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remix, single trackTom Tyger – Dimini
Tom Tyger – Dimini
Many people will only remember Guinea singer-songwriter Mory Kanté for his pan European number one hit Yé Ké Yé Ké, the first ever African single to sell over one million copies, back in 1988. Although he never repeated the success of this song (despite numerous remix versions), Kanté recorded a total of 11 albums.
The album Tamala/The Voyeur (2001) contained the track Dimini. Youâll immediately recognize it as a Mory KantĂ© track, although the production is somewhat more modern. Which isnât strange of course, 13 years onâŠ
French remixer Tom Tyger has updated the track once again and released this remix under his own name. Mory KantĂ©âs name is nowhere to be found. So, now that weâve set the record straight, enjoy this cover. For thatâs what it isâŠ
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Sir Notch – Please Donât Go (Sam Feldt Edit)
Sir Notch is a Dutch dance pop project surrounded by some mystery. It is unclear who is/are hiding behind that smiley face. As far as the summery new single Please Donât Go is concerned, the credits reveal that Sir Notch likes to work with talented people. The track was written by Christon Kloosterboer (who appeared on this blog before). He was also asked to sing the track. Furthermore, Sir Notch asked Sam Feldt to provide the radio edit. No wonder that radioâs response to the song is very positive.
Or for all you Spotify freaks out there:
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Wernerâs Weekly (week 2)
Each Monday morning Iâll publish Wernerâs Weekly on this blog. This might need a little explanationâŠ
All the tracks that I recommend here (and more) appear in my container playlist Carte Blanche Music, as far as theyâre available on Spotify. Youâll find this list by clicking on the image in the sidebar. The absolute highlights from this lot are selected for Wernerâs Weekly, which is refreshed every Monday morning. This list (with no particular order, well, alphabetical order that is) is featured in the sidebar as well. But only one track can be the best of them all. This song is chosen as Wildcard, which will be announced on Wednesdays (Wildcard Wednesday, anyone?) and will feature prominently on top of my blog for one whole week.
Thatâs how it works. Now, hit the player in the sidebar to listen to the tracks in Wernerâs Weekly while reading about them by clicking the links below⊠Enjoy!
- Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Wild Forever
- Christon feat. Maxime Barlag – Perfect World
- Dua Lipa – Thinking âbout You
- The Gift (feat. Brian Eno) – Clinic Hope
- Hifi Sean feat. Crystal Waters – Testify
- The Little Kicks – Goodbye Enemies, Hello Friends
- Ozark Henry – A Dream That Never Stops
- Public Service Broadcasting – Go! (Live At Brixton)
- Twin Peaks – Disappear
- Young Gun Silver Fox – Lolita
Apart from these highlights the Carte Blanche Music playlist also contains songs from Alex Clare, Bastille, Deep Sea Arcade, London Grammar, Sia and The XX, to name but a few.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Hifi Sean feat. Crystal Waters – Testify
If âdanceable gospel bluesâ is not a genre, Hifi Sean just invented it. Hifi who? Hifi Sean. His real name is Sean Dickson and you may or may not know him as the frontman of The Soup Dragons (whose Rolling Stones cover Iâm Free is still a classic in my book). With The High Fidelity he released the even more enjoyable Scream If You Want To Go Faster, co-produced by Arthur Baker.
And now Hifi Sean is back with yet another banger: Testify, that vaguely resembles Fatboy Slimâs Praise You. The singer on the track is Crystal Waters, who scored 90âs hits in her own right, such as Gypsy Woman (Sheâs Homeless) and 100% Pure Love.
Testify is one of the tracks on Hifi Seanâs new solo album Ft.. This is short for âfeaturingâ, since the album contains collaborations with Yoko Ono, Bootsy Collins, Fred Schneider (The B-52âs), Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub) and many more.
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Carte Blanche Top 2016
Is there a better way to introduce myself and this new music blog than via a year-end chart? Last year in my Carte Blanche radio show I played over 800 new tracks, all of which you can find in this 2016 container playlist (subject to availability). Only 100 of them made it to the Carte Blanche Top 2016.
Some random statistics:
- After the usual suspects â Great-Britain (34) and United States (19) â the Netherlands deliver most entries (9), followed by Sweden (8), Belgium (6), Australia (5), Norway and France (4 each)
- 42% of all lead vocals are sung by women, which is unique compared to other radio stations
- There are more rock tracks in (the upper regions of) the Carte Blanche Top 2016 than in your average year-end chart
- The same goes for acts that were already successful 10, 20, even 30 years ago, proving they are still relevant today
If you want, you can listen to my radio show (in Dutch) containing the Top 30 of my year-end chart. Meanwhile you can browse through the complete list below. Enjoy!
