The past few days have been incredibly fast-paced around here — moving from one event to another, trying to catch a breath along the way. I could probably use a little down time myself right about now. Good thing I’ve got just the show for that…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #120:

1. The Orb, "A Beautiful Day"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Solar Cycle, "Looking to My Heart"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Orisha, "Taken"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Null Device, "Return"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Ambient Anomaly, "Night Vision"
6. Rena Jones, "A Curious Unraveling"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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Dave’s Lounge will return on July 1. Talk to you then.

This week’s playlist includes a few new artists, a few return artists, and one song that you won’t hear anywhere else but here — for the time being, anyway.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #119:

1. Shaheen Sheik, "Wildflower World (Soul Avenue Remix)"
2. Bitter:Sweet, "Waking Up"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Antiguru, "Newtonian"  Buy from: Amazon MP3
4. Endless Blue, "Undone"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Blind Divine, "More Than Love"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Fidgital, "We Lost the Signal"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3

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So I was planning on saving this encore of Dave’s Lounge #25 for next week, when I will probably be sleeping off my weekend excursion to Virginia Beach, but the 100-degree heat here in North Carolina has slowed me down considerably, and not wanting to leave y’all without music this week, I figured now was as good a time as any to revisit this hour-long milestone episode.

A few notes about this show:

• “By Candlelight,” the theme song to Dave’s Lounge, is now available exclusively from Amie Street.
• When episode #25 was first released, Musetta was still known as Pan.
• Natalie Walker left Daughter Darling to pursue a solo career just weeks after episode #25 came out.
• About one-third of the podcasters included in that bumper halfway through the show are either no longer podcasting or have moved on to new online projects.
• Gasoline in America was about a dollar per gallon cheaper than it is now. Heady days, huh?

By the way, I know I mention this in the show notes every week, but any past episode you don’t see on the iTunes feed is available on the Dave’s Lounge direct download page. You can also stream every episode of Dave’s Lounge right here on this web site.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #25:

1. Permanent4, “By Candlelight”  Buy from: Amie Street
2. Musetta, “Some Thoughts Are Hard to Die”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Daughter Darling, “Broken Bridge”  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Artemis, “Supernatural”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Bent, “Sing Me”  Buy from: eMusic
6. Aisth, “Holy Palmers”
7. kikiwest, “Creeper”
8. Line, “Forward Thinking”
9. Mercury Sol, “Cup of Bitterness”
10. Transient, “Pure-veg ninja blobby”  Free download
11. 8mm, “Never Enough”  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
12. Endless Blue, “Ninety-Nine”  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3

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It’s summer time here in the northern hemisphere, so hopefully this week’s music will get you in the mood for summer. Plus, new music from both Natalie Walker and MinusBlue! Huzzah!

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #118:

1. MinusBlue, "Ocean Sky"
2. Natalie Walker, "Over and Under"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Daniel Artner, "Breaking News"
4. Global Noize, "Dar’abesque"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Under the Radar, "Pinging the Moon"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Podington Bear, "Blossoming"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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I’m very pleased to present music from The Atomica Project’s new album, Grayscale. Longtime listeners know I’ve spun plenty of tunes from the Atomica Project’s debut release, Metropolitan — back when they were still known just as Atomica — and this Chicago-based band has put together yet another strong offering of heartbroken trip hop. It’s not an upbeat album by any stretch, but it’s still great music that absolutely deserves your time.

The Atomica Project’s official web site.
The Atomica Project’s Myspace page.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #117:

1. The Atomica Project, "Losing Sleep" 
2. The Atomica Project, "Forecast" 
3. The Atomica Project, "I Woke Up In This World" 
4. The Atomica Project, "Storm" 
5. The Atomica Project, "The War Is Over" 
6. The Atomica Project, "Gravity" 

Click here to purchase Grayscale from eMusic.
Click here to purchase Grayscale from the Amazon MP3 Store.

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I’ve always tended to think of Dave’s Lounge as a show primarily for electronic music, as trip hop has always been mostly electronic in nature. This week’s show, however, happens to contain a fairly heavy dose of acoustic and electric guitars. I don’t know if that would be considered a change of pace, but it does make for a nice theme — acoustic meets electronic and all that…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #116:

1. Styrofoam, "After Sunset"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. san.drine, "Not Around "  Buy from: iTunes
3. The West Exit, "Alright Tonight"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3 | Magnatune
4. Butterfly Catchers, "Doin’ Time"  Buy from: iTunes
5. Hermitude, "Imaginary Friends"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Weather Pending, "Complicated Two"

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This week’s music is a mix of artist submissions and listener suggestions, with one coming from another podcast: Warren Ellis’ The 4 am, which is simply a semi-regular compendium of artist submissions to the popular British writer. Here’s the feed, if you’d like to add that one to your podcast catcher.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #115:

