Just music (first in a series)

I can't even. Click on the tracks if you need good sounds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTpzbUnRB7s
"Everything Changes" from Dario D'Attis, Jinadu as remixed by Chus & Ceballos. Try saying that three times fast.

OK seriously, I'm pretty sure I got this from a Nora en Pure set and it's typical of a lot of things I've been listening to. It tends to get labeled "melodic techno" or "vocal trance" depending on which way the mix leans. Either way it's often easy listening, often energetic, and sometimes hits me right in the feels.

Despite this being a short mix, it has a really good sustained build. There are restful bits, but I really like the way the mix pushes through.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMQb9lyJwy8
"We Are All Lost" is another one in the same vein. Any link between the titles of these two tracks and the year 2020 so far is mmmm not even vaguely coincidental. This one is very definitely on the techno side, with a nice dipping of beats and minor-key tones from the dark side. Stil vor Talent is a music collective/label out of Germany (https://www.stilvortalent.de/). They have a number of videos linked from their front page that are worth at least a scan, if this style is your style, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0RXU3n1GM0
OK let's kick it up a notch with a remix by one of my 2020 favorites Miss Monique. Here she's working over "My Own Time" from Darin Epsilon. The original (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ospgHnQHvjQ) from 2018 is a bit thumpier and doesn't feature the vocals as well. I think Monique's remix improves it considerably.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUmlufHlEaQ
I forgot I had stashed this one, found while looking up Giolì & Assia material. If I'd found it earlier, well I would have known more. But you can't have any doubts after watching this video. Except, what's with the horse? I don't get that bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GElP4YdrBE
A track I bookmarked early in the pandemic lockdown. A lot of these distributed group performances came out, professionally mixed. BBC 1 absolutely knows what they're doing here and the cast rises to the occasion in this cover of a Foo Fighters classic. I can't say enough good about this kind of effort, and this kind of music. Yes, I do appear to have something in my eye.

Just music (second in a series)

Still can't. Still got music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvrqwcArNA4&feature=youtu.be
Another fun pandemic distributed collaboration. This one lacks the very high polish of the previous one but it's still an amusing attempt to re-create the feel of the original. I suspect your opinion of this will depend on your relationship to the original, which for me is a nice piece of youthful nostalgia. Godzilla!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvz8WCma3Hs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXq4GcnShB8
OK back to more standard DrWeX fare. This is a really lovely, ethereal-opening vocal trance piece from BT and Emma Hewitt. "No Warning Lights" is fun because it holds Hewitt's vocal sounds while building a complex urgent EDM melody around it. Like so many of these tracks I feel this one is way too short (2:39). I'm assuming we'll get an extended mix before too long.

If you like Hewitt's voice and want a wide array of things she's done, you can hit the second link, which is almost two hours of her work. I found that good background play, and might highlight a bit or two at some point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqyAoL7buZg
I wish I could remember where I got this one, but it's dated March of this year, which I'm pretty sure was a decade ago. The song caught my ear in part because of the gentle vocals and in part because it has some really unusual time-signature shifts. My ear isn't good enough to catch them all but I respect what Frase is doing here. I have a marker to check out more of his things, which might still happen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TBWxjnaIE
This one I'm pretty sure came from a Tim Ferris recommendation. I've been reading a couple of his newsletters lately and his Five Bullet Friday often has a thing he's listening to. He (like me) tends to like non-American instruments and melodies done with or over EDM influences. Here someone going by Unders has a nice 8-minute instrumental track called "Syria". This is the Satori remix. The fact that this thing has almost 50 million views and I've never heard of either of them just makes me painfully aware of how much music there is in the world that I know nothing about. One of the values of the Ferris newsletters is they often deliver me things I didn't know and appreciate learning about. Like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW85JKpie7Q
As long as we're getting back to DrWex basics, how about we close this one with some soulful, dirty funk? "Tribute" has it all, including some bell horn about 2 minutes in that makes me sway and that leads so beautifully into the guitar segment I can't even.