Filed under: Monthly Mixtape Flickr For the past 30 days, we've sat here wondering what next month will bring. Will July bear more jobs, better pay, less zombies and no more EDM? Will my 16-year-old brother actually pass his driver's test? Will we accept that Anderson Cooper is a gay man? Who's to say? What I do know is this, we have 30 songs for you to plunder and ponder. We started off June with a [...]
Presentamos la edición de junio de Music Alliance Pact (MAP), iniciativa del blog escocés The Pop Cop, que compila canciones destacadas de músicos locales de más de 30 países. Este mes destacamos a los referentes del dub local La Golden Acapulco, con un corte de su más reciente Encuentra las joias del dab . CHILE : Super 45 La Golden Acapulco - Da la beleza dab [...]
Sorry guys for the lateness. but don't worry we're back with 35 track from around the world and we have SemakBelukar as Indonesian ambassador right now. enjoy INDONESIA : Deathrockstar Semakbelukar - Be(ren)cana Palembang-based Semakbelukar add some attitude to this local, melancholy Malayan tune and push the boundaries of folk music. The title of this song about fate is a wordplay of Berencana ('planning') and Bencana ('disaster'). [...]

It's been an awfully muggy week in Minneapolis, which makes the tropical nature of this song perfect. If you don't live in Minneapolis or even Minnesota, that's fine, because the song is also fantastic. In "Symmetry", Matt Scheiner, the man behind Tropic of Pisces, subtly incorporates synthesizers into the genre more broadly defined as 'world music'. You might normally here songs like this while taking a taxi to the beach on some tropical island. It's fun, light-hearted and makes you feel like you should be smiling while wearing a swim suit or linen shirt from Tommy Bahama's. Be sure to [...]

La globalización musical ha llegado con un nuevo episodio, expande tus horizontes y coméntale a esos amigos y enemigos que ya perdieron la esperanza en los nuevos sonidos, que no sean incrédulos y que cedan ante el Music Alliance Pact. Has click en el botón de play para reproducir cada canción, también puedes bajártela individualmente, o si prefieres descárgalas todas juntas desde aquí . PERÚ : SoTB The Basurers [...]

Þá er komið að júní útgáfunni af hinu fjölþjóðlega tónlistarbloggara samstarfi sem kallast Music Alliance Pact . Fyrir hönd íslendinga koma fram drengirnir í Múgsefjun sem nú kynna nýja plötu sína með miklum móð. Þeir sem ekki nenna að smella á play" á öllum lögunum hér að neðan geta halað þeim niður í heildarpakka hér . ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Valle De Muñecas - Dos [...]

É com o seu quarto álbum, "L´Art Brut", que os Wraygunn chegam ao mundo via a Music Alliance Pact, tendo nós a esperança que ajude, de alguma forma, a sua já grande legião de fãs a crescer além fronteiras. Sabemos que se tivessem comido um pastel de bacalhau com Bourdain, amanhã estariam nos tops do ITunes, mas, por enquanto, por aqui temos a cozinha fechada por infestação e só temos tremoços cedidos por baixo do balcão. O que interessa é que "Don´t You Wanna Dance?", retirado de "L´Art Brut", está agora disponível para portugueses, alemães, holandeses, dinamarqueses, e todos [...]

It's the 15th of the month, meaning QBiM and a host of blogs from around the world share their favourite music from home with each other. This month we're presenting none other than Kingston, Ontario's finest, and Polaris Music Prize 2012 long listers, PS I Love You . CANADA : Quick Before It Melts PS I Love You - Sentimental Dishes [...]

The anticipation is building ahead of the announcement of the first ever Scottish Album of the Year Award winner on June 19 – look out for extensive live running commentary from the ceremony on The Pop Cop blog on Tuesday. Twelve months from now, it'd be hard to imagine Olympic Swimmers not being in the shortlist for the prize (remember, the SAY Award is about albums released in the previous calendar year) with their just-released [...]

(c) Kidizin Sane Once again, we bring to you the most interesting new and free tracks from around the world, curated by international music bloggers and publications with an eye on their local scenes. This month, we proudly present Austria's LIKEWISE (they're new to Tumblr so go say hi ). Click the play button icon to listen to individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 35-track compilation through Ge.tt here . AUSTRIA: Walzerkönig [...]

The world's greatest mixtape is back. We've chosen a track from Seven Year Itch, but there are plenty of other amazing tracks from the other 34 countries worth a listen. Click the play button icon to hear individual songs, right-click on the song title to download an mp3, or grab a zip file of the whole 35-track compilation over HERE . Happy (global) listening. ARGENTINA : Zonaindie Valle De Muñecas - [...]
Fresh from the interwebs comes Tropic of Pisces, the new project from Mathew Scheiner (better known as the guitar player of Oberhofer). His single "Symmetry" off his debut EP is warm, shimmering troppop just in time for summer. Check it out for yourself and keep an eye out for some NYC show coming [...]

Tropic of Pisces - Symmetry I’ll be frank, it took me a couple listens to really be into this. But one I did I felt better about life. One of those deals where it gives you this fluttery feeling because you realize the bro is talking about stayin’ with his chick till he croaks because she provides symmetry to his life and being stoked about it. Now that’s love y’all. Keep lovin’ in the free world. If you dig this Oberhofer goes to Kenyon inspired cut keep an eye out for their [...]

mp3: Spanish Prisoners - RICH BLOOD mp3: Spanish Prisoners - RICH BLOOD (Tropic of Pisces Remix) Spanish Prisoners are a Bushwick based band who have been gathering an impressive amount of buzz surrounding their forthcoming album Gold Fools . Their second single from the LP is "Rich Blood", which just got this smooth remix from Tropic of Pisces (formerly Von China and guitarist from Oberhofer). The band describes the reworking as "a slice of fluid, mutant Steely Dan-lite, ready for [...]