This interactive website exploring the way legendary hip hop producer J Dilla creates his wonky grooves is fun to play around with.

This super playful jazz funk funtime fusion album by Sam Greenfield puts both a smile and a funk gurn on my face simultaneously, which is not a pretty sight I can tell you.

Loving this song and playful music video by Benny Sings. Silly Robo-Benny!

Rozi Plain’s new album is a laid back journey through another world, padded with warm synths and gently driving rhythms. I love it!

This song and surreal music video by Rozi Plain transports me to another realm, I love it!

This music video by Louis Cole is full of beautifully understated and ridiculous dance moves, choreographed by Louis himself!

This musical performance gave me tingles when I first watched it. There’s always something amazing about a mass of people joining together in music, and it’s even more special that Jacob plays with people’s intuitive understanding of musical scales to play them like an instrument! See also Bobby McFerrin doing the same kinda thing…

This E.P. of chirpy organ music has been giving me the grins recently. Start from track 2 for maximum chirp!

Gunhild Carling is a Swedish multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who has a flare for entertaining in playful ways! I saw a video of her playing 3 trumpets at once, which led to this video of her playing Happy on a bunch of different instruments, including a triple-trumpet parp-bonanza! Toot-toot-toooooot!

This wonky, silly, electronic album by Graham Kartna has been filling my glad bags with happy pixels on repeat recently!

A curated selection of small, cosy, unusual music. I’ve been enjoying listening to this while practising coding 🤓

I made the mistake of playing this retro smooth synth funk music video to my toddler and it’s now become a multiple times daily ritual that we watch this extra-long-ponytailed man emote on his synthesizer. But I don’t mind because if my baby’s into synthesisers then as far as I’m concerned I’ve done my job as a father perfectly 👌

A beautiful vocal and analogue synthesiser performance. Oh there’s a cello too! It’s powerful and spacious at the same time, like THE UNIVERSE ITSELF WHOAAA 🌌

An ambient sound/music project by sound artist Crystal Cortez which uses the electrical impulses of growing plants to create musical pitches and sounds. The pieces on this website were made from plant data and field recordings collected at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland Oregon.

I love this brass quartet piece by The Westerlies, it’s kinda joyful and beautiful! If you like this, their album Wherein Lies The Good is definitely worth a listen, some wonderful stuff on there 🎺

My friend Verity Standen made this beautiful song and music video in the depths of the pandemic. I first watched this a couple of months ago feeling deeply exhausted with it all, and I proper blubbed, I tell you, blubbed all down my face.

This pop/punk/noise album by Norwegian band Pom Poko is like candied habañeros, sweet but spiky! Gets me excited!

This compilation album of Venezualan music from 1966 - 1978 is bringing some sunshine to my life at the moment. My lil boy loves dancing to it too! There’s a second compilation out soon if this floats your boat.

A musical making video with a fun version of Popcorn at the end :)

A home concert video with Róisín managing to be totally captivating and badass in her living room!