The Music Box.
Entries about the music I like.
Culture // Music of the Week / Aug 22, 2021
This week's playlist is about culture. Culture isn’t the language you speak. Culture is holding the door open for the person walking behind you when there’s nobody on the other side to prostrate over your generosity. Culture is living within your means. Culture is attempting to buy respect or love or loyalty when you can’t be arsed to earn it.
Everything & 1 Half // Music of the Week / WS 7 Mar 2021
It’s all been a little everything and a half last week. Musically, I deviated from the previous three weeks of punk, and explored the many worlds of electronic music. I’m likely to occupy this space for a while longer. In fact, but for Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping, you’re going to find virtually no obvious references to punk and its offshoots in this week’s playlist.
Bicep – Isles
Combining elements of traditional house, 90s dance music, UK garage and reverby IDM with samples of music from around the world (Including Jab Andhera Hota Hai from the 1973 Bollywood film Raja Rani on Sundial), Isles is something most of Bicep’s previous music wasn’t: dance music for headphones on unkempt scalps and chairs under fat arses.
Honey Dijon Boiler Room x Sugar Mountain 2018 DJ Set
Honey Dijon’s Boiler Room set from the 2018 edition of Melbourne’s Sugar Mountain Festival is one of the most popular on Boiler Room’s channel, is a masterclass in house music. It boasts of an esoteric setlist that weaves through house bangers, high-energy hip-hop, samples of Chaka Khan, New Order, et al, even a sample of MLK’s I Have A Dream speech.
Yaeji — What We Drew 우리가 그려왔
Each short track of this mixtape is a hazy journey into the self. The lyrics deal with the everyday, the mundane: easily my favourite lyrical focus. Rarely have I heard the simple combination of bass + drums + vocals + synth done this expertly.
The tracks the made Age
An introduction to a new Akhil Srivatsan Track called Age, with a playlist of tracks that inspired it including some from Washed Out, Peggy Gou, Ross From Friends, Hercules and Love Affair, and Funktuation.