#Adro fh

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Last Thursday a I saw The Rolling Stones live for the second time in my life at Rock In Rio Lisboa. 

It was also the occasion to discover Gary Clark Jr., a guy who's defined as the future of "Texas Blues". Here I offer you one of my favorite tracks by him for the time being, called "Please Come Home", it's just wonderfully deep and nostalgic.

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I'm not that much a fan of The Black Eyed Peas, but I just came across on Spotify with that incredible song, produced with Justin Tiberlake, of incredible lyrics and incredible logo called "Where Is The Love".

It's for me a song which brings me many memories from ten years ago, when the MTV was still doing great things, musical things. The lyrics are huge, very touching, denouncing racism, violence, discrimination in a time the States and other countries were in the middle of a war in Irak.

This powerful logo kind of lost presence, but I'm it hasn't been forgotten, for all it represents.

[adrofh]

Some fun.

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Beautiful execution by Lacoste with Disclosure's "You and Me" remix by Flume.

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Daft Punk + Julian Casablancas = Instant Crush.

Instant Crush. One of the most well received songs of Daft Punk's 2013 mega success “Random Access Memories“, and probably my favorite song of the album.

I would like to start talking about Julian Casablancas. He is the leader of The Strokes, a band that led the resurgence of Rock'n'Roll in the early 2ooo's and which perfectly managed to define an attractive group image, specially through the figure of its singer, of immense charisma and personality. I always believed to triumph in the music industry, you should create a character, or be one... which also will be reflected in your music. The Beatles were the good boys, the Stones the bad ones, Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie the incarnation of the glam move, the makeup by Kiss members and, of course, the robots of Daft Punk, to mention a few ones, are good examples. Added to this, there is that wonderful lyrical potential and stage presence that made of Julian Casablancas one of the most influenceable frontmen of the past decade. What is remarkable too about this man is his courage to innovate, challenging band mates and fans views, by choosing new directions and exploring other territories. Some may like it, some not; and I completely understand the last two albums of The Strokes may disconcert, but even if I prefer the primitive Strokes, I think I'm starting to appreciate this electronic input by Casablancas.

On the other hand are Daft Punk, the French duo who were part of that small vanguard group (with Laurent Garnier, David Guetta, Busy P, among others), in the early 90's in Paris, interested by the house music coming from Chicago and Manchester. They created a real cult to the personality by means of their robot helmets and were from the beginning precursors of the union of electronic music with other music styles. “Homework was to tell rockers techno music was also good. Discovery was to tell techno guys not to neglect rock“, Thomas Bangalter said once. And here is “Random Access Memories“, where we find, mixed with that electronic and techno basis, touches of funk, disco, soul...

Well, Daft Punk and Julian Casablancas were meant to cross paths. And the result is this great melancholic and moving song called “Instant Crush“. And fellas, here is the video, of beautiful production, starring The Strokes singer turned into a military waxwork who falls in love with a pretty shepherdess. It reminds me the story of a French cartoon (with an amazing soundtrack by the way) called Le Roi et l'oiseau (The King and the Mocking Bird), where also two people of different “color“ carry out their love story. Yeah all right, at least they don't finish molten..!

Musically open-minded, of futuristic and fantasy vision, both great artists and huge names in the music world, this definitely is an explosive association.

Cheers!

Adro.