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An eclectic collection of curated tracks spanning multiple decades and genres. yeahyal.substack.com

  1. Oct 2

    Mix 38

    For the full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Hi friends, you may have noticed that these monthly episodes, which pine after vintage obsolescence by way of funk, soul, and 80s bleeps and blips, have slowly dwindled to twice-a-year installments (sorry). Basically, it's because I've been waylaid by other projects, and these mixes can take a while to curate. To be honest, Yeahyal 38 was always supposed to be the last one, since I only designed 38 album covers initially (yes, I made the covers first as a fun art project during COVID). The problem is that I have soooooooo many great tracks still queued up that never made it into mixes. Given this, I have decided to eke out enough time for at least one mix (maybe two) a year going forward, so this is not a formal goodbye, just see you in a bit. For newer listeners, I recommend you check old episodes (the benefit of these mixes is that since they consist of mostly older tracks, they have a pretty long shelf-life. For older listeners, I recommend you revisit old episodes too!) So without further ado, here's Episode 38, consisting of 53 songs FULLY MIXED. This episode’s highlighted track: Track 18 Daniel Avery - Drone Logic London-based DJ and producer Daniel Avery learned his craft on the dancefloor before he ever set foot in a studio. After playing bass in rock and shoegaze bands as a teenager, he moved to London, took a job handing out flyers at Fabric, and worked his way from warm-up slots to a residency there, releasing remixes under the alias Stopmakingme before switching to his own name in 2012. “Drone Logic” began as a shot in the dark. Working in a studio next door to acid house legend Andrew Weatherall, Avery made the track specifically for Weatherall’s club night, A Love From Outer Space, burned it to a CD, and nervously handed it over. Not surprisingly to me (it’s one of my favorite dance tracks), Weatherall called the next morning to say it had been the biggest track of the night. Built largely on a Korg Mono/Poly synth and drum machines fed through guitar effects pedals, “Drone Logic” is what Avery himself called techno with a shoegaze aesthetic. Over seven minutes, a squelching acid line rides a thudding, hypnotic groove while a then-unknown Kelly Lee Owens (heard on episodes 10, 14, and 27) deadpans “Noise flies high” through the haze. The debt to Underworld is obvious, but “Drone Logic” is too warped and psychedelic to feel like a simple tribute to 90s rave nostalgia than an original outgrowth from its afterglow. Feeding off all the positive response, Avery returned to his shipping-container studio overlooking the Thames to create his 2013 debut album for Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound, built around and named after the seminal track. Bonus attention is also due to “Computer Age,” what sounds like Neil Young’s Daft Punk homage (before Daft Punk actually existed), from his 1982 album Trans. Newly signed to Geffen Records, Young’s vocoder-drenched electronic submissions baffled the label so Geffen sued him for making music “uncharacteristic” of his earlier work. The suit eventually settled, and David Geffen personally apologized. Their loss is our gain: it’s a fantastic track and far from a gimmick. Trans grew out of Young’s efforts to communicate with his young son Ben, who was born with cerebral palsy and relied on digital devices for speech. The robotic vocals capture Young’s realization of the future and his acceptance of the impending ubiquity of computer technology. Also noteworthy are two great demos, one by John Lennon and the other by Cat Stevens. The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Will Powers / Adventures In Success / Dancing for Mental Health / 1983 Christabelle & Lindstrøm / Lovesick / Lovesick / 2009 Jill Scott / Norf Side (feat. Tierra Whack) / To Whom This May Concern / 2026 The Pretty Things / The Good Mr. Square / Parachute / 1970 The Pharcyde / Passin’ Me By (Hot Chip Remix Instrumental) / Passin’ Me By / 1998 Fleetwood Mac / Brushes (Never Going Back Again) / Rumours (Deluxe Edition) / 1977 Billy Brooks / Fourty Days / Windows of the Mind / 1974 James Blake / Make Something Up / Trying Times / 2026 L’Impératrice / Parfum thérémine / Odyssée / 2015 MorMor / Don’t Need It / Don’t Need It / 2026 Marlena Shaw / Loving You Was Like a Party / Who Is This Bitch, Anyway? / 1975 Javelin / The Marimba Song / The Marimba Song! / 2013 The Boomtown Rats / Up All Night (Long Version) / Classic Album Selection / 1982 Liesbeth List / Avant Le Jazz / Liesbeth List / 1966 Holy F**k / Tom Tom / Congrats / 2016 Black Nicholson / Corner Store Cowboy / Corner Store Cowboy / 2021 Ultravox / Vienna / Vienna / 1980 *Daniel Avery / Drone Logic / Drone Logic / 2013 Canned Heat / Goin’ Up the Country / Living the Blues / 1968 Morcheeba / Trigger Hippie / Who Can You Trust? / 1996 Yebba / Yellow Eyes / Jean / 2026 Booker T. & The M.G.’s / Behave Yourself / Green Onions / 1962 Slum Village / Players (Instrumental Mix) / Fantastic, Vol. 2.10 / 2000 S.G. Goodman / Burn Down The City / Old Time Feeling / 2020 The Dream Academy / The Edge of Forever / The Dream Academy / 1985 DJ Vadim / Variations In U.S.S.R. (DJ Krush remix) / U.S.S.R. Reconstruction / 1998 A Certain Ratio / Touch / I’d Like to See You Again / 1982 SKAI ISYOURGOD & AR / Blueprint Supreme / Stacks from All Sides / 2024 The Outlaw Blues Band / Deep Gully / Breaking In / 1969 Kleeer / Intimate Connection / Intimate Connection / 1984 Nabihah Iqbal / This World Couldn’t See Us / DREAMER / 2023 Fred again.., Sammy Virji & Reggie / Talk of the Town / USB / 2022 Frankie Smith / Double Dutch Bus / Children of Tomorrow / 1981 Westbam & Nena / Oldschool, Baby (Piano Mix) / Oldschool, Baby / 2002 Supertramp / Bloody Well Right / Crime of the Century / 1974 Eurythmics / Never Gonna Cry Again / In the Garden / 1981 Little Simz / Two Worlds Apart / Sometimes I Might Be Introvert / 2021 Billy Swan / Don’t Be Cruel / I Can Help / 1974 Cat Stevens / Wild World (Demo Version) / Tea for the Tillerman / 1970 Odetta / Hit or Miss / Odetta Sings / 1970 Björk / Come to Me / Debut / 1993 La Luz / Always in Love / News of the Universe / 2024 Drinking / Electricity / Breakout Singles - EP / 1982 Neil Young / Computer Age / Trans / 1982 Homeboy Sandman & Illingsworth / I’ll Show You / Dancing Tree - EP / 2025 Jacuzzi Boys / Glazin’ / Glazin’ / 2011 Testcard F. / Bandwagon Tango / Bandwagon Tango 7” / 1982 Bô’vel / Best Thing / Changes / 2024 Harold Budd / The Serpent (In Quicksilver) / The Serpent (In Quicksilver) - EP / 1981 Peter Gabriel / Mercy Street / So / 1986 Ethel Cain / Gibson Girl / Preacher’s Daughter / 2022 John Lennon / God (Demo Version) / Wonsaponatime / 1970 Max Richter, Louisa Fuller, Natalia Bonner, John Metcalfe, Philip Sheppard & Chris Worsey / On The Nature Of Daylight / The Blue Notebooks (15 Years) / 2004 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 38

