Monolith Cocktail Blog

PLAYLIST/Dominic Valvona

The Monolith Cocktail Social playlist flips back and forth across time and over borders to bring together music and sounds untethered by themes, trends or clique mindsets. Well, to a point. We do however celebrate the albums reaching particular milestones each month. The Social #66, which could be considered the blog’s radio show, includes 50^th anniversary nods to The Beach Boys, moonlighting under the Carl And The Passions, much-undervalued ’72 classic So Tough, plus choice tracks, songs from jazz deity Ornette Coleman’s symphonic opus Skies Of America and the switched-on, riled and political-funk orgasmic Funkadelic’s America Eats Its Young. Fast forward a decade or two and Gang Starr’s era-defining Hip-Hop totem Daily Operations is thirty years old this month. Unbelievably so is Stereolab’s Peng, which also features in this month’s playlist.

We had to mark the loss of the kosmische progenitor, cosmic courier Klaus Schulze, this month, and so have a smattering of peregrinations, drifts and score’s from across the German innovator’s back catalogue to enjoy.

Bang up to date, there’s a multitude of tracks that we either missed or didn’t get room to feature on the monthly playlists, including Sinead O Brien, Clap! Clap!, PENDANT, Modern Studies, Nathan Francis, Farhot and Rancho Relaxo.

Expect to hear anything and everything curated in one aural journey of possibilities, open-mindedness and discovery.

THOSE TRACKS IN FULL ARE:::

Clap! Clap!, Domenico Candellori, TOROZEBU  ‘Ox’
Dakh Daughters  ‘I Want’
Jackson Heights  ‘Mr. Screw’
Smokey Haangala  ‘Amafuna Kanyama’
Front Page Review  ‘PRISM FAWN’
Close Lobsters  ‘Just Too Bloody Stupid’
Sliver Car Crash  ‘Curse In The Pines’
Sinead O Brien  ‘GIRLKIND’
PENDENT  ‘Thom’
Camu Toe  ‘Death’
Funkadelic  ‘If You Don’t Like The Effects, Don’t Produce The Cause’
Ill Considered ‘First Light’
Klaus Schulze  ‘Weird Caravan’
Stereolab  ‘Mellotron’
Tess Parks  ‘Happy Birthday Forever’
Sven Wunder  ‘Mosaic’
Klaus Schulze  ‘2. Satz: Gewitter (Energy Rise – Energy Collaps)’
Grindolog  ‘Ship’
Nathan Francis  ‘Premonition’
Larry Ridley  ‘Go Down Moses’
Ornette Coleman & The London Symphonic Orchestra  ‘The Artist In America’
Robbie Basho  ‘Eagle Sails The Blue Diamond Waters’
Black Light White Light  ‘Epilepsy’
The Beach Boys  ‘Hold On, Dear Brother’
Guilherme Coutinho  ‘Me Ver Em Vocé’
Alice Clark  ‘Don’t Wonder Why’
Eugene Viscone  ‘Love’s Hidden Island’
Baeshi Bang & Ip Koa Son  ‘Kang Kang Sullae’
Gang Starr  ‘Soliloquy Of Chaos’
Nine  ‘Whutcha Want’
Farhot  ‘Rap e Dari’
Laundromat  ‘Combo’ Klaus Schulze  ‘Rhythm Fugue’
Idrissa Soumaoro  ‘M’ba Deri Ou’
caroline  ‘Dark Blue’
Modern Studies  ‘Wild Ocean’
Klaus Schulze  ‘The Treasury Of Thy Lusty Days’
Sāo Paulo Underground  ‘Perenquén’
Rancho Relaxo  ‘Colour The Stars’
Crystal Syphon  ‘Try Something Different’