MMN Artist-Run Radio: Jessica 6 Get Sensual With Portishead, Al Green (STREAM)
From time to time, MMN asks its favorite artists to create personally curated playlists for our curiosity-satisfying- and audio-streaming pleasure. Themes and styles will vary, but you’ll always know your favorite bands just a little better after listening.
Today’s MMN Artist Radio DJ is: Jessica 6.
Formed while the three of them were members of disco revival act Hercules & Love Affair, Jessica 6 pushing the very movement that brought them together into seductive new territory. Combining disco with the kind of electro best-suited for a dimly lit night club, the Brooklyn trio are lighting up dancefloors across the country just as they’re gearing up for the release of their debut album, <em>See the Light</em>, next month. Before Jessica 6 became the latest staple of your party soundtrack, though, they were kind enough to give MOG an exclusive playlist featuring some of their favorite sensual jams by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Bootsy Collins, and many more. Check out the tracks alongside the band’s commentary, and stream the playlist (YouTube links have been provided for any selections not available in our MOG library) after the jump….
Stream Jessica 6’s MMN Artist-Run Radio Playlist
1. Private – “My Secret Lover (Diplo Remix)”
Nomi Ruiz Says: “This is a great song to play right when your lover first walks through the door.” (HEAR IT HERE)
2. Mobb Deep – “G.O.D. Part III”
Nomi Ruiz Says: “Dangerous street alley way sex.”
3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Rich”
Nomi Ruiz Says: “This is the song you play when you’re getting thrown against a wall.”
4. Portishead – “Roads”
Andrew Raposo Says: “I once put this on while I was making out with a girl and she asked ‘are you a lesbian?’ Answer: yes.”
5. Sly and The Family Stone – “Just Like a Baby”
Andrew Raposo Says: “If it is night, and you’re near the bedroom, and clothing doesn’t start coming off after this hits her ears than she’s just not that into you.”
6. David Axelrod – “The Human Abstract”
Andrew Raposo Says: “For those who attempt to do get down after doing hard drugs and drinking a lot of champagne in a penthouse apartment uptown–this song is for you.”
7. Bootsy Collins – “I’d Rather Be With You”
Morgan Wiley Says: “This song is serious funk in your trunk that’s good for the bunk if you know what
I’m saying…”
8. Al Green – “Simply Beautiful”
Morgan Wiley Says: “This classic jam is perfect for some slow simply beautiful lovin’….”
9. Notorious B.I.G feat. R. Kelly – “Fuck You”
Morgan Wiley Says: “This number says it all. What are we doing tonight? You know!”
Listen to Jessica 6, and hear Fun Girls along with other albums, at MOG.
