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FEERSUM ENNJIN - Lines
ABANDONED POOLS - The Catalyst
SHOUT OUT LOUDS - The Comeback (Big Slippa Mix)
NEW ORDER - Jetstream
SHE WANTS REVENGE - Out Of Control
APARTMENT - Everyone Says I'm Paranoid
MELLOWDRONE - Beautiful Day
THE FAME - Lost In You
THE RAKES - 22 Grand Job
MOBIUS BAND - Starts Off With a Bang
HAIL SOCIAL - Another Face
THE VACATION - White Noise
DEVICS - Just One Breath
TELEPOPMUSIK - Don't Look Back
WEEVIL -Too Long Sleeping
NOE VENABLE - Boots
WASHINGTON - Landslide
THE ARCADE FIRE - Cold Wind
NINE INCH NAILS - Right Where It Belongs

Nothing like a little protein structure to start your day off.

Bonus points if you know what structures the cylinders and the arrows represent

The cylinders are alpha helices, while the arrows are beta sheets.

there are arrows? i thought that it was a schooner.

You, sir, know your secondary protein structure.

Question: where did that Abandoned Pools track come from? I have their disc, and that song is not on it. I see they have an EP (rel. in 2005??) out, but Django's didn't have the track listing. Is it from that? If so, is it worth getting?

Funny- when I read about AP, I see where Tommy Walter went to UOP, in my hometown!

Humanistic is one of my favorite discs. I wish they/he would come out w/ more stuff.

From Django's: Multi-instrumentalist and singer/songwriter Tommy Walter goes by the alias of Abandoned Pools. Growing up as the son of a former World War II bomber pilot for the Canadian Air Force, Walter picked up a bass guitar in grade school and was classically trained on the French horn shortly after high school. After attending South Cal University, Walter enrolled at the University of Pacific in Stockton, CA, where he studied and taught music theory (and such early 20th century, 12-tone and modal composers like Schoenberg, Bartók, and Stravinsky). But teaching didn't fulfill his desire to play rock music, as he sought other similar-minded musicians in the vast L.A. pop/rock scene.

One evening at an open mic night at a Los Angeles club, Walter happened to meet another singer/songwriter, E, resulting in a partnership shortly thereafter. With drummer Butch Norton on-board, the trio took the name the Eels and signed with DreamWorks Records. Despite moderate success with their debut album, 1996's Beautiful Freak, and a promising future ahead of them, Walter left the group by the time writing had begun on a sophomore effort. In Walter's own words, the reason for his departure was as follows: "Once you get a fancy tour bus and the crowds get bigger, everything goes to hell." Walter locked himself in his South Pasadena apartment and feverishly began writing and recording his own original material on his eight-track recording machine. Walter took the bare tracks to Boston's Q Division studio, where acclaimed alt rock producers Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade helped beef up the tracks. Signing to the Extasy Records label, Walter's Abandoned Pools issued a debut album, Humanistic, in September of 2001. ~ Greg Prato, All Music Guide

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Finally, a post about the music

I haven't heard Humanistic yet but now I want to. Yes, I believe that the Abandoned Pools song here is from their latest EP. Although its the only one I've heard, I like it a lot. Here it is:

Abandoned Pools - The Catalyst

http://s27.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0LP85J0DHGCO33G8B533FBIELS

Most of the songs I post here in The Mix forum focuses on new and emerging artists that are of interest to me. I've gotten quite a few from a variety of mp3 blogs and other sources.