Everyday is better with a new track… or album.

Can’t wait for the new The xx album Coexist? NPR is streaming the entire album a week ahead of its release, slated for September 11, 2012. In the meantime, here’s a beautiful live version of one of the album’s signature track, “Angels.”

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An exclusive EcoSalon playlist for the musically adventurous.

Here, especially for you, are ten trending songs in the creative arts showing the influence of depictions of the future prior to about 2084…the retro future that is.

FUTUЯE · ЯETRO by BehindTheWalk-In

Download the entire playlist for free here.

Tracklist:

1. VISIONsystems – VERACOM
2. Hot In The City – Golden Axe
3. Big Chris On The Couch – Honeydrum
4. Permission 2 Party – Man Made Hill
5. Touch Confusion – White Ninja
6. HB☯ PORN – 情報デスクVIRTUAL
7. b a b e l a n d – a i r s p o r t s
8. Smoking On My Coconut – AFRIKA PSEUDOBRUITISMUS
9. Circuitry Man – [PHYSICS]
10. ☹ – Teamm Jordann + Police Academy 6

Like what you hear? Check out our entire 10 Songs series. 

Image: x-ray delta one

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Every day is better with a new track. 

Heartbeat Remix Instrumennal by BrentonRules

Every day we bring you one track for a little musical inspiration. Have a track you want to submit? Email us at contact@ecosalon.com.

Image: Brenton Duvall

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Every day is better with a new track. 

Every day we bring you one track for a little musical inspiration. Have a track you want to submit? Email us at contact@ecosalon.com.

Image: Borka

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An exclusive EcoSalon playlist for enjoying wet spring weather. 

We know all too well that spring can mean some rainy days. Fortunately, we have a playlist for enjoying them.

10 Songs for a Rainy Day from EcoSalon on 8tracks.

Listen to the playlist, or check out the music videos for the songs below.

1. Storm – Frédéric Mercier

2. The Magic Place – Julianna Barwick

3. You Look Like Rain – Morphine

4. Expect – Balam Acab

5. Walking In The Rain – The Ronettes

6. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain – Willie Nelson

7. It is rain in my face – No Say

8. And the Rain – John Maus

9. Black Water Falls – The War on Drugs

10. Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping – Grouper

Want to listen to the playlist in one continuous mix? You can do that too:

Rainmix by BehindTheWalk-In

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Image: aussiegall

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Something green and gooey in the fridge is usually a bad sign. I say that with solemn deference to my mother’s yummy lime JELL-O mold Passover staple, complete with magically floating mandarin orange slices (which, despite its annual holiday role, still seems to me to be distinctly non-Jewish in appearance). I’ll go so far, though, as to call my mother’s (and her mother’s before her) trembling creation an exception to the rule and return to my original premise: Green goo + fridge = bad.

Aha, but not necessarily so! At least not necessarily so in Electrolux’s goofy future world where Yuriy Dmitriev’s Bio Robot Refrigerator serves up a non-sticky, odorless biopolymer gel (yes, it’s green – in the pictures anyway) that’s not only not a bad thing to have in your fridge, it actually pretty much is your fridge.

The (very) experimental design was one of 25 finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab 2010, a competition that asked industrial design students to “create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces.” Winning ideas were required to “shape how people prepare and store food, wash clothes, and do dishes in the homes of 2050 when 74 percent of the world’s population are predicted to live in an urban environment” dictating a need for greater space efficiency.

Four times smaller than a conventional refrigerator, Dmitriev’s Bio Robot’s biopolymer gets its food-preserving coolness through luminescence. All you do is grab your eggs (or whatever) and shove “˜em in the goo, which morphs around your foodstuffs creating “a separate pod that suspends items for easy access.” There’s no doors or drawers or motor, so more than 90 percent of the device is doing the good work you need to keep your eats fresh – if not appetizing. The thing can be hung vertically, horizontally, or “even on the ceiling.” Quite the space saver.

Inhabitat’s Britt Liggett, provides us with a few more details, noting that the cooling agents are the “bio robots” inherent in the gel that use luminescence. The device uses zero energy for cooling (it just needs energy for its little control pad), compared to the typical modern fridge, which uses about eight percent of a household’s energy.

Oh, and I love this little kicker from the Electrolux site: “Products in plain view and easily accessible.” Oh yum.

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