- And then you're like, damn, all right
what else do we listen to in music?
But I.
- Hello, Mom?
I'm on an interview. I love you.
I'll call you back.
(upbeat music)
- We're Majid Jordan,
and we're with Buzzfeed, and today we're building.
- Our ultimate playlists. Let's go.
Funny enough.
I don't really make playlists.
I'm really unorganized, but I keep all of our music
very organized, and then the music that I'm,
that I actually am a fan of,
I'm like constantly like tripping over it,
and rediscovering it.
This guy over here has like,
the nicest playlists I've ever seen in my life.
It's like 60 hours of music.
- I just keep adding to it and I'll go through phases
of just songs and like around the world or eras in times.
And this will be like, oh, when I found out about,
you know Samba, oh, these are all Arabic songs.
Oh, this is all pop from the '70s or '80s.
So it's private, and I send it only to the homies.
When I was a baby, the first song,
my aunt always tells the story.
She was asleep on the sofa.
And I was like, still in like nappies, diapers at the time.
And I went up to her and I started singing.
♪ All that she wants is another baby ♪
♪ She's gonna ♪
♪ All that she wants ♪
- As a baby.
I was singing all that she wants is another baby.
Yeah. - It's funny
- That, that was the first song I ever sang.
What about you?
- Since a young age, I was like constantly
around different people whose music tastes
and my like older sister would listen to music
and I would like take her CDs and stuff.
I remember taking her like Sean Paul CD,
when I was six years old.
That's Iraq.
- Okay. I love that. - Yeah.
(laughs)
- She's like walk into my room.
Like, what are you doing?
That's mine.
(laughing)
- My dad never left the disco era,
we're ever going to play a show if we're ever DJing,
and he's like, going to the disco tonight?
I'm like, it's called the club,
you know, we're going to the club.
He's like, you doing a disco thing.
You know, he used to run like a medallion,
a big lapel, and everything.
I always remember listening to "And The Beat Goes On",
by The Whispers in the car with him.
- And we have the play like, oh, property,
- We'll do a roller. - For sure. For sure yeah.
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- The first album that I bought was
The Jimmy Hendrix Experience.
I was a big compilation kid, you know?
So I buy the compilation,
I was like, - Bang for your buck.
- I Just want the greatest hits,
you know, like yo, you're six years old.
You should slow down.
But I was like, no, just cut to the chase.
You know, the greatest hits.
I remember hear,
(laughing)
- I remember hearing "All Along the Watchtower".
I vividly remember being in the car with my dad
and listening to that,
and hearing like the stereo pan they had on the drums.
And I was like, yo.
- I didn't even know what a stereo pan was.
I don't even think the stereos panned in my car.
I lived in Bahrain only like massive artists,
would ever stop by there.
The first show was Shaggy.
"Mr. Bombastic" was the song.
And that was my entry.
And I don't know if it panned on the stereo or anything,
but I just remember being like damn.
Also, Craig David came to Bahrain.
He had, he had to change like four times
cause all he brought were long sleeves.
It's so hot there. So hot.
Like he was like, yo I'll be right back,
then he came out, it was like another long sleeve.
I was like, oh, this guy's gonna be too hot.
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- So when I was in high school,
I got introduced to house music.
All the different types of dance music
but specifically house music through my friend Camilla,
and we used to DJ together.
And then that kind of like, started my,
my production DJing, making electronic music.
And I learned a lot through that.
I think it would probably be like,
"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger"
- And when I was young
I got kicked out of a class for some reason.
I remember this.
And I was like, I wasn't,
I was a good kid, but I, you know, I don't know.
I did something wrong that time, I was outside,
and I remember this girl that I had a crush on
in school that was probably like sixth grade.
She came up to me and she's like, yo, listen to the song.
And she played "Hey Ma" by Cam'ron.
- That sounds like such a high school.
Like first, a lot first or last day of high school
you walked in,
hip hops, playing,
towards the doors open. - Yeah.
- And you see your crush. - Yeah.
"Hey Ma"
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- "Blessing Me" by Bjork.
That song is crazy.
Try that on for, for size.
Let me know what you think.
That was, - Yeah that was.
- Probably, "I loves you Porgy" by Nina Simone.
It's a cover she did, I think on her first album.
I don't know why it makes me so sad.
(gentle music)
(humming)
- Really.
(humming)
- Yeah? - No.
- No, anything I, I fall in love with all the time.
Like life is for love, you know?
Like that's all we got it.
So I play, I play just anything that feels good.
It feels warm. - Yeah.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I, I agree.
