Meet Me At The Fountain (Lollamix)

In a few weeks, the grounds of Chicago's Grant Park will be flooded with the hundreds of thousands of attendees of Lollapalooza. Nestled in between the waters of Lake Michigan and the Windy City streets, Lolla provides a unique chance to experience a major music festival within the confines of a major metro. Unlike fests such as Coachella or Bonnaroo, the music can't go all night and people don't camp nearby for the duration of the weekend. When each night ends, friends often rendezvous near Buckingham Fountain at the heart of the park before streaming back into the sleeping city.

In preparation for this event, I'm excited to present Meet Me At The Fountain, a continuous mix of some of the songs that will be blaring by the lake live during that weekend. With dozens of artists scheduled to play multiple stages, tough choices often have to be made and hidden gems can easily get skipped over. Hopefully, this mix will get you excited for the established favorites and pique your interest in some smaller acts.

This project was uncharted waters for PUYL, but constructing it was quite fulfilling. I enlisted the assistance of a producer friend, and with his ideas and skills, we put together a cohesive mix that we're proud to share with you. It was enormously fun to work on. Many thanks again to Jarofmy for the mixing and Drew for help with the artwork.

Enjoy!

Listen/Download:

https://soundcloud.com/pushupyalighter/meet-me-at-the-fountain

Alternate Download

Tracklist after the jump.

Drops From The Cloud: March 2014

April 1st. What are you fools up to? I'm excited to introduce a new segment here at Push Up Ya Lighter. Feed your ears with this two hour playlist of various Soundcloud gems that I discovered during March.

Every month, I listen to hours upon hours of music. It's absurd. It's my addiction and my therapy. It feels like work, but there's nothing else I'd rather do. Last year, I tried to abide by the policy of only listening to tracks that had a free download available. Unless a song was really hyped, or I knew we had a hit on our hands, I would pass as soon as I didn't see the download option. I'm also highly skilled at recognizing when the download will cost me a "like" and I didn't play that game (Hint: "FREE DOWNLOAD" is gonna cost you something).

The dawn of 2014 brought a few revelations for me, though. I looked at the past year and learned that I had grabbed over 7,000 songs from the Internet. That's in the neighborhood of 20 straight days of music. That doesn't seem unmanageable over the span of a year, but when you consider time spent replaying good songs, playing songs that weren't from 2013, and sleeping, it becomes obvious that I wasn't hearing every mp3. I therefore resolved to listen to everything I download this year which has caused me to be more selective. That's a good thing because I think more critically about music instead of passively hoarding it.

My other realization was that the ubiquity of Soundcloud has provided a perfect platform for exploring most everything I'd want to hear. Most every up-and-comer will have a Soundcloud account if they're trying to get noticed and adding songs to a playlist couldn't be easier. It made sense, then, that I could use monthly playlists as a way of collecting great tracks and sharing them with you.

PUYL March 2014:


I simply added the songs as I heard them, so there is no specific order. Also, a few tracks may be from earlier than March, but I found them just recently.

A few highlights:

• Mykki Blanco and Princess Nokia kick things off in raucous style
• Chromeo express their distress (this song will be massive this year, even if it is essentially a rehash of a lament that Cee Lo Green put more pointedly)
• Kygo's remix of Seinabo Sey may be a few months old, but I just found out about it and it's fantastic and really serves as a centerpiece to this mix
• New tracks from Frank Ocean, Little Dragon, and James Fauntleroy
• That OLD Danny Brown
• Remixes of Sky Ferreira, Daughter, and London Grammar
• Covers of Aaliyah, Christina Aguilera, and The XX
• JERSEY CLUB

Enjoy!