John’s playlist of playlists follows this entertaining memoir.
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I remember my dad coming into my room—I had just turned on my stereo, probably to crank some Metallica so I could focus on my sophomore trig homework—and telling me I was “addicted” to music.
Huh?
“You can be addicted to anything,” he said.
Dad was a psychologist, and he was only sort of kidding.
I do occasionally turn off the music while I’m driving, so I can enjoy the quiet, but other than that I have never tried much to kick the habit. Mostly, when my significant others have wanted silence in the house, or even different music than I just turned on, it has only made me inwardly grumpy. I used to (and sort of still) take it as an affront if people don’t like my music. As if because they don’t like my taste, they don’t like me. Wait, maybe that’s kind of true. No wonder it gets under my skin ;)
My first music curation projects started in 1983, at age 8, after I realized the new boombox Santa brought me could record the airwaves directly onto a cassette tape! I felt like a pirate, surprised how easy it was to steal a song I loved, without having to pay for it. Sure, the DJ talked over the intro, and the outro was always cut, and I often only nabbed part of the song if I had just switched to the station, but I made tape after tape of songs that were awesome. Casey Casem’s countdown was a weekly ritual, and served up the best of the era. Billy Joel, George Harrison, Glen Frye, the English Beat, Sunglasses at Night… I often didn’t know the artist or the song name.
I loved those tapes. I gave each one a creative name, like Midnight Crime or Dance Craze.
My initial embrace of top-40 expanded into vast territory over the years. I inherited an original Walkman prototype from my mom, and around age 10 I used it to listen over and over to the Beach Boys greatest hits as my parents and I cruised around the western US and Canada on a 3-week road trip. I discovered the Kinks through a random purchase from a coffee shop display case. Exposed to musical theater in junior high, I sidestepped for a bit into showtunes (Camelot, Give My Regards to Broadway, Cats, etc). I also absorbed the easy listening, smooth jazz that my dad played on the radio. My dad, who studied music at a conservatory, composed, and had played with New York jazz groups, liked music that I slowly grew to detest. Sorry, Dad. But, then, you never sugar-coated your distaste for my music either. (I’ll never forget how you almost pulled the Violent Femmes tape out of my boombox to destroy it. Ha!) But Dad and I did bond over the prog-rock band Yes in the early 90s, and later over weird-jazz pioneer Stan Kenton. I really treasured these shared tastes with him. And now it tickles me when my son and I share a fondness for Green Day.
As I prepared to enter high school, it suddenly occurred to me that the music I had been listening to was not cool enough. I became determined, if a little scared, to find the hard rock station. Did kids really get into satan or hurt themselves because of heavy metal? I immediately heard Alice Cooper’s Poison, and liked it. This kickstarted my era of AC/DC, Iron Maiden, and a bunch of hair bands that of course I’m a bit embarrassed about: Motley Crue, Slaughter, Warrant, Poison, Winger, Cinderella. At least my first live concert was kind of cool: Damn Yankees opening for Bad Company. Well, Ted Nugent is kind of an asshole, so maybe this isn’t so cool. But “Feel Like Making Love” is a total classic, and I’m proud to be the one that suggested our band mash up that song and make it sacred, Bhakti Explosion-style!
At 16, a kid I respected loaned me Nirvana’s Nevermind. The world didn’t immediately change, but it definitely rang in a new era: I started really enjoying getting exposed to all kinds of obscure music, and I wanted to befriend the kids who liked this interesting and non-mainstream music. This music wasn’t being played on the radio, but it was broadcast loudly on the amazing t-shirts of the kids in the art classes and theater department. I even covertly checked out Black Flag, the Misfits, and other bands displayed by the goths to whom I gave lots of distance in real life.
The kid who joined me for the Bad Company show mocked my appreciation for the grunge bands I was coming to love. I’m not friends with him any more. On the other hand, the kid who introduced me to Ned’s Atomic Dustbin, Primus, and some other awesome bands is still one of my best friends, and he and I made some cool, unreleased music in later years.
