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Dusky slow burn / soft ignitionLive booth noteJun 4, 202610:04 AM

Strange Euphoria is the thesis, and New Feeling, Pulled Up is the answer waiting on deck.

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. New Feeling, Pulled Up is already changing how the current record reads.

Record in focus
Strange Euphoria
Heart
Greatest Hits / Live · 1980 · Rock
Lineup note
Strange Euphoria into New Feeling, Pulled Up

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context
Greatest Hits / Live · 1980

Hearing it against Greatest Hits / Live matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Strange Euphoria by Heart off Greatest Hits / Live (1980) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Heart, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for
What to catch in the arrangement

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) instead of crowding the next move.

HeartTalking HeadsSergei RachmaninoffRockClassicalSoul, Funk, R&Bdusky slow burn / soft ignitionblue hoursoft ignitionRock
Session map
3 stored song notes
01now
Strange Euphoria
Heart
Why it fits

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Greatest Hits / Live matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Strange Euphoria by Heart off Greatest Hits / Live (1980) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Heart, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) instead of crowding the next move.

02next
New Feeling, Pulled Up
Talking Heads
Why it fits

New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) lifts the pressure after Strange Euphoria by Heart off Greatest Hits / Live (1980) without snapping the thread. Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves All-Night Vigil, Op. 37: Vespers: Iii. Blessed Is the Man by Sergei Rachmaninoff off All-Night Vigil (2005) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With Talking Heads, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to All-Night Vigil, Op. 37: Vespers: Iii. Blessed Is the Man by Sergei Rachmaninoff off All-Night Vigil (2005) instead of crowding the next move.

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All-Night Vigil, Op. 37: Vespers: Iii. Blessed Is the Man
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Why it fits

All-Night Vigil, Op. 37: Vespers: Iii. Blessed Is the Man by Sergei Rachmaninoff off All-Night Vigil (2005) stays related to New Feeling, Pulled Up by Talking Heads off Boarding House San Francisco Ca. September 16, 1978 (Doxy Collection, Remastered, Live on Ksan) (2015) through classical, but changes the pocket enough to matter. Reach for it when the sequence needs a record that can keep moving and still leave detail behind.

Track context

Hearing it against All-Night Vigil matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Blessed Is the Man by Sergei Rachmaninoff off All-Night Vigil (2005) earns its place when the turn needs shape, contrast, and enough detail to keep the next move honest. On All-Night Vigil (2005), it reads as part of a larger album world instead of a stray file in the crate. Hearing it against All-Night Vigil matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single.

Listen for

Listen for the point where the record suddenly feels larger than the speakers and starts changing the shape of the room.

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We're still riding that line from Inner City Blues, so let's keep the emotional pressure steady and let Miles Davis take us a bit further into the night.

Dusky slow burn / radiant shoulder rollLive booth noteJun 3, 20268:15 PM

Dancing In The Moonlight is the thesis, and You is the answer waiting on deck.

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in. You is already changing how the current record reads.

Record in focus
Dancing In The Moonlight
King Harvest
Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty · 1993 · Rock
Lineup note
Dancing In The Moonlight into You

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context
Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty · 1993

Hearing it against Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Dancing In The Moonlight by King Harvest off Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty (1993) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With King Harvest, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for
What to catch in the arrangement

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) instead of crowding the next move.

King HarvestMarvin GayeB.B. KingRockR&BBluesdusky slow burn / radiant shoulder-rollgolden afternoonradiant shoulder-rollRock
Session map
3 stored song notes
01now
Dancing In The Moonlight
King Harvest
Why it fits

Reach for it when the turn needs shape, attack, and a record that can define the next move in just a few bars. It leaves You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. Dancing In The Moonlight by King Harvest off Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty (1993) carries the feel of a band in a room rather than a mood-board tag, and that physicality matters in a sequence. With King Harvest, the attraction is often attack and arrangement economy: what the band can say quickly and physically. The record earns its place through how the arrangement opens and tightens rather than through sheer mass.

Listen for

Listen for where the arrangement opens wider than the first impression suggests, especially when the rhythm section changes the floor under the lead. Notice how it hands the weight to You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) instead of crowding the next move.

02next
You
Marvin Gaye
Why it fits

You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) cools the temperature after Dancing In The Moonlight by King Harvest off Sounds Of The Seventies - AM Top Twenty (1993) and lets the turn breathe. You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) earns its place when the turn needs shape, contrast, and enough detail to keep the next move honest. It leaves The Thrill Is Gone by B.B. King off The Ultimate Collection (2005) a clean lane instead of boxing the handoff in.

Track context

Hearing it against Super Hits matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) earns its place when the turn needs shape, contrast, and enough detail to keep the next move honest. On Super Hits (1970), it reads as part of a larger album world instead of a stray file in the crate. Hearing it against Super Hits matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single.

Listen for

Listen for the point where the record suddenly feels larger than the speakers and starts changing the shape of the room. Notice how it hands the weight to The Thrill Is Gone by B.B. King off The Ultimate Collection (2005) instead of crowding the next move.

03later
The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King
Why it fits

The Thrill Is Gone by B.B. King off The Ultimate Collection (2005) lifts the pressure after You by Marvin Gaye off Super Hits (1970) without snapping the thread. Reach for it when the sequence needs a record that can keep moving and still leave detail behind.

Track context

Hearing it against The Ultimate Collection matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single. King off The Ultimate Collection (2005) earns its place when the turn needs shape, contrast, and enough detail to keep the next move honest. On The Ultimate Collection (2005), it reads as part of a larger album world instead of a stray file in the crate. Hearing it against The Ultimate Collection matters because it reads like part of an album world, not a detached single.

Listen for

Listen for the point where the record suddenly feels larger than the speakers and starts changing the shape of the room.

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We're building on that classical edge with something that's got a little more of that warm low-end pull — The White Stripes, 'I Want To Be The Boy To Warm Your Mother's Heart.'