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Double Dutch Bus

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Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus

Better son or daughter by Rilo Kiley

10 - Alegria Do Povo

01 - Satwa

I Can't Stand The Rain

I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down

The Last Tango Blues

Killing Me Softly With His Song

Hailu / Yegle Nesh

Yegle Nesh

No Pocky for Kitty (Remastered)

Tie a Rope to the Back of the Bus

Helpless Huw - Baby We're Not In Love

Tracks: 1- Afghan Dance 00:00 2- Spectrum Is Green 01:43 3- Destination Moon 05:00 4- The Guests 07:36 5- New Statue ("Morning Song") 09:36 6- A Darkness In My Soul 15:18 7- Radio France 19:09 8- Tenth Planet 21:17 9- Earthshock 24:18 10- Contemplation 25:24 11- Please Don't Fade Away 29:14

FULL ALBUM_SPACE MUSEUM >>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=i40WftG6_pM&t=250s

SOLID SPACE | Spectrum is Green

Love is a Word is the second track taken from the forthcoming City Rock Dove from The Smittens.

Missy says: “This song came after I heard the buzz and learned personally, that love is and requires action. This one could potentially be written forever because the list of love metaphors is never ending. Love is potential, love is forethought, love can be cruel, exalting and regular and love is definitely fun to sing about!”

The Smittens are a 6-piece indiepop band that make upbeat and introspective tunes, tinged with vulnerability and optimism. While sonically the elements of multi-layered harmonies, countermelodies and ba-ba-ba singalong hooks still play a large part in The Smittens’ approach to songwriting, as each of the 4 main songwriters has grown, the overall perspective of the songs seems a bit moodier, and more serious. They’ve long since left behind the label of being a ‘cute’ or ‘twee’ band since their debut album 15 years ago.

City Rock Dove is instead an album of transition, ennui and nihilism; honing in on personal politics and gender queerness. The album contends with the turbulent changes of modern America serving only to cement the status quo - and it’s not just the outside world that’s changing either: The Smittens are also singing about the changes in themselves and taking a hard look inside. Gary Olson (Ladybug Transistor) returned to mix the new album, having been instrumental in helping develop the richer textures first seen on 2016’s Love Record Breaker EP.

The band is friends first and open-hearted indiepop revolutionaries after that. Max Andrucki, Missy Bly, Colin Clary, Dana Kaplan, Holly Chagnon, and David Zacharis switch up instruments, song-writing, and singing to create catchy, harmony-driven pop anthems and queer love songs—always brilliantly lyrical, and often brazenly political. They’re based in Burlington, Vermont and in New York City. City Rock Dove is their 6th studio album, and third release with Fika Recordings.

The Smittens will be in the UK late July playing dates in Cambridge, London and Sheffield before performing at the Indietracks Festival in Derbyshire.

“The vocal arrangements sound great, the reverb 1950s guitar sound wonderful. There will be no dancing at the indie disco to this and its all the better for it… Arguably their most important album to date.” Neon Filler

“each and every song they write is a rampant musical pleasure – they could force a smile on the sourest face.” Bearded Magazine

“To pull off diversity in sound is a feat in itself, but to do so with a coherent sound is pure magic. Somehow, The Smittens do just that without any sign of strain. May they continue with equal exuberance.” The Big Takeover

City Rock Dove

The Smittens - Love is a Word

Mameen 3: Collapse EP
JUNE 12 2020

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Mameen 3 are soFa and Cheb Runner from Brussels. Both versatile players in the rather niche scene of oriental electronic music in the European capital, they only ran into each other at the Nyege Nyege Festival in Uganda two years ago. They clicked and after a first jam session they immediately launched Mameen 3.

Cheb Runner is the young Moroccan producer previously known as Gan Gah, now focussing on giving a modern outfit to various MENA music traditions. soFa is a true digger between all crates (his Pingipung Podcast is a gem!), as well as the curator behind the highly recommended Elsewhere vinyl compilations, released on labels such as Emotional Response or Music For Dreams. Following the Mameen 3 debut singles on Bongo Joe with excellent spaced out reggae-disco hybrids, Pingipung proudly unearths the Collapse EP featuring two collabs with legendary musicians.

"Wireless C" features another music veteran, Rodion GA, who describes himself as „Romania’s first one man band". He produced a remarkable electro-prog output in the 1970s and 80s. “Rodion GA sounds like he learned about music from hearing someone describe it in their second language, drunk. It sounds like nothing else: wrong in all the right ways,“ says The Guardian about his music. His collab with Mameen 3 turns out as a balearic, space reggae trip, with dreamy vocals by Rodion and solid bass, definitely a hymn in this year’s festival season, if only there was one...

Collapse EP

Pingipung 071

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B: Mameen 3 & Rodion GA - Wireless C [Pingipung 071 / 7", digital]

Pique Nique - Le Robot

Вітри (snianio & >llkutan & R.Gens)

LAC007 - Bitchin Bajas "No Tabac"

Been blogging, music sharing, etc. for a while now (see blog under this name) & DJing since 1982. I like all kinds of music.

Most of my playlists are not organized & just hold songs I'm interested in, many of which I haven't listened to yet. The "freeform current listening" playlist is as it says & will be updated regularly. Many of my reposts were unintentional, they were just random tracks I was trying to add to a playlist using my phone & I've got clumsy fingers.

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