A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 1 May 2022 to 7 May 2022.

WILT_2022-18

1. Loa – Camo & Krooked
2. Blood Moon – Phizix
3. Wobbo Dub (Lens DJ Mix) – Degs, Keeno, Royalston, Unglued, Whiney
4. Decades (Lens DJ Mix) – TC
5. Run the Streets – DJ Marky, Pola & Bryson
6. Dreams – skantia
7. Unbroken Loop – Circuits
8. Neiges – IMANU, The Caracal Project
9. Breach – Gerra & Stone
10. Train Yard – Sl8r
11. Venom – Sl8r
12. Course of Action – Mark System

Hyeprlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2022-18

Notes

I started this week really wanting to listen to Drum & Bass. Maybe it was because I watched Tokyo Drift for the first time last week, and even though the music style does not feature prominently in the movie, it was the mood I retained after watching it. I think something in me associates neon lights with cyberpunk, which reminds me of The Matrix, and makes me think of the cave-rave scene in Matrix Reloaded, and I don’t even think they were playing Drum & Bass.

Drum & Bass was an electronic music genre that I discovered in the early-2000’s. I never really got the opportunity to attend many DJ nights, but I remember thinking that the way I saw people dance was really cool.

Skipping forward a decade and a half, and I think the D&B beat is still the same, just in different variations. But there are a lot more flourishes, and I realise I like it when there’s a good dub element, or when the producers mess around with the tempo, samples, and grooves, just so it’s not so straight ahead.

So yeah, welcome to a little peek into Drum & Bass. I started by trying out a few different playlists before landing on some that I liked. Loa and Blood Moon stood out for me, and somewhere along I started to generate a radio playlist for Phisik. I hope the beats are interesting to you.