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"The Drop with Danno" on GFN 광주영어방송 98.7FM in Gwangju & 93.7FM in Yeosu, Korea. An eclectic radio curation of all things musical spanning the spectrum every week. Broadcasting 8-10pm KST nightly.
Sampled & AMPED with Dan Lloyd
10.26.2023
Sampled Funk & Soul
Part 1
Quantic feat Connie Constance – Get In The Ride
Kraak & Smaak feat IVAR & Berenice Van Leer – Naked (Jitwam remix)
Maiiah & The Angels of Libra – Please Come Home
Sir Romy – Beauty
Fela Kuti – Stalemate (edit)
Part 2
Devon Gilfillian – Love You Anyway (stripped)
Terrace Martin & Alex Isley – Glad I Found You
Kendra Morris – Fine Right Here
Dayme Arocena feat Rafa Pabon – Suave y Pegao
JNTHN STEIN feat Lyves – Higher Places
Amanda Whiting – Discarded (Scrimshire remix)
AMPED with Dan Lloyd
Part 3
Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me
Idles – Dancer (ft. LCD Soundsystem)
Taking Back Sunday – S’Old
Crime in Stereo – Goliathette
Duran Duran – Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)
Carpool Tunnel – Everything Will Change
Part 4
DragonForce – Power of the Triforce
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Set
Joystick – Boxes
Letters to Cleo – Bad Man
Feeder – Playing With Fire
Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain
Sampled Funk & Soul
Part 1
Quantic feat Connie Constance – Get In The Ride
- As discussed previously, UK multi-instrumentalist and general do-it-all man of action Will Holland is set to release the Dancing While Falling LP in a couple weeks’ time on November 10.
- We’d previously aired a couple of singles thus far, and this is presumably the third and final joint before the album drops.
- This would be Holland’s 25th album overall, although not all were under the Quantic and Quantic Soul Orchestra, as the artist also records under the Flowering Inferno and Ondatropica, amongst others.
Kraak & Smaak feat IVAR & Berenice Van Leer – Naked (Jitwam remix)
- Now, despite the moniker, this is in fact a trio so it’s more like Snaap Kraak & Smaak, and they hail from the Netherlands.
- Jitwam did the reinterpretation biz right here and although the artist now plies the trade in Brooklyn, Jitwam originally hails from Assam in NE India. Very good artist, we’d encourage you to check out Jitwam’s solo work as well.
Maiiah & The Angels of Libra – Please Come Home
- This is from a new, self-titled album that just dropped last Friday, the band’s professional debut so congrats to all involved there.
- Per the bio on bandcamp, The Angels Of Libra are a 10-piece soul outfit from Hamburg with a high affinity to analog recording techniques, 60s soul revue concepts and film scores remeniscent of Ennio Morricone, Khruangbin & Air.
Sir Romy – Beauty
- This is a new single from this artist, presumably out of France.
- Per the bio, the artist is inspired by the blues and soul of yesterday and today (Beth Hart, Amy Winehouse, Leon Bridges) motivated by the new generations of hip-hop, neo-soul artists (Mereba, Little Simz) and convinced that good music is not a question of time.
Fela Kuti – Stalemate (edit)
- This tune just got the edit treatment and reissue a couple of weeks ago, and is the title track to Fela’s 1977 album.
- The song itself refers to the tug of war between the masses and the government and begins with Fela speak-singing over a mellow Afrobeat groove.
Part 2
Devon Gilfillian – Love You Anyway (stripped)
- We’ve been talking about the Nashville-based artist out of Philly seemingly non-stop this year, and for good reason as the album and tour have both been amazing successes.
- This is a new version of the title track to said album, Love You Anyway, with a little stripped back treatment to simplify and show the raw beauty of this tremendous song.
Terrace Martin & Alex Isley – Glad I Found You
- You could make a very forceful argument that LA-based Terrace Martin has been the most prolific man in music this year, having already put out several albums up to this point in time and starting an in-house label to boot in the process.
- Now, we have a new collab LP from Martin, here teaming up with Ernie Isley’s very talented daughter Alex on a collab album called I Left My Heart in Ladera, available everywhere now.
Kendra Morris – Fine Right Here
- So, are you having problems getting over Kendra Morris’ latest album I Am What I’m Waiting For, because we certainly are.
- Cannot recommend highly enough if you are not so initiated, and be cautious, it is addictive stuff.
Dayme Arocena feat Rafa Pabon – Suave y Pegao
- This is the latest release from Gilles Peterson’s label Brownswood, and seeing a little trans-Caribbean love right here as Afro Cuban star Dayme Arocena teams up with Puerto Rican urbano star Rafa Pabon.
- Arocena said the music came in a dream after realizing that reggaeton artists are also into rhumba, noting that they come from the same matrix.
