The playlist is built mostly from late-70s and 80s new wave and its neighbors. It moves from early drum-machine synth-pop and electro into a stretch of jangly American college rock, power pop, and a slight hint of ska, and later into moodier post-punk with more reverb. We’re drawing on funk, the downtown New York sound where no wave met disco, and the homemade synthesizer funk and Afrobeat of West Africa. The set ends in jazz-funk and early-'70s electric jazz.
Mostly a mid-century American record collection: Southern soul and R&B out of the Stax and Atlantic orbit, hard bop and organ-driven soul-jazz from the Blue Note era, and the funk that grew out of both. Around that core sit British Invasion pop, Link Wray's tremolo-heavy instrumentals, and a vein of counterculture oddity — Beefheart, the Bonzo Dog Band, the Holy Modal Rounders — that keeps the set from playing as a straight revival.
A seventies set anchored in Philly soul, disco, and jazz-funk... Blue Note and CTI-adjacent instrumentals, string-laden Sigma-sound productions, and extended groove workouts that prize the rhythm section over the hook. Running alongside it is a nervier rock thread of pub rock, early new wave, and CBGB-era punk, plus a handful of ragged blues-rock and singer-songwriter cuts that share the same loose, live-band feel.
The playlist is built mostly from late-70s and 80s new wave and its neighbors. It moves from early drum-machine synth-pop and electro into a stretch of jangly American college rock, power pop, and a slight hint of ska, and later into moodier post-punk with more reverb. We’re drawing on funk, the downtown New York sound where no wave met disco, and the homemade synthesizer funk and Afrobeat of West Africa. The set ends in jazz-funk and early-'70s electric jazz.