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Music Monday — What are you listening to? (New Edition)

Michael Tharrington on September 18, 2023

cover image source: Giphy I wanna hear some of that new new. What are the latest releases y'all have been tuning into? What new musicians or album...
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Dendi Handian •

This is rather for 'experimental' than 'new' topic, so I missed to recommend this in the previous edition.

This is what happened when progressive-metal and rap-vocal sounds like when they are mixed/mashed.

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Michael Tharrington •

This is awesome!! Excellent and highly original mashup.

This is kinda old school now, but you ever listen to DJ DangerMouse's The Grey Album — Jay Z's Black Album mashed together with The Beatles' White Album?

It's a classic. 🙂

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Dendi Handian •

This is cool!! sometimes rap-vocal fits to some other music than itself!

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TaiKedz •

Pretty much either of:

I also like to add Brian Eno soundtracks to meetings 😅

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Michael Tharrington • • Edited

Oooo yes! All good go-to music stations.

I have tuned into Lofi Girl many a time and also definitely went down the synthwave rabbit hole — I've not listened to Synthwave Boy as much, but have explored similar channels to get my synth fix, haha.

If you're looking for a cool synthwavy band, I recommend checking out The Midnight. Someone showed them to me a couple years ago and they definitely have a healthy dose synthwave mixed with good old fashioned pop tunes from the 80's. They're a group that I keep on returning to!

My favorite album of theirs is Monsters... here are a couple tunes from it that'll kinda give you a sense of their flavor:

And don't even get me started on Eno... he's a wizard. 🧙‍♂️

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TaiKedz •

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll check it out :-)

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TaiKedz •

Oh, and Faun

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Thomas Bonnet •

This one is recent, love listen again and again

Also this music

Aaaand Fred Again.. for the best part and train travel 🚂🚃🚃

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Michael Tharrington •

I freaking love Fred again.. 🙌 I have not tuned into this album that he made with Brian Eno... I'll have to do so! Funny, elsewhere in this thread I was saying to @taikedz about how awesome Eno is.

Also, that Don Diablo tune is a quiet banger. I'll tune into Abroad in a wee bit!

Thanks for the suggestions, Thomas!

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Jake Lundberg •

The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack + Nightmare Revisited

open.spotify.com/album/32hXKuDkMnp...

open.spotify.com/album/4Usx75m9IrK...

It's that time of year!!!

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Michael Tharrington •

Awwww yeah! My fave time of year. 🎃

Gotta love The Nightmare Before Christmas...

Btw, Jake, you might have fun exploring some of the songs in this edition of Music Monday:

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Jake Lundberg •

Nice! Some great selections in there! 💀👻🎃

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Bruno Santos •

I am listening the new album of Edu Falaschi (former Angra singer) on loop since it was released, Eldorado. Great mix of Progressive/Power Metal with LATAM music

youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_...

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Grace Icay •

There's this pretty old song called "Ladyfingers" that's been trending on Instagram for a while now that I've recently been hearing playing in my head like elevator music.

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Michael Tharrington • • Edited

Haha, this is great! I dig it and love your description of it. Cool that this is making it's rounds on Instagram.

It kinda reminds me of a suggestion that I received from Nate (@neagle) a few weeks back in the "Music Monday: Niche Edition" for exotica.

So, this is not necessarily all that similar, but perhaps from a similar part of the world... I've always loved this version of "The Girl From Ipanema":

I mean hey, it's got some similar elevator music vibes to it, haha!

Last one... and this a big reach, but when it comes to mostly instrumental music with a jazzy, international tinge to it, I really dig this album called "The Outernational Sound" by a group called Thievery Corporation. It's more modern than the other stuff we've been talking about, but I think it's pretty cool... and several of the tunes in this album would likely still be mild enough for most elevators. Here's the full album; check out the time stamps, in case you wanna skip around the tracks.

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Nate Eagle • • Edited

The Girl from Ipanema is one of those songs that just feels eternal: it's in a unique space all to itself that will last forever. Impossible to overpraise.

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Grace Icay •

Thank you for the awesome recommendations! I fell in love with "The Girl from Ipanema" on first listen!

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Michael Tharrington • • Edited

I still love tuning into these Scary Pockets covers... I keep on finding new good ones, like this version here of "Stayin' Alive":

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Michael Tharrington •

I recently learned about the guitarist Julian Lage and so have been diving deep into his catalog. I particularly recommend watching the videos of him playing live. He's such a dynamic, soulful, and incredibly talented guitar player.

Here's a few for y'all in no particular order:

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Michael Tharrington • • Edited

Just wanted to note a few places that I like to visit on YouTube to find new music.

  1. NPR Tiny Desk Concert
  2. KEXP
  3. COLORS
  4. Amoeba - "What's in My Bag?"
  5. Boiler Room
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eshimischi • • Edited

Can’t get enough of Matthew Halsall new record while i am waiting for the vinyl record which will arrive in a couple of weeks m.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbeQUPf1ds

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Michael Tharrington • • Edited

Woooaaaaaa! This is absolutely gorgeous sounding.

The opening track is so peaceful and lovely. I'm just getting started on track 2 — "Water Street" and wow, this is exactly what I wanted to hear right now... I think I'll probably listen to the whole album. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this!

Hope ya don't mind that I embed it on your behalf for other folks:

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eshimischi •

UK Jazz school traditions. Never a disappointment! Matthew is a musical visionaire and multi instrumentalist, check his previous records as well!

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eshimischi • • Edited

Feel free, mate. DJ, vinyl collector here, my pleasure to share some gorgeous music to ya all

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Griff Polk •

My new movie podcast, upfront movies on Spotify listen now shameless plug

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eshimischi • • Edited

One more suggestion is unrealeased record so far (29th of Sept). Nordic Jazz school, m.youtube.com/watch?v=kY9SyuRQ070