It's not soul, it's disco. It's still good.

Music you feel at an atomic level

Join me for a swim tonight

Life before Rage

Forest Whitaker is... Ghost Dog

Came for the high hats and stayed for the flute solo

Hong Kong post-punk

Probably more well known than the original at this point.

Another song called 'Jeopardy.' This one was on a CD too.

My controversial RTJ rankings are 2-3-1-4. Fight me.

Another song from the Eclipse CD. I could do a post on almost every track.

James Murphy was working the merch booth at The Juan MacLean show.

The soundtrack of aging and sometimes feeling like you're not making progress.

Back when I was really into EDM, Lone used to be my guy.

Zack Sabre Jr.'s entrance music. There is no Zack Sabre Sr.

Other than Mos Def, Q-Tip might have the most random features of anyone.

The first song I heard walking into the 5th anniversary Portola Despacio.

Another Despacio song. Lord help us all if another one is announced.

In my recent Shazams and it's funky. Shout out to me.

Not really scary, honestly hilarious. My favorite scary movie of all time.

It is quite out there, but I love it in a weird way.

Been on a UK rap kick since our episode with Rob Scoffield.

The pitched down and slowed version in the Despacio tent was insane.

Coming out of Despacio with tracks I never heard before that just bang.

Feeling like I'm never gonna dance again after Despacio.

A sambafied Tangoterje remix of an MJ classic, dropped by Kruder and Dorfmeister.

This is city pop? Really?

90s rnb vibes from 2024

Love a good hidden track, especially on vinyl

Started with their earliest album. Did not expect it to be so jazzy.

One of the first tracks of my college downtempo phase.

Recommended to me for years. Only now actually clicking.

Peak Brooklyn 2013

The art of the remix

House is alive and well

Funky beats supplied by David Harding and Marfa Public Radio

If I had to pick one album to listen to forever, it's this one.

Turns out the Temptations sang 'War' first — Edwin Starr just made it famous.

A seamless DEEWEE TEEVEE performance that sent me down an Ill-Studio rabbit hole.

Post-Skrillex, deep in EDM-tinged grime — heavy bass and Flowdan's gruff voice, slowed down.

Psychedelic Smokey

Amazing cuts always live on the B side

See you at the Crossroads

The garage interview snippet that turned into one of 199 tracks.

Check it, check it, check it, check it

A show tunes level arrangement, and yes, that's a trumpet solo.

Perfect for sunsets cruising Union Drive West

A dreamy, electronic Sade B-side that predicted where they'd go next.

Your Labor Day BBQ soundtrack, no notes needed.

A pandemic vinyl budget purchase

MJ wanted a beat like this. Justin Timberlake got it instead.

Some songs just don't hit until they hit. Apparently the algorithm agrees too.

Did you know Tom Hardy has a rap album? And that it's actually good?

Take my $9.75

Ray Barretto's banging cover of Stevie Wonder, later sampled by Soul Scream.

David Peel's marijuana anthem showed up over a pulsing beat at the Skrillex show.

An underrated entry in Khruangbin's discography, and one of its standout tunes.

A high-intensity jazz rec from AI, complete with an AI-written overview.

But I man is here to teach you what's right from wrong

A novelty Brit-funk rap built from other people's best licks.

A random 2011 Jamiroquai one-off, spotted in the GTA VI leaks.

A Bohannon deep cut that hip hop has sampled a million times over.

Bocephus, Monday Night Football, and the loudest '90s party anthem there was.

Must be hot in those costumes

A spiritual flip that's on repeat during late-night drives, thinking-required.

Come on y'all, clap those hands

Turns out Björk made a straight-up jazz album, and her voice can do anything.

A Foreign Exchange reissue announcement led my brain straight to Foreign Legion instead.

How Phonte and Nicolay built an entire album without ever meeting in person.

An unexpected Sinéad and MC Lyte pairing, and its slasher soundtrack cameo.

Strangers at an airport bar reciting Nookie lyrics and Fred Durst's dating history.

We ain't got time to be tired

Witness the fitness

RIP Nujabes

Well, we left her water and a Walkman and I hope she knows how to use it

Maybe now they can finally play the Rivoli

Long Island crooning with a splash of Dilla-influence

If you find this on vinyl, hit me up

Like a fresh turn in deep powder

Grimey like a hefty bag at the curb during a trash strike

FYC's big commercial breakthrough, right before calling it quits.

