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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 Saturday, 19 June 2010

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june 19

Circulus - My Body is Made of Sunlight

Today’s track is curated by Tim Malbon / @malbonster

My Body Is Made of Sunlight is from the classic 2005 album The Lick Of The Tip Of An Envelope Yet To Be Sent.

I love a bit of Acid Folk, and this song has a special resonance for me - not merely because Circulus have a Crum Horn player who’s a doppleganger for a colleague of mine at Made by Many. Not just because I stalked Circulus a few years ago, and saw them 3 times in as many months - even including hanging around them and trying to engage them in conversation like I had some kind of deranged band-crush. And not because the last time I saw them play at the Union Chapel I walked out the back before they were on to find the whole band chuffing away on some huge stinky reefers… which I blame for their piss-poor performance that night. No, I think this is a beautiful song and it arouses the pagan within me. Perhaps this is because these days either side of the Summer Solstice would once have been the holiest of holy-days. This music puts me back in touch with the shamans and druids, the ancient ones, and I feel re-born. That’s why they call it Acid Folk FFS. Check out the band’s My Space page here.

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