taped together

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 Tuesday, 29 December 2009

[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

70 plays

december 29

Susannah McCorkle - The Waters Of March

Today’s track is curated by Martin Brooks, co-founder of Work Club

Ever noticed how the best songs come with smells attached? For me, California Girls always kicks up soda stream concentrate. All Sisters of Mercy tracks smell of dry ice and snakebite. This song (The Waters of March) smells of all kinds of stuff from from my childhood to now. Most of all, it smells of pine cones, sticky vinyl seats, hot tarmac and burning brakes from a family caravan holiday in the Alps in the 70s.

A good Christmas track should get you relaxed, smiling and feeling grateful for whatever you have - regardless of any belief in Santa. This is it, the ultimate feel-good life-affirmer.

buy song US | UK

Notes