“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” - Bob Dylan

This post is long overdue. I’ve had this mixtape in mind since the start of the semester and I had been putting it together for months now, but I never really found time to post it. So before my finals lockdown, here goes.

Three things had huge influence in setting the tone of this list. First is Drive (2011)’s OST. I highly encourage you to watch the movie before you listen to this mixtape. The other is Dubstep. A few appreciates dub because, let’s admit it, some of them are nothing but Transformer robot noise; but a lot are really good. Sound Remedy’s remix of Beethoven’s Midnight Sonata, The 2 Bear’s remix of DCFC’s You Are A Tourist, and a dub remix of Kings and Queens will change how you earspective towards dub. Last, there is the genius that is M83. Opening the mixtape is their most popular single - Midnight City. I’ll let it speak for its brilliance. If you have time, check the many remixes online but I’d highly recommend those by Who Killed JR and by Alcala. Enjoy!

01 M83 - Midnight City
02 Beethoven - Midnight Sonata (Sound Remedy Remix)
03 Kavinsky ft. Lovefoxxx - Nightcall
04 Handsome Furs - Repatriated
05 CITIZENS! - True Romance
06 Desire - Under Your Spell
07 College ft. Electric Youth - A Real Hero
08 Foster the People - Houdini (RAC mix)
09 Grouplove - Colours (Foster the People Remix)
10 Amadou & Mariam - Sabali (Miike Snow Remix)
11 RAC ft. Liz Anjos - 1979 (Smashing Pumpkins cover)
12 Christopher Norman - Maps
13 Death Cab For Cutie - You Are A Tourist (The 2 Bears Remix)
14 Punches - Sleepless City
15 Y Luv - All Night
16 Joywave - Golden State
17 Outasight - Figure 8 (Discotech Remix)
18 Capital Cities - Safe and Sound
19 30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens (Dubstep Remix)

If you feel like you’re stuck, for whatever reason—expectations, insecurities, fear, stereotypes—, you don’t need to stay. Run away, change your stars, conquer the world. ☮ — http://www.mediafire.com/?js9dsp9fadd0l47

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2:57 pm  •  23 March 2012  •  2 notes

Barely rested from midterms and now finals month is on again. I’d say f*ck school, but then what is the ascendancy of someone who ranted about school for 16 years from pre-school way to college and yet, after graduating, still chose to stick a bit while for five more years in law school, right? 

In time for hell month, Occupy Wall Street frenzy and El Che’s 44th death anniversary, here’s a mixtape for that inner rebel. Perfect for those infinite moments you want to rip your readings apart. Included in this list is my anthem to the youth, Radio Dept.’s Heaven’s On Fire. It’s rage put into a single. Check it: 

01 Ok Go - Here It Goes Again
02 Albert Hammond - In Transit
03 Jet - Rollover DJ
04 Phoenix - If I Ever Feel Better
05 Radio Dept. - Heaven’s On Fire
06 Hey Kids Feat. Taku - Roughsoul Beatz
07 Two Door Cinema Club - Something Good Can Work (The Twelves Remix)
08 Toro Y Moi - Low Shoulder
09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Be Easy
10 Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks (The Knocks Remix)
11 Noah and The Whale - Tonight’s The Kinds of Night (RAC Mix)
12 Lykke Li - I’m Good, I’m Gone
13 Black Light Dinner Party - Older Together
14 Polock - Fireworks MSTRD
15 Young Dreams - Young Dreams

Yeah yeah, rant all you want, the world out there could be really frustrating most of the time, especially for a dreamer. But being demystified is good. It’s means you’re sober, and the world needs you to be sober. Enough with the sulking, gulp down a double shot of espresso, put on those earphones, turn your Ipod volume to full and let the serotonin kick in, there is some “saving the world” work to be done! —http://www.mediafire.com/?cgdatetg706mq0h ☮

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12:35 am  •  20 October 2011  •  4 notes

The monsoon season is officially here. Goodbye weekend road trips to the beach and sun-soaked afternoons by the pool, and hello to wet and long drive home and perfect “look-out-the-car-window-and-pretend-you’re-in-a-music-video” moments.

In true somber rainy day fashion, here is a little mix of fairly old and some new music I put together to make those freezing cold mornings, and those wet and heavy late-afternoon traffic a little bit bearable.

01 Explosions In The Sky - So Long, Lonesome
02 The Acorn - Books
03 Death Cab For Cutie - A Lack of Color
04 The National - About Today
05 The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Say No To Love
06 Glee Cast (Feat Gwyneth Paltrow) - Landslide
07 Beck - Lost Cause
08 Belle & Sebastian - Don’t Leave The Light On Baby
09 The Radio Dept. - Pulling Our Weight
10 Toro Y Moi - Talamak
11 The Real Tuesday Weld - Last Words
12 Voxtrot - Whiskey
13 Tilly and The Wall - I Always Knew
14 Suede - Positivity
15 Datarock - Amarillion
16 Death Cab For Cutie - What Sarah Said
17 The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow

Remember the rainy days’ basic rule: never forget to bring a sturdy umbrella. And if ever you ever get stuck somewhere in the middle of a storm, get a cup of coffee from the nearest vendo machine, find a dry corner to sit, and put your I-pod to its full volume. Don’t worry, this too shall pass. ☮ - http://www.mediafire.com/?70326uffi271nat

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12:05 pm  •  12 July 2011  •  6 notes

“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions in the society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism we can’t have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level — there’s a little bargaining, a little give and take, but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I’m opposed to political fascism, I’m opposed to economic fascism. I think that until major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it’s pointless to talk about democracy.”

— Noam Chomsky (via cerebralthoughts)

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11:18 pm  •  26 January 2011  •  85 notes