  2. Feb 17

    Mix 37

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Episode 37 takes a picture so it will last longer—in fact, an additional hour to make up for the long delay, consisting of 59 songs total. This episode’s highlighted track: Track 55 Nils Frahm - Says Hamburg-born, Berlin-based composer Nils Frahm has made a career out of dissolving the boundary between modern classical performance and electronic sound design, building a cult following through his hybrid setups of grand pianos, analog synthesizers, vintage instruments, and tape-era outboard gear. From his 2013 live album Spaces on the Erased Tapes label, “Says” pairs a looping, arpeggiated analog synth pattern generated from his custom rig with a moody, melodic, reverb-drenched piano. The piece evolves almost entirely through gradual filter movements and subtle layering, slowly opening the harmonic spectrum over its eight-minute runtime. Recorded live, it captures not just the sound but the physical presence of the room, with Frahm shaping and automating the tones in real time. The effect is hypnotic, somewhere between Steve Reich’s phase minimalism and the analog glow of early Tangerine Dream. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Frahm perform a few times and always leave a little stunned. His shows feel part recital, part laboratory experiment, featuring rare instruments like the glass armonica,* played by gliding wet-gloved fingers across the rims of rotating glass bowls, not unlike rubbing the tops of wine glasses. His music trades virtuoso flash (though he is an exceptionally skilled player) for something far more immersive: texture, space, and the emotional power of small sonic shifts unfolding over time. Even without the visual spectacle, “Says” builds and blooms with such dramatic force that by its final moments it’s hard not to erupt in awe as the sound reaches its towering climax. *Invented by Benjamin Franklin in 1761. The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Amiina / Sexfaldur / Kurr / 2007 Thomas de Pourquery / Back from the war / Let the monster fall / 2024 Sault / I.L.T.S. / 10 / 2025 Little Carlos / Got to Be Free / Presents: How & Little - T.M.F. / 2020 ESG / Dance / Come Away with ESG / 1983 SHADED / Naughty Mofo / Naughty Mofo - Single / 2023 Connie Francis / Pretty Little Baby (可愛いベイビー) - Japanese Version / Connie Francis Sings Greatest Hits In Japanese / 1962 SBTRKT & Little Dragon / Wildfire / SBTRKT / 2011 Count Basic / Speechless Drum & Bass (Kruder & Dorfmeister Remix) / Conversions: A K&D Selection / 1996 Dionne Warwick / Heartbreaker / Heartbreaker / 1982 Daphni / Carry on / Joli Mai / 2017 The Invisible / K-Town Sunset (feat. Connan Mockasin) / Patience / 2016 Tricky / Overcome / Maxinquaye / 1995 Elias Rahbani / Dance of Maria / Mosaic of the Orient / 1974 Bobby O / She Has a Way / Freedom in an Unfree World / 1983 Rhye / Hymn / Hymn - Single / 2018 Joubert Singers / Stand On the Word (Larry Levan Mix) / Electric Chair Saved My Life / 1985 Andrea Laszlo De Simone / Ricordo tattile / Una Lunghissima Ombra / 2025 Mac DeMarco / Holy / Guitar / 2025 The Brian Jonestown Massacre / Anemone / Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request / 1996 Flora Hibberd / Fern / Swirl / 2025 The Walkmen / We’ve Been Had / Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone / 2002 The Brothers and Sisters / Lay Lady Lay (feat. Edna Wright) / Dylan’s Gospel / 1969 Belle and Sebastian / Piazza, New York Catcher / Dear Catastrophe Waitress / 2003 Ramblin’ Jack Elliott / Diamond Joe / Ramblin’ Jack Elliott Sings Woody Guthrie and Jimmie Rodgers and Cowboy Songs / 1976 El Shab Arab / Lw Kan / Lw Kan / 1976 Camille Yarbrough / Take Yo’ Praise / The Iron Pot Cooker / 1975 Rose Droll / Opening Doors / With Strangers / 2024 Skeeter Davis / What Does It Take (To Keep a Man Like You Satisfied) / The Essential Skeeter Davis / 1967 Chrome Sparks / Marijuana / Marijuana - Single / 2018 Ty Segall / Imaginary Person / Melted / 2010 Mhaol / Pursuit / Something Soft / 2024 Prince Buster / Madness / I Feel the Spirit / 1963 Erasmo Carlos / É Preciso Dar um Jeito, Meu Amigo / Carlos, Erasmo / 1971 Night Beats / Nightmare / Rajan / 2023 Girls At Our Best! / Politics! / Pleasure / 1981 The Damned / Morning Bird / New Rose / 1977 Melissa Manchester / You Should Hear How She Talks About You / Hey Ricky / 1982 Aera / Future Holds / Fever - EP / 2023 Bill Nelson / When Your Dream of Perfect Beauty Comes True / The Love That Whirls / 1982 Beck / Rowboat / Stereopathetic Soulmanure / 1994 Micah P. Hinson / Beneath the Rose / Micah P. Hinson & the Gospel of Progress / 2005 Razzy Bailey / I Hate Hate / Color My World / 1973 The Honeydrippers / Impeach the President / Impeach the President / 1973 Jorge Cafrune / No Soy de Aquí... Ni Soy de Allá / Esenciales / 1973 Olivia Newton-John / Magic / Xanadu / 1980 The Donkeys / Lower the Heavens / The Donkeys / 2004 Dave Van Ronk / He Was a Friend of Mine / Folksinger / 1962 Earth, Wind & Fire / That’s the Way of the World / That’s the Way of the World / 1975 Neil Young / Separate Ways / Homegrown / 2020 Elizabeth Cotten / Freight Train / Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs and Tunes / 1912 Kingsley Bucknor / You Gotta Keep on Luvin’ Me / Just U and Me - EP / 1985 Suki Waterhouse / To Get You / Memoir of a Sparklemuffin / 2024 Ashley Wass / 3 Gnossiennes: No. 1, Lent / Black & White / 2024 Nils Frahm / Says / Spaces / 2013 Pastor T.L. Barrett & The Youth for Christ Choir / Nobody Knows / Like a Ship (Without a Sail) / 1971 Shana Cleveland / Face of the Sun / Night of the Worm Moon / 2019 Crowded House / Into Temptation / Temple of Low Men / 1988 Aphex Twin / #3 / Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II / 1994 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 37

