This Is So Great I Had To Share It With You 6-pack"

Via the ever amazing Sam at Exploding Dog, this illustration is titled "This Is So Great I Had to Share It With You".

These are orange-bursty sunshiney must share tunes for your your August summer days. Apologies to those in the upper coastal regions for their brutal weather lately, but fill up your kids pool and dip your legs in, then turn up the boombox. (They still make those right?)

I can't recommend the "Warm Heart of Africa" highly enough.

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Tracks

"It's the Sun (slow version)" - The Polyphonic Spree
It's a bootleg, so sorry about the blown out trumpet, but really try not to smile: "hey now, it's the sun, and it makes me smile, ba-da-da-ba-da, ba-da-da-ba-da".

"Warm Heart of Africa" - The Very Best (Esau Mwamwaya&Radioclit) f. Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend
The longest artist title in the history of w(h)hc brings you this slice of afro-pop genius. Hints of Wyclef Jean and 80s Caribbean steel drums abound. No matter what the heat, you and your friends and your friends' hyenas will build up a sweat dancing.

"Seasun" - Delorean
It's just past sunrise. You're in your Delorean and driving towards the ocean. You put this on, hit the afterburners and drive so fast that you reverse time and get to the beach 15 minutes before you left, just in time to see the sunrise again.

"Things Will Never Be the Same Again" - jj
Synthy and afro-poppy. Time to get your feet back in the kiddy pool and laugh from heat exhaustion while you refill with PBR, Rainier & Tecate. (The Most Interesting Man in the World is going to wait til things cool down before coming out, thankyouverymuch).

"Swimming Suit" - Vetiver
Musically, it doesn't quite fit in here - it's a folky, banjo-plucked mid-tempo strummer. This one goes out to Sobier & Hart for buying me the green striped Parisian style swim trunks a few summers ago. Still going strong.

"Nice Day for Ducks" - Lemon Jelly
Because it is one.

"I'm Free" - Soup Dragons
It's summer time. You're free, to do what you want, any old time. Love who you want and hold who you want, just share the summer sensation with someone.

SOUR '日々の音色 (Hibi no neiro)'

No 6-pack on this birthday weekend, but in honor of
37, the new age of goodness, this video is pretty damn cool.

Running of the Bulls 6 pack

Here's a squelchy, skittery stoned-out mix for Pamplona's Running of the Bulls. No 'Bulls on Parade' or even anything en Español. But, if you cross the inebriation of the locos encerrados and the angry confusion of the toros losing their cool then the songs in this 6 pack may be exactly right for your Festival of San Fermin.

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Late of the Pier - The Bulls Bears Are Coming
Squelchy electro with a daft melody. This is the last thing you remember from the night before the running of the bulls. Dancing with some Basque women, some Deutsch tourists and drinking with a one-legged man named Paco whensuddenlyyou come to your senses. On the street. Excuse me, avenida. WTF? Why are you wearing all white with a red sash? Hey, so are the 500 other inebriated caballeros occupying the same 10 meters of roadway. What, exactly, is causing that rumbling sound that is approaching? AAIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

The Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is a Move
Imagine the discordant synths as the bulls skittering on the pavement as they round the corner. The alt-Beyoncé vocals? No idea what those represent but goodness.

Modest Mouse - Satellite Skin
Isaac Brock is the sex child of a Pamplona'n wearing white & a red sash and a steer. Biologically impossible, but true.

The Notorious B.I.G. - Juicy
"I let my tape rock til my tape pop". Themebuster - no good reason for this song here.

Das Racist & Wallpaper - Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell (Wallpaper remix) (Ht: Ben Fong-Torres)
Proof that pure idiocy is just as addictive as any other drug. It's late. You're drunk on sangria and some hash a local smoked with you post-bull run. Now you're trying to find your American buddies, but where?

Feist/Boys Noize - My Moon My Man (Boys Noize remix) HT: Armando & Kiduck
Speaking of idiocy, Electric Daisy Carnival was madness. This was nearly Boys Noize close to their set. Almost an evil electro/techno sub-squelch: "MaMooMaMow. MaMooMaMow." Just exactly like Leslie Feist imagined it.

Local Natives - Simon and Garfunkel - Cecilia (Acoustic Cover)

HT: You Ain't No Picasso`