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Sunday, Dec 31 2023, 3PM
NYE Dance Party!
Sound & Vision Senior Producer Rachel Stevens talks about the buzz behind “Renaissance” with fellow fans from the B Hive: KEXP Afternoon Show Host Larry Mizell Jr., Stas Thee Boss, and KUOW Arts and Culture Reporter Mike Davis.
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Evie's NYE Dance Party!
written while the band was on tour, recorded in an Airbnb rental in Los Angeles, includes collaborations with Erick the Architect, Channel Tres, Roots Manuva, Mood Talk, and Bas.
Jungle performed Live in the KEXP Studio in September 2023: youtu.be
Happy New Year's Eve dance party!
2nd LP from the Montreal electro-pop duo - chromeo-music.bandcamp.com
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Producer Greg Kurstin: "Bringing in Thundercat was a really fun flavour to bring to the album... He sang a lot of what Damon sang and then added his own thing and the harmonies. It’s always fun to witness him play, because he’s absolutely amazing on the bass."
NYE dance party - Myles MacInnes, aka Mylo, is a Scottish electronic musician and record producer. He sampled "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes and "Waiting for a Star to Fall" by Boy Meets Girl in this tune.
Say She She will play Neumos on Friday, February 2nd -- 21 & Over show
dedicated to Norma Mccorvey, aka Jane Roe, after the story broke about the Supreme Court's plan to overturn Roe v. Wade. Read more here: tinyurl.com
Larry Mizell, Jr hosted the trio - Live in the KEXP Studio - youtu.be
NYE Dance Party - despite rumors to the contrary, Charlie Wilson wrote this track and said the only bomb referred to is one made of love
NYE dance party!
Jarv Dee performed Live in the KEXP Studio in August 2022: youtu.be
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New Year's Evie dance party!
Jayda G has risen steadily and stealthily through the dance music underground with her infectious energy, vitality and boundless enthusiasm.
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Video for "Both of Us": youtu.be
New Year's Evie dance party!
Sophie Ellis-Bextor launched her career singing lead vocals for indie band Theaudience, later going solo with disco and electronic tracks like this massive UK hit
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NYE Dance Party!
Basement Jaxx are South London production duo Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton - sampling Bolivar's "Merengue"
They normally ended their live sets with this track
New Year's Evie dance party!
The video for this song features Jay Kay - Jamiroquai vocalist and car collector - driving a purple Lamborghini Diablo in a race with other supercars, including a Ferrari F40 driven by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason - youtu.be
this song was inspired by Patrice Rushen, an R&B singer/songwriter ("Forget Me Nots") who did some work programming synthesizers on Prince's debut album For You. Apparently, Prince was smitten, but nothing came of it.
He offered both "I Wanna Be Your Lover" and "I Feel For You" to Rushen, but she turned them down.
The band formed in 1979, when Columbia College student Andre Gibson spotted an engineering department flyer for an audio production class looking for bands to record in their studios. Gibson jump at the opportunity, assembling a motley crew from several chapters in his life into the Universal Togetherness Band. Watch this short documentary that explores how UTB went from being college students to stars in Numero Group's disco universe: bit.ly
Música popular brasileira (MPB) legends - arrangers, producers, and collaborators with many of the greats of the genre including Rita Lee and Marcos Valle - this is the only confirmed LP released by the duo
LA based TropiFunk project that was originally a one-off that exploded in the underground scene
junglefiremusic.bandcamp.com
New Year's Evie dance party!
French singer, writer, painter, musician - recorded this album in Nassau, Bahamas and released it on ZE Records in 1981
New Year's Evie dance party, wishing maximum joy for you all
Bristol legends bridging Afrobeat, reggae, free jazz, and more - did you know that Nellee Hooper recorded percussion and backing vocals with the band in 1983?
Talking Heads performed this song in the concert captured by the 1984 film "Stop Making Sense" -- the restored re-release from 2023 was magnificent, hope you got to see it on the big screen!
