Having spent half the weekend at home and half of it out with friends and B, I am sitting in the studio at home listening to great music on a Sunday afternoon. Hearing all these great tracks is building up the excitement for next month´s festival and at the same time I am taking advantage of the inspiration to write and share the eargasmic tracks I´m being treated to right now.
Everything listed below has come from one source only, Solomun´s BBC 1 Radio Essential Mix on Soundcloud. If you wanna listen to the whole thing, you can do so here. Below however are the choice tracks that have stood out from this impeccable set! I´m kicking off today´s tracklist with Shanghai´s Looking for Love (Lulu Rouge Mix). This was the first track he ever played on that set and I can´t get it out of my head. It surely makes me think of dancing in Sonar by Night and forgetting the people around me and just feeling the beats vibrate through my chest and spread everywhere else. Graphic enough yet? :)
Most electronic tracks don´t have full blown lyrics. It is very likely that those that do are actually remixed or reedited. (Let´s not get into technicalities here as I would most likely lose that debate as I am not the most knowledgeable in that department. I just know good music when I hear it). There are quite a few of them that have been so tastefully done that are definitely worth the mention and the song The Sweetest Love by James Yuill is one of them. A ´sneaky edit´ by Prins Thomas
One that hasn´t been remixed or edited for this particular set is a track by Erik Christiansen called Cosmic Girl. In my elevated plane of happiness, I cannot help but put the laptop down and dance around for the duration of the track. I might have said something like this before in a previous entry about music that if I ever become a DJ, I am already building a tracklist, and this one just landed a spot in it.
I hope this has been a short but sweet listening pleasure for you, if you happen to be here :) Enjoy the rest of your Sunday!
This has taken a while to re-appear on here but I´m back with some new tracks that I would like to share with you. If you will notice the ones that have been included into this list has a theme-- the sun. Read on and you will understand what I mean. I didn´t plan it that way and I´´m amazed at how things just work themselves out without trying too much.
I´m kicking today´s post off with Nathan Fake. I loved his track from a
few years ago The Sky Is Pink and few others found their way into my
Ipod along with this one from 2006, Long Sunny (Fairmont Remix).
Sometimes the color of the sun can be described as crimson which makes this track fall perfectly in place with the unplanned theme that I have going on. Of course, the more important reason that I have chosen to include this track here is cause it sounds good and made me dance when I heard it. Released this year, it´s a track by Pearson Sound.
A name that is totally unfamiliar and new to me, Aphrodite. The only
Aphrodite I know of is from Greek Mythology. However, the other night B
was picking a track he was going to use for his football chronicles- He
played a part of this track and it immediately caught my attention. This
one goes by the name of Heat Haze from 2009. I´ve said this before and I will say it again, I am always on the lookout for new artists to listen to. Music is such a big part of my life. I don´t need much to lift my spirits up, give me a beat that I can dance to and we´re on our way. Speaking of dancing, are you going to Sonar Electronic Music Festival in Barcelona in June? Which festival /s will you be attending this year?
Technically this is the second one as I had posted a list a while back, here. At the time I wasn´t putting any titles on my entries. Music is one constant in my life and I have grown to appreciate it more and more through the years. I have even started listening to artists that my parents used to listen to. I am a huge fan of the 60´s, 70´s and the 80´s! A few years ago I was introduced to electronic music and have since fallen in love with it. My posts will mostly be new track or artist discoveries. I watch so many movies and TV that I tend to stumble upon some good music along the way. I also have the luck of having like-minded friends who like to share with me their good finds.
As I had mentioned I would be watching Breaking Bad last night and in one of the scenes on episode 5 they played a track that caught my attention. A few seconds of Shazam and I was introduced to Fujiya and Miyagi and their song Uh. I have spent some part of my morning listening to their other songs.
I´ve always been a Daft Punk fan -- of their songs and the videos that they have released. Although this one won´t fall under the high standards of great video (as this is not even official), the track is amazing! The hope of seeing them perform live at SONAR was the only thing that was pushing me to attend but as it turns out I won´t be able to go. I am not frowning yet as I have a perfectly good excuse. I´m loudly hoping that I will get to see them anyway even if it´s not in Barcelona in June.
Hanging out with B in his studio / office this morning he was playing some of his top tracks on Itunes and this one came on. I knew right away that it was going to be good. It has that swishy, swaying, laid-back sound to it that puts me right back on the beaches of the Philippines watching the sun set. Apart from taking me back to my favorite spot in the whole world I know that if I were to put together my own set, this would be a great jump off track. (Haha!)
I´ve saved the best for last, I say. This is a Coma remix of an 80´s track called Bette Davis´ Eyes. I get excited when I hear songs that I love being remixed, especially when it is done very well. I can fully understand why there is a song referring to Bette Davis´ eyes as they are gorgeous. If you don´t know what she looks like, see here. How´s your Wednesday coming along?