In college, I got exposed to DC and California punk rock, and I was invited to sing for a ska band without even really knowing yet what ska was and how awesome of a vibe it was.
After college, I started my own band to explore, in a participatory way, my a newfound love for indie rock like Guided by Voices, Sukpatch, and Neutral Milk Hotel, and Quasi.
While living in Wellington, New Zealand for the better part a year, I totally soaked in the dub and reggae that permeates that town.
At 28, I discovered Burning Man and the power of electronic music. By the time I was DJing at Black Rock City a few years later, my sets either blended progressive house, breaks, and Bassnectar, or tasty, rare, classic funk.
These days, my car radio bounces around between indie stations, the jazz station, modern rock, and the pop music station (not JUST because my kids choose that one a lot, but that’s a big reason).
As couldn’t be more obvious by now, music is a huge part of my life. Yes, you might even say I’m addicted. Oh well. I am constantly on the hunt for the latest and greatest sounds, and I love creating Spotify playlists each season with my favorite new music. I get excited about the next season’s list the day after I post the current one. With 70+ public playlists at current count, my Spotify profile is a bit like a museum, with dozens of genres and groupings.
And I sort of feel like the odd museum curator, who loves digging into the minutiae, and wonders if people think he’s a little weird. Like, even the other music lovers can’t possibly love the variety of stuff that he does.
Like, my first wife called me “Random Boy” with respect to my music tastes.
I’m a little surprised I didn’t veer at some point into becoming music director for a college-based radio station. (I did work in the studio for LA-based "tastemaker" station KCRW for a year, and would have stayed there if it weren't for the move to Colorado for law school.)
And who knows? Maybe my playlist curation will be increasingly meaningful to people (I know you're out there) who share my tastes. I have started getting some recognition for my curations. One of my popular playlists has 450+ followers, and a few years back a radio DJ asked permission to spin my offbeat Christmas playlist on air.
While it feels super good to be sharing the musical love with others who are appreciative, I’m now also realizing another huge potential benefit of putting out these playlists: other music geeks like me, who have grokked my tastes, can recommend even more music that I’m going to love!
Wow. I do sort of sound like an addict. Maybe this is a cry for help ;)
I keep wishing Spotify will make it easier to navigate what I curate there. Until then, I’m going to host this blog page as a place to browse my collections and learn more about them. And if you’ve been listening to my playlists for any amount of time, and know about a new track you think I might like, let me know by making a comment!
Digital self-portrait courtesy of me, copyright 2004-ish.
DJ Holy John’s Playlists Playlist
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GENRE and THEMATIC PLAYLISTS
Music sorted by genre or theme, often meant to be a "shuffle play" format versus an intentional listening order. These lists are ever-expanding, as I add the tracks from my seasonal playlists to these categorized playlists.☆ Mystic Man Robert Plant ~ DJ😇
Part Englishman and part Romani gypsy, Robert Plant brings mystical depth and bluesy artfulness, while simultaneously embodying "rock god" as Zeppelin's former frontman. His solo work and later collaborations underscore his legacy.
☆ 80s sexy like I like it ~ DJ😇
While I've never been a big fan of "80s" aesthetics, I did grow up loving some of the music that emerged during this weird decade, and my favorite stuff are the sexy sounds. What else should be added here?
In 1991 I was 16 and my dad and I went to a concert on the Yes Union tour. This band was the one major crossover in our tastes. Dad was a conservatory-trained composer and jazz player, and mostly he listened to smooth jazz, but he liked how, on every listen, he could hear different things going on in Yes’s unique brand of prog rock. For my part, I loved the epic, cosmic sounds and oddly sacred lyrics, and the groove of the 70s-era stuff. And Roger Dean’s cover paintings inspired me singularly as a young artist. I copied them in my own paintings and made derivative works.
So here’s a 3.5 hour playlist of my absolute favorite material by this seminal band. Note: Owner of a Lonely Heart is a fine song, but I also don’t necessarily ever need to hear it again. These songs, on the other hand, I can listen to over and over.
Overall, their material vacillates between inspired art rock and unlistenable, drunken chants. Early albums were recorded on four-track-cassette, the epitome of “lo-fi.” I find it hard to listen to their albums straight through.
