Displaying items by tag: Downtempo
Friday, 08 July 2011 15:18
Candlegravity - Lost at Sea Parts I & II
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Chill Out, Downtempo
Label: VKRS
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:32:33
Candlegravity (aka Sean Crownover) is originally from California, USA but now lives in Japan. Sean studied electronic music production at San Francisco State University . After making music for video games for a short stint in LA , is now a full time programmer in Japan. He has a relatively strange collection of instruments both acoustic and electronic and plays the Japanese Koto (harp), Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Sax, a number of East Asian flutes.
"Making music has always been a very personal thing for me. Sharing it with others is something I'm trying to a better job of. Although I make music for my own sanity rather than trying to make a living doing it, it's always gratifying and extrememly humbling when others find value in something I've made."
Label: VKRS
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 01:32:33
Candlegravity (aka Sean Crownover) is originally from California, USA but now lives in Japan. Sean studied electronic music production at San Francisco State University . After making music for video games for a short stint in LA , is now a full time programmer in Japan. He has a relatively strange collection of instruments both acoustic and electronic and plays the Japanese Koto (harp), Piano, Guitar, Trumpet, Sax, a number of East Asian flutes.
"Making music has always been a very personal thing for me. Sharing it with others is something I'm trying to a better job of. Although I make music for my own sanity rather than trying to make a living doing it, it's always gratifying and extrememly humbling when others find value in something I've made."
| TRACKLIST |
| Part I 01 - Prologue 02 - Everything I Do 03 - My Symphonies 04 - Global Culture Collision 05 - Other Sources 06 - Weathered Home 07 - My Teenage Secrets Part II 01 - Let's Talk Under The Covers 02 - Take Me With You 03 - Calling In Sick 04 - The Little Radio That Loved Me 05 - Dolphin 06 - Always 07 - We're Not That Different 08 - By Your Side 09 - You Are Not Alone |
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Thursday, 30 June 2011 05:05
B_Side - Smooth Season
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Downtempo, Trip Hop
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:54:33
Wonderful debut of the Minsk based band B_Side. "Smooth Season" is an impressive live approach to the ambient trip-hop perfection with delicate female vox, chilled melancholic background strings and dreamy drum patterns.
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:54:33
Wonderful debut of the Minsk based band B_Side. "Smooth Season" is an impressive live approach to the ambient trip-hop perfection with delicate female vox, chilled melancholic background strings and dreamy drum patterns.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Rytmy Gorada 02 - Lotasy 03 - Happy End 04 - Ya Ishla 05 - Through Fingers 06 - Vetry 07 - Stop Silence 08 - Anjoly 09 - Kropli Dushy 10 - Brooklyn 11 - Akijany |
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Wednesday, 22 June 2011 04:41
Waterplea – Dream Catcher
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Downtempo, Chill Out
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:41:59
Do you remember our regular contributors Waterplea who were with us from the beginning? They prepared their first solo LP to be released here. Let you not be tricked by a short tracklist for it’s a 40 minutes trip with detailed conception, ever-changing pace and mood. It takes you from your chair/sofa/bed to a deep sleep state, laying a road before you and inviting you to visit unexplored worlds drawn with blended colors of rich imagination of the authors. Traversing dark ambient soundscapes through intense vivid beats to engaging downtempo grooves this solid music piece touches dozens of different styles and evokes a broad range of emotions and pictures in listeners head.
As authors say the album was mostly composed sequentially, that’s why it was decided to keep the most of it in a single track to underline the theme of one thing transforming into another as your thoughts move from it as it often happens when you sleep. When one is seeing a dream it is hard to tell when it started or how he got here because it’s in a constant change yet all is still connected. This album is something you’d probably like to return to, because of its multilayered atmosphere and numerous details that make listener want to give it another shot to explore something he missed before. There was also a limited number of physical copies printed; images created for its booklet are included in the archive.
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:41:59
Do you remember our regular contributors Waterplea who were with us from the beginning? They prepared their first solo LP to be released here. Let you not be tricked by a short tracklist for it’s a 40 minutes trip with detailed conception, ever-changing pace and mood. It takes you from your chair/sofa/bed to a deep sleep state, laying a road before you and inviting you to visit unexplored worlds drawn with blended colors of rich imagination of the authors. Traversing dark ambient soundscapes through intense vivid beats to engaging downtempo grooves this solid music piece touches dozens of different styles and evokes a broad range of emotions and pictures in listeners head.
As authors say the album was mostly composed sequentially, that’s why it was decided to keep the most of it in a single track to underline the theme of one thing transforming into another as your thoughts move from it as it often happens when you sleep. When one is seeing a dream it is hard to tell when it started or how he got here because it’s in a constant change yet all is still connected. This album is something you’d probably like to return to, because of its multilayered atmosphere and numerous details that make listener want to give it another shot to explore something he missed before. There was also a limited number of physical copies printed; images created for its booklet are included in the archive.
| TRACKLIST |
| Fall-a-Sleep DD Wakeup-Dream Strays |
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Sunday, 19 June 2011 07:38
Nation of clang - Kids at play
GENRE: Electronic, Downtempo, Trip Hop, Hip Hop
Label: Ton Atom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:16:17
We are looking back on seven years of "nation of clang". On "kids at play" we combine tracks from this time of experiments and sounds by this "two-man-orchestra" that was founded in stockholm back in 2004.
