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Shazam’s still a pretty cool thing, even if the nov­elty and fas­ci­na­tion has worn off. It’s not the “dis­cov­ery” that I love, or even the seem­ingly mag­i­cal iden­ti­fi­ca­tion that it does, but the act of tag­ging and then review­ing my tags later, cre­at­ing a kind of archive of songs that have caught my ear for some rea­son or another. I’ve always thought it would be fun to have a cam­era with me at all times and pho­to­graph stuff in my daily life. And, yet, I do have a cam­era with me at all times (in the same device with Shazam), but I don’t do that. I tag stuff on Shazam. So, I thought it would be fun — since it’s Sat­ur­day and what­ever — to put together a lit­tle playlist of some of the more inter­est­ing stuff I’ve Shaz­a­mmed this year, pre­sented here for your enjoy­ment (it’s only 23 min­utes long, fyi).

One happy acci­dent fea­tured here is John Dankworth’s “Theme From Mod­esty Blaise.” I was try­ing to remem­ber the name of that one Goril­laz song (“Rock The House”), and Shazam iden­ti­fied the sam­ple, which excited me greatly, because I didn’t know where it came from. So that was pretty cool.

Enjoy the mix, and feel free to tell me some of the zany stuff you’ve Shazammed.

You can also lis­ten at the 8tracks website.