The Easy Gramophone ft Cassie

1. ABX - The Ghostface of You Lingers (Ghostface vs Spoon)
Staten Island's a long way from Austin, but Ghostface Killah's finally vaulted Middle America to lend his flow to the work of Texas's minimalist rock princes. ABX - member of The Hood Internet, a wunderkind new mashup crew, - lets Ghostface m.c. over Spoon's stuttering piano, their ghostly call and answer, making something that's both determined and lost, ambivalent and desperate.
Download at: http://tinyurl.com/3ayovt

2. Throw Me the Statue - Lolita
Lolita is one more great pop song in a long line of great pop songs about girls who may not quite be of legal marryin' age. Like Guided by Voices with added strum and glockenspiel, Brian Wilson with a bedroom hard-on, Scott Reitherman's made a song of glee and anticipation, of love or perhaps just lust.
Download at: http://www.230publicity.com/tmts.html

3. The Wrong Trousers - Video Killed the Radio Star (video)
You'd have to use youtubehack.net to turn this video into a free mp3, but personally I advise buying a portable TV and carrying this video with you at all times. Three California teens busking on a sidewalk; mandolin, harp, and upright bass. The Buggles' classic has never sounded so daft, so joyful, so thrust through with childhood want and the pleasure of playing.
Download at: http://www.youtube.com/?v=VSUX9byu6NY

4. The Leaning Towers - Rich Enough to Ignore It
The Leaning Towers ruminate on regret, disappointment, things not working out as planned. But whereas others would do this dustily, mournfully, these kids use tambourine, tuba, synths, a guitar-line that weaves and glimmers like light through leaves. "Probably should be singing redemption songs / instead of filling out exemption forms." The thoughts of a thousand singer-songwriters, staring at their Council Tax forms.
Download at: http://www.aaronmacdonald.com/eleventhhole.html

5. Cassie - Me & You (siik remix)
Cassie's r&b hit, cool and arm's-length, has here been rendered in shades of rose and gold - warm, soft, underlined with pulses of organ and her own flowering voice. Siik's amazing version of Amerie's One Thing was a similar reimagining - the brash made tender, intensity dialed down to a summertime languour.
Download at: http://siik.org/the-remixes/