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