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Best Of 2009 in alphabetical order:
Amesoeurs - Amesoeurs
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
Caspian - Tertia
Converge - Axe To Fall
Depeche Mode - Sounds of the Universe
Editors - In This Light And On This Evening
Fall of Efrafa - Inlé
Isis - Wavering Radiant
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Katharsis - Fourth Reich
Long Distance Calling - Avoid The Light
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Narrows - New Distances
Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition
White Lies - To Lose My Life
Very Good:
Ahab - The Divinity of Oceans
Architects - Hollow Crown
Archive - Controlling Crowds
Arctic Monkeys - Humbug
Baroness - Blue Album
Ben Frost - By The Throat
Blockhead - The Music Scene
Blueneck - The Fallen Host
Drudkh - Microcosmos
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Fountain
Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetics
Funeral Mist - Maranatha
Gifts From Enola - Fathoms
Glorior Belli - Meet Us at the Southern Sign
If These Trees Could Talk - Above the Earth, Below the Sky
Jay-Jay Johanson - Self-Portrait
Marduk - Wormwood
Microfilm - The Bay of Future Passed
Pelican - What We All Come To Need
pg.lost - In never out
Rise and Fall - Our Circle Is Vicious
RJD2 - Tin Foil Hat (EP)
Saxon Shore - It Doesn't Matter
Scarlet Youth - Breaking the Patterns (EP)
Suicide Silence - No Time to Bleed
Swallow the Sun - New Moon
The Horrors - Primary Colours
Tides From Nebula - Aura
Best Video:
White Lies - Farewell To The Fairground

These are the locations of my Top 100 artists.

Australia

1. Darren Hayes
2. Savage Garden
3. Kylie Minogue
4. We Are Smug
5. Sam Sparro
6. Something for Kate

Belgium

1. Eva De Roovere
2. Das Pop

Brazil

1. Luigi Masi

Canada

1. Dragonette
2. Alanis Morissette
3. Michael Bublé
4. Anjulie

Colombia

1. Juanes

Denmark

1. Alphabeat

France

1. Zazie
2. Tahiti 80
3. Yelle
4. Anggun*
5. Christophe Maé
6. Cédric Atlan
7. The Dø

Indonesia

1. Anggun*

The Netherlands

1. Boudewijn de Groot
2. Fontane

New Zealand

1. Ladyhawke

Spain

1. La Casa Azul

Sweden

1. Jay-Jay Johanson
2. Måns Zelmerlöw
3. The Hoosiers*
4. Darin
5. The Ark
6. Pacific!
7. Sebastian Karlsson
8. The Cardigans
9. Lo-Fi-Fnk
10. Nouveau Riche
11. Pay TV

United Kingdom

1. Mika
2. Girls Aloud
3. The Pipettes
4. The Indelicates
5. Little Boots
6. The Hoosiers*
7. The Boy Least Likely To
8. Amy Winehouse
9. La Roux
10. The Kooks
11. The Beatles
12. Ellie Goulding
13. Jamie Lidell
14. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
15. James Morrison
16. Keane
17. Texas
18. The Ting Tings
19. Infadels
20. VV Brown
21. Friendly Fires
22. Lily Allen
23. Alice Russell
24. Jamie Cullum
25. Paloma Faith
26. The Saturdays
27. Spandau Ballet
28. Frankmusik
29. Morcheeba
30. The Last Shadow Puppets
31. Joss Stone
32. Ladytron
33. Joe and Will Ask?
34. Nerina Pallot

United States

1. En Vogue
2. OK Go
3. Maroon 5
4. Metric
5. Scissor Sisters
6. Robin Thicke
7. Imperial Teen
8. Jason Mraz
9. Diana Ross and The Supremes
10. The Gossip
11. Lady GaGa
12. Kennedy
13. Walter Meego
14. Mary Wells
15. Valeze
16. The Postal Service
17. Young Love
18. Linda Ronstadt
19. Katy Perry
20. Michael Jackson
21. chicago soundtrack
22. The Beach Boys
23. Moby
24. Bishop Allen
25. Teddy Geiger
26. Matchbox Twenty
27. Augustana
28. Rob Thomas
29. A Fine Frenzy
30. The Fray
31. Matt Nathanson

First, make a list of your top-20 artists overall. Then, for each of these artists, add the 8 most similar artists to your list. Delete any duplicates, count up the number of entries on your list and this will give you some idea of how eclectic your listening habits are. A score of 9 represents an extremely unvaried musical taste while a 160 represents an extremely varied one.