  3. 11/07/2025

    Mix 36

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com It’s time for the delayed Episode 36, consisting of 49 songs FULLY MIXED in the podcast above, or on Apple Podcasts. ¿Listo? This episode’s highlighted track: Track 5 Cleo Sol - Why Don’t You* Gaining notoriety as a member of the enigmatic collective SAULT, London native Cleo Sol has since carved out a niche of her own, bringing a fresh, airy take to the 90s neo-soul lineage that shapes her sound. From her 2020 album Rose in the Dark, “Why Don’t You” moves with a serene sense of inevitability as Sol’s whisper-soft reassurances drift over billowing, reverb-laden piano chords and plate-saturated percussion. Produced by longtime collaborator Inflo, the track carries a faint gospel shimmer, framing vocals that feel delicately singular even as they echo Jill Scott’s emotional tenderness and Erykah Badu’s unhurried phrasing. What makes “Why Don’t You” so distinctive is its effortless catchiness, especially considering there isn’t a proper hook or chorus to speak of. Where most tracks would make a dramatic sprint toward catharsis, Sol chooses patience, letting the song unfurl in slow motion. Only towards the end do the swelling strings and backing vocals step forward, resolving into a soft, mantra-like chant of “sometimes we fall in love… love is always in us,” before slowly and gracefully fading away. The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Dur-Dur Band / Dooyo / Dur-Dur Vol. 5 / 1985 Duisclosure / Dooyo (Disclosure Remix) / Dur-Dur Band - Dooyo Remix / 2025 Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three / The Roof Is on Fire (Us Hitmix) / Request Line / The Roof Is on Fire / 1984 U.S. Girls / Running Errands (Yesterday) / Running Errands - Single / 2025 Cleo Sol / Why Don’t You / Rose in the Dark / 2017 Automatic / Black Box / Is It Now? / 2025 Heaven 17 / (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang / Penthouse and Pavement / 1981 Tom Trago / Ignorance / Ignorance - Single / 2025 Röyksopp / Poor Leno / Melody A.M. / 2001 Scott Lavene / Prettiest Peach / Prettiest Peach - Single / 2022 Ratatat / Seventeen Years / Ratatat / 2004 Kourosh Yaghmaei / Gole Yakh / Gole Yakh / 1991 Mos Def / The Embassy / The Ecstatic / 2009 Altın Gün / Goca Dünya / On / 2017 Natalie Bergman / Gunslinger / My Home Is Not In This World / 2025 Alex Chilton / Jumpin’ Jack Flash / Free Again: The “1970” Sessions / 2002 L’OK Jazz & Franco / Annie Ngai nalinga / 1966-1968 / 1968 Babe Ruth / The Mexican / First Base / 1972 Oby Onyioha / Enjoy Your Life / I Want To Feel Your Love / 1981 Jeff Kaale / Cookie / Best Of / 2018 Earl Sweatshirt / TOURMALINE / Live Laugh Love / 2025 Herman Jones / Gimme Your Love / Smiling / 2025 World Party / Is It Like Today? / Bang! / 1993 Asha Bhosle / Udi Baba / Vidhaata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / 1982 Sweet Baboo / Let’s Go Swimming Wild / Ships / 2013 Sydney Rose / Turning Page / Turning Page - Single / 2020 Neu! / Hallogallo / Neu! / 1972 Rosie & The Originals / Angel Baby / Angel Baby / 1961 Dianilis / Kamukamo Shikamo Nidomokamo [feat. Lufca] [Spanish Version] / Kamukamo Shikamo Nidomokamo (From “Mono No Aware”) - Single / 2025 Cameo / Shake Your Pants / Cameosis / 1980 Toots & The Maytals / 54-46 Was My Number / Sweet & Dandy / 1969 The Budos Band / Up From the South / The Budos Band / 2000 G.L.O.B.E. & Whiz Kid / Play That Beat Mr. D.J. / Play That Beat Mr. D.J. - EP / 1983 Portishead / Toy Box / Glory Box - EP / 1995 Paul Nero / Pitzi Cats / Nero Fiddles / 1951 Action Bronson / Easy Rider / Mr. Wonderful / 2014 DARGZ / The Only Way / Friends & Family / 2025 Lokkhi Terra & Dele Sosimi / Afro Sambroso [Rampa Version] / Afro Sambroso (feat. Francesco Chiocci) - Single / 2020 Can / Vitamin C / Ege Bamyasi / 1972 Daughter of Swords / Morning In Madison / Alex / 2025 Beacon / Our House / Our House - Single / 2022 Simian / Drop & Roll / Chemistry Is What We Are / 2001 Melanie / People in the Front Row / Garden in the City / 1971 Kevin Morby / Beautiful Strangers / Beautiful Strangers - Single / 2016 Karen Dalton / Something On Your Mind / In My Own Time / 1971 Ingrid and the Ministers / Last Train Blues / Last Train Blues - EP / 2024 King Harvest / Dancing In the Moonlight / Dancing In the Moonlight - Single / 1970 Hermanos Gutiérrez / El Bueno Y El Malo / El Bueno Y El Malo / 2022 Funkadelic / Maggot Brain / Maggot Brain / 1971 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 36

