Hard to beat? Not necessarily. While most songs are in 4/4 time, and others in 3/4 waltz, there are many fascinating variants that push the boundaries, often in a catchy way. It’s not necessary here to name the numbers, just how it feels when you count …
Read morePlaylists: Welcome to the Festival of Drone
You’ve got your ticket, now click to enter this special event, a festival of continuous sounds, otherworldly music that crosses the realms of pop, folk and other forms filling five special fields and domes, curated by guest organiser MussoliniHeadkick
Read morePlaylists: songs about trust
Sometimes you can believe, yet it doesn’t work out. But sometimes it does. This week it has, at least through hundreds of brilliant song nominations, and playlists equal that by guest Severin, spanning genres, mood and eras
Read morePlaylists: songs about the colour orange
Fresh, funky, bright and effervescent, spreading from Jamaica to India, France and America and all the way to Japan, this week’s guest playlister Hoshino Sakura captures the essence of this colour in all forms, sky to fruit to street
Read moreThe gift of sound and vision: songs enhanced by impressive videos
Music and film are often intertwined commercially, but where does a video become an artform to the level that the visual elements enhance, complement and become symbiotic with the song? Let the action commence …
Read morePlaylists: songs about addiction
Addiction is no laughing matter, so guest writer Violet Vivid gets down to the nitty gritty about 'It' and 'Them' in a visceral description of the inner process, mapped by some powerful music
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