1. Blind Divine, "Home"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Facel Vega, "Dreaming"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Rosey, "Who Am I"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. MNO, "1000 Pieces (feat. Irina Mikalova)"
5. PalliDust, "Tempation"
6. Nikila, "Dream"

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As of this evening, if you visit the iTunes page for this podcast, it will appear as if there are no episodes available. However, if you subscribe to the podcast, you’ll actually get the latest episode and a full list of everything currently available in the RSS feed. It’s an odd software quirk brought on by my recent upgrade to Wordpress 2.5.1, and hopefully, it will be fixed soon. If you’re a longtime subscriber in iTunes, though, hopefully you won’t notice a thing. (Thanks for bringing it to my attention, Bob. I might not have noticed the RSS feed was broken without your email.)

In the meantime, I’m fighting off a really bothersome cough this week, so you won’t hear much of my voice, but you will hear some great tunes from the new Sine Music compilation Cosmic Chill Lounge, Vol. 2, which is available in DRM-free formats from both iTunes and Amazon MP3. (It’s not on eMusic yet, but hopefully they’ll add it there soon.) Thanks to the folks at Sine Music for hooking me up with this compilation.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #114:

1. Sine, "Dreamin’"
2. Reve de Cabaret, "Trust Me"
3. Magic Waves, "Tonight"
4. Polished Chrome, "Soundsystem"
5. Jeela, "What About Us"
6. Man in the Moon (feat. Debora Vilchez), "Another Way"

Click here to purchase Cosmic Chill Lounge, Vol. 2 from iTunes.
Click here to purchase Cosmic Chill Lounge, Vol. 2 from Amazon MP3.

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UPDATE: I think the Feedburner RSS feed is fixed now, and all the missing files should get repopulated in iTunes before the day is over. Hopefully.

This will be my first trip ever to the city of Las Vegas, so if you have any advice or any recommendations for things I absolutely must see or do while I’m there, feel free to post a comment here. Thanks.

This week marks the third anniversary of Dave’s Lounge. Whenever I think about why I’ve kept this show going as long as I have, I think back to this scene from the indie film Groove:

Thank you all for your nods for the last three years. I don’t think I could have gotten this far without you.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #113:

1. Natalie Walker, "No One Else"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Bent, "Sunday Boy"  Buy from: eMusic | Amazon
3. Version Xcursion, "Breathe (feat. Andrea Lucarelli)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Groovecatcher, "Intoxicated"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Bluetech, "Leaving Winter Behind"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Hip Son, "Drama Is Over"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
7. JoJo Effect, "Moods"  Buy from: iTunes
8. Artemis, "Subterranean"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
9. Dive Index, "Hoko Onchi"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
10. BT, "Satellite"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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This week’s playlist features several of submissions from artists around the world. If you’d like to submit your music to Dave’s Lounge, send me an email at daveslounge@gmail.com, and I’ll give it a listen.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #112:

1. Orisha, "The Beginning Place"  Buy from: iTunes
2. Sunburn in Cyprus, "About Your Name"
3. Rik Schaffer, "World Spirit Map"
4. Projexam, "Mutation"
5. Craig de Maio, "Intro To Reality"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Luminous, "Make It Happen"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3

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So I’ve decided that the best way to avoid crashing this laptop is to stop loading it up with extra software. I purchased a second laptop last week and moved all my general purpose software there, while my old laptop will now be my digital audio workstation. I’m hoping this will help me avoid having to skip weeks because some software not related to the podcast’s production crashed this laptop’s audio system. I’ll put that stuff on the other laptop instead.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #111:

1. The Atomica Project, "Gravity"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Sintemu, "Breeze"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Axiotronic, "Esteban Was Eaten"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Phreakon, "The R7 at 4:30 AM"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Club Do Samba, "Manreza"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Joel Stevens, "Snow"

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The laptop audio went haywire again last night. I am once again in the process of reinstalling Windows and other software. (I’ve gotten pretty good at it, too.) I should have things straightened out here by the end of the week, by which time Dave’s Lounge will resume its normal schedule.

I almost put another old episode in the feed here tonight, but I didn’t want to do that so soon after the last one. You can download past episodes here.

So after listening to episode #20 again, I decided to go digging in the crates — so to speak — and looking for more songs created by the MP3.com-spawned electronic music community back in the day. There was actually a lot of really good music being created during this period. Perhaps it deserves another listen.

