For some reason, a couple of mornings ago, I had Planet Inc playing on my iPhone speaker, and forgot all about it while continuing tinkering on a side-project. It was magical. Only when the album …

About ten years ago during Afro heyday, virtually every DJ in Amsterdam carried the down-tempo ‘Normalizo’ of this album. I heard it so often, I couldn’t listen to the South African Letta Mbulu for a …

For today’s recommendation, we go back in time sonically to the early 2010s, when the indie scene was dominated by the subdued, lo-fi sounds of Youth Lagoon, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Mac …

Il Quadro di Troisi is Eva Geist and Denato Dozzy. Two Italian producers with a fine taste; just look at them lounging in the curved couch on the cover of their self-titled debut album (2020). A …

Last few days I’ve been compiling a mix-tape for Amsterdam based music platform ‘Far Blue’. They operate under this quote and I’m gonna shamelessly CTRL-C+CTRL-V the thing in, because it’s beautiful: …

Sometimes, I just want music to be soothing—no weird noises, no dissonance, just beautiful sounds to ease me through. At the same time, I can be quite critical of soothing music: it should not be too …

Now why I love this album so much might be the same reason as why I’m blown away by David Lynch movies; They never fully disclose the situation. There’s just a deep unknown with different …

During Christmas, a dinner at a friend’s place ended in dancing in the kitchen and eventually moving to the club for a long night out. One thing that got us going was the record player in that kitchen …

For this weekend’s pick, we venture all the way out to the land down under. Although Gena Rose Bruce is technically a singer-songwriter, this album has too much grit and schwung to be classified …

Today’s listening is Mr YT (Yuji Takenouchi)’s Brand New Day. The first song, ‘Morning’, is just unbelievable. Such a journey. ’Nite’ is a close second. For both it’s quite hard to put a finger …