I, I think about our music.
When, when you asked that question.
I, I'm in love with,
with making music.
- My new song "Waves of Blue is that idea, like, there's
there's a line in it where it's, "I'm in love
with the thought of being in love with you."
And when I was growing up, I used to spend a lot
of time just by the water.
And that image was always in my head, the image of waves,
just that thought of what it would feel like to be in love.
It's very like young, like, you know, kind of naive.
And I feel like when, when I really am in love,
or I'm wanting to feel love, we turned the music on.
- Like for sure,
- Nine times out of 10,
it's not even about putting something on,
It's like, oh, I need to put this down.
(upbeat music)
♪ Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday ♪
- Yeah it's kinda been.
♪ Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ♪
- Yeah that's a great song. - We play that one a lot.
"Never too much."
- Yeah. Luther Vandross "Never Too Much."
I was talking to a friend the other day and she said,
My pregame song is "Breathe Again" by Toni Braxton.
(laughing)
- It's so like.
- Are you sure you want to go out?
- She's like, I listen to that, and I get in the headspace.
I'm about to breathe again inside the club.
That's the beautiful thing about music.
You can choose what it, what you want it to be for you.
That's kind of how we DJ,
we go completely with like, what, what we want to feel.
It might be an R&B vocal over a house beat,
or like a rap vocal over a disco or Motown record.
And, and just the rhythmic nature of both of them.
It's all just about that rhythm for us.
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- Mm. I think,
the inspiration usually comes
from the conversations, to be honest.
There are some times that like,
I've listened to something and I'm like,
damn, I really want to make something
that makes me feel like that.
Not necessarily, like,
I want to make something that sounds like that.
I want to make something that makes me feel like that.
I think that capturing that influence is like
really important with like the essence of originality.
Cause then anything you paved after that was like,
it was very fluid, right?
- Yeah.
- But if you're trying to replicate something,
you know, it's, it's not, it's not going to be the same.
It's going to be different.
And they're just like, you're starting on ground, you know?
But they have that sense feeling.
I think that is what I'm always listening to,
or listening for in music, you know.
Like I'll have some weird references I'll show Madj,
and he's like, why do you like,
and then I'll explain them,
like, it's like that one thing.
And then he's like, oh, okay I get it.
- Yeah, I'm the guy who just never understands.
That's me. - Yeah.
- Why? Why?
- He always needs an explanation.
- Explain.
(laughing)
- I don't get it.
- But like, you know.
- We have a great relationship.
(laughing)
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- I like albums that you don't skip, you know?
Like I like when, when you play like an Outkast album,
like Aquemini, and you like,
you can listen to that whole album.
That's good.
And then you're like, damn, all right
what else do we listen to in music?
But I.
- Hello Mom?
I'm on the interview, I love you.
I'll call you back.
I'll call you before.
Okay. Bye.
Bye. Love you.
It was my mom.
- You should've asked her what.
- Yeah. What's her favorite, oh dammit.
- It was the perfect chance.
- There's a song by Gyptian,
it's called "Beautiful Lady".
("Beautiful Lady" played on phone speaker)
- It's like the sun coming up.
He tells a story.
The whole thing is just a story.
("Beautiful Lady" played on phone speaker)
- It's a full conversation.
I love it.
I like things like that.
It me alone in the car.
Whoever's next?
What is going on?
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- Oh man. That, that stresses me out.
- Just the thought of being on a desert island.
I grew up on a desert.
(laughing)
- I was there.
It was Mr. Bombastic.
- If you have a designated answer for that question like.
- You're a psycho - Psycho.
(Upbeat music)
- Okay. You know what?
It's an Arabic song.
It's a song called Aayshalek,
I live for you in Arabic, it means.
And it's by this singer called Elisa.
You should check it out and have a sing along.
- It sounds like a great playlist.
- Yeah. I don't even know what we chose, really.
Jimi Hendrix,
- Gyptian. - Gyptian.
Elisa, Shaggy.
I love the playlist.
Our new single "Waves of Blue" is out.
It's going really well.
It was like the number one most added song
to radio last week in the States,
which is amazing.
And we're about to shoot a music video for it.
- Very excited for it.
- We're so very, very excited to capture that side.
It's going to be just beautifully shot, very cinematic.
So keep an eye out for that.
An album coming through shortly after that,
and I can't wait for you to hear it.
- It's been four years.
- Has it?
- It's been almost four years since we released.
- In September.
- Yeah. Damn.
It's worth the wait.
- Excuse us, we've been singing Gyptian in the car.
(laughing)
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