Slow strings set a maudlin mood for Philip Bloom’s visually stunning time-lapse footage of Dubai—my own admittedly predictable/uninspired soundtrack would be “Red Sky,” a chilled-out techno track by Shanghai’s B6 (Sulumi’s labelmate). Other contenders included AC’s “What Would I Want? Sky,” either of Dam-Funk’s sky-related tracks, Kid Cudi’s “Sky Might Fall” and M83’s “We Own the Sky.”

» B6 – Red Sky (B6 Mix) (7:06) – 12.8MB mp3 @ 251kbps

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–Pavement’s 2010 comeback continues, this time in greatest-hits form. The “fully remastered 23-track compilation”, entitled Quarantine the Past, “digs deeper than the hits” and is slated for a March 9th release. Matador has challenging fans to guess the final tracklisting in order to win a handful of Pavement-related prizes. (Matador)

–Arrested Motion is on top of its game as usual, with recent coverage of Blu, Os Gemeos, and Ryan McGinley (all of whom are worthy of fuller discussion in future posts), plus a nice December recap. Good stuff.

–Raphael Zarka = Richard Serra × DQM. Awesome. (DB)

–The Knife has posted a new mp3 (download link) from their forthcoming operatic (literally) recording Tomorrow, in a Year.  More details here. (The Knife / Soundcloud /  YANP)

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