Eux Autres – “Rosehill”
Laetitia Sadier – “Long Legs”
Fever Ray – “Mercy Street”
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – “Fight For Me”
Random Patterns – “Every Eye Is On”
The Foxglove Hunt – “Alone And You Like It”
Stripmall Architecture – “Radium Girls”
Dag för dag – “Wouldn’t You”
Exit Calm – “We’re On Our Own”
Kim Taylor – “Lost And Found”
Then It Hit Me – “After Disaster”
The Smittens – “Pretty Boy” (Premix/Remix)
Savoir Adore – “The Garden”
Panda Face – “A Dark Cloud Full Of Rain”
Jordan O’ Jordan – “Speed Of Light”

~ Download Full Mix ~

Between Two Waves – a free indie compilation of 38 songs on 3 volumes.
We are proud and happy to release Between Two Waves – a non-profit project from music lovers to music lovers. It is the fourth compilation project from EardrumsPop, a small net label closely related to the Eardrums music blog. We release free compilations, often with a special theme.

The main idea behind the Between Two Waves compilation is co-operation & collaboration. Bands and artists were invited and encouraged to find someone to work with and make a new song together for the compilation. The only requirement for the songs was that they had to be ”warm and melodic”. The positive attitude and genuine will to participate of all the people taking part in Between Two Waves has been the engine of the whole project.

Many of the artists who ended up making music together for Between Two Waves, have never met each other. These bands have found the same pitch through liking each others music and working together despite the distance. In miles the distance between Sweden and South-Africa or France and USA might be long, but sharing the same passion for music brings people closer to each other. Several of our projects have plans of continuing their work together, either on recordings or on concerts.

Email, internet and other electronic tools have been important for the long-distance collaborations in Between Two Waves. One of the songs went from computer to computer, musician to musician, via 5 Japanese cities before it was finished!

Also the team of four people behind Between Two Waves found each other as well through music. We all, Knut, Leena, Stefan and Tim, are from different countries with different backgrounds, but found each other and the same bandwidth through the similar music taste, and the Eardrums music blog, run by Knut.

The cover art for Between Two Waves will be made by our favourite illustrators, and at least one of the artworks will be made as collaboration between illustrators. The compilation will also include a booklet with artist biographies, interviews, poems and cartoons.

Between Two Waves is planned to be released on the 12th of April, and can be downloaded for free at eardrumspop.com.

~ Baffin Island – “You Make Two Weeks Two Days” ~

This volume is described as “an album of warm home spun charm. This is a wonderfully relaxed and optimistic album with Melodic sounds to the fore. The music on this album ranges from quirky pop and folk flavours, from electronica to latin touches. Johnno Casson (aka Snippet) brings together 15 under the radar artists in a bewitching and refreshing compilation.”

Sound good, yeah? Well then head over here, type in your email address and download it for free or whatever you want to pay.

~ The Big I Am – “Collecting Skies” ~

I don’t particularly like doing best of lists but I felt the need to make up for my slack around here lately, hence this mix. Basically it’s songs that stood out for me during the year or represent albums I listened to a lot. It’s probably a bit inconclusive because a) I can’t remember everything I listened to and, b) I currently have a headache which gives me a free pass for not spending a lot of time compiling this. The mix is divided into two parts and consist of the following artists and tracks:

Part 1 [Download]

Autopilot Is For Lovers – “Come Now”
Hello Seahorse! – “El Segundo”
A Horse And His Boy – “Sidewalks”
Tegan And Sara – “On Directing”
The Mary Onettes – “Symmetry”
Noah And The Whale – “Blue Skies”
Phantogram – “Futuristic Casket”
Bat For Lashes – “Sleep Alone”
Linda Mirada – “Solo”
Beach House – “Silver Soul”
Kent – “Krossa Allt”
Band Of Skulls – “Bomb”
deVries – “What a Wasted Life”
Gliss – “Lovers In The Bathroom”
Florence and The Machine – “Cosmic Love”

Part 2 [Download]

Taken By Trees – “The Greyest Love Of All”
POLLYester – “Run In My Stocking”
Lay Low – “I Forget It’s There”
City Of Satellites – “Control”
Friska Viljor – “If I Die Now”
Jesca Hoop – “Whispering Light”
Zero 7 – “Swing”
Little Dragon – “A New”
Audionom – “Girls and Boys”
Stuck In The Sound – “Quais”
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – “Up From Below”
Lightning Dust – “Antonia Jane”
Desire – “Don’t Call”
The Black Heart Procession – “The Witching Stone”
VAST – “You Should Have Known I’d Leave”

This morning I came across a great mixtape of Japanese and Korean music made by a girl called Rinkymoon over at LiveJournal. She kindly gave me permission to re-post it here which I’m very happy about because this mix (despite its title) is cracking. It’s mostly indie, shoegaze and post-rock, so if you’re into that and haven’t heard much of Japanese/Korean music you should definitely download it.

