The Weekly Mix, Vol. 754 - Things Are Looking Up
The Runcast with John Richards
KEXP
4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Larry Rose kicks off 2021 on a hopeful “up”-beat note (see first song), bringing you a mix of some of his recent favorites while covering a wide variety of genres, including electro-pop, R&B, hip hop, Afro-Caribbean grooves, and melancholic guitar-pop. Featuring music from Iska Dhaaf, The Notwist, Chromatics, Ghetto Kumbé, Park Hye Jin, Oneohtrix Point Never and more.
1. Iska Dhaaf - Up
2. The Notwist - Where You Find Me
3. Chromatics - TOY (ATRIP Remix)
4. Jim-E Stack - Note to Self (feat. Empress Of)
5. Ghetto Kumbé - Sola
6. 박혜진 Park Hye Jin - Like This
7. Oneohtrix Point Never - Long Road Home
8. Beach Vacation - Break the Ice
9. breathe. - London
10. The Reminders & CRLCRRLL - Lumumba
11. Radiant Children - Rare
12. Xperience feat. Tiffany Wilson - Cats & Dogs
13. Actress - Walking Flames
14. Daisies - Dido
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, you're listening to the weekly mix podcast from KexP. You can always listen to KEXP |
| 0:04.6 | live on the airwaves in Seattle in 90.3 FM or worldwide at kexp.org or on the Kexp app. |
| 0:12.9 | I'm Larry Rose and I host a show here on KXP on Tuesday nights at 10 p.m. called Larry's Lounge. |
| 0:19.1 | If that's a little late for you, you can always check it out |
| 0:21.0 | on our archives at kexp.org. And I'm very excited to be hosting what I think is the very |
| 0:27.0 | first weekly mixed podcast of 2021. And I'm calling it Things Are Looking Up. And it's inspired by |
| 0:34.7 | the release of the vaccines, some other changes that might be happening |
| 0:38.1 | in January 2021. |
| 0:40.7 | And also the release of a new EP from Brooklyn via Seattle duo Iskidov. |
| 0:47.3 | It's called The Up EP. |
| 0:49.1 | And they're a duo of Nathan Kiroga, formerly of Madrad and Buffalo Madonna, |
| 0:57.4 | and Benjamin Verdos of Mount St. Helens Vietnam band, |
| 1:00.3 | and they have a great new EP. It's called the Up EP. |
| 1:02.4 | And this song is just very hopeful, |
| 1:05.9 | and I thought it'd be a great way to start off the new year. |
| 1:09.8 | It is the title track to the new EP Up from Iskidoff on the weekly mix podcast from K-E-X-P. |
| 1:30.3 | I don't want you let you down with love I won't fall apart away |
| 1:36.3 | I may have my doubts for love But I won't let you down again |
| 1:50.0 | Things are looking up |
| 1:55.0 | I'm looking up at you |
| 1:58.0 | I finally found a way I want to hear you see |
| 2:03.6 | I want the world to stay |
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