By the way, about that World Soccer Daily clip at the end of the show: Honestly, I didn’t try to pass off All India Radio’s music as my own. Steven Cohen just didn’t quite get that Dave’s Lounge was a podcast that promotes other bands and not actually a band itself. He made a bit of a mess of it there. Sorry about that.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #110:

1. void, "Sun in Her Hair"
2. S.A. Fred, "Sunlight Breaking Through the Clouds"
3. Adrian Bond, "Hobb’s End"
4. Fourier Wave Device, "Fat Girl in the Park" Hear more at: eMusic
5. Sporophyte, "Herbie’s Rooster"
6. Danny K, "Swan Song"  Buy from: iTunes

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So I didn’t really have a show put together for this week, but I didn’t want to leave all of you empty-handed. So I thought it might be fun to take another walk down memory lane — something I did all the way back in Dave’s Lounge #20, where I looked back at the halcyon days of MP3.com and some of the electronic music communities that sprung up around it.

If you’re relatively new to this podcast, you might have missed this episode. Like all other back episodes not available on the feed, you can find it on the Dave’s Lounge direct download page.

Playlist:

1. Astronaut Wife, “Cape Canaveral”
2. S.A. Fred vs. void, “Chillroom (S.A. Fred remix)”
3. Permanent4 vs. Multi-Panel, “Mountains in the Distance (P4 Remix)”
4. Red Joy Reid, “Cricket”

Background music between tracks:

• S.A. Fred, “Drum and Bass Intelligence”
• Red Joy Reid, “Lost Photo Karma”

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There are a lot of familiar names in this week’s show. Sometimes it’s good to fall back on the familiar, though — especially when the music is this good…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #109:

1. Tone, "Wake Me Up"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Cling, "Infinity"
3. Soma Sonic, "Memories"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Science for Girls, "Sweet Life"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
5. Karmacoda, "Something"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. The Shanghai Restoration Project, "Call Me Home"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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My voice is a little bit rough this week, so I’m just going to do this week’s show Insomnia Radio-style and let the music speak for itself. I think the first song does that quite well, actually…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #108:

1. iio, "Rapture (Soulside Remix)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Kirsty Hawkshaw, "Sanctuary"
3. Grains of Sound, "Floating Through Thought"  Buy from: iTunes
4. Sine, "Cross That Line"  Buy from: Amazon MP3
5. Reflectiv, "The Green in the Ash, (Part 1)"
6. Ventoux, "Were You There"

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Shari and I are slipping out of town next weekend for some much needed R&R, so I hope this show can carry you for the next two weeks. I have a another big stack of music submissions I’ll sort through when I get back. It never ceases to amaze me how much great music is out there…

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #107:

1. Cordovan, "Swimming Pool Blue"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Mooli, "Time"
3. The Reel Banditos, "Colder (Coldest Remix)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
4. Sleepthief (feat. Kristy Thirsk), "Sublunar (Sweet Angel)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon
5. Electrix, "Traveling"  Find more at: Amazon MP3
6. Charlie North, "Faith"  Buy from: iTunes

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I mentioned this in the show itself, but it’s worth repeating here that the Shanghai Restoration Project’s new album, Story of a City, is absolutely worth your time. Give it a listen. Links are in the playlist below.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #106:

1. The Shanghai Restoration Project, "Preface (feat. Di Johnson)"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Cristian Amigo, "Kingdom of Jones"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Fidgital, "In a Strange City"
4. North Atlantic Explorers, "Anchors Away"  Buy from: iTunes
5. The Bex, "Nu Love"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Tokyo507, "Li Adoro "  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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This week’s music has a bit more of an edge to it than my usual mix. I know most of you come to Dave’s Lounge to chill, but there are other sides to downtempo electronica, and I thought I would show off a few of them here. Hope you don’t mind.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #105:

1. Burial, "Ghost Hardware"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Downbeat Sinatra, "Atlanta"
3. san.drine, "La Neige"
4. 46bliss, "8:00 Train"  Buy from: iTunes
5. Scannerfunk, "Red Stone Sun"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Craig de Maio, "Pride & Salvation"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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It’s been a somewhat stressful day for me today, so it’s good to be able to kick back, relax, and put together a new show for y’all. Hopefully, this week’s music will help you unwind, too.

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #104:

1. Under the Radar, "The Little Woodland Robots"
2. Science for Girls, "Northern Lights"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes
3. Crisopa, "North Left"
4. Belle Tropez, "Your Stare"
5. Natalie Walker, "Crush"  Buy from: iTunes | Amazon MP3
6. Atomica, "Delorian"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3

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I’m starting to find a lot of new artists on Myspace again, and some of them are finding me as well, even though I rarely update this podcast’s Myspace page anymore. It’s funny how most people tend to think of that site as being passé in 2008, but it’s still a useful resource for connecting bands with listeners — and podcasters. Perhaps that’s an idea we should apply to all technologies. Never mind the hype surrounding a gadget or web site; is it useful?

Playlist for Dave’s Lounge #103:

1. Mooli, "One Design"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
2. Two Loons for Tea, "Marietta"  Buy from: eMusic | iTunes | Amazon MP3
3. Bluba Lu, "Lost Song"
4. Weather Pending, "Perfect Weather"
5. Prefade Listening, "Rise and Fall"  Buy from: