Browsing Tag disco
Werner’s Weekly (week 16)
I hope you didn’t over-eat yet, for I’ve got a bucket full of Easter eggs left for you. It’s 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 Werner’s Weekly.
As a rule (and a commitment) this week’s and last week’s 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 moment…
- The Kooks – Be Who You Are (this week’s Wildcard)
- Kasabian – Comeback Kid (last week’s 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 Werner’s 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!
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
My Baby – Make A Hundred
My Baby is a Dutch band, but they’re 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 they’re 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 ‘voodoo trance’. 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 don’t know them yet, make sure you listen to the track Make A Hundred off their album Prehistoric Rhythm. I’m pretty sure that My Baby will soon be everybody’s favourite!
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Aeroplane (feat. Tawatha Agee) – Love On Hold
Vito de Luca is a Belgian nu-disco producer, working under the Aeroplane moniker. Superstar and We Can’t 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 doesn’t ring a bell: she sang backing vocals for people like Luther Vandross and David Bowie in the 80’s, and was a member of Mtume, whose classic Juicy Fruit was famously sampled in The Notorious B.I.G.’s hit Juicy.
And now, her iconic voice is featured in Aeroplane’s new bass-heavy funkin’ disco track Love On Hold. The 80’s just rang… they want their sound back! ?
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Me & My Toothbrush – Menace
Last year I ‘discovered’ (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.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Wildcard (week 10):
Fatboy Slim – Where U Iz
Beats International, Freakpower, Pizzaman, Mighty Dub Katz, Fatboy Slim… It’s all one and the same man: Norman Cook, who started his career as bass player in The Housemartins.
Fatboy Slim is far and away Cook’s most successful alias and it’s 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 – more recently – Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat. That was at the end of 2013.
Now the boy is back with an epic new track. It’s 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 (“Where U Iz is where it’s at, and you can’t beat that with a baseball bat”). I absolutely love it, so the whole of the coming week it’ll feature on top of the Carte Blanche Music blog as this week’s Wildcard.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 10)
It’s 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 haven’t heard yet, and that would run the risk of passing by unnoticed if I wouldn’t 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 you’ll never miss any good new music anymore. Promised!
Which brings me to this week’s alphabetically sorted list of my most highly recommended tracks: Werner’s Weekly (which you can subscribe to as well, of course). Listen to these eight songs via the Werner’s Weekly player in the sidebar and read my recommendations by clicking the links.
- San Fermin – No Promises (this week’s Wildcard)
- MisterWives – Machine (last week’s Wildcard)
- Banner. – Compass
- Disciples – On My Mind
- Dreadzone – Area Code
- Groenland – Healing Suns
- Kid Francescoli – The Player
- The Curious Incident – Honey Hunger
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Kid Francescoli – The Player
Originally a four-man band founded in Marseille in 2000, Kid Francescoli is now the solo project of Mathieu Hocine. His music has that undeniable French touch, but is heavily influenced by both old Italian film scores and pop.
This week, Kid Francescoli release their next album Play Me Again, featuring Nancy Sinatra cover Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) and this new single The Player, an addictive spoken word track with a moody disco backdrop.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Werner’s Weekly (week 8)
So here they are: my ultimate new music recommendations, collected in Werner’s Weekly. If you haven’t heard them already, you can listen to each and every one of them via the dedicated Spotify player in the sidebar. In the list below, where you can find out more about the tracks by clicking the respective links, you may notice Dark Side by Mist. I featured that one a few weeks ago already, but it only appeared on Spotify last week. Hence the mention in this week’s alphabetically ordered ‘Gallery of the Greats’, alongside…
- Fishbach – Y Crois-Tu? (this week’s Wildcard)
- Van Echelpoel – Ziet Em Duun (last week’s Wildcard)
- Cris Cab feat. J. Balvin – Turn Out The Light
- Llorca – Waiting
- Marika Hackman (feat. The Big Moon) – Boyfriend
- Mist – Dark Side
- Moby & The Void Pacific Choir – A Simple Love
The above titles are only the tip of the iceberg. Please check the following link if you want to listen to all new tracks I added to my recommendation playlist Carte Blanche Music last week.
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Llorca – Waiting
Do you like Safe From Harm by Massive Attack? There’s Nothing Like This by Omar? Don’t Look Any Further by Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett? In other words, do you like a fine groove? Then quickly hit the play button below and read on to find out more…
Llorca (first name: Ludovic) was born in the north of France in 1974. His father being one of the first computer programmers in the country and his mother being fond of music, his destiny was clear from the beginning: making music with computers. He started composing music for computer games on a Commodore 64 at the age of 14 and improved his skills from there on.
As a DJ, Llorca added black music genres like funk, disco and soul to the mix and gradually created his own style, that could be heard on his debut album New Comer in 2001. Since then he made many remixes under several aliases, but his second album has yet to come out. Well, save the date, for Llorca will release The Garden on 7 April. His groovy new single is appropriately called Waiting…
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
Texas – Let’s Work It Out
Before Johnny McElhone formed Texas with singer Sharleen Spiteri, he had enjoyed some success with his bands Altered Images and Hipsway. But Texas really hit the bull’s eye and scored hits like I Don’t Want A Lover, Say What You Want (I personally prefer this original to the remixed version featuring Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man and RZA), Summer Son and Inner Smile.
On 21 April, Texas put out their ninth album Jump On Board. First single Let’s Work It Out, with its funky, Rock Your Baby-like guitar lick is already available. The video stars ‘retired’ (the guy is 39!) professional footballer Thierry Henry driving a car and Sharleen dancing before a green screen, basically. What more do you need? 😉
Music industry watcher and journalist. Worked at a CD club, a record store chain and was editor in chief of an entertainment trade magazine. Has been in the radio business since 1987, producing and presenting shows. Was music director of several stations. Also, he developed the European Border Breakers Chart, Music Moves Europe Talent Chart and ESNS Chart.
