MIXXXES: SHORTS.

(mixxxes is an ongoing mixtape series i started when i realized elise needed better music in her life. with some exceptions, there is rarely a theme per say - i just try to mix the relatively unknown with the seriously-overplayed popular, the brand new with the oldie but goodies, and try to create a magical listening experience you probably wouldn't find someone else burning on a cd-r)

1. sebastien tellier - divine

2. prince - raspberry beret

3. lady gaga - paper gangsta

4. gang starr - above the clouds (feat. inspectah deck)

5. major lazer - hold the line (dj edit feat. mr. lexxx & santigold)

6. the killers - when you were young

7. passion pit - little secret

8. basement jaxx - raindrops

9. common - inhale

10. the notorious b.i.g. - hypnotize (hear mars pregnant robots remix)

11. ryan leslie - gibberish

12. ween - freedom of '76

13. vampire weekend - cape cod kwassa kwassa

14. drake - best i ever had

15. rick ross - maybach music 2 (feat. t-pain, lil wayne and kanye west)

16. justin timberlake - (and she said) take me now

17. slum village - tainted (feat. dwele)

18. electric light orchestra - don't bring me down

19. mgmt - time to pretend

sorry, no individual uploads. you're gonna have to download the whole thing.

Hear Mars - SHORTS.

saturday's soundbites to take up space

another month, another air yeezy colorway passes me by. i have a feeling the black and pink were the end all be all. too bad i have a JOB, so i can't afford to take off three days to sit on a street corner and have guys trying to pull all sorts of funny business in the line.

jake frumkin, is that you in front???

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it's been like a month since there was anything new and worthwhile to download. music or videos. the economy's even affecting the piraters... where's the loot?

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i hate to say it, but every time i watch the amazing video i hate it a little less. and speaking of videos everyone hates, i'm kind of digging the asher roth/cee-lo video, even if the song's just meh.

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just in case you've forgotten, trent reznor is pop. like in a sunshine in your tummy good kind of way. don't just take my word on it.

i'm not too good at car metaphors

dear ryan leslie,

i want to love your debut. i really do. i've lost count of how many times your album's been played, in its entirety, in my car, in the hopes that after that magical number has been reached, something will click. i imagine that moment to be a little like a car engine finally turning over, after your wrist is near numb from fatigue.

but there's also that other moment, when you realize you're going to need to save at least enough energy to be able to stick out your thumb and hitch-hike to work, because this piece ain't goin anywhere, no matter how many times you give it a lil gas, just for old times sake.

ryan, you're a great producer, but this whole vocal thing i just can't dig. it could be your cliche lyrics. it could be the occasional tepid rapping. it could be that you're just not that good of a singer, and you don't really know how to compensate for it. it could be that i just can't stand fabolous anymore, and grind my teeth to point of cracking them when i hear his voice.

this would be a great album r-les, nearing fantastic, if you just let someone else sing over it. way to go pal, you really know how to hook up a hellafreshsmoothasssilkybeat. and you have good melodic instincts. but you need to know to quit while you're ahead. before you pick the pen, pick up your phone. call up kanye, his blog hearts you. call up rick ross, the second half of his latest could have used some of your proper summer synths. call up the goddamn teriyaki boyz for all i care. anyone but you. and f-a-b-o. and chris cornell.

i hope we can still be friends. after all, real recognize real. and yeah, i'll probably still keep listening to your album anyways. that's what kind of a guy i am.

your friend, constructively,

hear mars

p.s. gibberish is pretty dope the way it is, even if, as elise correctly noted, the horn melody steals a page straight from spottieottiedopaliscious. i even enjoyed the video of you making it.