A strange, Matador-only remix offshoot with a Brooklyn rap group I'd never heard of.

Everywhere hit from a band whose whole album is a massive letdown.

Kyoto Jazz Sextet is the actual-jazz side of the Kyoto Jazz Massive story.

The sounds that bounce of an industrial styled coffee shop

Another song in The System universe, programmed by David Frank.

5-7-5, three lines that don't rhyme.

One of the most used scratch samples in all of music stems from this song.

No reason for a theme song about suing people over HOA fees to go this hard.

One of my favorites from the Dare's DJ sets at Freakquencies over the years.

As GTA 6 hype continues to mount, drawn back to a favorite from FlyLo FM.

The entire song is made of the most generic clichés, but that bass line is tough.

Some recent new Latin music on Verve, and the whole album is solid.

A story of a man who just wants to know how much the fish costs.

I think everyone knows by now that Taiwan is #1.

A record store find: a disco interpretation of Beethoven's Fifth.

The probably-fake boy band whose fourth member is stuck on a visa in Mumbai.

Years spent chasing down a song after hearing just a snippet on a mixtape.

Who ya got? Spain or Argentina?

I'm looking for the party people

Two heads are better than one

Like a SEGA soundtrack, but better

Aren't orange tic tacs just candy?

More talent than your average fratboy rapper

If you got a problem you can fuck around and find out

At first I thought this was a German Clash cover band

Get on the mic and let yours begin

Neue Deutsche Welle

Proposing a new USMNT anthem after that Round of 16 exit — this one fixes everything.

More from The System

One of my favorites from Five, as the group reissues its catalog on vinyl.

A random five-dollar find at Silver Platters

Hot Chip but jazz

Yusuf. Rocco. Elijah. Alexander.

Reasonable Doubt is getting a 30th anniversary vinyl reissue.

Down a Lupin III rabbit hole. The music sounds great.

The first album cover Ian Anderson of The Designers Republic ever designed.

Astute listeners may remember part of this from the intro to Lots of Lovin by Pete Rock & CL Smooth.

Nice new jack swing from 1992. Going on the want list.

A flip of Wannabe and I Wanna Be Down spotted in a Jazzy Sport Shimokitazawa clip.

The Onra flip that almost made Long Distance.

Onra's new album had me revisiting his old stuff.

George Clinton's P-Funk spinoff, and the thread connecting it to the Stop Making Sense lineup.

Tracing city pop and Jamiroquai back through early-80s British jazz-funk, where Shakatak kept turning up.

Catching LTJ Bukem DJ a street festival in Athens entirely by accident.

Acid jazz built on a Work to Do sample, which is more than enough to win me over.

Westside Gunn might as well be focus-grouped from my brain alone: good beats, fun raps, wrestling references galore.

An E-Smoove remix that lands somewhere between my college downtempo phase and a wanna-be chic restaurant.

Wiki's ode to public space, and a small worry about whether we'd still build it today.

A piano-led Japanese jazz cut where the drummer, John Davis, completely steals it.

Working backwards from the Broadway musical into Fela's catalog, landing on this live cut with Ginger Baker.

Seeing Ivy live on their reunion tour, and the New York nostalgia this earnest little band keeps hitting.

Stripping the Beach Boys down to just the vocal stack, where the harmonies finally click for me.

New York anthem. Knicks in 5.

Go New York, Go New York, Go

It's always the horns

Irish shoegaze

Mike D always had a taste for vintage

A sample you know, a song you might not

MMMMM MMMMM YEAH YEAH

English soul

Amazing keys and punchy horns that'll make you feel like you're coming down from an out of body experience.

how do you even say !!!

Last minute addition from a Brazilian MPB legend.

A 90s house beat

A blind buy from the record store.

Turnstile's remix tradition meets BBNG.

Two LPs into the UK garage revival.

Late Night with Conan O'Brien closing theme.

Get me back to Kevin's Country

B-side horns

From the turntable.fm era.

A piano piece I used to know.

Cowboy Bebop, revisited.

On the Bronson / Ghostface beef and Big Ghost.