Since then we blend genres - electronica, big beat, breakbeat, nu jazz, trip and hip hop - like kids who learn through games what is happening within and around them.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Ton Atom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:16:17
We are looking back on seven years of "nation of clang". On "kids at play" we combine tracks from this time of experiments and sounds by this "two-man-orchestra" that was founded in stockholm back in 2004.
Since then we blend genres - electronica, big beat, breakbeat, nu jazz, trip and hip hop - like kids who learn through games what is happening within and around them.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Mesh 02 - Autour de moi 03 - National anthem 04 - Beast of frequencies 05 - Back in the days |
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Friday, 17 June 2011 05:01
Trigg - Beige
GENRE: Electronic, Cinematic, Downtempo, Chill Out
Label: HumanWorkshop
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:46:30
Bart Knol, a.k.a Gritt also works under the Trigg moniker. He started making music somewhere mid-nineties. After creating loads of dance-orientated material, mostly as the main producer of Longplayers, he gradually became more interested in creating other kinds of music. During several years he started playing piano, guitar, percussion and brass-instruments, while experimenting with different music-styles.
His first solo-album ‘Outside Vision’ was released early 2007 under the name Velvet Overdrive. This was also his first record without any constraints regarding style or composition. This resulted in a mix of electronica, triphop, postrock and nu-jazz. His 2nd album is finished. It’s an ambient album called ‘Soil’, which will be part of an art-project with several visual artists.
A totally different style and feel. While Gritt is known for his hard hitting dubstep bangers, Trigg Is easy going, full of playfull melodies and cinematic atmospheres. It has the lofi quality of Mentz and the ethnic winks of BASIC's work. A true Humanworkshop release. Timeless cinematic electronic music.
Label: HumanWorkshop
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:46:30
Bart Knol, a.k.a Gritt also works under the Trigg moniker. He started making music somewhere mid-nineties. After creating loads of dance-orientated material, mostly as the main producer of Longplayers, he gradually became more interested in creating other kinds of music. During several years he started playing piano, guitar, percussion and brass-instruments, while experimenting with different music-styles.
His first solo-album ‘Outside Vision’ was released early 2007 under the name Velvet Overdrive. This was also his first record without any constraints regarding style or composition. This resulted in a mix of electronica, triphop, postrock and nu-jazz. His 2nd album is finished. It’s an ambient album called ‘Soil’, which will be part of an art-project with several visual artists.
A totally different style and feel. While Gritt is known for his hard hitting dubstep bangers, Trigg Is easy going, full of playfull melodies and cinematic atmospheres. It has the lofi quality of Mentz and the ethnic winks of BASIC's work. A true Humanworkshop release. Timeless cinematic electronic music.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Crest 02 - Tron 03 - Emesis 04 - Dark Flower 05 - Pillon 06 - Yasmin 07 - Seahorse 08 - Transit 09 - Shelter |
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Monday, 30 May 2011 04:53
dustmotes - equilibria
GENRE: Electronic, Ambient, Lo Fi, Downtempo
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:34:50
Paul Croker is a versatile artist, reflected by his various musical influences from past to present.
His love affair with the vinyl format started at the age of 4, when he was given his first 7″ single, and would grow throughout the next few decades throughout the Hip Hop, Trip Hop and Big Beat movements. During the early years, he ruined a few parentally-owned record players teaching himself to scratch and mix records. From the age of 14 he learnt the guitar, joining like minded friends from school, playing in Zeppelin/Hendrix/Floyd influenced bands, gigging all over the country at pubs, clubs and festivals. Finding particular resonance with Eastern influenced sounds, he experimented with alternate tunings and backwards phrasing, forming the core of his sound. In the 90′s after becoming immersed in the Big Beat scene in London and Brighton, Paul began to experiment with creating Digital based music, finding an affiliation with the use of samples and loops to build soundscapes. DJ’ing in local clubs, he learnt to beat mix and also layer sounds within a live environment.
After a few amazing releases for PublicSpacesLab, the talented producer and sound designer Paul Crocker (a.k.a. dustmotes) makes his debut on Dusted Wax Kingdom with another fabulous masterpiece! "equilibria" it triple distilled ambient beats elixir, spiced with wonderful vinylistic and glitchy sounds.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:34:50
Paul Croker is a versatile artist, reflected by his various musical influences from past to present.
His love affair with the vinyl format started at the age of 4, when he was given his first 7″ single, and would grow throughout the next few decades throughout the Hip Hop, Trip Hop and Big Beat movements. During the early years, he ruined a few parentally-owned record players teaching himself to scratch and mix records. From the age of 14 he learnt the guitar, joining like minded friends from school, playing in Zeppelin/Hendrix/Floyd influenced bands, gigging all over the country at pubs, clubs and festivals. Finding particular resonance with Eastern influenced sounds, he experimented with alternate tunings and backwards phrasing, forming the core of his sound. In the 90′s after becoming immersed in the Big Beat scene in London and Brighton, Paul began to experiment with creating Digital based music, finding an affiliation with the use of samples and loops to build soundscapes. DJ’ing in local clubs, he learnt to beat mix and also layer sounds within a live environment.
