Lazpod 27: The Lovepod

So I guess for a blog called Swooner there isn't much else on here but mostly dance music and the odd gif of Jean Claude Van Damme punching a snake. Until now! Damian Lazarus' latest Lazpod is 90 minutes of pretty amazing love songs, a mix he says he has been perfecting for over 10 years. Fair play to him, I am part robot but even I think this is pretty great. Loads of classics* but also a bunch of gorgeous songs I'd never heard before. I'm sending this across the interwaves to my friend Julie in Rome, it's her birthday today and she loves SONGS WITH WORDS. Tanti Auguri, Giuliana!


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I've posted a couple of other Lazpods check 'em here. Always learn so much listening to them; they are all so different and even within each episode there is so much going on. (They remind me a lot of the Django Django mixes in that way, a chance to listen to music not normally on my radar.) Go follow soundcloud.com/damianlazarus to check out the rest too!

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* I even made it all the way through Chris Isaak's 'Wicked Game', a song I can't usually bear. It was worth it! 

Lazpod Live #1

This is the first of a live Lazpod series Damian Lazarus is doing - this one was recorded in Hong Kong to celebrate Chinese New Year - well worth a listen if you like any of his regular Lazpods, always a bananas selection of stuff, old timey songs along with some whopper tracks. Includes short interviews with Jason Swamy (the Robot Heart guy) and Subb-an (Crosstown Rebels) who plays some sweet tunes; makes for good radio if you want something a little different:
 
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There is a minute of silence when the guest Xioa musician, Tam Po Shek is interviewed because of a mic problem but stick with it!

I have posted a few of his regular Lazpods here, check 'em out here or go to lazpod.com/ for the whole lot. To be honest I found the last one (#26), quite hard to get into, but any of the other ones I've checked out have been great.

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Lazpod 25

It's been a while since the last Lazpod, and this one is another brilliant mix of everything. Everything. Helped my raver's regret no end:


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Tracklist:
1. ROKIA TRAORE - LAIDU - LABEL BLEU
2. NOIR DESIR - LE VONT NOUS PORTERA - BARCLAY
3. M83 - TRAIN TO PLUTON – MUTE
4. THE NEW YEAR - MY BLEEDING WOUND - ALL MUSIC
5. ULTRAISTA - SMALL TALK (FOUR TET RMX) - ULTRAISTA
6. LUCA C AND JAMES WHAT - RAIN & SHINE - DEMO
7. BLOOD ORANGE - SUTPHIN BOULEVARD - DOMINO
8. REGGIE WATTS - 7 XANAX, GLASS OF WINE - COMEDY CENTRAL
9. SUUNS - UP PAST THE NURSERY - SECRETLY CANADIAN
10. DUKE DUMONT - NO MONEY BLUES FEAT EXTRA CURRICULAR - TURBO
11. GUNTHER LAUSE - MOUNTAIN - PARADISE NOW
12. MASSIVE ATTACK - PARADISE CIRCUS ft HOPE SANDOVAL (GUI BORRATO RMX)
13. ROB - MAKE IT FAST, MAKE IT SLOW - SOUNDWAVE
14. MAKERS - DONT CHALLENGE ME - CHOCOLATE INDUSTRIES
15. BLUE FIELDS - INTERLUDE- HAUNT MUSIC
16. THE WEEKND - COMING DOWN - HOUSE OF BALLOONS
17. SUBMOTION ORCHESTRA - SUFFER NOT (GOTH-TRAD RMX) - FINEST HOUR
18. BERGHEIM 34 - OSCILLATIONS (SAVAS PASCALIDES RMX) - KLANG ELEKTONIK
19. SPLIFFHEAD - RAGGA TWINS - SHUT UP AND DANCE
20. KOMIKO - FEEL ALRIGHT (BONAR BRADBURY EDIT)
21. CLAUDJA BARRY - LOVE FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE - BOOGIE PALACE
22. ANGIE STONE - WISH I DIDN'T MISS YOU - J RECORDS
23. ZOMBY - WITCH HUNT - DEDICATION
24. RODRIGUEZ - SUGARMAN - HEY DAY
25. DAVID CROSBY - ORLEANS - ATLANTIC
26 ALICE COLTRANE - JOURNEY INTO SATCHIDANADA - IMPULSE

Check out the previous Lazpods at soundcloud.com/damianlazarus

More James What

So. Another sweet sweet mix that has 'About Love' by James What on it is this one by Compuphonic:



This mix also has the added bonus of beginning with a Jon Hopkins tune. SWOON.

Tracklist:
1. Jon Hopkins - Journey
2. Ricardo Villalobos - Fenlow (Jay Haze 2011 Dub Mix)
3. Tom Middleton - Cicadas (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
4. Deniz Kurtel - The L Word feat. Jada
5. Discreet Unit - Shake Your Body Down
6. James What - About Love
7. Jona - Air
8. Matthias Voigt - Accelerator
9. Sunshine Jones - If You Wouldn't Mind (Tiger Stripes Remix)
10. Robag Whrume - Thora Vukk
11. SIS - Machiste
12. Ada - Maps (ThomasMayer Remix)
13. Youandewan - 1988

ALSO. A deadly James What podcast for autobrennt.com for download here.
No tracklist as of yet, but I'm listening to it right now and it's pretty damn slick. Damian Lazarus and James What have a savage tune together called 'Rise Before Zod' and that's on there so you know it's good.

ALSO. James What / Dan Berkson podcast for electronicgroove.com - you can download it here.

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