#1 Darren Hayes

1 Savage Garden
2 We Are Smug
3 Delta Goodrem
4 Daniel Bedingfield
5 Will Young
6 JC Chasez
7 Dannii Minogue
8 Kylie Minogue

#2 En Vogue

9 SWV
10 Janet Jackson
11 TLC
12 Monica
13 Toni Braxton
14 Xscape
15 Faith Evans
16 Brownstone

#3 Savage Garden

17 Darren Hayes
18 Boyzone
19 Backstreet Boys
20 Matchbox Twenty
Delta Goodrem
21 Ronan Keating
22 Natalie Imbruglia
23 Roxette

#4 Mika

24 Lily Allen
25 Scissor Sisters
26 Pixie Lott
27 Lady GaGa
28 Robbie Williams
29 Alphabeat
30 Little Boots
31 Frankmusik

#5 Jay-Jay Johanson

32 Perry Blake
33 Oi Va Voi
34 Baxter
35 Ilya
36 Bedük
37 Wax Poetic
38 Elsiane
39 Bang Gang

#6 Måns Zelmerlöw

40 E.M.D.
41 Ola
42 Sarah Dawn Finer
43 Danny
44 Charlotte Perrelli
45 Jonathan Fagerlund
46 Darin
47 Kevin Borg

#7 Girls Aloud

48 The Saturdays
49 Sugababes
50 Rachel Stevens
51 Cheryl Cole
52 Annie
53 Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes
54 Victoria Beckham
55 Emma Bunton

#8 OK Go

56 Hot Hot Heat
57 We Are Scientists
58 Rooney
59 The Bravery
60 The Fratellis
61 Phantom Planet
62 Louis XIV
63 Boy Kill Boy

#9 The Pipettes

64 Lucky Soul
65 The Long Blondes
66 The Indelicates
67 Camera Obscura
68 Rose Elinor Dougall
69 Kate Nash
70 Those Dancing Days
71 Tilly and the Wall

#10 The Indelicates

72 Hefner
The Long Blondes
73 Helen Love
74 The Pipettes
Lucky Soul
75 Emmy the Great
76 Tullycraft
Yeti

#11 Zazie

77 Calogero
78 Christophe Willem
79 Mylène Farmer
80 Pascal Obispo
81 La Grande Sophie
82 Les Enfoirés
83 Anaïs
84 Marc Lavoine

#12 Little Boots

85 La Roux
86 Marina & the Diamonds
Annie
87 VV Brown
88 Ladyhawke
Frankmusik
89 Dragonette
90 Florence + The Machine

#13 The Hoosiers

91 Scouting for Girls
92 The Feeling
93 The Pigeon Detectives
94 The Holloways
95 Air Traffic
The Fratellis
96 One Night Only
97 The Wombats

#14 Maroon 5

98 OneRepublic
99 Rob Thomas
Matchbox Twenty
100 James Morrison
101 James Blunt
102 Jason Mraz
103 Gavin DeGraw
104 Jesse McCartney

#15 Darin

105 Måns Zelmerlöw
Danny
E.M.D.
Ola
Kevin Borg
106 Erik Segerstedt
107 Agnes
108 Luigi Masi

#16 Kylie Minogue

Dannii Minogue
109 Madonna
110 Sophie Ellis-Bextor
111 Girls Aloud
Rachel Stevens
Annie
Emma Bunton
112 Geri Halliwell

