THE BEST MUSIC: NEW & OLD
Want something with a drop? I’ve got it for you. It’s the Bulgarian master Kink with Chorus. It builds, it bubbles, it crashes, and then at around 3:30 it speeds and rotates until you think it can’t build anymore, and it does, and then at 4 minutes it’s full peak dropness. Love it. Turn it up to full beans for full benefit.
Did you enjoy this? Did you? Here’s some of my other favourite Kink tracks.
This is one to get a deep wonk onto. Take a mushroom trip back to 2007 with Justin Martin. He was a co-founder of Dirtybird and it’s got that characteristic funky tech house feel. But this one is just that bit more twisted than most.
Shout out to the dogs playing tongue hockey this weekend
“It’s going to be alright. Tonight. Oh my. It’s going to be alright. Oh yeah. Come on Baby. The sun is going to keep on shining. Brighter days on the horizon. My love for you will always keep on rising.”
And then those pianos. Those fucking pianos. God it’s gorgeous.
Dreamy vocals. It’s just a pure gold nostalgic banger. Throw your hands up in the air.
Top iconic Positiva album cover thrown in for good measure there.
This is a drifty and slightly disorientating Todd Terje edit of Paul Simon’s seminal hit Diamonds. There’s a lot to like about this one; I’m going to let it do the talking.
This track is another from Greg Wilson’s Top 10 Best Reworks and Edits. You can find the full list here.
This guy is. For. Real. He’s probably best known for his work with Chet Faker (aka Nick Murphy), but Marcus is so talented that he can pretty much produce a hit in any genre, and play most of the instruments as well. As if that’s not enough, he’s one of the most respected DJs in the game, playing the top of Berlin’s scene.
Having bigged him up, his releases are actually a bit hit and miss – probably because he plays with so many genres and influences. So what I’ve done is picked two of his darker numbers for you. First up we have Pleasure Moon – a rolling, percussive, sexy trip through the night.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5I2asYxhTQnBHpHFocwG3e?si=Ie-VqTF0S3CqN0lYV2bnYQ
And second it’s Gerd Janson’s take on High Times. It comes firing straight out of the blocks; it’ll grab you by the scruff of the neck and not let go for another 7 minutes. So I hope you like!
https://open.spotify.com/track/0DD86Aq7nd405RgOxaAnxj?si=qPwpAqlfTue2CjGZByaZZg
This is one of my favourite Summer tracks from back in uni days. It just about stays the right side of tropical and Majestic, and serves up a sun-soaked feel-good number.
Released in 2011, it was the soundtrack to a hell of a lot of fun in the sun. I wish that wherever you are right now, it bestows the same pleasure upon you.
I’m taking it back to 2009 (HudMo was just 23 at the time).
And you have just never heard a track like Fuse before. Butter, the album its taken from, is a pretty fidgety affair – quite hard to listen to – but boy does Fuse go off. Chuck it on next time you go to a magical elvish party to dance with some nymphs at dawn.
P.S. I only just noticed that on the cover the hawks have mohawks. Very clever. Perhaps.
A little late to this one, but a couple of months after the death of Keith Flint, the world of dance music mourns another loss – Philippe Zdar of Cassius. In what appears to be a tragic accident, Philippe fell from a window to his death at the age of 52.
Here is the release that means the most to me. I ❤ U SO. It includes a hefty dubstep-and-breaks inspired remix from Skream – you’ll know it.
Bonus track: I can’t find for sure if there is any link between this track and the man, but it’s a banger from Digitalism that I hope might be a tribute to the impact Philippe has on the French electronic music scene over the course of the last couple of decades.
This track has a confusing history; “Originally recorded in 1982 for a gospel album by the Celestial Choir, this was later remixed in 1985 by Tony Humphries, re-credited to The Joubert Singers. However, its more recent cult status was the result of a supposed Larry Levan remix, subsequently discredited, that appeared on a bootleg 12” in 2003.”
What is not confusing, is that it is a top quality hooky banger.
Credit for the the info goes to Dummy Mag and Greg Wilson. Link here. Or another pick of mine from that article, here.
Hi HMErs. Sorry it has been such a long time. But trust me, this one from the vaults is worth the wait.
It’s the man from Brazil. It’s Gui Boratto. No Turning Back steps between techno and dreamy summery house like you wouldn’t believe. Tune.
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