Tracklist
~ Maikotobranco – “Autumn Tree” ~
Maikotobranco – “Phase”
Denci Hinji – “Aspirin Boy”
Denci Hinji – “Winter Night Blackout”
Super Car – “White Surf Style 5″
~ Oldfish – “Dot Dot Dot” ~
Apartment – “Sleeping Bird”
Denci Hinji – “Counting God”
Shugo Tokumaru – “Rum Hee”
Perfect Piano Lesson – “Telegnosis”
~ Riki Kinoshita -“Like a Daydream” ~
Kim Jun Won – “Violette Imagination”
Nell – “Minus”
Nell – “Words You Should Never Trust 1″
~ Nell – “My Reason” ~
Soulsberry – “Little Escape”
Vola & The Oriental Machine – “Double Standard”
Nell – “Words You Should Never Trust 2″

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I’ve accumulated a lot of CDs over the years. A rather large portion of them have been in the basement for some time, either because I didn’t listen to them anymore or just didn’t want them cluttering up the apartment. But neither of those reasons mean I don’t like them (although some I might consider a bit embarrassing) so I decided to take a bunch up with me and make a mixtape out of them. And here’s the result. Bit of an odd mix perhaps, but like most I’ve had a varied taste in music over the years:

Tracklist

01. The Mo – “The Mo”
02. Play Dead – “Witnesses”
03. Anouk – “It’s So Hard” (Acoustic)
04. Prince – “I Would Die 4 You”
05. Danielle Brisebois – “Crawling”
06. Zero Le Creche – “Last Year’s Wife”
07. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – “Mickey’s Monkey”
08. Dilba – “Keep A Promise”
09. Flash and The Pan – “Midnight Man”
10. Morrissey – “Ordinary Boys”
11.Teena Marie – “Fix It” (12 Inch Version)
12. All About Eve – “Don’t Follow Me (March Hare)”
13. Björk – “Isobel”
14. Quicksand – “Delusional”
15. Talking Heads – “City Of Dreams”

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~ The Coathangers – “Don’t Touch My Shit!”, The Model – “Success” ~

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Today is Sweden’s National Day, which I will not be celebrating by watching the royal family wave at their minions on TV. No, listening music is much better, hence this mixtape of Swedish music, obscure as well-known. That, and eating strawberries with ice cream. Enjoy!

~Tracklist~
01. Lacrosse – “We Are Kids”
02. Mando Diao – “Gloria”
03. Hearts Of Black Science – “Cold Comfort”
04. Bob Hund – “Världens bästa dåliga låt”
05. El Perro Del Mar – “Let Me In”
06. Peter, Björn & John – “Nothing To Worry About” (Troublemaker Remix)
07. Kalle J – “Din egen delivery service”
08. They Live By Night – “Endless Summer”
09. The Sounds – “Dorchester Hotel”
10. The Mary Onettes – “God Knows I Had Plans”
11. Kite – “Say It Ain’t So”
12. Fanfarlo – “Sand and Ice”
13. Robert Svensson – “I Was Summer”
14. Stygg – “Lunacy”
15. Light In Your Life – “We Could Be There”
16. Gentle Touch – “Once You Used To”
17. Miss Universum – “På tunnelbanan”

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Consider yourself warned though: I was mainly into pop music alá Madonna back then; The Smiths and the like didn’t enter my record collection well into my teens. (Okay that’s not completely true but since I wanted a strictly cheesy mix I had to exclude some of more “credible” bands and artists I may have listened to back then)

Once again this is a Spotify mix so if you don’t have access to the program you can’t listen. It sucks, I know, but apparently there are some workarounds on how to get an account despite living in a country where Spotify supposedly isn’t available yet. I’ll let you seek out those on your own though.

Those of you who have access can find the playlist here. Some of the artists included besides the already mentioned: Billy Idol, Sandra, Ofra Haza, Pet Shop Boys, Samantha Fox and Eurythmics.

Enjoy my cheesy stroll down memory lane!

~ Billy Idol – “Catch My Fall”, Ofra Haza – “Im Nin’ Alu” ~

It’s a rather mellow yet experimental and perhaps, at times, a bit depressing blend of songs… you get the picture. Basically a little something for everyone depending on your feelings towards Valentine’s: some love it, some hate it, some just don’t really care…

But regardless of what you think of this commercially fabricated holiday, remember: If anything, it gives you a good excuse to eat a lot of chocolate, heart-shaped or not.

Tracklist
~ Sleazy Romance – “Song About Love” ~
~ The Tiny – “I Don’t Like (The Way You Move Me)” ~
~ Pluramon – “Drowning In You” ~
~ Swan Lake – “Heartswarm” ~
~ Rockettothesky – “A Cute Lovesong, Please” ~
~ eas/Svart Bröllop – “(Pasamos Por La) Diagonal” ~
~ My Little Pony – “Do You Really Love Me, Or Am I Just In Your Network?” ~
~ Laakso – “Stay Tuned To My Love” ~
~ Mark Kozelek – “Finally” ~
~ Highspire – “Love Me Or Leave Me” ~
~ Cat Power – “Dark End Of The Street” ~
~ Windy & Carl – “My Love” ~

[Download the whole enchilada]