As a festive treat, Jesper is sharing the Next Century Modern Illegal Christmas Compilation 2005.
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I certainly recommend this phat compilation of musical tidings and great joy from ‘that brother Jesper”.
Now that’s one hell of a thumbs up!
thanks for the nice words david. It seem to be popular. So popular that I had to move the file since we had used up over 90% of our bandwidth on that server, and I think we have at least 10 GB / month.
is there a torrent or something? i want my friend to hear it too!
Does anyone have the tracklist? The website won’t respond this morning, and I forgot to copy it.
Very cool collection though!
There’s no torrent, you just go to the linked page and download it from there.
Here’s the tracklist (but the page seems to be OK now):
00:18 Ella Fitzgerald - Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
02:25 The Nat King Cole Trio - All I Want For Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) [MJ Cole Remix]
05:53 Voicedude - Santa Benz
07:40 Aiko Shimada & Elizabeth Falconer - Kirakira Boshi
08:15 Leonard Nimoy - Twinkle, Twinkle Little Earth
10:33 Quarteto Em Cy - Somente O Necessário*
12:52 Cubismo Grafico - Ave Maria
17:16 Mt. Matini With The Beautiful People - Christmas in Capri
20:34 Jens Lekman - The Cold Swedish Winter
24:17 The Rainbow Choir - Ringo for Christmas
26:12 Poj Masta - Santar Klaws
27:00 Eartha Kitt - Santa Baby [Alexkid & DJ Seep Remix]
30:53 The Exotica Chorus - That Christmas Dinner!
32:06 Lisa Ono - Winter Wonderland
34:54 Ella Fitzgerald - Sleigh Ride [The Latin Project Remix]
38:42 Love Unlimited Orchestra - It May Be Winter Outside
41:58 Ray Anthony - Christmas Kisses
43:58 Nat King Cole & Peggy Lee - Toys for Tots
46:32 Lou Rawls - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas [awayTEAM Remix]
50:28 Sketch Show - Ekot [Cornelius Remix]
56:25 Bob Atcher & The Dinning Sisters - Christmas Island
58:48 Cheekyboy - Biggie’s Last Christmas
63:02 Mahalia Jackson - Silent Night [46bliss Remix]
66:35 Stan Kenton - What Is A Santa Claus?
Since the files are gone from NCMs site and aren’t to be found anywhere else I took the liberty of re-upping them, you’ll find them here:
http://mylta.blogspot.com/2006/12/illegal-christmas-compilation-2005.html
Christmas cheer to one and all!
Cool. Nice to somebody else spreading the Christmas joy this year. I was hoping to make a vol. #2, but I don’t seem to find the time…