your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

efendi • mata hari

This is Azerbaijan's Eurovision entry? Fascinating, although not really something I'd keep in rotation. You've also got some Soca in there, quite a variety!

Very nice vibe on Liyoshona tho. I also love the overall production on Shela Ntombi, the way it uplifts the vocals. Getting late is solid too if a bit more polished, but oof those gqom flavors on the bassline.

Seems like overall I should be focusing on SA more!

Any thoughts on Yaw Tog feat Stormzy Kwesi Arthur - Sore (Remix)? It sounds like drill to me which maybe isn't really your thing.

Delilah Holliday - Goddess Energy
Maestro Don & Jahvillani - Dutty Money
Charles Webster feat. Thani Draai - We Belong Together
Scorpion Kings & Tresor - La Vie Est Belle
System32 & Shal Marshall - All Day
Blaqbonez f. Amaarae & Buju - Bling
Intence - Money Nuff Funds
Motto - Uber Everywhere
Arooj Aftab - Last Night
Miguel - So I Lie
SZA - Good Days

(There's a bunch more amapiano and soca tempting me to do 11 more, but I settled for not repeating anything breastcrawl posted four weeks ago)

Go on then (you can tell I've been rinsing the Afrobeats, Soca and adjacent threads)

Rema - Bounce
Olatunji - Drunk History
Machel Montano - High Life
Kerwin Du Bois - See Dem
Bankulli ft. Not3s - Foreign
Jazmine Sullivan - Pick Up Your Feelings
Young M.A. - Off The Yak
Nakkia Gold - Yea Yea
Okyeame Kwame - Yeeko
Prettyboy D-O - Police N Teef
Meryl - BB Compte

Got to DJ with some friends for the first time in forever at the weekend. Someone dropped "All Day" and it sounded so great over the speakers with people singing "Play more soca fi dem"

ugh that makes me sick with jealousy (but happy for you, seriously)

ah, sorry to rub it in. we're still in an "outdoors only, 6 people at a table, no dancing" situation here in the UK. so listening to soca sitting down is almost as frustrating as not listening to soca at all!

lol that would be its own kind of lockdown

what's especially annoying is seeing someone you haven't seen in months sitting at another table and all you can do is wave and gesture, perhaps a quick hello as you pass on the way to the loo. still, can't complain too much

Floatation - The Grid
Ruff Rollin - Lord of the Isles
Alone (paradise) - Don Carlos
Golden Dreams - Deux
Things Fall Apart - Cristina
Be Wela - Zazou Bikaye
Tu Es Foutu - In-grid
Polymono Plexusgel - Drexicya
Comin' Back - Kurt Harman Project
We Need A Resolution - Aaliyah
Looking For Love - Karen Ramirez

Barry White - playing your game, baby (instr.)
Air Suspension Club Band - seaside in the twilight
Cléon - jaylis & family
Menahan Street Band - the telephone song (instr.),aka tired Of fighting
Footshooter – hibiscus (ft. Allysha Joy)
Super8 & Tab ft. Anton Sonin - black is the new yellow
Sébastien Léger at the Great Pyramids of Giza - firefly (40:40-47:43)
Manabu Namiki - sally + vertex (DoDonPachi Dai-Fukkatsu OST)
Spiral Drive - space train
Charlotte Brandi - frist
Matt Berry - covered in clowns

mora - 512 ft. jhay cortez
rauw alejandro - cuando fue
03 greedo - liar, liar
big moochie grape - standing ovation
burna boy - question
esperanza spalding - formwela 10
tiwa savage - tales by moonlight ft. amaarae
zz top - heard it on the x
labi siffre - watch me
super cat - mud up
dj manny - signals in my head

