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🪩 When I find it hard to motivate myself on a rainy winter Monday morning, only one genre of music manages to give me th...
11/03/2024

🪩 When I find it hard to motivate myself on a rainy winter Monday morning, only one genre of music manages to give me the necessary energy: Disco 🪩

I've recently dived a lot more into the genre after shazaming Pareice Cowley and Sylvester's "Do you wanna funk" at Panorama Bar. That song, not even remixed, is still an absolute banger that will set fire to the dancefloor.

A couple of weeks later, it was this time "on't leave this way" that was playing in another club, the original by Thelma Houston. For a very long time, I had thought that it was a song by the Communards. But I was wrong. And the original groooves!

These Disco encounters made me want to dive back into this genre I had overlooked before.
I started to look more into this genre, how it came up from the black and gay scene, how a few influent DJs like David Mancuso, Nickt Siano, Larry Levan or Frankie Knuckles, which will then develop House Music in the 80s.

So this playlist is a first attempt to share a few hits but also less famous songs.

Most are coming from the 70s, songs that could have been played at The Loft, Studio 54 or Garage Paradise to name a few of New York best disco clubs.
But I've also added a few contemporary songs to show that disco is still alive today.

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French Rap PlaylistPhoto by .keo
24/02/2024

French Rap Playlist

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We are the Robots.Robots are here.We're becoming robots. That's what was already singing in 1978, and it makes even mo...
04/02/2024

We are the Robots.

Robots are here.We're becoming robots.
That's what was already singing in 1978, and it makes even more sense the week when Neuralink is running its first human trial for its brain chip.
In music, robots have been around for a quite a while now.
Since Karel Čapek invented the world in 1920 in his play R.U.R ( Rossum's Universal Robots), after Asimov defined his 3 laws of robotics, they have populated and sang many songs.
are probably the most famous ones out there, but there are definitely not the only ones out there.
Zapp was using its talking box in the 1980s to create some futuristic funk, also had a song with such machine sounds, even also released one.

But one of my favourite artists is and its weird, amazing unique sound, mixing this humanoid voice with incredibly complex layers of music and sounds.
And if you want see one dancing, go see dance in his clips.
And join in their space travels.

Not only are there robots on Earth, but they're also starting to travel beyond our planet

Enjoy!

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After the sun, the rain.As Ann Peebles sang it (before Ina Turner and the most famous disco version of ) "I can't stand...
18/01/2024

After the sun, the rain.

As Ann Peebles sang it (before Ina Turner and the most famous disco version of ) "I can't stand the rain".

I guess the only exception are musical rains.

The famous ones, with , , , 's famous umbrella or 's rain in Paradize.

But the slow, infinite soul of , almost as if those water drops had becone frozen in their fall, suspended in the air, is also worth becoming wet.
Maybe you'll meet there Roger Fakhr's "Lady Rain", the queen of this incredible folk ballad from the incredible Lebanese singer-songwriter.
Or hear Happy Rhodes's incredible voice announcing the coming of the rain.
And if you hadn't had yet enough, made it rain again.
Then with , you can just calmly walk in the rain, feeling your wet hair touching your skin, water dripping and flowing down the neck. It's not cold anymore. It's a tropical rain, a nice warm rain that started.

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It's 5am. Summer. The sky is still dark except for a pale white glow floating on the sleeping lake as the break of day i...
29/12/2023

It's 5am. Summer. The sky is still dark except for a pale white glow floating on the sleeping lake as the break of day is about to come.
The air is hot, especially for all the festival-goers who have been dancing in the forests for hours if not days. Techno, Afro-house, Psytechno, deep house and more recently disco-house. They have danced on every rhythm, to every beat without stopping. They are tired but still hungry for more.
At 5am, it's the moment when finished her set at .
The crowd who was dancing there applauded, ready to find another stage to finish the night or head back to their tents.
At this very moment, unexpectidly, a new song started coming out of the speakers. A familiar one. But different enough that the brain has to search in its memory to find it.
"Englishman in New York". But not the original one.
A soft, caressing instrumental version which felt like a massage to the dancers' ears, feet and body.
And thr crowd started humming the song. No one wanted to sing too loud. Everyone was conscious of the fragility of this very moment, between night and day, between wakefulness and sleep.
And the 3 minutes of the songs went by like this, in a breath, and the silence came back.
It was time to go.

This was the inspiration for this week's playlist which includes amazing covers by , mehldau, , , , or .

And "Englishman in New York" by the Italian Style Quartet of course.

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Cover songsHearing a great cover of a familiar song is like rediscovering something you have grown accostomed to. It oft...
22/12/2023

Cover songs

Hearing a great cover of a familiar song is like rediscovering something you have grown accostomed to. It often time means being surprised by the direction the artist chose, as no one necessarily expected such a sound with a well known song.
And more than once, the cover song can help rediscover the original one as well.

That's why this playlist starts with amazing versions of "Heart of Glass" and "Born to be Alive" in Inuktitut. Something I had never imagined, but that absolutely astonished me at first and that I love just as much as or originals.

Or Wilson Pickett's "Hey Jude", with so much soul and energy to this classic.
Or & 's take on "Que Sera", the song Doris Day sang in Hitchcock's "The Man who Knew too Much", which is a whole world in itself.
Or 's rendition of "House of the Rising Sun" with their distinctive touch, or with "Crazy", or the less famous "My name is Carnival" from Jackson C. Frank by , or the reggae cover of "Just an Illusion".

Every single cover just opens up a world of new possibilities, new spaces and unknoe territories to discover.

And this week's playlists could not end but with a moment of grace, 's cover of Leonard Cohen's "If it be your will". One way to define beauty.

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