Twin Sister

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Feeling bored today?  Why not make a remix of a Twin Sister track.  All of our music is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license, so you can use these stems for whatever you want, as long as you're not charging money.  Personally, I've always wanted to hear Ghostface, GZA, Raekwon and the rest of the Killa Beez over our music. We'll be posting the stems from the rest of Color Your Life over the next couple of weeks.

George Kalivas has been a good friend of ours for years. I actually grew up in the same town as him and had a lot of the same friends before I ever got to know him well.  He plays bass guitar for another good friend or ours, Lost Boy but also just released a free digital EP entitled "Nectar" under the guise, Kind Spirit.  Visit his blog here and get the "Nectar" EP along with a ton of his amazing artwork.

The sleek, nocturnal counterpoint to pt. 1:

Tour Log pt. 2

So Good - Electrik Red
Love Has Come Around - Donald Byrd and 125th St, NYC
Something About Us - Daft Punk
Take Me Take Me - Perfume
Neon Lights - Kraftwerk

Here's a little handful of songs that got a lot of play in our big blue van on tour last month. Part 2 to follow in a day or so...

Tour Log pt. 1

I Hear a New World - Joe Meek
Ongaku - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Darkroom - Paul McCartney
Journey in Satchidananda - Alice Coletrane
The Platform on the Ocean - Arthur Russell
All I Wanna Do - The Beach Boys

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My father, an emigrant who left India in 1991, collected all of these songs over the years, digitizing old tapes, ripping CD's from midwestern libraries, and spending long nights reclaiming bits and pieces of a past life via a 28.8 kbps modem connection. Some of them are really bad quality rips, but I guess that emphasizes the distance these songs have had to travel to make it here.

The songs themselves are mostly taken from the 70s, a heady time for Bollywood films and their music.  Growing up in a house where I only really heard this music through the conduit of late night tipsy singalongs, I've had minimal exposure to the recordings themselves.  Listening to them again now, what's clear is how amazingly weird some of the sounds are.  Moog synthesizers, surf rock guitars, big band inspired horns, and a distinctly Indian rhythm section and sense of melody make for some really interesting experiments.  The giant who stands over most of this is RD Burman, as he had a hand in writing, producing, and performing in almost every song on the mix.  So, if this music is new to you, and you like what you hear, he is the best place to start.  The tracklist is below:

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