San Cristobal De Las Casas, Mexico

I’ve been mind-numbingly bored with the mundane nature of working life recently. I’ve also come to the conclusion that countless others reach within months of getting their first ‘big kid job’: the only thing that helps the days pass is planning a vacation…. And so I planned, ferociously, day in and day out, with my two best friends. The plan was to go to Mexico City in search of our friend Luis Carlos Armando Manzanilla Priego Ramos (yes that’s one person). With Luis as a our spiritual (read: Mexican) guide, we would seek escape from our subfusc concrete realities back home.

Thank you Luis, you gave us tacos, jungles, lagoons, villages, ruins and lomas like we could have never dreamed of. Best 10 days of my post-post-academic-life.

As any good trip should have, this one has a soundtrack. So in this spirit, I bring you a mixtape full of happys and sads, mind-fucks and beauty, new and (really)old World Music and North-American trash: a pastiche of my life on April 4th to April 14th, 2k9.

Hope you enjoy. El gusto es mio.

Spring: From Here We Go Subfusc (zSHARE)

Tracklist after the break…

1. Dan Deacon – Paddling Ghost
2. Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
3. Riskay Vs. Junior Boys -  Smell Yo Boys
4. Au Revoir Simone -  Sad Song (RAC Mix)
5. Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel – Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend Cover)
6. New York Style Yoga – Dancing With Shiva
7. Emilio de Benito -  Granada
8. Suckers -  It Gets Your Body Movin’
9. Giulia y los Tellarini -  Barcelona
10. Jon Brion -  Strings That Tie To You
11. Tor / Sufjan Stevens -  Kill / Any Type of Way (f. Big Daddy Kane & DJ Premier)
12. Filter -  Take A Picture
13. WAR -  Cinco De Mayo
14. Spoon – The Way We Get By
15. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
16. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Young Adult Friction
17. Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
18. Born Ruffians –   Hedonistic Me
19. Sébastien Tellier – Divine
20. Lykke Li – Little Bit (AutoErotique Bootleg Remix)
21. We Are Scientists -  After Hours
22. Len – Steal My Sunshine
23. Phoenix – Girlfriend
24. Artic Monkeys – Mardy Bum
25. Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On the Run

And now … back to this all day: