WILT_2024-38

A playlist of songs that intrigued me from Sunday to Saturday. Week of 15 Sep 2024 to 21 Sep 2024.

1. Vocoder (Club Mix) – Floating Points
2. Afflecks Palace – Floating Points
3. Tilt Shift – Floating Points
4. Fried – Patrick Holland
5. Running Dreams – Clark
6. Recovery – Rival Consoles
7. This Version Of You (Joseph Ray Remix) – ODESZA, Joseph Ray, Julianna Barwick
8. Another Girl – Jacques Greene
9. Kalimba Dreams – ANNA
10. Banho de Folhas (Maz Remix) – Luedji Luna, Maz
11. Banho de Folhas – Luedji Luna
12. I Have Nothing – Whitney Houston
13. I’m Every Woman – Whitney Houston
14. Take Good Care of My Heart – Whitney Houston, Jermaine Jackson
15. Love Is a Contact Sport – Whitney Houston
16. I’m Your Baby Tonight – Whitney Houston
17. Lover for Life – Whitney Houston
18. All The Man That I Need – Whitney Houston
19. Juicy – D.K.
20. Shiny Tune – Patrick Holland
21. Dusty Rhodes – Gerald Bailey, David Agee
22. Fish Bowl – High Pulp
23. 3 Kings – Snazzback
24. Into The Deep – Underground Canopy
25. Woo – forcian

Hyperlink to Spotify playlist: WILT_2024-38

Notes

The week started with me checking out Floating Point’s new album, Cascade, to which I am already a fan of. A more straight-forward effort compared to 2021’s Promises, still the arrangements and use of electronic instruments are both innovative and genre-bending as they are elegant and finessed.

That album led to two DJ mix albums, DJ Kicks: DJ Boring and Global Underground #46: ANNA, both of which held a tremendous amount of listening potential and a reminder that good DJs have awesome curations. I wouldn’t want to rely on AI for everything, and at least for now I think some human intervention is necessary and also what connects us between one form of expression to another. 

I then stumbled upon a video of two buskers singing Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing and I was quite intrigued in that I did not realise that Houston sang the original. It’s from the nineties, and that still is somewhat of a bit of a musical blindspot for me. Nonetheless, I went down a rabbit hole listening to Houston’s back catalog and it was this video of her performing All The Man That I Need that sealed the deal for me that I had been missing out on truly one of the greatest singers of her generation, and what a tremendous backing band and recording band she had playing with her. The basslines on I’m Every Woman, as as tight as they are fluid, and good lord, that accent of a string arrangement. It’s an excellent rendition of the Chaka Khan classic. Other standouts to me would be Love Is A Contact Sport with its absolutely bonkers and ear-wormy pop hook that elevates its disco roots into a transcendent piece of radio hit.

I was happy to end the playlist there, but then there were a few more recommendations that came my way that put me down a path of both jazz and electronica. They’re standouts in their own right, not quite like what Whitney Houston did for me the past week, but they were definitely strong vibes that accompanied and enhanced either my work sessions or downtime.