Loveshadow - This LifeBoat (Let's Change)

We decided to take a loop through ccMixter.org to see what's up.  Smooth dance rhythm with a message anyone?

Loveshadow and Snowflake sound like they have been working together in a studio for years.  No, Snowflake provides the 'pella and Loveshadow lays the tracks down.

If you have been around this blog over the years you will know that we love our ccMixter.  

If you haven't, then get on over and experience the outrageously huge collection of Creative Commons mixing that have happening over there the past 10 or so years.  If you are looking for the definitive search tool for the site there is dig.ccmixter.org.  Take it for a spin.

Loveshadow - This LifeBoat (Let's Change)

Loveshadow - His Kiss

Today's track features the amazing vocal talent, Snowflake.  

Languid, sultry and all the elements that make a kiss live on in memory long after it is delivered. 

It has been a while since we posted a track for ccMixter.  No reason for that.

This Loveshadow mix, posted on May 21, 2014, definitely got Snowflake's attention:

just saw the upload notification on my iphone. dropped everything i’m doing, found my laptop, and am listening with full attention. amazing that you’re featuring prairie dogs….we are surrounded by them up here in the mountains! you are a magical maestro with hypnotizing powers. i would Ed Pick this but of course that would violate my sacred ccMixter vow :) this is sexy, hip, ambient yet completely groovin’ — incredible arrangement that should be playing in clubs and martini bars. thank you thank you thank you!!! 

Take a moment and experience His Kiss.

Loveshadow - His Kiss

Loveshadow - Kisses On Lips ( The Mistletoe Mix )

This Loveshadow mix was posted at ccMixter.org in November of 2007.  It was featured on a Black Sweater, White Christmas radio program, but never got a BSWChristmas post.  Here goes...

Mistletoe Dance, Photo by

Allison Marchant

Loveshadow's work forms part of the backbone of ccMixter.  And that is part of the joy of the creative commons remix site.  A collective dedicated to putting a wide variety of really great sounds out there and then building on the body of work...always building.  If you haven't been there, well...

The building block that Loveshadow used here was provided by a year-long project by calendargirl to put up a vocal track each month to challenge the mixters.  Some great tunes were generated including this one.

Mixter Gurdonark (friend of BSWC) explains:

I like that you make this mix so much fun. It’s great that you play in the field of holiday novelty, and yet you do more than merely an obvious send-up, but create your own mistletoe- verse in which this song makes sense. The interweave of vocal and insturments is good, and the little sequenced keyboard/bell around where the lyric “spider” pops up is good.

But mostly, you stretch, and you go places that people sometimes imagine they’re too hip to go, and you show there’s a lot of fun up on them thar asteroids.

I don’t think they’ll be playing this one at Billy Bob’s Texas in Fort Worth any time soon, but it’s great to hear the nods to country in this wonderfully odd mix.

Merry Christmas...enjoy the season.

Loveshadow - Kisses On Lips ( The Mistletoe Mix )