Spygame by Parov Stelar
(found on Alif Tree's Similar Artist Radio)
(full track streaming here)
swinging
When I make a bag for my Diva Cup, it might have to have this image on it.
In Egyptian mythology, Sekhmet was originally the warrior goddess of Upper Egypt. She is depicted as a lioness, the fiercest hunter known to the Egyptians. It was said that her breath created the desert. She was seen as the protector of the pharaohs and led them in warfare.
As Lower Egypt had been conquered by Upper Egypt, Sekhmet was seen as the more powerful of the two warrior goddesses, the other, Bast, being the similar warrior goddess of Lower Egypt. Consequently, it was Sekhmet who was seen as the Avenger of Wrongs, and the Scarlet Lady, a reference to blood, as the one with bloodlust. She also was seen as a special goddess for women, ruling over menstruation.
Begin Again by Flevans
(found on Alif Tree's Similar Artist Radio)
(full track streaming here)
summer canoe floating down stream. you are napping on the river to the sounds of the local church choir.
(full track streaming here)
a restaurant patio lit with strings of tiny lights and silverware tinkling and crickets and evening breezes
Blazin' (Modeselektor Remix) by Ghislain Poirier
(found on DJ Kentaro's Similar Artist Radio)
(short sample streaming here)
good song for getting things done. a flurry of dusting and organizing. speeding through a sink of dishes.
Now Thinking by Hifana
(found on DJ Kentaro's Similar Artist Radio)
(full track streaming here)
short and spirited. big bass, little shouts, some gameshow, some insects, some carnival.
Shadow by General Midi
(found on Hifana's Similar Artist Radio)
(full track streaming here)
good background music. lots of chiming and bells. played well with my mindless template letters at work.
it is true about that organizational motto, "a place for everything and everything in its place." it is the way to go. be it boxes, hooks, jars, whatever, stuff has to have a home or it is impossible to put away. look at the success in this crafty little room.
while i am painfully aware of the value of this truism, i have never put it into practice. is this denial about the stuff that clutters my space? perhaps my belief that i should have no stuff makes me label my messy room contents as things that are going to go away, and therefore do not need to be bothered with.
i seem to be capable of making the chaos work, but i would prefer a real solution. help!
"A great army of copyists was set to work perpetually multiplying copies of books."
H. G. Wells
Eyen by Plaid
(found on Amon Tobin's Similar Artist Radio)
(short sample streaming here)
the climactic part of the movie where you realize something amazing and possibly magical is happening and you are running around trying to take it all in
Gridlock by Red Snapper
(found on Amon Tobin's Similar Artist Radio)
(short sample streaming here)
The end of something, something out of the ordinary
Live Fast by Funki Porcini
(found on Amon Tobin's Similar Artist Radio)
(full track streaming here)
what is this? something a little sinister, but only a bit.
Her Tongue is Like a Jellyfish by Amorphous Androgynous
(found on Amon Tobin's Similar Artist Radio)
(short sample streaming here)
this song is a really bizarre dream. one minute a little glow worm is singing to you while dangling from a silver thread and the next the two of you fly off to browse the stalls in a middle eastern market
Micro Course in Russian by DJ Vadim
(found on Amon Tobin's Similar Artist Radio)
(full track streaming here)
let's learn some Russian
Do's and Don'ts (feat. Gruff Rhys) by Boom Bip
(found on Amon Tobin's Similar Artist Radio)
(short sample streaming here)
melodic and meditative
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Dee Dee by Dee Dee Bridgewater
(found on Imposterpocket's Recommendations Generated by Last.fm Radio)
(full track streaming here)
another african sounding track.
Upsidown by Daktaris
(found on Imposterpocket's Recommendations Generated by Last.fm Radio)
(short sample streaming here)
this track sounds like a day where you wake up refreshed and everything is falling into place. your keys are right where you left them and you are on your way to superproductivity.
(found on The Bird and The Bee Similar Artist Radio)
(short sample streaming here, full track on video below)
something about this deep buzzing bassline is working for me right now. soft, low vocals. file into the sad and beautiful category.
