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Deep Desk Hours
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Long, varied workday mix from your partial Field Notes taste: jazz and bossa, indie folk, softer 90s, and a few modern edges. Built for desk hours; durations left unknown until a…
Soft Deadline Radio
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A second long workday mix across jazz and bossa, indie folk, and 90s radio keepers. Complementary to Deep Desk Hours with different songs and a little more afternoon radio energy.…
Almost Familiar
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Same desk orbit as the recent work mixes, but walking around the no-brainers, younger album cuts, approachable jazz, Parachutes-era Coldplay, and a few 90s indie additions.…
Saudade Shift
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Desk hours with more water in the glass, bossa forward, soft jazz, younger indie, and a few shameless ’90s. Context: long varied work / office listening; bossa-forward follow-up…
Unscheduled Scene
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A long reel: whimsical open, weird mid-lane, introspective dip, soft lift. Scores and songs that already behave like cues. Context: long fun/weird/introspective/whimsical journey;…
Weather for Other Planets
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Pure Moods after the future arrived: luminous ambient, elegant sci-fi, orbital melancholy, glass-and-steel neoclassicism, and a little turn-of-the-millennium dream haze. Solaris…
Sun-Faded Strange
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A warm, wandering hippy continuum: classic folk-psych and cosmic-country anchors, modern psychedelic familiarity, and a gently stranger edge. Reggae appears as texture, not a…
Lost in Translation: After Tokyo
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
The complete Lost in Translation soundtrack as the opening movement, followed by the hidden Bill Murray performance of “More Than This,” then an expanded 60-track arc of Kevin…
Old America, After Dark
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A pre-early-1960s master soundtrack library: classics that arrive with a scene already attached. Wartime memory, torch songs, crooners, doo-wop, early soul, roadside country, rock…
The Hours Between
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
An ethereal late-night sequence: warm electronics, dream-pop, hushed voices, drifting shoegaze, and an ambient landing. Sequenced to move from the last light in the room through a…
The Perfect Needle Drop
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
40 actual-film needle drops in four acts: The Scene Stealers; Youth, Trouble & Terrible Decisions; Beautifully Strange Choices; The Scene Becomes Legendary. Approved draft. Do not…
Along the Front Range: The Logan Farmer Sessions
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
34 songs. A Logan Farmer-centered tour of atmospheric folk and the Front Range's Elephant 6 indie legacy, with complementary artists from beyond Colorado. The region is a theme,…
Songs From Movies That Don't Exist
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
An imaginary film in 40 scenes: first encounters, an idyllic detour, a disappearance, the long night, and a quietly hopeful ending. Sequenced like a film rather than a genre mix.…
The Art of Whistling
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Thirty songs exploring whistling as a melodic instrument, from Andrew Bird to vintage standards, indie pop and cinematic themes. Draft for listening review; a few selections merit…
The Grand Budapest Listening Society
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A Wes Anderson-inspired imaginary soundtrack, now expanded with Ziggy-era David Bowie and Seu Jorge's Life Aquatic reinterpretations. 1. The Kinks - This Time Tomorrow 2. The…
Porch Light Bossa
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
1. Marcos Valle - Os Grilos 2. Yo La Tengo - Stockholm Syndrome 3. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Cast Your Fate to the Wind 4. Pavement - Range Life 5. Nara Leão - Diz Que Fui Por Aí 6.…
Behind the Glass
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Eight studio portraits: a familiar signature hit opens each chapter, followed by three discoveries from other artists they recorded. Play in order. Context: Play in order with…
The Desk Supremacy
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Kinetic film scores and a few Vanilla Sky style soundtrack songs for long desk hours. Bourne pulse, Indy adventure, and other work-friendly cues. Built as a soundtrack lane, not a…
Familiar Strangers
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Music discovery/rediscovery: a small map of songs that feel like they ought to have been in rotation already. Anchored by Crumb and Loving, then drifting through hazy psych,…
The Thing Inside the Thing
