The pop/punk/hip-hop/electro/60’s-sound band formed by Françoise Cactus and Brezel Göring are giving a show in Mexico City next May the 6th, and honouring that, you can download stuff to make your own rarities CD to add it to your disc shelf and groove on their music.

This year, Sonar will celebrate the history of electronic music through its Black Music theme, with rhytms like: dub, reggae, soul, jazz, funk, hip-hop, techno, and jungle… sounds great huh? but I am definetly impressed with the huge line-up, which will be formed by musicians, bands, DJs, and live acts so important as: DJ Krush, Gilles Peterson, Goldfrapp, Herbert, Dany Siciliano, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Isolée, Jeff Mills, Keny Dope, Laurent Garnier, Miss Kittin, Nightmares On Wax, Nobukazu Takemura, Sasha, Satoshie Tomie, Señor Coconut and his Orchestra, Tiga, among many others.

The festival will be on June 15–17, 2006 in Barcelona, Spain, if you have a chance to go, be there, it will be a unique event.

In this short video, Theo Argiriadis explains how he’d worked in his latest invetion, the Valveoutboard, which is an advanced distortion unit made without a digital core, this maybe a backward step in hardware units, but the sound it produces is amazing. I mean, the sound processed with this board is cleaner and warmer than any other distortion modules I’ve ever heard, it could be compared to sending the audio signal to a Roland JP8080.

Source:Analog Industries.

A few weeks ago a friend of mine sent me the URL of the new blog of Mateo and Matos, their blog is focused on exposing what’s new in the underground house scene, in contrast with other blogs here you can find podcasts with DJ sets, which is something really cool beacuse it’s free music, and they launch a new podcast at least once a month.

The contribution of Mateo and Matos in house music is very significant, not only beacause they appear in almost every house compliation that exists, they work had influenced other DJs and producers with such power that we can define them as the godfathers of fine-made house music in Glasgow.

Here is their blog, download them all!

A 21 string harp-lute from West Africa. It is made by a round bowl covered with a streched material as a resonator, with a notched bridge like the one in a guitar or a lute. The sound has a close resemblance to a harp, but when it’s played in the traditional West Africa style, sounds closer to a Flamenco guitar. It is played only with four fingers, thumb and index on both hands.

Make your own and listen… or listen to another sample.

This one is the second compilation from Wagram Music, unlike the first, this one is a double album, which was a good idea, Nu Jazz, Vol. 2 includes all kinds of moods in jazz music, from smooth lounge atmospheres for having a fancy dinner with your boss, to rhytmic patterns for a crazy dance in your living room, a peculiar thing is a cover of Air with the track All I Need in jazz version which really sounds great, some of the artists included are: Povo, Llorca, St. Germain, Tosca, Matthew Herbert, Jazzanova only to mention some of them, in my opinion the selection is perfectly well picked, in fact I think that the people who create this album compiled some of the most important tracks in nu-jazz style without caring if the the track was old or new.

In Summary, beside other jazz compilations, this one try to expose all kinds of shades between traditional jazz and technology, I love these type of combinations, and no mattering the release date (Sep 27, 2005), we thought that is a good recomendation that you should own, and for that is our album of the month.

So do you like it huh ? check out this one too.