It’s not a real Friday Mixtape, but here’s eom tracks I was just listening to:
Kurt Vile – Hunchback
Beach House – Norway
Light Pollution – Oh, Ivory!
Midnight Masses – Preacher’s Son
Minus The Bear – Into the Mirror
Pepper Rabbit – Red Wine

I missed a track on this week’s Friday Mixtape. Those of you who downloaded the zip file got it, but it was left out of the post.

James Yuill’s This Sweet Love made an appearance on Grey’s Anatomy this week, and his new Earth & Fire version of Turning Down Water For Air remixes acoustic tracks from the album as electronic, and vise-versa. The acoustic version of This Sweet Love was in the mix this week.

James Yuill – This Sweet Love (Earth Version Remix)

I like:

Trivial tidbits (from myspace)
* The video was shot all stills – roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.
* It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.
* It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.
* Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.
*Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).

The woman is Israeli  model/actress Shir Shomron

Again, rom myspace:
Oren was originally looking for a petit, black haired actress who would look small inside the bed frame and contrast the white sheets with her dark hair. Shir happened to be a very tall, very red-haired person. She was hired immediately. She was the best thing that ever happened to the production as mid-way through the first day of shooting she began to animate her own movements, bringing new life to the existing sketches.

Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance

Flickr: iconoclast

Time again for my favorite holiday song. Ever.

The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl – Fairytale of New York

Boo. I don’t like this new Kanye.

Kanye West – Heartless

Kanye loves him some AutoTune, 808’s and naked women. His AutoTune is also well-hated. Not that he was ever the best rapper. I say: stick to production, but what do I know?