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A musical argument in five movements: repetition → variation → accumulation → recognition. Bach bookends a journey through Reich, Fela, Coltrane, Miles, Can, Bowie, Eno,…
One More for the Jukebox
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Jukebox classics: records worth walking across the room to play. Bright, punchy, social, hook-driven rock & roll, R&B, doo-wop, early soul, country crossover, girl-group pop, and…
The Art of the Closing Scene
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
40 actual-film soundtrack selections in four acts: Something Has Changed, The World Keeps Turning, The Beautiful Unresolved, and Roll Credits. Approved draft; Spotify publication…
The Hi-Fi Demonstration Record
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
40 audiophile-focused recordings in four acts: The Precision Laboratory, Musicians in the Room, The Architecture of Sound, and The Human Element. Reference listening for stereo…
Cassette Left in the Sun
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Eighty '80s tracks: college-rock deep cuts, sophisti-pop gloss, and radio guilty pleasures, warped a little by the dashboard heat. 1. The Replacements - Kiss Me on the Bus 2.…
Neon Between Exits
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A long nocturnal journey inspired by Drive: neon romance, warm analog grooves, empty freeways, a stretch of danger, and a gentle dawn. Moby and Daft Punk recur as emotional…
Mr. Sandman at the Bijou
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A cinematic mid-century playlist: Shawshank-adjacent memory music, dreamy doo-wop, early rock & roll, country, crooners, and a few instrumental shadows. Mostly 1940s-1950s, built…
The Light Left On
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A close companion to The Hours Between: warm electronics, dream-pop, hushed folk, slow-motion guitars, and a long ambient landing. Forty different songs for the same quiet part of…
Where the Light Settles
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
An ethereal folk and chamber-pop journey drawn from the atmosphere of Beck's Ride Lonesome: acoustic detail, soft strings, pedal steel, unhurried voices, and psychedelic warmth.…
Wildflowers & Other Frequencies
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
A 45-song journey through intimate folk, distinctive songwriting, melodic indie pop, and psychedelic grooves. Florist, Jolie Holland, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Fiona Apple,…
The Tropicália Conspiracy
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
40 tracks of Brazilian Tropicália and its descendants. Spotify-matched edition with close recording matches and five musical substitutions, retaining four-act sequence. 1. Jorge…
Behind the Glass II: The First Architects
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
From acoustic horns to the Wall of Sound and Van Morrison's open rooms: fourteen studio portraits, each opening with a landmark. Listen in order, shuffle off. Context: Play in…
Koko Goldstein Presents: Extremely Smooth Decisions
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Music for making complicated romantic choices near an electric piano. A Channel 101-inspired Yacht Rock playlist: jazz/R&B harmony, immaculate LA studio polish, elite…
The French Connection: Volume IV
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Fourth of six cinematic volumes. 40 French yé-yé, chanson, soundtrack-adjacent, sophisti-pop, and modern French indie selections. Romantic, mischievous, stylish, and emotionally…
The Beautifully Obscure Soundtrack: Volume I
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
40 cinematic songs and instrumentals: Italian and French film music, orchestral pop, imaginary cinema, and modern dreamlike endings. First of six curated volumes. 1. Piero…
The American Night Drive: Volume II
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Volume II of six: a 40-track nocturnal American road movie in music, from neon-lit departure through dream-pop, indie rock, ambient highways, and dawn. 1. Chromatics - Night Drive…
The Laurel Canyon Afternoon: Volume III
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Third of six cinematic playlist volumes. Forty warm folk-rock, California harmonies, country-rock, and overlooked singer-songwriter gems; a sunlit 1970s afternoon. 1. America -…
The College Radio Station, 1994: Volume V
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
Fifth of six cinematic playlists. A late-night fictional 1994 college radio set: 40 mostly pre-1995 indie, shoegaze, jangle, and lo-fi discoveries. A few historical liberties may…
The Last Broadcast
mund · October 24, 2026 · Music
An abandoned college radio frequency drifts through forgotten guitar records, distant voices, and the last lights of the American West. 1. The Clientele - I Can't Seem to Make You…