Via @Hierbas - This (excellent) article got me thinking about specific examples of music that completely floor me eg 69 ‘desire’ and why it has that effect. What is that endorphin stimulus with certain sounds and frequencies?
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Have to say I agree with the Desire one. Just an incredible piece of music…
I still get goosebumps from Lonnie Liston Smiths Expansions whenever it gets played loud in good fidelity. that part after the bass riff intro, when the drums and that haunting synth/string line start together. Makes for a good case study in arrangement:mix ratio, anticipation, tension and resolve. gets me every time
btw, where can the Article be read?
The article is here:
Good read and fully agree on 69 Desire. Hairs on the neck stuff.
Desire just twists the emotion mercilessly! My copy of that EP is pretty wrecked.
Can I nominate Ragysh? To this day the build up totally engages me despite having heard it a thousand times and the payoff always works…
Also Think I’m in Love. Could say it about most of the album but I distinctly remember hearing this for the first time and thinking ‘fuck’ imagine being in the control room for playback. They must have been buzzing their absolute tits off 
Based off Laurent Garnier’s description of ‘Desire’ in the Carl Craig doco I was going to start a thread called ‘making synths cry’.
Expansions is a real ‘form = content’ record isn’t it? Does exactly what it says.
‘Chicken skin’ as my Dutch friend Margit used to say
Bent - Always (Ashley Beedle’s Mahavishnu Remix)
Even just thinking about this song can give me goosebumps. The opening piano and synths set me straight off and then each of the elements that comes in just perfect. I love the way he leaves space for each one to be the star of its own little section of the track. No matter how many times I’ve heard it I never get tired of it.
Played to death but still gets me.
The opening dubby bass, the rush of sweeping chords, Patrick Adams’ synths, the breakdown, the plaintive vocals.
I have this on my running playlist and when it comes on I can feel it in my whole body.
4.40 onwards, the synth solo and then the keys coming back in
Me and a mate went to see Mr Scruff last year, we decided to get there early and were literally the only people in there. He played this, which I’ve loved since I first heard it on a mixtape in about 1991.
Everything standing on end.
Was that at Koko? Daughter went said he was great.
At Alphabet in Brighton. It was really good, although there were a few coked-up twats in there. Ended a bit ‘knees-up’ (Madness, Pigbag etc).
He’s clearly a very lovely man who really cares about what he does. Anyway, I’ll always appreciate him playing that, it was like the best birthday present ever.
Today I learned about appoggiatura and its ability to invoke frission. An extra-note (not part of the chord) that is added, which then resolves into the chord. Its inclusion violates our expectations and can arouse the autonomic nervous system.
Sounds like the f****ng universe expanding
Les Fleurs is the one that reliably has me feeling funny, and just now reading more about frisson apparently being a soprano is one way to get us there.
Chills …. maybe it’s the additional greens?
It’s either that or Two Margarines for me…
But that key change in Pigeons in Flight.