Stony Stone, Jimmy Diamond, Marika Hackman, Biensüre… The playlist from the “Libération” music notebook – Libération

2024-01-05 22:09:00

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The discovery: Stony Stone, Marseille party version

If we often associate Marseille rap with a certain form of melancholy and social realism, another characteristic of this scene sometimes seems neglected: its attraction to partying. From Jul to the Fonky Family, including Akhenaton (notably on the Electro Cypher compilation album), Marseille rap has always kept an eye on electronic music to add dance to its pieces.

With his red hair dye and speed glasses hiding his eyes, rapper Stony Stone perpetuates this local tradition with songs, each more euphoric than the next, while giving them additional singularity by drawing inspiration from a specific subgenre of electronic music: 2step. Born in English clubs, this style carried by syncopated rhythms irrigates the pieces of this young artist who appeared two years ago, whose name often comes up when we talk about the new generation of Marseille rap. A status that he reinforced a little more last November with ROUGE RED ROSSO, a new EP in which he further asserts his artistic proposition. Introspective while remaining festive, the music he presents on these four new titles perpetuates the sound heritage of his city: between Marseille vocabulary distilled through rhymes, sorrows sung under autotune (SORS DE MA TÊTE) and dancing melodies (MARK LANDERS), Stony Stone succeeds in respecting his heritage – particularly in his writing, very melancholy like other rappers from this city – while retaining his share of singularity. And proves that you can be a pure product of Marseille, while still achieving a real musical sidestep.

Stony Stone ROUGE RED ROSSO (Good to Great Entertainment /Sony)

To the playlist

Jimmy Diamond On Purpose

It’s difficult when listening to this excited country rock cut out for the great outdoors, to imagine that it was born by a trio, not from the depths of Texas or Nebraska, but from the Netherlands. Excerpt from an album that launches 2024 on the rocks.

Marika Hackman Please Don’t be so Kind

Despite this title, we really want to be kind to a nicely hazy folk-pop title. One of the gems of the fourth album from a singer who can be compared as a mix between PJ Harvey and Joanna Newsom. Not false.

Good Paradise

We noticed in these pages this Marseillais trio with multiple origins (Turkey, Italy, Armenia). A remarkable cosmopolitanism which is expressed in this new title with a club spirit and very Anatolian melancholy. Is not it ?

Dizzee Rascal feat. iLL BLU Sugar and Spice

Twenty years after his brilliant Boy in da Corner, Dizzee Rascal is back with an eighth album sweeping away two decades of British bass music. And listening to this preview, the grime veteran is in great shape.

Saint DX Everyday

How can we achieve something new with electronic-pop influences that take us back to the MTV side of the 90s? Aurélien Hamm, his real name, spotted in the shadow of Damso or Charlotte Gainsbourg, finds the answer.