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We (@melex & @brainpicker) love music. And we believe crowdsourcing and content curation are two of today's most powerful cultural propellers – seeming opposites with an even more powerful intersection. To prove the point, last winter we asked 31 interesting people we knew to each curate one season-inspired song for every day of December, then released the crowdsourced seasonal playlist as a holiday mixtape on December 31.

Thanks to a terrific response, we've decided to come back with Volume 2, crowdsourcing a summer playlist for 2010. For each day between June 1 and June 22, the Summer Solstice, we're once again asking a different interesting person we know to curate a summer-inspired song. On June 22, we'll release the playlist as a free download.

It's been another great season of collaborative playlist-making – thank you for joining us in it. As promised, here's the mixtape for you to download – enjoy by the beach or on a hot summer party night. Mojito optional but highly recommended.

Posted on Thursday, 10 December 2009

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december 10

The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkeley Dreams

Today’s track is curated by Cindy Gallop

The Magnetic Fields are one of my favorite bands. I’ve picked ‘Busby Berkeley Dreams’ off the album ‘69 Love Songs’ because it’s one of my favorite songs. To me it reflects the spirit of the Christmas season because it conjures up the glamour of Christmas parties, events and shows - here in New York everyone is headed to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall - in a dreamy, wistful, romantic, melancholic way, which I think is also how a lot of people feel around Christmas!

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