Soak - knock me off my feet
Everly bros - I wonder if I care as much
Bettie serveert- palomine
Temptations - you’ve got my soul on fire
Soulja slim - souljas on my feet
Tinashe - let me down slowly
Peewee longway - pink salmon
Devin the dude - BREAK-fast
Tink - selfish
Tone stith - keep it real
Karen nyame kg - koko

anthonie tonnon - leave love out of this
miss grit - impostor
zapp - computer love
realyoungphil - everything we need
bandgang masoe - top of the key
bad boy chiller crew - footsteps on my shoes
lil bean - pull thru
su'lan - 6pm on melrose ft. baby stone gorillas
teddy pendergrass - when somebody loves you back
kero kero bonito - well rested
lojay x sarz - lv n attn ft. wizkid

Suarez - Exursiones
Alex Cameron - Sara Jo
Duncan Dhu - En Algun Lugar
No Te Va Gustar - A Las Nueve
Real Life - An Oral History of My First Kiss
Half Man Half Biscuit - Grafting Haddock in The George
Grupo Niche - Una Aventura
Freddie Gibbs, Madlib - Crime Pays
The Liminanas & Laurent Garnier - Que Calor!
Cloakroom - Dissolution Wave
Neil Young - Unknown Legend

Madlib - The Call
The Fall - Middle Mass
Amaarae - SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY (Vigro Deep Amapiano mix)
Rema - Calm Down
Hatchie - Quicksand
Purple Mountains - Margaritas at the Mall
Max Romeo - Norman
Prince Far-I - Head of the Buccaneer
The Weather Station - Parking Lot
Sprints - Little Fix
Loski - P.U.G.

the long version of Norman btw

hound dog - dale hawkins
soul dazzle - u-god
2 bugs & a roach - earl hooker
call the police - stephanie mcdee
whiskey bottle -nicodemus & matchez
tiger man - rufus thomas
treat em right chubb rock
baby hold on - stars in the sky
i shitted in dat hoe house - ice mike
dead - carolyn sullivan
cool mac daddy - ultra violet

baby hold on - stars in the sky

“norman” and cloakroom’s “doubts” each would have made my list if i’d made one between aug and feb

Alex Cameron - breakdown
Audiobooks - the doll
Charlotte Adigéry - it hit me
Dale Hawkins - hound dog
Billy Joel - pressure
Real Lies - an oral history of my first kiss
Real Lies - dream on
Keith Whitley - miami, my amy
Jimmy Campbell - half baked
Seamus Moore - transit van
Happy Mondays - tart tart

as I noted elsewhere, I’m quite ambivalent about the whole Adigéry + Pupul state of affairs, but “It Hit Me” is def the highlight of their album for me

Talk Talk - Happiness is Easy
Arooj Aftab - Udhero Na feat. Anoushka Shankar
King Sunny Adé - Ja Funmi
Novos Baianos - Mistério do planeta
Cherrelle - Saturday Love feat. Alexander O'Neal
Rosalía - La Combi Versace
Silvana Estrada - Te Guardo
The Feelies - Loveless Love
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got
A.R. Kane - A Love From Outer Space
Bobby Hutcherson - Verse

Stacks - Above Ground
Hubbabubbaklubb - Fjellet (Bjørn Torske Remix)
Smoke Point - Waterwheel
Bad Bunny - Me Porto Bonito feat. Chencho Corleone
KH - Looking at Your Pager
Sofia Kourtesis - Estación Esperanza feat. Manu Chao
Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit
DJ Chrysalis - Melodie
Ella Mai - Feels Like
Kabza De Small - Rekere 2 feat. Stakev
Moonshine - Obomi Nga feat. MC RedBul, Uproot Andy & MC Azas

ah, new Moonshine, always welcome!

also: Kabza! Kabza!! Kabza!!! that album is pure gold!

