Forplay’s friday night chill

“I’ll listen when I’m told - sit back - don’t think - get high - take drink - sit back - don’t think”….and so should you.

Sounds Like: Danger Mouse, Mayer Hawthorne, Broken Bells

Goodie Bag
Electric Guest - This Head I Hold (Left-Click)

Sometimes forplay gets a good feeling

Sounds Like:Gramatik, Nightmares on Wax, RJD2

Goodie Bag
Pretty Lights - Finally Moving Left-Click

Forplay’s declaration of dub

Though my work will be slightly less celebrated than Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, I have started to catalog my own variety of evolution - duboluton, the evolution of dub. This is the latest entry.

Goodie Bag
King Tubby - Take Five (Left Click)

kinnietheexplorer:

Good morning. Here’s the second free download from Kinnie The Explorer’s new album, this one’s called ‘Empyrean’.

Forplay’s prescriptions are over-the-counter and highly recommended.

Kings of Convenience’s Quiet is the new Loud is an excellent way to submerge yourself into a bottle of Scotch. The album can be extremely peaceful and awfully melancholic at the same time. However, there is a time and place for melancholy and that time is not Christmas night.

Christmas night is probably best complemented by Versus (Quiet is the new Loud Remixed), and a responsible dose of nyquil (if you’re ill).

Sounds Like: AIR, Jose Gonzalez, Fink

Goodie Bag
Kings of Convenience - Gold for the price of Silver (Erot vs. Kings of Convenience verson) (Left-Click)

Forplay’s educational post

Spotify launched as a platform for apps this week. The enhancements are pretty smooth. It hasn’t quite nailed down recommendations for me, and Sean Parker is definitely not creating top playlists near me, but that’s okay. The release is a neat integration of a lot of elements.

One such element is the apps - more specifically Mood Agent. With a preference for Mood Agent’s spotify app over its iPhone version, I decided to settle my long fought battle between the merits of algorithmic and hand-crafted mood regulating recommendations. And here’s a little about how that went:

Theories on Music as a Mood Regulator reason that the concept of mood and emotional regulation is rooted in psychoanalytical defense mechanisms and coping traditions. Using music as an agent then has two main goals: mood enhancement or mood regulation. Strategies to affect mood using music are broken out as so:

Entertainment is creating a nice atmosphere and happy feeling to maintain or enhance current mood.
Revival represents personal renewal: relaxing and getting new energy when feeling stressed or tired.
Strong Sensation is about searching for intense emotional experiences.
Diversion means forgetting unwanted thoughts and feelings with the help of pleasant music.
Discharge is about emotional disclosure, releasing anger or sadness through music that expresses these emotions.
Mental Work includes using music as a framework for mental contemplation and reappraisal of emotional preoccupations.
Solace is about searching for feelings of being accepted and understood by music when feeling sad or troubled.

Since forplay’s raison d’etre has always been to catalog mood inspired music, it only makes sense to categorize music by mood regulating strategies. Which brings us back to Mood Agent - and their categorization of Patrick Watson’s Fireweed. They had no category for it and I took that as my impetus for putting together similarly regulating tracks.

Nine tracks, 36 minutes, and one spotify subscriber to the playlist later, I present to you what Solace might sound like.

Mood Agent’s categorization of this mood

Mexico isn’t known for its muscle relaxers, but they’re a duty free delicacy south of the border. I’ve been hanging on to a couple “souvenirs” for about a year now - and finally decided to remedy my complete body breakdown with relaxers, vegetable juices, vitamins, sinus medication, and a gallon of Poland Spring’s finest h2O.

Stay tuned for results. But for now - here’s what a night on muscle relaxers may sound like.

Sounds Like: Washed Out, Toro Y Moi, Blackbird Blackbird

Goodie Bag
Boat Club - All The Time (Left-Click)