An exclusive EcoSalon playlist to be played while wearing your hippest set of shades.

We’re dropping the 4th volume in our Ray-Ban Exclusive series today, which if you have been following along, you know is packed with remixes, mashups and the kind of beats that are made for sunny days. We even threw in a couple of foreign tracks for good measure. 

Ray-Ban Exclusive Volume 4 from ecosalon on 8tracks.

1. Cleam – Mister Lies
2. Nova – Burial + Four Tet
3. Dancing – Omar & Zed Bias
4. Disparate Youth (The 2 Bears Remix) – Santigold
5. Be a Body – Grimes
6. Anna (Moonlight Matters Remix) – Charlotte Gainsbourg
7. Never Let Me Go (Clams Casino Remix) – Florence + The Machine
8. Ström – Bam Spacey
9. Learnalilgivinanlovin’ (Passion Pit Remix) – Gotye
10. Plage (Crystal Fighters Remix) – Felix Cartal
11. Let it Go (The Knocks Remix) – Dragonette
12. Luminary Ones (Denzel Park Remix) – Rebecca & Fiona
13. Raining (House Sheriffs Remix) – Adam K & Kaskade
14. Happiness (The Magician Remix) – Sam Sparro
15. Devil’s Work (Dirty South Remix) – Miike Snow
16. Intro (CRNKN Bootleg) – The xx
17. We Are Young (Alvin  Risk Remix) – Fun. featuring Janelle Monae
18. Heads Will Roll (A-Track Remix) – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
19. Limitless – Sex Ray Vision
20. Action (3LAU Bootleg) – 3LAU
21. Stockholm – (JOhn Dahlback Remix) – Jonathan Johansson
22. ID2 (Pixel Cheese Remake) – Avicii
23. Call on Me (Vitz Remix) – Eric Prydz
24. All That She Wants (DJ Nejtrino & DJ Stranger Remix) – KAFFEIN

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If there was a 1 and 2, there had to be a 3.

Contrary to popular belief, Ray-Ban Exclusive mixes are not exclusively late-night-on-the-dance-floor oriented. Don’t worry, they get there eventually, but this series is about good tracks that keep you going just as well through a solo afternoon creative session as a Saturday night with friends.

Volume 3 is true to what this playlist series is meant to be: good beats that are perfect for listening to while wearing, or carrying, your classy shades.

Ray-Ban Exclusive Vol. 3 from ecosalon on 8tracks.

1. Shook (Sigur Ros X Mobb Deep) – Emancipator
2. Falcons – Nigeria
3. Shell of Light (Shlohmo Remix) – Burial
4. She Just Likes To Fight (Crystalised Remix) – Four Tet
5. The Keeper (Banks Remix) – Bonobo
6. Everything To Me (Bronze Whale Remix) – Lips
7. North (Crystalised remix) – Phoenix
8. You Appear (Final Mix) – Gange-a-Midi
9. Sonnentanz – Tobias R.
10. I Don’t Know What I Can Save Your From (Röyksopp remix) – Kings of Convenience
11. Rooftop Revival (Kastle Remix) – Treasure Fingers
12. Hard – Rebecca & Fiona
13. The Morning feat. Dunson (Chi Duly Remix) – The Weeknd
14. No Light, No Light (Dave Sitek Remix) – Florence & The Machine
15. Black to White – Felix Cartal feat. Miss Palmer
16. Need Your Love (feat. Ray Dalton) – Sol
17. All Around and Away We Go (Teen Daze Remix) – Twin Sister
18. Icarus (Keys n Krates Remix) – Madeon
19. Sea Lion Woman (BEAKR remix) – Feist
20. Somebody to Love (Sigma Remix) – Rusko
21. Beating Of My Heart (Matisse & Sadko Remix) – M-3ox, Heidrun
22. I Know Heaven Is Eternal – The Jane Doze
23. Stupidisco – Junior Jack
24. This is So Good (Original Mix) – Ehrencrona
25. Pursuit of Happiness (Steve Aoki Dance Remix) – Kid Cudi

On Music Monday we bring you a featured playlist from one of our favorite music sites 8tracks. From indie rock to electro pop we hope it’s a playlist that kicks your week off right. 

Image: Anna Brones

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I know this sounds lame, but getting a Valpak in the mail is a special occasion at my house. I have a deep and inexplicable fondness for the packets that arrive at my door filled with coupons and promotional materials for a variety of sad-sack local businesses. A recent mailing offered discounts from the usual collection of low-rent retailers: shady chimney sweeps, lesser-known frozen yogurt chains, and family restaurants on the verge of bankruptcy. But stuck in the middle of these was a real surprise: a coupon advertising Sharon Gardens, a cemetery not far from my home.

I wasn’t quite sure what I should do with this offer – except maybe increase my consumption of hollandaise and cigarettes. Or else I could merge onto the interstate with my eyes tightly shut. Ten percent off my eternal rest? Pass the bacon!

As much as I like a bargain, it was hard for me to get excited about this particular coupon; besides its grim overtones, it stirred up all of my deep-seated environmental objections to cemeteries. Grave sites need a huge amount of ongoing maintenance – and all that mowing, cutting, cleaning, and watering requires an enormous expenditure of labor and natural resources. Then there are the gnarlier consequences of burying bodies: studies have shown that the human corpses in cemeteries can cause water pollution as the “products of decomposition” pass through the soil and into the groundwater. And with some regions of the country facing shortages of undeveloped land, there is the troubling issue of dead people using up lots of really prime real estate.

To address these problems, environmentalists have begun advocating something called a “Green Burial” as EcoSalon’s Scott Adelson discussed here. This involves carting bodies out into the wilderness where they are buried without coffins as a way to save trees. In this type of burial the dearly departed are wrapped in a bio-degradable shroud, and they are not embalmed, thereby minimizing the likelihood that harmful chemicals will seep into the ground. Instead of a tombstone, each grave site is marked with a tree. Green burials have been slow to catch on – possibly because people are notoriously squeamish when it comes to death-related traditions. Also, it’s hard to get people amped up about an event that will take place when they no longer have a pulse.

In the meantime, I remain mightily bewildered about the marketing plan that led to mailing out discount coupons for burials. Still, I am going to hang on to my coupon – I have found it to be a great ice-breaker at parties – although I don’t plan on ever having to use it.

Despite the rumored inevitability of death, I possess the secret, happy knowledge that I myself am somehow different – special and singularly blessed with an exemption from mortality. It’s too bad for the rest of you, but I really believe, deep down, that I am never going to die.

It’s almost a shame though – I hate to waste a perfectly good coupon.

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