Steve Lacy - Bad Habit
Confidence Man - Holiday
Ashee - Country Classic
Fontaines DC - I Love You
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Life in The Void
Steve Silk Hurley - He Loves Me 2
Jack Adkins - American Sunset
Big L - Put It On
Tom Waits - Time
Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly
Yard Act - 100% Endurance

Stacks - Above Ground

nice

Jack Adkins - American Sunset

listened to this on a drive to the smoked fish spot near the beach a couple days ago and it felt right

k michelle - ciaras prayer
gary stewart - drinkin thing
lloyd banks - power steering ft jadakiss
burna boy - common person
gunplay - aunty hold up
rema - addicted
koffee - pull up
tinashe - naturally
saba - come my way ft krayzie bone
duke deuce - just say that ft glorilla
young bleed - dat water

really digging stacks, thanks to the above

little feat - easy to slip
bad bunny - andrea ft. buscabulla
duke deuce - crunkstar
asake - peace be unto you (pbuy)
sly & the family stone - runnin' away
the remains - don't look back
depeche mode - policy of truth
sonic youth - catholic block
cash cobain - slizzy like
26ar - hottest in my city ft. rob49
dehd - bad love

Been listening to a lot of new stuff over the summer, so here's another 11:

Dea Barandana - Licik (Tribute)
Beyoncé - COZY
Robot Boii, Mellow & Sleazy, Soul Revolver – Salary Salary feat. Shaun MusiQ & F Teearse
Amber Mark - Bliss
Steve Monite - Things Fall Apart
Peggy Gou - I Go (DJ Koze Remix)
Aurora Halal & DJ G. - Off The Top
Nu Genea - Vesuvio
Priori - Winged (Priori Rezone)
Wanitwa Mos, Master KG & Lowsheen – Sofa Silahlane feat. Nkosazana Daughter
Mystic Jungle - Hold On Your Dreams

We've Got Tonight, Boy - Fragile
Dream On (El-B Remix) - Real Lies
Belfast (David Holmes Remix) - Orbital
Addicted - Rema
Feels Like A Different Thing - Confidence Man
Cut - Working Mens Club
Room to Jack - KiNK
Flowers - Ron Trent
Cathedral - The Primitive Painter
Happiness - Bohannon
Cliche (Soulwax Remix) - Charlotte Adigery + Bolis Pupul

Andrew Bees - Militant
Jolly Mare - Sabbia Bianca
Momma - Speeding 72
Ronald Langestraat - I’m Ready for Dancing
Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File
Front de Cadaeux - Sad is Fashion
Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Zillas on Acid - The Corinthian
Pablo Bozzi - Let It Roll
Kim Wilde - Everything We Know
Mystic Jungle - Don’t Stop Your Love

Pink Floyd - Apples and Oranges
The Garden - Freight Yard
Black Loops - Suki
Shelly - Steeeam
The Stranglers - Dont Bring Harry
Lesley Duncan - Love Song
Clutch - X-Ray Visions
Fotheringay - The Sea
Derek and The Dominoes - Bell Bottom Blues
Yukihiro Takahashi - Drip Dry Eyes
Bar Italia - Banks

🇿🇦deep london ft. nkosazana daughter, murumba pitch & janda_k1 • piano ngijabulise
🇿🇦don edward ft. xduppy, stay c & senjay • skeem saka
🇳🇬jaido p • disturb
🇿🇦kattapilla ft. sims noreng, javas de vocalist & mavee dripgod • madibuseng
🇿🇦k.o ft. young stunna & blxckie • sete
🇿🇦konke ft. musa keys, chley & sayfar • m’nike
🇳🇬omah lay • never forget
🇿🇦sjijo majikijo ft. oskido, toss & dj riley • umthetho
🇿🇦toxicated keys ft. gemvalleymusiq & tupla double 0.7 • shiki (piano anthem)
🇿🇦vico da sporo ft. nkosazana daughter • osis’ bey’moto
🇳🇬wizkid • money & love

Cass McCombs - Karaoke
Cola - So Excited
Wu-Lu - Times
Catherine Wheel - The Nude
Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - Brumaire
Charles Stepney - Step on Step
Billy Woods - Asylum
Pharoah Sanders - Love is Everywhere
Double Virgo - Rear Window Rider
Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
Migos - Made Men

All of these are songs that have been defining 2022 for me in one way or another:

Braxe + Falcon - Step by Step
Francis Harris - Rebstock Fold
Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit
George Riley - Jealousy
Earth Trax - Dream Pop
Flaurese - Gaze at me
Tonga Conga - Mira Bien
Bad Bunny - Andrea
Born at Midnite - Y o Y
Jack J - I saw Fire
Karol G - Provenza

k.o ft. young stunna & blxckie • sete

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl)

Ah heard this one recently and yeah!

