clubtrack hotlist, moments hitlist
Quick list of things I’ve drawn for repeatedly over the last -/+ 4 months. Looking at this list I feel...
There is a strong thread of joy and emotional depth that I think informs the best music, club or otherwise. Music that is clearly rooted in lived experience and communicates that with some force. Music that collides things together in a way that sparks the imagination and isn’t just rooted in novelty/nostalgia (Nov/Nos… maybe I like that term 🤔). Music produced by people who have clearly spent time crafting something that ends up with their own DNA in it and isn’t just a sample pack soup de jour. The best thing is that I also feel very confident that I’m missing lots all the time and that is exciting and keeps me running to try and keep up every day.
People (journalists) say the best moments in history culturally are when New MOVEMENTS (genres) hit. I have always disagreed with this lazy take. Firstly when new genres become identifiable things often narrow. Everything is interconnected and the depth and magic of these connections is erased when we have conversations that are (eg.) on what the first X records were of Y genre. Secondly they also only ever emerge because of years of things being played with. This experimentation is where its at. Always. Usually these efforts don’t lead to something that gets properly pigeonholed (a new genre for ppl to claim etc.), but they still impact the music that gets played and made henceforth as profoundly as anything else.
My job is partly to be as sensitive and engaged with these subtleties as I can be and right now I feel good about things.
*Mostly new but obvs a few old things I’ve loved and feel like they speak to me in this present.
its Alice, in wonderland?
Fun to see that Crane A.K. track in there, hadn't thought about them in a while!