Monolith Cocktail Blog

PLAYLIST/IMAGINARY RADIOSHOW
Compiled By Dominic Valvona

The Monolith Cocktail Social is one of two long-running playlist series on the blog. Running in tandem with the Monthly Revue, which represents all the new music both I and the MC team have been listening to and writing about during the month, the Social is a cross-generational, eclectic imaginary radio show, where anything goes: featuring tracks from the last 50 or more years.

It’s also my chance to show off my own tastes, records from my collection, and to both celebrate those albums reaching anniversary milestones and pay tribute to recent artists and figures we’ve lost during that month. Speaking of which, in the weeks between playlists we’ve lost voice of the beehive Ronnie Spector, the Indian nightingale Lata Mangeshkar, and Rachel Nagy of the mighty motor city garage and Nuggets slaying Detroit Cobras: all three of which are paid homage to in this, volume 63 of the Social.

As always, I also mark certain album anniversaries, including the 30th anniversary of the last album in a bright run from KRS-One‘s most important and fertile creatively vehicle, the boogie down Bronx collective BDP, Sex And Violence. Incredibly, and still rinsed today – though certain so-called new jazz stars think they invented it – the demigod of the spiritual and freeform, Ornette Coleman‘s Science Fiction marker is 50 this month. And what about this, D.C. Afro-Dub-Punk trailblazers Bad Brains‘ self-titled debut is 40 this month. But leading the anniversary pack this month is Amon Düül II‘s 1972 classic acid-folk masterpiece Carnival In Babylon.

Expect the rest of the playlist to mirror my whims, loves and curiosity with tracks from the Bow Street Runners, Vytas Brenner, Adele Sebastian, Ace Spectrum, Crossbones, Bas Jan, Spencer Cullum and loads more.

That Track List In Full::

Amon Düül II ‘All The Years Round’
Bow Street Runners ‘Electric Star’
Lata Mangeshkar ‘Papiha Re Tum Piya Se’
Steaua De Mare ‘Prolog (Original mix)’
JVC Force ‘It’s A Force Thing’
Boogie Down Productions ‘Drug Dealer’
Vytas Brenner ‘Gavilan’
Shay Hazan ‘Pink Collar’
Ornette Coleman ‘Rock The Clock’
Mombasa ‘Soletho Pt. III’
Adele Sebastian ‘Belize’
Afro Soul System ‘Tink Tank’
Bad Brains ‘I’
Chrizzy Zebby Tembo ‘I’ve Been Losing’
Ace Spectrum ‘You Ain’t No Match For Me’
Ronnie Spector ‘Girl From The Ghetto’
Kellee Patterson ‘Look At The Child’
Dream Team ‘There He Is’
Billy Butler ‘Come Over To My Side’
Chayns ‘You’
Crossbones ‘Highway’
The Detroit Cobras ‘I’ll Keep Holding On’
The Halo Benders ‘Virginia Reel Around The Fountain’
The Brilliant Corners ‘Rambling Rose’
Cola ‘Blank Curtain’
Spencer Cullum ‘Imminent Shadow’
Bas Jan ‘Progressive Causes’
Deafheaven ‘Villain’
Debruit ‘Above The Bosphorus’
Trance Farmers & Odd Nosedam ‘Like Dreamers Do’
Sinead O Brien ‘Kid Stuff’
String Machine ‘Eight Legged Dog’
Madelaine ‘Au Clair De La Lune’