After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
— Aldous Huxley
San Francisco based & Detroit legend, Claude Von Stroke brings smothers us in a sexy tech house track that’s suitable for an evening sipping on straight bourbon in a highball. Or whiskey, whichever you prefer. Just discovered this track from a 2013 dirty bird release, ‘Urban Animal’, which CVS also founded and owns.
Great stuff.
22 year old Brooklyn based Jeremy Malvin a.k.a Chrome Sparks deludes us into chilling the eff out with his background in classical percussion, love for synthesizers, beat music and dance music, creating a unique blend of soothing tunes that help you escape the hustle of daily life. Enjoy!
I love discovering new artists out of thin air. Here is one of my recent favourites, London based Dark Sky.
From beatport: “Tom Edwards, Matt Benyayer and Carlo Anderson together make up the London based production and DJ unit Dark Sky. Having met at music college, Dark Sky formed in 2009 out of a mutual love for the ever evolving London electronic music scene, a love that the trio have always reflected through not only their DJ sets but also their productions, drawing influence from everything from original UK garage through to house, via jungle and disco”.
Here they are at the Converse Red Light Sessions in Amsterdam performing their track, Vivid. Gives me chills…especially at 3:25.
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Melbourne based Miami Horror combine their indie electronica jam with Kimbra’s youthful, wonderfully jazzy tone (you might know her from that Gotye track…). The result is an extraordinarily good NuDisco. This track is old but it never seizes to lift my spirits. Every time I hear this track on a dancefloor, I die.
The future we’ve found
To stay here on higher ground
Enjoy!
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I’m born with this mighty sin
Walking around just talking my shit
Conversation based around just sex
Words at the tip of my tongue
Just discovered this beauty. Sacramento native Chelsea Wolfe has a penchant for atmosphere that crafts together her gospel like voice inside her goth-flavored concoctions of industrial rock, a dash of melodrama and jiggers of synthpop. She admits to being influenced by black metal, doom and drone music, as well as Scandinavian folk, which probably explains her array of styles. Here is one of my favorites from her album released last year ‘Pain is beauty’
I give you, ‘The Warden’.
Enjoy!
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It’s been a while since I posted a track, so kick starting this baby again with a track I discovered last summer. Every now and then you come across a track that samples another track and just does it so much better. This is Jamie Antonelli’s original mix of the classic Meat Katie & Elite force track of the same name. Vocals by Roland Clarke, lyrics below 🙂
“Last night I had a vision of a disco in the sky. I saw angels and saints dancing together, like a mystical dream inside of my mind. I remembered to move, I remembered that groove, I remember the thump of the bass and the pump of the kick, because my heart was almost out my body. I felt free, I felt joy, I felt things I never thought I’d feel before. It was deep, it was soulful, it was techno… it was disco. A kaleidoscope of sounds, it was truly underground. It was an essential mix in the clouds, where we could dance and sing out loud, and everybody loved everybody else. There was no hurt, there was no sorrow, there was no pain. And like children we danced and we laughed, and we played without a care in the world. Without a flicker of despair, it was all about music. It was that thing that we shared. A tribal feast of rhythm, a ceremony of sound in my mind. I must of went to music heaven… because nothing is that divine.”
This is an old track but it’s still a great summer time tune for the long weekend trips out into the sun.
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Remember this?
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Oh Moloko and that sweet melody…
So I have only just discovered that the sexy and sultry Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy, the voice behind that Moloko hit, has ventured off on her own solo act and accomplished quite a number of things, namely the album titled single from her 2007 album, Overpowered. The best part is, she still makes music videos. Happy Friday, Enjoy!
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Spen and Karizma have been around on the scene for a while and this is an old classic I dug up in the depths of my iTunes. It’s a re-edit of a truly great tune from Natalie Cole, essentially a completely new song. The re-arranged lyrics that brings out the core of Miss Coles song against a soulful house beat makes for quite a chilled afternoon track. Just great..
Love, like a raging river
Just body language can you blame it
You, you’re the quiet, shy type
Me, I’m a soulful moaner
Make you tell me all about it
Thats what I’m gonna, do
Till you tell me all about it, making love to you
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And check out the original song here.