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Ruth Zukerman's Keep-It-New Spin Playlist
Ruth Zukerman, co-founder of Flywheel Sports (the other co-founder is Tiki Barber), says, "I can't emphasize how important the music is...Music is what keeps it new every time I get up there." So we asked her for a playlist. Here's the music that's keeping her going right now.*
* She's also listening to the mashup of Coldplay and Sum 41, but iTunes isn't cool enough to have it. So you can listen to it here.
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Jessica Bellofatto's Favorite Yoga Music
Collectively, we like yoga music, so long as it's the right kind of yoga music. Consensus is chill is best. Urbansherpa shared her chill and fabulous yoga playlist back in '09, but if you're looking to refresh your rotation or gather some ammo to nudge the teacher who has the Hare Krishna chanting on eternal repeat toward a brighter future, we've got ideas. After Jessica Bellofatto of KamaDeva Yoga finished telling us about life as a yoga-triathlete, we asked her about her favorite yoga music. Her top picks:
- Anything Neil Young
- Stairway to Heaven
- Tracy Chapman — always amazing
- Eva Cassidy
- The Dead Man Walking soundtrack
- The very beautiful Into the Wild soundtrack
Curious souls can listen to the Into the Wild soundtrack after the jump.
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Cooler Yoga Music: "The Yoga Sessions"
What makes good yoga music? Sitar? Chanting? The kirtan crowd leans that way, and they seem to be having a marvelous time. But Yoga Organix begs to differ. Yoga instructor Derek Beres has a following at Equinox, but he also has a following as DJ and music journalist, and now YogaOrganix is putting out his first yoga music album. Together he and David "Duke Mushroom" Schommer are EarthRise Sound System, and they describe their new album, "The Yoga Sessions," as "percussively rich" and "dubby." Set for a 1/1/2010 release, the tracks are apparently intended to be as good in a club as they are in a yoga class. So if you could use a little break from Bhagavan Das (not that you don't love him!) consider slipping "The Yoga Sessions" to your yoga teacher as a little New Year's present.
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Anitak's Treadmill Playlist
A couple of weeks ago, Anitak forgot her headphones. "I felt so deflated that I almost went straight home! Treadmill + no music = ultimate boredom." It was particularly painful because she'd just put together a new high-energy playlist. She made it through, but here's the playlist — download it, and you'll see that it would indeed be rough to be cut off from these tunes. Anitak's full liner notes after the jump.
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Oiwuc's Whitney Houston Playlist
Oiwuc has rediscovered running, and Whitney Houston gets some of the credit. Whitney wakes her up, and pumps her up, and, in return, she receives Oiwuc's official "looooooove!" rating. We asked Oiwuc for the tracks that rekindled her running crush, and here they are....