We felt it was time to create the ultimate chillout playlist, combining as many different genres as possible into one, super-relaxing, easy-listening place. This playlist has been lovingly crafted to include a variety of chilled songs we love as well as suggestions from you guys!
If you already own the songs and want the custom artwork, please feel free to copy/download the artwork below:
Cassettemix + Chill Playlist
This genre-spanning playlist includes the following chilled-out tracks:
Justin Bieber – I’ll Show You
Chris Malinchak – So Good To Me
DJ Snake – Let Me Love You featuring Justin Bieber (Andrew Watt Acoustic Remix)
Aquilo – Sorry
Years & Years – Eyes Shut
The 1975 – Paris
The Japanese House – Swim Against The Tide
MUNA – So Special
Zara Larsson – Lush Life (Acoustic Version)
The Beach – Geronimo (Acoustic Version)
Years & Years – Without
George Ezra – Budapest
Amy Winehouse – Tears Dry (Original Version)
Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
Timeflies – Stuck With Me
John Mayer – Who You Love featuring Katy Perry
One Direction – Perfect (Matoma Remix)
X Ambassadors – Renegades
Sons Of Maria – You & I
Ella Eyre – We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Alex Parks – Out Of Touch
You+Me – Break The Cycle
Freshlyground – I’d Like
George Michael – Jesus To A Child
Chicane – Poppiholla (5am Mix)
Sia – Elastic Heart (Piano Version)
Miley Cyrus – Adore You
TIEKS – Sunshine featuring Dan Harkna (Acoustic Version)
Echosmith – Cool Kids (Acoustic)
Ben Haenow – Second Hand Heart featuring Kelly Clarkson (Acoustic)
Matoma has just revealed his awesome, new, live video for ‘All Night’ featuring The Vamps.
…plus he’s also announed a huge World Tour, for Spring 2017
PARTY AT YOUR PLACE!
Be sure to check it out when his tour hits the UK in February 2017!
Press Release:
After a mammoth U.S. tour and DJ sets at key festivals such as Coachella, Tomorrowland, Lollapalooza and Electric Zoo, Matoma can now announce the biggest headline tour of his career to date. Taking in shows across both North America and Europe, Matoma’s ‘Party At Your Place! World Tour’kicks off in Costa Mesa, California and will conclude with two homecoming shows in Oslo, Norway. To celebrate the announcement Matoma drops an awesome live video diary from his recent massive bus tour of the US, check it HERE.
Matoma recently released ‘False Alarm’ (with Becky Hill), his latest and biggest track (69 million Spotify streams) to be added to his innovative ‘Hakuna Matoma’ album project. It demonstrates Matoma’s ability to reach beyond the confines of tropical house with elements of urban, dance, pop and Caribbean sounds within its palette. ‘Hakuna Matoma’ continues to go from strength-to-strength as it expands and evolves over time on streaming media platforms.
Matoma recently refreshed the groundbreaking playlist-meets-album concept by adapting it to become the ‘Hakuna Matoma – Midnight Edition’. Leading with ‘All Night’ – a collaboration with The Vamps that has attracted over 3 million streams a week since its release – the ‘Midnight Edition’ features collabs and remixes with artists including Coldplay, Jason Derulo, Akon, Popcaan, Wale, Sean Paul, Nico & Vinz, Becky Hill and Dua Lipa.
In the past two years, Matoma has amassed well over half a billion streams. With 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, he ranks higher than long established heavyweights such as Pharrell Williams, Snoop Dogg and U2. His biggest tracks include ‘Old Thing Back’ with Notorious B.I.G. (215million combined streams across Spotify, YouTube and SoundCloud), ‘Try Me’ (126million streams) and ‘Running Out’ (124million streams).
Needless to say, we’re stoked about Matoma‘s upcoming UK dates in 2017 and are really hoping to catch him somewhere along the way! Please share this post and your love for this talented guy!
Troye Sivan is an Australian singer who was born in Africa. He has also been known for his acting and YouTube videos, as well as his music.
Although this song was released back in September 2015, I’ve only just picked it up now and it’s awesome! The vocals are incredible, the lyrics are great and the track is well-produced!
Also, Alessia Cara is blowing up in the UK right now and so she is a great addition to the track too!
We’ve featured Matoma before (quite recently) but he’s back with one hell of an upbeat belter; this time featuring the legendary Sean Paul, plus the awesome and talented KStewart.
The Norwegian tropical house producer (aka Tom Stræte Lagergren) has now released a string of singles and remixes, and must be gearing up to drop an album soon, but in the meantime, this single has got me anticipating his future releases and collaborations! I mean, Sean Paul is a pretty big collaborator to have on board and KStewart is an incredible, upcoming songstress.
What do you think of this great song? Got you in the mood for summer? Have you got any similar #FeelGoodFriday tracks for us? Please share your thoughts and song suggestions in a comment below or via our social media accounts.
Muzik Speaks is 1 year old this week and to celebrate this milestone, we’re giving you a themed playlist, for each day this week. The playlist will contain all of the songs we’ve featured on our blog during the past year, all themed around the corresponding day.
Today, it’s #Two4Tunesday and our playlist includes:
What an incredible first month of 2016, it’s been! We’ve officially become a website (www.muzikspeaks.com) and done an amazing Skype interview with the hilarious Joe Ragosta from Patent Pending as well as the Race The Horizon boys (previously known as The Mend).
You’ll also see a new banner added to the top of the page, Big Lips Apocalypse.
We hope you have enjoyed the songs we’ve shared this month and you can find the Spotify and YouTube playlists below!
