yes yes yes I’ve been listening to Prince Far I @leicester-bangs and Exodus (Bob Marley thread) but the summer isn’t all about showing the depth of your bass bins and your Trojan rareties. The sunshine does something to our taste filter, and makes stuff that we’d not give the time of day to on a grey March day appear mighty fine. I’ve been working my through Hed Kandi Summer 2006 this, the essence of disposable commercial clubbing mixes. It has a cartoon young lady on the cover and three CD’s of – well club bangers which sound brilliant with the car window open. So, which tracks are on your real summer playlist but, well let’s just say they are never going to be on your Desert Island Discs.
ps this track is great, but like a proper club track the intro is 3 minutes long. Well worth it.
Your ‘summer taste’ jams confessed here please
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Love the picture someone chose to go with this – not just muzik with a z but junkeez with 2 e’s and a z. Quality. Also thinking 90s R and B and rap sounds great in weather like this – like this one which would be on any summer barbecue playlist round at mine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5H3HQIRkSM
This
I like it’s melancholic sunshine vibe. This is similar – I like it so much it’s my ringtone
One more if I may,
Double points for having Ibiza in the title.
I hope this fits the bill. Summer isn’t summer until I’ve played a Will Smith / Fresh Prince best of. But mainly this…… Never give him a second thought between September and June
Play that in February and it’s like Will is trolling you.
This is my current listen. It’s big time hot here right now. 35°. It’s necessary to get stoned.
I picked this out earlier in the year as one of my summer vibes and on a warm Sunday afternoon busy doing nothing it fits the bill perfectly.
Impossible to hear this on a sunny day without feeling better about life in general.
Roy Ayers hits the spot for me.
As do Brazilian reggae band, Natiruts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wedpnqqJHWk
I discovered an album by them in a chazza in Löttorp on Öland.
Here is a banger and a half. Robyn sung this at Roskilde this weekend and experiencing 60,000 or so Danes going absolutely bonkers ( as I was myself) was exhilarating.
If you’ve not heard it, check out the demo versh of Sunshine, KFD. I kinda prefer it.
Thanks @Gary! That demo is even better. Magnificent!
And now a gentle banger francais from Laurent Voulzy.
Un bangero Italiano
And finally this Guinean beauty by Mory Kante which probably sounds OK in January but in July it is scoooooooorchio!
Love a sad banger.
Sad Banger! What a wonderful expression. It sounds like a sausage shop staffed by melancholy misfits.
Jimi certain bangs sadly.
As do Universal Poplab.
And a jalopeno flavoured sad banger from Mexrrissey.
A summer pleasure for me is the ultra-cheesy Sundance by Sundance. It nicks Sabres of Paradise’s Smokebelch (which itself lifted LB Bad’s New Age of Faith), and is even more stupidly euphoric and uplifting.
In honour of the fella in the post above, and, I believe, fitting the bill:
here are some sunshine favourites
Ellis Preston
The Skatalites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uSm9CRnyQo
and the wonderful Granville Williams
How about Summer “Pastoral Classical” jams?
This is one to space out to on a hot summer day.
Classical bangers? I love it. That thought led me to this: classical Balearic bangers at the RAH. I was not expecting that.
Italian house music label, Irma, has come up with some serious bangers.
Sueno Latina by Sueno Latino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKexedNfRow
Can we live by Jestofunk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia8pa8abzgg
Over to France for some French “maison” music.
Starlight: Music sounds better with you.
And now Modjo with Lady.
Rhianna’s music features quite a lot on the soundtrack of American Honey and it really clicked for me why she is so popular.
This banger has been listened to 856 million times. Does it really belong on the AW?
This is full of summer sunshine …. I am bunging it on my summer jams playlist.
Reggae meets jazz in this glorious track by Ernest Ranglin. Perfect for a cool drink in the shade.
Cruising along Ipanema beach with a carful of funky Scotsmen and the stereo turned up to 11….
And while we are in Rio, let’s have some Motta. Colombina is irresistible.
Fasten your seatbelt, crank up the volume and give this playlist a listen as your cruise along Atlantic Avenue, Harrogate High Street or the Highway to Hell.
That playlist is a perfect listen on our hire car stereo.
I just stumbled across Select Cuts from Echo Beach: a whole album of remixes of the Martha and the Muffins summer classic. Here is a taster. The whole thing is in Spotify.