Now, we can't have parties like in Spain where they go all night, shut down in North America
Or like Berlin where they go another night, alright
You see, I love this place that I have grown to know, alright, North America
And yeah, I know you wouldn't touch us with a ten-foot pole, 'cause we're North Americans
New Year's Evie dance party!
Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He's been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 1981 and is a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann.
Brooklyn-based electronic rock duo consisting of Mike Stroud (guitar, melodica, synthesizers, percussion) and producer Evan Mast (bass, synthesizers, percussion). They first met while students at Skidmore College
New Year's Evie dance party!
What's Golden" features samples from Public Enemy's "Prophets of Rage" and Clive Hicks's "Look Hear." bit.ly
Channel Orange is the 2012 hit debut from Frank Ocean.
"Frank’s lens is crystalline and otherworldly, like the diamonds of Sierra Leone — one of the many locales he brings us to throughout the record — offering a view of heartbreak so honest that it feels universal." bit.ly
In 2011, The Go! Team released remixes of this track by Star Slinger and D/R/U/G/S - thegoteam.bandcamp.com
The Go! Team performed Live in the KEXP Gathering Space in 2018: youtu.be
In August 2021, Gabriel sat down with Little Simz for conversation and performance in a Live on KEXP at Home session - it included a discussion of the books she was reading! Check it out!
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In June of 1983 Talking Heads released “Slippery People” on their 5th LP, 'Speaking In Tongues' -- a year later, The Staple Singers covered the track, featuring David Byrne on guitar
LA producer duo performed Live in the KEXP Studio in 2015 - youtu.be
New Year's Evie dance party!
Fourth LP from SAULT - saultglobal.bandcamp.com
The debut album from Deee-Lite, which rose out of the 1980’s club scene in Greenwich Village and fused techno, funk, ambient, hip-hop, and house music to form something completely unique and solidified themselves as a staple in the early 90s house and club/dance scene in New York. Guest artists on the album include Bootsy Collins, Q-Tip, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker. When World Clique was released on compact disc, two bonus tracks were added to the album: "Deee-Lite Theme" and "Build the Bridge." bit.ly
New Year's Evie dance party! Featuring Camp Lo
"It's so fuckin' party you will die." Enjoy a thoughtful review of this album from our archives at kexp.org: blog.kexp.org
Baltimore-born, DC-raised Maimouna Youssef (aka Mumu Fresh) is a critically acclaimed Afro-Indigenous singer, Emcee, songwriter, activist, workshop facilitator and audio engineer - a "quadruple threat" according to The Roots' Black Thought.
Visit her official website here: maimounayoussef.com
Mark Potsic, better known by his stage name DJ Nu-Mark, is a member of Jurassic 5 and this is his all-covers album -- right herre with Nelly's smash hit from 2002 -- partnering with Australian funk band The Traffic
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Check out this brief interview with Tom Moulton, legendary producer who remixed "Anxious" - youtu.be
New Year's Evie Dance Party!!
Caroline Polacheck co-founded Chairlift in 2005 -- and she's performed Live in the KEXP Studio multiple times, including a set in May 2023: youtu.be
New Year's Evie dance party!
"And no, when I sing ‘Take your mask off,’ I didn't mean your N95," Lizzo says. "I meant like the mask of the person that you have to uphold when you're out in the world, the mask that protects your true self. Take that off, because we accept you for who you are in this space." -- tinyurl.com
DANCE PARTY
Japanese Breakfast performed this track as part of her Live on KEXP at Home set from 2021: youtu.be
KEXP revisited "Rapture" in our 50 Years of Hip Hop podcast with Larry Mizell Jr:
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New Year's Evie dance party! Thank you to everyone who powers KEXP and joins us every Sunday night!
This song is from German producer Tensnake's debut album. www.tensnake.com
New Year's Evie dance party!
Beat Connection performed this track - Live in the KEXP Studio - in 2015: youtu.be
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