Detroit ghettotech that hopefully blows up

Heard this one at a jazz kissa in Tokyo earlier this year

Wish I had more of this growing up

UK heater that never really made its way across the pond

Giving PM Dawn a fair shot after years of writing them off

From the latest David Byrne album, and a standout from his recent Coachella set

A live-only Jamiroquai deep cut from when they were one of the most exciting bands on the planet

Pseudo-spiritual French rock from Christian Vander's post-Magma project

Brazilian soul from a guy who once joined a cult and deleted his own records

A bathtub, a fall, and the moment Prince realized he was mortal

I prefer the cover over the original

You've heard this song a thousand times and didn't even know it

Being a celebrity don't mean shit to me (woooooooo)

I swore I'd never lay like a log, bark like a dog, I was a teenage smog

Funky flute over electric keys

Haunting melody from the final vignette in Coffee and Cigarettes

But I'm selling everything...

Folksy synth at the Bang Bang Bar

Are you a party warrior?

Dance-y r&b track out of PDX from 1986

A hard pivot towards red curtains, checkered floors, and talking logs

Shoegaze with middle eastern flair

Uncleared Samples

Soca x Detroit tecno

Sounds like things coming back to life

A Tribe Called Quest is a bad investment?

WHERE ARE THE FANS?

New Massive Attack

1970s contemplative beachscape

Modern takes on smooth R&B and funk

Grab me a Paulaner

Zoom

Don't dismiss any queens of disco

Massive Attack does Doors

Funky synth vibes

Open your mind at the College of Knowledge

Vocal range that strikes the clouds

Irish punk gal inspo

Sundrops and melodies

Rock flute futurism

Krush Posse's style is back in full effect.

Admit it. When you were a kid watching this movie, you didn’t know a Korean song was playing in the background. -A YouTube comment

Why? Does. Your. Love. Hurt. So. Bad.

Tatsuya Nishiwaki, a chromatic harmonica player.

Miami Vice meets smooth jazz from Japan.

Hold on

Oh I've got it

An exploration of medieval chamber music

Don't push me

You Ain't My Son

Raise those Kelvins

Best boy band since One Direction

I can't wait

Don't pull that trigger

A gold mine for jazz cats

More music from Belgium

East coast swing

Rhythm and Blues?

Exploring the unknown

How DOOM hold heat and preach non-violence?

Live from Montreux

Almost there

It's Electric!

Yodling (and a bit of the ghost) in this 60s spiritual jazz classic

Whitney vibes straight out of the 80s

Late nights at the listening lounge.

I still love you Joceyln Brown, but Minnie Riperton is GOAT

Sharon Van Etten has it dialed

Midlife Nostalgia

Sunshine, I can feel you near

Brooklyn Memories

Synth Goth is here to stay

Cloudy days that mark the end of an era

We've all been there

From the artist: It tastes a bit like Herbie Hancock tweakin’ synth sounds on Arp Odyssey

Roger Waters reimagined

A new song on this blog!

Discogs is a scourge on local record store pricing

This was what I was listening to in college

My travel origin story

Nine-Darter

Buy more old jazz records

Jazz greats and a hifi system will take you to a new plane of existence

Shoesgaze barbeque music

If this doesn't get you to move, what will?

Introduction to Afrofuturism

Caught way up in the love of Jesus

You want to talk to Jackie?

Against all logic

I get up to the highs of dimensional sound

I funk up a room like the fumes of the wound of a dead rat

Percussive Legend

Glasgow Goth

Baby Alan Palomo

Time to make some crazy money

I don't understand what's going on here

This song reminds me of a shopping mall for some reason

Who's World is it Anyway?

Dig out those patchwork elephant pants and platforms

Upbeat tempo for beaten down feelings

Global music reached a young Texan

Dashed dreams

This ghost is welcome to haunt me

Please stick to the seven digit numbers you're used to

I don't know why you did it, but you did

All around the world same song

They have other songs

Summer Nights circa 1999

One of those songs that is everywhere

You Cold Busted

German production X signature Albarn vocals

On Blast

I'm Black and I'm Back

Decent man walking

Music to get your blood pumping on a cold day (or maybe you need something for a car chase?)

Finding calm

Serenity in the sea of chaos...

in Poland?

Who's ready for story time pt. 3?

Who's ready for story time pt. 2?

Who's ready for story time pt. 1?