So this year I took on the serious endeavor to catch up on their numerous releases, and make a playlist of their best material. If you’re a GbV fan, I hope you are as elated as I am to have this compilation of 7+ hours of quality output spanning more than a few decades, and let me know if you think there are some tracks that belong here. And if you’ve never heard of this band, I offer this up as a good way to dive in. I recommend Shuffle play, although I stacked some of my favorite material at the top. Enjoy.
Anyway, my son started listening to punk rock and AC/DC, and playing the drums, and I recently played him Metallica’s Enter Sandman. No surprise, he loved it. He asked me to make him a playlist of my favorite old stuff. So here it is, buddy! (Update: he loves it!)
☆ Psychedelic Hard Rock ~ DJ😇
Starting college in 1993, I bid farewell to heavy metal and got more into this kind of stuff. Since my son liked my ole fashioned metal playlist, I made him this one, and he digs it too. Dad home run.
In the beginning there was light… and darkness. A creation of perfect balance. As time passed, evil spread over the land like a plague, slowly consuming everything in its path. In the final moments before light was lost to the shadow for all time, a weapon of infinite power was created, the Magic Sword. Thus, restoring balance to the universe. The genesis of things are often small. As the single seed grows to a mighty oak, so too did the path of the Keeper begin as a single choice in an age long past. Once a humble king, he was manipulated into unleashing the Dark One. All of reality was torn asunder as the Lord of Shadow was released from their ancient prison, having been bound by the power of the the Magic Sword. From that day forth, the King was cursed to be the eternal Keeper of this powerful key. He has been compelled for millennia to find the Chosen One who will unleash the true power of the weapon and won't rest until the grand design is complete with the Darkness bound once again. The Keeper of the Magic Sword searches endlessly for the Chosen One. This prophesied being contains the ability to wield the power of the Magic Sword and seal the prison that holds Dark One for all eternity. Until the chosen one is revealed, search continues in this realm and many others throughout all of time and space. In what form will the Magic Sword manifest? Who is the Chosen One? Answers will reveal themselves as the need arises. A tale of high adventure as old as time itself.
☆ Wonderful World of Ween ~ DJ😇
I was introduced to Ween decades ago by someone who knew I liked the supposedly similarly cerebral and wacky They Might Be Giants. Well, compared to the affable and nerdy TMBG, this new band turned out to be a bunch of seriously outlandish tweakers. But over the years, they kept putting out more and more musically interesting stuff, completely ignoring any genre limitations. And seeing them live was totally transporting. The creativity here, and the boundary-pushing, is inspiring to me.If you’re a music lover and can get past some edgy, potentially offensive (or maybe just stupid) lyrical content about sex, drugs, and food, I trust you’ll find something to like about Ween. This playlist attempts to curate the best of their material over numerous albums. I hope you enjoy the Wonderful World of Ween.
☆ Music Kids Like That Parents Don’t Hate ~ DJ😇
You’re welcome parents.🕉 Bhakti Get Down (upbeat yoga and kirtan dance music) 🕉
Bhakti-infused EDM playlist.☆ Far Out Fuzz+Shoegaze ~ DJ😇 and friends
Thanks to Rolf, Ryan, and other friends who suggested some great adds.
This playlist is a long time coming: a stroll through what I consider the golden age of punk as I absorbed it in the 1980s and 1990s (with a few more contemporary additions that lit me back up to this music). The subgenres here include melodic hardcore, skate punk, ska-punk, DC hardcore, post-punk, and more.
If you’ve never really given punk rock a try, maybe this playlist of “primo” punk will hook you. If you’re a punk fan, I hope you find some gems here that you didn’t already have in your file.
Passionate rock music.
☆ Only If It's Got SOUL ~ DJ😇
An eclectic blend of soul, roots, revival music, et cetera.☆ Righteous Indie Rock ~ DJ😇
☆ Classiest Classic Rock ~ DJ😇
☆ File Under: Roots + Branches ~ DJ😇
Hip hop, soulful beats, etc. A hard playlist to describe. It represents the evolution from early jazz and soul to contemporary remixing.