JNTHN STEIN feat Lyves – Higher Places
- For those unfamiliar, the main artist here is French-American classically trained do-it-all Charles Jacques, who dropped becoming an orchestral arranger to become a beatmaker after attending Berkeley and the Manhattan school of music.
- Here, the artist who you cannot brand teams up with Italian-British singer-songwriter Lyves, t/n Francesca Bergami, whose solo work we very highly recommend.
Amanda Whiting – Discarded (Scrimshire remix)
- For those that missed it last year, Whiting released a gorgeous album called Lost In Abstraction.
- November 17 will see a new remixes album drop of the album, and this joint was done by Adam Scrimshire, who’s the head of the label dropping the remixes LP, Albert’s Favorites.
Part 3 & 4 – AMPED with Dan Lloyd
Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me
Idles – Dancer (ft. LCD Soundsystem)
Taking Back Sunday – S’Old
Crime in Stereo – Goliathette
Duran Duran – Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)
Carpool Tunnel – Everything Will Change
DragonForce – Power of the Triforce
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Set
Joystick – Boxes
Letters to Cleo – Bad Man
Feeder – Playing With Fire
Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain
Green Day – The American Dream Is Killing Me
Green Day have unveiled a new song called “The American Dream Is Killing Me.” It serves as the first single off the band’s upcoming album, Saviors, which is set for release on January 19th, 2024.
As you might expect, the band’s new single gives Billie Joe Armstrong the opportunity to air out his political frustrations — to the tune of a pop punk melody, of course. “Send out an SOS/ It’s getting serious/ Bulldoze your family home/ Now it’s a condo,” he sings, over a back-and-forth riff. Despite its pop structure, it’s a pretty brutal singalong: “Kiss me, I’m dead inside,” Armstrong quips. “Who needs suicide?”
Saviors follows the band’s 2020 LP Father of All Motherfuckers. The new album was recorded in London and Los Angeles with Rob Cavallo, who previously produced albums including Dookie and American Idiot.
Idles – Dancer (ft. LCD Soundsystem)
IDLES have announced a new album, TANGK, their follow-up to 2021’s CRAWLER. The album was co-produced by Nigel Godrich, Kenny Beats (who also worked on CRAWLER), and the band’s own Mark Bowen. Here’s what frontman Joe Talbot had to say about the LP: “TANGK. I needed love. So I made it. I gave love out to the world and it feels like magic. This is our album of gratitude and power. All love songs. All is love.”
Today, they’re sharing its lead single “Dancer,” which features backing vocals from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang. Talbot says the song “is the violence that comes from the pounding heart of the dancefloor and rushes through your body and gives you life from music, from love and from you.”
Taking Back Sunday – S’Old
Taking Back Sunday have a new albumout this week, 152, marking the band’s first studio full-length in seven years.
Spanning 10 tracks, 152 was produced by Tushar Apte and mixed by Neal Avron. In a statement, the band said, “Our hope is that you’re able to find a little bit of yourself in this new collection of songs, because you’re not alone, and neither are we.”
“You would think after 20 years, we knew what each other is going to do,” said lead vocalist Adam Lazzara. “But there were so many times making this record where I heard the initial idea and thought I knew where it would go, but then I was super surprised.” Drummer Mark O’Connell added, “When we’re writing songs, the one thing we ask ourselves [is], ‘Is it capable of making people feel something?’ You try to make people feel emotion. That’s the one goal we went in with, and we think we did it.”
Crime in Stereo – Goliathette
Last month Crime In Stereo announced their first new record in the 13 years, House & Trance. The album is set for release on 27th October 2023 via Pure Noise Records.
Following on from singles "Hypernormalisation", "Books Cannot Be Killed By Fire" and "Rogue Wave" the band have released their fourth offering from the album, "Goliathette".
Duran Duran – Psycho Killer (Talking Heads cover)
Duran Duran have shared another preview of their upcoming Halloween-themed album Danse Macabre. It’s a cover of Talking Heads’ de facto spooky anthem “Psycho Killer,” with an assist from Victoria De Angelis of Måneskin.
In a press release, De Angelis said that Talking Heads’ Tina Weymouth was one of her biggest influences when she began playing bass. Meanwhile, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor lauded De Angelis as “probably the most important electric bassist out there right now.” He recalled: He continued: “I met a couple of the guys from Måneskin at a party and they said, ‘you’ve got to meet our bass player.’ She’s such a dynamo! I was like ‘what inspired you?’ and Vic said, ‘Tina Weymouth.’ So when Psycho Killer made the cut for the album, I thought, ‘I’m gonna ask her if she’d like to have a bass-off!’”
“I then got a call from John months later saying he was working on a cover of ‘Psycho Killer’, and he wanted to ask me first about playing on it. It was insane being asked by one of the greatest bass players ever to play one of my favorite songs with Duran Duran. Absolutely insane. I’m so grateful and honoured, it was so much fun recording together with John and he was so sweet to me and encouraged me to express myself and play it my own way. I’ll always remember that day.”
