Music Saturday (Patreon)

A friend asked me to make an hour-long playlist for him, and I obliged by filling it with the kind of music I love best, music which doesn't really get into my albums of the year lists because it's almost all singles. We're talking very programmed, extremely melodic late-80s/early 90s dance songs. I share it here for the few people who may enjoy it.

I read an interesting interview with Questlove from The Roots where he said, and I paraphrase, that what has vanished from most contemporary popular Black music is the sound of the church. I am not religious but as a teenager, and even now, I find that frisson between the spiritual and secular in music the most exciting sound imaginable - in any genre.

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