  4. 09/05/2025

    Mix 35

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Episode 35, the antepenultimate swan song, consisting of 42 songs FULLY MIXED as a 42 song mixtape. This episode’s highlighted track: Track 8 Baxter Dury & JGrrey - Allbarone* London-born Baxter Dury has long specialized in a peculiar strain of louche, half-sung storytelling—perfecting the art of sounding simultaneously blasé while deeply wounded, like someone narrating his own downfall with a smirk. And while the soulless UK pub chain All Bar One is usually the domain of team-building send-offs, coworker birthday rounds, and awkward blind dates, its sterile, Venti latte-adjacent cocktails make the perfect backdrop for Dury’s vision: a drunken mess slumped on the sidewalk outside, wondering how the night went sideways. Occupying space between sleaze and sophistication, somewhere on the spectrum between Serge Gainsbourg’s smoky cabaret drawl and John Cooper Clarke’s acerbic street poetry, “Allbarone,” is Baxter at his most mordant: clipped, sardonic vocals narrating brittle egos and dimly lit escapades. Paul Epworth’s lean, hypnotic production lends a disco buoyancy that contrasts Dury’s narrative detachment while JGrrey’s ghostly turn as the absent date provides the song’s catchy hook, her teasing restraint underscoring his desolate humor. “Allbarone” works as both elegy and satire: proof that All Bar One isn’t where good nights happen—it’s where they go to die. The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Jordache Commercial / 1980’s Total Control / Flesh War / Typical System / 2014 Bill Wyman / (Si, Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star / Bill Wyman / 1982 HERO / Rot in Pieces / Cry Baby - EP / 2019 Captain Sensible / Wot / Wot! / 1982 Proper Monday Number / High horse (DFA DJ Edit) / High horse / 2025 Kasabian / Reason Is Treason / Kasabian / 2004 *Baxter Dury & JGrrey / Allbarone / Allbarone / 2025 Mantronix / Needle To the Groove / The Album / 1985 Daphni / Xing Tian / Joli Mai / 2017 Loaded Honey / Lessons / Love Made Trees / 2025 Harvey Mason / Groovin' You / Groovin' You / 1979 INXS / Don't Change / Shabooh Shoobah / 1982 The Shacks / Trip To Japan / Big Crown Vaults Vol. 2 / 2021 Bahamadia / Uknowhowwedu / Kollage / 1996 Nick Hakim / Bet She Looks Like You / Green Twins / 2017 Air / Talisman (Vegyn Version) / Blue Moon Safari / 2024 Belle and Sebastian / I Fought In a War / Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant / 2000 Sweet Tee & Jazzy Joyce / It's My Beat / It's Tee Time / 1988 Hannah Cohen / Earthstar / Earthstar Mountain / 2025 Weval / The Weight / The Weight / 2019 Betty Padgett / Rocking Chair / Betty Padgett / 1975 Mike Mareen / Dancing In the Dark (Galactica Remix) / Dance Control / 1984 Company B / Fascinated / Company B / 1987 Talking Heads / City of Dreams / True Stories / 1986 The Kinks / Have a Cuppa Tea / Muswell Hillbillies / 1971 The Chemical Brothers / Wide Open (feat. Beck) / Born in the Echoes / 2015 Okay Temiz / Penguin / Drummer of Two Worlds / 1975 Quincy Jones / Summer In the City / You've Got It Bad Girl / 1973 Alan Braxe & Fred Falke / Intro / Running - Single / 2000 Paul Young / Come Back and Stay (12" Mix) / No Parlez / 1983 Anna St. Louis / Understand / If Only There Was a River / 2018 The Black Heart Procession / Blue Tears / 2 / 1999 Barbara Lewis / Windmills of Your Mind / The Many Grooves of Barbara Lewis / 1969 Kraftwerk / The Model / The Man-Machine / 1978 Todd Terje / Strandbar (Disko) / Strandbar - Single / 2013 Flight Facilities / Crave You (feat. Giselle) / Down to Earth / 2010 MorMor / Pass the Hours / Some Place Else - EP / 2018 The English Beat / Mirror in the Bathroom / I Just Can’t Stop It / 1980 Wells Fargo / Watch Out! / Watch Out! / 1977 Villagers / Everything I Am Is Yours / Darling Arithmetic / 2015 Hans Zimmer / God Yu Tekem Laef Blong Mi / The Thin Red Line (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / 1999 Bob Dylan / My Back Pages / Another Side of Bob Dylan / 1964 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 35

  5. 08/01/2025

    Mix 34

