Random Collab

Who would have thunk LA pop Maroon 5's Adam Levine and rap's new rogue mogul Wiz Khalifa would have teamed up?

Playlist: Pay Day

Work Hard Play Hard... 4 Days Till Pay Day...

A Reluctant Share

Reluctantly I share Jai Paul, an enchanting British songwriter and producer. 

Jai Paul and I have history. We go back a couple of years with 'BTSTU'. A beautiful, bewitching private passion I was introduced to by a friend. Despite Paul successfully entrancing some big music names like Annie Mac and Zane Lowe with this track, it remained somewhat private.

Then, Drake decides to sample over that gem of a song with some crappy rap misfit called, 'Dreams Money Can Buy'. Not cool. Luckily, most people were too falsely entranced by Drake's apparent genius to question the real origin of the mesmerizing backtrack. Even Beyonce apparently tried to grab a piece of the with her track 'Till The End Of Time', but still Jai Paul seemingly remained safely swept under the magic carpet.

So just as I was beginning to feel secure, and at one with my personal Jai Paul secret, he goes and bloody releases another spellbinding track, 'Jasmine'. Fuck. There's no hushing this up.

And so, I reluctantly share Jai Paul, a magician of music, a wizard of wacky music and a sorcerer of song.

Private. Public. Mutual.

It's a rare familiarality finding a song that has affected a private community. Far too often there are personal vendettas dotted between the comments section of a song; weaving in and out of hateful, irrelevant or gushing posts. Users seem determined to argue with people they have never met, and content to write spiteful, meaningless comments. This song is no exception.


However one comment caught my eye:

Without this comment, this was an incredible song. But now there is another story behind this song.

Not only that, 235 other people feel this story, and someone else has even added to the true story. There is a private community of mutual understanding that this song, and Hoodie Allen helps someone who feels trapped, feel better.

Polar Bears and Global Warming

3 Big Chill Songs.

1.  Hiatus - Ghost Notes
2. Cillo - Breathe
3. DRT - Rising Sun (The Boogaloo Crew Remix)

PLAYLIST - A Lonely Spring

Some mellow songs to embrace the spring gone from your step.

1. Roads and Boats - Anything Could Happen
2. TV Girl - It's Not Something
3. The Young Friends - I Won't Break Your Heart 
4. French Films - Take You With Me
5. Noah and the Whale - Sometimes
6. Marcus Foster - Couldn't Love You More
7. The Cure - Lullaby
8. Gabrielle Aplin - The Times Are A Changing (Bob Dylan Cover)

Obsessed

Nneka - Shining Star (Joe Goddard Remix)

YOUR Number 1

While your mother was squeezing, shrieking and sweating...others were singing.

While your father was dealing, dossing and dreaming of a boy...others were dancing.

While doctors and nurses panicked as your umbilical cord wrapped around your neck, one band were basking in the sweet celebration of success.

Little did they all know that it was more about the good vibrations, than those first contractions.

In fact, the date you were born follows the yellow brick road to your destiny. The importance of your birthday is not determined by the time of year, the extent of your birthday gifts or even the conception date of your small, irrelevant gamete alliance. In reality, your future is founded upon one fact:

What was the number one single and album, on the day of your birth?

What song could have soothed your mother’s cries?
What jam could have given your father the strength to stay in the delivery room?
And which beat could have focused those NHS professionals to perform a medical marvel (and not mix you up with the baby in the room next door)?

Truth is, the song that was number one on the date you were popped out is, whether you like it or not, a life path. It determines whether you are fat (Pavorotti), or thin (and a bit of a trainwreck – Amy Winehouse. It decides whether you are gay (Boy George), and/or ginger (Elton John). It will turn you into a reject (‘The Kids From Fame), short lived (The Weather Girls), or a even a slut (Madonna).

May this be a lesson that when you do decide to bring a child into the world, the responsibility lies with you to make sure it is born at an appropriate time in pop chart history.  Unfortunately for you, your fate is set in stone.

To see where you’re heading...

http://www.everyhit.com/dates/

Leap Year Love

Some once-in-a-4-year-moon songs to LEAP around to.

1. Meg & Dia - Monster (DotEXE Remix)
2. Miike Snow - Paddling Out
3. Ghost & Misty - Stories (Dream Remix)
4. Django Django - Firewater
5. ABC's - K'nann ft. Chubb Rock
6. Kito ft. Reija Lee - Sweet Talk
7. The Other Tribe - Skirts
8. Floating Points - ARP3
9. NERVO ft. Afrojack and Steve Aoki - We're All No One
10. Flo Rida ft. Sia - Wild One

Playlist - Snow Tears

Some easy listening to potentially provoke those icy tears frozen to your face this January.

1. James Vincent  - We Don't Eat
2. Emily and The Woods - Never Play
3. Ben Howard -Move Like You Want To
4. Peter Gabriel feat. Kate Bush - Don't Give Up
5. Soley - Smashed Birds
6. Adam Holmes - I Can't Be Right When I'm Wrong
7. Wretch 32 feat. Delilah - Don't Be Afraid
8. Lucy and The Catepillar - Beans on Toast
9. Blk Jks - Lakeside
10. Marcus Foster - I Don't Mind