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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 Friday, 4 June 2010

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Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Perfect Skin

Today’s track is curated by Cindy Gallop / @cindygallop1

Picking my one ultimate summer song was a real toughie. In the end I went for the nostalgiafest. Perfect Skin — and, in fact, the whole of Lloyd Cole & The Commotions’ album Rattlesnakes — was the soundtrack of my summer of ‘85.

The summer I moved from Liverpool to London, from Toxteth to Pimlico, from theater to advertising, from Liverpudlian caffs to Soho restaurants, from chip butties to champagne (ah, London adland in the 80’s…) and fell in love with someone, to quote the Buzzcocks from a few years earlier, ‘I shouldn’t’ve fallen in love with’. One of THOSE summers.

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