#17 YOUR EXISTENCE GIVES ME HOPE

Six degrees of separation. We've all heard about that. One small connection leads to another, which leads to two more, then four, then eight and exponentially on and on until we become connected to every other person on the planet. It's a powerful idea. It lies at the heart of this project. That this little burst is relayed to my inner circle, and ripples out from there. Hell I have been receiving emails from all over the globe from people appreciating the NEIMT. That gives me hope.

The new mix is all about how one nuance relates to another. Connection after connection is made and tiny changes become more pronounced until we end up at a place wholly different than where we started. The mix starts off with a hefty does of quirk thanks to the hottest new indie sensations Los Campesinos! LIly Allen, who is one of the only mainstream pop stars that I truly love, takes it from there giving us lots of toe tapping, head bobbing action. Damn she's so good. The violins in that song then take us lead us to the androginous Patrick Wolf. Eventually we enter the warm retro section of the mix where Lucky Soul, Jens Lekman, and Stereolab make us believe it really was better back in the day. That vintage aesthetic is then morphed with distinctly modern sounds with an older track from His Name is Alive and the ever engaging Feist.

From there, we enter the center piece of the mix, the glorious genius experimentalists of St. Vincent and M.I.A. I started this mix with those two songs and built it out from there. Their music gives me goosebumps. Those scatalogical sampled sounds feed the leap into the booty shakin goodness of the Go! Team (with probably the greatest cover song ever), and Justice. Things then begin a chilled-out decent into the down-tempo section of the mix with new songs from RJD2, Matthew Dear, Junior Boys and finally finishing with a new moody 80s flavored jam from U.N.K.L.E that sounds like it could have been taken from the last scene in The Legend of Billie Jean. You know where Helen Slater burns down her effigy and the kids go crazy. What's not to like?

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The tracklist was as follows:
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01 We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives, Los Campesinos!
02 LDN, Lily Allen
03 The Magic Position, Patrick Wolf
04 Add Your Light To Mine, Baby, Lucky Soul
05 The Opposite of Hallelujah, Jens Lekman
06 Percolator, Stereolab
07 1 2 3 4, Feist
08 Baby Fish Mouth, His Name is Alive
09 Your Lips Are Red, St. Vincent
10 Paper Planes, M.I.A.
11 Bull in the Heather, The Go! Team
12 D.A.N.C.E., Justice
13 Beyond, RJD2
14 Fleece on the Brain, Matthew Dear
15 In The Morning, Junior Boys
16 Broken, U.N.K.L.E. featuring Gavin Clark