Featuring artists like:
• Nightmares On Wax • Seal • CHIC • Wham! • Jimmy Castor Bunch • New Order • Judge Dread • Incredible Bongo Band
About this Playlist
Remember when you used to make mixtapes just for the sake of making a mixtape? (or CD, for you post-analog carbon-based lifeforms). Remember that fun, everything but the kitchen sink randomness? That ‘it’s kinda chaotic, but kinda not’ excitement? You knew you were headed somewhere with it, but you just let the muse use you as a conduit? No? Just me? Okay then… Well, in the early days of iTunes, I would often get bitten with the ‘Playlist Shuffle’ bug and see if I could just randomly chain together a viable party mix. Just play with the randomness and alter it slightly…just to see where it would go. I exported a lot of the playlists. I also lost a lot of them. In a move of what can only call remarkable foresight, I happened to find some playlists on an old thumb drive, and with the magic of old tech, was able to access them and recreate some of those old playlists. Like this one. Hope you enjoy it…
I've had many jobs in my life. I've only had one true calling: Music. The running joke throughout my life is I don't have time to develop an addiction. All that time was occupied with music. I made my first curated mixtape courtesy of a Sony portable twin tape deck. I recorded songs I heard on WBLS FM in New York City in the summer of 1979. And I've been chasing that feeling ever since.
I curate playlists with what I call the 'beautiful melancholy.' It is feeling absolute joy about life, yet feeling a sadness you cannot put into words. It often leaves you looking out of a window at the rain, longing for a place you've never been to, and you're not even sure it exists. Somehow, you know in your heart that someday, you will find it.
It is that sentiment that powers every playlist I curate. Every expression, every thought and every sentiment.
I've found that an appreciation for other disciplines and artistic channels has given me a greater understanding of my own medium. Learning about concepts such as texture, tone, hue, shade, shape, definition, outline, sketch, framing give you a wider range of tools and context to use.
I find that the more you learn, the more you realize how little you know. With that comes a greater hunger for knowledge.
That should be the force that guides you to achieve and evolve going forward. Not only in music, but as you travel your own path.
Embrace every aspect of yourself. Learn to love and know yourself. Check your ego, keep your chin up and step forward with purpose always.
French Touch plus a bit of Filtered and Disco House, featuring artists like: Le Knight Club, The Buffalo Bunch, DJ Falcon, Daft Punk, Modjo, Benjamin Diamond, Todd Edwards, Junior Jack
Join Jane as she robs the rich during a heist at the Grand Prix in Monte Carlo…, featuring artists like: Friends of Dean Martinez. The Peach Kings, Combustible Edison, The Fall, Messer Chups, Pine am, Fat White Family, April March
Must…go…faster…, featuring artists like: Kasabian, Moby, Eagles Of Death Metal, Bass Drum Of Death, Dua Lipa, Queens Of The Stone Age, Soundgarden, Fatboy Slim
The history of a legendary Funk Soul Jazz style that nobody saw coming. 90’s & 2000’s deep cuts, featuring artists like: Soulive, John Scofield, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Greyboy Allstars, The New Mastersounds, Charlie Hunter, Lettuce