While it’s hard to top David Byrne’s original “Psycho Killer,” Duran Duran and De Angelis give the tune a glam-rock inspired spin while staying faithful to its creators.
Carpool Tunnel – Everything Will Change
2nd album Don’t Let Them Pass You By came out last week. Carpool Tunnel is a band from the Bay Area whose sound mixes elements of classic and psychedelic rock with a bit of modern indie rock and surf. Not entirely dissimilar to early Vampire Weekend. This was one of the better new tracks I heard this week, really like the vocal harmonies.
DragonForce – Power of the Triforce
DragonForce have announced their eighth studio album, Warp Speed Warriors, out March 15th via Napalm Records. The power metallers have also offered up the music video for the new single “Power of the Triforce,” inspired by The Legend of Zelda video-game franchise.
The band’s regal heavy metal goes hand in hand with storytelling and all things swords-and-sorcery, making Zelda prime subject matter for a song. Ornate guitarwork from axemen Herman Li and Sam Totman sets the stage for a tale of heroism in the land of Hyrule, as narrated through the epic vocals of frontman Marc Hudson.
Zelda fans will get a kick out of the accompanying video, which sees the band members performing in Hyrule Castle and wielding the Master Sword against a Ganon-like foe.
“We’re thrilled to unveil our latest track, a powerful homage inspired by one of our favorite video-game franchises, Zelda!” Li said via a press release. “We’re eager for metal enthusiasts of all tastes to discover something special within its depths. Brace yourselves, as we’re gearing up to unleash this sonic adventure live during our upcoming tours!”
Warp Speed Warriors was produced, mixed, and mastered by Damien Rainaud at Mix Unlimited in Los Angeles, California, alongside Totman and Li. There seems to be a video-game theme to the record — as reflected on the album cover — which is fitting considering the cult fame DragonForce acquired from their signature song “Through the Fire and Flames” appearing prominently in Guitar Hero II.
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Set
It’s about time for a new King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard album. The psych rockers have announced their next project The Silver Cord, which is due out October 27th.
The Silver Cord arrives just a couple short months after King Gizz’s last album, the metal-leaning PetroDragonic Apocalypse. But this go around, the band say they’ll revert more towards the electronic influences explored on their pandemic-era album Butterfly 3000, citing classic disco and Kraftwerk as some of its influences.
“It’s definitely synth-y,” the group’s Joey Walker said of The Silver Cord. “You could draw comparisons in many ways, but just in the nature of us being in the same room and playing and writing together, it’s vastly different than Butterfly.”
The Silver Cord is seven tracks long, but according to an Instagram post, King Gizzard will also be issuing a version that includes “extended” versions of each tune.
Joystick – Boxes
New Orleans’ Joystick have consistently been one of the best ska-punk bands around for a while now, and their new single “Boxes” is an immediate reminder of that. It’s off their upcoming Dwell EP, which follows their great 2021 album I Can’t Take It Anymore and comes out November 14 via Bad Time Records (pre-order). It’s catchy, it’s hard-hitting, it’s pretty much everything you want from ska-punk.
Letters to Cleo – Bad Man
Letters To Cleo have been reunited for nearly a decade now, intermittently playing shows and occasionally releasing some new music. So far, the ’90s alt-rock band has put out two projects since getting back together: a 2016 EP called Back To Nebraska and a 2019 holiday EP called OK Christmas. Today, they’re releasing a pair of new tracks, “Bad Man” and “It’s Sunny Outside,” which will also be available on a 7″ that will be sold next month at their shows celebrating the 30th anniversary of Aurora Gory Alice.
These new songs were written during some pre-pandemic writing sessions between Kay Hanley and Michael Eisenstein. “We would get together and make these super quick demos that we always loved and in fact performed at last year’s Cleo shows,” Eisenstein explained in a press release.
Feeder – Playing With Fire
Feeder have announced a new double-album, Black / Red, which completes a ‘trilogy’ from the band following last year’s Torpedo.
Due out on April 5 on Big Teeth Music via Townsend Music / Absolute Label Services, frontman Grant Nicholas explains of Black / Red: “I really wanted the album to be split in two parts for the listener, CD1 and CD2, black and red rather than be one long player, almost like a musical production with an interval.
“Making it was a very creative time for me as a writer and a real labour of love. Making the Black / Red album for me personally was a musical pilgrimage and I feel the end result is undeniable Feeder.”
Buck Meek – Haunted Mountain
Lead guitarist for Big Thief, Buck Meek returns to Seoul on December 12th (Tuesday) for a show at CJ Azit. His third album Haunted Mountain was released in August to critical acclaim.