Six Records:
Coloray picks his six favourite records.
Date
21.06.2020
Editor
Raynor de Groot Intercept founder & making music as Coloray.
Photos
Koen van Santvoort
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Pixies – Where Is My Mind
The first time I heard this track I was around 15 years old. I don’t know how but I think via Kazaa or some other file sharing platform I found out about Pixies. It really hit hard and it was my go to song every day for weeks. Walking through the halls of the school I didn’t like I’d play this song and feel bad. It’s important to have songs like these to really make you feel instead of doing other dumb shit to mask that.
Oni Ayhun – OAR003-B
This is THE track for me that made me enforced my decision to become a musician. I’ve heard this track on 2 occasion that really made an impact. Leon Vynehall at Trouw and Four Tet at Dekmantel. I was a lot younger, around 20-21 years old, maybe 22. And this track has a sort of floating emotional feeling to it. When partying, it feels like you’re being healed. There’s energy, but not too much to make it really peak time. It’s the sort of song that makes you realise sadness comes with happiness and that it’s two sides of the same coin. A sad banger for sure.
DAF – Der Mussolini
That bassline, the driving drums, the commanding vocals: It’s all something that made me jumping up and down when I first heard it. Also, the lyrics are political and can be interpreted in different ways. I like that. It’s deep and simple at the same time.
Minor Science – Naturally Spineless
This is one of those tracks I’ve analysed time and time again. It’s so interesting how the whole thing is spacious and sort of trippy but also very raw and straightforward. A hard balance to strike and the whole style of music is something I’m experimenting myself with more and more. Also thanks to being inspired by friends / labelmates like French II.
The Human League – Seconds
That bassline, the driving drums, the commanding vocals: It’s all something that made me jumping up and down when I first heard it. Also, the lyrics are political and can be interpreted in different ways. I like that. It’s deep and simple at the same time.
Total Control – Laughing at the system
Such a great tune, so raw, so atonal and so punk. It sounds comical in a way too, like a court jester jumping around and saying ‘laughing at the system haha!”. I love it.
