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A melomaniac making thoughtful music mixes in a broad range of genres out of San Francisco. Visit wonderings.net for more information about these mixes and more.
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Friday Night Jam! Susumu Yokota was a prolific Japanese electronic artist who made dance music in the 1990s but then made a brilliant series of albums in the 2000s (prior to his death in 2015) of electronic ambient and art music. This song, “Song …
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Friday Night Jam! A 1983 Italo disco track “Livin’ up” from B.W.H., a duo of Stefano Zito and Stefano Galante. I know very little about the genre, but as I’m ending a week in Italy, a song from the genre seemed like a good pick for this week’s FNJ…
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Friday Night Jam! This is a mainstream French dance-pop-rap song “Mélo Décalé”by Tiakola, a French rapper and singer of Congolese origin. Sometimes I can feel like there is a shared international mainstream culture, but I don’t think it’s true of …
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Friday Night Jam! Growing up in a small town in Switzerland but apparently now living in Brussels, Reymour are a synth pop duo who sing in French. This song “Vielle Armoir” (“Old Wardrobe”) is from their 2018 debut and it works better than such a …
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Drawing from the British Isles with contributions from the American avant-garde and some private press discoveries. Most tracks (17 of 24) are from the exquisite 5-year psychedelic golden age of 1967-1972.
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Friday Night Jam! Roland Brival is a French writer and singer born in Martinique. This song (“Tan Jou Mab”) is from his self-released 1980's record Créole Gypsy -- a unique album of Caribbean spiritual jazz. The label that recently re-released it…
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Friday Night Jam! Nearly three decades after their debut album, Sick Buzos, Sevilla’s greatest indie pop band, have today released a new self-titled album, opened by the appropriately-titled “Nuevo Debut.” My FNJ is an utterly gorgeous long slow b…
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Friday Night Jam! A disco inflected pop song called “Khushi” by Nadia Hassan, featured in the 1982 Bollywood film “Star,” about a man who dreams of becoming a pop star.
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Friday Night Jam! Jan Hammer was a Czech-American jazz fusion keyboardist who played in the Mahavishnu Orchestra in the early 70s; released a couple Jan Hammer group albums in the mid-70s; and went on to compose the Miami Vice theme song in the 198…
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A mix exploring hidden corners of early 1980s postpunk and new wave, regional oddities and synth-lit corners of the world outside the mainstream.
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