PLAYLIST SPECIAL
Another eclectic spread of all the artists/bands/ensembles/collaborations that have piqued our interest, warmed our hearts and got us thinking during March, the Monthly playlist collects tracks from all the reviews, mentions during the last 31 days on the blog. There are also a number of tracks that got away, or we just didn’t have room for.
We have Matt Oliver once more on the rap control, picking another essential showcase of new hip-hop cuts from Your Old Droog, Fly Anakin, Juga-Naut, The God Fahim and Jesht. Plus a myriad of borderless picks from every genre imaginable; including tracks from El Khat, Koma Saxo, Big Thief, Sweeney, ASSASSUN, Crows, Alice Dreamt, Kick, Adam Walton, Kristine Leschper and plenty more.
THOSE TRACKS IN FULL ARE:::
Paten Locke & Edan ‘Fried’
Koma Saxo w/ Sofia Jernberg ‘Koma Krig (Ft. Lucy Railton & Maria Reich)’
El Khat ‘Djaja’
Terakaft ‘Jagwar’
Etienne Jaumet & Fabrizio Rat ‘Rive Opposte’
Big Thief ‘Time Escaping’
Tone Of Voice Orchestra ‘That Kind Of Day’
Pussy Riot w/ Vérité & Latashá ‘Laugh It Off’
Martha D Lewis ‘Dawn’
Sweeney ‘The Break Up’
ASSASSUN ‘Over Again’
Le Pietre Dei Giganti ‘Ohm’
Bleak Soul ‘Mundane, USA’
Kick ‘Sirens Never Sleep’
Nova Charm ‘Over.Loading’
Exociety ‘Good Grief (Ft. Rav, Kill Bill: The Rapper, Scuare & Airospace)’
Raw Poetic & Damu The Fudgemunk ‘Chewing Gum’
Fly Anakin ‘Sean Price’
Neuro… No Neuro ‘Take A Step Outside Of Yourself’
Mai Mai Mai ‘Fimmine, Fimmine (Ft. Vera Di Lecce)’
Your Old Droog ‘.500’
Flying Monk ‘Fuck The Fame (Ft. Axel Holy)’
Elzhi & Georgia Anne Muldrow ‘Every moment (Ft. Dudley Perkins)’
PLOP & JUNNU ‘Totnoy’
Tom Caruana ‘3000 Volt Scarf (Ft. Lee Scott & Jazz T)’
Psych Major ‘Peace Bridge (Ft. Jamal Gasol, Wyze Wonda, DNTE & Toneyboi)’
J Scienide ‘Danceteria’
Juga-Naut ‘Dressed As Myself’
V Don & Sauce Heist ‘Wray & Nephew’
The Other Guys ‘Crepes And Breaks’
Isambard Khroustaliov ‘Cryptoersatz’
Simon McCorry & Anthéne ‘Distant Glitter’
Leaf Dog & BVA ‘Devil’s Breath’
Stinkin Slumrok ‘SHOW ME’
Jehst, Confucius & Mr Brown ‘Daily Planet’
The God Fahim ‘4 Matic’
Nicolas Zullo ‘Strano Siero’
Chlorinefields ‘Finally’
The White Russian ‘B Child’
Shelterheart ‘Empty Pockets’
The Lancashire Hustlers ‘Happiness On A String’
David Åhlén ‘My Only Treasure’
Rodrigo Bragança ‘Third Walkers’
Fatoumata Diawara ‘Dji L’eau (Malian Movement)’
Amaru Tribe ‘La Serpiente’
Istanbul Blues Kumpanyasi ‘Keep The Lord (In You) – Live’
Papercuts ‘Palm Sunday’
Crows ‘Garden Of England’
Alice Dreamt ‘All Those Little Things’
Harry Christelis & Pedro Velasco ‘LD13’
Alex Izenberg ‘Egyptian Cadillac’
Bart Davenport ‘Billionaires’
Carl Erdmann ‘Turritella Flats’
Σtella & Redinho ‘Charmed’
Adam Walton Cloudbursts II’
Kristine Leschper ‘Carina’
Pjusk ‘Aftenblå’
The Monthly Playlist Revue: April 2020: Nick Cave, Big Thief, Homeboy Sandman, Kahil El’Zabar…
April 30, 2020
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’
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