I know it’s kinda trite to depend so much on Brazilian music when making a summer mix, but it works well for me. (The mix tape’s opening track, from Japanese-Brazilian Curumin, is totally beachy, even if I don’t understand what he’s singing about.) And then of course there’s my usual tactic: the musical version of going on a world tour. There’s stuff from France, Mexico, Scotland, Cuba, Sweden, England, and Spain. And there’s just one track from the US—from New Orleans’s Hot 8 Brass Band—a fact I feel vaguely smug about. Even the fact that I’m using that song as the final track is vaguely smug-making too.
Anyway. Following is the track list; you can download the zip file here. Enjoy.
- ‘Compacto,’ Curumin. (Japan Pop Show, 2008.)
- ‘Lalala,’ Nouvelle Vague feat. Julie Delpy. (Two Days in Paris OST, 2007.)
- ‘Sufoco,’ Alcione. (O Samba: Brasil Classics vol. 2, 1990.)
- ‘1901,’ Phoenix. (Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, 2009.)
- ‘Azul,’ Natalia Lafourcade. (Hu Hu Hu, 2009.)
- ‘French Navy,’ Camera Obscura. (My Maudlin Career, 2009.)
- ‘En Casa del Trompo, No Bailes,’ Orquestra Riverside. (Sí, Para Usted: The Funky Beats of Revolutionary Cuba, vol. 1, 2007.)
- ‘Dance, Dance, Dance,’ Lykke Li. (Youth Novels, 2008.)
- ‘Olerê Camará,’ Alcione. (O Samba: Brasil Classics vol. 2, 1990.)
- ‘Introducing Mr Furia And Professor Manso,’ The Pinker Tones. (BCN Connection, 2003.)
- ‘Smokebelch II,’ Sabres Of Paradise. (Sabresonic, 1993.)
- ‘Te Queria,’ Seu Jorge. (Samba Esporte Fino, 2001.)
- ‘Su Recuerdo,’ Single. (Pío Pío, 2006.)
- ‘Sexual Healing,’ Hot 8 Brass Band. (Rock with the Hot 8, 2007.)




