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Songs selected by Myles Hendrik for one of our favorite luggage brands, Arlo Skye

Sponsored by Arlo Skye

Music is a big part of traveling, whether it’s obscure songs you hear in taxis or tuk-tuks, or the tunes you select for a personal journey. The team behind Arlo Skye, one of favorite luggage brands, shares our love for music and travel, as does LA-based DJ Myles Hendrik, with whom they partnered to select this week’s ListenUp picks. Myles couldn’t stop at only five …

Brad Walsh’s “Six Infinite” Album

Addressing inspiration, process and the nature of genres with the multi-talented artist

How often does one press play on a new album and feel as if they’re hearing something that defies the genres they’ve known thus far? It’s an uncommon experience—and one that very well might happen upon first listen of Brad Walsh‘s Six Infinite (released today, 28 October). The 16-track record dabbles with the known—EDM, pop, disco, R&B—but in a rich, complex fashion unites these varied …

Lapsley: Operator (DJ Koze’s Disco Edit)

If ever there was a modern-day disco anthem that makes listeners imagine what Studio 54 must have been like the night Bianca Jagger rode in on her white horse, then this is it. German DJ/producer Koze’s perfect and unabashedly disco remix of Lapsley’s pop track “Operator” sounds timeless in all the right ways. Soaring strings, cowbell flourishes, glorious tambourine, a driving kick-drum and the voice …