It is fine to have many goals in life, but to focus on too many at once is to pull yourself in every direction, and going nowhere. Focus on one goal at a time to make full use of your resources and you will arrive where you want to be. Getting things warmed up with his blend of pop meets rock is Jay Della Valle who made the switch from wedding singer to artist. His simple melodies and musical rhythms speak of deeper meaning. Donna Lewis has seen her music shift and change over time, reflecting her own life going from artist to mother, and taking time off to raise her family, but still working on other people projects (Trevor Horn's Art of Noise project and David Torn's Lars and the Real Girl) that took me down new and different avenues and allowed me to approach 'In the Pink' refreshed and with a new perspective. Tokyo 507 is back yet again, can we help it if we love this duo of Mark Southeron and Hayden Turner, and their wonderful smooth guitar laden jazz, simple dance beats and ethereal vocals. We crank things up with Mates Of State, a now married duo of Kori Gardner (keyboard/vocals) and Jason Hammel (drums/vocals). Simple arrangements and the sparse sound of piano and drums working in time and around each other show that less is often more, and you will want to hear more from them. We then serve up a trio of artists who have been around for a while, and are still cranking out great music, starting first with Collective Soul who when they first came on the scene, back in '94, critics called them one hit wonders. Fourteen years, eight number one rock hits and seven million in sales later they are back with their latest release showing off their guitar laden sounds and driving beats, before another long time artist David Usher jolts us with his blend of poem like lyrics dancing with high energy music. We finish with one of the members of indie music royalty, The Charlatans with their trademark blend of guitars playing off and with each other creating a sonic wave that the bass and drums pick up and increase in intensity as Tim Burgess's vocals come in, with a melody that's so beguiling it almost disguises the disturbing intensity at the heart of the song. Keeping with the sound based on the guitar is Asobi Seksu as James Hanna creates musical textures with squalling guitars, while the vocals of front woman Yuki shift from girlish falsetto to plaintive laments. East Coast bred but L.A based Time Machine are emcees Biscuit and Jet Set Jay, and DJ / Producer Mekalek show their song writing overflows with DIY attitude as Mekalek relies on heavy drums and rich melodies to push the attitude into the trios sound. Audiokonstrukte serves up some free music off of his last massive release Smart Echoes For Sensitive Ears where beautiful melodies meet sluggish rhythms in a sound field between ambient and the almost forgotten genre of trip hop. Next The Orb returns with their sound of 70's ambient meets classic Chicago house as when they glide into the groove of Urban Soul (aka Roland Clark) who draws on the music of the club scene to spark his musical creativity. Creativity is something Lennon (Kathleen Murphy), and The Sun Paulo shows off as they careen through impossibly convoluted twists, turns and dazzling displays of kinetic virtuosity shot with rampant, crazed energy. Cooling things down is The Atomica Project with the title song from their latest release Grayscale that took the duo of programmer/songwriter Wade Alin and vocalist Lauren Cheatham three years to make and prove the wait of downtempo beats and stunning female vocals was well worth it. We close out with anther free song from Crisopa, the personal project of Madrid based Santi LizÃn, that present melodic electronica with the pretension of prompting therapeutic trips towards impossible landscapes. If you want what you hear, just follow the links to the songs in the playlist below to get them. *denotes songs artists have released for free Warm It Up 00:00 Jay Della Valle - Now U Know 03:17 Donna Lewis - Shout 06:39 Tokyo 507 - Body Electric Crank It Up 11:04 Mates Of State - My Only Offer 13:53 Collective Soul - All That I Know 17:23 David Usher - Ugly Is Beautiful 21:06 The Charlatans - You Cross My Path 25:54 Asobi Seksu - Thursday 28:48 Time Machine - The Groove That Just Won't Stop 31:25 Audiokonstrukte - Sensitive Poem* 34:03 The Orb - Let The Music Set You Free 39:15 Urban Soul - What Do I Gotta Do (Eric Kupper Club Mix) 45:44 Lennon - Infinitebeat2 (Remix) 50:15 The Sun Paulo - But We Want More Cool It Down 53:25 The Atomica Project - Grayscale 56:10 Crisopa - North Left* Run Time 01:03:30 Cadence Revolution is sponsored by The Point For Fitness
