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2009
Fat Freddy's Drop began as a jam band in the late 90s with musicians from different Wellington, New Zealand bands. The seven-member band sometimes called themselves "the seven-headed soul monster."
www.fatfreddysdrop.com
Check out the official music video:
youtu.be
2010
A few years prior to the recording of the album "Swim", Canadian electronic musician Dan Snaith's wife gave him swimming lessons as a Christmas present, prompting him to take it up as a new hobby.
This partially led to the eventual ideology behind the album, which is awash with aquatic sonics. Snaith said that the lessons blended into his growing fixation with fluidity in music and the ability to achieve that with his army of electronic instruments.
He explained, "I wanted to make dance music where all the elements would sound like water and have these waves that flow around in the mix." bit.ly
2011
SBTRKT (Aaron Jerome) is an English musician and producer who has remixed songs by various artists like M.I.A, Radiohead, Modeselektor, Basement Jaxx, Mark Ronson, and Underworld.
"Wildfire" features Little Dragon on vocals.
sbtrkt.bandcamp.com
www.saveyourself.tv
2012
In this song, Frank Ocean ponders about his girl as he drives to see her after receiving a text message.
"I guess I'm just inspired to tell stories," Ocean told BBC News about his writing process. "You gotta make sure the listener is listening to you, so if you put it into a song, often times, if the song is striking enough, then you can really deliver the story most effectively while keeping the ear of the listener the whole time. I guess it all starts with the stories for me."
bit.ly
blonded.co
2013
Toro y Moi will be at Thing Festival in Seattle on August 10th and The Greek Theatre in Berkeley on October 25th.
toroymoi.bandcamp.com
toroymoi.com
2014
Born in São Paulo, Brazil in 1974, Gui Boratto began working as a producer, audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist in the early '90s. Despite a successful career behind the scenes, the creative urge proved too strong for Boratto and before long he began dedicating himself to producing his own music in the studio.
guiboratto.bandcamp.com
IG: @guiboratto
2015
Featuring vocals by American blues singer Lightnin' Hopkins. 'St Germain' is the eponymous fourth studio album by French house producer Ludovic Navarre, under his main pseudonym St Germain.
Video:
youtu.be
www.stgermain-music.com
2016
Dutch electronic musicians Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers are the people behind Weval. They started collaborating in 2010 when they met in the film industry and discovered their shared musical interests.
weval.net
2017
Mac DeMarco relocated to Los Angeles from New York for his third album.
macdemarco.bandcamp.com
www.macdemarco.com
2019
Burna Boy's fourth studio album was on Billboard's, Pitchfork's and Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums of 2019.
www.onaspaceship.com
2021
Cheryl selected this song by Ambar Lucid as a free KEXP Song of the Day: www.kexp.org
In an interview on KEXP's Sound & Vision podcast, Ambar Lucid talks about how a trip on magic mushrooms inspired the title track of her new EP, "Get Lost in the Music.": bit.ly
ambarluc.id
2023
Single from his album "Animals".
Kassa Overall will perform at Bumbershoot over Labor Day Weekend. bumbershoot.com
kassaoverall.bandcamp.com
www.kassaoverall.com
2009
Sampling Wayne Smith's 1985 track "Under Me Sleng Teng".
zionicrew.com
2010
Ty Segall will be at Timber! Outdoor Music Festival in Carnation in late July. summer.timbermusicfest.com
ty-segall.com
2012 (single released in 2011)
Debut album by electronic musician and producer Orlando Higginbottom, better known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
www.totallyenormousextinctdinosaurs.com
2012
This song heavily samples Beach House's 2010 "Silver Soul." (For comparison, here's the original: www.youtube.com)
oklama.com
2015
Erykah Badu sampled Drake's "Hotline Bling" in this song.
IG: @erykahbadu
2016
Woods's debut album from 2016 features collaborations with Chance the Rapper, Noname, Saba, Lorine Chia, Kweku Collins and Donnie Trumpet.
www.jamila-woods.com
2017
Check out this Kid Hops-hosted Live on KEXP session with Chronixx from 2017 featuring this track: www.youtube.com
chronixx.com
2018
Fatoumata Diawara was born in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents. As an adolescent, she was sent back to their native Bamako in Mali to be raised by an aunt. When she was eighteen, Diawara moved to France to pursue acting. She briefly returned to Mali for a film role, but fled back to Paris to avoid being coerced into marriage by her family.
fatoumatadiawara.com
www.disclosureofficial.com
2019
Barack Obama included Kaytranada and SiR's song "Go DJ" on his "Favorite Music of 2019" playlist.