I'll throw 11 more from 2022

DJ Python - Angel
Luis - we still or nah
Whatever the Weather - 0ºc
Naked Flames - Tennessee Transit
Teebs - did it again
Kelela - On the Run
iuky - superloved!
Tomberlin - Tap
Morabeza Tobacco - Saturnus
WifiGawd - Slide Thru
Saba - Still

ah and Tomu DJ - New Body

love that dj python number

Mark & Suzann Farmer - Waiting for the Dawn
Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
Eternal Love - Tropico Absoluto
Lojay, DJ Maphorisa, Kabza De Small - CANADA
Barnt - This Is For Decor Only
Dry Cleaning - Anna Calls From The Arctic
Isabelle Antena - How Can They Tell
Duval Timothy - Wood feat. Yu Su
Mike Ribas - Como Son los Retratos (Harari Edit)
Dialect - Waterfall End Sequence
Surya Botofasina - Surya's Meditation

rufus wainwright - the consort
johnny cash - delias gone
roisin murphy - coocool
fleetwood mac - bleed to love her
beach boys - the trader
dave hollister - on the side
gwar - slaughterama
larry june - margies candy house
rae sremmurd - flaunt it / cheap
ruston kelly - the weakness
mozzy - real ones ft roddy rich

STP, "Vasoline"
Joni Mitchell, "Car on a Hill"
Tom Waits, "Singapore"
Hall & Oates, "Rich Girl"
Fleetwood Mac, "Landslide"
Doobie Brothers, "What a Fool Believes"
Boz Scaggs, "Lido Shuffle"
Kate Bush, "Cloudbusting"
Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Night Shift"
Blondie, "Dreaming"

Oops, one more for 11

Kiss, "Detroit Rock City"

Blondie, "Dreaming"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, June 2, 2023 4:14 PM bookmarkflaglink

Oops, one more for 11

Kiss, "Detroit Rock City"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, June 2, 2023 4:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

Valid.

"Nonalignment Pact," Pere Ubu
"Lost in Music," The Fall (Sister Sledge cover)
"Can't Hardly Wait" (live at Maxwell's, 1986), Replacements
"Look Away," Game Theory
"Soul Vine (70 Billion People)," Cabaret Voltaire
"Here Come the Rome Plows," Drive Like Jehu
"White Kross," Sonic Youth
"Shakin' Street," MC5
"Crystal," New Order
"Cost II," Black Dog
"Kiss Me Again," Dinosaur / Optimo (JD Twitch edit)

Techno Animal - Narco Agent Vs. The Medicine Man (2023 Remaster)
case/lang/viers - Honey & Smoke
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Decisive Pink - Dopamine
Alex Kassian - Spirit of Eden
R.E.M. - Try Not to Breathe
billy woods - Rapper Weed
Porter Ricks - Polytoxic 2
Danzig - Dirty Black Summer
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II
Neneh Cherry - I Ain't Gone Under Yet

Atheist - Piece of Time
Pastor Troy - Saddam
Alice in Chains - Social Parasite
Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why
Paul Davis - Cool Night
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents II
Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit
Exhorder - Desecrator
Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes (which sadly is now negatively classically conditioned to remind me of one of the lowest points of my life)
Elton John - Levon
Queen - Nevermore

Exhorder - Desecrator

D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls
D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls
D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls
D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls

fuck that's 12

Flaco Jiménez - Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
Bar Italia - Nurse!
Yo La Tengo - Fallout
Brian Eno - Always Returning
Tone - So I Can See You
Bryan Adams - Run to You
El Gran Silencio - Chuntaros Style
The Pomps - Grudges
Oozing Wound - Bank Account Anxiety
Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show