This was a really hard thing to do for us, here at La Suite 303: to select from the huge music universe of this decade just a hundred of honorable representatives of the sonic dawn of the XXI century, the decade of the Euro, the iPod, global warming, energy crisis, the dependence on technology and social networks.

We’ve surely left out some best-selling artists, like Linkin Park or Christina Aguilera, some indie wonders like Kings Of Convenience, CocoRosie, The Postal Service or MGMT or even some of our personal favorites like Björk or PJ Harvey. But we’ve selected this one hundred entries based on a meticulous process that took several weeks and a lot of analysis, and our final result is as follows. Please comment. Click to go.

I would like to give you a little brief on my music roots, when I was a child, I remember my grandfather playing the piano for many hours, despite the fact that he was a self-taught musician, he composed a bunch of very complex original pieces and also played classical tunes like a virtuoso, in fact the first track of this podcast is like a time travel to my own childhood, so intense that I feel like being back in that living room listening to the chords of his magnificent Petrof, and something curious, the authorship of the first track belongs to the legendary Charles Mingus (I Can’t Get Started) which is from a recording named Spontaneous Compositions and Improvisations.

However in those days I wasn’t aware of the music universe around me, until I found a cassette which out-stood from others for its incredible cover, when I listened carefully, it burst a music revolution in my head, that recording was The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s Time Out (from 1959), that was the key that opened a whole new universe for me, and also a key to understand and enjoy more deeply the music of my grandfather.

This podcast doesn’t reflect the music that my grandfather used to listen to at all, some tracks might be too freestylish and too percussive for him. I grew up surrounded by his music and over the time I developed my personal music taste, and I want to dedicate this podcast with affection and respect to my grandfather who was an outstanding musician and also an excellent human being that encouraged me to expand my musical horizons.

Your perfect smile and compositions will remain with us forever
Dr. Eduardo Peña-Alfaro Sáenz
(1917-2007)

Podcast Tracklist:
01 - Charles Mingus - I Can’t Get Started
02 - Melody Gardot - Love Me Like A River Does
03 - Elizabeth Meza - Moondance
04 - Oscar Peterson - Younger Than Springtime
05 - Dianne Reeves - Love For Sale
06 - Tommy Flanagan - Let’s
07 - Masao Nakajima - Moments Notice
08 - Idea 6 - The Tune Up (Quasimode Remix)
09 - Red Garland - Daahoud
10 - Helen Merrill - My Favorite Things

But continuing with the taste of our podcasts, this time we have prepared a meticulous selection of tunes that in one way or another holds a substantial symphonic or orchestral essence but at the same time it preserves the innovation and grace of contemporary non-classical music, some good examples are: the impeccable collaboration of Phoneheads & The Düsseldorf Symphonic Orchestra or the impressive remix of an Oliver Nelson track made by Telefon Tel Aviv, as you know Charlie Wesley Cooper member of Telefon Tel Aviv died this past January 22nd and by means of this podcast we want to express our condolences and pay a little homage to this magnificent man, whose true love and fresh imagination for music never stopped.

Podcast Tracklist:
01 - The Cinematic Orchestra - Hyena
02 - Musetta - Some Thoughts Are Hard To Die
03 - The Heritage Orchestra - Tell Me Stories
04 - Emily Wells - Symphony 1 In the Barrel of a Gun
05 - Émilie Simon - Sweet Blossom
06 - Dosh - Um, Circles And Squares
07 - Xavier Bergman & Prague Symphonic Orchestra - Instinct In Paradise
08 - Phoneheads & The Düsseldorf Symphonic Orchestra - Syrinx
09 - Kattoo - Somber Happening
10 - Oliver Nelson - Stolen Moments (Telefon Tel Aviv Remix)
11 - Ryuichi Sakamoto - Aoneko No Torso

This sunday, March 8, the International Women’s Day is celebrated and it is the perfect excuse to drown yourself into a vast sea of music made by women, so we are sharing with you this astonishing blog: Guitarwomen, where you can find a huge amount of music from France, Iceland, USA, UK, Mexico, Spain, Brazil and many other places, it is a large catalogue of female related artists. Some of our favorites would be: Pee Shy, Vive la Fête, Camille, Róisín Murphy, Veruca Salt, Natacha Atlas, Le Tigre, Katia B, Tori Amos, The Like, Cibo Matto, Sonic Youth, Sara Valenzuela, Lyambiko, Emilíana Torrini, Björk, Cibelle and Au Revoir Simone, among many, maaany others. You can find there some Doo-wop, Metal, Pop, Punk, Electronic, some Jazz, and a lot of Rock… (sadly they forgot about Funk and Hip-Hop).

Celebrate women and enjoy their music!

The influence of these musicians on contemporary music is undeniable, especially Holly who was a role model for the Beatles and everything that came after, he was the first one to configure the band with two guitars, bass and drums, and Valens a precursor of the Chicano Rock movement. La Suite 303 remembers this sad event in music history.

Listen to one of our favorite songs of all times: Everyday by Buddy Holly.

This is the time of the year when we present to you the La Suite 303’s Podcast about the best songs of the year, according to our personal taste and perception. Remeber that the tracks are listed alphabetically since we don’t believe in assigning numbers to them (Who’s to say which is the best overall track?). We have several choices this year but we sum it down to around 20, that’s always our criteria, we always say “20 tracks, more or less”, so some tracks didn’t make it to the list, but it is worth to mention that this one didn’t make it, because of an opinion clash between the editors, one of the reasons was “it’s not daring enough” and also it was not a new song but it was noticed (and charted in the USA, UK, New Zealand and Canada) until 2008, it is: Handlebars by Flobots (Denver, USA) and we were not the only ones disagreeing, as you can read here. Once again enjoy this issue! These songs, like last year’s, are really great!

LaSuite 303 - The Best Songs of the Year 2008:

All The Wrong Places (Sensibility) by Dead Pixels
(London, UK)

Día by Juana Molina
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Errata by Xploding Plastix
(Oslo, Norway)

From Stardust To Sentience by High Places
(New York, USA)

Gun by Emiliana Torrini
(Kópavogur, Iceland)

Lights Out by Santogold
(Philadelphia, USA)

Mansard Roof by Vampire Weekend
(New York, USA)

Music Takes Me Up by Mr. Scruff
(Manchester, UK)

Náttúra by Björk
(Reykjavík, Iceland)

Parachute by Shugo Tokumaru
(Tokyo, Japan)

Profanity Prayers by Beck
(Los Angeles, USA)

Rising Up by The Roots (featuring Wale & Chrisette Michele)
(Philadelphia, Washington DC & New York, USA)

Serenade by The Naked And Famous
(Auckland, New Zealand)

Shoulda Known by Atmosphere
(Minneapolis, USA)

Showtime by Quiero Club
(Monterrey, Mexico)

Snake Patrol by Hint (featuring Gavin Stenhouse)
(Leicester & London, UK)

Suspendida Del Cielo by Taera
(Madrid, Spain)

The Girl Ain’t Preggers by Grampall Jookabox
(Indianapolis, USA)

White Winter Hymnal by Fleet Foxes
(Seattle, USA)

Won’t Say Anything by Hello Seahorse!
(Mexico City, Mexico)

Podcast Tracklist:
01 - Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
02 - Emiliana Torrini - Gun
03 - Beck - Profanity Prayers
04 - Hello Seahorse! - Won’t Say Anything
05 - Santogold - Lights Out
06 - Dead Pixels - All The Wrong Places (Sensibility)
07 - Atmosphere - Shoulda Known
08 - Grampall Jookabox - The Girl Ain’t Preggers
09 - Hint (featuring Gavin Stenhouse) - Snake Patrol
10 - Mr. Scruff - Music Takes Me Up
11 - The Roots (featuring Wale & Chrisette Michele) - Rising Up
12 - Taera - Suspendida Del Cielo
13 - Vampire Weekend - Mansard Roof
14 - Shugo Tokumaru - Parachute
15 - Juana Molina - Día
16 - The Naked And Famous - Serenade
17 - Quiero Club - Showtime
18 - Björk - Náttúra
19 - Xploding Plastix - Errata
20 - High Places - From Stardust To Sentience

Recently I discovered an incredible documentary called: Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie, and one of the things that I’ve found so appealing about this film was the fact that Evelyn Glennie is deaf since her childhood, but she’s also a remarkable percussionist. Through this documentary you can come to understand her silent life and her perspective on how she, literally, touches the vibrations of sound and how, despite her incompleteness, she has become a renowned musician nowadays. The director Thomas Riedelsheimer made a fantastic filmmaking work showing us her vision of this world in a unique and suggestive way.

She also has made contributions with some other artists in which Evelyn appears to be listening to every note on their performances because she made perfect synergy with them. From the crowded streets of New York City to a relaxing garden in Japan, She travels through, not only an amazing journey around the world, but also a deep journey into herself by which music lovers, like myself, are happily delighted.

Featuring:
Evelyn Glennie & Fred Frith. (this video)
Evelyn Glennie & This.
Evelyn Glennie & Za Ondekoza.
Evelyn Glennie & Roxanne Butterfly.
Evelyn Glennie & Jason “The Fogmaster”.
Evelyn Glennie & Horazio “El Negro” Hernández.
Among others.

More than 100 artists were picked, an MP3 compilation was made and it was distributed among close friends, the idea of a documentary film  was even discussed (but, unfortunately, we all have day-jobs and other things to do). Enclosed in that compilation were acts like Café Tacuba,  Julieta Venegas, Nortec and many others that are not included in our podcast tracklist, simply because on Suite 303 we always focus on the  not-so-obvious artists.

Needless to say that thanks to the Internet, the exposure to greater influences, DIY recording and other  contemporary issues, the quality of the new Mexican talent has recently improved and it is easier to get close to their music.

Please enjoy Mexhibit A, a contemporary Mexican  music podcast!