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Episode 34, a mix for a world that feels sdrawkcaB. FULLY MIXED as a 45 song mixtape. This episode’s highlighted track: Track 38 John Carroll Kirby - Mates* Los Angeles based keyboardist, composer, and sideman to the stars (Solange, Frank Ocean, Harry Styles, etc.), John Carroll Kirby has steadily built a reputation and vibe all his own: part tropicalia, part jazz fusion, part video game cutscene. “Mates,” from his 2023 album Blowout, feels like a walk through that world’s sun-dappled village square, where everything is oddly pleasant and nothing particularly urgent. With soft congas weaving in and out of flute stabs and a lazily wandering synth bass line, “Mates” feels like it could easily fit as a score to a mid-’90s educational CD-ROM game; it’s upbeat, catchy and somehow endearingly kitsch. Flecks of processed vibraphone glisten at the edges, evoking both Exotica-era Martin Denny and the smoother corners of Herbie Hancock’s 1970s output. But what makes “Mates” quietly arresting is its tonal attitude—it never rushes, never insists, simply vibes with charm and winking confidence. There’s no drop, no real hook, no urgency at all, just a mellow shimmer of groove and harmony that just glides… add in a few bell-like textures and you’re somewhere between Haruomi Hosono’s Paraiso, Mac DeMarco minus all the phaser delay, and a Miami Vice deep cut remixed for massage therapy. ________ The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Erykah Badu / Amerykahn Promise / New Amerykah, Pt. 1 (4th World War) / 2008 The Bar-Kays / (Busted) / Propositions / 1982 Edwin Birdsong / Cola Bottle Baby / Edwin Birdsong / 1979 U.S. Girls / Only Daedalus / Bless This Mess / 2023 Minako Yoshida / Chokkai / FLAPPER / 1976 Elton John / Honky Cat / Honky Château / 1972 Ratatat / Crips / Ratatat / 2004 Little Simz / Young / Lotus / 2025 Q-Tip / Let's Ride / Amplified / 1999 Christy Essien Igbokwe / Take Life Easy / One Understanding / 1979 Cold Crush Brothers & Fantastic Freaks / Basketball Throwdown / Wild Style (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / 1983 Edan / Funky Voltron (featuring Insight) / Beauty And The Beat / 2005 Willie Mitchell / Groovin' / Solid Soul / 1969 Brick / Dazz (Dazz Disco Mix) / Good High / 1976 Parcels / IknowhowIfeel / Parcels / 2018 The Doobie Brothers / Minute By Minute / Minute By Minute / 1978 GZA / Liquid Swords (Instrumental) / Liquid Swords / 1995 The Hue / Slick (feat. Ladybug Mecca) / Aurora / 2016 Bob James / Take Me To the Mardi Gras / Two / 1975 Lloyd Charmers & The Aces / Reggae Recipe / The Original Reggae Hitsound of Desmond Dekker & the Aces / 1985 Frank-N-Dank / Ma Dukes (Instrumental) / 48 Hours Instrumentals / 2013 Dawn Penn / You Don't Love Me (No No No) / Come Again / 1996 Joe Cocker / Woman to Woman / Joe Cocker / 1972 Baxter Dury & JGrrey / Return Of The Sharp Heads / Return Of the Sharp Heads / 2025 Tame Impala / Let it Happen (Soulwax Remix) / Currents B-Sides & Remixes - EP / 2015 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band / We've Got Tonight / Stranger In Town / 1978 The Roots (feat. D’Angelo and Erykah Badu) / The 'Notic / Men In Black (The Album) / 1997 Kindness / Gee Up (Instrumental) / World, You Need a Change of Mind / 2012 Cedar Walton / Road Island Red / Mobius / 1975 / Tyler, The Creator / HEAVEN TO ME / CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST: The Estate Sale / 2023 Okonski / Exitus / Trio Session Demos - EP / 2024 Mort Garson / Swingin' Spathiphyllums / Mother Earth's Plantasia / 1976 Lyn Collins / Think (About It) / Think (About It) / 1972 Ghost Town DJs / My Boo (Hitman's Club Mix) / My Boo (Hitman's Club Mix) / 1996 Blood Orange (feat. Caroline Polachek) / Chosen / Cupid Deluxe / 2013 DJ Shadow / This Time (I'm Gonna Try It My Way) / The Outsider / 2006 Donny Hathaway / A Song for You / Donny Hathaway / 1971 *John Carroll Kirby / Mates / Blowout / 2023 Laura Groves / Dream Story / Committed Language - EP / 2015 Tangerine Dream / Love On a Real Train (Risky Business) / Hyperborea / 1983 Cymande / Brothers On The Slide / Promised Heights / 1974 Cat Power / Love & Communication / The Greatest / 2006 Khruangbin / Summer Madness / Summer Madness - Single / 2020 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 34

