I first discovered Teen Daze's stuff about a year ago while on a late night Spotify binge and since then have constantly found myself lost and even slightly hypnotized by his warm, melodic creations that span the spectrum between dream-pop, ambient, shoegaze, and chill-wave. I could go on and on hitting you with bloggy and hipsterfied subgenres but all you need to know is that Vancouver-based Jamison (we only know his first name) reps all those warm feelings in life—the smell of fall air, the sun rising over Miami Beach, that first hit of a joint under the aurora borealis—that we wish we could place in a jar in and crack open when we want to slip away into the cosmos.You won't hear any of this music pumping the main stage of a festival while CO2 cannons go off or anywhere close to the Beatport Top 10, but if you want to get straight-up utopian join me here. Plus, Teen Daze is an intellectual of the highest order—take his second EP, A Silent Planet, whichwas inspired by Jamison's time reading C.S Lewis during a seven week stay in the Swiss Alps in which he was studying philosophy, aiight? For the latest installment of MIXED BY, Teen Daze turns up the energy a bit and finds the perfect marriage of his signature sound with some more dancefloor-attuned tracks by Daft Punk, Todd Terje, Jon Hopkins and other purveyors of the feel-good. The result? A warm, groovy journey that will surely brighten your day. So lock in and get lost in the daaaaze, man.Tracklist:
Jon Hopkins - Open Eye Signal [Domino]
Daft Punk - Alive [Virgin]
Glenn Jackson - You Too [Ceremony]
Misteur Valaire - Bellevue Avenue (Teen Daze Remix) [Mr. Label]
Delorean - Seasun (John Talabot Remix) [Mushroom Pillow]
Todd Terje - Strandbar [Olsen]
Daft Punk - Nightvision [Virgin]Buy Teen Daze's new LP, Glacier here.