#32: NOT A CLOCK. A CLOUD.

It's the end of the year and it's funny that the last mix is actually part 2 of the "positively happy" theme from the previous month. I guess it's appropriate that the year end is nothing more than the conclusion of something that had been building for a long time. The songs contained herein are comprised of the more dance and beat oriented variety. If this doesn't get your head and booty bobbin, there may not be much hope for you. Seriously the song "Fascination" is the feel good song of the year. Possibly the decade. It's operating on the "Walking on Sunshine" or "Let's Hear it for the Boys" kinda level.

Not only is this positivity born from the political rebirth experienced in the last months, but it's also bubbling up from some of my recent thoughts on the nature of consciousness and life. I have just finished reading "Proust Was a Neuroscientist" and it's one of the best books I have read in a while. It's got me thinking about the brain and the fact that almost every aspect of the human experience is a hodge-podge of synaptic sensation, subjective interpretation, and faulty recollection. The brain is really just making up everything as we go. It's even possibly fabricating what we sense as the "self". The title of the mix is a reminder that our experience is not driven by time, but by the multiplicity of ways the self chooses to experience the world. So choose wisely and don't let life to be dominated by a linear state of mind. After all there is no absolute tick of the clock.

And no, it's not mistake I have included Coolio's "Fantastic Voyage".

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The tracklist is as follows:
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01 Katamari on the Rock, Katamari Damacy Soundtrack
02 Paul Simon, Russian Futurists
03 Happy Rap, Junior Senior
04 Fascination, Alphabeat
05 Lucas with the Lid Off, Lucas
06 Going Out of My Head, Fat Boy Slim
07 A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays, De La Soul
08 Fantastic Voyage, Coolio
09 Hot Topic, Le Tigre
10 Konichiya Bitches, Robyn
11 Working For Vacation, Cibo Matto
12 I Told Her on Alderaan, Neon Neon
13 Joy!, Gay Dad
14 Here Comes..., Tahiti 80
15 Praise You, Fat Boy Slim
16 Since I Left, The Avalanches
17 Cantaloop, US3
18 Deeper Shade of Soul, Urban Dance Squad
19 I Believe in You YACHT
20 Up a Tree Again, Looper