#17 Tahiti 80

113 Axe Riverboy
114 Cloudberry Jam
115 Phoenix
116 Mocca
117 Swan Dive
118 Armchair
119 Fugu
120 Club 8

#18 The Boy Least Likely To

121 I'm From Barcelona
122 Bishop Allen
123 Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
124 Architecture in Helsinki
125 Camera Obscura
126 Voxtrot
127 Belle and Sebastian
128 Math and Physics Club

#19 Amy Winehouse

129 Adele
130 Duffy
131 Joss Stone
132 Corinne Bailey Rae
Lily Allen
133 Macy Gray
134 Erykah Badu
135 Alicia Keys

#20 Alphabeat

Little Boots
136 Private
Cheryl Cole
The Saturdays
Annie
VV Brown
Sugababes
137 Robyn

Final Score:

137 / 160

001 I Monster - Goodbye Sun
002 Peter Doherty - Last Of The English Roses
003 Eels - That Look You Give That Guy
004 Jarvis Cocker - I Never Said I Was Deep
005 Noel Gallagher - Half the World Away
006 Peter Doherty - Lady Don't Fall Backwards
007 I Monster - A Sucker For Your Sound
008 I Monster - Dear John
009 Jamie T - Earth, Wind & Fire
010 The Rifles - Fall to Sorrow
011 Peter Doherty - Broken Love Story
012 Pet Shop Boys - The way it used to be
013 Mélanie Pain - Peut Etre Pas
014 Eels - My Timing Is Off
015 Lisa Ekdahl - Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile
016 Jarvis Cocker - You're In My Eyes (Discosong)
017 I Monster - The Best
018 Iggy Pop - A Machine For Loving
019 Reverend and The Makers - Hidden Persuaders
020 Arctic Monkeys - The Jeweller's Hands
021 Eels - Beginner's Luck
022 Eels - The Longing
023 Psapp - Screws
024 Eels - Ordinary Man
025 Franz Ferdinand - Bite Hard
026 Franz Ferdinand - Katherine Kiss Me
027 Pet Shop Boys - More than a dream
028 Eels - In My Dreams
029 Peter Doherty - A Little Death Around the Eyes
030 Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
031 Reverend and The Makers - Mermaids
032 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone (Maida Vale Studios 2009)
033 Franz Ferdinand - Live Alone
034 Camera Obscura - Forest and Sands
035 Regina Spektor - The Calculation
036 Iggy Pop - I Want To Go To The Beach
037 God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
038 Au Revoir Simone - Another Likely Story
039 The Dandy Warhols - The Last High
040 Jamie T - Hocus Pocus
041 The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love 4 (The Drowned)
042 Jarvis Cocker - Fuckingsong
043 Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
044 Ian Brown - Just Like You
045 The View - Unexpected
046 Ian Brown - Marathon Man
047 The Ideal Husband - I'll Stop To Play With You
048 1990s - The Box
049 Kasabian - Ladies And Gentlemen (Roll The Dice)
050 Camera Obscura - You Told a Lie
051 Peter Doherty - Arcady
052 Jamie T - Emily's Heart
053 1990s - Local Science
054 The Whitest Boy Alive - Rollercoaster Ride
055 The View - Distant Doubloon
056 Sodaphon - Local Comic Yesterday Store
057 The Kingsbury Manx - Over the Oeuvre
058 The View - Shock Horror
059 The Ideal Husband - Objects in the mirror
060 Pet Shop Boys - Love etc.
061 Jamie T - Castro Dies
062 Mélanie Pain - if you knew
063 Jarvis Cocker - Leftovers
064 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Crazy
065 Holidays on Ice - Eat A Peach
066 Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
067 Holidays on Ice - Dog House
068 Mélanie Pain - My name
069 Kasabian - Where Did All the Love Go?
070 Kissogram - The Deserter
071 Iggy Pop - Spanish Coast
072 Mélanie Pain - Tomorrow Never
073 Peter Doherty - Sheepskin Tearaway
074 The National - So Far Around The Bend
075 Diving With Andy - Sugar Sugar
076 The National - Mansion On The Hill
077 Manic Street Preachers - Doors Closing Slowly
078 Jonna Lee - Lake Chermain
079 Psapp - The Camel's Back
080 The Whitest Boy Alive - Island
081 God Help The Girl - Perfection As A Hipster
082 the Little Hands of Asphalt - Blue & Green
083 Franz Ferdinand - No You Girls
084 balstyrko - Jagten paa noget
085 Mélanie Pain - Celle de mes vingt ans
086 The View - Double Yellow Lines
087 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - The Golden Age
088 Wild Beasts - All the Kings Men
089 Kissogram - Rubber And Meat
090 The Albertans - Warring Man
091 Franz Ferdinand - Twilight Omens
092 Eels - Prizefighter
093 Kissogram - Prominent Man
094 Pet Shop Boys - Pandemonium
095 Air - Sing Sang Sung
096 Jarvis Cocker - Slush
097 Hockey - Too Fake
098 Timber Timbre - Lay Down In The Tall Grass
099 Jan Delay - Kommando Bauchladen
100 Dial M for murder! - NYC (Now You Care)
101 I Monster - Cool Coconuts
102 Peter Doherty - Salomè (Acoustic)
103 Jamie T - British Intelligence
104 Reverend and The Makers - Long Long Time
105 Jamie T - Chaka Demus
106 balstyrko - Roennebaer
107 Golden Silvers - True Romance (True No. 9 Blues)
108 Bishop Allen - Tiger, Tiger
109 Hockey - Song Away
110 Kissogram - Tonight I'll Go Out Alone
111 Dial M for murder! - Do You Think So I Don't
112 Jarvis Cocker - Hold Still
113 Pet Shop Boys - Vulnerable
114 Gregory Alan Isakov - One of Us Cannot Be Wrong
115 Sodaphon - Drama
116 The Rifles - The Great Escape
117 Ian Brown - In The Year 2525
118 Regina - Terveiset paivantasaajalta
119 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour - Around The Bend
120 Spoon - Got Nuffin
121 The xx - Infinity
122 Arctic Monkeys - Dangerous Animals
123 Iggy Pop - Les Feuilles Mortes
124 Reverend and The Makers - Silence Is Talking
125 The Rifles - For the Meantime
126 Super Furry Animals - Mt.
127 Little Dragon - Swimming
128 Ian Brown - Stellify
129 The Rifles - Science in Violence
130 Wave Machines - Keep The Lights On
131 Jarvis Cocker - Angela
132 Gorillaz - Broken (demo)
133 God Help The Girl - I'm In Love With the City
134 Hockey - Everyones The Same Age
135 Mando Diao - Gloria
136 Franz Ferdinand - Backwards On My Face (Dub Version)
137 Kasabian - West Rider Silver Bullet
138 Reverend and The Makers - No Soap In a Dirty War
139 The Rifles - Romeo & Julie
140 I Monster - Escape from New Yorkshire
141 Regina - Sain levyt joita et halua kuunnella
142 Frankmusik - Gotta Boyfriend
143 Laroca - Brassic
144 Regina - Tapaa minut aamulla
145 Röyksopp - Happy Up Here
146 Regina - Musta musta puutarha
147 Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings
148 Golden Silvers - Queen of the 21st Century
149 Jamie T - Chaka Demus
150 Mando Diao - Go Out Tonight
151 Cornershop - Operation Push
152 Voxtrot - Berlin, Without Return
153 M. Ward - Never Had Nobody Like You
154 God Help The Girl - The Psychiatrist Is In
155 El Perro del Mar - Change Of Heart
156 Timber Timbre - Magic Arrow
157 The Ideal Husband - Terrified
158 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Runaway
159 A Band Called Quinn - Fluff Girl
160 The xx - Islands
161 Station 17 feat Fettes Brot - Ohne Regen Kein Regenbogen
162 Jason Lytle - Birds Encouraged Him
163 Parker Lewis - Bash the Cynicals
164 I Monster - A Pad Is Waiting
165 WhoMadeWho - The Plot
166 Mando Diao - High Heels
167 Mando Diao - You Got Nothing On Me
168 Kissogram - Backseat of my Mind
169 Girl With The Gun - In the sunshine
170 Wave Machines - I Go I Go I Go
171 Mélanie Pain - Plus Vite Que Le Temps
172 I Monster - Lust For A Vampyr
173 Dial M for murder! - You said
174 The Whitest Boy Alive - Courage
175 The Raveonettes - Suicide
176 Regina Spektor - Genius Next Door
177 Jan Delay - Überdosis Fremdscham
178 Jay-Jay Johanson - Medicine
179 RipChord - Shoot You Down
180 Hockey - Curse This City
181 The Cribs - We Share The Sames Skies
182 Peter Von Poehl - Near the End of the World
183 Graham Coxon - Humble Man
184 Noah and the Whale - My Broken Heart
185 M. Ward - For Beginners
186 Urlaub in Polen - marseilles swell
187 The Nightgowns - Solid Gold 2
188 Little Dragon - Never Never
189 Jan Delay - Showgeschäft
190 The Cribs - Cheat On Me
191 James - Not So Strong
192 Cornershop - Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast
193 Starfucker - Medicine
194 The xx - Basic Space
195 Sodaphon - Shalalalala
196 Mike Patton - Chelios
197 Laroca - La Glorieta
198 The Raveonettes - Bang!
199 Mando Diao - Dance With Somebody
200 Wave Machines - The Greatest Escape We Ever Made
201 Psapp - Parker
202 Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern - Amy and Rachel
203 The Lightning Seeds - Said And Done
204 A Camp - Bear on the Beach
205 Dial M for murder! - You can't have me
206 Duncan Sheik - The Tale of Solomon Snell
207 Johnny Cash - Big River (Count De Money Remix)
208 Desire - MIRROIR MIRROIR
209 Just Jack - 253
210 Maxïmo Park - A Cloud of Mystery
211 Oh Sweet Music! - four long years
212 Muse - Uprising
213 John ME - Sister
214 Just Jack - So Wrong
215 Jay-Jay Johanson - Lighting strikes
216 Flight of the Conchords - You Don't Have To Be A Prostitute
217 Frankmusik - Time Will Tell
218 Timid Tiger - Palm beach bar
219 1990s - Balthazar
220 RipChord - Another World
221 Telekinesis! - Imaginary Friend
222 The Raveonettes - Heart Of Stone
223 A Camp - Here Are Many Wild Animals
224 The Mary Onettes - God Knows I Had Plans
225 Wave Machines - The Line
226 Jay-Jay Johanson - Broken Nose
227 God Help The Girl - A Down and Dusky Blonde
228 Little Boots - Love Kills
229 Girl With The Gun - Coast to coast
230 Jason Lytle - Brand New Sun
231 Air - So Light Is Her Footfall
232 Camera Obscura - Honey in the Sun
233 The Whitest Boy Alive - 1517
234 A Band Called Quinn - The Glimmer Song
235 The xx - Stars
236 Man Like Me - Booze
237 The Bird and the Bee - Love Letter To Japan
238 Maia Hirasawa - South Again
239 Cornershop - The Roll Off Characteristics (Of History In The Making)
240 Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter
241 Man Like Me - 9 Lives