☆ Easy Tempo IndiePop ~ DJ😇
🤓 Quirk+Nerd Rock (part 1 of 3) ~ DJ😇
This playlist (and the two that follow) has been germinating over at my house for a minute: an anthology of seminal quirky and nerdy rock. Many of these songs come from early, influential releases by artists who may have gone on to wide acclaim, but not because they were pandering to mainstream (i.e., non-weird) sensibilities.Part 1 might be categorized variously as Heady Prog Punk, Lo-Fi Highbrow, Goofy Weirdo, Academic Dreamy Dorky, and includes my personal favorite tracks from well-known acts like Weezer, Eels, They Might Be Giants, Ween, and Cake, alongside choice cuts by lesser-known pioneers like Vampire Weekend, Sukpatch, and the Unicorns.
A lot of this music influenced the output of my own band, Pro Audio. Our song, FU Robot, was the unsuspected hit off our second record. Written by Brianna Dellinger, her voice and unique nerd chic songwriting took our fans by surprise, and they loved it. Her song is a warning about making sure you don't let your robot servants get too uppity! People wanted a lot more of Bri than of either me or our other frontman Jason Fischer Fischer. Maybe if we had made her the frontwoman early on Pro Audio would be a household name.😀
What are you waiting for? Share this with your nerd friends!
🤓 Quirk+Nerd Rock (part 2 of 3) ~ DJ😇
The second of my three playlists of seminal quirky and nerdy rock, this set traverses different kinds of geeky rock: fromJokey, to Sardonic Satire, to Surreal Tweaker, to Robo Spacey.Here is some of my favorite early material from well-known artists like Beck, Primus, Ben Folds, Modest Mouse, and the Flaming Lips, as well as from a bunch of bands you’ve probably never heard of like Snmnmnm, the Bogmen, Don Knotts Overdrive, and Arlo. (Arlo are some old friends of mine, who played at Mr T’s Bowl in Highland Park with my band Pro Audio on numerous occasions, and later got onto Sub Pop records.)
Pro Audio’s We Were Uncool was inspired by nostalgia for an irreverent suburban childhood full of drawing robots and messing around with early personal computers and online "BBS" bulletin board systems where geeks had cool handles like Mastermind and Xenon.
🤓 Quirk+Nerd Rock (part 3 of 3) ~ DJ😇
The third (and final) of my seminal quirky and nerdy rock playlists explores these three general, geeky subgenres:*Wacky* (from standbys Aquabats and the Minutemen as well as relative unknowns like Vulfpeck and good friends Cat Hair Ensemble);
*Avant Garde* (e.g., the weirdness of early MGMT, Pixies, and Sebadoh, along with lesser-knowns like Kleenex Girl Wonder, Western States Motel and Sunbears!); and
*Far Out Fantastical* (mostly the prominent Elephant 6 collective members Apples in Stereo, Elf Power, and Neutral Milk Hotel with their psychedelic weirdness, alongside more obscure Magic Castles and Electric Guest).
I should note here that my band Pro Audio is the only group featured in more than one (actually all 3) of these playlists. But this is completely and totally acceptable, if you were to ask me, for the following reason: each featured Pro Audio track was written by and sung by a different member of the band. So it’s really different-sounding material on each playlist, and all are 100% nerd rock!
I hope you enjoy the weirdness! 🤓
If I could only have one genre with me on a desert island, there's NO QUESTION it would be reggae.
☆ Phantasmic Folk Rock ~ DJ😇
Van Halen’s “Jump” was my first favorite song. But the Kinks became, for many years, my favorite band.
The discovery actually occurred via a compilation of 80s hits (ironically released well before the decade of 80s were over), which included the song “Come Dancing.” Some time later in the same hotel I ran across the 1984 album Word of Mouth. I was mesmerized by the innovative sound and smart lyrics. Next was a live album called One for the Road.
