Feature: Summer - Playlists

Baked

On Melancholy Hill – Gorillaz

Two Weeks – Grizzly Bear

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – Flaming Lips

Haiti – Arcade Fire

Never Stops – Deerhunter

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel

What Would I Want? Sky – Animal Collective

Bros – Panda Bear

Do You Realize?? - Flaming Lips

Good Intentions Paving Company – Joanna Newsom

Silver Soul – Beach House

May I Walk With You? - Star Slinger

West Side – The Studio

Elastic Reality (Deep Dish Does X Mix) – Casa De

When I Grow Up (Version by Lissvik) – Fever Ray

Joanna – Superpitcher

Dictaphone's Lament – Tycho

Key Sparrow – Peaking Lights

Too High To Move – Quiet Village

Mornin' – Star Slinger

New Theory – Washed Out

Round and Round – Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti

Plain Material – Memory Tapes

New Beat – Toro Y Moi

Despicable Dogs – Small Black

Bicycle – Memory Tapes

Live In Dreams – Wild Nothing

Feel It All Around – Washed Out

Loaded – Primal Scream

Just Like Heaven – The Cure

The Village Green Preservation Society – The Kinks

Sunday Morning – Velvet Underground

Waterfall – Stone Roses

Feel Flows – Beach Boys

Time of the Season – Zombies

Who Loves the Sun – Velvet Underground

In this first and biggest playlist I've arranged a great selection of tracks for just chilling out in the day, classic summer music essentially. Kicking off with Gorillaz' impossibly sunny On Melancholy Hill, the first few tracks are indie-rock classics that scream summer, from the pristine piano of Grizzly Bear's Two Weeks to Animal Collective's glorious sample of The Grateful Dead in What Would I Want? Sky, by way of a few of my very favourite artists, Joanna Newsom, Beach House and Panda Bear.

Star Slinger's effortlessly catchy May I Walk With You? starts off the second section of more dancey and electro-infused cuts, veering between the house and dub-tinged cuts of Casa De, Superpitcher and Peaking Lights and the balearic swoons of The Studio (whose D. Lissvik crafted the marvellous Fever Ray remix also selected) and Quiet Village's inspired vocal track, all rounded off with another classic Star Slinger track, the shining Mornin'.

The next phase is a set of some of the best chillwave of the last few years, a genre evoking too-bright snapshots of summers past through Washed Out's brilliant disco cuts, and Wild Nothing and Memory Tapes' mellower reflections on music past.

From here we go to some classic summer anthems from some real oldies; from some incredibly famous tracks of Primal Scream, The Cure and The Stone Roses to some real gems from The Velvet Underground and The Beach Boys (including the hilarious Kinks track lampooning the conservative British villages of the time). So lay back and get listening.

Playlist #3 – Techno Mix

Well I've got a busy few days coming up so I thought I'd leave you with some nice slow-burn tracks. These aren't all straight-up techno but all have the basic build and payoff structure with great layering we've all come to know and love in techno tracks. I sequenced it so the heavier and more dancey tracks are at the beginning and the lighter, happier and more chilled ones are at the end. So hop in wherever you want, it's all basically techno by way of house, electro, ambient and shoegaze. Enjoy!

Frivolous – Back Into The Deep

Burial & Four Tet – Moth

EQD – 003 A

Actress – Maze

Chaim – Love Rehab

Ulrich Schnauss – On My Own

Pariah – Orpheus

The Field – Everyone's Gotta Learn Sometimes

Lawrence – Forever Anna

Pantha Du Prince – Saturn Strobe

Phaseone – Being With You

Walls – Burnt Sienna

Superpitcher – Joanna