Tracklist

01 - Intro: Organillo
02 - Shy Genius - Mumerats
03 - People Project - Segundo Piso
04 - Muna Zul - Voto De Silencio
05 - Falcón - I Lobby
06 - Villa Jardín - Misiones
07 - MC Luka - Lupita’s Taco Shop
08 - Sonex (featuring Rubén Albarrán) - La Bamba
09 - Los Músicos De José - Nebulosa
10 - Maple - Pixel
11 - Faca - Nightshot
12 - Jorch Mono - Real e Imaginario
13 - Chikita Violenta - Turnaround
14 - Sub-Division - Blue Boy
15 - Maniquí Lazer - Mrs. Lazer
16 - Titán - Odisea 2001

Spectrum is a podcast that goes from one genre to another without any abrupt jump in music styles, this was made possible by a variety of genre daring artists that are the key to open new musical frontiers. Fortunately the resulting playlist answered our questions: you can go from loud guitar sounds to smooth percussions, or through jazz, hip-hop or rock without any brusque rush as long as you put between those pieces the right ligature of genre-blended music. So we leave it to your appreciation and we hope you can enjoy this little spectrum of styles as much as we did, and maybe you can suggest your own musical spectrum or, why not? you can challenge us on how to go from one genre to another and try to make it smooth.

Tracklist

01 - Ryo Fukui Trio - Early Summer
02 - Digable Planets - Dog It
03 - Akitaka Tohyama & Kenji Ninuma - The Moon And The Prince
04 - Torpedo Boyz - Chickee Pow!
05 - Pop Levi - Sugar Assault Me Now
06 - Álbum - Es Fácil
07 - Cyndi Seui - Micro Bitz Touch Of Lipz
08 - Aïwa - Yiyi
09 - Amadou & Mariam (featuring Manu Chao) - Coulibaly
10 - Antibalas - Indictment
11 - Vern Blair Debate - Ooh Ah Ee
12 - Elizabeth Shepherd - Reversed (Nostalgia 77 Remix)

You can find inside a striking public library that focuses mainly on music with technological equipment, stocking books, a CD library with listening stations, current music magazines and computers with free internet access, subscriptions to music websites, music software and midi controllers, so you can borrow music books and scores, learn and compose using music software, or even find a music tutor in North East England.

It is open 7 days a week and this year’s upcoming performances will include: Bon Iver, Roots Manuva, Eddi Reader, Brad Mehldau Trio, Elbow, Michelle Shocked and Herbie Hancock. The Ticket Office telephone is: 0191 443 4661.

The odyssey to share with Björk, just a couple of hours was really an ordeal, at the end, through the poor organization and the fact that the “venue” was located on middle of nowhere, the episode culminated as one the most exciting and enjoyable experiences that I have ever had, Björk definitely enlightened the audience… but how is this event related with this podcast?, well, is difficult for me to confess that I’m a little nervous when I’m on a plane, so before I started my trip, I decided to make my flying experience truly comfortable by making a playlist for me in such a way that I would focus my attention entirely on the music instead than on the physics involved in the flight process.

The musical spectrum that I’ve selected here is relaxing but I think at the same time it’s bright and ethereal and, in some tracks, cacophony and abstraction prevails, in fact, I tried to design a concept through which the whole tracklist would reach, in some way, a complete journey of frequencies in order to let the listener enjoy those magnificent landscapes that the windows of an airplane may offer.

If you are going to fly somewhere this podcast could be your perfect companion on your flight, if you are scared to fly …and also if you’re not.

01 - Boards of Canada - Over The Horizon Radar
02 - Sidsel & Bugge - Out Here. In There
03 - Plaid - Ralome
04 - Yanokami - Owari No Kisetsu
05 - Rei Harakami - Come Here Go There
06 - Trentemøler - Snowflake
07 - Nils Petter Molvær - The Beginning (From The Film Edy)
08 - Hiroshi Watanabe - Sui-Sei
09 - Cornelius - Sleep Warm
10 - EKP - Leaving You Wondering

But this time we are going to focus on her uncommon voice, although she had no formal training, neither could she read musical notes, she was able to stagger her voice through 5 octaves, starting from a real low tone, almost like the tones on Barry White’s voice, up to high frecuency tones, just like a bird, in fact, in one interview she claimed that she learned to sing by trying to imitate the sounds made by birds, and certainly her voice, on some of her recordings, sounds like made by something other than a human, she was able of producing such tones, so clean and so deep, that today she continues being a mystical legend.

After listening to all the available Sumac recordings, I got very intrigued about those singers that exceed the standard of 80 Hz to 1100 Hz for men and women altogether that translated on a musical scale means from E2 to C6, this graphic will help you to identify the values between Hertz and a common piano scale, remember, one Hertz is equal to one vibration (one cycle) per second, therefhore for a regular singer it is really challenging to make so many vibrations per second.

According to the Guinness Book of Records these are the current records:

For Females:
Eight octaves, G2 to G10 (25,087 Hz), Georgia Brown, from Brazil. Picture this: how can she made a note so high producing an ultrasound, that she can’t even listen to? maybe she was trying to comunicate with dolphins or trying to see through complete darkness like a bat, anyway, you must watch this video of a TV presentation, some notes are so high and long that we could presume that there is a synthesizer sounding along.

For Males:
Greatest range: Six octaves, Tim Storms, from the USA, watch this video and discover why he is also an internet phenomenon.
and finally the highest male vocal note, a C#8 by Adam Lopez, from Australia.

Nowadays there are so many talented singers that they prefer singing for pleasure and to integrate their vocal spectrum on a fine made recording than competing for a silly world record, nevertheless we think that both options are just fantastic.

Tracklist:

01 - The Mamas And The Papas - Once Was A Time I Thought
02 - Dire Straits - Water Of Love
03 - Blondie - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
04 - The Doors - Unhappy Girl
05 - Paul McCartney - Write Away
06 - The Rolling Stones - Heaven
07 - U2 - Sixty Seconds In Kingdom Come
08 - Van Halen - Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)
09 - Pink Floyd - San Tropez
10 - Elvis Presley - Fever
11 - Fleetwood Mac - Not That Funny
12 - Peter Gabriel - Intruder
13 - The Police - Contact
14 - Iron Butterfly - So-Lo
15 - The Kinks - I Gotta Move

This unexpected success would never mean that we will get stucked in one musical genre and every podcasts will be in that same tone. And a proof of that is that are going to make a drastic change, we’ll jump from the stimulant effect that caused our energetic drink with Caffeine to the next issue that is closer to a relaxing tea. We named our new podcast Avant Bossa, maybe because it is a mix of languages that means the same thing: a new music trend.

I tried to figure out which tracks could represent a new wave, but, I found out that a new trend nowadays doesn’t necessarily mean electronic synthetizers or psychedelic remixes, the true enchantment of bossa nova is the sweet voice and the simple sound that the strings of an acoustic guitar make when they’re been plucked, in fact this genre is considered as a refined version of samba, de-emphasizing the percussive aspect of its rhythm and enriching the melodic and harmonic content, so any variation of the basic structure will loose the true essence of bossa nova and the intention of João Gilberto when he developed this particular style that grew and spread in such way that it created a new genre.

Our selection doesn’t include those popular compositions like the Girl from Ipanema or Desafinado, this selection is, as our repeated goal, a worldwide gamma of artists from Japan, France and obviously Brazil. I have selected these original tunes for the emotive and melancholic sensations that they cause on me, in particular Aeromoça, that song, even though it’s a happy tune, somehow mysteriously drives me to tears, I hope that you share the passion for this music that is on a constant fight to stay alive on an audience that apparently values more the power of volume than the tenderness and sophistication of bossa nova, maybe in a world oriented to the consumption we are loosing our ability to simply listen carefully.

01 - Intro
02 - Pecombo - Respire
03 - Akiko - Chega de Saudade
04 - Tom & Joyce - Un Regard, Un Sourire
05 - Katia B - One More Shot
06 - Les Nubians - Que Le Mot Soit Perle
07 - The Dining Rooms (featuring Rosalia De Souza) - Mais
08 - Nu Braz - Aeromoça
09 - Sabrina Malheiros - Terra De Ninguém (Nicola Conte Rework)
10 - Anvil FX - Sambinha Do Piscapunga
11 - Mosquitos - Boombox
12 - Democustico - Pira

I would specially like to thank Electro Premium Choice, which is a great French blog without whom I wouldn’t have been able to create this fantastic mix. Enjoy!!

Tracklist:

01 - DSL - Invaders (Djedjotronic Remix)
02 - Alex Gopher - Aurora (Riot In Belgium & Knightlife Remix)
03 - Etienne De Crécy - Punk
04 - AutoKratz - 1000 Things
05 - Yelle - A Cause Des Garçons (Tepr Remix)
06 - Digitalism - Jupiter Room
07 - MSTRKRFT - Street Justice
08 - Hostage - Gluttony (The Bloody Beetroots Remix)
09 - The Presets - My People
10 - Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights (The Phone Lovers Remix)
11 - Justice - Waters Of Nazareth
12 - Goose - Bring It On

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P.S. As a Latinamerican it’s truly a shame that I can’t dance to these rythms, but maybe you can, do it please.