I loved this 80s-era material, and it wasn’t until years later that my friend Joanna introduced me to some of their more influential, earlier work from the 60s and 70s, which felt like discovering a whole new face of my favorite band. I would probably place Ray Davies immediately behind Paul Simon and Lennon/McCartney on my list of best pop and rock songwriters.
The Kinks catalogue is staggering -- there are still albums that I haven’t spent time with. But I do claim to have a sense of some of their strongest material.
If you are interested in checking out this seminal group, I not-so-humbly offer my Great Kinks Compilation playlist as a beginning.
If you are a Kinks fan, give this a play and let me know if there’s any tracks I’ve neglected to include on this sampler.
☆ Paul Simon Top Picks ~ DJ😇
A long time coming, here's a playlist of some of my all time favorite Paul Simon material. I consider Simon to be the best American songwriter, and maybe a contender for best songwriter, period. I have sung his songs to my kids every night since they were born. I do replace numerous references to cigarettes (I say "silly things" instead, sorry Paul), and I sometimes wonder if the themes in the songs are a little too adult, but I started listening to this stuff in grade school and I turned out okay.It's actually pretty funny to remember listening to Simon and Garfunkle for hours on end while playing Nintendo games. I wouldn't trade those hours for anything else.
If you haven't spent hours listening to Paul Simon, perhaps this playlist is a good first stop. Hope you enjoy!
🕉 Love Love Ram Ram - Best of David Newman (Durga Das) 🕉
🕉 Mantra Magic (all star kirtan) 🕉
🕉 Bhakti Bedtime (peaceful yoga and kirtan chants and mantras) 🕉
Putting kids to bed worldwide with these gentle, sacred tunes and chants.🕉 Bhakti Lounge (downtempo + chill out yoga and kirtan music) 🕉
Pushing the boundaries of folk and country rock, blending it with new age, and 100% American.
☆ Some Decent Hits of 90s Alt Rock ~ DJ😇
I came of age loving this stuff, so I made this playlist. But I can't say I spin this one a lot.Some hits, some deep cuts, and some demos. Making this one has me falling in love with these musicians again.
"Hits" from the UK.
i ❤️ AC⚡️DC (70s-80s deep album cuts) ~ DJ😇
I first encountered AC/DC when I bought a pin with their logo in 2nd grade, at a school gift/trinket sale. I hadn’t even heard their music yet, but some of the other kids had creative ideas about the satanic references the name stood for. Later, in high school, I got into the band for real, and discovered these guys from Australia were, in fact, rather simply into: (1) Electricity, (2) Rock, and (3) Sex.I was into those things too, although songs like “Let’s Get it Up” sort of flew over my head. Mostly, I just loved the hooks and licks.
A highlight of my high school years was getting sweat dripped on me by Angus Young at an arena concert, and then meeting the band backstage thanks to my friend who had connections in the concert promoter world. I also met “Pyro Pete” who was in charge of the bands exploding canons and fireworks. He had a few bad burn scars.
In memoriam of the death of Malcolm Young on Nov 18th last year (the rhythm guitarist and engine behind most of the band’s songs), I offer up this playlist is composed of my longtime favorite AC/DC tunes, which are actually all deep album cuts from the 70s and 80s, with at most a handful of radio plays among them.
There is something special indeed about the rarified air in Colorado.
I had never heard of Boulder, Colorado before meeting Katie. We had both soaked up a lot of good vibes from the California ocean over the course of fifteen years, and she wasn't sure about moving back to her home town. But now, looking back after ten years, we can barely imagine having rooted down anywhere else but Colorado.
It seems a lot of other conscious musicians are getting magnetized here as well.
Seattle has been long-considered unique as a cohesive musical mecca (of alt-rock in particular). It's my belief that Boulder is the musical center of a blossoming sacred and conscious music scene, with impacts rippling out across the globe. Say what you will about the cultural bubble of Boulder. I personally am inspired by the unique cross-pollination of cultures here: the spiritual neo-hippies and outdoor adventure lovers infect the high-tech entrepreneurs, and vice-versa. The folks building Google's new products are singing mantra and blissing out.
I believe something magical is brewing here in the mountains. And it's not just the world-class craft beer.
