Haven’t been doing reblogging for a while, sorting through them is a good excuse to being lazy on this rrraging hot Istanbul afternoon. Mixes and tracks coming in another post!.

* Viva Flexipop shares all of the iconic flexipop disks. Cheap electro, NDW, synthpop, post punk, you name it, via the lovely A Million Keys, a recently find.

* I’ve talked about Amral’s Trinidad Cavaliers before on the calypso post, here’s a cover of Tito Puente/Santana’s Oye Como Va from this steel drum orchestra on I’m Learning to Share!

* Cosmic Disco Charts for July, also a guide to the nuances between Italo/Cosmic/Nu-Balearic styles of disco by The Guardian

* Wobbly, Porest and Peter Conheim & Don Joyce from Negativland get together as Chopping Channel to make a collage/plunderphonics mix for Negativland’s majestic “Over the Edge” radio program. Free download the tracks here. You can get more OTE here

* Stream pieces from James Blackshaw’s Litany of Echoes while reading his own words about them. More James Blackshaw on undomondo.

* A new blog on our blogroll, oro has a wide range of hard to find traditional African music from voodoo brass to afro rock and everything in between. Check out some of voodoo stuff from Amikpon.

* Aretha Franklin singing the classical opera piece Nessun Dorma via Friday Afternoon in the Universe.

* MP3 Blogs vs. Music Blogs: Different Purposes?

* The flirting between dubstep and minimal techno explained.

* 5 Lies Indie Musicians Tell Themselves