LA born and raised, Humboldt lived and educated, Portland living and making it now, The Last Artful Dodgr has gotten my attention... and deserves yours too. It's obvious to hear the effects of musical inspirations like Missy, Sufjan Stevens, Prince, Queen Latifah, Carole King. To this Dodgr says, "I just think now’s the time for people like me, queer black women, to get their recognition. I’m trying to go beyond where Missy could go, go beyond where anybody has seen anybody go.”
Ahead of the curve for most of you in the America's, I bring you Sharu, Euphoric Monday mix. Actually laid down a few months back. It really should start Monday. Shoutouts to Serious Stuff for bringing such beautiful tunes.
I'm kind of a hippy. And I've been feeding this over the past few months with a Kundalini Dance and tantra practice. It's paying off in a lot of awesome ways, but this is not the scene for that conversation. As would be expected, the dancing through this practice is set to super sweet and hot music. My groove has been particularly vibing to this track in particular. Mad love and light to Leyolah Antara and her Kundalini Dance practice (and amazing soundcloud playlists) for the wake up call to beauty.
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Ok, sure I've told you about her before but now the world is sitting up and taking notice and you wanna be in the crew that knew her when.
This track is a year old, but recent 3RRR and TripleJ radio and media attention has brought it back up for me. The rolling dark and twisted beat is signature Ok Sure and there's just enough Depeche Mode echoes to keep me going. You want this.
Seriously, nothing interesting or important has ever come out of Canberra (let's not get political, ok?) .. until this. (And Jessica Fairburn, but whatever)
Vallis Alps is making me choke on my sandwich and shake my ass down here. They're sticky sweet and simple songs are hooky as hell - don't let their super chill starts catch you at a place you don't want to be seen bouncing your sexy ass around (where would that even be??), each of their 4 released songs build up to bust out serious grooves that beg booty shaking.
I'm apparently within the first 3 million people to discover this bi-hemispheric duo (hailing from Seattle/Canberra according to their soundcloud page), which means that you are now among the chosen and the few. If you like them, give them some love on their TripleJ Unearthed page - which by the way is an awesome resource for finding evermore aussie talent.
This guy keeps having visions of himself meditating with Thai monks. And his teeth hurt. So he's going to Thailand for awhile. Obvs. And for his going away he's hosting a "Super Sexy Soul Grind Dance Sweat " event. Tickets are limited to 50 and the secret event location is shared with each person individually, but only once they've shared two hot tracks on the event page. And these tracks make up the playlist for the night. Awesome, right? I can't wait for Friday night..
I went to the best show I've ever been to in my whole goddamn life last night (James Welsby and friends' YUMMY). Despite being intimidated by the ridiculously gorgeous drag and extreme (yet nonchalant) level of talent in the room, and being squished in at the back of the room where I couldn't see a goddamn thing, it was, hands down, the BEST. I don't have to move back to SF anymore... I've found my camp crowd, I just have to step up and into my fab.
I stopped my rent check last week to buy tickets to go to Sydney. And while I was there a girlfriend put ALPINE on... It's not summer in Australia now, but with these slinky and sweet tunes on, it's sunny where ever you are.
I live in Australia. You should probably have realized that by now, but you most likely don't know why.
SILVERCHAIR, more specifically, Daniel Johns. His ridiculous artistic talent has been evolving in it's expression for the past 20 years (yes frogstomp is 20 year's old, 6 year's older than Chris, Ben and Daniel were when the album was released).
I fell of the beautiful bandwagon for a few years, and this new music from Johns is absolutely nothing at all like anything you ever heard by Silverchair, but my oh my does the album that Johns released last month as a solo artist make me fall in love so many more times over again.
We all grow and change and I'm rapt with the evolution of Johns creative genius.
Preach boy, you are on fire, and don't ever stop.
PBS FM delivered this hot track when I was in my teddybear onesie packing for an impromptu weekend away. I had about 30 mins to pack... I spent 8 of them shaking my teddy bear ass to this track. Turn up the bass - that backline takes you out of this world
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I have no idea what the words are to the cocaine-like hook of this remix, but I'm attempting to replicate them nearly constantly. Watch out, it's that addictive.
A supremely staccato track, there's no smooth but lots of bounce, up and at'em and get it done in this track.
I like the sweet and simple these days. There are more than enough planets going backwards, plans falling through, complicated text messages and inside out upside down relationships going around to keep the masses entertained by drama and intrigue for centuries.
This Way North's clean california rock riff, homicidally crisp and melodic drums and catchy repetitive message/lyric is soothing for my sore mind. Admittedly, the tune seems to refer to a relationship complication, but it's in the past, so I'm still in favor. Let's move through it, past it and sing along, shall we?
I've been in hiding in Montreal for the past month. That hasn't worked that well. There's ice and snow and hot beats here. Nevermind the gorgeous accents, amazing food and off the charts charisma. Tomorrow I drift away, again. Mais je vais revenir à toi, mon amour, je te promis.
I have a google alert for "burning man" - hilarious, I know. Impossible to keep up on, especially before I put quotation marks around it. So so dumb... just another daily email to ignore and add to my 3,000+ unread, un-valued first world internet property items. Like contemporary Oregon Trail that we actually take seriously. Ha. Whoa.
I'm not cool enough to have any idea what's going on here, but this trilogy (I doubt there is a number 4) made me laugh, feel like maybe I would fit in somewhere in this world and want to share the soundtrack to my most recent bout of procrastination/cat-like avoidance strategies.
It happened. After 6 solid months together, I finally fell in love with San Francisco. There was a soundtrack, of course.
I got into my app-ordered, decentralized economy ride home and found I was happily sharing it, not only with a cute'n'cozy couple in the back but these sexy tunes.
