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[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090511.mp3] New music has been pouring in over the last couple of weeks, including a giant stack of CDs from our friends at Nettwerk Records, as well as some great new releases from Sine Music and Blackfish Productions, some of which is highlighted in this weeks show. You'll hear more from those labels, plus more from United Recordings, RTFM Records, Cheeky Punster and Electronic Eel, later this month... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #157: The Submarines, "Brightest Hour (Free the Robots Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Delerium, "Innocente (feat. Leigh Nash) "  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Deeper Sublime, MoVoX and Marga Sol, "Noname Story"  Buy from: iTunes The Architect, "Cocoon Balloon"  Buy from: iTunes Pearlcoder, "Toy Story"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Ladytron, "Tomorrow"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090430-4thAnniversaryMix.mp3] For the most part, trip hop and lindy hop have nothing in common. (A couple of girls who requested I play Portishead and Massive Attack at a blues dance in Durham last week might suggest otherwise, but we won't listen to them for now.) However, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the passing of Frankie Manning, a swing dance legend who toured the world and appeared in films in the 1930s, then enjoyed a long second act as "The Ambassador of Lindy Hop." I remember attending a workshop he taught in Greensboro about 6 years ago. He was 88 at the time, and he spent half that class flirting with his 20-something lesson partner. He was dancing and flirting right up until he died at the age of 94. There's a lesson in this, I think. You wouldn't think Frankie Manning would be connected with this podcast, really, but as I explain at the top of the show this week, everything is connected. We might not see the connections, but they're still there. Thousands of you have been connecting with Dave's Lounge for the last four years. Thank you for listening. This mix is for you... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #156: Tal M. Klein, "Don't"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Natalie Walker, "Lost My Shadow"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Arthur Loves Plastic vs. Lisa Moscatiello, "I Can Dream"  Buy from: iTunes Artemis, "Fountain of Life"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Two Loons for Tea, "Sunset Room"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Puracane, "Digging to Deep"  Buy from: iTunes Magic Waves, "Tonight"  Buy from: iTunes Flashbaxx, "Sandbank"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Firefox AK, "The River"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Mr. Meeble, "Dragonfly"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic All India Radio, "Fall"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Morcheeba, "Lighten Up"  Buy from: iTunes The Atomica Project, "Delorian"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Lovespirals, "Motherless Child (Karmacoda Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic MinusBlue, "Ocean Sky" Permanent4, "By Candlelight"  Buy from: Amie Street Background music: Rena Jones, "Driftwood"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Oh, by the way, that distorted voice you heard at the very beginning was none other than Leo Laporte of This Week in Tech, whom I would have met at the New Media Expo last August, except that when he called my name to be on TWiT Live, I was on my way back from the bathroom, and I ran into Veronica Belmont and Sarah Lane together on the expo floor. Suffice to say, I got a little bit distracted there... Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090420-LalMeriSpecial.mp3] This is a feature I've been meaning to bring you for a few weeks now, and I'm glad I'm able to do it, because Lal Meri's debut album is absolute quality. Producer Carmen Rizzo, formerly of Nettwerk Records duo Povi, has teamed up with vocalist Nancy Kaye (a/k/a Rosey) and Ireesh Lal to create worldbeat-tinged downtempo album that just oozes class throughout. This is great stuff, folks, and it really should be in your music collection... Click here to visit Lal Meri's web site. Click here to visit Lal Meri's Myspace page. Playlist for Dave's Lounge #155: Lal Meri, "Borders" Lal Meri, "Dreams of 18" Lal Meri, "More Songs for the Moon" Lal Meri, "Bad Things" Lal Meri, "Sweet Love" Lal Meri, "Give Me Your Light" Buy "Lal Meri" in MP3 format from: eMusic Buy "Lal Meri" in DRM-free AAC format from: iTunes Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 14-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090413.mp3] Y'know, if Anji Bee can talk about Sasha Vujacic on her site, I figure I can mention my Carolina Railhawks here. Not only did I get to see our new-look football club win its USL season opener against Minnesota on Saturday night, but I got to spend 30 minutes jamming with these guys: That's me in the vest up front, pounding away on the big bass drum. And that's the North Carolina A&T drumline playing behind me. Yes, that was as awesome as it looked. Plus, we won the game, which was also awesome. Soccer is a fun bit of escapism these days. We all need some escapism in our lives. This week's show ponders that idea a little bit and encourages you to escape into the music -- including a brand new project from Dave's Lounge favorite Natalie Walker... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #154: Mouchette, "Cherry Tree"  Coming soon... School of Seven Bells, "Half Asleep"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic City Rain, "Try to Understand"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Christian Erickson, "The Long Season"  Download from: 3 Sided Singles Adam Fielding, "Busy Lives"  Buy from: iTunes Bad Boy Bill, "Falling Anthem"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090407-ChillcastSneakAttack.mp3] A note from Anji Bee: "Everybody needs a day off once in a while, even Dave. So I thought I'd stop in to musically reminisce about the good old days when Dave and I first met online. Now with the demise of CNET's Music Download, these bands are getting even harder to track down... Captain Ginger, "Sun Down" Elekoustic, "Until Tomorrow Comes" EchoVent, "Dignity Lost" Misnomer, "My Mistake" Sudaka, "Flow" Bitstream Dream, "Elusion" "Please check out Anji's weekly chillout music podcast, The Chillcast, and her twice monthly Chillcast Video Edition, over at http://www.anjibee.com." A note from Dave: "Anji Bee is teh awesomeness. That is all."

