hiatus. oops.

sorry bout the accidental hiatus.

here are just a couple things, no particular theme, just what's been tickling my Most Played as of late.

FOXES X PAPER CROWS

  so trancey and ambient and elegant and nice for this rainy stint we've been having in halifax.

and now for something completely different.

ALPHABEAT X FRANKMUSIK

throwback to high school. 

i used to fixate so strongly on danish power pop and this killer bubbly punchy electronica; it's kind of cute to revisit it. nice to know that two of my once-favourites are still making fun sounds for me to bounce around my room to. 

 stay sane friends.

wo.

just realized i never posted this?

made this mix a while ago.

basically just those songs everyone loves to hear at parties but remixed, so everyone's happy!

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aaaw yeeeeeeeeeah.

i will love you until the end of time.

Something you need to know about me.

I have one particular principle that I hold very highly: 

Beyonce can fix everything.

So when I was down-and-out-sick for a week naturally I would just lay in bed and watch The Beyonce Experience and allow her healing power to fix my bones. But legit I strongly feel that she will be the end to world conflict, cause it`s everyone`s common ground. Perhaps in history at some point there have been people who have mildly disliked her music, fair, but no one has ever hated Beyonce.  Ever.

So in honour of me being back to life and cranking through my late assignments by running on Beyonce-induced adrenaline, here`s a gem of her last album that flew under the radar.

also note that Les Twins (absolutely two of the world's greatest hip hop dancers) are dancing with her. does my life get any better.

God speed. <3

or click this and watch more
or click this and watch even more

EXAMPLE IS A RAPPER AGAIN!

EXAMPLE'S A RAPPER AGAIN 

made me really sad when on his last album my favourite rapper became a singer. He's just such a talented lyricist and there are less of him when he sings. this makes me feel like I'm back in Newcastle watching him rip across the stage to subtly tweaked arrangements. 

so painfully jealous of the lucky brits who have tickets to his sold out UK arena tour since he plays with a band and the sounds are so huge. 

the album comes out november 4th and it's gonna be a legend. the last one was mostly singing and was a bit vanilla, but with tracks produced by Benga, Feed Me, Skream, and a bunch o friends i'm super stoked for the new release. There's a big sampler of it here. enjoy :)

 

this is the guy i missed. 

so happy for him.

cheers.

i suppose they call it chillstep?

there's something about over-compartmentalizing electronic music that i'm  endlessly attached to, yet naturally reject. chillstep just sounds like a cop-out to me. seems like artists keep conjuring up new names for things that can be described more in depth using current terms. maybe i'd say something closer to acoustic indie ambient trance...

 but call me old fashioned.

the original by Benjamin Francis Leftwich 

(backwards in the video title. idiots.) 

was one of my top travel jams when i was backpacking, and whenever i was by the sea it kept me feeling like i never actually moved. lovely to see it revisited with a couple rimshots and a bit of ambient echo. his voice can really do anything. 

while we're discussing chill indie vibes one can't ignore this gem. 

go make some toast and enjoy something slightly uptempo. 

good morning 

Purity Ring X Danny Brown

since illness has left me bed-ridden, infinite thanks to Purity Ring for making my beli happy 

(and by belly we mean kidneys. rawr.)

whoever thought hip hop would be their pot of tea?

(not that i would ever doubt them. i mean please, they're 1/2 haligonian)

but this is just such a logical transition. perfect. clean. 

I just hope and pray that they play this at the HPX show. 

cheers + illness

hi mr. flaherty, why aren't you halifamous.

GABE FLAHERTY

obviously. 

I'MSOEXCITED. 

i got so giddy when i read that this song is supposed to be 

an abstraction of the essence of halifax. 

and we all know how much i love my city, and this is the perfect rainy city song. 

nice and chill but still with a good pulse. 

he doesn't normally do chill stuff like this, but this song is shaping up to be one of my favourite Gabe tracks. 

enjoy little ducks.

cheers.