DHS - a Spotify adventure

DHS is all about music - specifically music chosen, on Spotify, by D, H & S.

The three of us choose five songs at a time, add them to a Spotify playlist, and explain why we've chosen them. Once we've done that six times each we close the list and open the next one. Occasionally we review what we've picked and add it to 'the best of' playlist and once in a blue moon we each select an entire album.



Monday, 11 February 2013

DHS 11 - Part 4 (S)

H
Clark - Black Stone - latest addition to the DHS tradition of an occasional, mournful, piano piece.  Lovely.
Goth-Trad - Man In The Maze - First time through I didn't like it, second time was better - listening now it's ok and I'd like to hear it placed in the context of the mix you originally referred to when you picked it...
AES DANA - Borderline - *ahem* First time through I didn't like it, second time was better - listening now it's ok and I'd like to hear it placed in the context of the mix you originally referred to when you picked it...
Erol Alkan & Boys Noize - Waves (Chilly Gonzalez Piano Remake) - get quite excited by the first two minutes of this each time I hear it, then it just tails off somehow...
Lee Burridge & Mathew Dekay - Fur fie Liebe - quite simply just a very, very good record - beautifully understated, wonderfully economical - EVERY single little component adds something and there isn't a gramme of flab on it

D
Sleeping At Last - Households - it's growing on me.  Slowly, but it is growing.
Rudimental - Not Giving In - I get the sentiment aspect but I struggle with the fella's voice a bit, which is a real shame 'cos the ebb and flow of the track, especially its peaks, are lush.
Claptone - Cream - Heard this a couple of times at Adrian's and a couple more since on LSD2 - very nice indeed - the rising/falling strings in the middle remind me very much of a blue vinyl bootleg I used to play *gets distracted searching on Discogs*
Justin Martin - Butterflies - noticed this was on Sasha's recent Beatport chart, and it's well-picked by you from there - made me dig out some other Justin Martin stuff, see below...
Alicia Keys - 101 - hmmmm, I've tried but I can't get it to work.  Bound to be one of those tunes that I hear sometime later this year playing out of someone's window or something and will hit me instantly...

S
Woozy With Cider - worth including for the name alone.  Could easily get pretentious about this but will suffice to simply say it's lovely.  Really, really, lovely.

Matilda's Dream - I placed this at number three in my top ten tunes of last year, describing it as, 'trench-deep-squelchy-acid-spangles.'

The Fugitive (Sei A Remix) - triggered by D's inclusion of his Justin Martin track above.  Possibly the first bit of work by Sei A that I picked up - absolute stonker from a few years back - played this on many an occasion and think I used it in a mix but can't remember which one...

Schwindelig (Ian O'Donovan Remix) - first time a track by Kollektiv Turmstrasse has made a DHS list - somewhat surprising but...  There are some tracks you just KNOW are big.  This is one of them.

Sedulous (Mickey Remix) - second appearance for Sebastien Tellier on DHS.  First time round for him went very well - I'm pretty confident this will do fairly well for him too.  Used it on LSD2.  As ever his lyrics simply aren't worth the effort required discern them - just make up some sounds of your own that fit and bounce along to it...

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