Check the soundtrack!

Everyone always asks me what I'm listening to... the following were the most memorable and significant songs of each moment. Most can be downloaded or heard via YouTube and other websites.

{Artist} – {Song} {[proposed genre... some of it's pretty unique so we make educated guesses]}

Sitting in LAX, waiting to embark on our ridiculous adventure:
1. Ghislain Poireir – Blazin' (Modeselektor Remix) [hard breakbeat electro]
2. The Toxic Avenger – Escape (Bloody Beatroots Remix) [hard ghetto-tech electro]


12 hour flight to Auckland:
1. Devendra Barnhart – Rejoicing in the Hands [folk]
2. Bebel Gilberto – All Around (Telefon Tel Aviv Mix) [chillout]
3. Joanna Newsom – Sawdust & Diamonds [folk]
4. Goldfrapp – Clowns [folk]


1st Morning in Auckland, in the shuttle to our hotel:
1. M83 – Lower Your Eyelids To Die With The Sun [avant garde]
2. Wiley – Wearing My Rolex [hip-house]


Headphones as I wrote the 1st blog post:
1. Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin [tech-house]
2. One Plus One – No Pressure (Deadmau5 Remix) [tech-house]
3. Filter Freq – Dirty Sexy Club Music (Deadmau5 Remix) [tech-house]

Hungover on the morning of my birthday, grubbing a delicious breakfast in a Belgium pub, enjoying the best cappuccino of my life, and having sporadic conversations with my French waitress:
1. Art Pepper – Long Ago and Far Away [jazz]
2. Wes Montgomery – Besame Mucho (Take 2) [jazz]
3. Deadmau5 – Secondary Complications [tech-house]

1st night in the RV, sipping wine & chatting
1. Porno for Pyros – Pets [90s mellow rock]
2. Ben E. King – Stand By Me [r&b]
3. Righteous Brother – Unchained Melody [r&b soul]
4. I Am Kloot – Proof [indie chillout]

5. Kings of Convenience ft. Feist – Know How [indie chillout]


Luging
1. Le Castlevania – Trouble In Daylight (LA Riots remix) [electro]
2. Was (Not Was) – Walk the Dinosaur (Paul Devro Remix) [baltimore club]
3. Adam Sky vs. Mark Stewart – We Are All Prostitutes (Crookers remix) [ghetto-tech electro]


Biking through Hawke's Bay Wine Country:
1. Andrew Bird – Plasticities [indie]
2. Andrew Bird – Fiery Crash [indie]
3. Broken Social Scene – Windsurfing Nation [indie]
4. Broken Social Scene – 7/4 Shorline [indie]

5. Junior Kimbrough – Release Me [blues]
6. Junior Kimbrough – All Night Long [blues]
7. Junior Kimbrough – Most Things Haven't Worked Out [blues]
8. Junior Kimbrough – Done Got Old [blues]


On our way up Te Mata Mountain:
1. Kaiser Chiefs – Oh My God [indie rock]


NZ radio is garbage. It airs every color of Top40: some rap, lots of trite Pop Punk and Emo Rock, scores of aweful 'classic hits'. The girls brought the new Coldplay CD so we played it about 11 times. I actually enjoyed it the first 7, especially the first track. But by day 3 Brado and I splurged on an iTrip. First song played:
Don Rimini – Let Me Back Up (Crookers Remix) [hard ghetto-tech]



Today Brad showed me the most profound hip-hop I've heard in a while:
1. Murs - A Friend's Blues
2. Adeem – Sock Drawer Blues
3. Cyne - First Person
4. Grouch – God Bless the Elephant

5 more dope song you should here:
1. Murs & Slug – Morris Day [hip-hop]
2. Beastie Boys - Sabrosa [70s porn funk]
3. Bill Withers - Kissing My Love [funk]
4. Mark Rae ft. Veba - Lavish (Deadbeats Remix) [groovey chillout]
5. Gaz Nevada - I.C. Love Affair [italo disco]