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01 I Monster: A Dense Swarm Of Ancient Stars
02 Peter Doherty: Grace/Wastelands
03 Eels: Hombre Lobo
04 Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications


05 Jamie T: Kings & Queens
06 Franz Ferdinand: Tonight Franz Ferdinand
07 Pet Shop Boys: Yes
08 Iggy Pop: Preliminaires
09 Mélanie Pain: Compilation Song
10 Reverend and The Makers: A French Kiss In The Chaos
11 Arctic Monkeys: Humbug


12 Ian Brown: My Way
13 Noel Gallagher: The Dreams We Have As Children
14 Regina: Puutarhatrilogia
15 The Ideal Husband: No bye no Aloha
16 Dial M for murder!: Fiction Of Her Dreams
17 The Whitest Boy Alive: Rules
18 God Help The Girl: God Help The Girl / Stills EP
19 The View: Which Bitch?
20 Hockey: Mind Chaos


21 The Rifles: The Great Escape
22 Sodaphon: The Pros And Cons Of Having Nothing
23 Psapp: The Camel's Back
24 Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career
25 Kissogram: Rubber & Meat
26 Holidays on Ice: Pillage Before Plunder
27 Just Jack: All Night Cinema
28 The Raveonettes: In And Out Of Control
29 The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: Fruit
30 Air: Love 2
31 1990s: Kicks
32 Mando Diao: Give Me Fire
33 Kasabian: The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum
34 balstyrko: Jagten på noget
35 Jan Delay: Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Soul
36 Flight of the Conchords: I Told You I Was Freaky
37 Wave Machines: Wave If You're Really There
38 The xx: xx
39 Regina Spektor: Far
40 Jay-Jay Johanson: Self-Portrait
41 The Cribs: Ignore The Ignorant


(alphabetical)
A Band Called Quinn: Sun Moon & Stars
A Camp: Colonia
Art Brut: Art Brut vs. Satan
Au Revoir Simone: Still Night, Still Light
Bellman: Mainly Mute
Bishop Allen: Grrr...
Cornershop: Judy Sucks Lemon For Breakfast
Danielle Ate the Sandwich: Things People Do
Eleni Mandell: Artificial Fire
Frankmusik: Complete Me
Fruit Bats: The Ruminant Band
Golden Silvers: True Romance
Goodbye Ivan: The K Syndrome
Gregory Alan Isakov: This Empty Northern Hemisphere
His Name Shall Breathe: There Is an Earthquake Inside of Me
Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash Remixed
Jonna Lee: This Is Jonna Lee
Laroca: Valley of the Bears
Leo Abrahams: The Grape And The Grain
Lisa Ekdahl: Give Me That Slow Knowing Smile
Little Dragon: Machine Dreams
M. Ward: Hold Time
Manic Street Preachers: Journal For Plague Lovers
Morrissey: Years of Refusal
Musette: Datum
Noah and the Whale: The First Days Of Spring
Parker Lewis: Parker Lewis
Peter Bjorn and John: Living Thing
Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Polly Scattergood: Polly Scattergood
Röyksopp: Junior
Sophie Madeleine: LOVE.LIFE.UKULELE
The Albertans: Legends Of Sam Marco
The Dandy Warhols: The Dandy Warhols Are Sound
The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love
The Kingsbury Manx: Ascenseur Ouvert!
The Lightning Seeds: Four Winds
The Nightgowns: Sing Something
Timber Timbre: Timber Timbre
Voxtrot: Berlin, Without Return
WhoMadeWho: The Plot
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It's Blitz!

Escucha el Programa 258. Ones de L'espai Exterior

Contenidos:

• El temazo
  
• Actualidad internacional
  
• Actualidad nacional
  
• Ones de L'espai Exterior
  
• Conciertos recomendados

Canciones:

• It Hugs Back -Now + Again (Inside your guitar / 4AD 2009)
  
• Metric - Help I’m alive (Fantasies / Metric productions 2009)
  
• Nouvelle Vague - All my colours (3 / The perfect kiss 2009)
  
• Jay-Jay Johanson - Medicine (Self-portrait / EMI 2009)
  
• Linda Mirada - Nadie camina en Los Ángeles (China es otra cultura / Autoeditado 2009)
  
• La Bèstia Corrúpia - ADSL (D'estimar com les pastanagues / Autoeditado 2009)
  
• Delorean - Seasun (Ayrton Senna / Mushroom pillow 2009)
  

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Hey everyone! So I decided to compile a list of artists who, according to music critics and fans, "sound like Björk." I am doing this in case anyone wanted something new but definitely good to listen to, because if the artist is being compared to Björk, then he or she is obviously very good. Here goes:

Regina Spektor
Esthero
Kate Havnevik
Kate Bush
Camille
Goldfrapp
Joanna Newsom
Dido
CocoRosie
Plaid
Emiliana Torrini
Under Byen
Imogen Heap
Bat for Lashes
Giselle Weber
Arcade Fire
Ladytron
Émilie Simon
Brazilian Girls
Robyn
Feist
Kylie Minogue
Juana Molina
Carla Bruni
The Knife
Sia
Sigur Rós
Bitter:Sweet
Lights
Jay-Jay Johanson
Emm Gryner

wow, Björk sounds like a lot of people!

