{"id":3205,"date":"2019-05-31T00:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2022-04-29T13:59:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:59:01","slug":"music-mania-may-2019-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beatzo.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/music-mania-may-2019-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music-Mania May 2019 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Olivia Wilde&#8217;s directorial debut <em>Booksmart <\/em>has a soundtrack to be proud of. Music hand-picked by Olivia and Dan The Automator, featuring the likes of Alanis Morrissette, Sofi Tukker, LCD Soundsystem, and Perfume Genius. But the one track that blew my mind was a song by Fata Boom, called &#8216;Double Rum Cola&#8217;. You see, it features a sample from a very, very familiar song from this 90s Indian boy&#8217;s childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Double Rum Cola -  Fata Boom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MD1SXnMsVzc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The song plays in an insane slow-mo last-day-of-high-school sequence, which is perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You <em>gotta <\/em>go watch Booksmart. It&#8217;s phenomenal, and not just because of the music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">I heard a song while having dinner in an Indian restaurant in Toronto. It&#8217;s surprising I paid attention to it because I was in wonderful company and the conversation was sublime. But the melody felt&#8230;familiar. It&#8217;s an infuriating feeling to not recognize a song immediately, and I knew that later, it would come back to haunt me. So I switched on Soundhound, and the track that showed up was something I had never heard before. It was called &#8216;I Wanna Know&#8217;, by NOTD, featuring Bea Miller on vocals. Decent 6-out-of-10 summer dance track, but I could not understand why it felt so familiar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NOTD, Bea Miller - I Wanna Know\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dP-zZnptsI8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was only later, after I had hummed the main verse a few times, that I realized I had heard it after all. Well, not the original, but the version that appears on Ark Patrol&#8217;s &#8216;Entropy&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Entropy\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wcraUV6cGOk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I came across the music of Ark Patrol by pure happenstance earlier this year, when he released his first full-length album. It&#8217;s one of the best downtempo\/chill LPs I have heard in 2019, and has been on repeat for the better part of the last quarter. The way he samples Bea Miller&#8217;s vocals for &#8216;Entropy&#8217; is magical; the voice lowers an octave, the refrain becomes a plaintive wail, the beats and drone slither hypnotically. Electronic music at its finest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The sheer joy of Michel Gondry&#8217;s video for the Chemical Brothers song &#8216;Gotta Keep On&#8217; keeps on making me high. (hyuk!) But Gondry being Gondry, I love the turn the visuals take towards the middle. Just the subtle tweaking of reality that modern-day CGI brings to the director&#8217;s toolbox. MG,  most known for directing <em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>, was the director of choice for some of Bjork&#8217;s greatest songs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chemical Brothers - Got To Keep On (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSYwtllbweY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bonus: Michel Gondry&#8217;s video for Metronomy&#8217;s &#8216;Love Letters&#8217; (2014)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metronomy - Love Letters (Official Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/riEBi8BJ9Tw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia Wilde&#8217;s directorial debut Booksmart has a soundtrack to be proud of. 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