Show Notes
After a (not so) brief hiatus, we're back! Now that spring — and the start of festival season — is upon us, it feels appropriate to pick up where we left off. Last week, a few friends went to Dreamstate San Francisco (actual location: Daly City) and the Friday headliner is the inspiration for today's episode.
Back before HOLO became an international sensation, Eric Prydz was just a lowly progressive house DJ, quietly establishing himself as a true master of dark and hypnotic melody. Even though he's most known for "Call On Me", that track sounds nothing like the rest of his catalog; fans who go to one of his shows expecting that kind of sound from will be sorely disappointed. His productions and live sets are a masterclass in melodic subtlety, but he can still bring the hammer down just as effectively. When that incredibly iconic snare first starts to hit, you know you're in for a wild ride.
This 2018 set from Tomorrowland includes all the classic Eric Prydz elements, plus a rather large number of unreleased tracks, works in progress, and bootlegs (see the track listing below). It has a slow, tantalizing build for the first 40 minutes, in a very linear way that only he can pull off. Once you're at the top of the climb though, it's a fantastic plateau all the way until the end.
The video is really well done and the show had a ton of amazing visuals, so I highly recommend actually watching the video at some point. But you know, sometimes you just want the music (please).
1. Cirez D - Echostage NYE ID 01 (Working Title)
2. Pryda - EDC Mexico 2018 ID (Working Title)
3. Pryda - Tomorrowland 2018 ID 01 (Working Title)
4. Pryda - Euro T
5. Cirez D - Envelopes
6. Cirez D - Marquee Las Vegas 2017 ID (Working Title)
7. Pryda - Origins
8. Pryda - Creamfields 2017 ID 01 (Working Title)
9. Pryda - Juletider
10. Jeremy Olander - Let Me Feel (Eric Prydz Dub Remix)
11. Pryda - Rebel XX
12. Pryda - Rebel XX (The Odengatan Mix)
13a. The Drill - The Drill (Eric Prydz Edit)
13b. Cevin Fisher - The Way We Used To (Acappella)
14. Faithless - Not Going Home vs. Insomnia (Eric Prydz Bootleg)
15. Cirez D - The Tumble
16a. Pryda - M.S.B.O.Y.
16b. Candi Staton - You Got The Love (Acappella)
17. Pryda - Moln
18. Pryda - Niton
19. Pryda - Mirage
Original post: https://youtu.be/p_rXt7sWn_E?si=lLhVLIOk9gyUYjmq
More from Just The Music Please
Well, Group Therapy 700 (two weekends ago) was definitely one for the record books! In the midst of weeks of beautiful September weather, the skies decided to open up at 8:30 pm on Saturday night, unleashing enough rain and fierce winds to pause the show. The lower bowl at The Gorge had to be evacuated, the entire show was paused, and we lost at least 2 1/2 hours of music from Oliver Smith, J Ribbon, and Ilan Bluestone.
In honor of Group Therapy 700 happening next weekend — we'll be there! — I'd like to post a deep cut from the archives this week. The first Group Therapy show I ever went to was 300 (in Hong Kong) and Grum was one of the artists on the lineup I was really looking forward to. He's one of my favorite progressive producers and his set that night was right on the money; I can still remember being in the center front of the crowd and feeling the bass reverberate through my chest while he took all of us on a 1-hour voyage into space.
This week we're heading to a rock quarry in northern Portugal for two hours of big room melodic house from Arodes, a Spanish DJ and producer who's mostly new to me, but has been on the rise recently. In the last few years, he's played Tomorrowland, Coachella, Burning Man, and ADE, on top of residencies in Mykonos and Ibiza.
As promised at the end of my last episode, the Kyky's did indeed have a blast in Ibiza and Albania last month, and JTMP was indeed on a hiatus, though for much longer than I would like. Appropriately though, we're back with music from one of the highlights of our trip: Claptone at Chinois!
LP Giobbi has been making a name for herself more and more in recent years, from jazz-influenced dance music to her remixes and after parties for The Grateful Dead (yes, for real!) to her own brand of fun piano house music. She is a classically trained jazz pianist and studied classical piano at UC Berkeley, and this musicality is very evident in her music.