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Future Prophecies – Miniamba (feat. Mari Boine)

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Quick, run! Flee, before the Miniamba eats up all the electricity in its hungry quest for more bass! To be honest, I have no idea what “miniamba” means, but Mari’s delicate voice against this rugged high quality drum’n’bass just made me think that. Probably the miniambas are friendly and just want to dance. Let it be so!

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGvcXheAyrI^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/4fZhnxi2b29JvSBzAZtmqT^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/580379272^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Future-Prophecies-Warlords-Rising/release/1594619^

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Beth Hart – Bad Woman Blues

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Want a tight, short, full of energy song that’s crammed to the brink of explosion with catchy hooks? Leave it to blues rocker Beth Hart to bring into existence. The witty lyrics make the ride that much more pleasurable.

“Got the lips, got the legs
I was born to drive a man insane
I don’t worry and I don’t shame
Put it on me, I’m the queen of pain
I’ve been bad, I’ve been cruel
I’m not sorry, baby, sorry for you
It’s my party and I don’t dance
Just want your liquor and your cheap romance
I’m not your mama, I’m not your wife
I’m not the one who’ll make it right
Good girls always lose
I got the bad woman blues”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiRiPtg9EFk^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/0JSotxr4YFcp5e8c5yaMKv^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/761970752^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Beth-Hart-War-In-My-Mind/master/1610794^

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Zenzile – Pearls

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The zinging bass kickstarting this song gives some clue about what’s to follow. The bassline is indeed hefty but, as it soon turns out, this is actually a laid-back piece, a head-bobber and slightly melancholic low-rider. The sparse instrumentation acts as an enhancer for sinuous synths, scattered percussion and that awesome sax towards the end.

“Dark eyes pearls in disguise

Nested in fossil cases

Recording encoding

Time and continuum

All bassines and the beats

Cause those earthquakes and tsunamis

And centuries reunborn

Spawned a new breed

Hidden in the shapes of seaweed

And sand a right band of lunatics

Leaving dark cloud stained hieroglyphe

Above mediterranean waves were

A moon sits cutting the horizon”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBqY0njNOlY^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/0wUb0LyyAvHg5Z1cuWxSW7^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/469745642^

For SoundCloud users (high quality):

https://soundcloud.com/zenzilemusic/zenzile-pearls-feat-jamika-jay-ree^

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Daemonia Nymphe – Deo’s Erotas

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Plucking strings, banging drums and working the windpipes, this one is meant for unleashing the dancer within. Rise with the ecstatic choirs, ride the wave and let the body follow. Even in this day and age, sometimes there’s simply no competition to traditional instruments used right.

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location.

https://daemonianymphe.bandcamp.com/track/deo-s-erotas^

YouTube (decent quality, awesome video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLuiAibzTiM^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/6y5INCsGB3SFeuJQO0cigu^

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Calibre – Sand Promise

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Time for some moody minimal electronica. Some songs have a visual quality to them. What imagery will this moody piece bring forth? For me, it’s a luminous night where an orange moon is just starting its climb upon the sky while I’m driving home on a lightly populated motorway.

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location.

https://calibre.bandcamp.com/track/sand-promise^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibPN2MO3o2M^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/1swtjCHbfP9aiC6Yr8zJ9T^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/144982092^

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VAST – Touched

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Guitars meet ecstatic chanting in what is a daring, powerful rock melody. Completed by beautiful lyrics, it’s clear that this song is touched.

“Touched,
You say that I am too,
So much,
Of what you say is true,
I’ll never find someone quite like you,
Again,
I’ll never find someone quite like you,
Like You,
The razors and the dying roses,
Plead I don’t leave you alone,
The demi-gods and hungry ghosts,
God, god knows I’m not at home,
I’ll never find someone quite like you,
Again,
I’ll never find someone quite like you,
Again,
I looked into your eyes and
Saw a world that does not exist,
I looked into your eyes and,
Saw a world I wish I was in,
I’ll never find someone quite as touched as you
I’ll never love someone quite the way that I loved you.”

YouTube with video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S_R13jV11Q^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=160mRmA8eFo^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/6hfGLM67CObcwG4AWVlsSz^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/62789782^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/VAST-Visual-Audio-Sensory-Theater/master/27843^

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Deva Premal – Tumare Darshan

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Embrace each other and let the body swing on gentle yet purposeful rhythms. And know that the words you hear are a mantra for love and life:

Sanskrit:

“Tumare Darshan Ki bela
Ye mausam ras rachane ka.
Liye ullas ki sanse
Samai masti me jine ka.”

English:

“The season has arrived where,
I will finally see you and dance with you.
With the breathing in of joy,
it is time to live in bliss.”

Deva Premal has, for decades now, put her voice and skills in service of adapting mantras to Western audiences, mostly by elegantly adding orchestration that is popular over here, such as additional percussion and the occasional synthesizer. All her art is a joy to listen and I warmly recommend you to seek it out.

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZreTrLA7zEU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZreTrLA7zEU^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Ut3B20p5ICF1YLfOHIYev^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/12074523^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Deva-Premal-The-Essence/master/376405^

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Jeff Beck – Live in the Dark

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Catchy hard rock’n’roll with witty lyrics, amazing energy and a sweet, sweet buildup. It’s the perfect song to lift anybody from the dumps, to kick a party to 11 and to wake up to. This one can move dead bodies :D.

“I’m not afraid of the dark
If we gotta live in the dark
We will live in the dark
Won’t see me dying in the light
We will live in the dark
We will dance in the dark
We’ll bring candles down to the the dark
We will love in the dark
We’ll go home in the dark
We’ll hold hands in the dark
‘Cause when you hold hands in the dark
You don’t know whose hand you hold
We’re just humans letting the love flow”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6dsffOrOoI^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/3hxKRXZ1yxqCuOSoZTphwV^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/127743095^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Jeff-Beck-Loud-Hailer/release/8767543^

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Dusty Kid – Beethoven: Moonlight Sonata Rework

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Ready to submerge? This electronica reinterpretation of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata takes us down, down, down. Down into the calm, bobbing on the river of melancholy. I wonder what the long-departed composer would have to say about how his work echoes through the ages.

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn_A9Yb6cgk^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/20GaLZN85W78ol0UlMW7SX^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/395321492^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Reworks-Piano/release/10917476^

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Beck – Loser

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Failure can now be celebrated with this paradoxical hymn that manages to be both catchy and apathetic. The lyrics are somewhere at a crossroads between humor and despair, surrender and pessimism, with a side-dish of sarcasm. And they’re being delivered with the perfect voice and intonation.

“Someone keeps sayin’ I’m insane to complain
About a shotgun wedding and a stain on my shirt
Don’t believe everything that you read
You get a parking violation and a maggot on your sleeve
So shave your face with some mace in the dark
Savin’ all your food stamps and burnin’ down the trailer park
Yo, cut it
Soy un perdedor
I’m a loser baby so why don’t you kill me?”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgSPaXgAdzE^

For Spotify users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/4b8GTae6rqb9oPiRzVa3Gy^

For Deezer users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/422033092^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Beck-Mellow-Gold/master/44787^

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