The magic that's brewing in Colorado is a special brand of "conscious music." Conscious music elevates our consciousness. It wakes us up, lifts us, and hearkens to sacred activism, acts of love, connection to nature, spiritual evolution, mindfulness, self-actualization. It may challenge us, or its beauty may simply bring us joy.
Why would you listen to -- or sing along with -- anything else?
Colorado-brewed conscious music has a certain flavor from the land and history here. The mountains and the rivers infect the musicians with a certain vibration. I could try and say more, but music is so much more than what can be said about it.
Please enjoy this is Spotify sampler of high-vibration artists who call Colorado home.
The best covers and versions of LZ's Whole Lotta Love.
SEASONAL NEW MUSIC RADIO
Each season, I curate the best of the new music I've discovered, in a variety of genres, creating a radio show that hopefully unfolds as an enjoyable listening experience, and a place for my followers to pan for some gold after I’ve already done the first sift.🎶 2022 Fall Magic ~ DJ😇
I realized two things while assembling my seasonal new music playlist:
1. I’ve always wanted to be a radio DJ (I assisted several of the DJs at the “tastemaker” Los Angeles station KCRW years ago) and these playlists are essentially my quarterly broadcast of the classiest new releases to cross my path. So I’ve gone ahead and renamed it my “New Music Radio.”
2. My tastes are broad, and an actual 2-hour radio show based on a playlist like this might frustrate even fans of the long-running KCRW show that incorporates “eclectic” in its name. But the benefit of a playlist is that, if you don’t like a particular track or genre, you can just skip forward! I hope my followers give a listen, and pan for some gold, after I’ve already done this first sift.
Feels like fall actually started to roll in with some rainy days as school started back up here in Boulder, Colorado. We even saw a yellowing leaf yesterday. May this playlist accompany your journey to Black Rock City, or back to school shopping, or whatever you’re up to for Labor Day.
🎶 2022 Sweet Summer ~ DJ😇
Summer break snuck up on me this year. (Today was the last day of school for my kids.) It didn't help that we had 6 inches of snow last weekend here in Boulder...Anyway, I hope this carefully curated playlist of the sweetest new releases that have crossed my path brightens up your Memorial Day Weekend, and the rest of the summer! 🌅⛱
🎶2022 Spring Loaded ~ DJ😇
For your Spring Break road trip or spring cleaning or just hanging out, here’s my latest seasonal batch of the new tunes that are keeping the stereo busy over here.
Notes and a few highlights for this Spring’s Loaded:
–Sorry if “Happiness Station” is just too uplifting for you. As I’ve said in the past, as a DJ I’m mostly looking to music to raise the spirits. Although playing bass on Katie’s recent tunes has almost forced a broadened appreciation for the beauty of the heartbreaking stuff. So who knows, we may have an arc here with more emotive stuff making it on my playlists.
–I guess Yola is up for a grammy this year, which is just so awesome given that her music is filled with so much classic soul. This track (“Dancing Away in Tears”) could have been put out before I was born.
–Actually, a lot of tracks in the progressive house or trance family made it onto this playlist, which exhibits a certain flavor of expressive/emotive music. As long as it has some beat to it, I can face into my tender side!
--The reason this playlist is 2+ hours is mostly because of a 22min instrumental funk composition called “1am Funk Dance Party.” There’s a big part of me that would love to play in a band like this, just laying it down for people to get down.
–My own band has played Makaysha’s “Calling Down a Blessing” many times live. She’s been releasing her own stuff steadily over the past few years and I’m really pleased to hear how well this track got produced in the studio. Congrats Makaysha!
Wishing you all a lovely spring!
🎶2021 Winter’s Journey ~ DJ😇
It’s good to be back 😄 I’m absolutely loving this season’s new music playlist. (Ok, I pretty much equally love all of them.)When I was learning to be a DJ, someone in the dance community made the comment that being a good DJ is 10% skill and 90% taste. I gained adequate skill behind the decks (including the challenging ability to read the vibe of the crowd, take in what the people are wanting and digging, and then at times doing the hard move of overriding one’s own preferences as to what to play), but the curation side of the game has always been my passion. Obviously, I fancy myself as someone with good musical taste. Why else would I bother making these playlists each season and pushing them out on the internet like they are a gift to the world?
