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Drones Club – International
Drones Club formed in London in the spring of 2015 out of âa desire to reconnect people in a low-attention economyâ. Although they released over 10 singles and EPâs so far, these drones have so far managed to fly under my radar. But with their latest single, Drones Club indeed seems to be aiming for international success. I love this cosmic disco!
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 19)
- GotSome feat. Lisa Kekaula – I Donât Know (this weekâs Wildcard)
- Arkells – Knocking At The Door (last weekâs Wildcard)
- Anteros – Cherry Drop
- Calogero – Je Joue De La Musique
- Foster The People – SHC
- Kasabian – Ill Ray (The King)
- Satellite Stories – Waiting For
- SlĂžtface – Magazine
The above songs are simply the best new music of the past week (in my opinion and in alphabetical order). Click the links to read my recommendations and more importantly: listen to the songs via the Wernerâs Weekly player in the sidebar.
If you like what you hear, you may very well like my container playlist Carte Blanche Music as well. There youâll find more great new music, much more than I can write about.
Next step, of course, would be to subscribe to the playlists. Then youâll get to know the music as soon as I add it. Waiting is soooo 2016! ?
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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Calogero – Je Joue De La Musique
I donât know any other country where eighties music is still so much alive as in France. In each hypermarket (the main place to buy CDâs nowadays) there is a rack full of eighties compilations.
Of course, this also translates to contemporary music. Or in fact, the musical heritage of the eighties has been a part of French music throughout the decennia. Bands like Breakbot, Cassius, M83 and Phoenix are only a handful of acts that keep the spirit of 30 years ago alive.
And now, we can also add veteran Calogero to that list. His latest single Je Joue De La Musique (which means âI play musicâ) sounds like it has been beamed up from the past (which is partly correct; it was recorded in the legendary Abbey Road Studios). One can hear the aforementioned Phoenix in it and I canât stop myself from throwing in the âlalalaâ part of I Will Survive in the Hermes House Band version. Hopefully Je Joue De La Musique will be just as much a classic in its own right!
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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Calypso Valois – Vis Ă Vie
Do you remember Elli Medeiros? The French singer who started her career in the late seventies in punk band Stinky Toys, but scored big time in 1987 with the great, latin flavoured single A Bailar Calypso? A year before, she had given birth to a daughter, Calypso Valois.
30 years later, Calypso treads in her motherâs footsteps. After playing in some movies and contributing songs to a few soundtracks in recent years, she just released her second solo single. Vis Ă Vie is a melancholic pop song that could only have come from France. Combining equal parts disco, guitar, piano and violins, itâs a real âdĂ©licatesseâ!
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 16)
I hope you didnât over-eat yet, for Iâve got a bucket full of Easter eggs left for you. Itâs a hand-picked selection of new tracks, like I present to you each Monday morning. Out of all the songs I recommended on this blog last week, only the very best made it to Wernerâs Weekly.
As a rule (and a commitment) this weekâs and last weekâs Carte Blanche Music Wildcard are part of the bunch. The rest of them are presented in alphabetical order and deserve to be put forward once more.
Well, this is that special momentâŠ
- The Kooks – Be Who You Are (this weekâs Wildcard)
- Kasabian – Comeback Kid (last weekâs Wildcard)
- Incubus – Undefeated
- Kutie With A K – Rollercoaster Ride
- My Baby – Make A Hundred
- Roads To Roam – Safe
- Uncle Frank – Ku Ku Nu
If you want to read more about any of these tracks, just click the respective link. You can listen to them via the Wernerâs Weekly player in the sidebar.
For further listening you might want to follow my Carte Blanche Music playlist, which contains much more music than I can write about and that enables you to discover even more new songs, and quicker as well. Just sort the playlist so, that is shows the most recent tracks on top, and never miss a great new song again! The green Carte Blanche Music logo/button in the sidebar brings you to the playlist directly!
