You can stream it / download it below (via soundcloud) as well as check out a video of Tom Cruz talking about the project:

Download here [95Mb]

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An old Stalker track has surfaced via, surprisingly, a mix put together by Stereogum. Don’t know how they got their hands on this one (other than a tweet after the fact, I hadn’t heard anything about the track), but it’s quite the find.

After listening to his stuff over the past year, I think it’s safe to say that “Heaven’s Gate” is the first Stalker track which is above 60 beats per minute. Although it’s not slowed down to a molasses pace, the track, with it’s warbly loops and indistinguishable vocals, is certainly very Stalker-esque. Check it out below and head over to Stereogum for the whole mix:

Stalker // Heaven’s Gate

Not one to brag, but I think I am in the top tier of Korallreven fans in the world. Due to my lengthy stint in Scandinavia, I think I will always have an incredibly large soft spot for Scandinavian musicians (see: jj, Jens Lekman, Taken By Trees, Raveonettes, Air France, ceo, etc…). Korallreven seems to be the Swedish import du jour, and this 22 minute mix that they put together is just one of the many reasons why.

The majority of the mix is an assortment of remixes and mash-ups — some of them theirs (SALEM, Taken By Trees), some of them other people’s (Teengirl Fantasy remix of Memoryhouse’s “Lately”, and of course slow-mo Bieber) — with some solid hits interspersed throughout. Love the start, love the mid-section, and the finale is phenomenal. This is a picture perfect blending of sound that is going to get more than the standard single listen for mixes.

Check out the track list below and download that shit (43Mb): (via GvB)

• Somei Satoh // Organics | Inkuyo // Wipala
• Korallreven & Taken By Trees // Honey Mine
• Justin Bieber // U Smile (Shamanti’s 800 % Slower Version)
• Inkuyo // Wipala
• Cola Boy // 7 Ways to Love
• Taken By Trees // No Letting Go (Korallreven’s Life’s a Bitch Version)
• jj // My Way
• Primal Scream // Higher Than the Sun (American Spring Remix)
• Justin Bieber // U Smile (Shamanti’s 800 % Slower Version | Julianna Barwick // Bode
• Memoryhouse // Lately (Teengirl Fantasy Natural Mix)
• Walls // Burnt Sienna | Vashti Bunyan // Just Another Diamond Day
• French Montana & Curren$y // So High
• SALEM // Frost (Korallreven’s Indian Summer Version)

Korallreven // A Dream By Korallreven For Korallreven In Collaboration With Korallreven For Korallreven

Ushering in a return from a recent hiatus from his website, quirky Swedish songwriter Jens Lekman dropped this killer summertime mix where the common thread between samples is, as expected, their waltz-y time signature. Always known to have an eclectic taste in music, Mr. Lekman provides a fluid 28+ minute mix chock-full of obscure tracks and movie snippets (with some better known songs sprinkled in here and there) that are arranged so brilliantly that you can’t help but think to yourself: “Bravo, Jens! Bravo!”

You can check out the samples Jens used as well as a download for the entire mix below. Also, head over to his site to read more about the origins of this project.

• Au Revoir Simone // Shadows (Jens Lekman’s remix)
• Barbara Mason // Oh How It Hurts
• Thomas Mapfumo // Madiro
• The Morning Benders // Excuses
• Dialogue from Gregory’s Girl (1981)
• Chad & Jeremy // Everyone’s Gone To The Moon
• Music and Dialogue from Day Of The Locust (1975)
• Eggstone // Birds In Cages
• Pete Drake // Forever
• Armando Mantovani // Around the World
• Dialogue from Puberty Blues (1981)
• Jane Morgan & the Troubadours // Fascination
• Armando Trovajoli // L’Amore Dice Ciao
• Sharon O’Neill // Puberty Blues
• Like A Sleepy Blue Ocean

Jens Lekman // A Summer in 3/4 Time Mix

A couple of weeks back, Chicago slo-mo beat-machine Stalker unveiled a new mutilated mix on Pinglewood which, even after a handful of listens, I can’t fully wrap my head around. It’s just about as nuts of a 25 minute listen you could find anywhere, with several (OK, almost all) tracks sounding like nothing you have ever heard in your life.

You can check out the track list as well as snatch the mp3 below, or if you just want an intro, head on over to Stalker’s website to listen to “Scrape”, arguably the most interesting cut in the mix. For those like me who are anxious for a physical release, Stalker is currently concocting something special for Tri Angle Records that’s scheduled for later this year.

Stalker- I Drown
Stalker – Untitled
Stalker – Rryyddee
Hype Williams – The Throning
Grillgrill – ..Sl0WlicKin…
Stalker – Untitled 2
Stalker – Scrape
Ginuwine – In Those Jeans (Stalker Cut)
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Last Regrets
Fleetwood Mac – Prove Your Love
Stalker – Oxy

Stalker // 48 Mix (Zone III Edits)

I don’t care what Punxsutawney Phil says, it’s freaking springtime in Portland RIGHT NOW! To celebrate the handful of sunny days we’ve had this past month (my standard for declaring a season change is pretty damn low), I put this mix together while boxing up my SAD lamp and dusting off my sunglasses. Ah spring: summer’s warm-up act.

You can download the hour-long mix here (92.5Mb). As for the tracklist, it’s mostly new(er) stuff with some sprinklings of old favorites here and there:

• RxRy // Baulkn Slihts
• Ducktails // Oh, Magnolia Tree
• Sonny and The Sunsets // Too Young to Burn
• King Tuff // Sun Medallion
• Memoryhouse // Foreground (Grizzly Bear Cover)
• Cibelle // Lightworks
• Javelin // Mossy Woodland
• El Rego et ses Commandose // E Nan Mian Nuku
• Dominant Legs // Clawing Out at the Walls
• Efterklang // Modern Drift
• The Sandwitches // Grey Wizard
• Julian Lynch // Banana Jam Pt. 1
• Primary 1 // Foaming (Memory Tapes Remix)
• El Guicho // Prez Lagarto
• Tamaryn // Light Shadows

Also, if you like this mix, you might also enjoy some of the other ones I put together in the past.