WFMU DJ Michael Shelley does 30 instrumentals, each under 2 minutes. An interesting experiment, all pretty easy and subtle, and all worth a shot. Pick one at random. (Good for soundbeds, too, but deserving of attention) This is really cool stuff.

1. (2:00) **** Cool slinky spy theme. Wah wah wah. 2. (1:32) *** Be My Baby drums, surfy slow cool low lazy. 3. (1:19) ** Slow walk, funky. 4. (1:18) ** Sounds squeezeboxy + harmonica. Relaxed, sentimental. 5. (1:19) ** Nostalgic country-funk. 6. (1:56) *** Sunshiney peppy keyboard piece with light surfy backing. 7. (1:41) *** Wah wah wah synth. Sounds like BBC moog pieces for children's science shows. 8. (1:13) *** Plunky cool synth, mod and hip. 9. (1:47) *** Surfy fun, sounds like Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. 10. (1:57) *** More cool surf, yearning and sweet. 11. (1:32) ** Confident toes-out radiance of peace offering 12. (1:39) ** Soft mod slinky, with weird triangle ringing. 13. (1:24) ** Caribbean simulacrum, officepark daydream 14. (1:21) ** Head-bobbing with frat-rock atmosphere. 15. (1:13) ** Countryish refreshing fishing rock. 16. (1:51) ** Backcountry accordion meets 17. (1:03) ** Amusingly slow, easier than easiest 18. (1:13) ** Lazy easy surf, vacationy. 19. (1:02) ** Cooler, sunset with lemonade. 20. (1:07) ** Prickly disco-- fuzzy stepper. 21. (0:35) ** Princey funk. 22. (0:57) ** Hermetic bar band blues. 23. (0:56) ** Rattly plastic CG short music. 24. (1:41) ** Easy-going funk walker with tambourine. 25. (1:14) ** Neck-out strutter with organ riffs. 26. (1:14) ** Easy synth warbly-presser. 27. (1:43) ** Like a friendly retired robot. 28. (0:54) ** Trash-can streetgang warming up for funk 29. (1:30) *** Noisy back-n-forth miscommunication with alien rays 30. (1:03) *** Nursery rhymes through keyboard memory in a rainy backalley.