A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 3 Oct 2021 to 9 Oct 2021.

WILT_2021-40

1. Beato Classico – J Lloyd
2. I Need A Minute – sir Was
3. Pasiphae – Febueder
4. Another Son (Ted Jasper Remix) – Otzeki, Ted Jasper
5. Phase One Million – Vanishing Twin
6. Summer Sun – Cari Cari
7. Belo Horizonte – Cari Cari
8. Little☆Date – Ribbon
9. Hinageshi – Michiyo Nakajima
10. Atomb Bomb (Atomix 6) – Fluke
11. It’s Love (Trippin’) [EPTN Mix]- Gold Trix, Andrea Brown
12. Lungo Mare – Time To Sleep
13. Hello – Axel Boman

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2021-40

Notes

I did not spend a lot of time recording notes for why I included these songs because how I was in between these decisions to include the songs. I cannot fully remember what I was exploring before adding the first song (might have been algorithm-recommended tracks from the previous week’s playlist), but this week’s playlist definitely started taking shape after I added Beato Classisco due to its whimsical synth flairs in this retrofuturist disco-funk number.

I am pretty sure I added I Need A Minute for its beat sample and arrangement.

Pasiphae was added because I really like Febueder and their brand of music that reminds me of Foals, Yeasayer, mixed with their own unique approach to instrumentation and arrangement. I love how this song takes has so many meandering musical ideas, it’s like floating downstream on a gentle river.

Another Son (Ted Jasper Remix) features a great tech-house beat that engages the brain during the mid-afternoon slump.

There’s a lot of classic funk and soul arrangements mixed with psychedelia in Phase One Million. I was probably brought into a state of focus through this song, so I added it.

I was drawn to the music of Cari Cari because there is something in the simplicity and taste of all the individual components of the recorded performances. Summer Sun reminds me of something that The xx would perform, yet brighter, warme, and ultimately be its own song, especially with their big guitar arrangement that adds an air of freedom to the music.

Oh snap. That bassline on Belo Horizonte. I want to do all sorts of nasty finger-plucking and fret-muting on some old-ass flatwound strings. And c’mon! How sensual is this entire song??? I think I will be finding my way back to this repeatedly.

Little☆Date and Hinageshi were added because I started watching the 90’s classic Ranma ½ and wanted to include the opening and closing songs from the first season, but these aren’t it. Instead, they’re from some user-generated Spotify playlist that I was exploring, and potentially feature in later seasons. Little☆Date has some great galloping eighth-note basslines, and Hinageshi has some great fretless basslines that I appreciate more now in 90’s pop music production.

I added Atom Bomb (Atomix 6) because it’s got such a great techno beat. I came across this while exploring the music from the video game Wipeout. I always remember that the music from Wipeout was incredibly exciting and heart-thumping, and there a lot of good gems in playlist I found.

For the last leg of this playlist, I am featuring some tracks that I lifted from Gui Boratto’s track IDs.

It’s Love (Trippin’) [EPTN Mix] is the kind of house music that comes on just before midnight, and right before the DJ takes the set to celestial levels. I’m all for that anticipation though.

Lungo Mare is the type of electro-house that will send me into a tizzy because of the pulsing arpeggio bass lines and skittish melodic lines that dance around the mind and cause the brain to keep surging forwards.

The moment the beat for Hello came on, I knew I had to add this track to the playlist. I love, love, love the off-beat that features on the song. It lifts the mood and it is such a burst of fresh air, like lifting your head from under the ocean and feeling the sun brush past your face for the first time in a long while.