Chill the fuck out.

Signaldrift // Planetarium

This is what summer should feel like.

This image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows the central region of the starburst galaxy M82 and contains two bright X-ray sources of special interest. New studies with Chandra and ESA's XMM-Newton show that these two sources may be intermediate-mass black holes, with masses in between those of the stellar-mass and supermassive variety. These "survivor" black holes avoided falling into the center of the galaxy and could be examples of the seeds required for the growth of supermassive black holes in galaxies, including the one in the Milky Way. —NASA

Summertime cave rave.

I've been getting some requests for a mixxxtape, so I threw together a little sampling of some of the tracks I've been into recently and in the past year or so. This tracklist pretty much encompasses all the chill, dubby, glitchy, tribally and "witchy" music I've been consuming in recent months. It's music that's good for stone cellars and and Shaker graveyards.

Have a weird summer, kids.

summer solstice mix (i)

Tracklist†:

†Just a heads up: iTunes 9 apparently does not let you duplicate tracks easily, so I wasn't able to easily rename the album title on all these and put them in a set order. So, if you open the mix and it's not in the order above I strongly suggest you take a minute to re-organize. Sorry for the inconvenience. Blame Steve Jobs.

Horse MacGyver.

///▲▲▲\\\ - rub from fsck. on Vimeo.

I much preferred when Horse MacG went by ///▲▲▲\\\ (aka v_o_i_d) but I can see how that name caused some problems for him... "you know, the triangle guy"

Helping Johnny Remember

Helping Johnny Remember from ashleigh nankivell on Vimeo.

This is so effing creepy in the most wonderful way.

;)

New from Weird Tapes.

I'm a big Weird Tapes/Memory Tapes/Memory Cassette fan, but I will say, of all three of Dayve Hawk's projects, this one is by far my favorite. Memory Tapes' Walk Me Home long mix was fantastic, but I'm very happy to hear some new(ish) Weird Tapes.

Weird Tapes // The Walking Day

"The Walking Day" is off the first ThisIsNotAnExit comp, Manifesto #1.

An apt summation of the past week in current events:

ASH + EURO(TRASH)

Felix Cartal // Volcano (Felix Cartal rmx)

Lush Cola.

"They are driving a Gun-Metal Black Lincoln Continental on the interstate at night
They are riding your bike in a rainstorm when the lightning comes out
They are trying to fall asleep early on a weeknight"

Yeah, that sounds about right.

This is a project of Tim Perry of Denver lo-fi rock outlet Weed Diamond. Free download from Patient Sounds available here.