Your soon-to-be favorite music series returns with a second installment of late night aural dope smoke...

                

           Many of the tracks here are ones that didn't make it onto the first compilation, Music for the 2am Wind Down, plus a few others. Notable features include the sultry chanteuse Carla Bruni, Danish electro musician Anders Trentemøller, and the dub master Scientist (a classic track...remarkably fresh for being recorded in 1981.) Massive Attack makes a lovely contribution, as does ex-member from the Blue Lines era, Tricky. While his usual music partner and baby mama Martina Topley-Bird gives us "Intro," he commissioned the illustrious Polly Jean Harvey to do vox on the track, "Broken Homes."

Goldfrapp also makes another appearance here. Her gorgeous disco pop ballad "Utopia" was featured on the first compilation, but "Paper Bag" was a close second choice. I hesitated to include another track from the same album on this comp, but the fact is Alison Goldfrapp has a voice unlike any other and a style that lends itself very well to late night listening. Besides, with a song that begins, "No time to fuck/ But you like the rush," well, how could I resist? Both are from her stunning debut, Felt Mountain, one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. If you haven't heard it, you'll be doing yourself a big favor by checking it out.

Let's see, what else have we got? An early b-side from Gorillaz and a dude with a British accent reads a letter. Yours truly covers an early version of Radiohead's "Lotus Flower," Pomplamoose covers Nat King Cole, and Yo-Yo Ma and Bobby McFerrin take on Vivaldi. Yep :)

None of these selections are arbitrary; I love each and every one like my own (non-existent) children. Artists have and will make the list multiple times, especially those who's entire discographies are constantly in my rotation, but the choices here are versatile and contrasting. Once again it is limited to 20 tracks, approx 90min of music. After all the editing and arranging of this new collection there are a quite few more tracks on the cutting room floor, so keep your eyeballs peeled for yet another edition appearing sometime next month (probably.)

Alright, czech it:

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For those who don't like downloading stuff, here is the playlist for you to enjoy without leaving the page. Like before, my track isn't uploaded to GrooveShark, so in order to hear it you have to download the playlist through above links.

Thanks for listening!