i have a special treat for you. truth is it’s a special treat for me too. i have been nagging my boyfriend to make an extra special funk music mix for the blog for some time now. when i say nagging i mean, i make him coffee and shower him with chocolate speckled eggs and […]
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i’ve been wanting to make the guest music mixes a more regular thing, and couldn’t think of a better way to kick that off than this playlist from my new friend Nick. he played it in the car when we were driving around cape town on one of those perfect almost-summer days, where the most important […]
READ MOREgo find a grassy knoll somewhere and listen to this with your eyes closed. Sunlight on your eyelids. playlist: Rostam – Wood Netherlands – Something or Nothing Simon & Garfunkel – The Sound of Silence (T2MM edit) Tennis – Origins Emil & Friends – Prescriptions White Denim – No Real Reason Fanfarlo – Replicate Real Estate – […]
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in august i sent out an email to some of my girl blogger pals asking them to contribute one of their favourite songs to a collaborative music mix. we are all busy ladies, which explains why this mix is only surfacing now, but i’m glad it finally is because it’s a wonderfully eclectic collection – […]
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it is the first of september, which in south africa is traditionally spring day. well, spring day usually doesn’t fail to be delightfully miserable weather wise as far as my memory serves… probably due to the fact that the seasons only turn on 23 september this year (the spring equinox, which is also my birthday […]
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is it just me or is 2011 turning out to be the fastest moving year in living memory? AUGUST already! … here’s a new music mix to calm you down. August. playlist: Air Review – Waiting Lessons Typhoon – Summer Home Gotye ft. Kimbra – Somebody that I used to Know Bombay Bicycle Club – […]
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i have to thank everyone for all your wonderful emails, comments and tweets in the past month regarding the music mixes. i didn’t realise how much they meant to so many of you (a fact that makes my heart explode in double rainbows) and i’m really happy to know that the playlists encouraged you to […]
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i once had an awful time on a flight from bloemfontein to cape town (which is, luckily, a pretty short route) and the only thing that got me through it was listening to sufjan stevens with my head resting on the window, staring out at the clouds. that’s not to say i don’t love flying […]
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hey, what’s this? a mid-week mini music mix – that’s what! i don’t know what it is with this time of year, but these weird autumnal months before true winter arrives always fly past my eyes and feel… well… kind of dreamy. as if my brain has gone into a state of limbo thus causing me to […]
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it’s a new month – music mix time. i know things have been kind of slow on the blog lately, but i’m totally blaming it on the mass of public holidays we’ve had around here. been having too much fun offline during the holiday time – as i’m sure is the case with many of […]
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