We hopefully have a couple more interviews lined up for February too, so keep your eyes and ears peeled.
As always, please keep sharing our posts and remember to share your song choices with us!
OUR CONTINUED AIM
We’d like to ask you, to go ahead and ‘like’ our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/muzikspeaks) and ‘follow’ us on Twitter (www.twitter.com/muzik_speaks). Then if you could please post a status or send a tweet to your followers and friends to ask them to check us out, we’d be really grateful! We want to grow this community and we honestly can’t do it without your support!
Lastly, please, please respond to our posts on Facebook or leave comments on each of our blog posts with your own tracks for each of the daily themes – we want you to share what you’re listening to because we love music as much as you, and we really enjoy finding out about new tunes. Thanks so much!
Matoma is a Norwegian DJ and producer, known mostly for his tropical house sound.
Recently, Matoma (aka Tom Stræte Lagergren) remixed songs for the likes of One Direction, Marlon Roudette and Eminem.
This song was released back in 2015 and is a massive tropical house anthem but I’ve only just discovered it. It’s gaining popularity on the club circuits and is a tune!
This weekend, we present you with our first ever #SummerSongs playlist for 2015! This playlist has been lovingly crafted by the current Muzik Speaks writers, each contributing some summery songs we love!
If you already own the songs and want the custom artwork, please feel free to copy/download the artwork below:
Matt’s Song Selections
There are so many songs on this playlist that I just love! They’re either current songs which right now are giving me that summer feeling, or are a few years old but hold memories for me.
Some of the songs I’ve chosen include;
Jason Derulo – ‘Try Me’ featuring Jennifer Lopez and Matoma – this song’s got a distinct dancehall sound and captured me instantly. The song is on Derulo’s new album, Everything Is 4 and although it’s an album track, it’s the perfect opening track for our summer playlist!
Sam Smith – ‘Lay Me Down (Tiësto Remix)’ – this remix is incredible! I’m a big fan of remixes anyway, but Tiësto’s euphoric, spacious sound on this track, has transformed an already beautiful song, into a electronica dream!
Walk The Moon – ‘Avalanche’ – an album track from their latest release, Talking Is Hard, this song’s guitar sounds make it an upbeat, melodic song. It reminds me of something out of a sunny scene in Made In Chelsea or on the beach.
One Direction – ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ – OK, so I feel I should justify this selection! One Direction, no matter what you think of them, have written some damn good songs; this being one of them! This song has a clear 80s quality to it, it sort of reminds me (not sure why!) of Climie Fisher‘s ‘Love Changes’.
Tyler James – ‘Why Do I Do?’ – I used to love this song when it was released back in 2004 and the jazz-pop qualities of this song are unique and captivating. It’s damn catchy too!
Fall Out Boy – ‘Favorite Record’ – I love Fall Out Boy and they have gone from strength to strength over the years. I love the production on this track and its use of certain effects on the vocals and guitars make it intriguing to listen to. It’s lyrics are also fairly reminiscent and that for me is a quality of summer; making memories to reminisce in years to come.
Michael Jackson – ‘Love Never Felt So Good‘ featuring Justin Timberlake – this song has previously been a #FeelGoodFriday track of mine and it’s not hard to tell why! It’s a perfectly sculpted pop song with the uplifting sounds of Michael Jackson’s vocals, married with modern Timbaland production and support of Justin Timberlake’s voice.
Razorlight – ‘Rip It Up’ – released back in 2004, this has many memories of countless parties I went to whilst at my secondary school and just makes me think of times I spent with friends. It’s energetic tempo makes for a hard-hitting belter.
Vance Joy – ‘Riptide’ – this song is a personal favourite of mine; I was once shown this track by someone I admire for overcoming their fear of performing and its California surfing sound is the perfect calming close to our playlist.
My other selections include songs by; Ariana Grande, Two Door Cinema Club, Train, DJ Fresh featuring Rita Ora, Sigma, Frankmusik, Clean Banditand Shift K3Y.
That’s it from me! I hope you like the songs I’ve contributed to the playlist and that they might help shape some memories for you too. Please share this playlist with your friends. Matt x
Max’s Song Selections
I’m really excited to share this playlist with you guys, it’s packed full of great tunes listen to this summer. Our selection is quite varied in styles and genres as we hope to capture all the highs and lows of your summer through the playlist.
The song I added to this playlist are:
Dan Croll – ‘From Nowhere’ – this song is just far too cheery to not have in your summer playlist! The upbeat riffs and instruments make this song a good listen.
Only Real – ‘When This Begins’ – to be honest I’m in love with this whole album. But this tune fits best with our Summer vibes, it’s probably one you’ll put on, sit back and relax to. If you like ‘Only Real’ be sure to check his feature in my #WildCardWednesday post.
Toddla T – ‘Take It Back’ – although this song isn’t too recent, I think some clean Drum n Bass is essential for a good playlist. ‘Take It Back’ has some beautiful vocals over this great backing track.
La Roux – ‘Uptight Downtown’ – This song grabbed me by it’s instrumentals, it’s on the verge of a pretty interesting ‘funk’ track. Also I personally love La Roux’s voice regardless, it’s so clean and natural sounding. Her songs should defiantly feature in your summer this year!
SBTRKT – ‘IMO’ – this song is a little different to the others. It’s a very mellow tune, with an overall softness to the instrumental. It’s a beautiful song nonetheless, some really nice production went into this!
These are all of the songs I’ve decided to choose for the summer; enjoy!
We’ve gathered only the best songs which are sure to make your summer special. We want this summer to be one you’ll remember for the best reasons! Check out the full playlist on Spotify. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
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