All the Playlists
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Trozo – Tristan Eckerson
8 March 2017
Some tracks just have a way of bringing you into a specific state of mind – I wasn’t thinking of the music to grieve to playlist when I heard this but I couldn’t stop thinking about it afterwards.
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Spirits – Jamie Woon
8 March 2017
Not all music to grieve to has to be downtempo and sad sounding. You never know what track is going to be associated with certain events in your life and while much of the music on this playlist tugs at the heartstrings, tracks like this one are more up-lifting.
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Tubular Bells – Pt. I – Mike Oldfield
8 March 2017
While many people associate the music with the Exorcist and Halloween soundtracks, I associate it with lying on my back in Singapore, looking up at the sky and playing along with every instrument as the mad Master of Ceremonies Vivian Stanshall announced them.
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What House Is – Lady Blacktronika
8 March 2017
Since today is International Women’s Day I thought it would be most appropriate to feature one of my favorite DJs, Lady Blacktronika. She was one of the first friends I made when I arrived to Berlin and also the first person to ever tell me not to refer to “Techno” as “Electro.” When I asked her why, she said, “just don’t.” Duly noted Lady Black.
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L’alternativa – bzur
8 March 2017
I’ve composed this one keeping in mind an idea of consolation after loss, just follow its flow and let it take care of you 🙂
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When I’m Gone – Joey + Rory
8 March 2017
My husband and I decided life was too short to wait for retirement to have fun so we went out to buy a travel trailer. While standing in the fourth one, he had a heart attack and died. Two weeks after the funeral, I carried on with our dream, bought a 16 foot camper, and spent three months in the wilderness and backroads of Colorado…alone.
Doesn’t Make It Alright – The Specials
7 March 2017
It seems unlikely that a ska revolution started at 51 Albany Road, Coventry – go ahead and take a look on Google Street View and tell me I’m wrong – but from these inauspicious surroundings, songwriting mastermind Jerry Dammers and his friends introduced the world to the music of the Caribbean filtered through the prism of the West Midlands.
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Dear Mr President – Pink and the Indigo Girls
7 March 2017
The more things change, the more they say the same. This song from 2006 could have been written in 2017, which is not to say that protest is futile, but rather a solemn reminder that the fight for equality and justice against greed and brutality never ends.
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Erupt and Matter – Moby with The Void Pacific Choir
7 March 2017
Moby despises Donald Trump and everything he stands for. If you’ve watched the video for Erupt and Matter, you’ll know that, even if you don’t follow the veteran DJ and activist on social media. The sheer venom and anthemic roar of the music would be enough to tell you how he feels, even if the words weren’t written in letters that fill the screen. This is a pounding techno incitement to riot under the banner “we don’t trust you any more”.
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Fighting Times – The Neurotics
7 March 2017
When Neurotics frontman Steve Drewett wrote this song for the 1986 mini-album Repercussions, its chief target was the South African apartheid regime and thankfully that has long since been overturned. But every other point of reference in this rallying cry against inaction sounds depressingly contemporary. “Why are you so quiet?” Drewett asks in the chorus, “when these are fighting times?”
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P.O.W.A – M.I.A.
7 March 2017
“Say this is people power / Throw up my finger and I’m taking on the Tower”. Taking pot shots at The Donald is all fine and good but it is so much better when it’s done by a daring, eclectic, unpredictable original like Ms Maya Arulpragasam. An activist and a true artist of rap, MIA’s POWA is a unique mix of doo-wop loops, laid-back, bitter rhymes and Tamil folk percussion.
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Fight the Power – Public Enemy
7 March 2017
If you’ve ever seen Spike Lee’s extraordinary 1989 comedy drama Do The Right Thing, then you’ll never forget the scene where Italian-American pizzeria owner Sal (Danny Aiello) squares off with Radio Raheem (Bill Nunn) as Fight the Power blares out of his boombox, lyrically laying down the gauntlet, drawing a line at which Sal’s racism has to stop and, as it turns out, laying his life on that same line.