Tracklist:
01 - Esquivel - Esquivel Intro
(Mexico City, Mexico)
02 - S Tone Inc. - Con Mi Sombra
(Milan, Italy)
03 - George Shearing - Caravan
(London, UK)
04 - Orquesta De La Luz - Mambo De La Luz
(Tokyo, Japan)
05 - Quantic Soul Orchestra (featuring J-Live) - She Said What?
(Bogota, Colombia/Worcestershire, UK/New York, USA)
06 - Alex Wilson - Oh Kuri
(London, UK)
07 - EKP - El Salvador
(Stockholm, Sweden)
08 - Mo’ Horizons - Ai Mi Morena (Chocolate Restyle)
(Hannover, Germany)
09 - Ursula 1000 - Got Cha
(New York, USA)
10 - Beatfanatic - Cookin’ (Version)
(Stockholm, Sweden)
11 - Sidestepper - Hoy Tenemos (Boys From Brazil Remix)
(Barranquilla, El Choco, Cali & Medellin, Colombia/London, UK)
12 - Professor Angel Dust - Latino A Go Go
(Barcelona, Spain)
13 - Fania All Stars - Closing Theme
(New York, USA)

On this occasion our La Suite 303’s Podcast episode is about the best songs of 2007 according to our personal perception and taste. The tracks are listed alphabetically since we don’t believe in numbering them as a countdown. You’ll find that two songs are missing from the podcast tracklist, this is because one of them was on our last podcast and the other will be very likely to appear in our next episode. Enjoy this issue! These songs are really great!

LaSuite 303 - Best Songs of the Year 2007:

23 by Blonde Redhead
(New York, USA)

A Rent Boy Goes Down by Apostle Of Hustle
(Toronto, Canada)

Amreik by Eluvium
(Portland, USA)

Atlas by Battles
(New York, USA)

D.A.N.C.E. by Justice
(Paris, France)

Fuzzworld by Lek
(New Jersey, USA)

Goodbye July/Margt Að Ugga by Hjaltalín
(Reykjavik, Iceland)

Guilty Rocks by Múm
(Reykjavik, Iceland)

Hope by Björk
(Reykjavik, Iceland)

La Tina by Ximena Sariñana
(Mexico City, Mexico)

Mad Monkey by Shitake Monkey
(New York, USA)

Melody Day by Caribou
(Dundas, Canada)

My Type Of Criminal by Elk City
(New York, USA)

None Shall Pass by Aesop Rock
(New York, USA)

The Perfect Me by Deerhoof
(San Francisco, USA)

She Said What? by The Quantic Soul Orchestra (featuring J-Live)
(Bogota, Colombia/Worcestershire, UK/New York, USA)

Stereo (Mono Mono) by The Brunettes
(Auckland, New Zealand)

Test by Little Dragon
(Gothenburg, Sweden)

Tiempo Pa Pensá by Mala Rodríguez (featuring Julieta Venegas)
(Jerez, Spain/Tijuana, Mexico)

Volver A Comenzar by Café Tacuba
(Ciudad Satélite, Mexico)

You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb (Altenative Version) by Spoon
(Austin, USA)

Young Folks by Peter, Björn & John (featuring Victoria Bergsman)
(Stockholm, Sweden)

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Their third album in a decade is a sonic collage that swings from tree to tree of genres with such a gracious method, nurturing mainly on reggae, hip-hop and electronic sounds but adding some guitar riffs, funk and the beautiful voice of co-producer Sara Johnston to the mix. The collectif montréalais use the same formula again and manage to deliver a carefully produced piece that came out on the last days of 2007 and was picked as our first selection this year.

I want to show you this amazing video on which the legend, Oscar Peterson (1925-2007) plays the piano in a magnificent way, it is just a excerpt of Peterson’s work, he was one of greatest and most prolific jazz musicians ever, in fact I’m convinced that he traced a whole new path for modern jazz.

With six decades of work and over 200 albums he left us a huge musical heritage, his best moments were as a supporting musician for singer Ella Fitzgerald, singer/trumpeter Louis Armstrong and trumpeter Roy Eldridge.

There is a vast list of facts from Peterson’s life, you might, as well, read his wikipedia entry.
Happy 2008 from LaSuite303.

The second episode is named Cadavre Exquis, since the two of us decided to play that game (exquisite corpse) invented by Surrealists in which a collection of words or images are pieced together by a group of people. In this case we did the excersise but using sound instead, the final 10 second segment of each track was delivered via instant messenger and the other guy tried to fit the next track accordingly, the result is an amalgam of styles and a geographical soup that explores a wide spectrum of tones.

Again, we hope that you’ll be pleased with our selection.

Tracklist:

01 - Hjaltalín - Goodbye July/Margt Að Ugga (Iceland)
02 - Vive La Fête - Attaque Surprise (France)
03 - Sara Valenzuela - Tócame (Mexico)
04 - Yo La Tengo - Nutricia (USA)
05 - Danger Doom (featuring Cee-Lo) - Benzie Box (USA)
06 - Thievery Corporation - Omid (Hope) (USA)
07 - Karsh Kale - Free Fall (USA/India)
08 - Alpinestars - Hotel Parallel (UK)
09 - Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye (Canada)
10 - Alexkid - Pick It Up (France)
11 - Piero Umiliani - La Signora Cameriera (Italy)
12 - Ursula 1000 - Nightcap (USA)
13 - Ratatat - Seventeen Years (USA)
14 - Yoshinori Sunahara - Cross Wind Take Off (Japan)
15 - Goldstoned - Dreammachine (Germany)

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There’s been several album publications on USB flash drives, like Matchbox 20’s Exile on Mainstream, Barenaked Ladies’ Barenaked on a Stick, Bob Marley’s Exodus, The Rolling Stones’ Rolled Gold or even Jennifer Lopez’s Brave.

There has been delightful designs on the drives as well, like the Sushi drives or the Twig drives, now, combining both ideas, and the plus of having great music, is something you should consider to be annexing to your Christmas wishlist. The down side is, as usual, the price tag, but if you consider them as collector items or even (why not?) art, the price is not that monstrous.

Meg & Jack White Limited Edition flash drive set

Containing the White Stripes’ Icky Thump, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee and that keeps the eclectic sensibility of Get Behind Me Satan, an overall well crafted album. The drives come packed in two red tin cans, the set includes both Meg and Jack characters, you can buy it here.

Radiohead 4 GB Limited Edition USB flash drive

Containing the whole Radiohead discography (except for In Rainbows), that is: Pablo Honey (from 1993), The Bends (from 1995), OK Computer (from 1997), Kid A (from 2000), Amnesiac (from 2001), Hail To The Thief (from 2003) and also the 2001 I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, you can buy it here.

So why should you try their mixes out? Let me tell you why. I haven’t listened to such powerful beats since the first mixes of DJ Kode 9, they are trying to get back to the roots of breakbeats but streamlined with some dubstep, electro and drum ‘n’ bass. It is a unique sound collage that I hope will create a whole movement of nu-breaks, because I’m tired of those drum ‘n’ bass radio stations that has the same beat 24/7, so you can contribute by sharing their mixes now.

The first podcast is named JAZZCLUB 00, in the whole selection I’ve tried to include the sounds of those black-rooted old jazz clubs, but taken out of context and expanded with more contemporary sounds. I don’t pretend to be an outstanding DJ,

I just want to share this finely integrated playlist on which I put some effort, time and care, just for your enjoyment.

I hope you’ll be pleased with my selection and I also want to mention that we host our podcasts using Divshare, I make this comment because it was quite difficult and tricky to find a free podcast hosting.

Tracklist:

01 - Muro - Beat Stalker (Intro)
02 - Bitman & Roban - Después de Almuerzo, Parte 3
03 - Kero One - In All The Wrong Places
04 - Flevans - Loose Gardener
05 - The ParanormL (featuring Fat Hed) - Experience
06 - Belleruche - Minor Swing
07 - Mocean Worker - That’s What’s Happenin’ Tonight
08 - Art Blakey - The Midget (Art Konik Remix)
09 - Zero dB - Anything’s Possible
10 - Xploding Plastix - Treat Me Mean, I Need The Reputation
11 - Skalpel - 1958 (Skalpel Remix)
12 - Stockholm Jazz Beat Project - Big Band Frenzy
13 - Smoove (featuring The Bukky Leo Quintet) - Rejoice In Righteousness (Smoove’s Nu Jazz Remix)
14 - Ecripse - Sleep Walker

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I humbly vow to Their Robotic Majesties, who gave one of the best shows my eyes and ears have ever experienced.

In a really cold week, wednesday arrived with a slightly warmer climate, it was October, 31st and the adopted and highly disseminated Halloween costumes were everywhere, but this particular time many of the costumes looked like robots.

As we rushed towards the outdated and grotesque Palacio de los Deportes, Ángel, a friend and collaborator, told us that Sussie 4, the electro rock music assemble from Guadalajara, were the opening act, we instantly slowed our pace, I mean, they are an OK band, but nothing to be speeding up about. When we arrived the band was about to finish their carelessly equalized performance, when they did, their last words were: “…and now the really good stuff, Daft Punk!” the crowd, who wasn’t still at full size, cheered and a black courtain closed upon them.

The background music, involving mainly old-school rap, was setting the mood and, suddenly, Suspicious Minds by Elvis Presley bursted. The time had come, the lights were killed, the musical silence was overwhelmed by the ovation of a now totally crowd-stuffed venue. The notes from the main title of Close Encounters of the Third Kind started the show.

The courtain opened and there they were, wow! …in the heart of an outer-space pyramid you could see Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter inside their leather jumpsuits, designed by Hedi Slimane, filling our hearts and minds with sizzling music and unbelievable lights. From that moment on the experience was simply phenomenal, like nothing on the face of this earth.

The music and their hits were assembled and mixed live with almost two hours of ever-shocking and completely synchronized audiovisual extasis, that finished over a house encore and whoa! …those magnificent red lights all over the LED helmets, created by the company LED Effects, along with the reminder that Their Robotic Majesties are human after all. We can outline Daft Punk’s spectacle in just one word: Exquisite.

Their album Alive will see the light in 2008. (photos by André Felipe)

1. Elliott Smith
1969–2003
American singer/songwriter and musician.
Notable work: Either/Or

2. Celia Cruz
1925–2003
Cuban-American salsa singer.
Notable work: ¡100% Azucar!: The Best of Celia Cruz

3. Ian Curtis
1956–1980
English, lead singer and lyricist of Joy Division.
Notable work: Substance

4. Johnny Cash
1932–2003
American country/rock and roll singer/songwriter.
Notable work: Man in Black: Greatest Hits

5. Joe Strummer
1952–2002
English, co-founder, lyricist and lead singer of The Clash.
Notable work: London Calling

6. James Brown
1933–2006
American entertainer, singer, songwriter and record producer.
Notable work: 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!