Roaming the aisles of Daikanyama Tsutaya Books

Spinnin and glidin

Diabolical Vecna maze in the dark

Melancholic musings of midlife crises admist a love song

I'm countin' down to the day deservin', fittin' for a king

Nothing feels ordinary these days

Snatch, Grab, I Love You

Everyone should read Welcome to Lagos

Is there still one beer left?

Tienes que creer pa' poderlo ver

I need your love... cause I'm on fire...

Spaceships. Mutants. Disco.

rockit Bollywood style

The smokiness of Studio 54 feels palpable.

Don't Do It

Shock G on Piano

Ya done run 100 miles, but you still got one to go

Add this to your marathon playlist

Waiting in the lobby of the standard hotel

Sounds like Playstation

Finally, some new music on this blog

What would be the last song you would play?

Warm sounds on cold days

What if rock the casbah, but different

I guess this would be like electro/psyc flamenco or something

Khruangbin means Airplane

Raw Like Sushi

Old school cool

Space music

Read it to me will you please?

I believe ya... but my tommy gun don't

The perfect holiday tune

The sound of Havana

Dreaming of warmer times.

Don't ever get it misconstrued when you see us comin' thru

ooooooooooooooo baby wait for me

Trappin in Japan

What is a surf generator anyway?

The people in the music video are acting way too hype for this song

A meeting point of synth pop sounds and post punk outbursts under an omnipresent new wave prism.

Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)

Slick guitar licks from a dark bar off the Vegas strip.

The Queen of Sheba

Born, born, born to be alive.

Better running man than Jason Sudekis

Fac51 The Haçienda

Stax classic...

Do you like rock n' roll music? Because I don't know if I do

Behind the music

There's a good chance at least one of y'all won't see next week

Dilla x Stereolab

The children, they yearn for acid jazz

#Fixtheparamount

Such a shame, the way it slips away

The sound of the waves collide...tonight

Take me back to November

A hardwoood classic

One of the best concerts ever recorded

This old house is all I have

Give me a little

All we want to do is be in a record booth

Ain't no personal thing

Detroit Guitar Rock

On a warm San Francisco night

Can it be album time again?

Flow colder than Dutch Bros. coffee

When's it gonna stop?

From Harlem World to London Town

These are based on the Night Versions that Duran Duran use to make

Drink a 40 to this one

Prada Loafers

Jazzy, dark, indeipop from Portland.

The art of the posse cut

Dreaming of a world that's equal for women with no division

Drums to electric relaxation

Darlin' darlin' baby

Under appreciated hip hop gem from the 90s

Canada's #1 Boy Band

2000s TRL Bleh

Is Shaniqua there?

Dreaming of a world that's equal for women with no division

Classic Soul from Chicago

Let me just make this statement loud and clear, Jersey’s here.

Get a coffee; lose some keys.

Dreaming of a world that's equal for women with no division

Are you man enough?

Still waiting

Party's over grandpa

Passenger side, lighting the sky, always the first star that I find.

Back at it again

Think about it

If you wanna dance call brotherson

All I want is just me and you

The birth of techno

Gone too soon

French hip hop from the 90s was a vibe.

An absolute gem from Pam Grier's classic Sheeba Baby.

Man, I Just Ain't Into That

James Brown Raps on Heroin

I do still listen to new stuff accidentally

Lucille 2 Goes 80s

Ice Cube, Shaq, and Michael Jackson

I really don't care, do u?

1995 - Echoes from the Past

Simple yet effective

Work, Buy, Consume, Die

Greetings from a craphole city

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is

A bassline you’ll feel in your spine.

Slave to the rhythm

Dreams of Despacio

Don't rush to get old

Missed Connections at the Air Race

Where all the brothers and sisters get together

Another song chosen for no reason

Look around you

Just an ordinary guy.

Roll credits

Cause you ain't evеr seen a bitch stunt like this

Hypnotic rhythms

You and I

Lovers rock meets city pop

ありがとうございます

Lower quality meats

I feel like going offline

Come Here! Get Over Here!

My favorite duet

Can I be so out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong

Feels like the bright light on the dark side of the moon.

My answer is Yes.

Seeds of the shoegaze movement

Copy of a

On to the next

I only make jokes to distract myself from the truth

A Handshake to the Brain

We are a part of the loud minority

80s soul from Brazil.

