“Hopelessness” – Anohni

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“Gemini Feed” – Banks

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“Lemonade” – Beyoncé

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“Augustine” – Blood Orange

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“I Did” – Bonzai

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“Broccoli” – D.R.A.M. x Lil Yachty

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“Lazarus” – David Bowie

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“Nikes” – Frank Ocean

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“Kill V. Maim” – Grimes

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“Gosh” – Jamie xx

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“Oh No” – Jessy Lanza

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“Wolves” – Kanye West

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“Glowed Up” – Kaytranada x Anderson .Paak

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“Super Hero” – Kool Keith x MF DOOM

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“Freak” – Lana Del Rey

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“Les Cactus” – The Last Shadow Puppets

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“1 Night” – Lil Yachty

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“Technique” – Mai Lan

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“Brujas” – Princess Nokia

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“Human” – Sevdaliza

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You can check the whole playlist (only Frank Ocean‘s “Nikes” is missing) on our YouTube channel!

You can also check our other lists:

20 Favorite Videos

20 Favorite EPs

20 Favorite Albums and Mixtapes

Radar 2017

100 Favorite Tracks

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]E[/su_dropcap]very Wednesday on HighClouds, from now until death do us part, we publish the picky playlists of our Brussels’ friend and collaborator Deer Du Bois. He has been demonstrating a real talent in highlighting emerging and talented acts and imposes himself as a real talent-spotter. Every week, his playlist is a sharp and buzzing selection of new discoveries in indie and pop music. And lucky you: we are now your fresh and fun place to weekly seat and savor his delightful “indie.tronic.dream.pop.chill.wave” cocktail. So, do you mind a cup?

This Week, the Deer Du Bois playlist features levitation and electro-chocks!

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Levitation and electro-chocks will be pulsing back and forth this week when we plug into the avant-glitch of Mai Lan with “Technique” and Bec Sandrige‘s “You’re a fucking Joke”.

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Boil those noodles and eat them with “New Friends” by the Swedish RABBII if you think your regular ones are too “Old Skool” like Metronomy in the Fatima Yamaha remix.

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Get to know each other better by touching “Palms” with Rationale or with lifting you up to spiritual heights on Aussie heartthrob Oscar Key Sung‘s “Hands”.

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For those softer moments, when the beat goes down and people can finally start to talk to each other we added the darling Liyv and her utmost happy “Little Fox” and LAFAWANDAH with her Ace of Base cover of “All That She Wants”. Oh, and there is some Rihanna too, and she’s ready to kiss you!

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If you want to drink a bit more until you get tipsy, you should check him on Facebook and Soundcloud, and follow his regular posts on our site.

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Then why am I wasting my time? Go find out what it means to be served fire… THEN return… Just so you know exactly what breed of FIYAH we have on our hands…. because this fire right here…. THIS MAI LAN FIRE RIGHT HERE????…. YOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. Breathe… 🙂

You know how it is on the internet. Random shit, and random people talking and doing random shit. Random songs about random shit. Random shit about random shit ..on toast. We’re on a different… fucking … wave right now. Which is why… This song…is FIYAAAHHHHHHHH!

Mai Lan‘s ‘Technique’ literally orders you to become addicted to the random shit she does…and I cannot and will not get enough of her shit.

With a simple electronica-drum’n’bass-tripbeat-trapstep-hopscotch bounce laced on the kind of electro groove you hear before every drop for every song… you are left feeling a little bit blue-balled.

(See ‘Blue Balls’)

Mai Lan isn’t playing with you fuckers. She’s tickling your fancy; pulling you in …and leaving your thirsty ass at the door. And you WILL keep coming back for more.

By the way. Whoever hired PANAMÆRA to direct the video was clearly hired by life itself. The video is a work of beauty: Anime-imposed facial expressions (0:47) to yoga-esque choreography…and all the colourful backdrops with gold-bangled hand-signs in-between?
…Dude.
…Hyphens are necessary.
FI-YAH.

It all just works…and yet I don’t think I’ve given you five reasons why:
1) Egg
2) Pizza
3) Noodles
4) Computer Breaks
5) That alien-cat-human-thing at 2:37

O.o

And did you hear those minty-cool harmonies at the end, tying the tune together? I… don’t need anything more from you, Mai Lan. This is your first, second, third, fourth and fifth single. This is your first, second, third and eighty-ninth album. You won!

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I wasn’t put off by the way she said ‘De-licious’ …

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Buy Mai Lan‘s “Technique” on iTunes and follow her on Facebookand Soundcloud!