Shyness Is Nice, Mixes Are Nicer

39 cuts that represent the 365 days and nights that represented 2k8: a year on fire.

Part 1 // Soundboy in Distress /
In which Our Hero takes it upon himself to chant down Babylon-Mart.

	Juana Molina - El Vestido
	Portishead - Hunter (12th Planet of NFC Remix)
	Zomby - The Lie
	Manual - Oracle Night
	Deadbeat - Rise Again (feat Paul St. Hilaire)
	Skream - Dutch Flowerz
	The Knife - Forest Families (Stop Time Edit)
	Vampire Weekend - The Kids Don't Stand a Chance (Dub Edit)

Part 2 // The Animating Force / 
See Also: Phillip K Dick, The I Ching, Transcendentalism on the Dancefloor, R.I.P. ODB.

	M.I.A. - Paper Planes (DFA Remix)
	The Clash - Straight to Hell (Unedited Edit)
	The Glimmers - Music for Dreams
	Ol Dirty Bastard - Recognize
	Donnacha Costello - It Simply Is
	Grace Jones - Williams Blood (Aeroplane Rejected Remix)
	Akron/Family - How Do I Know?
	Friendly Fires - Paris (Aeroplane Remix)
	Radiohead - Nude (Ripperton Remix)
	Fleet Foxes vs Carl Craig - Winter White Hymal In The Trees (Edit)

Part 3 // Spacewalk with Al Green / 
Once captured the animal belongs to its captor unless the animal escapes and returns to its natural liberty.

	Kayne West - Paranoid (Choppy Edit)
	Jose Gonzalez - Killing for Love (Todd Terje Brokemack Mix)
	Hercules & Love Affair - Blind (Frankie Knucles Remix)
	Ricardo Villalobos vs Mathew Johnson - Enfants Symphony (Edit)
	Andy Stott - Handle with Care
	Tony Allen - Ole (Moritz van Oswald Remix)
	Bvdub - The Road Home
	Ricardo Villalobos - Minimoonstar (Shackleton Remix)
	Bohren & der Club of Gore - Schwarze Biene (Black Maja)
	Al Green - Lay it Down (Spacewalkin' Edit)


Part 4 // Epilogue (A Year On Fire) /

	Ezekiel Honig - Broken Marching Band
	Stars of the Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major)
	Sufjan Stevens - Riffs and Variations on a Single Note
	Valet - We Went There
	Akron/Family - Interlude
	Burial - Dog Shelter
	Tape - Iluminations
	Bon Iver vs Deerhunter - Woods Aux Out (edit)

"More than anything, The Collapse is a new opportunity for groove-based electronic
music. This is a creative opportunity that must be seized. What is to be invented 
is an extra-technological context for electronic music, one that is beyond drugged
raving and amphetamine nightlife. But nobody wants to wake up. People just keep 
ripping, dropping, downloading and dancing around like it’s 1999. 

Meanwhile it’s 2008, and something’s on fire."

http://www.cloudsinthehead.org/download/a_year_on_fire/

Chris John / Feel Free.

Dearest everyone:

Sorry for it taking me so long for me to get this mix out.  Just think of it like you skipped October so you could save up and have two CDs in one month. Or maybe think of it like it was just a rumor and no one thought it actually existed, but then finally someone uncovered it- like the lost city of Atlantis, or those Bigfoot guys in Palo Alto… but actually real.  The long lost October mix.

1. “While You Wait for the Others” by Grizzly Bear
2. “Rivers” by Sleeping States
3. “Tragic Monsters” by Les Savy Fav
4. “Hazy SF” by Ben Chasny
5. “Fools” by The Dodos
6. “Rotten Hell” by Menomena
7. “Moses of the South” by Colour Revolt
8. “Polyethylene (Parts 1 & 2)” by Radiohead
9. “More Than This (Roxy Music Cover)” by Division Day
10. “Palimpsest II” by Tim Hecker
11. “Running, Returning” by Akron/Family
12. “Broke” by Modest Mouse
13. “Young & Old/Divine Longing” by Gregor Samsa

via con http://www.cloudsinthehead.org/download/shyness_is_nice/ChrisJ-FeelFree.zip

Josh’s (updated) mix!

http://www.cloudsinthehead.org/download/shyness_is_nice/Josh-November2.zip

1. Hanne Hukkelberg - Berlin
2. Joose Keskitalo - Saimaan Rannalla
3. Aim - Aberdeen
4. Low - Belarus
5. Mogwai - Glasgow Mega-Snake
6. Baltic Fleet - Reykjavik Promise
7. Tape - Altamira
8. Audrey - Mecklenburg
9. Jaga Jazzist - Suomi Finland
10. Joanna Newsom - Swansea
11. Candy Bars - The Basque Country
12. Piano Magic - England’s Always Better (As You’re Pulling Away)
13. The Winston Jazz Routine - Venice
14. Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
15. Yael Naim - Paris
16. I’m From Barcelona - We’re From Barcelona