  6. 07/02/2025

    Mix 33

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Episode 33, packed onto a FULLY MIXED 45 song mixtape. This episode’s highlighted track: Track 22 Suzanne Kraft - Never Heated* Los Angeles electronic producer, DJ, and experimentalist Diego Herrera—better known as Suzanne Kraft—is known for his prodigious, eclectic dance tracks and wide-ranging collaborations. On “Never Heated,” from his 2015 debut solo album Talk From Home, Herrera channels a thoughtfully chilled-out vibe, layering sparse interjections of Wurlitzer keys and picked bass guitar over the minimalist pulse of a drum machine’s click-tempo and sporadic soft clap. Reminiscent of both Haruomi Hosono and The Durutti Column, “Never Heated” feels at once ethereal and funky, with distant vocal harmonies floating above the meandering bassline and hazy keys. But what gives it its distinctive allure is the unconventional time signature—an intriguing 8/4 structure, where the electronic clap/snare lands only on the seventh and eighth beats of every fourth measure, adding a subtle, unexpected twist to an otherwise laid-back arrangement. Vibe out… ________ The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Enya / Boadicea / The Celts / 1987 James Booth / Dawn / Human Rites / 2015 Axel Boman / Purple Drank / Holy Love - Single / 2010 Calvin Harris / Acceptable In the 80's / I Created Disco / 2006 Breakwater / Release the Beast / Splashdown / 1980 Daft Punk / Da Funk / Homework / 1995 David Bowie / Shake It / Let's Dance / 1983 Faith Evans / Love Like This / Keep the Faith / 1998 Cocteau Twins / Fifty-Fifty Clown / Heaven Or Las Vegas / 1990 The Chemical Brothers (feat. Mazzy Star) / Asleep From Day / Surrender / 1999 Wire / Heartbeat / Chairs Missing / 1978 Chic / Soup for One / Soup for One (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / 1982 The Delfonics / Ready or Not Here I Come / Sound of Sexy Soul / 1969 Jessie Ware / Adore You / What’s Your Pleasure? / 2019 Berlin / No More Words / Love Life / 1984 Barbara Tucker / Beautiful People (Original Club Mix) / Beautiful People - EP / 1994 MADVILLA / Pleasure / Pleasure - Single / 2019 Harry Romero / Revolution (Deep in Jersey Mix) / Revolution - Single / 2018 Prince / Controversy / Controversy / 1981 Nilüfer Yanya / Hey / Extraordinary Renditions / 2016 Hannah Cohen / Summer Sweat / Earthstar Mountain / 2025 *Suzanne Kraft / Never Heated / Talk from Home / 2015 Lindsey Buckingham / Holiday Road / Holiday Road / 1983 Bicep / Apricots / Isles / 2020 Disclosure / You & Me (feat. Eliza Doolittle) [Rivo Remix] / You & Me [Rivo Remix] - Single / 2023 deadmau5 & Kaskade / I Remember / Random Album Title / 2008 Django Django & MAN POWER / Home (Man Power's Alternative Analogue Dub) / Home / 2025 Beck / Soldier Jane / The Information / 2006 Lalo Schifrin / Danube Incident / More Mission: Impossible / 1969 Portishead / Scorn / Glory Box - EP / 1995 El Michels Affair / Tearz (feat. Lee Fields & The Shacks) / Return To the 37th Chamber / 2017 Myd / Moving Men (feat. Mac DeMarco) (Metronomy Remix) / Born a Loser / 2022 Justice vs. Simian / We Are Your Friends (YeahYal Dub Mix) / We Are Your Friends / 2006 Whistleface / Intimate / Intimate - Single / 2021 Stevie Nicks / Stand Back / The Wild Heart / 1983 The Clash / Ghetto Defendant / Combat Rock / 1982 Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy / Mam Yinne Wa / Mam Yinne Wa - Single / 2016 A Tribe Called Quest / Whateva Will Be / We Got It from Here... / 2016 Groove Holmes / The Red Onion / New Groove / 1973 The Smile / Wall Of Eyes / Wall of Eyes / 2023 This Mortal Coil / Song to the Siren / It'll End in Tears / 1984 Mac DeMarco / Chamber Of Reflection / Salad Days / 2014 Shigeo Sekito / The Word 2 / Special Sound Selection - The Word / 2018 Carly Simon / Coming Around Again / Coming Around Again / 1987 Spiritualized / Shine a Light / Lazer Guided Melodies / 1992 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 33