7. Mark Sandman
1952–1999
American songwriter, musical instrument inventor and multi-instrumentalist, lead singer of Morphine.
Notable work: Cure for Pain

8. Ol’ Dirty Bastard
1968–2004
American MC, co-founder of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Notable work: Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

9. Suba
1961–1999
Serbian musician and composer and one of Brazil’s most prominent producers.
Notable work: São Paulo Confessions

10. Juan García Esquivel
1918–2002
Mexican band leader, pianist, and film score composer.
Notable work: Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music

11. Barry White
1944–2003
American record producer and singer/songwriter.
Notable work: All-Time Greatest Hits

12. Miguel “Angá” Díaz
1961–2006
Cuban percussionist.
Notable work: Echu Mingua

13. Compay Segundo
1907–2003
Cuban musician and songwriter.
Notable work: Calle Salud / Buena Vista Social Club

14. Fela Kuti
1938–1997
Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer.
Notable work: Shuffering and Shmiling / Gentleman

15. Max Roach
1924–2007
American jazz, bebop/hard bop percussionist, drummer, and composer.
Notable work: Jazz at Massey Hall / Percussion Bitter Sweet

16. Ibrahim Ferrer
1927–2005
Cuban singer and musician.
Notable work: Buena Vista Social Club Presents: Ibrahim Ferrer / Buena Vista Social Club

17. And all your loved ones
The people you’ve loved that is now gone, we salute them… (happy Day of the Dead dad!)

The Church - Starfish

Our instruments have no way of measuring this feeling …the feeling that this album gives me everytime I listen to its fine, clean and well-arranged production that was made possible by Waddy & Richard Wachtel. Sometimes big sales mean not-so-good music, but fortunately this is not the case, Starfish, The Church’s biggest selling album is their best. This mysterious, elegant, melancholic and hypnotic work is a fundamental piece in Australian rock.

Key Name: Russell Kilbey
Prevailing Style: Rock
Best Track: Destination

Gus Gus - Polydistortion

I clearly remember listening to this album for the first time back in 1997, my mind went numb, I was astonished… Gus Gus’ first proper album, Polydistortion, is an electronic, avant-garde masterpiece that will make you dance. Made by an Icelandic collective formed by actors, designers and filmmakers this mellow, quirky and powerful mixture of electronic, funk, jazz, indie and hip-hop is a must-have.

Key Name: Daníel Ágúst/Magnús Jónsson
Prevailing Style: Trip-Hop
Best Track: Believe

Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters

Since we’ve listened to almost everything when it comes to rock music in the 2000’s it is extremely complicated to make an outstanding rock album, nevertheless the five-piece band Scissor Sisters manage to achieve that, and when they do it by stealing bits and pieces from 70’s music, it’s even more admirable. The New Yorkers mix disco chunks with Stevie Wonder’s portions, Elton John’s globs, Pink Floyd’s particles and Bee Gees’ nuggets to create a sexy, gay, drag-queenie, glam-rocker and wonderfully rhythmic collage named Scissor Sisters.

Key Name: Jason Sellards/Scott Hoffman
Prevailing Style: Dance Rock
Best Track: Take Your Mama

Zune has visualized an interesting way to promote their music players, if you visit their web page zune-arts.net you can find the engagement between some of the most talented video artists and renown musicians like Ratatat, Gotan Project, Bitter: Sweet, Regina Spektor, Lily Allen, Goldfrapp, MIS, among others.

MIS (Mexican Institute of Sound a.k.a. Instituto Mexicano del Sonido or IMS) contributing with their song Cybermambo was one of my favorites and therefore I want to share this extraordinary material, this song appears in their debut album Méjico Máxico, we also recommend their new album “Piñata“.

The advantage of the electric cello is that it can produce a wider range of sounds and effects, like an electric guitar, but this is also the disadvantage since the sound is less organic and rich than a traditional violoncello.

You can make your own electric cello.

Check out this Argentine Indie Rock band, Contramano, lead by Pablo Cubarle who uses an electric cello.

Most songs are between $0.89 and $0.99, and most albums are between $6 and $10 encoded at 256 Kbps. So what are you waiting for? Go there and buy music! We suggest:

Silencio = Muerte: Red Hot + Latin (Redux)
Feist - The Reminder
Manu Chao - La Radiolina
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
The Puppini Sisters - Betcha Bottom Dollar
Peaches - The Teaches Of Peaches
Defragmentation - Self Construct
CocoRosie - La Maison De Mon Rêve
The Knife - Deep Cuts
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Hot Chip - The Warning
Lady Sovereign - Public Warning
Bran Van 3000 - Glee
Etienne De Crecy - Super Discount
Pink Martini - Hang On Little Tomato
Amon Tobin - Permutation
Bonobo - Days To Come
Quantic - An Announcement To Answer

A “dream come true” would be not to see the Currently Unavailable notice anymore (like it recently happened with Jorch Mono’s The Orphan Monkey Meets The Acoustic Guitar)

Pop Montréal, October 3th-7th; Montréal, Canada.
Beastie Boys, Beirut, Bonde Do Role, Caribou, Chromeo, Devendra Banhart, Do Make Say Think, Eric’s Trip, Fujiya & Miyagi, Hot Hot Heat, Pere Ubu, Jonathen Rice, Rilo Kiley, Simian Mobile Disco, Patti Smith, Ron Sexsmith and many more! plus films and contemporary art.

CMJ Music Marathon, October 16th-20th; New York City, USA.
Arizona, Aux Raus, Casper And The Cookies, Coheed And Cambria, Datarock, Del The Funky Homosapien, Eagle*Seagull, Holly And The Italians, Imperial Teen, Jesu, Justice, Le Loup, M.I.A., Mates Of State, The Meat Puppets, Nashville Pussy, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Simian Mobile Disco, Spoon, UNKLE, We Are Wolves, Xiu Xiu and many, many, many more! plus films and interaction with the music industry.

Iceland Airwaves, October 17th-21st; Reykjavík, Iceland.
!!!, Æla, Amiina, Bloc Party, Bonde Do Role, Chromeo, Deerhoof, Gus Gus, Jeff Who?, Múm, Of Montreal, Smoosh, Jenny Wilson, XXX Rottweiler and many more! plus great parties and the chance to take a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis.

Coming from Gothenburg Sweden, Little Dragon is an outstanding new band which blends many music styles and creates a unique and brilliant fusion, the main delight is the voice of Yukimi Nagano, she was singing a long time with the jazz band named Koop, in fact last year we’ve reviewed their last work together “Koop - Islands” an album that appears to be set in the 30’s, However, opposite to Koop, Little Dragon is not jazz at all, I suggest you to check this video of their song Test, and, by the way, their debut album would be on sale on September 18th.

Good Luck Little Dragon!

Now, imagine for a minute what could be going on next in this unpredictable music evolution.
We want to share with you some outstanding ideas that may be real in the near future.

1.- Virtual Singers

Today this is not a dream, Myriad Software has developed “Virtual Singer” which is a module for Melody/Harmony Software, some of the features are: each singer can be fine-tuned, by modifying its timbre, intonation or voice pitch (man, women, child, tenor, soprano, etc.) besides these features, several different voices will be able to sing at the same time, in several languages: British English, American English, French, German, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Finnish, Occitan. Also Virtual Singer includes the Real Singer II technology: you can create a voice from recordings of your own voice.
This module is a great tool if you want to sketch vocals in a track, unfortunately it still sounds like a synthetic robot voice, but in a few years this kind of technology could easily be more organic and accurate compared to the human voice… or why not? you will even be able to sculpt a perfect voice or emulate voices of dead singers like James Brown, Sinatra or Ella Fitzgerald.

2.- Random Compositions and Improvisations

Imagine that you are a piano player who is making an improvisation, wouldn’t it be fantastic that you have the according harmonies and percussions depending which notes and scales you are playing along?
According to scientist Stephen Wolfram this is possible using simple music theory and mathematics algorithms and rendering them as music, and in fact, he has some experiments online, check out the Wolfram Tones example.

3.-Finally the idea of how you interact with music to play an instrument

As you can see in the reactable video interaction with devices is turning into unexpected ways, to complement this issue you have to read the story of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, who are developing a neural interface that will allow a virtual hand to play the piano, in fact they are making experiments with monkeys beacause it isn’t perfected yet to be used by humans, nevertheless the researchers are planning a live demonstration within the next six months, my question now is will the monkey be playing the Five Little Monkeys?

As you can see there’s a lot technological development going on, getting perfected and ready to take the following step, I hope this new wave of advantages will not restrain creativity on human beings… as Isaac Asimov once said “Leave for humans the creative tasks”.

Based on the Classic Albums series made by Isis & Eagle Rock Entertainment of an idea devised by John Pidgeon and Roger Scott, that feature documentaries of well-known rock, hip-hop and pop albums, we’ve decided to make our own selection of what we consider Classic Albums, trying not to fall into the same routine works that we see constantly in these selections, such as Radiohead’s OK Computer, Nirvana’s Nevermind, The Who’s Who’s Next or Sir Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Our list, however, contains albums that you should seriously consider adding to your record collection, since it’s never too late to own a masterpiece.

So first we are compiling our list and publishing it, but don’t forget that lists are organic, never definitive. We might be forgetting some outstanding works, so, feel free to contribute.

On second hand we’ll be reviewing these albums little by little.

