All the Playlists

Make Me Feel – Janelle Monáe

27 February 2018

Janelle Monáe is back. Last week the singer turned android turned actress teased her upcoming album, Dirty Computer, with two new songs, including our track of the week: “Make Me Feel.” It’s a sugary pop-Rnb blend clearly influenced by her mentor Prince. It’s a fun, sassy and danceable exploration of love and sex… 

HMU (Hit Me Up) – Undecided Future

27 February 2018

This track will just make you happy and feel good and it will add a new slang tag to your vocab HMU – Hit Me Up. This band are the ultimate party band and if you don’t dance to these guys you simply don’t a sense of soul and you need to find one to make your life better. The band hails from Southern California and you will get a strong sense of the best days of disco but with a contemporary twist from their music…

The Modern World – The Modern World

27 February 2018

It’s very hard to explain the eighties to someone who either wasn’t alive then or isn’t old enough to remember it. After all, this was the decade when the computer was named the man of the year by Time Magazine, John Lennon was shot, Pac-Man was released, MTV was launched, Prince Charles married Diana, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded, the Berlin Wall was torn down, the Cold War was slowly coming to an end and most of the music world went crazy with synthesizers and electric drums…

Face Like Summer – Gorky’s Zigotic Mynci

27 February 2018

Entre la visión extática y el arquetipo de amor  mitológico divino, Gorky’s nos brinda unas ubicaciones en la primera fila del voyerismo para asistir al acto de intimidad entre 2 personas o tal vez sean 2 dioses o tal vez sea lo mismo una cosa que otra…

The Mermaid Parade – Phosphorescent

27 February 2018

How can something so far away seem so close at the same time? We often long for something that’s right in front of our eyes, but remain focused on what lies in the distance. This idea, this emotion, is put into a musical format thanks to Matthew Houck of Phosphorescent. Personally I get this sense in a lot of his music, but nothing like the feeling I get from “The Mermaid Parade.” No matter what is going on in my life, this song hits me right in the feels and makes me think about what’s really important; music can’t be strange like that…

Desire – Years & Years

27 February 2018

When I first heard this song there was just something about it that was so innocent, sexy yet dirty at the same time. It paints a deep, intricate, spontaneous fantasy. “Desire” by Years & Years just blows my mind every time I listen to it. It makes one feel young, wild and free and makes one constantly and consistently crave adventure…

The Canon of Seven – Alessandra Celletti (Gurdjieff / De Hartmann)

27 February 2018

This week, I selected a mystical, sad, relaxing track written in the first years of 1900 by Thomas de Hartmann under dictation of mr. G. I. Gurdjieff, a mystic, philosopher, spiritual teacher, and composer of Armenian and Greek descent, born in Alexandrapol (yep, no commercial airplains yet!)…

Drag Me to Hell – Van Tastik

27 February 2018

What makes a song good? Andrew, our fearless leader, and I talked about that recently in our little video chat.  He also asked me, what a song submission needs for me to include it in my playlist. I told him: It’s a matter of songwriting, production and mood. You’re more likely to be receptive to a certain kind of song, if you’re more open to it because of the way you feel, so that’s a pretty flimsy variable…

Opps (with Yugen Blakrok) – Vince Staples

27 February 2018

Like Music to Dali & Jay-Z Lovers post last week, this week’s Save the World! entry was inspired by the recent release of Marvel’s Black Panther. It’s rare that to have a film score deviate from traditional cinematic motifs and pull it off so well, but I really feel my enjoyment of the film was in no small part due to Kendrick’s impeccable song curation. As curators ourselves, we know the impact that the right song can have on a particular moment, and it was humbling to see it done on a Hollywood scale…

Vacation (feat. J Live) – Jazz Liberatorz

27 February 2018

What’s not to love about a track in which both instrumental and lyrics can take you to a trip around the world? And by “world” I don’t mean only Earth, but also your mind, your own world. 

Well, allow yourself to take a “Vacation” by listening to this awesome track, which, itself, is an intercontinental trip, being produced by jazzy hop French kings, Jazz Liberatorz, featuring the vocals of American multi talented artist J. Live…

King Kong – Forever M.C. It’s Different Featuring Dmx, Royce Da 5’9, KXNG Crooked, Statik Selektah

27 February 2018

Emcee and production team Forever M.C. & It’s Different are preparing the world for their forthcoming compilation album Forever M.C., and it’s stacked with the grittiest lyricists in the game. Earlier this month, the first single “Terminally Ill” debuted with Tech N9ne, Rittz, KXNG Crooked, and Chino XL spazzing over dope scratches courtesy of Statik Selektah. Today, Forever M.C. & It’s Different drop off their next big single “King Kong.”

Laughing River – Greg Brown

27 February 2018

As I role though the years it seems, I’m saying farewell to friends all too often.

I buried one of the good ol boy’s this week, a true brother…