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Werner’s Weekly (week 14)
Werner’s Weekly is like a Swiss clock: it’s here every Monday morning (even at Easter), and it always contains the best new music of the past week. It’s your compass to the music that matters, even if you don’t manage to visit this blog each day.
So, in case you missed it, these are the best tracks of the past week, starting off with the two latest Carte Blanche Music Wildcards, complemented by other choice cuts, that are presented here in alphabetical order.
As always, you can listen to all of these tracks via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar.
- Tiny Fighter – New Century (Wildcard this week)
- Echosmith – Over My Head (Wildcard last week)
- Corine – Il Fait Chaud
- DMA’s – For Now
- Gang Of Youths – The Heart Is A Muscle
- Magnus Carlson & Weeping Willows – Wait For Love To Grow
- The Vaccines – Your Love Is My Favourite Band
Other notable additions to Carte Blanche Music 2018 longlist this week: Chvrches, eels, Daryl Hall & John Oates with Train, Franz Ferdinand, Sigrid, The Lemon Twigs, and Zak Abel.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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Corine – Il Fait Chaud
I’ve got another ‘hot‘ song from France for you. And as you know if you follow Carte Blanche Music: there’s a lot of good music coming from that country lately.
Corine is a young singer with a voluminous hairdo, whose funky disco pop has a sensual, even kitschy edge, in a way that’s typically French. It’s almost a trademark for French music throughout the decennia. You won’t be surprised, then, that her music has more than a touch of ’70s and ’80s in it.
She released her first EP Fille De Ta Région in 2016 and the follow-up, Fille De Ta Région 2 (I kid you not), will be out 13 April. Il Fait Chaud (‘it’s hot’) is the new single, which instantly brings out the sun!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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Yuksek & Bertrand Burgalat – Icare
French electronic music producer, remixer, singer and DJ Pierre-Alexandre Busson chose Yuksek as his stage name, after the Turkish word ‘Yüksek’, meaning ‘high’. It’s hard to think of an artist he didn’t make a remix for, but he’s also a recording artist himself. After starting off his career fishing in the same pond as Daft Punk, he gradually developed a more poppy style, without losing his electronic roots.
Bertrand Burgalat is a French multi-talent as well, who produced and remixed leftfield acts like Laibach, Renegade Soundwave and Depeche Mode in the ’80s and ’90s. Over the years, he developed the ‘Burgalat sound’, which sounds like a French response to Phil Spector, and has influenced acts Like Air and Daft Punk to a great extent.
The track Icare (French for ‘Icarus’) brings the two together for the first time. It’s a lovely slice of nu disco, that consists equal parts of both artists’ styles. Funky!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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Werner’s Weekly (week 8)
So here it is again: Werner’s Weekly, your compass to the music that matters, as always containing the latest two Carte Blanche Music Wildcards and my alphabetically ordered selection of the best releases from the past week…
- Shake Shake Go – Dinosaur (Wildcard this week)
- We Are Scientists – One In, One Out (Wildcard last week)
- Absynthe Minded – Kingpin
- Luz Casal – Que Corra El Aire
- Margaret Island – Hóvirág
- Nilüfer Yanya – Thanks 4 Nothing
- Raf Rundell feat. Showboy – Sweet Cheeks
- The Wholls – Going Down
The links will bring you to the stories behind the tracks and you can listen to them via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar. If that’s not enough to ease your hunger for great new music, I can recommend you to subscribe to my daily updated 2018 gross list, the Carte Blanche Music Spotify playlist. Just a few of the tracks I added last week are by artists like Albert Hammond Jr., Belle & Sebastian, Jessie Ware, Simple Minds and Tracey Thorn feat. Corinne Bailey Rae, among a host of new talent.
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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Icarus – Love Has Come Around
Icarus is the stage name of brothers Ian and Tom Griffiths, a Bristol-based DJ/producers duo. Both of them played in bands before; Ian on guitar, Tom on bass.
The two are currently working on their next EP, In The Dark, to be released in the Spring. Its first single, Love Has Come Around, is an infectious disco stomper, which lyrically represents the excitement of meeting and connecting with someone new. The track is built around a sample from the same-titled Donald Byrd track, that dates back to 1981.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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Raf Rundell feat. Showboy – Sweet Cheeks
Raf Rundell is one half of dance duo The 2 Bears. In 2016, he released his debut mini album The Adventures Of Selfie Boy Part 1 to a very positive reception. This new single is a taster for his first full length album Stop Lying, scheduled for release on 2 March. Sweet Cheeks is an uplifting slice of funky pop music, that could have been a companion piece to the Freestylers’ Push Up. Destined to make your day!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Korean producer Peggy Gou currently operates from Berlin. There, she works on her next EP Once, and It Makes You Forget is the first single off it. It’s the first time she ever sung on a record, which she does in her native language. The laid-back, understated way she sings forms a great part of the song’s appeal.
The track has a 90’s house vibe, with influences from disco, electro and even acid. Musically, the track has the same amount of nonchalance as the vocal parts. A winning combination.
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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Werner’s Weekly (week 6)
After a week full of new music in all the genres you can think of, it’s time to draw some conclusions and decide which songs will and will not make it onto Werner’s Weekly. And here it is, your compass to the music that matters. In other words: the best tracks from the past week:
- Fall Out Boy – Church (Wildcard this week)
- The Nectars – Heaven (Wildcard last week)
- Anderson East – Girlfriend
- Chvrches – Get Out
- Clara Luciani – La Grenade
- Desi Valentine – Higher Heart
- Glen Hansard – Roll On Slow
- Mylène Farmer – Rolling Stone
You can listen to each of the songs via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and read about them by clicking the links above.
For more great new music, follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist, with recent additions by Albert Hammond Jr., Blue October, Kate Nash, The Mowgli’s, Pale Waves, Paramore, Stereophonics, Vance Joy 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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Clara Luciani – La Grenade
Clara Luciani is an upcoming French singer. We first got to know her through her contributions to Nekfeu’s album Cyborg and the Deluxe Edition of Calogero’s Liberté Chérie, as well as her first EP Monstre D’amour, that she released last year.
Now, here’s Clara Luciani’s new single. If you like groovy bass lines and catchy melodies, this one’s for you. Based on her music so far, I’m very much looking forward to her debut album, due out in April!
For more great new music follow the constantly updated Carte Blanche Music playlist.
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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L’Impératrice – Matahari
In a way, French music is always surrounded by an sense of sensuality. Whether it’s the melancholy whispering, even moaning singing technique of many a chanteuse, or the sultry, groovy, tropical disco like instrumentation, in French music passion and desire are never far away. Take L’Impératrice (French for ‘the empress’), for example…
L’Impératrice is a six-piece band from Paris (where else? ). Since 2012, they released four EP’s and a handful of stand-alone singles. Only 2 March their debut album Matahari will come out. The title track is the new single, and with a subject like that, it can only be a sensual track, can it? Well… it is!
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.
