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Quarentita

Esta primeira foi publicada a 13 de Março e funcionou como kick-start para o que aí viria, definitivamente um prenúncio do meu (a)variado gosto musical, que saltita do funk para a chanson, que nunca viu fronteiras entre a soul e a electrónica, que começa com a pequenina Monáe convidando o grande Wilson para as harmonias e encerra com o Erasmo Carlos a pedir para “cortar os grilos”. Eu sempre fui assim e por este andar acredito que a coisa não irá mudar.

Esta Quarentita deu o mote para a limitação de 40 temas, à parte desse numero parecer ser familiar ao petit dirty mot do momento “quarentena”, nada mais significa, é inventado e por aí fica, nesse limbo existencialista, um nome sem acepção mas que assim acaba por comunicar o seu sentido.

Uma selecção pejada de remixes e re-edits, covers e standards do cancioneiro pop que a rádio parece querer esquecer a todo o custo.

Protagonizada por ingleses que gostariam de ter outra cor de pele, japoneses a pensar que são turistas de férias na soalheira west coast americana, produtores de House music regurgitando os blues enquanto músicos com ligações ao jazz robotizam uma surf music mutante. Músicas desenhadas para a passarela, outras para serem gozadas no boudoir…

Mas afinal não é essa exactamente a maior magia da pop, uma enorme e lânguida catarse que aristotélicamente nos arrasta para longínquas paragens em que descansamos a alma mesmo quando os membros inferiores insistem em prosseguir o pé-de-dança?

Saltem, girem, shake yer’ booty mas pensem nisso durante o fim de semana.

#staysafe #musicfortheweekend

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This first one was published on the 13th of March, the kick-start for what was yet to come, definitely a harbinger of my well (de)ranged musical taste, which skips from funk to chanson, who never saw frontiers between soul and electronica, which starts with a tiny Monáe inviting the grand Wilson to do harmonies and ends with Erasmo Carlos pleading to “cut the crickets”. I have always been like this and I believe that it’s now too late for things to change.

A selection full of remixes and re-edits, covers and standards from the pop songbook that the radio seems to want to forget at all costs.

Starred by Englishmen who would like to have a different skin color, Japanese who think they are vacationing on the sunny American west coast, House music producers regurgitating the blues while musicians with jazz connections robotize a mutant surf music. Songs designed for the catwalk, others to be enjoyed in the boudoir …

But after all, isn’t that exactly the greatest magic of pop, a huge and languid catharsis that aristotelically drags us to distant places where we rest our souls even when the lower limbs insist in keep on dancing?

Jump, spin, shake yer ’booty but think about it over the weekend.

#staysafe #musicfortheweekend

Janelle Monáe – Dirty Computer (feat. Brian Wilson)

Doris Day – Secret Love

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Messages

David Bowie – Oddity (V’s Disco Space Walk jam)

Wagon Christ – Ain’t He Heavy, He’s My Brother

Nicolas Jaar – Can’t See What Is Burning There

The Brand New Heavies – Keep On Shining

Wrecking Crew – Chance To Dance

Sunner Soul – Bass Stop

Club des Belugas – What Is Jazz

Justin Faust – Girl Talk (Herr Styler Remix)

Yam Who? – Baby

The Bird and the Bee – You’re a Cad

Applause – All About You

Lilly Wood & the Prick – L.E.S artistes

KWEEN – The Beat of my Heart (V’s Cool Cat Seaside Walk edit)

Sarah Vaughan – Whatever Lola Wants (Lola Gets)

Jackie Wilson – Love Uprising

Arthur Verocai – Presente Grego

Bruce Springsteen – Secret Garden (Cristoff Remix)

Mecano – La Fuerza del Destino (Rayko Mighty Gargamel Edit)

Ruby & The Romantics – Our Day Will Come

Voodoo Whiskey – Mellowrell

St Germain – Real Blues (DJ Deep And Romain Poncet remix)

Evinha – Esperar pra Ver

Toshio Matsuura Group – I Am the Black Gold of the Sun

Harry Hosono and the Yellow Magic Band – Femme Fatale ファム·ファタール～妖婦

Guy Cuevas – Ebony Game

Gil Scott-Heron – When You Are Who You Are

KV5 feat Nicky Taylor – Church Candles

Harvey Sutherland – Old Wars

Jon Dixon, Marcus Belgrave – Wise Words

Prince and Metro Area – Erotic Candy (JC Williams edit)

Stratosferic Band – Nowhere (Original 1977 Version)

Bill Evans – Prisoner Of My Weakness (Joey Negro Edit)

Marcel Vogel & Khalil Anthony – Brown Curls (Nebraska Remix)

Tatsuro Yamashita – Yellow Cab

Kleeer – Tonight

Steve Beresford & Anne Marie Beretta – Comfortable Gestures

Erasmo Carlos – Grilos