well it's a HOT ONE - your brand nu Summer Jams Thread for 2017 !

new amadou & maryam is great. electric guitar, roland handclaps and stonking bassline

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SJR81-JIwA

by the way there are some great remixes of that turbotito track by in flagranti and jkriv

The car stereos of London are sounding better this summer than they have in years.

J Hus - Common Sense:
https://youtu.be/tsO01Nl5TO4

MoStack - Ussy Ussy:
https://youtu.be/AABcDQOE5h0

M.O. - Not In Love:
https://youtu.be/EHv57_z-EDs

Rude Kid ft. Ghetts: Banger After Banger:
https://youtu.be/d0dGI3jcbDY

Shenesea - Dynamite:
https://youtu.be/p6qjv1zDYfA

Bunji Garlin - Chicken and Dumpling:
https://youtu.be/-HKVZkxmNC0

― Matt DC,

Is this really what you listen to in London!? This is awesome.

Other noms:

Pastaboys - Deep Musique (Rampa remix)
Ibibio Sounds Machine - Give Me a Reason
Lorde - Green Light (Chromeo remix)
Dent May - Across the Multiverse (feat. Frankie Cosmos)
Alex G - Sportstar
Mt. Joy - Sheep

it's what i was listening to earlier while i was doing the ironing if that counts. the bunji garlin caused a cessation of the ironing and a dance round the dining room table.

also definitely heard j hus coming out of cars when i'm cycling home from work.

Excuse moi but I just heard despacito for the first time today and had to google it to see if it wasn't a straight up cover of el perdon by nicky jam?????? Which cannot be a particularly obscure song since I found it on one of Spotify's top charts playlist a year or two ago.

Srsly listen to it and tell me

https://youtu.be/hXI8RQYC36Q

Is Despacito one of the first reggaeton songs you've heard?

El perdon was also a very popular reggaeton song last year featuring Enrique Iglesias (400M plays in spotify). It doesn't sound like despacito at all, at least for me... it's more that mostly all reggaeton sounds similar because it's very limited in what it can do with its beat and producers are very lazy to do something creative with it.

Listen to the top songs by Maluma or Zion & Lennox or J Balvin and you'll probably think they also sound like Despacito.

That's kind of my problem with reggaeton. Does wonders for a latin party but it's generic to the point where every new reggaeton hit replaced the last one.

first time i heard "el perdon" i thought it was a remix of enrique's "bailando" b/c some of its lines sound so similar in melody and cadence

I'm no reggaeton expert but I listen to whatever makes it to the chart roundup playlists/global streaming charts/etc, I've never thought that two songs sounded so damn alike until these two though

now that I'm typing this I remember I was in Miami a few weeks ago and a song came on the radio at the restaurant and everyone was jamming to it and I thought "this song sounds a hell of a lot like el perdon" and figured it was some remix or something, obvs it must have been despacito and I had no clue

some great recent additions all

This small list has been great today:

Amber Coffman - City of no reply
Shabazz Palaces - Shine a Light
Quim Manuel O Espiritu Santo - Senhor Doutor (Adam Port edit)

Frank Ocean - Biking (Solo)

is also sort of breezy

"Pandora's Song of the Summer Mix Tape"

1-800-273-8255 - Logic (Feat. Alessia Cara & Khalid)
Attention - Charlie Puth
Bad Liar - Selena Gomez
Believer - Imagine Dragons
Body Like A Back Road - Sam Hunt
Congratulations - Post Malone (Feat. Quavo)
Despacito - Luis Fonsi & Daddy Yankee (Feat. Justin Bieber) (Remix)
Down - Fifth Harmony
Drinkin' Problem - Midland
Hard Times - Paramore
I'm The One - DJ Khaled (Feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance The Rapper & Lil Wayne)
Know No Better - Major Lazer (Feat. Travis Scott, Camila Cabello & Quavo)
Location - Khalid
LOYALTY - Kendrick Lamar (Feat. Rihanna)
Magnolia - Playboi Carti
Malibu - Miley Cyrus
Mask Off - Future
Passionfruit - Drake
Slide - Calvin Harris (Feat. Frank Ocean & Migos)
XO TOUR Llif3 - Lil Uzi Vert

Big Boi "All Night"

It wouldn't be a Summer Jams thread without Bicep (track is 'Aura')

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvlym4g9SQQ

re: Reggaeton / Despacito - last time reggaeton made a serious chart impact here int he UK AFAICR was in 2005 with 'Gasolina', which I always liked. I prefer the tough, driving sound of that track over the kind I hear on Despacito, which sounds like a track designed by committee to appeal to US pop audiences

Lido - Not Enough (feat. THEY)

https://soundcloud.com/lidogotsongs/not-enough-ft-they

The car stereos of London are sounding better this summer than they have in years.

Haven't heard this in any car stereos yet, but its only a matter of time before it comes over the tannoy at Spotland. The lady in Greggs has been smashing it out for months as well, all the brexit lads had their tops off in the car park round the back apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny4R5h3pPKA

i.... love that

What song is that 'back in time for tea' or the artist?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1BDDXgMYME

^

some good 60s appropriation

Where are you dashcamming your way to tea, saer? N-Yorks?

I was on my way to Burnley, traffic was a dream I made it in time!

yes mate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEco6nwbum0

some of the stuff that green lad was playing at the afters was out of this world. I only managed to capture this small section of it before I had to leave to get the bus

Burnley! Thought it looked familiar.

And good tune this, yes mate.

saer did you make Back In TIme For Tea?

I didn't. I was distracted by a fucking massive swan by the canal!

no but.. no you know what i mean

Cheburashka!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lguSVD7piyo

TOPS album is great. One of the best I've heard this year. I'd personally nominate CUTLASS CRUISER instead of PETALS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFtFKrFlIYw

so we're almost in july : is one of these THE summer jam ?
I think the one I've heard the most at random places might be the C. Harris/F.Ocean but even that one doesn't seem to be that big and ubiquitous... very far from the "Get Lucky"/"Blurred Lines"/"Uptown Funk" level !

Despacito and Shape of You are the big ones over here but both have been around since January so I don't know if they can qualify as Summer jams... I've listened to them so much in parties at this point that it feels like they've been around for years.

I posted this for the balearic hunter-gatherers already as it seemed something they might use on a hunt. Someone had left it on the bus and I tried it and then this happened

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbzbsiX6ZfU

What is that? I love it!

Scarper!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8TTL8e_YjM

Another Juls joint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvOWpwOR2UU

Vision DJ ft. Samini, "Like December".

(Apologies for the unsummery title)

a meandering summer stroll here. this is by Lizz. Might come out later this year who knows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jNyqIWm_Dg

Car won't start just get the bus you know!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRfZpnrDH_Q

Summer is here! I like summer its one of the top 3 seasons

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZh0BujTSk

throwback summer jams

tranquility bass - they came in peace
mystikal - danger (been so long) feat. nivea
markus nikolai - passion
armand van helden - flowerz

timbaland & magoo - drop

or maybe i'm just horny 🤔

The persistence of "Despacito" -- still #1 -- is . I wouldn't have expected a crossover reggaeton smash in 2017, especially one that's so objectively bland. I'd love to hot-take connect it to something, but I guess all I can come up with is that it's interesting we have a bilingual hit in the summer of Trump.

Meant to say the persistence is impressive...