Urlaubshits

Permanent Vacation’s Bostro Pesopeo answers my questions, and gives us an exclusive mix for your listening pleasure.

Here’s the monthly mix for March. It’s got a few less tracks than usual, but no shorter than it would normally be, thanks to a couple of really long and dark numbers[...]

Once again the monthly mix of stuff I’ve really been enjoying of late, from the previous month’s releases, a few upcoming things, a blogworthy remix by Holy Ghost!, and finishing with Bogdan Irkuk, an artist I have neglected until recently, but now don’t really know how I have lived without. It begins with joyous piano [...]

Here it is, the first Urlaubshits mix of the year, featuring some stuff from the last few months, some upcoming releases, one really old track, and one bonfide exclusive.

A special end of year mix including selections from the best 12″ singles of 2008 and a smattering of notable remixes.

…but the beginning of a new one.
It’s been 17 months of blogging, but I only got myself on the Hype Machine two and a half months ago. Now I have what I can call a regular readership, it’s time to say thanks for all the comments and messages of support I get, they don’t go [...]

So today marks the first anniversary of Urlaubshits. I made the decision about a month ago to update this blog more regularly than I had been, and give it a bit of a redesign, mainly thanks to some kind words from someone in Australia who had happened across my blog through my Last.fm profile page. [...]

Back in the days when people still bought music on things like CDs and vinyl, there were things you could buy called compilation albums, on which unscrupulous record company executives would package various recent chart hits onto one disc, as a way of attracting the casual music consumer into buying music they would otherwise not [...]