9 in 1 (54)

This'll be the last 9 in 1 in 2025, I reckon. Better pack it with cutting-edge tracks and not a load of sad bangers from the 1980s... who am I kidding!

John Martyn - Please Fall in Love with Me

John Martyn is one of those artists that I've heard lots of interesting things about, no more so than this recounting of a festival dedicated to his music in The Fence. Yet I've never got around to listening to some.

Well, readers, that changed recently, with this beautiful, dreamy song from 1981.

Give it a minute, and it'll swallow you.

Percy Pavilion - Gower Power

Similar era and feel, but very different tone now. This is a homage to David Gower, the stylish left-handed batsman who was in his pomp in 1984 when this came out, and not that delightful peninsula to the west of Swansea.

Electronic - Getting Away With It

Ah, yes, the track that I always think is PSB or New Order and never 'Electronic'. Dipped into the 90s with this one, don't worry, normal service will resume shortly.

Charanjit Singh - Raga Bhairav

From an album called 'Synthesizing: Ten Ragas To A Disco Beat' from 1982, it's like if Black Devil Disco Club hailed from Pune rather than Paris. Heady chug from before chug was a thing.

Womack & Womack - Teardrops

Still not leaving the 80s. I swear I've posted this before, I've got a 'Womack + Womack' tag, but it's empty?? Also, 116m views on YouTube for Teardrops; you simply can't argue with numbers like that.

Richard X - Finest Dreams feat. Kelis

Fine, we'll go to the 21st century. 2003 is the best I can do. Somehow never posted about Kelis before, that's mad. 

Parliament - Flashlight

I've got Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker out of Llantwit Major Library ATM, and the chapter on Moog talks about this funk banger, so here it is, just like that.

Thundercat - Fair Chance (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B)

It is what it is, and it was what it was.

And look at that, we're in the 2020s. Be good to finish on something from this year, right?

Clipse - P.O.V. feat. Tyler, The Creator

Oh shit, waddup! Top video this. Is this Unc Rap? TBH, I only really know Grindin' by Clipse, but this measured flow sounds so much better than your mumblers... and *poof* we all become Uncs.

Original image: Musée Saint-Raymond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons