The Feel Good Initiative: A Source of Inspirational Music and Art
February 2010
January 2010
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Daft Punk meets a classical orchestra (comment now!)
November 2009
October 2009
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8 bits is all the world needs. (comment now!)
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Good track, but worst lyrics ever. (comment now!)
September 2009
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I know it's all over the radio, but I like it (4 comments)
August 2009
July 2009
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From the best chillout collection of all time, a Samsung promo CD from 2003. (comment now!)
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The Beasties are greyhaired now. (comment now!)
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good morning, my dear! (1 comment)
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In 1960 Joe Kittinger flew a balloon to the edge of the atmosphere, 31km above you, and jumped. He spent 5 minutes in blissful freefall, longer than any other human to date. (1 comment)
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there will be no freestyle. the style is not free. the style is expensive. (comment now!)
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a beautiful cacophony if i ever heard one. (comment now!)
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It's a good song. (comment now!)
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She says no, no, no, but I say yeah, yeah, yeah. (1 comment)
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did I ever mention that Faithless is my favorite act? (2 comments)
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Check out Fatboy Slim's new digs. (2 comments)
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from a certain very cool bike video. (1 comment)
June 2009
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You'll like it. At least for a minute. (comment now!)
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some classic Beastie Boys stuff (comment now!)
April 2009
March 2009
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This one deserves to be the next Baby Got Back :) #sxsw (comment now!)
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Ha, back again. Some #SXSW goodness! (comment now!)
January 2009
June 2008
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I love that Flying Lotus stuff! His new album is out June 10th. Guess who's buying it? :) (comment now!)
May 2008
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This one's deep in the jungle. Oh so awesome! (comment now!)
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Write something about the song... (4 comments)
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School is a 16-year long game. I just beat the big boss on the final level. Now back to some quality music! (comment now!)
April 2008
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I should start playing the piano again... (comment now!)
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A decent psycho dance tune. (comment now!)
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This one is a favorite for drum'n'bass covers! (comment now!)
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Great relaxed triphop from my new favorite artist. I liked this so much I went to the store to get the CD. Sadly, they didn't have it. (comment now!)
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Cheers to as for reminding me of Kinnie Star. (comment now!)
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Um, it's raining again. I'd give a finger for a good European vacation. (comment now!)
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A great song sans the electronics (comment now!)
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one of the songs with a bazillion covers. (comment now!)
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Got this from a friend's promo CD. He throws down mean DnB parties, which unfortunately are 5000 miles away. (comment now!)
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Great song for playing table tennis ;) (comment now!)
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The piece I meant to post yesterday. Loved the Beta Band cover (Squares) so here's the original. (comment now!)
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Umm.. I wanted to upload something completely different, but picked this file by accident. White label D'n'B mix of Bob Marley's Could You Be Loved. Enjoy. (comment now!)
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I still can't comprehend why noone stateside has heard of Faithless. One of the greatest electronic bands ever! (comment now!)
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Love the bassy randomness! (pic by banksy) (comment now!)
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Here's another 90s dance classic that most people have never heard. Give it a chance, it's quite catchy! (comment now!)
March 2008
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The most chilled out track ever to grace my channel. You might as well take a nap on this one! (comment now!)
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A beautiful cover of a beautiful Massive Attack track. (comment now!)
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My fav. Orbital piece. Unfortunately the band's broken up now... (3 comments)
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This one is so good my words will only take away from the beauty. (Pic by thrushholmes.com) (2 comments)
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mgPePe, I think we should move offices to somewhere in the Mediterranean, where they play this... (1 comment)
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A slower piece by Apollo 440, of "Stop the Rock" fame. (comment now!)
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My favorite Moby piece as of late. Such a good metaphor. (1 comment)
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The catchy tune from Inner City's Good Life and incomprehensible ragga MCing from South Rakkas. What else could you want? (comment now!)
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Authentic drum and bass by Roni Size's crew. I love it because it's made with real drums and a real bass and hardly any electronics. (comment now!)
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Pink Floyd is one of those bands that everyone knows about but no one pays attention to anymore. Here's my favorite piece. It's 22 minutes long, so pour a glass of wine (or coffee, if you are at work) and relax. (comment now!)
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This one was promised a few days ago but I never got around to posting it. (1 comment)
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One of the great remixes from the Verve collections. Not that Billie Holiday needs to be remixed... (1 comment)
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RIP Arthur Clarke! The man that fueled my love for science fiction. (comment now!)
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Something a little more danceable. Fit for a launch! :) (2 comments)
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I don't even remember how I get that CD, but the title (Dial M for Monkey) was catch enough. Good thing I didn't pass on it back in the day. For more stuff like that, check Ninja Tunes. (7 comments)
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Westbam were big on the European club scene in the 90s, but their album stuff is very different from what most people know. (comment now!)
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Up until I was 9, my father's CDs were all I had to listen to around the house. This one is from my favorite record, Vangelis's Direct album. (comment now!)
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Great cover of a Zimbabwean song by Louis Armstrong. Listen to that trumpet! (comment now!)
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Kids, you keep posting the new Daft Punk stuff, but you should know it all started with this... (comment now!)
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Acoustic raggae. Sizzlah has some much harder stuff, like riddim, jungle, etc., if you are into that. (5 comments)
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I heard this one on a chillout radio back home and fell in love with it. I didn't know who played it, so I kept pestering friends for help until I found somebody who listened to Zuco 103. Treasure it! (comment now!)
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We covered Paris, now here's London. This is the first song from the first Hotel Costes CD I ever bought! (comment now!)
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Sometimes I type a random word in iTunes's search box and listen to the music that comes up. Here's something for "paris". (comment now!)
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I'm taking a long bus trip today, but I have lost my headphones, so it's 5 hours of engine noise instead of this: (3 comments)
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Another amazing track by Jorge Ben. I should visit Brazil some day... A boa iniciativa? (comment now!)
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The Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor's one man band, has released a new four-part album, called Ghosts, full of beautiful, eerie instrumentals. In a rather smart move, they openly made the first of four parts available for free on BitTorrent. If you like it, you can buy the whole album for as low as $5 directly from the artist (all money goes to NIN, not the labels). (comment now!)
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The most common graffiti in my grade school was FUNKDOOBIEST. Being the rather clueless 8-year old that mostly listened to his father's Pink Floyd CDs, I had no idea what that meant. Turns out it's some decent old skool rap.
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A new Madonna/Justin Timberlake/Timbaland single got leaked on the web, but it's so bad that I won't even link to it. Madonna is amazing on her own, but she's no good when she tries to play with the young kids. I wrote about one hit wonders a few days ago and here's a second-hit from Berlin (of Take My Breath Away fame). ‘Tis pretty good.
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I hadn't seen Maya in four years. She had changed a lot. Moved to Germany. No longer a teenager. No longer wearing her hair short. She said she also started listening to drug addict music. I asked her to clarify and she said 'stuff like RJD2′.
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So Deep Dish and Josh Wink were playing back to back for 7 hours in Boston last night. Me? I went for the chill option with gems like this one.
(comment now!)February 2008
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Happy Leap Day! Big things are brewing at The Feel Good Initiative and those extra 24 hours give us time to churn out more space-age goodness. Watch the site in the next week, because you're gonna want to tell your mom about it.
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We missed it, but February 21st was Nina Simone's birthday. She would have been 75. Her voice is unmatched in jazz and I'd say unmatched in music in general. Because of the special occasion you get two songs. Sing, Nina! (comment now!)
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I'm afraid mgPePe has made a mistake. Here's a song that actually goes Pa Ra Pam Pam Param.
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Close your eyes. Think about a place you'd rather be. Like the Mediterranean seacoast. Dip your toes in the water foam. Play.
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Nothing better than an energetic song to get the week started. So much soul it hurts!
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Continuing with the worst music of the last century (and mgPePe using the site to thank people so they can buy him drinks next time…), here's a 90's one hit wonder (trust me, I've listened to their other stuff).