  7. 06/02/2025

    Mix 32

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Summer is here so chill out with this FULLY MIXED 38 song mixtape. This episode’s highlighted track(s): Track 6 and 12 Rose Droll - Sleep Easy* Los Angeles multi-instrumentalist Rose Droll explores the emotional aftermath of heartbreak in “Sleep Easy,” a standout track from her second full-length album, With Strangers. Over a looped acoustic guitar and a distant, reverberating bass synth, Droll delivers a delicate yet affecting vocal performance, offering comfort to an ex-lover: “You say you’re fine and I hope you’re alright, but lately all I hear is what you croon when you cry… I remember nothing but the way we were.” As Droll’s subdued voice attempts to steer the jilted ex towards hope, the refrain—“I remember nothing but the way we were”—returns like a ghost of the past, punctuated by frenetic piano stabs that underscore the lingering pain echoing the song’s emotional core. On With Strangers, Droll proves her skill at fusing bedroom pop intimacy with electronic textures and experimental percussion. The result is a contemplative, often challenging collection that recalls the genre-defying spirit of ’90s icons like Beck and PJ Harvey. Bonus attention is also due to Donna Summer’s powerful cover of Vangelis’s 1981 track “State of Independence.” Produced by Quincy Jones, the recording stands out not only for its bold reinterpretation, but also the star power behind its gospel-infused chorus. Jones pulled out all the stops, calling in favors from some of the biggest names in music to assemble an all-star choir that includes Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Dionne Warwick, Brenda Russell, Christopher Cross, James Ingram, Kenny Loggins, Patti Austin, Michael McDonald, Peggy Lipton, and even actress Dyan Cannon. ________ The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Romare / Lover Man / Projections / 2015 Flavien Berger / sapon / sapon - Single / 2023 Midnight Sister / Blue Cigar / Saturn Over Sunset / 2017 Lyfe Indoors / Binary Crime / Binary Crime - Single / 2023 Melody's Echo Chamber / Pêcheuse de Lune / Unfold / 2022 *Rose Droll / Sleep Easy / With Strangers / 2024 Q Lazzarus / Goodbye Horses / Goodbye Horses - Single / 1991 Soul Supreme / Lyrics to Go / Check the Rhime - Lyrics to Go - Single / 2020 Deniece Williams / Free / This Is Niecy (Expanded Edition) / 1976 Boards of Canada / Olson / Music Has the Right to Children / 1998 Blue Hawaii & Suzanne Kraft / I Felt Love (Suzanne Kraft Remix) / I Felt Love - Single / 2020 Donna Summer / State of Independence / Donna Summer / 1982 DARKSIDE / Hell suite, Pt. II / Nothing / 2025 Mitski / Bug Like an Angel / The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We / 2023 Slowdive / skin in the game / everything is alive / 2023 J.K.& Co. / Fly / Suddenly One Summer / 1968 Batsumi / Itumeleng / Batsumi / 1977 Animal Collective / Soul Capturer / Isn’t It Now? / 2023 RUMTUM / Astro Spin / Astro Spin - Single / 2025 Googoosh / Gheseh Gooye Peere Shahr / Googoosh Golden Songs, Vol. 2 / 1990 Panda Bear, Sonic Boom & Adrian Sherwood / Whirlpool Dub (Adrian Sherwood Reset in Dub Version) / Reset in Dub / 2023 Mos Def / Auditorium / The Ecstatic / 2009 Alain Goraguer / Terr et Medor / La planète sauvage (Expanded Original Soundtrack) / 1973 Baba Ali / Cog in the Wheel / Nomad - Single / 2017 Mitchum Yacoub / Never Knew (feat. Divina Jasso) / Living High in the Brass Empire / 2023 Dralms / Plants Behind Glass / Love Writes Itself / 2020 The Pointer Sisters / Yes We Can, Can / The Pointer Sisters / 1973 J Dilla / Waves / Donuts / 2006 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers / A Chant for Bu / Mission Eternal, Vol. 2 / 1995 Echo & The Bunnymen / The Killing Moon / Ocean Rain / 1984 Neal Francis / Changes, Pts. 1 & 2 / Changes / 2019 Julian Lennon / Too Late for Goodbyes / Valotte / 1984 BADBADNOTGOOD & Charlotte Day Wilson / Sleeper / Sleeper - Single / 2023 The Circling Sun / Spirits, Pt. 2 / Spirits / 2023 Thom Yorke / Knife Edge / Confidenza (Original Soundtrack) / 2024 Alaíde Costa / Gostar de Ninguém / Joia Moderna / 1961 Alek Olsen / Someday I'll Get It / Someday I'll Get It - Single / 2023 Sickoakes / Wedding Rings & Bullets In the Same Golden Shrine (Pt. II) / Seawards / 2006 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

