Lucid Music Blog

expand 16 May 2012

Sprung

Like our man Biz Markie once crooned, "It's Spring again!"
Therefore it's time to unleash our latest downloadable mix of audio freshness.
Now, go outside and play now. Ya'hear?

expand 29 December 2011

Staff Affection

Behold, for it is the Lucid crew's playlist of our most listened to songs of 2011.

Come. Walk with us, as we take an aural excursion back through the MMXI orchard to sample the audio fru-ettes that nourished our ears & shaking behinds.

Enjoy and we'll see y'all in the 1, 2!

expand 20 December 2011

Love Family

Hello Young World,

As a small gift to you, a banger of a music mix to keep your toes warm, eardrums intoxicated and your mind free.

1. Download playlist, or play straight in here
2. Fix yourself a drink
3. Wrap some socks
4. Fix yourself another drink
5. Repeat at no. 2

Make it so.
Merry Christmas.

expand 18 November 2011

Electric Garden

In tribute to the recent passing of Mr. Bert Jansch, iconic UK folk guitarist and singer, we give you, Electric Garden. A brief stroll through pastoral United Kingdom folk during the late 60's and early 70's. Even the most analog of musical genres could not help but be transformed by the artistic and cultural revolution of those heady times. As the world turned on and tuned in, folk music grew electric hands, psychedelic minds and progressive legs. But regardless of these genre mutations, folk's ol' ticker grew stronger, developed an unapologetic honesty and emerged more fearless than it had ever been.

Thrown in for good measure, we've also included a song by the young UK troubadour Johnny Flynn, who along with with his pickin' peers Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling, and others, are representing lovely for the nu-folk scene of modern day Britain.

expand 3 November 2011

Firecrackers & Airplanes

For those of you who aren't British, Guy Fawkes was an Englishman who tried to blow up the House of Parliament with 36 barrels of gunpowder on November 5th 1605. He was part of the "Gunpowder Plot", a failed assassination of King James I of England in an attempt to restore a Catholic monarchy to the land. Dude was eventually caught, tortured and hung. Every subsequent November 5th since then, folks all over Great Brittania go buckwild and celebrate "Guy Fawkes Night" by setting off fireworks, lighting bonfires and torching effigies of Mr. Fawkes.

So in honor of Guy Fawkes Night, we give you 46 minutes and 33 seconds of "Firecrackers & Airplanes." Recorded on July 4th 2011 in Seattle, WA using a Marantz PMD222 portable cassette recorder (using the built-in condenser microphone) onto a Maxell XLII 90 tape. It may be the most satisfying audio experience since "Reign In Blood."

Oh, and those "V for Vendetta" masks our peoples have been rocking at the Occupy protests? Those are actually Guy Fawkes masks. Better ask somebody.

Guy Fawkes

The Gunpowder Plot Crew during happier times