Finally, here’s our list:

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Air - Moon Safari
Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days In The Life Of…
Astor Piazolla with Gary Burton - The New Tango
Aterciopelados - Caribe Atómico
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
Björk - Debut
Bran Van 3000 - Glee
Buffalo Daughter - New Rock
Café Tacuba - Re
Can - Tago Mago
The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
The Church - Starfish
Cornelius - Point
Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men
Daft Punk - Homework
Dimitri From Paris - Sacrebleu
Duran Duran - Rio
Emiliana Torrini - Love In The Time Of Science
Erykah Badu - Baduizm
Esquivel - Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music*
Etienne De Crecy - Etienne De Crecy Presents Super Discount
Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
Frederic Galliano - Espaces Baroques
Frente! - Marvin The Album
The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities
Goldie - Timeless
Gotan Project - La Revancha Del Tango
Gus Gus - Polydistortion
Los Lobos - Kiko
Mano Negra - Casa Babylon
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
MC Solaar - Prose Combat
Moby - Play
Mono - Formica Blues
Neneh Cherry - Homebrew
Nicola Conte - Bossa Per Due
OutKast - Stankonia
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Paris Combo - Living Room
Phoenix - United
Photek - Form & Function
Pizzicato Five - Made In USA
Portishead - Dummy
Les Rhytmes Digitales - Darkdancer
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Serge Gainsbourg - Historie De Melodie Nelson
Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66 - Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ‘66
Sidestepper - 3 AM (In Beats We Trust)
Sigur Rós - Ágætis Byrjun
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Steve Reich - Variations*
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Suba - São Paulo Confessions
Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Towa Tei - Sound Museum
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
Ursula 1000 - Kinda Kinky
Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
Willie Colón & Rubén Blades - Siembra
Yonderboi - Shallow And Profound
Zap Mama - A Ma Zone
Zero 7 - Simple Things

*OK, these are compilations, but they are assembled in a perfectly coherent album.

The first time that I listened to Rei Harakami was back in 2002 with the track “300 ml”, I loved that work and in that moment I just knew that he had enough potencial to make a diference in the music scene. I recently made a reasearch on him and I found out that he teamed up with Akiko Yano, which is a born musician and an extraordinary songwriter that focuses mainly in jazz and pop, she has contributed with other renowned artists like Thomas Dolby, Pat Metheny and Peter Gabriel, among others, she was also married to Ryuichi Sakamoto, whom, I think, was a huge influence in the expansion of her musical knowledge into other directions. In addition to all these, she has been a major star in Japan since she was 21 and she has 24 original albums to date.

The project that they’ve created is called Yanokami and it could be one of the finest electronic music statements of our days. So, I want to share with you the live video of Sayonara, this version is also in English in their MySpace page… but I prefer this one.

Warm & Scratchy
Thanks to Adult Swim the adult-oriented television programming on Cartoon Network (where the marvelous Robot Chicken series are transmitted) we can easily download Warm & Scratchy a free indie compilation with these new tracks:




01. TV On The Radio (featuring Derek Thomas Ambrosi) - Me-I
02. The Raveonettes - Dead Sound
03. Les Savvy Fav - The Equestrian
04. The Rapture - Crimson Red
05. 120 Days - Justine
06. Broken Social Scene - Canada Vs. America
07. SOUND Team - Color Of The Love You Have
08. The Good, The Bad and The Queen - The Bunting Song (Acoustic Version)
09. The Brother Kite - Half Century
10. Jesu - Silver (Original Beats)
11. Amusement Parks On Fire - Back To Flash
12. Asobi Seksu - Stay Awake
13. Fennesz - Winter
14. Liars - Sunset Rodeo

So what are you waiting for? Go, download it… and thank Adult Swim, nice taste guys!

Andy Compton Mix
Last year the multi talented member of The Rurals made a great mix including some of the best productions of the underground house scene, this year Compton released his new mix “Daddy’s Grooves” with some new and old tracks full of groove and soul.




01. Raw Artistic Soul - Zabb
02. Hold The Onions Dub (J-Jay Remix)
03. Stereo Mutants - What Do I Do Now?
04. Wagon Cookin’ - Mr. Sun
05. Dragonfly - All The Way (5 Beats Mix)
06. Malena Pérez - Confession
07. Suntzu - Black Daylight (Slope Remix)
08. Soul:ID - Believe (Will Reelsoul Vocalmix)
09. Mustafa - Por Causa De Você Menina
10. NU Soul Orchestra - My Brazil
11. The Rurals - Corker (Knedeep Remix)
12. Shaun Escoffery - Let It Go (Sir Piers Dub)
13. Dinga - Queen (Reelsoul Remix)
14. Osunlade - Mamma’s Groove

Download it here

Enjoy the treasure at the end of the rainbow

This month we’ve chosen Everybody, their last achievement, as Album of The Month for many reasons, one of them is because they blend a lot of colors, in a elegant and organic way, in a single work, they’ve also included a lot seventies music textures like those vintage synths and a little psychedelia, similar but softer than Yo La Tengo’s creations, in addition they re-framed the structure of the songs, previously they have used a very tight and static model, now they’ve created more complex and dynamic tracks, fortunately they’ve evolved and they took chances to make something much more creative and integral. You can feel they have made an incredible connection that sparkled the right bright and balance of every instrument and every effect.

Some insipid reviewers compare Everybody with the previous recordings by Prekop, that’s just false, I agree that some of the songs keep the use of smooth sounds, but I’m sure that one of the main goals of the band was to create something really different and original, in comparison with their previous works, you just have to listen closely. Nevertheless it would be fantastic if Sam Prekop some day ventures in changing his usual vocal stucture that could be a trademark or an obstacle in considering new possibilities, or why not? even looking for a female colaboration like Ivy’s Dominique Durand, she could be a interesting option …for example.

Everybody has to listen to this masterpiece, some critics indicate that is an album for “everybody” and in some cases they even catalogued it as a pop album, I don’t quite think so, it is a rock album as well, and a carefully well-done recording, the only thing that I would object about is the cover, why would anyone that made such a colorful and rich production, choose that grayscale cover? Nevermind.

I want to share with you this amazing video because it is another proof that you don’t need the ultimate software or to own a Reactable to make something outstanding. Lasse Gjertsen, 22, is a very creative guy from Norway whose talent and imagination have been recognized around the world, by creating home made videos like Hiperactive and Amateur (both examples are quite simple to create, just add some good editing skills), where he just modified the video timeline and created nice rhythmic samples like a drum machine, with these and other works he succeeded in the web by getting more than 10 million views on Youtube, this amazing video phenomenon grew so fast that international companies like Chevrolet and MTV are now looking for his talent, in fact he appears in an article in the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Only time will tell us if Michel Gondry will have a successor in Gjertsen.

The Reactable is an electronic musical instrument that allows expressive collaborative live performances for musicians, the Icelandic singer Björk introduced it for the first time to a mainstream event in the Coachella Festival. Created by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, under the direction of Dr. Sergi Jordà, it can simultaneously perform & share complete control to the musicians by moving and rotating physical objects on the luminous round table surface representing components of a modular synthesizer. It can be collaborative (locally and remotely), intuitive, learneable, masterable and suitable for novices and advanced musicians. The basic principle is very similar to Microsoft’s Surface, that’s going to be launched at the end of this year.

Mario Biondi and the High Five Quintent present their debut album Handful of Soul which is an extrodinary and sublime jazz recording, in my opinion this is one of the most refreshing and dynamic jazz albums, they recreate the complete jazz experience, Mario’s voice is an angular piece to this band, because he sings with so much swing and deepness that you will think he’s a black singer.

From Canada, Elizabeth Shepherd, which is a great singer/songwriter, she and her trio offer us a fascinating option of new vocal jazz, according to my evaluation she could only be compared with the playful vibe of Jamie Cullum, the songs are full of energy and soul, I love the bass arrangements and the groove that she builts on her music, She has also appeared on numerous ‘Live in Session’ including Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide show on BBC Radio 1 UK.

Nostalgia 77 is the studio project of Ben Lamdin his creations range from heavy-funk to dusty-old jazz, recently he reunited a bunch of extraordinary musicians conforming an octect, including the fantastic voice of Alice Russell. Their last effort, Everything Under the Sun won the “Jazz Album of the Year 2006″ award from the BBC, highly recommended, one of the finest contemporary jazz albums.

Hajime Yoshizawa is an extraodinary musician, producer and pianist from Japan, the way that he perceives and plays music is very different compared with western jazz, in fact I believe that he has a unique ability to connect his left side of the brain directly to the piano keys, he had also worked for Kyoto Jazz Massive, Cosmic Village, Sleep Walker, Dalata, Jazzanova, Monday Michiru and Isabelle Antena.

Nils Krogh is a 22 year old producer/artist from Sweden who has a lot potential to make a great contribution to jazz music, apparently he started his blooming career with the record label Dealers of Nordic Music, which is a huge beginning. Today with just an EP, Things We Do, he has done remixes from people like Nicola Conte and Inverse Cinematics.

Bruno E is a music producer from Brazil, he started his carrer working with hip-hop artists and soon he became a respected figure of the electronic scene, soon he founded the record label SambaLoco, which lauched some artists from the stature of DJ Patife, Marky, XRD, and Mad Zoo, among others. Recently he started a new record label named Urubu Jazz, that leads a new wave of jazz musicians and electronic producers.

Non less important I also recommend that you check out these artists, which, as I said before, for the insufficience of time to cover them all, I just list them:
Kaidi Tatham, Eliza Lumley, Ryota Nozaki (Jazztronic), Natural Self, Dj Mitsu, Sunaga T Experience, and finally you can also download this extrodinary DJ set from DJ Chikashi Nishiwaki as an additional “gift”.

If you are into meeting new music from an specific region, this is for you. Along the three volumes some tracks are superb, some others are great and, fortunately, the minority are just plain… but, admit it, the best thing is that they are free and ready for being listened.

Their web site contains a good description of the artists, bands and music, so I won’t get deep in that area. A note: download in Volume 3 is really slooooow, they should improve their transfer rate.

