Welcome to another Monday Morning Brew Playlist. A new set for the discerning listener; one that abandons standard genre constraints in favour of atmospheric mood: championing grit, groove, and raw emotional texture over commercial polish.
A deep, syncopated backbone of funk and soul anchors the journey. From the raw, lo-fi pleading of Darondo’s Let My People Go to the tight, analogue pockets of The Poets of Rhythm and The Hygrades. It captures the smoke-filled energy of Chez Club circa 1967, where Buddy Rich’s kinetic big band energy sits comfortably alongside the New Orleans funk of Junior Parker’s Taxman, a sample of which was used on Cypress Hill’s classic ‘I Wanna Get High’.
Transcending borders, it weaves a complex tapestry of global sounds, moving from the hypnotic, hallucinogenic guitar work of Gábor Szabó to the Afro-Cuban downtown cool of Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos. It embraces the strange and the cinematic, finding space for the surrealist art-pop of Annette Peacock and the fictional brilliance of Marvin Pontiac.
As the set progresses, it seamlessly blends these vintage roots with modern experimentalism courtesy of My Brightest Diamond, Dirty Three, and Caribou’s Melody Day (Four-Tet Remix) ft Adem, Luke LaLonde and One Little Plane.
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