Please enjoy the international Björk band! Joni Mitchell and Lights as the Canadian Björks, Imogen Heap as the British Björk, Emiliana Torrini as the Icelandic Björk, Carla Bruni as the French President's wife Björk, and Sia as the Australian Björk :)

Every now and then I make compilations for friends. I find this quite
rewarding because it makes me listen to music more carefully and think
about why I want someone to listen to a track. So I thought I'd write
out the tracklists of some of these compilations along with some of the
`decision making' that went into choosing the tracks.

This particular mix cd is for Brian K. Brian made me a very nice mix cd
earlier this year and I promised I'd do the same. It only took me four months.

Mix for Brian

1. Oxygene Part 4 - Jean-Michel Jarre
This is, of course, a classic all the way back from 1976! Two tracks on the Return from Planet Dub album by Lee Perry feat. Doublestandart and Ari Up - Oxygen Part 4 (feat. David Lynch) (really!) and remix of it called Deadly Funny sample Oxygene Part 4.
2. Triangle Walks (Tora Vinter remix) - Fever Ray
Fever Ray has been satisfying my Knife needs very well. The remixes for the album have come from new (to me) artists. Tora Vinter for example. Nice and bouncy without losing the eerieness of the original.
3. Come To Berlin (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)- Barbara Morgenstern
Z-Soldier sent me this track I think. Fine remix of a fine track. RIP half of Telefon Tel Aviv.
4. Break The Silence - Rude 66
Much of Rude 66's music is more electro but this track is as dreamy as they come. I should have discovered this track two years before I did because it was number 30 in the late CBS Top 100 for 2006. But the robots lets DJ Robot X down and he instead played the rather pointless message from heaven. Still the gods were kind and I chanced upon this track while playing sharevari's radio.
5. Wo Kommen Wir Her (frank kusserow remix)- La Rez
This track was on Anthony Rother's Fuse compilation. Tracking down the full version took some time but was worth it. I wanna visit Frankfurt am Meer! Who are La Rez I wonder. Very little information on them online.
6. Beach Kisses (Rework) - Dosem
The highlight of the excellent Balance compilation by Joris Voorn. I love the synthetic saxophone sounds on this one. Makes me think of a summer on some balearic beach. Thanks to Hypnotic Beats for the painstaking deconstruction of the Balance comp - don't let the haters get you down.
7. Ce N'est Pas Bon (Bullion Remix) - Amadou & Mariam
Brian put Sabali on his mix. I loved it and wanted to respond. Thankfully an excellent remix by Bullion appeared on p4k in time.
8. The Way It Used to Be (Left of Love dub) - Pet Shop Boys
I wanted to love the new Pet Shop Boys album Yes more than I did. I ended up liking the companion remix album by Xenomania, Yes etc. more. This track makes a nostalgic epic by leaving out almost all the vocals. The remix album did a good job of highlighting the good stuff on the album and more or less rehabilitated it for me. I think Johnny Marr can be heard on both the original and the remix.
9. Fight for Love (European Man Remix) - Nathan Kowald
European Man takes a bedroom synth instant classic and makes it even more gorgeous. European Man might have a new album soon under the name Erik XVI.
10. Darling - Popular Computer
11. Automatic Lover (ODahl Remix) - Jay-Jay Johanson
We are now deep into the synthpop world. Though in truth, that's more the natural state of affairs around here. I came across both of these tracks through the excellent Tracasseur blog. The unremixed track is excellent too as is the original by Dee D. Jackson.
12. Stars - Mr. Fingers
One can learn a lot from studying the CBS Top 100. This shimmering track for example was on the original CBS Top 100 from 2004. It's also the only track by an american artist on comp. Mr. Fingers is Larry Heard.
13. Spinning for Spoonie - Neil Halstead
I loved Slowdive. I also love Mojave 3 and Neil Halstead even though it's not been easy lately. But tracks like this help me keep the faith. Butterfly flap your wings.