When Björk announced the release of an album that will pick up again the beats issue, a lot of us were impatient to finally know how she could sound like, because she is always in the innovation terrain with almost everything that she puts her mind on.

So, let’s start talking about Volta with the list of the professional musicians who Björk invited this time:
Antony Hegarty (from Antony And The Johnsons), unfortunately he is on two tracks, in my opinion he’s the worst collaborator that she has ever chosen. Is not that Hegarty’s music is bad is just that both tracks on Volta are insipid and flat, the usual innovation level here is simply in a hidden place. I don’t really think his voice makes a match with the vocalization of the Icelandic lady.
Timbaland, the famous producer who materialized the percussion section for three songs, brings back those fantastic Isobel’s tribal beats.
Mark Bell, which is an extraordinary electronic producer and member of LFO, he’s guilty for the bass lines, low frequencies and strange sounds on Volta.
Chris Corsano and Brian Chippendale, both outstanding drummers they complement the Volta recipe by adding a unique flavor to the beats.
Toumani Diabate, which is a talented kora player from Congo who won the BBC World Music Award last year, his collaboration is one the best here.
10 piece female brass section from iceland, who helped Björk in creating the orchestration to obtain sweet and emotive chords.
Min Xiao-Fen, which is a chinese pipa player, her collaboration is extraordinary and emphasizes the fact that Björk was again experimenting and looking for new sounds.

Björk, describes Volta as techno voodoo, pagan, tribal and extroverted. For me, the most significant word is “extroverted” because Björk in her previous efforts sang with such a sweetness and tenderness, like someone in love, and some songs were almost children’s lullabies. For this album it was not only the return of strong beats, but also she was determined to be impulsive. I guess that is a better way to focus her energy, singing, instead of showing her bad temper, remember that she lives violently happy, after all. All this impulse and playfulness was reflected on three songs: Earth Intruders, Innocence and Declare Independence, the latter simply breaks her own recent rule of creating tender songs, resulting in a recording so extroverted and full of energy that she seems to be singing a revelation song or giving an alarm call, and it is something like that, because her message is “Start your own currency! Make your own stamp! Protect your language!”

Volta is entirely written and produced by Björk so that could be one of the reasons for not resulting in a homogenous album (or should I say homogenic?), Volta might be considered Björk’s most mirthful and risky experiment, she combined so many flavors, so many beat textures, so organic frequencies and samples, that she created a unique collage of electro-worldmusic. I hope for the next records this experimentation will be expanded towards other countries and collaborators, imagine a Björk album using latin beats, it could be marvelous, I hope one day that happens.

After listening scrupulously to the album more that 6 times with my headphones, I have to say that this album is magnificently well done, I especially love Hope, in my opinion is, by far, the best track… nevertheless it is not my favorite Björk album, possibly –maybe– I was expecting another kind of surprise. So go and get one copy for you, so you can built your own opinion, try to buy Volta on the original Special Edition CD, the artwork is extraordinary, and the audio is way much better than if you download it from rapidshare or elsewhere.

By the end of 2005 they teamed up with Martin Schellens (who was the lead singer of Twist of Fate, the band on which Oster was the drummer) for a live-set at the launching of a new cross-media magazine released by Dif-Books, this events positioned Verbal Kint as a respected project. After getting in touch with Hungarian singer Judie Jay, Rogier and Dennis made two extraordinary tracks with her, the blending of their influences created a great coalescence and therefore accomplishing a revolutionary concept that could be just compared with artists like Moloko or Lamb.

Today, Verbal Kint are working in their studio on several tracks with the goal of releasing an album in the near future, they also composed the music for a new Lifestyle TV show, on the Dutch commercial TV station RTL4, called “Goodies”. Rummors are that they are talking to EMI to sign for their first album, so when that moment arrives all their tracks are going to be offline, so enjoy them before a record label establish the infamous settlement: 90% business, 10% music.

Among those performing this year is one of the most celebrated and respected singers of Africa, Mali’s Oumou Sangaré, Scottish Salsa fiends Salsa Celtica and Sarajevo-born artist Goran Bregovic who’ll perform his eclectic and dance-inducing mix of gypsy brass, traditional Bulgarian polyphonies and Rock ‘n’ Roll along with his Weddings and Funerals Band, a string orchestra and a stunning male choir. Others set to perform include well known Icelandic Jazz bassist and composer Tómas R. Einarsson and Samúel J. Samúelsson Big Band, something that’s sure to please the crowd as their previous collaborations have proved fruitful and garnered awards and top marks from critics worldwide.

17-19th May 2007
Ticket price: 4.900 ISK ($75 USD) for area B and 5.900 ISK ($91 USD) for area A.
Source: Icelandair

Check out this video of this fantastic DJ, watch carefully his smooth and smart movements.

Source:Get LoFi

We’ve extracted some line-ups from the most important festivals for this spring and summer, if you have the chance to attend some of these incredible music festivals, don’t hesitate and go!. Our bank robbery plan has been unsuccessful, so it’s a shame we won’t be there.

Bonaroo: June 14th-17th (Manchester, Tennessee, USA)

Coachella: April 27th-29th (Indio, California, USA)

Isle of Wight: June 8th-10th (Isle of Wight, UK)

Reading: August 24th-26th (Reading, UK)

Sonar: June 14th-16th (Barcelona, Spain)

T In The Park: July 6th-8th (Balado, UK)

Ultra Music Festival: March 23th & 24th (Miami, Florida, USA)

Some of the best MySpace Music we’ve found so far, enjoy:

Lanu’s productions have received chartlistings and radio play from key tastemakers including: Gilles Peterson (Worldwide, BBC Radio 1), Patrick Forge, Jazzanova, Afronaught, Straight No Chaser Magazine, Quantic, Nicola Conte, Nik Weston,, Rainer Truby, Ennio Styles, Keb Darge, Simon Harrison, John Kong, Paul Murphy and Snowboy.

Lance Ferguson a.k.a. Lanu was born in New Zealand he is know for his guitar skills in the famous deep funk band The Bamboos and is the co-founder of Melbourne’s Local People and Equatorial labels, whose releases had put Melbourne on the map for a vast amount of quality, soulful club-music.

Check out Lanu’s fortnightly online radio show here.
And also download this DJ Mix, featuring Lanu, Seiji & Amp Fidder.

This advice is for thoose people who usually buy used gear on eBay or other online retailers, BT published the serial number of almost every stolen item, so you can track the perpetrators, and he’s not pretending to put them behind the bars but, instead, he just want to talk to them to try to get his irreplaceable things back.

You can hear a few clicks and clangs but the vast majority are vocal sounds, nothing but vivid voices that call, cry, murmur, mutter, roar, shout, sing, and make sounds that transport us through a world of love, selfness, loss, water, but mainly music.

If you like traveling with music or if you love music that makes you travel, this album deserves to be in your collection.

You can read more about them here.

Coming from a flourishing music scene in San Juan that also include Superaquello, Balún released they their debut album on May, 2006 with Brilliante Records, which is a little record label based on Chicago, today they have a busy agenda playing mainly on the United States, I think that they never imagined the unbelievable success and acceptation they’ll get.

Allmusic named Balún as the most innovative band of 2006, this award only validates that all their talent and their effort could be acknowledged by the right people, and, because of that, Balún - Something Comes Our Way is our album of the month, I’ll guess that they are going to release an album this year, well, I’m hoping so.

Source: CreateDigitalMusic

CCS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Casper & The Cookies - The Optimist’s Club
Cyndi Seui - Micro Bitz Life
V.A. - Girlmonster
Juana Molina - Son
Pauline En La Playa - Silabario
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Quiero Club - Wof
Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth

And our monthly selections:

December: Koop - Koop Islands
November: Héctor Buitrago - Conector
October: Buffalo Daughter - Euphorica
September: Sabrina Malheiros - Vibrasons
August: Quantic - An Announcement To Answer
July: Herbert - Scale
June: Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
May: Gotan Project - Lunático
April: V.A. - Nu Jazz Vol. 2
March: Gilles Peterson - Worldwide Exclusives and/or Sergio Mendes - Timeless
February: Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
January: Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens

I hope this year we can have more time to write about the music that we love. Have a nice 2007.

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing”:
James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)

I’m not really sure why they dress like women in almost all the photos, I suspect that’s a funny way to promote themselves, anyway, the answer doesn’t matter at all, their music rules!

By the way, in their official website you can read that If you listen very carefully you can hear the Number 4 bus go by on the snowy street outside their tiny studio in Stockholm’s Södermalm, I’ve listened a lot to this album but I can’t notice that detail, could anybody tell us where or in which track?

P.S. Merry Christmas

The band from Monterrey (in the Mexican state of Nuevo León) formed by Priscila González, Gustavo Maurico, both in charge of the guitars and voices; Boscop Benavente, the drummer; Marcela Viejo, who plays keyboards and also sings; and the fine bass player Luis Fara Al Farahel, released their first album, Wof, under the indie-dealt-with-EMI label Happy-fi Records. They introduced their debut LP to a small but joyous audience at La Victoria club in Mexico City. The show was a mixture of gurgling jubilation, dandy music and do-it-yourself fashion and lighting, they instantly became one of my I-recommend-to-see-them-live acts.

Wof, the album, is heroic, gutsy, childish and aggressively primal, it mixes indie rock with alternative dance and eclectic pop, always joined by a terrific bass sound. They autodefine their music with such words as: the caribean, whisky, cinema, smoking, fashion, friends, alter-egos, strawberry drinking yoghurt, second-hand clothing, among others.

According to their version Quiero Club started a few years ago in a radio show hosted by Maurico called “We are the Rock n’ Roll” when Priscila González made a phone call from her home and both started playing live on air, later they got together and made a song set by the anti folk outfit, The Moldy Peaches. They soon started to perform at several Happy-fests (a self-organized music festival by Happy-fi) and then Maurico moved to Barcelona for six months, when he came back the band reassembled into the current line-up. On december 2004 they recorded the track No Coke which gain some listeners in Mexico City and made them participate at the popular Vive Latino Festival and many other stages along their country.