So, I hope some of you are excited for this batch of 112 minutes of new releases, and will find at least a few tunes that vibrate in your soul like they do in mine. Anyone who has listened to my seasonal playlists knows that there’s usually an arc of genres and moods, but with a firm emphasis on the uplifting. (As with most DJs, I embrace music as a form of celebration, and don’t tend to look there to access my more tender emotions. Emotive music is a form of medicine I view with distant respect, and anyway I’m only beginning to embrace the healing and liberating potential of letting the heart break open on a regular basis.)
So if you’re in the mood to celebrate while prepping the turkey, or in our case the Quorn meatless roast, give yourself permission to turn the volume up. And for goddesses’ sake listen in headphones or through some decent speakers.
Notes and a few Highlights on this Winter’s Journey:
- Since the extended warm weather here in Colorado has made it feel like summer kind of just ended, I’m delighted by both the Beats Antique version of “Cruel Summer” and a tasty new tune called Summer’s Over.
- Sting just slaying it constantly. Did you all catch the news that he wrote “the ultimate all-round song (according to science)?” Google that phrase.
- SEB with a lovely song about going on a picnic.
- Tipper has only gotten more musically sophisticated as his popularity has increased. He’s a good example of someone I tried to spin at a law school dance party circa 2009-2011, but my buddy James (my first pupil who went on to become a well-known DJ around here) persuaded me that underground glitch hop was just way too esoteric for this mainstream dance audience.
- Twenty One Pilots - not a group I’d expect to include on a playlist, but they took some cues from Foster the People and I like this track.
- Some local Colorado artists killing it right now:
- Little Trips exhibiting a mature sweetness of sound & lyrics not too common in the indie world
- Magic Beans with a tasty blend of 808 drum machines and funk.
🎶 2021 Fall Magic ~ DJ😇
Highlights of this batch of my favorite new releases:
🎶 2021 Sweet Summer ~ DJ😇
🎶 2021 Spring Loaded ~ DJ😇
Having some nice speakers or earbuds that can give you some bass will be crucial for the Lenno and Pitch Black cuts. Happy Spring, friends!
🎶 2020 Winter Journey ~ DJ😇
The new music that’s been keeping us especially joyful over at the Holy house.If you’re keeping it tight this holiday season, think of me giving you a big hug while you’re listening.
As Andrew Harvey- talks of it, those who can cultivate "birth eyes" and remain focused on the newness and supporting its growth, will be able to withstand the global tumult of these times.
Newly released music that is keeping the stereo busy at my house, in a variety of genres. May it inspire you, raise your spirits, and deepen your awareness.
May this be a summer of evolution into a better future together, across cultures and races.
Songs the magical musical elves brought to my consciousness.
🎶 2019 Sweet Summer! ~ DJ😇
“Saving my money to be president.”🎶 2019 Spring Loaded ~ DJ😇
🎶 2018 Winter Journey ~ DJ😇
Grandaddy, The English Beat, and Van Morrison are BACK!🎶 2018 Sweet Summer! ~ DJ😇
Sting and Shaggy collaboration just makes me smile so much.🎶 2018 Spring Loaded ~ DJ😇
ANNUAL PLAYLISTS
All the music that captured my attention during the year. The best of the new releases go in my seasonal playlists.🎶 My Top 10 of 2021 ~ DJ😇
🎶 My Top 10 of 2020 ~ DJ😇
2020 ~ Songs I Shazamed ~ DJ😇
13 hours.2019 ~ Songs I Shazamed ~ DJ😇
14 hours.2018 ~ Songs I Shazamed ~ DJ😇
13 hours.2017 ~ Songs i Shazamed ~ DJ😇
8 hours.2016 ~ Songs i Shazamed ~ DJ😇
9 hours.2015 ~ Songs i Shazamed ~ DJ😇
3 hours.
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