CFCF - Night Bus II: Advanced Nocturnal Transport

CFCF has just released the second Night Bus mix and it has taken over all my evening travel. It totally transports you into a Blade Runner streetlamp lit world of beauty (Vangelis who did the soundtrack to that amazing film starts the whole thing). Night Bus I was a great mix of screwed-down soul, and electronic music, but as the their facebook page explains, "Night Bus is the music that makes you feel Night Bus," and volume II is a more varied affair with appearances from ADVANCED favorites like Elite Gymnastics, Oneohtrix Point Never, ASAP Rocky, d'Eon, Autechre and Notorious B.I.G. The term takes it's name from a intensely gorgous ambient Burial song and is described by CFCF (aka Michael Silver) as "a silly litte term that originated on Hipinion that describes not a certain genre but certain feeling of music...can't quite describe what it is but Eno, G-Side, David Sylvian, DJ Screw, Angelo Badalamenti, Lil' B, and the Akira soundtrack are all super night bus." 

The music I hear is hypnotic, mournful, romantic, alienated and pensive. Sort of how you would feel on a bus at night in the city alone. I love the idea of coming up with a new way to understand music that transcends the outdated idea of genre. By using a description of a mood evoked, the term Night Bus is freed from simply being a current trend and CFCF applies the idea to a wide range of music and art from different time periods (check out the Facebook page and see what I mean...tons of good stuff). However, Night Bus is definitely a mood existing in a LOT of the current music that I'm interested in.  Check out and download the mix below, but wait until dark.

CFCF Night Bus II Mix MP3 by The FADER

Tracklist:
01 wait for me intro (vangelis)
02 this city never sleeps (eurythmics)
03 stranger (jhene aiko)
04 demons/behind the bank (asap rocky/oneohtrix point never)
05 keep the streets empty (fever ray)
06 aventurescence/addiction (beaumont/cassie)
07 here in heaven/one more chance (elite gymnastics/notorious BIG)
08 tongues (d’eon)
09 sappys curry/body count (underworld/meek mill)
10 lowride/unthinkable (autechre/alicia keys)