For me, it was a seminal shift in the way I dealt with experiences – from there on out, they became much more personal, more introverted. I felt things there, things I had never felt before, that feeling was fresh and bright, as it was dark. Zima is one of the most beautiful tunes ever … Continue reading Sultan + Shepard with Delhia de France – Zima
Kuud Kuulama strings out these unencumbered intoxicating bits of spellbound raptured synth meanderings more eloquently, more desirably, more passionately and more consistently than the Breaks genre ever dreamed of achieving. Kuud Kuulama is a tune to get lost in, vocals to give yourself over to, an adventure that under the right circumstances will define this moment … Continue reading Maarja Nuut x Ruum x Sultan + Shepard – Kuud Kuulama (Sultan + Shepard Remix)
Across the ether, filled with enchantment, structured to comfortably lay back my head with a warm set of hands, tucking an emancipated blanket of aroma around me, then stepping away as I drift off into the soft welcoming hypnotic sweetening of my soul. You will quickly discover that Losing Ground has a nearly physical presence, … Continue reading Sultan + Shepard with Tishmal – Losing Ground
A moment that engulfed me in a series of flowering fairy tales that slowly ebbed and washed over me with luscious fuzzed out desire, morphing with enticing visuals that swirled and simmered with passion and delight. Voodoo makes me float high above the clouds and into the atmosphere that holds together all that I know … Continue reading Tinlicker & Ben Böhmer – Voodoo
Always progressing from one rendezvous to the next just by me getting older physically and spiritually, I think my last one was pretty epic, and on this one I’ve had even more time to make it, and I didn’t feel as much in a rush. 9 Days has a floating-cloud slide synth with Julia bending … Continue reading Nils Hoffmann feat. Julia Church – 9 Days
When you find someone so breathtakingly dreamy, they float you down emerald green rivers, and across deep blue skies, filled with the softest white clouds. That’s how Plastique makes you feel with its beats blending into the next without hesitation, stretching each into the other flawlessly. Plastique will put a smile on your face and … Continue reading Dusky – Plastique
World Away is a really dark, refreshing, and historic tune in the making. It makes me believe that I’ve been waiting my entire life for it. The tune is dreamy, floating me on a neo-psychedelic river of sound – it’s nearly impossible to describe something so pure. On the surface, the music of World Away … Continue reading Oliver Wickham – World Away
Låpsley’s lyrics spark the tune to life, as her voice surrounds the desire of a woman who’s relationship has ended. Like I Used To is beyond laid back, cooler than cool, even relaxed and resounding, drawing me in with each listen until I’m totally immersed. I sit here with my mouth open, the perfect meld … Continue reading Steve Weston feat. Låpsley – Like I Used To
Not new to the game, with several experiences tailing behind me, this one became a raptured culmination of all that those previous experiences brought to light. Ardent, honest and certainly bewildering, with slow motion intoxication. The sonic delivery of this sunny afternoon get up and dance music is first rate, featuring lyrics that are centred … Continue reading Above & Beyond feat. Zöe Johnston – Love Is Not Enough (A.M.R Remix)
It would be easy to suggest that this rendezvous was a product of another time, dripping with morning dew, romantic meditations on stillness, tugging at my shirtsleeves while indulging me with a pleasant bodily heaviness, bringing a sly sleepy nod to my eyes as I strain to pay attention. Slowly pushes the concept of music … Continue reading Yotto – Slowly
Some moments you control, some moments control you, yet every once in a while a someone floats into your life that’s so unexpected, a feeling ebbs and flows like warm waves lapping at the beach – like the concentric circles that flow back from a stone skipped across a pond. And suddenly you are wrapped … Continue reading Kaskade & Colette – When I’m With You
Dirty Inc. is a heartfelt construction, a re-interpretation of all those moments I loved and admired about that time, turned a bit sideways and skewed, as seen through fresh eyes. Yet… when all is said and done, artificial or not, it feels captivatingly alive and real. Dirty Inc. is nearly flawless, though if you were … Continue reading Enviado Vida – Dirty Inc.
A heartfelt reconstruction from another time and place, a re-interpretation of all the things loved and admired about those many moments. Yet, when all is said and done, it feels captivatingly alive and real. This is washed out ethereal dream laden revery at its most romantic. Dream Of You provides me with slow danceable bliss; … Continue reading Schiller feat. Peter Heppner – Dream Of You
Champaquí is a delightful tune that carries enough weight and has enough new edges to hold my attention. Yet in its being, it would be easy to argue that this tune is superior to most progressive tunes out there. I’m absolutely smitten with the smooth laid back emotional quality, to which I can only dance … Continue reading Flexible Fire – Champaquí
Those richly textured breezy easy-going seamless reveries of yesteryears brought to light today seem like deeply romantic meditations on stillness, space and the splendour of the moments I was once in. How it had brought out confident tonalities that step outside of what I would normally expect. Should Have Seen It Coming rides nicely into … Continue reading Franky Wah feat. AETHO – Should Have Seen It Coming (Yotto Remix)
Straight from Australia and into your heart, One Minute Longer ventures into the atmospheric realm of shimmering harmonic instrumentation and deeply lush vocals designed to spirit you into the night, where tender earthbound songs resound, recounting an honesty so seldom heard in today’s music. One Minute Longer hauntingly delivers, setting my soul on fire with … Continue reading Approaching Black & Brandon Mignacca – One Minute Longer (Instrumental Mix)
Once we get used to the idea that time is ineluctable, we make sure we embrace beauty in each moment as much as we can. We get an entirely discrete space outside the depredations and rude entropy that time just loves to enact. Here With Me is not without its sadnesses, but it approaches with … Continue reading Schodt & Sundriver feat. Aida Fenhel – Here With Me (Schodt Vocal Mix)
Odsen’s material is certainly interesting, notable and breaks new ground in Deep House. It has a deeply familiar feel to it, a patchwork that floats effortlessly, a tune filled with comfortable synths to slap a mile-wide smile across your face. In My Bones is designed to rapture your wayward ears and will pound from your … Continue reading Odsen – In My Bones
Jelly is laced with depth and character and is nothing short of transformative. I found it to be an awakening of emotion spurred on by sonically muted tonalities that nearly insisted on lulling me into a narcotic haze of relaxation. It will make you sit back with a sly smile of intuitive understanding, making you … Continue reading Meeting Molly – Jelly
Marsh designed Wasn’t Enough to create a floating dynamic musical soundscape, that effectively enhances that inner journey, all while setting the pace for the floor that was shifting under one’s feet, along with the ceiling that was floating away, leaving listeners lost in the matrix-ed air they were breathing! To say the this tune simply … Continue reading Marsh – Wasn’t Enough
