Monolith Cocktail Blog

The final quarterly playlist of ‘choice’, ‘obscure’, ‘popular’ and sometimes frightening tracks of 2014. 

Expect the usual cross-pollination of musical discoveries; from the shimmy spiritual lounge jazz of  The Greg Foat Group to the Ill Communication era Beastie Boys homage to golden era Hip Hop by the Ducth group De Staat, we cast our net far and wide. 

Seamajesty  ‘Say Awake’. 

TV On The Radio  ‘Careful You’.

Wu-Tang Clan  ‘Preacher’s Daughter’.

The Green Seed  ‘Diss Connect’.

De Staat  ‘Input Source Select (Vinticious Version)’.

Nimzo-Indian  ‘Melt Bird’.

Riechmann  ‘Himmelblau’.

The Greg Foat Group  ‘By The Grace Of God, I Am (Live)’.

Red Snapper  ‘Village Tap’.

Tony Allen (Feat. Adunni and Nefretiti)  ‘Ire Omo’.

Khun Narin  ‘Lai Sing’.

Dennis Bovil  ‘Itous Dubwize’.

Asmus Tietchens  ‘Trummerkopfe’.

Papernut Cambridge  ‘The Ghost Of Something Small’.

Cool Ghouls  ‘And It Grows’.

Ariel Pink  ‘Black Ballerina’.

White Fang  ‘Shut Up’.

Morning Smoke  ‘Hunger’.

David Thomas Broughton And Juice Vocal Ensemble  ‘In Service’.

Marianne Faithfull  ‘Sparrows Will Sing’. 

Dee Sada  ‘Bells And Ships And Songs’.

Bell Gardens  ‘Darker Side Of Sunshine’.

The Magic Lantern  ‘Scant Peace Of Mind’.

Picturebox  ‘Graffiti’. 

Roedelius  ‘Glaubersalz’.

Scott Walker + Sunn O)))  ‘Herod 2014’.

The previous quarterly playlists…