Ever since I began making these Mixcasts, it was my eventual hope I would be able to co-host and co-curate some of these mixes. In some way, this small dream has come true with the Guest Mixtapes I’ve been able to share with you; but at the end of the day, it was still my voice. At least in the literal sense. All of that changes today as I’m joined by my friend Erik Jack (@erikstocrat).

We sat down and picked some of the songs we haven’t been able to get out of our heads in the past couple months, as well as each bringing new songs to the table that neither of us were familiar with. What we’ve come up with is what we think know is an incredible summer mix, one that will hopefully get you stoked on all your summer adventures with your friends, family and lovers.

We run the gamut here, we hit on some indie hits, some lo-fi summer jams, hip hop, near-ballads and balls-out, unapologetic pop. To be completely honest, there was about four songs I was convinced I’ve already played for you before. I love them so much, I listen to them always, I couldn’t believe I hadn’t shown them before. Thankfully, Erik has showed me the error of my ways. Let’s get into it!

• Abducted by Cults
• It’s Time by Imagine Dragons
• Indian Sun by Mean Lady
• Kites by Geographer
• Dear Lucy by The Slakadeliqs
• Multi-Millionaire by Penguin Prison
• Get In Line by I’m From Barcelona
• Make a New Dance Up by Hey Ocean!
• Heat Wave by Alphabeat
• Betty by Brooke Fraser
• Your Ghost by Hannah Georgas
• That’s My Bitch (feat. Jay-Z & Elly Jackson) by Kanye West
• Teleport 2 Me, Jamie (feat. Desire) by WZRD

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She even has these incredible time-lapse videos of her process.

I posted the original video a while back… this cover desperately makes me wish I could sing better.

Here’s a great collection of Fictional Travel Poster Art from a new show that Planet Pulp is currently running. Artists have been inspired from some classic movies and TV shows.

via Geek Tyrant

Well spring has sprung (if you ask me, and no, no one did) and you know how I feel about warmer weather. Instead of doing a two-parter spring Mixcast this year, I figured I’d just do a double length. I didn’t put a lot of effort into narration for this one, so the good news you get to enjoy more music! Get in the mood with these fine musicians:

• Amor Fati by Washed Out
• Weekend by Class Actress
• Young Silence by Echo Lake
• Friendship Station by Le Tigre
• A Visit From Drum by Liars
• Ashamed by Deer Tick
• All We’ll Ever Know by Parallels
• Triceratops (CFCF Rmx) by HEALTH
• King of the Beach by Wavves
• Operation by Yuck
• Beach Bummed by Weed Hounds
• Whitechapel by S.C.U.M
• Space Baby by Best Coast
• The Shore by Chapel Club

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A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.

I recently split from my boyfriend of nearly 21 months. This was easily the longest and most meaningful relationship of my life. For someone whose longest relationship was 2 months, this really went to show what could happen when you meet the right person, but also that nothing lasts forever. During this time, my closest friend shared with me this video as an inspiration for beauty, science and embracing the unknown and I think it’s important to share that outlook with the world.

Part One of The Feynman Series, a companion project of The Sagan Series, works in the hopes of promoting scientific literacy in the general population. This video by @reidgower is something I hope you enjoy too, and if you’re going through a questioning time in your life perhaps it will also inspire you to seek the solace and comfort of the truth.

Now this has been a long time coming. The last few months for me have been a ride, to say the very least. January, usually a slow time in my life was quickly filled with personal projects I had been putting off for a long time. I followed up with a lot of people I’ve wanted to collaborate with, under the assumption about 30%-50% of them would have the time to commit to a collab… imagine my surprise when just about everyone was into working together.

Long story some-what short, I asked my friends in Sex with Strangers (@SWSmusic) to put together a Mixtape for me at a pretty busy time for them as well. When I sent them a message asking for the Mixtape they had just begun a Canada-wide tour, so it took them awhile to get back to me.

Unfortunately, when they finally did, I was juggling a ridiculous amount of other projects and work which had started to pick up, so this last weekend was literally the first moment I had to sit down and commit to producing a mix and cover. Honestly, it’s felt a little like Hatch (of SWS) is skulking in the corner, peering over my shoulder, wringing his hands gleefully as I’m listening to the final mix.

And this is a good thing.

Sex with Strangers invites you to see as their three concept albums come together to form a post-apocalyptic trilogy about robots. As an intro, they present to you The Top 10 Songs About Robots:

1. The Robots by Kraftwerk
2. Mr Roboto by Styx
3. I, Robot by Alan Parsons Project
4. Friday by Rebecca Black
5. Paranoid Android by Radiohead
6. (My 1st) Big Break by Cut Chemist
7. Robot Rock by Daft Punk
8. The Body Electric by Rush
9. I’ll Replace You With Machines by Guided By Voices
10. I Love You (Miss Robot) by The Buggles

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I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Today I am diggin this.

More than anything, I want this for a wall in my house.

I used TinEye which is great for tracking photos to their earliest cached posts on the internet and was able to find out for them. The sculpture was often recognized as the Big Golden Farting Bull and is called “What You See Might Not Be Real” from a 2009 exhibition at Joy Art Gallery called “Emergency Escape.”

Wenling is a recognized as one of the top ten contemporary sculptors in China today.

The inimitable Saul Bass — designer of some of the most impressive opening title sequences in movie history — on Making Money Vs. Quality Work. Bass has created title sequences for such films as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), Vertigo (1958), Anatomy of a Murder (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960), Ocean’s 11 (1960), It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). He also designed posters for many of the same films, including The Shining in 1980.

Completely beautiful, like a moving postcard. Director/Producer/Editor James W. Griffiths was asked by Tourism Malaysia to make two films, one on the subject of Malaysian history and one on nature. We Were Wanderers is an ode to the flora and fauna of Malaysia. This was filmed on a Canon 1D Mark IV and graded using Color Finesse in After Effects. Looks like some of the slow-motion shots were enhanced with Twixtor, software I can’t wait to try out with a project I’ve got coming up end of the month.

I tried something new last year when I gave you the …By a Fire Mixtape, an alternative—although not entirely disparate—Holiday Mixtape. An hour long, commercial-free Holiday Mixtape where only 1/3 of the tracks are actual Christmas songs. To this day, I’ve considered producing another Mixtape in a similar fashion. I know it’s nice to be able to put some music on and forget about it. I also hate the silence between tracks on regular Holiday albums so we kill two birds with one stone. Now, enjoy …By a Fire: Volume 2.

1. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! by Dean Martin
2. I Was Young When I Left Home by Antony & Bryce Dessner
3. Blue Beard by Band of Horses
4. Melt Your Heart by Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins
5. Santa Baby by Eartha Kitt
6. Summer Kids Go by The Moonbabies
7. Winter A-Go-Go by Yo La Tengo
8. Journey of the Featherless by Cloud Cult
9. The Christmas Waltz by She & Him
10. Christmas Ghosts by The Raveonettes
11. Oh, Magnolia Tree by Ducktails
12. Love Me Like You Used To by Class Actress
13. It Takes Time to Be a Man by The Rapture
14. Blue Christmas by Elvis Presley
15. A Thing for Me (Breakbot’s B-LIVE Miami Mix) by Metronomy
16. Silent Night by Hawksley Workman

Photography by Adam Flewwelling. Visit admflwlng.com for mixtapes and awesome posts.