Berlin is in Germany
Saima is in Finland
Aberdeen is in Scotland
Belarus is in Belarus
Glasgow is in Scotland
Reykjavik is in Iceland
Altamira is in Spain
Mecklenburg is in Germany
Finland is in Finland
Swansea is in Wales
The Basque Country is in France and Spain
England is in England
Venice is in Italy
Mykonos is in Greece
Paris is in France
Barcelona is in Spain

i love maps. i love music. i decided to make this mix with all songs that are places in europe.

http://cloudsinthehead.org/download/shyness_is_nice/brian-europe.zip

Although Grand Rapids in last 2 years has been very kind to Jessa and I, the long winters here have been cruel and unforgiving. Each february I am certain it is our last february in GR, and then by September I’m preparing to make it through another long cold winter. I go outdoors more often. I don’t talk as much or as fast. I find myself reading more new books than I can handle. Smoking more. Thinking more. So here is a playlist that sounds something like I feel this autumn. -Gabe

“Then summer fades and passes and October comes.  We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.” -Thomas Wolfe

Re: Hear in The Deadlights (Vol. 1)(*Get it? Its like DEER in the HEADLIGHTS, but not?)This is my mix for you…yes, YOU. Inspired by the glorious month of September, a creepy (yet endearing) photo I found of deers with glowing eyes, and a few songs that caught my ears. There is no apparent theme…just musical goodness. Some of the songs are well known, some are obvious and/or classic, and a few will (most likely) be from bands you’ve never heard of. I’m just happy to share some musical goodness with you. I hope you like it. - Lindsay

Tracklist:

1. Menomena - Muscle’n Flo
2. The Parson Redheads - Got It All
3. Ratatat - Seventeen Years
4. The Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
5. Langhorne Slim - Restless
6. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
7. Bird & Bee - Fucking Boyfriend
8. Le Loup - To The Stars! To The Night!
9. Radical Face - Welcome Home, Son
10. Joanna Newsom - Bridges and Balloons
11. Jackson Browne - These Days
12. Samamidon - Saro
13. Damien Jurado - Denton, TX
14. The Avett Brothers - Murder in the City
15. Jeremyy Enigk - World Waits
16. Bob Dylan - Song To Woody
17. Denison Witmer - I Can’t Make You Love Me

http://www.cloudsinthehead.org/download/shyness_is_nice/Lindsay-HearintheDeadlights.zip

Hey shy guys n girls, how was your weekend? That’s cool. I’m typing “that’s cool” without waiting to hear back from you because weekends are, on the whole, pretty great with such regularity that I’m fairly certain you had a nice time chilling and relaxing. But correct me if I’m wrong on that assumption. Anyhoo…

We gotta talk abt a serious issue. It’s so serious I’m surprised the prezzy candidates aren’t chatting abt it on “The View.” The issue is DRM, which stands for Dumb Restrictions (on) MP3s. A few people have noticed that Jon HAVENS otherwise lovely mix was hamstrung by some lame Apple-sponsored DRM. Fuck you Stevie Jobs.

Now, I know the average shy guy/girl is heavily vested in the Apple Way-of-Life so this may come as a shock 2 your personal brand. While they do make some great products like the maccy lappytop and the jesusPhone, Apple is not very hip when it comes to MP3s. They have these weird rules abt how many times you can copy a file around or whatever, I dunno. Also I hate how I can’t plug in my jesusPhone to a friend’s lappy and grab the newest Soulwax remix of MGMT - Kids (good jam btw)

Anyhoo…

Shyness Is Nice is all about sharing and caring so we’d like to encourage you to share only DRM free MP3s.

Where can you find DRM free mp3s? Amazon’s site is pretty good but there’s others like Rhasody and Walmart too. You know you’re being a dbag abt digital rights management when fucking Walmart is doing better than your silhouetted draconian ass. Or, as an alternative, you can burn a CD from Itunes then rip it back to mp3 (this method takes effort and can make the sound quality crappier :( )

Links 2 Consider:

http://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/

http://mp3.rhapsody.com/home.html

http://downloads.walmart.com/swap/

At long last, Shyness is Nice presents our only offering for the month of August: Jon Haven’s Sigh Songs. August? Close your eyes and remember the hazy days of a few weeks ago. The world was warmer, the smog was more robust and your head didn’t ache from that wayward bottle. Adios, Summer. You gave us sunburns and the new Atlas Sound record, and for that we’re saying thanks.

Jon’s cryptic tracklist is printed verbatim below:

“trapeze

teen

fields

road

how to

john

rain

days

to build

untitled

lady l “

http://www.cloudsinthehead.org/download/shyness_is_nice/JonH-SighSongs.zip

*sigh*