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Sun Airway Blend David Bowie, Dirty Projectors on New Mixtape

Sun Airway

Come October 2, Dead Oceans will release Soft Fall, the second full-length from Jon Barthmus’ Sun Airway project. And in the meantime, you can indulge in that album’s sun-choked first taste, “Close,” as well as I Need You Close, a warm, luxurious, fleet-footed, 25-minute mix Barthmus assembled using snippets of songs from Dirty Projectors, Bill Fay, Boards of Canada, David Bowie, Four Tet, the xx, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and more recent SPIN profile subjects Here We Go Magic. It’s all streaming below alongside a slew of forthcoming Sun Airway dates with M83.

Tracks used:
Daphni – “Ahora”
Dirty Projectors – “Impregnable Question”
Boards of Canada – “Ready Let’s Go”
Bill Fay – “I Hear You Calling”
Mozart – “Quartet in G Major”
Bartok – “String Quartet #1 in A minor”
Factory Floor – “Real Love” (Optimo Remix)
Sun Airway – “Close” (Companero Edit)
Modeselektor – “Blue Clouds”
Daphni – Ye Ye”
Burial/Four Tet/Thom Yorke – “Ego”
The xx – “VCR” (Four Tet Remix)
Here We Go Magic – “How Do I Know?”
Chemical Brothers – “The Boxer” (DFA remix)
Daft Punk vs. Major Lazer – “Pon More Time” (Shoujo Edit)
David Bowie – “A New Career In A New Town”
Arp – “Pastoral Symphony: I. Dominoes II. Infinity Room”
Spiritualized – “Medication”

Sun Airway w/M83 tour dates:
September 26 – Miami, FL @ Fillmore
September 27 – Orlando, FL @ House of Blues
September 29 – Richmond, VA @ The National
September 30 – Norfolk, VA @ NorVA
October 02 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
October 03 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
October 07 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore
October 09 – New Orleans, LA @ House of Blues
October 10 – Houston, TX @ Bayou Music Center
October 11 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium