The playlists just keep coming. I accumulated a good amount of funky jazz + adjacent jams and thought to string them together into a cinematic thriller; reminding me of fictional spy movies from the 50s and 60s, full of music from Brazil, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland, Syria, France and more. Slinky basslines, whipping guitars, fat drums, big horns, whirlwind mellotron and psychedelic breakdowns. This one is lots of fun and I can’t wait to go driving with it blasting.
Picture a worldwide syndicate of spies intercepting a rare jewel from an armored truck on the hottest day of the year. Full of zoom-in close-up profiles of characters named “Claude ‘The Spider’ Margolis” or “Sasha ‘Fire & Water’ Eastman”. I don’t know. Just making things up. Trying to use my imagination. I’m thinking of Sly Cooper 2 a lot as well. It always goes back to video games with me, specifically ones from 2001-2008. Anyways, full tracklist and playlist below.
HEIST ON THE HIGHWAY PLAYLIST HERE
- David Axelrod – “Merlin’s Prophecy”
- Chico Hamilton – “Conquistadores”
- The Invaders – “Spacing Out”
- Arthur Verocai – “Na boca do sol”
- Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Marcos Valle – “A Gente Volta Amanhã”
- Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas – “Martin 5000”
- Klaus Johann Grobe – “Out Of Reach”
- Lizzy Mercier Descloux – “Funky Stuff”
- Gloria Ann Taylor – “Love Is A Hurtin’ Thing (7″ Single Version)”
- Hailu Mergia & The Walias – “Yikirta Lemminalehu”
- Bobby Hutcherson – “NTU”
- Badge Époque Ensemble – “Unity (It’s Up To You)”
- U.S. Girls – “Navy & Cream”
- Lucio Battisi – “Due mondi”
- Jean-Claude Vannier – “La horse”
- TootArd – “Kiss”
- Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange – “Elliot”
- Janko Nilovic – “Crazy Enterprise”
- Stefano Torossi – “Running fast”
- Kassa Overall – “Sleeping On The Train”
- Guido & Maurizio – “Goodbye My Friend”
- Kit Sebastian – “Pangea”
- Kahil El’Zabar – “Sketches Of An Afro Blue”
- Sonny Sharrock – “Little Rock”
- The Diddys & Paige Douglas – “My Special Love”
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