Spotify playlist for the week of August 27, 2023.

• KNOWER – Do Hot Girls Like Chords: The intro is 🔥🔥🔥. 🙀 Knower is one of Louis Cole’s other projects. The album is only available on Bandcamp.
• DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ – Brave: catchy house music by an oddly named DJ. Discovered thanks to this review on Rate My Music.
• Daði Freyr – If You Want To: The Icelandic band keeps on making catchy songs.
• Genesis Owusu – Tied Up!
• Noga Erez – NO news on TV (feat. ROUSSO): I feel a boppy Gorillaz vibe.
• Noga Erez – Fire Kites
• Machinedrum – Quasar
• Oneohtrix Point Never – A Barely Lit Path

It was a good music week.

Spotify playlist for the week of August 20, 2023.

• Brandt Brauer Frick – This Feeling - Grandbrothers Remix: Can’t not add a song that involves these two artists.
• Nikki Nair – Wake Up
• Genesis Owusu – Tied Up!
• Lusine – Transonic
• Stereolab – Metronomic Underground: Hypnotic.
• Stereolab – ABC: The first part sounds like a Jimi Hendrix song, but without all the guitar chops. I dig it.
• Fallulah – Bridges: Bouncy French pop. Reminds me a lot of the Danish artist Fallulah.
• Tomu DJ – Optimistic: Pretty sure the drums are from a NES.
• MADMADMAD – You See, You Do It Like This: I hope to see them live one day. I’m sure it’s a helluva party, based on KEXP live video that doesn’t even have an audience. Strong Artist Of The Year vibes.
• Artist Of The Year – sEXY mE, SEXY yOU: “It’s gonna be a hardcore track.”
• Get The Blessing – Oscillation Ochre
• Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
• Noname – namesake
• Parra for Cuva – Cupa Cupa

Spotify playlist from the week of August 13, 2023.

• This Is The Kit – Inside Outside
• John Monroe – Sleeping on the Floor: I’m a sucker for this sound, which reminds me of 1970’s Gentle Giant. John Monroe is a member of the excellent Field Music.

It looks like I may like a genre called hyperpop. Spotify’s hyperpop playlist has a few artists I already know and enjoy. Discovery ahead. (Update: an entire playlist of hyperpop is too much. I like some hyperpop artists and songs. I don’t like hyperpop as a genre.)

This set by 100 gecs at Boiler Room in L.A. is all. over. the. place. But it’s a lot of fun. Check out 59:00 for a wild taste. And do read the comments. Speaking of 100 gecs, the video Acai playing the 10,000 gecs album on Clone Hero Drums for the first time mesmerized me. Wut.

Spotify playlist for the week of August 8, 2023.

• Optometry – Technicolor - Silent Servant Remix
• Optometry – Whatever You Need - Dntel Remix: Sounds like The Postal Service. Makes sense, since Dntl is Jimmy Tamborello is The Post Service.
• Moderat – Milk - Sped up Version: Funny. I didn’t care much for the normal-speed version of this song. But I dig this one.
• Paradise Circus – Nyctophile: Starts with a weird distorted sample from Gentle Giant’s Knots.
• MISOGI – ULTRABLAST: More hyperpop.
• Underhill – Dead Foot: Current Value had another project called Underhill for a while. It’s a little less drum n’ bass, a little more like older Amon Tobin and/or Two Fingers.
• Current Value – Heavy Weight: On the same EP as Underhill’s Dead Foot.
• Rachael Dadd – Feather
• Noname – beauty supply: Jazzy hip-hop. I dig it. I like this album even more than her 2016 Telefone.
• Son Lux – Easy: This is so different from the original song! Fascinating!
• Son Lux – No Crimes (New History): This remix feels even more Son Lux-y than the original song.
• Tomu DJ – Band Man

Now with a playlist!

• Max Cooper - Swapped / Stereoscopic Dive: Swapped is an intense noisy single. Stereoscopic Dive is more of his usual rhythmic ambient stuff. Vertebrea / Forgotten Places is almost drum n’ bass, with vocals by Kathryn deBoar. Her voice reminds me of Béatrice Bonifassi’s voice on DJ Champion’s No Heaven.
• Maribou State – Midas: A chill song fit for an afternoon in the park, if it wasn’t so damn hot. Perfect for a Copenhagen afternoon-in-the-park party.
• Tarta Relena – El suïcidi i el cant
• Laila Biali – Got to Love
• Snarky Puppy – Sleeper: I think it’s my first time listening to a full Snarky Puppy album despite a friend mentioning them nearly a decode ago. This particular song reminds me of Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana’s Taming the Dragon. This video of Larnell Lewis during the recording of the album We Like It Here trigger my listening. Via Kottke.
• Yaeji – For Granted: I think they’ve listened to Everything in Its Right Place quite a bit.
• Bad Snacks – Let’s Go (299 Mill): Short, gritty bass-centric groove.
• underscores – Locals (Girls like us) [with gabby start]
• Son Lux – No Crimes (New History): All the ingredients of a solid Son Lux song. (Update: it’s a remix, so yeah, duh.)

• Hakushi Hasegawa – Mouth Flash (Kuchinohanabi): The (un)usual bouncy glitchy pop for Hasegawa-san. It’s really hard to describe.
• Tarta Relena – nunc aperuit remix: Glitchy, drum ‘n bass-y remix of a Catalan vocal duet. You know. The usual.

• Bishop Briggs – Wild Horses: still a banger.
• Cory Wong – The Grid Generation: Louis Cole brings the groove, again.
• Lusine – Zero to Sixty: ear-tickling single.
• Teeth Of The Sea – Megafragma
• Walker & Royce – Stop Time
• Flyte – Tough Love
• Jacob Collier – WELLLL: Jacob Collier does rock anthems now? Rock anthems that sound like Rage Against the Machine?

• Louis-Jean Cormier – 100 mètres haies

• Ross from Friends – Revellers
• Machinedrum – Hide Sun
• Cornelius – All Things Must Pass
• underscores – You don’t even know who I am
• Aaron Jackson – Storm
• Sampha – Spirit 2.0

• GRiZ – Can’t Hold Me Down: The synths at 2:10 are fuzzy sandpaper to my ears.
• 1788-L – Human Machine
• Stimming – 22 Degree Halo
• Stimming – For My Better Half
• Max Cooper – Vertebrae / Forgotten Places: Drum n’ Bass with the Max Cooper touch.
• Django Django – Slipstream: Django Django is after your dance floor.
• Neonlight – Desire - Killbox Remix