | Beyoncé — "Single Ladies"

51 | D'Angelo — "Untitled (How Does It Feel)"

52 | Christina Aguilera — "Beautiful"

53 | The Rapture — "House of Jealous Lovers"

54 | Coldplay — "The Scientist"

55 | OutKast — "Ms. Jackson"

56 | Radiohead — "Idioteque"

57 | The Shins — "New Slang"

58 | The White Stripes — "Fell In Love With a Girl"

59 | The Strokes — "Hard to Explain"

60 | Beyoncé — "Irreplaceable"

61 | Jet — "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"

62 | Alicia Keys — "Fallin'"

63 | Lil Wayne — "A Milli"

64 | U2 — "Vertigo"

65 | Green Day — "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"

66 | Madonna — "Music"

67 | Wilco — "Jesus, Etc."

68 | Coldplay — "Viva La Vida"

69 | Santigold — "L.E.S. Artistes"

70 | Arctic Monkeys — "I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor"

71 | Justice — "D.A.N.C.E."

72 | Kings of Leon — "Use Somebody"

73 | Queens of the Stone Age — "No One Knows"

74 | TV on the Radio — "Wolf Like Me"

75 | Arcade Fire — "Rebellion (Lies)"

76 | Madonna — "Hung Up"

77 | Dixie Chicks — "Not Ready to Make Nice"

78 | LCD Soundsystem — "Daft Punk is Playing at My House"

79 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss — "Gone Gone Gone"

80 | Phoenix — "1901"

81 | Pink — "Get The Party Started"

82 | Jay-Z — "Dirt Off Your Shoulder"

83 | The Gossip — "Standing in the Way of Control"

84 | The Clipse — "Grindin'"

85 | The Dirty Projectors — "Stillness Is the Move"

86 | Aaliyah — "Try Again"

87 | The Knife — "Heartbeats"

88 | Jay-Z — "Izzo (H.O.V.A.)"

89 | Bright Eyes — "Lua"

90 | Midlake — "Roscoe"

91 | Bruce Springsteen — "My City of Ruins"

92 | Brad Paisley — "Alcohol"

93 | Snoop Dogg — "Drop It Like It's Hot"

94 | Radiohead — "Pyramid Song"

95 | Mary J. Blige — "Family Affair"

96 | Lady Gaga — "Poker Face"

97 | Fleet Foxes — "White Winter Hymnal"

98 | Amy Winehouse — "Back to Black"

99 | Gorillaz — "Feel Good Inc."

100 | Damian Marley — "Welcome to Jamrock"

More Places For the Life List

The Chicago Tribune has an interesting list of Bizarre and Unusual Travel Destinations Around the World. I've been to 3 of 37, Lombard Street, Petrified Forest and Cappadocia.

Swoon 306 - December 14, 2008

Infusion - So Soon (Omnis)
Digits - Wait It Out
Hellothisisalex - Crossing The Atlantic On a Beetle's Back
Ephma - Short Way Home (Stattmusik)
Danton Eeprom - Vivid Love (Infine)
Konflit - Train Fantome
CFCF - Summerlong (Paper Bag Records)
If Then Do - Gunung Agung
Grievous Angel - Show Love (Dust Science)
Sigha - Hold My Heart Up To The Light (Hot Flush 2)
Shackleton - Trembling Leaf (Perlon)
Pinch - Airlock (Planet mu)
Gatekeeper - Hades (Immerse)
Autechre - Eutow (Warp)
Cio d'Or - Wildseide (Prologue)
Mathew Jonson - Technology Extended (Wagon Repair)
Union Jack - Funnelweb (Platipus)
Oxia - Whole Life (8bit)
Hell - U Can Dance (Simian Mobile Disco mix) (International Deejay Gigolo)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll (A-trak mix)
Jenocide - Off/On
The Futureless - Lowest Of The Dead
Mark Pritchard - ¾ Heart by Black Dog Productions (Warp)
Tiga - Sex O’Clock (Turbo)

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Swoon 305 - December 7, 2009

Italoboyz - The Pink Unicorn (Mothership)

CFCF - Monolith (Paper Bag)

Idioma - Landscapes (Shit Robot remix) (MKG)

Lucio Aquilina - Black Elf (Hideout)

Legion of Green Men - Owls In The Apple Tree (Post Contemporary)

Tim Hecker - Shipyards of La Ceiba (Alien8)

Burial - Fostercare (Hyperdub)

Newworldaquarium - The Force (Ames Alternative version)

Mathew Jonson - The Alchemist (Wagon Repair)

Minibloc & Leon Lo - Untitled (Le Son 666)

Kathy Kennedy - Doug van Nort (Imbalance) (Le Son 666)

Mike Mind - Resonate (Turbo)

Mathew Jonson - Ghosts in the AI (Wagon Repair)

Clark Davis - Access

Sanomat - Need To Change (Audiofly X mix)

SIS - Barbarossa

Claude von Stroke - Vocal Chords (Dirtybird)

Bignic - Light

Jenocide - Boa Constrict Her

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 (Prince Language mix) (EMI)

Boys Noize - Nerve (Last Gang Records)

Bibio - Sugarette (Warp Records)

Port-Royal - Susy: Blue East Fading (N5md)

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