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090331.mp3] Fair warning: This might the least chill episode of Dave's Lounge you'll ever hear. I'm just in that kind of mood tonight... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #152: Kutiman, "No Reason for You"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Moloko, "Pure Pleasure Seeker"  Buy from: eMusic Fauxliage, "Rafe (Gabin Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Bardo State, "The Man With The Child In His Eyes"  Buy from: iTunes Blind Divine, "Thief"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic MinusBlue, "Be As One"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show! Dig Dave’s Lounge? Digg Dave’s Lounge!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090323.mp3] This week I dug through my email and found a lot of worthwhile submissions from artists and, in one case, their friends. I still have quite a backlog to dig through, but that doesn't mean I don't want to hear more music, so if you're making any new downtempo sounds, shoot me an email at daveslounge@gmail.com, and i'll give it a listen. Playlist for Dave's Lounge #151: hiGhFi_dElitY, "In Between "  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Wiseman Collective, "As It Rains Outside" 60 Channels, "Covert Movements (Instrumental)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Atomica Project, "Nuevo"  Buy from: Flagrant Records Monicker, "1 Zero" Honest People, "Someday" If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090316.mp3] (This episode almost didn't make it out tonight. I upgraded to a newer, faster hard drive last week and did a clean reinstall of Windows XP and all my software, including my new copy of Sonar Home Studio 7 -- which still crashed on me for no apparent reason. It calmed down after the initial crash, though, so hopefully it won't give me any more trouble than that. I'm still tweaking the audio settings on my voiceovers. It was a little softer than it should have been in this episode, so I'll try to fix that later...) This sort of a milestone episode, number 150, but I didn't want to make too big a fuss about it, especially since the 4th anniversary of this podcast is just a month and half away. Still, I wanted to do something a little different this week, so I decided to go digging in the virtual crates in search of a theme. Along the way, I found a lot of really good tunes from bands that aren't active anymore. I thought I might share some of those works with you here. After all, it would be a shame if some of these songs were completely lost to history... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #150: Beauty's Confusion, "Windmills"  Buy from: iTunes Mistake Theory, "Falling"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Hopscotch, "Bright"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic The DBC, "Life on Venus" kikiwest, "Past Life" Astronaut Wife, "Where Will We Go"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090309.mp3] Those of you who were following me on Twitter last week probably saw me raving about Thru You, a project by Israeli funk producer Kutiman in which he took dozens of random videos of people on YouTube singing and playing musical instruments and spliced them into one of the most awesome breakbeat collages you've ever seen or heard. Here is one of the seven videos from the project: Kutiman and his manager were kind enough to let me play a few songs from his self-titled debut album on this show. You'll be hearing more from him here in the coming weeks. Playlist for Dave's Lounge #149: Kutiman, "Bango Fields"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Heyoka, "Bubble"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Liedschatten, "Waterfall"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Solus, "Keep On Running"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Mujaji, "Money Sandwich"  Download from: Jamendo The Shanghai Restoration Project, "black SHEEP"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090302.mp3] I'd like to thank whomever it was that clicked on an Amazon link on this site and bought a Kindle 2 last week. That made me a lot more money than I thought it would, and it had me wondering if I should start promoting the new e-book reader a little more on this show. Seems kind of hard to do, though, when the show is mostly about the music... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #148: Astronauts of Antiquity, "Soup Du Jour"  Buy from: iTunes Vanessa Daou, "Heart of Wax"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Welder & Seed, "Sirens"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic 46bliss, "The Way You Are (Eterman Chilli Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes Paradice, "Mellow & Steady"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Line, "Feels Like Something"  Download from: Dusted Wax Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090223.mp3] If you've been keeping up with my new Twitter page, you probably know I'm getting over a cold this week. Hopefully I don't sound like it on this show... