Road trip

Last summer I went on a road trip to Italy. About 3.700 km in 2 weeks time. Tuscany, Umbria, Liguria and then off to Sardegna. Sounds kick-ass, cause it was.

Bad thing was, this wasn't released yet.



It would have been awesome in our soundtrack.

*Check out Coleman's Promise album here. 

track's info
Brandon Coleman - Road trip
2018

Sweet '80s

Dutch producers, Bernard Oattes and Rob van Schaik, (aka The Limit), released a full-length album in 1984, titled The Limit. Hit song right below.

Sweet.

track's info
The Limit- Say Yeah
The Limit
Portrait 1984

Too funky for this world

Thank God I had the chance to see you live.

Rest in Peace my beloved pop artist.

Funky susurrus

I discovered Susurrus from his more melancholic sounds some days ago, but today I thought I should let his funky, pop-ish side unfold.



There's also a version with vocals for those of you like to sing along, but I kinda dig the quiet one this time.

track's info
Susurrus - Just keep dancing
2015

With bells on

Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" may have spinned Linda Blair's head around, but the Champ's Boys Orchestra disco, synthpop version definitely came close to spinning mine. In a different way. Let's see how you can deal with this gem.

Believe me when I say I truly didn't mean to wish you "happy new year" with music bringing the Exorcist in mind...

Happy new year, mates!

tracks' info: 
Champ's Boys Orchestra - Tubular Bells
Vogue 1976

The rare side of the '80s

The '80s can be many things, depending on where you choose to grab 'em. They can be both Boy George and Mötley Crüe, Madonna and Van Halen, Michael Cretu and Whitesnake, Michael Jackson and Public Enemy, Prince and Run-D.M.C, Billy Joel and Def Leppard, Tina Turner and Duran Duran, Talking Heads and Simply Red, David Bowie and New Order, Pointer Sisters and Sonic Youth -oh my god this could go on forever.

So far so good, but the '80s can also be this

and this

and this

 and this

This could go on forever as well. Only in this case you'll have to dig a little bit deeper.

tracks' info: 
-Raw Silk - Just in time & space
West End Records 1983 

-Kwick - Nightlife
To the point
EMI America 1981

-Khemistry - Who's fooling who
Khemistry
Columbia 1982

-Gwen McCrae - Keep the fire burnin'
On my way
Atlantic 1982

Thrillin' memories

Maybe it's not considered cool to be in your thirties and still attempt to moonwalk with the first notes of "Billie Jean" or have a few Michael Jackson cds lying around your car's back seat, but I don't give a shit. Leavin' all the "You are not alone" crap aside (sorry, I could yawn forever with this one and some others I must admit), Michael Jackson was one of the artists that have kept me company with their music from the age of 3 until today and is also one of the few artists that can time travel me - I can honestly feel, smell and see the world through my 10-year-old self when I chill with the songs I used to love back then - and I loved them.

I ain't gonna talk about his achievements, cause I don't really care that "Thriller", for example, is the best-selling album of all time - I would have loved it anyway. What I want to say is that I carry a pretty heavy music luggage my whole life, which is getting bigger and bigger as I grow and still consider music as the greatest part of my essence. And this luggage has one hell of a lot of Michael Jackson in it.

                                             

Such music and feeling couldn't of course leave today's producers untouched.

So here's to Michael Jackson who's done his part on the world's music history, who has spent almost 45 of his 50 years of life singing or putting notes together, who's managed to get us off the chairs and start dancing like we never did before secretly in our rooms and who sadly left us 4 years ago, while we were still trying to capture the perfect moonwalk to his sounds.

tracks' info:
-Beat it
Thriller 
Epic 1982

-Baby be mine
Thriller
Epic 1982

-Ain't no sunshine
Got to be there
Motown 1972

-Pretty young thing
Thriller 
Epic 1982

-Rock with you
Off the wall
Epic 1979

-Off the wall
Off the wall 
Epic 1979

-Take me back (Regrooved)
Michael Jackson Regrooved
Goodgroove Records 2009

-Off the wall (house remix 2012)
2012

-Baby be mine (Boxed riot edit)
2012