Don Quijote X BeatRehab

It’s the holiday season and most of us are back home from work and school, back to our families and old friends, back to that which is so familiar yet now seems vey much alien to us. The food, the routine, the conversations, all a somewhat surreal déjà vu, we are no longer sure if we belong. Anyhow, the holiday season has this magical aura about it where the old and the familiar meet collide with the new and ever changing. We keep coming back home, more changed with every passing year, more different than ever. This very concept is what brings us to today’s post on CasaSwoop: a clash of classic and modern, and get ready because its gonna make you try to moonwalk all over your house. That’s right, no shame, because its MJ baby! Michael Jackson’s melodramatic yet funky hit song ‘Remember The Time’ (yeah that’s the one with the music video where everyone’s like a kinky Egyptian Pharaoh. But if you thought that was hot back in the day, you are in for surprise as soon as you listen to D...

Summer has long since ended, and now winter has come. As we sit at our desks, in our libraries, or at our offices, I think we can all relate to the feeling of wanting to get on a flight and get away as quickly as possible. London-based PREP's chill-wave/crooner hybrid track, "Cheapest Flight," perfectly encapsulates those emotions in a song feels both depressing and uplifting at the same time. I fucking love this song. The first time I heard it, it just popped up in my feed and I was immediately sucked in by the blend of classic sounds (a la trumpets and saxophones) and electronic elements (there is substantial synth use). While all of those things are great, and they are truly great, what keeps me coming back for more is the tasty harmonies layered over that unbelievably well-built melody in the chorus. Coupling those harmonies with the horns and saxophones gives this track a big band feel, all while rooting itself in a mellow but potent electro-bass line. I've alw...