Soundtrack to my life

It's happening again. The sun has started to set betore you get home from a day's toil and the evenings are getting cool enough to warrant wearing sweaters around the house. People remark about the 'balmy weather' on days that weeks ago would have gone unnoticed, whilst saying how late 'winter' has come this year. Soon enough we'll all be parading around in peacoats and scarves pretending that Australian winter deserves the title.

In my mind each season has a soundtrack. Summer is the king of party tunes (house, trance, progressive, and 200 other variations I'm not cool enough to know about yet) with house parties and heaving festival crowds seeming stock standard. But coming into the colder months we want something else to sink our teeth into as we turn up our collars to hide from the winter winds. Let me throw some suggestions out there, just for a second, just to see how it feels.

Dropping his third mixtape at the end of August, Theophilus London has yet again given us something radical to get involved in. Between covering Marvin Gaye and collaborating with Ellie Goulding and Vampire Weekend you'll get the idea.

And just because he's a super bloke and thinks you're super neat, it's free. 'Where?' You ask. Just at This Charming Blog, good sir.
Now what do you say... Thankyou Mishter London

Speaking of men and their mixtapes (mine will drop right after I find some talent), Jay Electronica constantly reminds me of the idealistic days of listening to Mos Def , Talib Kweli, Nas, and pretending pre-teen me knew what they were talking about. Now I just sit on the train listening to music, nudge the person next to me and whisper "they're talking about sex", before doing a humping motion and nodding my head. Listen to his three part hip-hop chronicle released dropped toward the end of 2009.

Jay Electronica - Exhibit A --> Jay Electronica - Exhibit B --> Jay Electronica - Exhibit C

You know that feeling of loving every song on your iPod until you put it on shuffle, then nothing's good enough for your discerning tastes (why's that even on here?!). One tune I can never skip past is this little fella. Feeling warmer as the mercury drops yet?

Blu & Exile - So(ul) Amazing

Last but definately not least, a little flashback, and the song that gets me from the front door to the train station in the a.m.

People Under the Stairs - Acid Raindrops

Put on some comfortable kicks, grab your winter coat, put in the earphones, and step to the beat.

Radical