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Wernerâs Weekly (week 46)
Van de hele stapel nieuwe releases kregen er 14 afgelopen week het stempel âWerner Tiptâ, met bijbehorende vermelding in de gelijknamige Spotify-playlist. Nog nooit gehoord van Fews, Washington of Escondido, maar wel nieuwsgierig hoe die klinken? Dan weet je waar je moet zijn. Vaults, Alex Clare, Imagine Dragons, Emeli SandĂ© en Liv zijn enkele van de artiesten die hen daar gezelschap houden. Maar alleen de crĂšme de la crĂšme van de toekomstmuziek heeft Wernerâs Weekly gehaaldâŠ
Sheâs American van The 1975 is al sinds maart van dit jaar in Carte Blanche te horen. Eerst als singlesuggestie van hun album I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It en nu ook als echte single. In Engeland althans, want in Nederland komt de band niet echt van de grond. Jammer, want Sheâs American is een heerlijk radioliedje. Daarom is âie deze week de Carte Blanche Remschijf!
Afgelopen week draaide ik Fountains van Uncle Frank al en toen viel me pas goed op hoe lekker die op de radio klinkt. Die zouden meer mensen eens de zender op moeten slingeren. Daarom zet ik het nummer deze week in de etalage die Wernerâs Weekly heet. Ook Find Me van Sigma feat. Birdy promoveert deze week vanuit de Werner Tipt-lijst naar het hoogst haalbare op nieuwe-muziekgebied ;-).
Al sinds hun debuut uit 1998 ben ik een fan van de Spaanse band La Oreja De Van Gogh. Niet iedereen kan hun (pop)muziek waarderen, al was het maar omdat het niet zo lekker meezingt. La Planeta Imaginario, hun 7e studioalbum, is ook niet hun sterkste, maar de track PĂĄlida Luna zou een goeie single zijn. In elk geval in de Spaanstalige wereld. Luister maarâŠ
Dan San is een zesmansband uit de Belgische industriestad Luik, wat wellicht de melancholische, soms dromerige sfeer van hun muziek verklaart. Ook de samenwerking met producer Yann Arnaud (o.a. Air) kan daaraan bijgedragen hebben. Hun indrukwekkende nieuwe single heet Ocean.
Half januari komt The xx met hun derde album I See You. De eerste single daarvan heet On Hold. Die kwam naar eigen zeggen moeizaam tot stand, totdat ze een sample toevoegden uit I Can’t Go For That van Hall & Oates, die de losse onderdelen samensmolt waaruit het nummer tot dan toe bestond.
Met I’ll Make It Worth Your While van het Londens drietal Artificial Pleasure maak ik deze week de cirkel rond. Het nummer, hun debuutsingle, heeft iets weg van Love Me van The 1975 (en dus van David Bowieâs Fame). Ook Talking Heads klinken erin door. Een superliedje en een dikke tip voor mijn andere radiocollegaâs.
Het hele â uiterst bescheiden â bovenstaande lijstje vind je uiteraard terug in mijn Spotify-playlist Wernerâs Weekly. En al mijn inmiddels ruim 700 aanraders van dit jaar staan in de lijst Werner Tipt. Als je die zo sorteert, dat de laatste toevoegingen bovenaan staan, verschijnen mijn recentste suggesties pal onder je neus. Snuffel er maar eens aan! (en de playlists volgen is natuurlijk helemaal leukâŠ)
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
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Wernerâs Weekly (week 40)
Als je geen tijd of zin hebt om elke dag de nieuwe toevoegingen op Spotify te checken, kan ik je misschien van dienst zijn. In Wernerâs Weekly verzamel ik elke vrijdag de tofste nieuwe releases van de afgelopen zeven dagen, in random volgorde. Als de lijst je aanstaat, raad ik je aan die te volgen, zodat je geen update mist. Want volgende week is het overzicht weer 100% anders…
De Pixies zijn deze week in feite dubbel vertegenwoordigd: met een fijne track van hun nieuwe album Head Carrier, Classic Masher, en met de nieuwe single van Admiral Freebee. Het nummer Kim Basinger (dat al eerder getipt werd door vaste Carte Blanche-luisteraar Marcel van Driel) is namelijk een ode aan de Pixies.
Ook uit de lage landen: de nieuwe single van Noémie Wolfs (het titelstuk van haar album Hunt You), het openingsnummer en mijn singlesuggestie van Blaudzun zijn nieuwe album Jupiter (Everything Stops) en Model Depose. Deze Groningse newwaveband heeft een nieuwe mix van Particles (hun bijdrage aan een kunstproject van het Groninger Museum, eind 2015) op single uitgebracht.
Closer van Lemaitre is weliswaar al bijna anderhalf jaar in Carte Blanche te horen en werd in die tijd 23 miljoen keer op Spotify gestreamd, maar het nummer wordt nu ook gebruikt onder de commercial van Googleâs Pixel-telefoon die in drie dagen 6 miljoen keer werd bekeken. Eens kijken of er nu mensen wakker worden.
Ook opvallend deze week is Placebo. Zij brengen vandaag twee releases uit: de cd A Place For Us To Dream (die al hun singles van de afgelopen 20 jaar verzamelt, bizar genoeg op de single Twenty Years na) en de EP Lifeâs What You Make It, waarvan het titelnummer een cover is van de Talk Talk-klassieker.
Alle 13 muzikale hoogtepunten van deze week vind je in Wernerâs Weekly en in mijn uitgebreidere playlist Werner Tipt staan er zelfs nog meer. Volgen stel ik zeer op prijs.
Enjoy!
I’m a music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Have been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, I developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart. CEO of Werner Bros. tekst | uitleg.
