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01) Studio Apartment - Ryu 00:00
02) Mystery School Ensemble - Fruits Of Knowlege Pt.1 03:25
03) bnloco - Kaskabel 08:26
04) Dj iBM - Psychotropics 13:44
05) Kush - The Beauty of Machines At Work 16:40
06) Blank And Jones - Days (Cantoma Dub Mix) 24:30
07) The Savages - Hajnalhang 29:41
08) The Sushi Club - Iwashi 34:30
09) hunc. - JJDTA 36:46
10) Lamb - Five 40:07
11) All India Radio - Life and how to do it 45:40
12) Mother Night - Neural Network (radio edit) 48:53
13) Troubleman - The righteous path 52:50
14) Differenz - Morning in the Sub-Basement 57:44
15) Bliss - Don't Look Back 61:41

It's fair to say the BeatConscious style tends more toward the eclectic than the thematically consistent. This set, for instance, started out with my rediscovering the music of KUSH (among the joys of a recent hard drive recovery) which got me leaning toward jazz-inflected tracks ... But following the muse took me on a wandering path involving some abstract lounge liberally salted with dance rhythms. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting ... If the flow pleases you, then such eclectismo is all good.

Stops along the way include All India Radio, Blank & Jones, The Sushi Club, The Savages, Bliss, Lamb, and many more.

For a thematically consistent and musically gorgeous collection, I suggest you check out Jazz on the Rocks from Thirdpower1 (https://www.mixcloud.com/thirdpower1/jazz-jazz-on-the-rocks/ ) ... you won't regret it.

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01) Brandon Flowers - Between Me And You 00:00
02) Katie Moore - Baby Can I Hold You 04:35
03) Adele - When We Were Young 08:13
04) Justin Bieber - Where Are Ü Now (ft. Skrillex & Diplo) 12:55
05) The Adam Brown - Can't Sleep 16:58
06) Jamie xx - Gosh 20:36
07) The Weeknd - Often 25:23
08) Lady Leshurr - Queen's Speech 4 29:30
09) Erykah Badu - HOTLINE BLING BUT U CAINT USE MY PHONE MIX 32:44
10) Grimes - REALiTI (demo) 40:09
11) Majical Cloudz - Downtown 44:28
12) This Is The Kit - Silver John 48:30
13) Tori Kelly - Nobody Love 51:54
14) Kehlani - Alive ft Coucheron 55:14
15) Shura - Touch 58:21
16) Cosmo Sheldrake - Rich (Ft Anndreyah Vargas) 61:46
17) The Dream - Black Magic 66:12
18) Olivare - When I Look Around (Mix 3) 72:06
19) Langhorne Slim & The Law - Wolves 77:11


Last year, I accepted a challenge, not just to appreciate Said the Gramaphone's year-end Best Of list, but to find my own set-list within it. The result was the 1/1/15 show, Choices. Well, here I am again, not challenged this time, but still curious what could be made out of the current StG list that would reflect me and my tendencies...

I used nearly 20% of the tracks, surprising myself by including a Bieber -- on quality, unbeliebers, on quality! Styles run the gamut from nearly-country (or maybe this IS modern country) thru rock to rap, trap and beyond. Lyrics were important, as always; StG has an ear for the poetical, of course. But vibe is king; witness the utterly astonishing Olivare track, among others.

Before encountering them on the list, I had only heard of five of these 19 tracks, so much respect, as always, to StG for being the intrepid explorers. Check out the source here: http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/best_son...

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01) Blank And Jones - Twilight (Chill & Grill Mix) 00:00
02) Govinda - Do I Dream 05:56
03) Kush - I'm Not Myself Lately 10:28
04) The Warheads - Her Only Desire 14:46
05) Swag - Gentlemans Relish 19:00
06) Morelious - Nighttime 23:46
07) All India Radio - Morning Drops II 28:13
08) Depeche Mode - Enjoy the silence (soundhog's float mix) 30:12
09) Chaser - Blue Planet (Original Mix) 35:34
10) Afterlife ft Cathy Battistessa - Let It Go 42:32
11) Phaeleh - Make You Feel 47:50
12) James Blake - Life Round Here (MANIK Ghost Pines Rework) 52:06
13) Afterlife - Soulstice (Elysian Fields Mix) 57:58
14) Another Fine Day - A Good Place to Be 62:50
15) Spooncurve - One Day I'll Come Ashore 65:14

Peace out, 2015. How will you be remembered? As the year of a mass shooting in America nearly every day? As the year our political system was Trumped? The year Africans squelched ebola, but Americans let the measles return? Perhaps you’ll go down in history as the year all Weather-Hell broke loose, as though to mock the Paris accords with more evidence that we're a day late & a dollar short.