[update: turns out andr doesn't know mgPePe doesn't drink, so he doesn't really know what he's talking about. But the song indeed is…tough…]
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Something I've been playing a lot in the last few days. It's a really simple song, but the bass line is so catchy. The first time I heard it http://www.discobelle.net/2006/12/15/mixin-it-up-motion-44/">here I had to go back and replay it quite a few times.
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The weather here in Boston was just starting to get good in the last few days, but today I woke up to snow, again. Not unexpected, as it once snowed in May, but I'd be really grateful for a few sunny days.
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Lately I've been writing up the posts for The Feel Good late at night, which, as you might have noticed, results in nonsensical babbling. I'll shut up today. Here's the music:
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A week of Ratatat-lessness is too long, so they are back. They already showed they can do instrumentals and hip hop remixes, so now they are taking on a Bjork song. Needless to say, Bjork's music, being border-line IDM, is quite hard to remix, but Ratatat do it beatifully.
PS Turns out the act's name comes from an LSD-induced hallucination of tap-dancing rats. Who would've thought.
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Rarely can a song tell a story straight, without resorting to wild symbols and metaphors, and still make it exciting. This one not only has a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ode_to_Billie_Joe">famous and twistful story, but also great soulful music that plays quite nicely to the plot line.
PS I first heard this track in http://www.newmixes.com/david_holmes-essential_mix-sat-06-15-1997.html">David Holmes' 1997 Essential Mix on BBC Radio 1, which is quite the masterpiece for soul music lovers.
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Having a case of the Mondays? Here's some chill electronica to get you going. Check the http://architectureinhelsinki.com/">Architecture's web site. Not only is the music good, but the graphics are quite clever.
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Jungle and drum'n'bass are two genres I am quite fond of, but I understand they are too heavy for most people. So I'm testing the waters with this next track. If you like it more will come.
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Good jazzy tune. The sax reminds me of a classical piece, but I can't quite place it. Check Stefsax' http://ccmixter.org/media/people/stefsax">page for more Creative Commons goodness.
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This one comes from an unlikely source - a bunch of upperclassmen from my high school. Their band was quite the hot thing when I was a junior and a senior. They even released an album (Garden Party), but unfortunately the band members spread around the world and nothing has been recorded after 2003. Here's hoping for a 2013 Outbreak reunion!
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You've all heard this song before. But the upbeat house version that everyone knows about is just the radio edit. Here's the original King of My Castle - quite downtempo, with beautiful vocals.
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I don't know what Pepe was on about, as NTM's song is in English, but here's a nice vraiment française gem, as suggested by Moroccan carpenter S. R. The song's good fun, but check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bybKftoefsw">the clip. There's a dancing hair dryer. I don't get it.
Yelle is http://www.knittingfactory.com/">playing in NYC on the 19th. Go take a look-see.
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A few years ago I was listening to some Brazilian drum and bass (http://www.google.com/search?q=sambassim">Sambassim) and my father wondered why I was liking music I couldn't understand the lyrics to. I still don't know Portuguese, so I'm not sure what's so xica about Silva, but it's a great song nevertheless.
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I listen to this song and all I can think of are square-dancing West Coast yuppies. Great cover of Young Folks (probably the most popular non-mainstream song of 2007). The banjo in the background brings the whole thing together.
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It's funny Pepe mentioned Ratatat, as I recently found a mixtape of theirs with their instrumentals on some hip hop. The whole mixtape is http://ratatatmusic.com/news.html">a free download and here's one of the mixes. Those guys could be the next Neptunes.
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I just came back from a Roger Sanchez party in Boston. After having heard him live, my DJ wishlist is complete. I have now seen Armin van Buuren, Paul Oakenfold, Tiesto, David Guetta, Bad Boy Bill, Hernan Cattaneo, Victor Calderone, and Erick Morillo. The best DJ overall? Tiesto. The best moment? When Erick Morillo span this in Sofia last summer:
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Welcome to The Feel Good Initiative! For starters, here's a namesake song. A cover by Skye Edwards, Morcheeba's ex-lead.
<p>PS I'm a sucker for Gorillaz/Gnarls Barkley covers, so you'll need to hear this one, too.</p> (1 comment)