KAYTRANADA will be at Neumos on July 19th and the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco on August 9th.
www.kaytranada.com
2020
From the album "2 Real".
Parisalexa will be at the 2+U Building in Seattle on July 10th at noon. Tickets are free but require RSVP. More information on Ticketweb.com.
Parisalexa performed live in the KEXP studio in 2018. www.youtube.com
parisalexa.bandcamp.com
2020
The enigmatic British collective SAULT famously eschews media interactions and highlights Black-centric issues.
The Guardian writes of their 2020 album, 'UNTITLED (Rise)': "Straight away you realise you’re in the presence of something special. The first three songs function as brilliantly constructed dance tracks and keep messing with the listener’s emotions."
saultglobal.bandcamp.com
www.sault.global
2021
"‘Please’ is full of optimism and ready to be played in a place where we can all be together and flirt, dance, touch, and kiss, A wonderful excuse not to stop the party from ending.” Jessie Ware said.
This song was produced by Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford and co-written by Ware with Ford, Shungudzo, and Danny Parker.
Video: youtu.be
www.jessieware.com
2024
At the Crocodile in Seattle on October 17th and Crybaby in Oakland on October 20th.
rapsody.komi.io
2009
You may recognize the sample from Madlib's instrumental beat tape, "Beat Konducta vol.3 & 4." It is an amalgamation of the tracks "Movie Finale" and "Get It Right," which are sampled from Indian artists Lata Mangeshkar and Minoo Purshottam. Mos Def and Slick Rick also sampled Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di."
2010
"There's something in your heart, and it's in your eyes. It's the fire inside you."
The Roots will be at ZooTunes on July 21st. www.zoo.org
www.theroots.com
2011
James Blake's breakthrough single was a cover of Feist's 2007 track from "The Reminder".
Blake will be performing at Bumbershoot this Labor Day Weekend at the Seattle Center. bumbershoot.com
www.jamesblakemusic.com
2014
Jungle will be at the Outside Lands Music Festival in San Francisco in August, and Remlinger Farms in Carnation on September 20th.
www.junglejunglejungle.com
2015
Coming to The Crocodile on July 14th (next week!) and the Guild Theatre in Menlo Park on August 2nd.
www.protoje.com
2018
The Internet started as a duo of producers and songwriters: Sydney Bennett, who was the sound engineer for Odd Future and called herself Syd the Kid (now simply Syd), and the keyboardist Matthew Martin, who called himself Matt Martians.
This track begins with a sampled beat of the song "Sing Sing," released in 1978 by the disco-funk band Gaz. All the instruments on "Roll (Burbank Funk)" are deconstructed in this article and video: www.noisechest.com
2019
Little Simz has collaborated with a number of other British artists, including Damon Albarn. You can hear her on Gorillaz's album "Humanz".
"GREY Area" was nominated for the 2019 Mercury prize.
littlesimz.com
2020
Black Parade was released in the final hours of Juneteenth in 2020 - the holiday observing the June 19, 1865 date which marked the end of slavery in the United States. www.youtube.com
This song is a condemnation of racism and a call to action for protestors against police brutality, while also acting as an uplifting celebration of black culture. Go here for a discussion of the cultural and historical references in this anthem: bit.ly
www.beyonce.com
2021
Arlo Parks will be at the Thing! Festival in Carnation in August. thingnw.org
www.arloparksofficial.com
2022
This song samples Keith Masfield's "The Loving Touch".
At the Chase Center in San Francisco on August 28th.
denzelcurrymusic.bandcamp.com
denzelcurry.com
2023
Tierra Whack is a rap-artist from North Philadelphia.
In the video for "Chanel Pit", Tierra Whack delivers these lines in the car wash, sans car: www.youtube.com
2024
Mumu Fresh performs at the Monterey Jazz Festival on September 28th. montereyjazzfestival.org
maimounayoussef.com
Described by The Guardian's Kitty Empire as "virtuoso space-jazz magic", Mildlife's 2018 release "Phase" is available on their bandcamp at mildlife.bandcamp.com
The band performed this song Live from South Channel Island in 2022: youtu.be