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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My Baby – Make A Hundred
My Baby is a Dutch band, but theyâre playing so many gigs outside their own country, that you probably know them already. If not: go and check them as soon as you can. Preferably live, because theyâre ace! From the first note on, they put the pedal to the metal and only after the last note they hit the brakes. And in between? 100% pure groove!
My Baby mixes roots, funk, gospel and blues into what they call âvoodoo tranceâ. That, combined with the hippie-like appearance of singer Cato van Dijck, especially, produces a Woodstock kind of feeling (as far as I know it by tradition, that is).
If you donât know them yet, make sure you listen to the track Make A Hundred off their album Prehistoric Rhythm. Iâm pretty sure that My Baby will soon be everybodyâs favourite!
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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Aeroplane (feat. Tawatha Agee) – Love On Hold
Vito de Luca is a Belgian nu-disco producer, working under the Aeroplane moniker. Superstar and We Canât Fly are just two great examples of his music, that works equally well on the dance floor and on the radio.
And guess what? Aeroplane is back. This time he even dove deeper to the original roots of his music, by asking Tawatha Agee to sing on his new single. If her name doesnât ring a bell: she sang backing vocals for people like Luther Vandross and David Bowie in the 80âs, and was a member of Mtume, whose classic Juicy Fruit was famously sampled in The Notorious B.I.G.âs hit Juicy.
And now, her iconic voice is featured in Aeroplaneâs new bass-heavy funkinâ disco track Love On Hold. The 80âs just rang⊠they want their sound back! ?
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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Me & My Toothbrush – Menace
Last year I âdiscoveredâ (for myself; they had been discovered by others before) Swiss act Me & My Toothbrush with their double A-sided single Drop That/All The Time. Funky disco stuff!
New track Menace is a somewhat heavier affair, where they bring in a bluesy power-chord guitar lick for extra flavour. It blends well with the dirty bass that keeps the track going.
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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Fatboy Slim – Where U Iz
Beats International, Freakpower, Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz, Fatboy Slim⊠Itâs all one and the same man: Norman Cook, who started his career as bass player in The Housemartins.
Fatboy Slim is far and away Cookâs most successful alias and itâs been too long since we heard from him. Over three years, to be exact. He broke through with The Rockafeller Skank, in 1998, and followed it up with classic dance tracks like Praise You, Right Here, Right Now and â more recently â Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat. That was at the end of 2013.
Now the boy is back with an epic new track. Itâs bound to set both dance floors and living rooms on fire with its joyful party vibe, Elton John-style piano, infectious horns, funky guitars and repetitive lyrics (âWhere U Iz is where itâs at, and you canât beat that with a baseball batâ). I absolutely love it, so the whole of the coming week itâll feature on top of the Carte Blanche Music blog as this weekâs Wildcard.
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 10)
Itâs impossible for me to write about all good music that comes out each week. So I must make a selection for this blog. With a few exceptions to the rule, I usually choose brand new artists to feature on Carte Blanche Music, tracks that you probably havenât heard yet, and that would run the risk of passing by unnoticed if I wouldnât place them on a pedestal.
But there is so much more⊠Thankfully, there is Spotify. My Carte Blanche Music playlist has enough room to feature all great new tracks that appear each week. Not only by brand new acts, but also by more established artists like Little Steven, Bush, Lorde, DJ Premier, Di-Rect and Spoon. All of them great acts, with great new songs. Subscribe to that playlist and youâll never miss any good new music anymore. Promised!
Which brings me to this weekâs alphabetically sorted list of my most highly recommended tracks: Wernerâs Weekly (which you can subscribe to as well, of course). Listen to these eight songs via the Wernerâs Weekly player in the sidebar and read my recommendations by clicking the links.
- San Fermin – No Promises (this weekâs Wildcard)
- MisterWives – Machine (last weekâs Wildcard)
- Banner. – Compass
- Disciples – On My Mind
- Dreadzone – Area Code
- Groenland – Healing Suns
- Kid Francescoli – The Player
- The Curious Incident – Honey Hunger
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.