I think I’ll remember instead the year I tried to make for myself: Slower, mindful, seeking harmony & just a little bit of higher ground, fit for making a stand. Helping me out in that regard for this last show are The Warheads, Govinda, Kush, All India Radio, Afterlife, Another Fine Day, Spooncurve, James Blake, and Soundhog’s delicious Float Mix of Depeche Mode. Them, and my fistful of rainbows.

For each of my listeners & especially for those who maintain a fierce concentration on achieving their finest dreams, my best wishes for you in the coming year. Make it happen.

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01) Afterlife - Home (feat. Chris Coco) 00:00
02) Alucidnation - Genetics (Irresistible Force No GMO Remix) 04:46
03) Skin Divers - 29 Rivers (Intense Remix) 13:54
04) Sizzle Bird - Distant Horizons (feat. Bea) 18:28
05) All India Radio - Asphyxiate (2014 Remix) 22:18
06) Submotion Orchestra - All Yours (Jack Sparrow Remix) 26:49
07) Sizzle Bird - Landing 32:45
08) Auditive Escape - Air Like Water 37:07
09) Natalie Walker - Quicksand (Thievery Corporation Remix) 41:06
10) Sasha Lazard - Carnival 45:27
11) Zero7 - The Space Between 49:14
12) All India Radio - Far Away (2014 Remix) 55:10
13) 36 - Sun Riders Part II 61:33
14) Carbon Based Lifeforms - 20 minutes 66:45

There’s something about being poised to begin another year which reminds me that every story has a narrative arc; you know it as 'the beginning, the middle & the end.' Our lives play out through this same sort of arc: The awakening & wonder of childhood, the long slow ride of the middle years, with stops here and there to acquire this and that, and then watching it all slip away in old age. Hey, I hear you say, there's more to it than that! Yes, of course and that's part of the reason why every story is unique in the way every rainbow is unique.

Life, love, work – from New Year’s Day to New Year’s Eve, so much of everything that we are & that we do follows such an arc, lending shape & purpose to our lives & to our stories (and, yes, even to our mixes.) No wonder the rainbow is our totem.

Musical contributions to this particular arc include tracks from All India Radio, Sizzle Bird, Zero 7, 36, Carbon Based Lifeforms, Alucidnation, Afterlife & more.

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01) Frank Sinatra - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 00:00
02) Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - The Christmas Song 03:28
03) Sonya Kitchell - White Christmas 07:07
04) Jackopierce - My Favorite Time of Year 10:23
05) The Digital Age - Silent Night 13:15
06) Philip Aaberg - Charity 17:29
07) Sarah McLachlan - The First Noel / Mary Mary 21:43
08) Jetty Rae - Little Drummer Boy 26:41
09) Chance's End - We Three Kings 29:29
10) Starchillaz - Northern Stars 33:25
11) Lounge of Spirits - Life in Balance 39:47
12) Sarah McLachlan - Wintersong 44:44
13) Enya - How Can I Keep from Singing? 48:09
14) Angel Snow - O Holy Night 52:28
15) Young Oceans - All Who Hear 55:43
16) Mahalia Jackson - Silent Night (46bliss Remix) 62:02
17) Mary J. Blige - My Favorite Things 65:36
18) Billy Paul Williams - Auld Lang Syne 69:26
19) Philip Aaberg - The Gift 74:30

Honestly, I wasn't planning to do a Christmas show this year, until I realized how much new music there is for the season ... hopefully, enough to lure us all away from that automatic reaction: Oh good grief, again!?!

I’m easing you in with some classics (Sinatra, Herb Alpert) and then turning the spotlight on new creations & new singers putting their spin on the classics ... In fact, Christmas music is the singer's equivalent of Hamlet for an actor; they need to see what they can bring to these tunes that's new.

Notable among the secular and spiritual offerings, kudos to Sarah McLachlan for a song that reminds us of those friends whose Christmas will not include their loved ones, and to Angel Snow for her reading of O Holy Night, reminding this bitter world that “His law is love, and his gospel is peace.” And, of course, I could not resist including my all-time favorite version of Silent Night from Mahalia Jackson....

Peace to you and yours.

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