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Carlos y Gaby

In The Whirl Emote

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Carlos y Gaby

In The Whirl Emote

Close, tactile psyche-soul with a warm LA heart.

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BUGSKULL

Communication

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BUGSKULL

Communication

Hugely endearing slo-mo indie blur from Portland's Sean Byrne.

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POCAHAUNTED

Touch You

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POCAHAUNTED

Touch You

Fugged up drone dub pop from Amanda Brown & Bethany Cosentino (aka Best Coast).

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Banjo Or Freakout

Somone Great (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

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Banjo Or Freakout

Somone Great (LCD Soundsystem Cover)

Noise simmered shoegaze cover of a modern classic.

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James Ferraro

Track 01

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James Ferraro

Track 01

Subconscious tickling tropical drone from a true original.

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EMERALDS

Candy Shoppe

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EMERALDS

Candy Shoppe

An unmissable highlight from the 'Does It Look Like I'm Here' album.

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ISAN

64 Fire Damage

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ISAN

64 Fire Damage

Strangely mottled grooves from the masters of nostalgic electronics.

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MEMORY TAPES

Swimming Field

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MEMORY TAPES

Swimming Field

Shimmering dreampop scape from New Jersey-based Dayve Hawk.

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ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI

the ballad of bobby pyn

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ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI

the ballad of bobby pyn

Pink masterfully envelopes us in degraded pop for a blissful session...

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SUN ARAW

Deep Cover

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SUN ARAW

Deep Cover

Duuuuude, what did you put in that ???

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IIBIIS ROOGE

Yellow Breeze

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IIBIIS ROOGE

Yellow Breeze

Immense post-everything analogue blissout...

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AIR FRANCE

June Evenings

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AIR FRANCE

June Evenings

Sublimely out-of-it's-timezone discopop from a prime Swedish export.

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REAL ESTATE

Suburban Beverage

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REAL ESTATE

Suburban Beverage

Soporific indie pop mantra featuring Matthew Mondanile of Ducktails.

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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER

Stress Waves

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ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER

Stress Waves

A breathtaking electronic dejá entendu. One of the tracks of the year.

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This time on 14tracks:

“14 tracks: Hypnagogic heat haze”

In preparation for the four hours of sunshine we're due this summer, this soporific selection gathers a heap of our favourite hypnagogic and chill wave dreamscapes for lazy afternoons in the garden and long evenings in the park. These artists all share a certain yearning for pop and electronic music of the past, but via cloaking devices like over-saturated tape delay and heavy compression techniques they've opened a new portal to an alter-realm of mild MOR hallucinations, decamping from the extremities to find a strangely happy pitch on the edge of the middle. The American underground is responsible for a majority of the music here, filtering the last 30 years of pop, dub and dance into a myriad of bleached and psychedelically sensitive experimentalism. Through James Ferraro's inimitably smudged tropical drones, Bugskull's innately charming songs, Sun Araw's meditative heat haze or Ariel Pink's ferric gilded pop we can taste the collective unconscious from the comfort of a sun lounger, while sipping on a cold one and doing our best to ignore that game where blokes kick a ball for 90 minutes...

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On 16 Jun 10:38 Spooky Luke said:
http://www.myspace.com/lazysounds4lazypeople

“Yummy”

Love it! This is inspiring stuff! I will be cancelling all appointments in favour of your suggested lazy afternoon in the garden :)

On 17 Jun 10:35 abdul said:

wot no Teebs & Jackhigh?

On 17 Jun 20:00 James said:

Anyone having the tracklisting all jumbled when you pull into iTunes?

On 18 Jun 00:13 mike said:

“@ james”

clear the disc # field in the track info box for the songs out of order..

On 18 Jun 11:56 Mark Alberding said:
http://14tracks.com

“spelling errors in the tags?”

How can you have the album tag contain a misspelling? Wake up people.

On 18 Jun 18:29 James said:

“@Mike”

Thanks Mike that worked. Had to re-do one track at a time but it's in order now. Never had this prob before with 14 Tracks...

On 30 Jun 21:07 Joe said:

“Perfect”

Best 14 tracks yet, and absolutely perfect for the hot British summer we are currently having.

On 26 Dec 08:08 Richard Wu said:
http://14tracks.com

Warped - not straightforward at all though the mix could have been simple and poppy, but then thats missing the point of 14 tracks!