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Lotus Series, Part One I didn't talk to anyone today, out loud. And the heat made me take a mid-evening bath in cool water. I thought of the almond skinned boy sitting cross-legged, handing me a paper lotus and incense from Thailand. I imagined taking the lantern girl to a still pond to count ...

i. you were a hotel room; a shell to be inhabited briefly and soon forgotten. ii. nowhere was the hotel's former opulence more evident than in the ballroom, which also fell into the most abject state of decay and abandonment. Download: songs:ohia - redhead, nagisa ni te ...

This isn't a song so much as an entire mix CD I made as a Xmas present for friends in 2000. I had made gift mixes for a several years, but this was the first time I let the mix be exactly the way it wanted to assemble itself, without ...

Songs for a Secret, Imaginary Post-Card I have written letters that got mashed up in between magazines and advertisements. I wrote your name very slowly. Sometimes the ink feathers into the pores of the rice paper, like skin. Today at work I talked to a girl who wears braces. I ...

my friend is trying to kill some personal demons. i figure antagonism can't necessarily hurt the cause. 1. Zbigniew Preisner / Silesia Philharmonic Choir, Reprise-Organ 2. Roky Erickson, Please Don't Kill My Baby 3. Marc Bolan, You Scare Me To Death 4. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, There's Something Wrong With You 5. Elvis Presley, (You're The) Devil In Disguise

1. mari lataretu, ma uitai spre rasarit. 2. sidney bechet, summertime. 3. aster aweke, antiye. 4. mulunquen mellesse, temenjar shega. 5. sidney bechet, egyptian fantasy. 6. luce-o luce mauvais. 7. cyprus smith & group, sambo caesar. 8. jesus ordonez & orchestra, jota manchega. 9. josephine baker, j'ai deux amours. 10. billie holiday, let's dream in the moonlight. 11. tinariwen, tenere dafed nikchan. 12. asnaqetch werqu, mengedengnaw lebe. 13. ait bou guemmez, chant improvise. my ship is wrecked on the canary islands. i woke up in cold [...]

hanged up - losing your charm zeena parkins - maul: benya krik / zero hour prurient - kiss, scar aka bell navicon torture technologies - everything dies hanged up - sink a silver mt. zion - 13 angels standing guard 'round the side of your bed beequeen - whispering confessions navicon torture technologies - white oleander

This mix is for urban soundtracking, quietly. "LETSmakeOURmovies" agf "urah-shigue" equadoodle "good morning sunshine" colleen "western airlines" domotic "minimal tunesia" agf "pour une flaque" davide balula "imawa mori nona kani" the konki duet "plantage" under byen "rind-gand rind-gand hearts" tenniscoats "pur glace" davide balula & domotic "hjertebarn" under byen "sweet c.k." kazumasa hashimoto "she is a rainbow in curved air" acid mothers temple & the melting paraiso u.f.o. "awaawa" eisi "nightfall at the Riverside" cinq "ending theme" tenniscoats Download: [...]

"obsessions, edit" joe frank "sunshine + gasoline" godspeed you black emperor "two years on welfare" exhaust "fabulous muscles (mama black widow)" xiu xiu "everything dies." navicon torture technologies "no mercy for she" yann tiersen & shannon wright "sabbath (marina rosenfeld unholy sabbath remix)" mono "lucy dub" loscil "red sea edit" joe frank "lazy sunday funeral 05″ marsen jules "deer stop" goldfrapp "4 or 5 trees" rachel's "cherry blossoms" tindersticks "bluebird of happiness" mojave 3 "i came to your party dressed as a shadow" piano magic [...]

for laura . "ghosty head" tarentel "a falling down billy brown" vincent gallo "you can't breathe memories" hood "i came to your party dressed as a shadow" piano magic "we have a map of the piano" mum "compania" the orb "muim" murcof "tranquil eye" faye wong & the cocteau twins "your baby (lets you down gently)" britta phillips & dean wareham "sunbathing" lush "where you wonder" elizabeth anka vajagic "no mercy for she" yann tiersen & shannon wright "in this hole (covers record vesion)" cat [...]

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Name: Sean Location: San Francisco Interests: Country and climate, language theory, shunyata Favorite Music: Brigitte Fontaine, John Coltrane, Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, Zeena Parkins, Moondog, Sublime Frequencies, Ethiopiques Collection About: @

Welcome. Here at The Selector dot org our objective is inspired by the following tenet: – The Global Pop Conspiracy Manifesto , specifically Section Two: In the travelling Jamaican sound systems of the '60s and '70s, musical duties were split between the selector, who chose the records, and the operator, who played the records. A quarter century later, the selector and the operator have become one: the dj. In the dj, we have allowed execution to overshadow ideas. We have perpetuated the notion that the soul of creation is in the [...]