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TSURURADIO Presents… MIXTAPES WEEK: For TSRU, 4u! by Danamonstah!!!

April 8, 2010
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Illustration by Mike

Okay, before we begin, just a tiny tiny follow up to our iPad-related post the other day:

Just sayin’…

Okay, movin’ on.  Were was we about to begin?  Oh yeah, hot digitty!  AdventurerNeil’s first post already went up while I slept?  I LOVE it when that happens!!!  Wonderful post Neil, it really was great to have you up, hang out with you, and battle those ridiculous wind to save a few boobies!

Alright, it’s Thursday and MIXTAPES WEEK is still in full-steam-ahead mode!!!  Today’s mixtape comes with a tiny little story.  You see, though I’m not the most anonymous blogger in the blogging universe, at work, except the people who are my outside-of-work friends, the TSURUNATION Celebration & Jubilation Actuation does not exist.  Well, I’ve been outed.

Got an email the other day that basically went like this, “I just figured it out.  YOU are Tsurrrrrrrrrrradddio guy!”  haha!  Love it.  I wondered when & if someone would put the two things together.  Well, it turns out, not only is my new friend DanaMonstah a music lover (and TSURURADIO fan, woot!), but she has a music blog of her own chock full of mixtapes!!

Well, it’s MIXTAPES WEEK, I told DanaMonstah, how about I share one over at TSURURADIO?  She said she do me one better and made a brand-spanking new one for us today, appropriately called For TSRU, 4u!

First off… Adorable album art!!!  I just want to keep him in my pocket and play with him in lines & in meetings!  But, album art aside, what a sweet mixtape this is. It’s actually a bit more dancey than what I normally listen too, making for a sweet & super infectious groove for a rainy Thursday that needs all the super infectuous groovin’ it can get!!!

I think I said it yesterday, but on man, I’m LOVING MIXTAPES WEEK!!!  So many new tunes, so many new genres, so many new, uh, just everything!!!  I love it!  So without further adieu let’s get our next one a-playin!  Thank you so much DanaMonstah!  Make sure you head on over to her site and show her some proper love, okay?  But first, push play and get ready to shake what the good lard a-gave ya!!!

TSURURADIO Presents… MIXTAPES WEEK!

For TSRU, 4u! by DanaMonstah!!!

(Full Zip)

Dog Days are Over – Florence and the Machine
Simple Graces – Delorean
Heaven’s on Fire – The Radio Dept.
Sleep Paralysist – Neon Indian
Generator ^ First Floor (Aisltn Remix) – Freelance Whales
Static Waves – Andrew Belle
Madder Red (Doctor Rosen Rosen Rx) – Yeasayer
The Phoenix Alive – Monarchy
In A Dream – Skybox
I Think I like U 2 – jamaica NOTE: Volume’s a little loud on this track!
Oh My God – Ida Maria
Days – Sambassadeur
Stay Close – Delorean
Gold Guns Girls (acoustic) – Metric
You Do You – Bear in Heaven
Mansard Roof (VW Cover) – Jeff Pianki
How to Tame Lions – Washington
True Love Will Find You in the End – Basia Bulat

WOW!  Another day, amazing mixtape! AND WE STILL AREN’T DONE YET!!!!  Hot diggity damn on a dog!  Once again, thank you so much DanaMonstah for your delectable mixtape!  Until next time…

Cheers,

Tsuru

TSURURADIO Presents… And She Was Born In A Bottle Rocket, 1929 Mixtape!!!

February 12, 2010
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Photography “Born In A Bottle Rocket” by Tsuru, Model by Isabella Misery

Well it’s time for the weekend.  Finally, right?  Can I get a high-five?

Sweet.

What you doing this weekend?  Looks like more snow here, so my riding will be relegated to The Tank.  BUT, if that good lard’s a-willin’ and the creeks don’t rise, Tuck and I will be driving out the route for April 3rd Super Awesome NO-FRILLS Bike Ride for Breast Cancer!

Keep an eye out for an update for a start location and route if all goes well!

WOOT!

I’m so excited for the ride.  No idea how many will show up.  But even it’s just a handful of people, it’ll be great and, of course, SUPER AWESOME!  Haha!

Okay…  got a little Friday mixtape for you today.  Kept it old school, just built a nice collection of songs in the order I’d like to hear them.  No “mixing”, no necessity for gapless play (though, I recommend it anyway because, well, those 2 sec gap things are just stupid).

This one was inspired by so many things.  Matt obsessing over Rural Alberta Advantage, gud giving us a Tom Waits New Orleans song down in the Society, catching Velvet Underground in a movie the other night, or like when Colin Meloy was having his mind blown by Besnard Lakes. Just little things like that, “Ghost”, of course, appears due to the photo at the top of this post, plus our discussion of The Greatest Song Trilogy Of All Time, & my desire to have the lyric tattooed on my arm ASAP.

So yeah, it’s the little things that seemed to hook onto me, latching to my brain.  Feels good, feels right.  And after all this #musicblogocide2k10 madness going, I wanted to end this week on a good note.  So, I’ll shut up and let’s just get to it.

Have a wonderful weekend, bundle up, and keep riding!  Oh, and by the way, got a “special valentine’s day” treat for you this weekend, well, maybe more of an anti-valentine’s day treat, by way of our good friend Neil.  Keep an eye out, should be ready by Sunday!!!  Okay, let’s do this as…

TSURURADIO Presents…


And She Was Born In A Bottle Rocket, 1929!!!

Full Zip – REMOVED.  Sorry kiddos, Broken Bells has hired the Web Sheriff to make sure you don’t hear the album until they are good and ready.

SIDE A
01 The High Wire – The Midnight Bell
02 Miles Kurosky – Pink Lips, Black Lungs
03 The Beatles – Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
04 Sophie Madeleine – You Are My Favourite
05 Lightspeed Champion – I Don’t Want To Wake Up Alone
06 Beach House – Silver Soul
07 Shabby Rogue – My Future With You
08 Midlake – Acts of Man
09 Sambassadeur – Stranded
10 Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings – I Learned the Hard Way

SIDE B
11 The Rural Alberta Advantage – Frank AB
12 The Besnard Lakes – Chicago Train
13 Electric President – Mr. Gone
14 Clem Snide – Forgive Me, Love
15 Velvet Underground – Pale Blue Eyes
16 The Ruby Suns – Oh, Mojave
17 She & Him – In the Sun
18 Broken Bells – Citizen – REMOVED via Web Sheriff request.  Please insert you own more-awesome track here & enhance this mixtape by 10%.  Thanks!!
19 Neutral Milk Hotel – Ghost
20 Tom Waits – I Wish I Was In New Orleans

WOOT!  Hear something you like?  Go to your local record shop and buy it, dammit.

Cheers!

Tsuru

European by Sambassadeur…

February 2, 2010
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Photography by introvertevent

Hey all.  Not going to lie to you, I’ve got some personal issues that are tearing me up.  I’m not going to go to any details because it’s private, nor am I looking for any sympathy, but I’ll have to keep this pretty short today.

One thing I will say is that European by Sambassadeur…

…is wonderful.  Just beautiful escapist pop, full, fleshed out, orchestral, and charming enough to sweep you away, even if only for a little while.

Sambassadeur – 01 Stranded

Sambassadeur – 02 Days

Preview 4 tracks here now

Some Sambassadeur linkage…

Myspace | Official | Label

Cheers & thank you,

Tsuru