Visit their MySpace page to listen to some samples.

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It is simply a fresh amalgam of top-notch music and spirituality that makes us dream of a musical globe with no borders on it.

Each key causes felt-covered hammers to strike over sets of strings, in a Rhodes piano felt-tipped hammers, also neoprene rubber tips on plastic hammers, strike metal dowels called “tines” to create a ping sound which also resonate the tone bars over each tine creating a juicy ring.

This electromechanical instrument was very popular from the beginning of the 70’s to the mid 80’s. It has been used by artists like The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd, maybe Harorld Rhodes never thought that his invention will be used until these times, in fact this instrument has contributed to a lot of genres such as hip-hop, house and drum & bass by adding a mellow jazzy style.

It’s a shame that Rhodes pianos aren’t manufactured anymore as a real instrument because all the sample-based software doesn’t have this profound sweetness and warmth of a real Rhodes, you can listen to the difference here:

A real Rhodes

An emulation

2. Nordic Lounge Weekend album was realeased, this extraordinary compilation extracts the most relaxing grooves from the Nordic region, after compilations like Nordic Lounge 1 and 2, both of them masterpieces. Trust me, this one is not an exception, get them all.

3. Recently I discovered Plej’s myspace page, he is a brilliant musician and producer from Sweden, in fact some of his tunes are in Nordic Lounge 1 and 2. His debut album “Electronic Music from the Swedish Leftcoast” is, in my opinion, a jewel of electronic music because he fusioned some of the finest house with jazzy atmospheres, this mix sounds truly elegant… anyway his myspace page annouced the release of the new album, certainly I’m longing to get it on my hands.

4. Hanne Hukkelgerg has also made her second album in Propeller studio. It is named “Rykestrasse 68” after her half year living in Berlin. The album is truly amazing. A more orchestral and cinematic sound unfolds new sides of Hanne’s beautiful voice. All songs are written by Hanne except the dark version of Pixies “Break My Body” featuring Daniel Warg Sanden on nyckel-harp. Rykestrasse 68 is out in Norway and itunes store only!

Pop Montréal, October 4-8; Montréal, Canada.
Gonzales, Damien Jurado, The Russian Futurists, Think About Life, Tapes n’ Tapes, Dr. Octagon, Regina Spektor, Sunset Rubdown and many more! plus films and contemporary art.

Iceland Airwaves, October 18-22; Reykjavík, Iceland.
Brazilian Girls, Kaiser Chiefs, Jeff Who?, Reykjavík!, Mammút, Mates of State, The Go! Team, Jenny Wilson, Daníel Ágúst and many more! plus great parties and the chance to take a glimpse of the Aurora Borealis.

CMJ Music Marathon, October 31-November 4; New York City, USA.
Architecture In Helsinki, Hot Chip, Blonde Redhead, CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy), Kid Koala, George Clinton, Keren Ann, Suzanne Vega, Medeski, Martin and Wood and many, many, many more! plus films and interaction with the music industry.

I have a huge list on my mind…

All this knowledge and effort has given her the possibility to work with great artists, like the japanese Acid Jazz act United Future Organization when she was just 19, after that she recorded 4 songs for a movie soundtrack included there was the highly successful track, Dancing in Rio with Paulo Williams.

On her debut album Equilibria the sound contains mainly Brazilian sambas and bossas, all the melodies and rythms reflect in some way a little piece of the musical roots of Brazil but at the same time sounds contemporary and elegant, this extraordinary album was so great that it was screaming for for a remix, so some great artists and producers were involved in creating incredible remixes, people like: Kenny Dope, Quantic, Nicola Conte, Boston Rodríguez, Max Cole, Spiritual South and many more, therefore it is not a collection for DJ’s beacuse there are too much styles and tempos each one of them contributing with their personal trademark, and also compiling Sabrina’s tracks to build up an ultra-rhythmic and sophisticated compendium.

Sabrina explains, “Vibrasons is a play on words, it’s a combination of Vibração (vibrations) and Sons (sounds). I love all the remixes as they breathe new life into the tracks.”

Suba grew up in a home where both parents were jouranlist. His father, a well known TV journalist receveid the Villa Lobos Award for promotion of Brazilian culture, hence Suba early ties with Brazil, in addition Suba’s childhood was full of music studies, from music theory to orchestation.

He moved to Paris in 1986 where he composed music for theater, ballet, elite fashion shows, film and television, one of his electronic pieces that was based on Yugosalvian folk lullabies, In the Mooncage, received the international Fund for Promotion of Culture award from UNESCO, which included a three month scholarship to research indigenous music and Afro-Brazilian rhythms.

After his scolarship, he stayed totally in love with Brazil and their people, a year later he made good friends with some of the the most respected musicians and singers in Brazil: João Parahyba, Cibelle Cavalli, and Katia B, he shared with them his uncovencional way to create music, they then created a perfect complement. They composed tracks such as Sereia, Você Gosta, Tantos Desejos to merge on Suba’s debut album São Paulo Confessions which is a masterpiece.

He had planned to travel to Belgium on November 3rd, 1999, to promote São Paulo Confessions unfortunately the night of November 2nd, 1999, some smoke was detected coming from Suba’s appartment, in fact the building custodian called him through the intercom, and Suba who had been sleeping told him that he was unable to open his door. The custodian battered down the door and found Suba on his feet, very disoriented, inside the burning studio, later he died from smoke asphyxiation.

It appears that Suba reentered to his studio, his friends believe, he was going to recover a small case containing the original audio files and backups for the then new Bebel Gilberto album Tanto Tempo that was in the final stage of production.

I think Suba’s work goes beyond his studio and that he created a new path for musicians in Brazil, In conclution I believe that this story is not a sad story after all, as Suba said sometime “Life can be understood backwards; but it most be lived fowards” and yes, Suba is deeply sleeping inside everyone of us.

Here are some samples of his music.

After hearing some tracks, it came to my mind the belgian producer Buscemi, maybe because Buscemi and Quantic dare to explore those hidden roots of African music.
And, by the way, if you look at the dictionary you will find that Quantic means: “a homogenous polynomial having two or more variables” this definition works very accurately to define this album.

I hope you enjoy this album as much as I do.

Their music is a fresh amalgam of progressive psychedelia, heavy sounds and dream pop, all these following a totally-instrumental policy, influenced by bands like Sigur Rós, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Yo La Tengo or even That Dog.

On September of 2002 they released their five track-EP entitled Austin TV, the EP’s only vocal sounds are samples of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Fando y Lis” and Richard Linklater’s “SubUrbia” showing us their intense love for movies. On November of 2003 they delivered their first album: La Última Noche Del Mundo (The Last Night Of The World), this 8 track LP consolidated them as a powerful band, the music here is great, especially the sublime “Ella No Me Conoce” (She Doesn’t Know Me). Next year, on March, Pasa left the band to concentrate in his career, and Ratón took his place on bass. On August 2004 they compiled and issued a limited edition album of B-sides and live tracks with the name of Asrael, the album quickly went out-of-stock, and it is now a rarity. Along these releases they’ve participated in several movie soundtracks including: “Más Que a Nada en el Mundo“, “Temporada de Patos” and “American Visa” among others.

Their latest release is a free DVD of a live acoustic show recorded on the winter of 2005 at IMER studios in Mexico City, the DVD Temblaban Con Sonata Solitaria (They Trembled With Solitary Sonata) was directed by Project Mayhem and sponsored by Vans, it contains 9 finely achieved acoustic performances by this outstanding DIY-band, whose future looks bright and very promising.

You can download the next tracks: Otro sueño, Aimee observó el cielo, Olvidé decir adios, Les choses sont bizarres and Valiente.

Make your own ocarina, get more information or listen to a sample.

This is a great example of how record labels could stay alive without sacrificing originalty.
Visit Ubiquity Records website.

In my opinion Scale is one of Herbert’s most lucid dreams and, at the same time, a consolidation as a respected icon in the music scene, definitely this album is a masterpiece, not only beacause the arrangements and the production, which is pefectly done, he also renewed musical compositions in a flexible and amusing way.

Scale is one of the most expected albums of this year, for that facts is our july album of the month

Together, Keston and Westdal dish out pure jazz infiltrated downtempo Rhodes and bass. Their release Super Structure Baby consists of meticulous original compositions by these two demiurgic musicians.

You can listen some samples here:
Sample1
Sample2
Sample3

Source: www.kestwest.com

Download your own free vocoder software, or listen to samples: normal and vocoded.

I think this dilemma is just the result of globalization, and technification, which doesn’t mean that is bad change, is just the fact that music is evolving without our presence in every part of the process, but not a single mathematic equation or any software can compose a lyric of your daily life, or your past lovers

Tell me what do you think about it?

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His music is incorrectly labeled as IDM (which means Intelligent Dance Music), for me, this label was created for those people who can’t understand this music, and they simply can’t pick up a name for futurity.

One of the most popular tracks on his catalogue was Window Licker, this track is a nice sample of how music will be in a few years, or at least I think so, in the meantime check out the video, definitely a masterpiece.

We’d announced last March the release of Chosen Lords which is just an extract of the Analord series, a compilation created for vinyl only, I’ve heard all the tracks recently and I think that AFX is going back to his roots, the saturation of TB 303 (this could be a clue of the 303 that names our blog) and TR 808 are very strong, just like in his first EP named “Analogue Bubblebath“, anyway, his new material is based on his huge experience in innovation. He blended genres like Electro, Acid House, and Techno in just one entity. It is simply the best electro album I’ve ever heard, the combination is almost impossible, morphing something very repetitive into something so organic, for those facts we think that this album deserves the album of the month award.