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #147: Lal Meri, "Dreams of 18"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Portofino Lounge, "Mediterranean Night"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Endless Blue, "Lovesong"  Buy from: iTunes Sambox, "Solstice" General Fuzz, "Warm Steel"  Download from: GeneralFuzz.net Essenza, "Optical Lithography" Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20070509.mp3] I know the last thing anybody wants to hear from a podcast is a rerun, but since I'm not up to doing a show tonight after getting away for the weekend, and considering this one seems to have dropped off the RSS feed, I figured it was worth bringing back. Episode #80 is still my favorite regular episode, simply because the music selection just came together so perfectly. I think it deserves another play... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #80 Revisited: Natalie Walker, "Crush"  Buy from: iTunes Essenza, "Weightless Smile"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Di Johnston (w/ The Shanghai Restoration Project), "Come Undone"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Hopscotch, "Chapter 32"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Urban Myth Club, "So Beautiful"  Buy from: iTunes Evolve, "The Way Back"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Click here for an iTunes iMix of this week's tunes. Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It's a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090209.mp3] I might have been early to the podcasting game, but when it comes to social networking sites, the running joke is that a site isn't officially mainstream -- and boring -- until I sign up myself. So for whatever reason, this is the week I finally decided to join Twitter. You can follow my tweets at http://twitter.com/permanent4. Thanks to Andrew Jaswa's Bird Feeder plugin for Wordpress, I should be able to announce new shows on Twitter as soon as they're live. We'll see how this works out. Hey, check out who's starting the show this week... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #146: Wendy and Lisa, "Balloon"  Buy from: WendyAndLisa.com Axiotronic, "Robot Placism"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Su Round, "Sueno"  Buy from: iTunes Madrid De Los Austrias, "Deia"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic B-Tribe, "Suspiro"  Buy from: iTunes Ladder, "Transmission You"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090202.mp3] One of the little joys of doing this podcast is getting new music from some of my favorite artists before any else gets it. It's just like that feeling I used to get when I was a college radio DJ, and I would go to the station and see an inbox full of new vinyl and CDs. I got that feeling again over the weekend. Stick around until the end of the show to hear it. Happy birthday, Anji! Playlist for Dave's Lounge #145: Luxurious, "Cocktail Hour"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic The Shanghai Restoration Project, "dark HORSE"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Show-B & Cyrus, "Stranded"  Buy from: iTunes Snoblind feat. Anji Bee, "Crossing the Pond"  Buy from: iTunes Water, "Evolution" The Atomica Project, "Jetstreams"  Coming soon... Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!

[audio:http://media.libsyn.com/media/daveslounge/DavesLounge-20090126.mp3] After playing a couple of remixes last week, I took a look through my music selection this week and discovered a whole bunch of interesting remixes, so I thought I would put them all together for you here in one episode... Playlist for Dave's Lounge #144: All India Radio, "Permanent Revolutions (Don Meers Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Dive Index, "Sole Fisherman (Album Leaf Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Bardo State, "Mariposa (Praful's Lovebug Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Sunburn in Cyprus, "Your Smile (Sodapop Remix by Modo Azul)" 46Bliss, "8 O'Clock Train (PKP Express Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes Mudville, "Blown (AJ Nuttal Remix)"  Buy from: iTunes | eMusic Not an eMusic member? Click here to sign up for a free 15-day trial and receive 25 free MP3 downloads, plus 30 MP3s a month for only $9.99. It’s a great value for indie music lovers and a great way to support both the artists and this podcast. If you'd like to listen to this episode or any other on your iPhone, check out the Dave's Lounge direct download page. Enjoy the show!