Ulala's Swinging Report Show!

A French cover of a classic

Their money is your money as of right now

Bugs Bunny Addresses His Enemies

A treatise on the unlimited nature of man's hubris

Where does Blur stop and Gorillaz begin

Who Wants to Know?

Stroke that shiny coat

ooooooo oooooooooohhhooooo

I want to see all my friends at once

A love supreme part 2

Manchester UK 2007

The sound of car commercials and awful 90s movies

Go watch the latest Sci Fi Fantasy video for a killer soundtrack.

Scanned a QR code on North Williams for this one.

The kind of laugh that makes you know you're alive

Jukebox jam

A soulful rendition of Mos Def's classic Umi Says.

Death Jazz

It was released on DFA, of course its got synth.

Damn good advice

On a racetrack in France

So many connections to amazing acts like Madlib and Freddie Gibbs, Black Thought to the Black Keys.

To the one that got away

A song about a man living the dream

Legendary set at the Boiler Room

Punk music straight from Taiwan

Four thousand years ago, I came back to my senses, swallowed a laser ray, it blew my mind in all directions.

It makes too much sense

Synth guitar

My pen and paper cause a chain reaction

That's my purse

A long lost gem from the Pharcyde

Would that be alright?

There's a T-rex on the cover, what else more could you possibly need.

Shoegaze never left.

The Hives do James Bond

Little battle raps for you

Another day to start all over again

Light, retro, and infectious

I can't escape this life that I'm livin'...

Trippy video from the lead guitarist of La Luz.

California Garage Rock with aggressively somber German vocals.

[a song about swimming or something]

Hella bay

Shit gon' repeat if all you do is delay, delay

Funky electronic afrobeat

A little bit of freestyle, a touch of Miami bass, a lot of soul

Come play my game

The soundtrack of dreams

There it was, sitting in the window.

Texture persists.

Japanese school children singing over fuzzy guitar riffs

I gotta catch my breath

Drums and gold paint.

Rutgersfest was lit

She's the pride of the neighborhood

Driving drunk on the West Side Highway

Reminds me a bit of Toro Y Moi

Exclusive audio footage

Music that tastes like tropical fruit.

Sunny, hypnotic, and just the right amount of lo-fi

Thingamabob? Gobbletygook? Whatsitsface?

Mondays

Who will survive in America

The things you find on NYC public access after midnight.

The track is great. The video is better.

Pick up the phone Rickey

I don't understand a single word of this disco track and it's still a banger.

Get into the groove(y)

Sports. Spoooorrrrrrrrrrrttttttsssss.

The original. The world's only one: all-night super hero gymnasium.

Five star Uber ride

Drop that zero and get with the hero

This track sounds like peak suburban boredom

Jangly guitars and surf riffs.

Dude eats nothing but glass and McDoubles.

This is just catchy good fun.

The Shape of Punk to come is a perfectly ambitious and bombastic album title.

In Portland I saw someone blasting this from their car literally a month ago on a random Friday afternoon and I have no idea who would ever do such a thing.

Say, Goodbye, it's nice to leave here I was stuck here for a while.

Fun with empty spaces

Road trip music with hard sax breaks.

Who are you? What's your name?

Where are my homies, indeed.

How one person is able to make these sounds and carry so much emotion with just a bass is unbelievable.

Static on the wire is one of those songs that has all of the elements you want from a 2000's era indie blog dance cut, nice harmonies, solid baselines and synth programming.

Well, I feel so broke up I want to go home.

They use force to make you do, what the deciders have decided you must do.

In memoriam of the great Sly Stone

Roll with more Dangerous Minds than Michelle Pfeiffer

An anthem for misfits and dreamers everywhere. Goonies Never Say Die.

This is a random one, a rare track from a random mediafire link that Flying Lotus dropped on Twitter if I recall correctly.

A childhood VH1 memory reveals a deeper meaning behind what was once thought to be a humorous song about cardboard boxes.

A cheeky and aggressive punk anthem that drives from start to finish, embracing the British style of snarky-sarcastic-talk-singing.

Another day, another show, and the wind just blows, in and out of my life.

Do you dare to be bold? Something fair and controlled? Do you dare to be nothing? Not just Somewhere in the ballpark?

We got the funk doody don shit, clearly, it's the bomb shit.