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Playlist/Dominic Valvona/Matt Oliver/Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea

By now we’ll probably all aware and getting jaded by the constant newsroll of Covid-19 horror stories, and the ominous stench of pandemic armageddon. To return to some sort of normality, the Monolith Cocktail promises to keep finding all the best new music for you to enjoy, dance to, contemplate and mull over. No cheap epidemic cash-ins and no tenuous links to self-promotional lockdowns here. Just great music, which we hope you will all keep supporting during these anxious uncertain times. And remember, if you do find anything on this playlist that you’d love to purchase, please root the artist, band out on Bandcamp tomorrow (Friday 1st May 2020), as the platform is once more waiving their cut of the fees.

For those of you that have only just joined us as new followers and readers, our former behemoth Quarterly Playlist Revue is now no more! With a massive increase in submissions month-on-month, we’ve decided to go monthly instead, in 2020. The April playlist carries on from where the popular quarterly left off; picking out the choice tracks that represent the Monolith Cocktail’s eclectic output – from all the most essential new Hip-Hop cuts to the most dynamic music from across the globe. New releases and the best of reissues have been chosen by me, Dominic Valvona, Brian ‘Bordello’ Shea and Matt Oliver.

Tracks in full are:

Hanni El Khatib  ‘ALIVE’
Mashmellow  ‘Share It’
3 South & Banana  ‘Rush Hour’
Supergombo  ‘Alien Felines From Beyond The Galaxy’
iyatraQuartet  ‘Chandra’
Santrofi  ‘Africa’
Damily  ‘Zaho Va’
Holy Hive  ‘Didn’t You Say’
Euan Hartley And Friends  ’30/1′
Twisted Ankle  ‘Landlord Laughs’
Lucidvox  ‘Knife’
Pabst  ‘Skyline’
Senji Niban  ‘Where The Birds Fly Now?’
Higamos Hogamos/Spacerocks  ‘Crome Yellow’
Raw Poetic & Damu the Fudgemunk  ‘Head On’
Tanya Morgan  ‘Resurrection’
Evidence  ‘Unlearning’
The Doppelgangaz  ‘Cloak Makes The Man’
Antti Lotjonen  ‘Pocket Yoga’
R.A. The Rugged Man ft. Chuck D  ‘Malice Of Mammon’
Dope Knife  ‘Face Fuck’
Cambetta & Apollo Brown  ‘Nightmare’
Makoto Kino  ‘West Madoka’
Bodyvox  ‘Yeah Yeah (D Ramirez Vocal Radio Edit)’
RJD2 ft. Homeboy Sandman  ‘One Of A Kind’
Sparks  ‘One For The Ages’
Mick Harvey  ‘The Journey: Part 1: Conflict’
Alex Stolze ft. Ben Osborn & Anne Muller  ‘Babylon’
Chicago Underground Quartet  ‘Orgasm’
Aksak Maboul  ‘Silent Silhouettes’
Halftribe  ‘Subliminal’
Clovvder  ‘My Mother Was The Moon’
Nick Cave  ‘Cosmic Dancer’
Die Wilde Jagd  ‘Himmelfahrten’
David Ahlen  ‘If I Have You’
Big Thief  ‘Love In Mine’
Yakima  ‘It Helped’
Murmur Tooth  ‘A Fault In This Machine’
Farezi & Sinan Oktem  ‘Dionysian’
So Beast  ‘Multiplayer’
Simon McCorry  ‘Pieces Of Mind’
Kahil El’Zabar & David Murray  ‘In My House’
Roedelius  ‘Geruhsam’



Hi, my name is Dominic Valvona and I’m the Founder of the music/culture blog monolithcocktail.com For the last ten years I’ve featured and supported music, musicians and labels we love across genres from around the world that we think you’ll want to know about. No content on the site is paid for or sponsored and we only feature artists we have genuine respect for /love. If you enjoy our reviews (and we often write long, thoughtful ones), found a new artist you admire or if we have featured you or artists you represent and would like to buy us a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/monolithcocktail to say cheers for spreading the word, then that would be much appreciated.