1. How did you get into 29?
The White Stripes
heard em on the radio

2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22?
Nach
ser o no ser

3. What’s your favourite lyric by 33?
Johnny Cash
Ring of fire

4. What is your favourite album by 49?
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez
Cryptomnesia

5. How many albums by 13 do you own?
Sigur Rós
none

6. What is your favourite song by 50?
At the Drive-In
One armed scissor

7. Is there a song by 39 that makes you sad?
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
hmm sad hmmm no

8. What is your favourite album by 15?
Mono
hymn to the immortal wind

9. What is your favourite song by 5?
The Dear Hunter
red hands

10. Is there a song by 6 that makes you happy?
Andrés Calamaro
Flaca

11. What is your favourite album by 40?
Serge Gainsbourg
histoire de melody nelson

12. What is your favourite song by 10?
The Locust
AOTPKTA

13. What is a good memory you have involving 30?
John Mayer
Dancing to gravity

14. What is your favourite song by 38?
Babasónicos
confundismo

15. Is there a song by 19 that makes you happy?
Buena Vista Social Club
candela!

16. How many times have you seen 25 live?
Miles Davis
none

17. What is the first song you ever heard by 23?
Bloc Party
helicopter

18. What is your favourite album by 11?
Dominic Chianese
ungrateful heart

19. Who is a favourite member of 1?
The Mars Volta
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez of course, but i'm a big fan of Cedric too

20. Have you ever seen 14 live?
The Whitest Boy Alive
yes!

21. What is a good memory involving 27?
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez
listening to it while doped

22. What is your favourite song by 16?
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
maps

23. What is the first song you ever heard by 47?
Songs for Eleonor
something about you

24. What is your favourite album by 18?
Frank Sinatra
"greatest hits"

25. What is your favourite song by 21?
Manu Chao
si me das a elegir

26. What is the first song you ever heard by 26?
M83
goodbye-farewell

27. What is your favourite album by 3?
The Fall of Troy
phantom on the horizon

28. What is you favourite song by 2?
Incubus
mmmm a hard one, Paper shoes or echoes

29. What was the first song you ever heard by 32?
The Lonely Island
Jizz in my pants

30. What is you favourite song by 8?
Band of Horses
No one's gonna love you

31. How many times have you seen 17 live?
The Flaming Lips
one

32. Is there a song by 44 that makes you happy?
Tool
vicarious

33. What is you favourite album by 12?
Radiohead
In rainbows

34. What is the worst song by 45?
Jay-Jay Johanson
several

35. What was the first song you ever heard by 34?
Sébastien Tellier
La ritournelle

36. What is you favourite album by 48?
The Besnard Lakes
the dark horse

37. How many times have you seen 42 live?
Ruggero Leoncavallo
none

38. What is you favourite song by 36?
Akira Kosemura
Light dance (home)

39. What was the first song you ever heard by 28?
múm
the ghosts you draw on my back

40. What is your favourite album by 7?
Pink Floyd
Animals

41. Is there a song by 31 that makes you happy?
David Gilmour
lot of

42. What is your favourite album by 41?
Arcade Fire
funeral

43. What is your favourite song by 24?
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Estrella de mar

44. What is a good memory you have involving 46?
Muse
old memories

45. What is your favourite song by 35?
Beirut
Prenzlauerberg

46. Is there a song by 9 that makes you happy?
The Sound of Animals Fighting
hmm not so happy but not sad

47. What is your favourite album by 4?
Explosions in the Sky
the earth is not a cold dead place

48. Who is a favourite member of 37?
Tristeza
Jimmy LaValle

49. What is the first song you ever heard by 43?
My Bloody Valentine
cigarette in your bed

50. How many albums do you own by 20?
Friends of Dean Martinez
none