All the Playlists

The Proposition #1 – Nick Cave and Warren Ellis

19 June 2018

I drive towards him, he is far away, but not too far.  

I have thought of this for years, how to do it, to feel it, to say it, to make it true.  He has waited for me to be ready, seeing things for what they were, that which they are no more.

Medicine Woman – Demi Mitchell

19 June 2018

Demi Mitchell has got the indie scene talking here in Australia…

This weeks track submission “Medicine Woman” put me straight under Demi’s seductive spell.

Less is definitely more in my eyes and “Medicine Woman’s” fragile assembly – and narcotic slow core restraint has been nailed brilliantly…

Call Me Baby – Charlotte Morris

18 June 2018

Enough is enough. This anthem for the Time’s Up generation draws on a lifetime of catcalls and vulgar remarks from men who treat women like sexual objects. And this is the moment when one woman can’t take any more. “I’m a strong resilient woman who knows how to kick your ass in,” warns New York singer-songwriter Charlotte Morris. “So call me baby one more time and then we’ll see who’s walking away laughing”…

Talk Fast — 5 Seconds of Summer

18 June 2018

This song is your favorite retro bar; the pinball machines chiming in the back of the room, the unbeatable happy hour, the Mrs. Pacman and Space Invaders machines that sit, very well loved, off to the side. This song is a couple beers deep, the bright electronics illuminating an otherwise darkened room…

One Hundred Percent – Kult Of Krameria

18 June 2018

For those of you that love and appreciate tribal house, you will enjoy this week’s track as it is infused with tribal and afro house vibes that will have you swaying your hips side to side…

Spirits – The Strumbellas

18 June 2018

So you’ve officially been warned by me. This week’s track has such a simple melody and a really catchy tune it is stupid easy to get it stuck in your head. Spirits is a song that, in such a playful way, makes light of all our internal struggles (or our “guns and spirits” so to speak)…

Soon As I Get Home – Faith Evans

18 June 2018

In the mid 1990s producer Chucky Thompson (of Bad Boy Entertainment’s “Hitmen” team), was fooling around on a piano in the studio, playing a sequence he’d made up when he was sixteen. A young Faith Evans came charging through the door, telling him she needed to record to that. He laughed, and told her, sure, write something to it…

So Alive – Jon Worthy

18 June 2018

Muhammed Ali once stressed the importance of positivity in achieving your goals in life by stating: “I am the greatest; I said that even before I knew I was.”

I admit the ability to stay positive is perhaps one of the most important skills a person can have. However, being continuously happy and satisfied is very difficult, if not impossible. In fact even staying content requires conscious effort, doesn’t it?..

Sucio y Desprolijo – Divididos

18 June 2018

I mentioned them last week presenting my favourite band. So now I feel of sharing with you, one of the roots of Mustafunk. The plow truck of rock and roll in Argentina, DIVIDIDOS.

This band is the baby from a historical band in Argentina called Sumo. When the lead singer of Sumo died, Ricardo Mollo and Diego Arnedo decided to try this formula. In only 10 years during the 90’s they became the plow truck they are today…

9th vs Thought – Black Thought

18 June 2018

There is a point in this song when Black Thought says, “If lyricism is spiritual to you, then rewind this” and I couldn’t think of a better way to epitomize this track. As a worshipper of the school of The New Poetics (can I coin this term?), hearing this onslaught of aggressively intelligent bars for the first time felt like a religious ceremony…

Kimse Bilmez – Mehmet Güreli

18 June 2018

Mehmet Güreli is a Turkish writer, painter, director and musician born in 1949 in Istanbul, Turkey. He graduated from Istanbul University, majoring in Philosophy. He started working in Hürriyet newspaper in 1976. He is one of the few Turkish artists producing in different art areas…

Sleep Tonight – Robb Murphy

18 June 2018

Here’s a line from one of my all-time favorite TV shows:

Good night Seattle. This is Dr. Fraser Crane wishing you all good mental health.

I wonder how many fans of Fraser have truly ever pondered on the significance of that line – after all, we’re talking about a sitcom here and not a documentary on mental illnesses. However, anybody who’s ever been depressed, even for a little while, knows the importance of good mental health. In fact, good mental health is one of the most important things in life and as with health, we should always prioritize it.