Glad January Track Monday and MLK Presen right here at Excellent Dark Information!
It’s your buddy and selector, your sonic chauffeur, your groove conductor, Marlon, again once more.
I’m overjoyed to trade in up this primary of most likely 12 GBN collections of the past. That is an “afroclectic” number of tracks absolved in 2024.
It’s greater than part a generation of finest track to serve the soundtrack in your Martin Luther King, Jr. Relief. (You may well be like me, and likewise taking 10 mins of meditation at 12 Pm PST, in honor of mythical filmmaker, David Lynch, on what would were his 79th birthday, had he no longer kicked the bucket extreme hour.)
I’ve finished a couple of civil rights-centered playlists in honor of this generation. Although this is birthday party of Dr. King having “been to the mountain top”, that includes dozens of artists appearing any choice of genres and types.
R&B, hip-hop, classical, jazz, reggae, afro-beat, and extra examples are integrated on this 13-hour number of track from 2024.
I’ve accrued a few of track’s largest names with marquee releases, like Beyoncé and Jon Batiste.
There are enough quantity of newbies and underground darlings, together with Victoria Monét, Raveena, tendai and such a lot of others, staking their declare amongst the ones giants.
I’ve presented an avalanche of brandnew songs from extreme past. Some are even posthumous recordings by way of Alice Coltrane, Wayne Shorter and Prince.
There’s brandnew tracks from quiet-for-a-minute artists like Sade, Stevie Surprise and Erykah Badu. Please benefit from the globe-trotting and genre-hoping assortment. See ya then moment!
And as at all times, keep cover, sane, and sort.