I think that the podcast media open a new world for DJ’s who want to expose their work


To suscribe to his podcasts you should copy-paste this URL to your iTunes
feed://djflatcracker.com/mixes/DJFlatcrackerPodcast.xml

Steal these podcasts, just copy and paste this url to your Itunes
feed://www.ninjatune.net/solidsteel/rss.xml

But he didn’t want to get labeled as a “Lounge DJ”, he wanted more, so he started working in the production of his own tracks, in 2003 he released his first album ““Living On The Egde” in which he had great guests, like Michael Stipe of R.E.M., Clèmentine, Cathy Battistessa and many more, from that album I especially love the original Morenito song, which is incredibly well produced.

Finally I want to share with you his last effort “The Concorde Lounge - Super Sonic Jet Set Love” which also has original compositions by Stéphane Pompougnac, remixes and special guests. It was really hard to find, so please enjoy the listening.

Recently I’ve listened to 3 different albums which have a lot in common, the are:
Aqua Bassino - Rue De Paris
Fantastic Plastic Machine - Imaginations
Stereolab - Fab Four Suture
What have they in common? Aren’t they different in their own style? You may be asking these questions, The answer is yes, they are radically different, but the 3 of them follow the same pattern or the same formula than their previous releases, let’s talk about a little bit of each one:

Aqua Bassino - Rue De Paris
It’s a fantastic album for creating a lounge atmosphere because almost all of it is downtempo, just a few tracks are house music in 120 or 125 bpm, It could be said that is incredibly well done, the arregments, the vocals, but it’s the same Aqua Bassino’s formula, if you know
his past albums, you will find the similarities.
Register and listen this album here.

Fantastic Plastic Machine - Imaginations
This Japanese producer and DJ has a huge background exposing new ideas to renew the Japanese scene, Imaginations definitely is great for dancefloors, but I won’t compare it with Too (2003) in which every track has a story to tell and a renew way to edit a song, although he invited 3 incredible artists, like Tahiti 80 or Benjamin Diamond, in my own point of view is a quick-made album, therefore, with a lack of imagination, maybe I was expecting more about Fantastic Plastic Machine.
Register and listen this album here.

StereoLab-Fab Four Suture
This one is the most faithful example of how artists could reclycling formulas, aparently Stereolab extract all the essence of their previous releases and put it on Fab Four Suture, they have all the tools to renew themselves, I don’t know why they haven’t done it, but don’t misunderstand me, this album is very cool if you don’t know their past works or if you are a Stereolab fan, The formula they always use could be 40% of sweet vocals by Laetitia Sadier, 30% of 60’s pyschedelia and 30% of electronic arragments, et voilá: you have a Stereolab album.
Register and listen this album here.

Listen to the 3 of them and leave us a comment

We had to wait two years after Inspiración-Espiración (a remixes album) to recieve Lunático our May album of the month, this album, in comparison with their debut’s, is “diferente”, just like the name of the single, beacause Lunático explores the most hidden roots of tango music and even the traditional South American music, like candombe, which is an Uruguayan style created entirely for drums, influenced by Africans. Lunático dares to have more freedom and rhytm, in fact the single ‘Diferente’ is available on vinyl, ready for DJs pleasure; But this album is not entirely for dancefloors, Lunatico has a lot of flavors from rap & tango, to jazzy ballads and fast breakbeats, for doing this amazing fusion they had to be very creative and professional, Gotan Project are now more prepared to show the guidelines of the future, I actually can’t wait to listen to their next album.

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.

Source:Analog Industries.

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!

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

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.

As with most Richard D. James releases, it’s hard to pin it down to any one genre. Largely recorded on Richard’s private collection of analog synthesizers - vintage, modern and home-made, the rhythms, melodies, harmonies, and even some subliminal lyrics have all evolved directly from the machines.
Many people try to imitate Richard’s sound, but he remains an unrivaled innovator when it comes to the emotional and musical depth and complexity of his tracks.

Something sad, these tracks will not be available for download or on CD, they will only be on vinyl, but maybe they will be on p2p networks
Source:Godbrain

Let me tell you something ironic, Gilles Peterson has a radio show at the BBC named Worlwide, on the last Sunday show Gilles had a really intersting interview with the legend of Brasil 66, Sergio Mendes, he spoke about his colaboration on the Timeless album, you must listen to this, in the interview Gilles Peterson lets us know he’s fascinated about Mendes’ work, yeah and who won’t be?

In my opinion definetly the vote of Gilles Peterson IS for Timeless and that makes Mendes’ album the winner, I guess that only proves Peterson’s passion for exposing new music and ideas, and for that, we repect him.

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This month the decision for album of the month was very difficult, At the begining of the month I discovered this album by Gilles Peterson - Worldwide Exclusives wich is an extraordinary selection of eclectic music and fine tracks, Gilles Peterson is not exactly a musician, but his excellent taste in music make each of his albums a sort of masterpiece. Anyway, at the end of the month, I listened an album which is titled Timeless and it is a kind of tribute to Sergio Mendes and it includes colaborations of several artists such as: The Black Eyed Peas, Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Justin Timberlake, etc. As you can see the styles of these artists could be considered as radically contrasted, but imagine some of their styles fusioned with the unique compositions of Sergio Mendes, The result is a great and propositive album full of energy and bossa nova, as you see this month you have the chance to choose between:

Timeless or Worldwide Exclusives

i don’t want to influence your vote, but you can listen this interview with Sergio Mendes
If you wish post as a comment with your vote.

Nevertheless there’s something that I can’t understand, Why are they so tight?, They only think about themselves, and they can’t always open their frontiers to share their genious. An example of this is that in most cases you can’t buy their music if you don’t live within Japan…

…Anyway listen to one of the tracks of Mild Fantasy Violence
Or buy this album at Warpmart (UK)

Do you have an extra $95? Then make your own theremin with this kit.

Yeah, yeah… but what does it sound like? Download a sample here.

I always think about this intersting issue, but I have developed my own theory and it goes in other direction, I mean, we can understand the algorithm created by music but my question would be: How can human beings assimilate and codify music, depending on what basis or influences?

I think if you add more complexity on a melody or a rhythm, people can’t assimilate or codify it as good as a simplier one, and obviously they can’t easily enjoy it.

Am I right? Please post your opinion about this.

Without a doubt you must own Tales from Turnpike House not only for the outstanding music, the artwork of the CD is pretty cool as well, all of this facts turn out this selection to be our February album of the month.

You must own these recordings by Chicken Lips:
Chicken Lips-Nite:Life 015
Chicken Lips-Clicks, Acid ‘n’ Disco
Chicken Lips-DJ Kicks

Or listen a sample of them

Enjoy:
Dj Kula
style: Hip-hop/ format: mp3
Gilles Peterson live Mix
style: Worldwide /format: real player
David Holmes - Free Association
style: Break Beats/ format: mp3
Jeff Samuel live in Osaka City
style:Techno/ format: real player with low quality
Mixes from DFA Records
style: Left-Field House & Electroclash/ format:mp3
Andy Compton (member of The Rurals)
style: Deep & Vocal House/ format:mp3
LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad live
style: Drum & Bass/ format:mp3
Ame live mix in Paris
style: TechHouse/ format:mp3
Todd Terje’s Iron Kukkuru mix
style: Disco Funk Rock/ format:mp3
If you know some good free DJ sets please post the URL as a comment

Again Chicago is offering a vast pile of good artists and ideas, making a sumarie of new albums of soul and funk, I could say that as the modern world is full of technology, we are missing our soul.

Here you can listen to 2 samples of Kings & Queens.
Sample1
Sample 2
You must have real player, if you don’t, download it here

One of the most incredible facts is that Mario’s music is fresh and dynamic, in my opinion his sound is very innovative for the genre.

If you don’t believe it listen to a sample here or read a complete biography of Mario Fabriani.

Beady Belle - Closer
Manu Chao - Siberie M’Etait ContÈee
Cobra Killer & Kapajkos - Das Mandolinenorchester
Gabby La La - Be Careful What You Wish For
Jazztronic - Samurai
Junior Senior - Hey Hey My My Yo Yo
Doc Martin - Mix the Vibe: Sublevel Maneuvers
Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens
Télépopmusik - Angel Milk
Various Artists - KCRW Sounds Eclectico

If you like to suggest complementary ideas for this list, please post a comment

Pro’s use this software Battery 2

Here you can listen samples of the album.
If you liked this album you should listen Erlend Øye - Unrest

If you listen to all kinds of music as much as you can, you have more resources to buy, listen or even to compose music.
A good example of this is Hanne Hukkelberg beacause this is not pop or electronica, but a timeless mix of all, So you are not listening to a kind of music only… If you can’t enjoy stuff like this, maybe it’s beacuse your ears are only for stream following proposes, not for changes.

Here you can listen to a song of her.

Max Mathews a.k.a “The father of computer music” predicts that by 2010, “almost all music will be made electronically, by digital circuits.”
Which will be the next step on this impredictable evolution?

Here you can see a video of one this crazy instruments.

This magnificent artist is not only a good dj, he is producer, a piano player, and even a great graphite illustrator, it is hard to explain exaclty what Kid Koala does as he’s mixing, because he incorporates turntables as if they were any other instrument, I mean he can scratch the records with such ease that you can even hear a saxophone-like sound only with him scratching.

If you ever have the chance to see one of his shows, be sure not miss it.
Here you can listen Spanky Panky.

It’s a shame that the “Flasher Tour” included Japan only.
You should listen this cd’s:
Towa Tei- Flasher
Jazztronic-Jazztronic-Present Jazztronic
Jazztronic-Samurai

If you prefer Electro you should listen the new material of Swayzak is a good example as well.
you can download a sample here to help you identify this sound.

If you like this album you should hear this guy DJ Patife

• Downtempo
• Big Beat
• Chillout
• House
• Electronic
• Trip Hop
• World
• Rock
• Bossa Nova
• Jazz
• IDM
• Electro Pop
• Indie Music
Listen to everything, sort out the good stuff!

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