Maybe it’s all this beautiful weather that we’ve been having in the Bay Area, but I feel like laying in the park and watching the birds and bees dance. “Summer’s Shown” is the perfect track to accompany me on my daydream. With just enough late-60′s melodies, wrapped around blissed-out harmonies, Liftoff’s “Summer’s Shown” may be accompanying you on all of your summer adventures, or at least the ones detected to peace and love.

Liftoff
“Summer’s Shown” (download mp3)
from “Sunday Morning Airplay”
(Fort Knox Recordings)
“Summer’s Shown“ (play)
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Hello fellow Elephant Backup / Livedrive users,

We have exciting news today, there’s a new version of the Livedrive software available now,
with some significant improvements:

• Faster syncing of files.
• Lower memory and CPU usage.
• Backup files with exceptionally long paths.
• Improved restore software, which supports long paths, and deals with network failures more efficiently.
• A number of background performance and stability improvements.

You can read more about Livedrive version 1.7.0, and download the software at Livedrive’s blog.

This update is good whether you are a free 11GB account user, or have a paid Unlimited Backup account.

For our free 11GB users – please also note you can still upgrade to unlimited storage for just $36 a year,
or $3.99 a month with the first month free. You can purchase the upgrade here.

Not sure what you can do with a Livedrive Unlimited Backup account?
Check out this diagram and blog post from our tech guru, Lou.

Enjoy the music at funfunfunmedia.com and mp34u.fm.

And please forward our great backup deals and music pages to your friends!

Rio de Janeiro’s instrumental band, Paraphernália play a refreshing blend of diverse musical genres. “22 De Setembro” is a groovy number that swings between jazz, funk, cumbia and ska. If The Uptones were from Brazil I think they would sound like Paraphernália.

Paraphernália
“22 De Setembro” (download mp3)
from “Ritmo Explosivo”
(Pimba)
“22 De Setembro” (play)


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OK Go always seem to come up with the catchiest hooks that accentuate their longing-pop melodies and noisy-guitar tones, all placed over a steady rockin’ beat. The energetic chorus of “Here Comes the Fire” stays in your head long after the song’s final over-charged note. In other words: The perfect pop song.

OK Go
“Here Comes the Fire” (download mp3)
from “adidas / MLS Represent – Rock The Pitch”
(Adidas/MLS)
“Here Comes the Fire“ (play)
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Formed in 1985, The Wedding Present have had a tumultuous ride on the music roller-coaster. From success with their DIY-self-releases, to “selling-out” to BMI in the late 80s, The Wedding Present is still here kicking out radio-ready pop, spiked with post UK punk attitude.

The Wedding Present
“You Jane” (download mp3)
from “IODA SXSW Opening Day Bash Sampler 2012″
(ioda)
“You Jane“ (play)
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Horn driven, bass heavy, Jamaican dub. Abassi All Stars are a collective of German reggae roots and dub practitioners. Abassi, keeping the heavy sounds of instrumental dub alive!

“Heavy Load“ (play/download mp3)

Visit Abassi All Stars’ label to hear more!

Godspeed is one of Canada’s most famous bands. One of the archetypes of the post-punk sound, a style of instrumental music that builds and descends in epically long tracks. After releasing an EP, Godspeed released a double album (totaling a whopping 9 songs), “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven.” This title track is a beautiful introduction to their sound. This song builds and builds until it crescendos making you feel like raising your skinny fists to the heavens!

“Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven“ (play/download mp3)

Buy/Listen to all of Godspeed’s music.

Punchy, catchy post-rock from UK’s now defunct stars, The Rakes. “Retreat” is the title track to The Rakes’ first EP, released in the US on Dim Mak Records. This gem is begging: “slacker’s anthem.”

“Retreat“ (play/download mp3)

Buy The Rakes music at Amazon

Ah the yummy post-rock guitar-scapes of Mogwai. This should be the soundtrack to hiking up Everest with the complete hardcover Tolkien in your backback. Cascading layers of über-proggy goodness.

“San Pedro“ (play/download mp3)

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Quite possibly the definition of ‘cool riddim’, “Robin Hoods Of The Ghetto” was originally released during the apex of Bob Marley’s international success. A winning formula that focused its power on exposing the injustices and struggles of poor people across the world, Cool Runnings followed Marley’s humanitarian cue with classic tunes like this one, re-released last October by Bristol Archive Records.

Cool Runnings
“Robin Hoods Of The Ghetto” (download mp3)
from “The Bristol Reggae Explosion 2 ‘The 80′s’”
(Bristol Archive Records)
“Robin Hoods Of The Ghetto” (play)
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