In case you've had a tough weekend, we've got a rehab post for you... a few tracks to chill out with, have a snooze to, reflect with; enjoy; 

I Aeronaut - Backyard of Butterflies

A dreamy Royksopp-esque number from the very shy 'I, aeronaut'. He's released his first full-length this year and you can listen to the entire album  'of waves and wings' right here. Here's a few words from his bandcamp page;

"as a daydreamer, and rather shy boy, this is the only form of communication I can bare to express. It would mean the world to me if anyone would be so kind as to take a listen. I'd appreciate it more than anything. Thank you."

Oliver Tank - Last Night I heard everything in Slow Motion

As always the 'Musigh' blog comes up trumps with all things chilled, this track was a great spot. Oliver is one of Australia's own and you can check out and download a handful of his tracks right here at the Triple J unearthed website. As Triple J point out, fans of James Blake are sure to take to this.    

LIPS Songs - Everything to me

LIPS is a New Zealander now living in New York, this one has been gracing my sleep playlist for a few weeks now. If you like what you hear, check out this young lady's Soundcloud.

Cosomonaut Greckho - Nothing 2 (arioso)

I'm not shy to admit my ignorance of, nor penchant for classical music. It just takes someone like Cosmonaut to get classical music it in the playlist! What might come as more of a shock is that Cosmonaut is a 20 year old Russian based in Saratov producing music like this after rising to fame with remixes for the likes of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Shinichi Osawa. A fitting end to this post, I defy you not to be chilled out after listening to these five tracks in a row... Don't forget; 'right click' on download file --> 'save as' --> relax! Tree Boy xoxoxoxoxo   

A few electro / house tunes to help you get ready for this weekend... 'Right Click' --> 'save as' --> 'have a good weekend'.

Hackman - Close

This has been kicking about for some time but it's not getting old at all, a garage tinge with some perfect vocals.

Angus & Julia Stone - Big Jet Plane (Stern* Disco Mix)

OK, so this track was voted in as Australia's best track of 2010 on what is possibly the world's greatest radio station; Triple J. It's the most depressing thing you've ever heard but it gets a more upbeat makeover here and makes for a tidy warm up track.

Shinichi Osawa - American

Shinichi is a Kitsune label stalwart and this track proves why, it's got that booka shade synth, it's classy, it's catchy, its a few months old now but hopefully it'll be doing the rounds for a long time.

Acidkids - Josef Geld

Now we're warming up. As my facebook followers will know, I picked this for one of my top tracks of 2011 - it's a Johnny Cash sample, imagine a club remix of 'cotton eyed joe' and you're probably thinking of this. It's good fun.

BRUK - Shine On

Absolute gold. Everything you could ask for this weekend.

Foamo - Vibrations

On a Eurpoean tour right now, one of the biggest names in electro. Have a lovely weekend! Tree Boy xoxoxoxo 

It's been too long. I won't bore you with words, I'll let this post speak for itself. If you did want words they would be 'filth', 'mental', 'etcetera'... Don't forget; 'right click' on download file --> 'save as', and you're away.

Maksim & Devnik - Mash Up

Play count on this is ridonkulous. It should never have worked on paper, but put those lyrics with this track and 'mash up' doesn't even come close to describing it! 

This one will dust every cobweb off everything...

Remember how Audio Bully's pimped out Nancy Sinatra's 'shot you down' and Gramaphonedzie smashed the 'why don't you?' sample... This is what dubstep must have sounded like in the 1950's and I lurve it.

Sound too good to be true? It is unbelievable, that much I will say.

Skrillex? Who? Ah yes, This would be the man who you're probably now more familiar with than your immediate family. Sounds exactly like what we've come to expect and love from this mentalist.

It's a Datsik track. Enough said. Tree Boy xoxoxoxo 

There are no words poignant enough to kick this off again after such a break, but just know that I'm writing this with the cheekiest of grins on my face! It's good to be back...

As most of you reading this will know, I disappear during exams. And because of that the site went down and a lot of the vizzles excellent work got caught up in cyber space - but do check out his posts below; as always, a top read.

Enough of the excuses from me... I'm gathering up tracks and you can expect nothing but the best of those right here, for a long time to come. Firstly, I thought I might fill you in on some of the music that accompanied me through the last few months. As you can imagine - with nothing new being downloaded, the play counts got very high, and none higher than on this one-hour mix from Jamie XX.

You might remember previous 'songs of the week' we've featured from Jamie including his re-imagining's of Florence and the Machine's 'You got the love' and Adele's 'Rolling in the Deep'. The Florence classic makes an appearance towards the end of this mix with a clever little accapella thrown in.

And that track's certainly not the highlight of the mix... and that's saying something. In what I would call the best opening track I know of; Jamie XX has dug out an unreleased recording from none other than our favourite band 'the Streets', it's a monster track from back in the day's of 'Has it Come to This' and embodies that side of Mike Skinner that we always knew was there but heard very little about. The self-doubt, the vulnerability, it churns your stomach to hear what Mike's saying but in a way that keeps you reaching for rewind. It blew me away. Like I say, we all know that side of Mike was there but hearing him say it so early in his career is a something I wasn't prepared for. And ironically, Skinner commented years ago that he didn't release the track because it wasn't worth wasting time releasing it - he thinks it's rubbish, I love it - you'll have to be the judge!

And from this the mix moves into remixes of Jamie's fraternity 'the XX'; the track 'Crystallised' gets an old skool garage makeover and then we drift into downtempo, techno and dubstep of the more mellow variety. Stay strong, it almost lost me at first as well; but the thing I kept reminding myself of is that Jamie, aged little over 20, selects tracks and produces originals and remixes with a maturity that's just unparalleled at the minute. Also worth remembering is that Jamie hails from the same school that gave us Hot Chip, Four Tet, and Burial - all renowned for producing music  very similar to that in this tracklist.

Don't expect to fall for this from the moment you press play, but do prepare yourself for a relationship with this mix. You will fall in love and grow old together. Lovely to be back! Tree Boy xoxoxoxo

You can download the full mix by clicking here. Sorry you can't download straight from iknowasong.com as per usual; the file size is 1mb too big! I won't let it happen again I promise. It's worth following the download instructions at megaupload.com for this. And just in case you forgot how good Jamie XX was, this track has over 5 million hits on youtube;