Robert DeLong - Happy

You come here you don't need an occasion
Just an ill-advised itching for the conversation
Got a good sub going, got a good vibration
Getting mixed results from mixing strong libation
 

A Seattle child like us, DeLong moved on to L.A. to ply his trade and hone his sound of singer/songwriter meets electronica. His version of "experimental dance" didn't hit my ears until his third album released in 2015, and specifically the track "Don't Wait Up". For today's MIS, I mined back to his debut album. I love the echoing vocals, the slow, methodic wall of sound that crashes in on you, the almost whistling keys, the trailing piano. "Happy" is definitely a repeatable track and good for building a mood. Let's build up a happy mood for this week, shall we?

RIYL: Big Data, Joywave, Max Frost, Miike Snow

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Petit Biscuit - Sunset Lover

You know how far I'm prepared to go
I will be a boat and row
Your beauty to the moon
If that's okay with you

I hadn't come across anything by Frenchman Petit Biscuit (aka Mehdi Benjelloun) in quite a while, til last month when new single "Gravitation" came out. But rather than posting that to the playlist, I feel like celebrating his brake-out hit: the wonderful, dreamy, happy "Sunset Lover" produced alone in his room at age 16. I think it's perfect for a warm, sunny autumn Sunday.

RIYL: filous, Flume, Nick Murphy, Tep No, RAC

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Helado Negro - Come Be Me

You and me can make it forever
I can call you up
And you can say my name
Cuz I been talking about you to everyone
So they know
You're fine

Helado Negro is one of the many monikers for Roberto Carlos Lange, a tropical-electronic producer out of Brooklyn (via south Florida, from Ecuadorian parents), and more of a collaborative effort for the label Asthmatic Kitty. Digging around his discography doesn't disappoint - a lot of mellow grooves, some more energetic, all fairly interesting, some quite moving and speaking to his experience as a POC in the US. I love this latest single for it's end-of-summer dreaminess. 

RIYL: El Guincho, Cineplexx, CLUBZ

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