    Mix 32

  8. 05/06/2025

    Mix 31

    For full setlist visit yeahyal.substack.com Episode XXXI, packed onto a FULLY MIXED 43 song mixtape. This episode’s highlighted track: Track 14 Royal Otis - Oysters in My Pocket* New South Wales group, Royal Otis developed a small following when their early 2022 Bar n Grill EP cleverly combined jangly, indie and psychedelic rock on tracks like the catchy Oysters in My Pocket. Leveraging techniques used by many great current Aussie bands, Royal Otis adeptly blend 60s surf rock with 80s new wave to create music embedded with an instantaneous neo-nostalgia. The duo, consisting of Royel Maddell and Otis Pavlovic, saw even greater commercial appeal when their cover of Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s ‘Murder on the Dancefloor’, gained popularity in Emerald Fennell’s dark comedy Saltburn. Channeling bands like New Order and Violent Femmes, “Oysters in My Pocket” relies on the chant-like singing and frenetic strumming of both lads as they pine away for lazy summer days, slurping up salty mollusks. ________ The setlist: Artist / Song Name / Album / Year Illa J / All Good / Yancey Boys / 2008 Charlotte Day Wilson / Find You / CDW - EP / 2016 The Egyptian Lover / Everything She Wants / 1985 / 2018 Erykah Badu / Love of My Life (An Ode to Hip Hop) [feat. Common] / Brown Sugar (Music from the Motion Picture) / 2002 En Vogue / My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It) / Funky Divas / 1992 Jungle / I've Been In Love (feat. Channel Tres) / Volcano / 2023 Django Django / Gazelle / Off Planet Part 4 - EP / 2023 Strafe / Set It Off (Instrumental) / The Original Set It Off - EP / 2007 Little Simz / Gorilla / NO THANK YOU / 2022 George Harrison / I Dig Love / All Things Must Pass / 1970 Livy Ekemezie / Get It Down / Friday Night / 1980 Daft Punk / Short Circuit / Discovery / 2001 Bullion / Where Are We Now / Modern Love / 2021 *Royel Otis / Oysters In My Pocket / Bar N Grill - EP / 2022 The Alan Parsons Project / Don't Answer Me / Ammonia Avenue / 1984 KAYTRANADA / $payforhaiti (feat. Mach-Hommy) / Intimidated - EP / 2021 A Tribe Called Quest / Go Ahead In the Rain / People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm / 1990 The Bar-Kays / Hit And Run / Nightcruising / 1981 Method Man / I'll Be There for You (feat. Mary J. Blige) / I'll Be There for You - Single / 1995 Dynasty / Adventures In the Land of Music / Adventures In the Land of Music / 1980 Supermayer / Hey Hotties! / Kompakt: Total 9 / 2008 Average White Band / Love Your Life / Soul Searching / 1976 The Passions / Oh No It's You / Michael & Miranda / 1980 Freak Slug / Radio / Radio - Single / 2020 Duran Duran / New Moon on Monday / Seven and the Ragged Tiger / 1983 Kool & The Gang / Jungle Jazz / Spirit of the Boogie / 1975 Hashim / Al-Naafyish (The Soul) [Bonus Beats] / Al-Naafyish (The Soul) - EP / 1983 Junior Murvin / Police & Thieves / Police & Thieves / 1976 Harmless / Swing Lynn / I'm Sure / 2012 Sade / Paradise / Stronger Than Pride / 1988 Peanut Butter Wolf / In Your Area / My Vinyl Weighs a Ton (Instrumental Versions) / 1999 Depeche Mode / Policy of Truth (Beat Box Version) / Policy of Truth - EP / 1990 James Brown / Living In America / Rocky IV (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) / 1985 Mos Def / Sex, Love & Money (Instrumental) / Sex, Love & Money / Ghetto Rock - EP / 2004 Funkadelic / The Song Is Familiar / Let's Take It to the Stage / 1975 Gilberto Gil / Marginália II / Gilberto Gil / 1968 Michael Jackson / I Can't Help It / Off the Wall / 1979 Lucy Dacus / Night Shift / Historian / 2018 De La Soul / Shopping Bags (She Got from You) [Instrumental] / The Grind Date / 2004 Decisive Pink / Haffmilch Holiday / Haffmilch Holiday (Jane Weaver Remix) - Single / 2022 Vicktor Taiwò / Digital Kids (feat. Solomon) / Juno - EP / 2015 Jack Harlow / Churchill Downs (Instrumental) / Churchill Downs - Single / 2022 Kinloch Nelson / Lazin' in My Sleep / Partly on Time: Recordings (1968-1970) / 2019 ________ Add our playlists on Spotify and Apple Music to spice up your streaming algorithm. ________ Mix also available on Soundcloud. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit yeahyal.substack.com

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