After a few amazing releases for PublicSpacesLab, the talented producer and sound designer Paul Crocker (a.k.a. dustmotes) makes his debut on Dusted Wax Kingdom with another fabulous masterpiece! "equilibria" it triple distilled ambient beats elixir, spiced with wonderful vinylistic and glitchy sounds.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Renaissance 02 - Perception/Reality 03 - Got Soul 04 - Train 05 - Interlude 06 - con-form-ist 07 - Noctiluncenting 08 - Sickle 09 - Inner Tuning 10 - Oil Face 11 - Burst |
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Saturday, 14 May 2011 08:11
VAD – Zarya
GENRE: Pop, New Age, Chill Out, Downtempo, Folk
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:46:39
VAD is Mixgalaxy old-timer, he contributed to numerous compilations of our label and now we proudly present you his solo album. It’s a mix of Russian folk singing with New Age music. Charming scent of traditions combined with rich electronic timbres gives birth to some nostalgic melancholy and rememberance of music one might have heard long long time ago, yet it manages to stay topical and fresh. It doesn’t matter if you were not born in Russia and haven’t absorbed that calm old-fashioned unity with nature that is streaming in the veins of Russian outlying districts – this music is going to share all this with you as a well written book. VAD’s huge composer experience enables him to communicate with the listener on this vivid language freely like he was telling you about his motherland with heart-warming expression, contagious interest and dozens of lively details. You might not want to miss such an involving tale so make sure you give it a listen and share it with your friends.
Label: Mix Galaxy
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:46:39
VAD is Mixgalaxy old-timer, he contributed to numerous compilations of our label and now we proudly present you his solo album. It’s a mix of Russian folk singing with New Age music. Charming scent of traditions combined with rich electronic timbres gives birth to some nostalgic melancholy and rememberance of music one might have heard long long time ago, yet it manages to stay topical and fresh. It doesn’t matter if you were not born in Russia and haven’t absorbed that calm old-fashioned unity with nature that is streaming in the veins of Russian outlying districts – this music is going to share all this with you as a well written book. VAD’s huge composer experience enables him to communicate with the listener on this vivid language freely like he was telling you about his motherland with heart-warming expression, contagious interest and dozens of lively details. You might not want to miss such an involving tale so make sure you give it a listen and share it with your friends.
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Zarya 02 - Kumushki 03 - Vo Sadu Sadochke 04 - Nu-Ka 05 - Golub 06 - Ti Ne Stoy 07 - U Vorot 08 - Na Gorke 09 - Maslyanaya 10 - Ti Vospoy |
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Sunday, 08 May 2011 08:02
Gosprom - 20
GENRE: Electronic, Trip Hop, Nu Jazz, Downtempo, Chill Out
Label: Headphonica
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:50:55
GOSPROM is a band based in Kharkov, which is the second largest city in Ukraine. Kharkov itself is famed for its industrial prowess (tank factories and the like) and the name of the band comes from the mightily impressive modernist building of the same name (Wiki it to see what I mean)!
Comprising of Marianna Dyakova (vocals), Dmitrij Sysoev - (DJ, programming), Constantine Otkidach (guitar), Andrian Fedoseev (clarinet) and Oleg Shpakowsky (bass), GOSPROM have been ripping up the local live music scene with some belting sets that showcase their own very idiosyncratic brand of music.
The GOSPROM project is also a collective that includes designers, photographers, architects and dancers.
their lyrics are the work of some hugely talented writers like Vladimir Mayakovsky, Michael Svetlov, cult Kharkov writer Sergey Zhadan, poet Constantine Johnson and a host of other young Ukrainian poets.
Gosprom is 20. 20 is 14. But this is not about mathmatics. It is about music.
Available in FLAC!
Label: Headphonica
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:50:55
GOSPROM is a band based in Kharkov, which is the second largest city in Ukraine. Kharkov itself is famed for its industrial prowess (tank factories and the like) and the name of the band comes from the mightily impressive modernist building of the same name (Wiki it to see what I mean)!
Comprising of Marianna Dyakova (vocals), Dmitrij Sysoev - (DJ, programming), Constantine Otkidach (guitar), Andrian Fedoseev (clarinet) and Oleg Shpakowsky (bass), GOSPROM have been ripping up the local live music scene with some belting sets that showcase their own very idiosyncratic brand of music.
The GOSPROM project is also a collective that includes designers, photographers, architects and dancers.
their lyrics are the work of some hugely talented writers like Vladimir Mayakovsky, Michael Svetlov, cult Kharkov writer Sergey Zhadan, poet Constantine Johnson and a host of other young Ukrainian poets.
Gosprom is 20. 20 is 14. But this is not about mathmatics. It is about music.
Available in FLAC!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Len 02 - 20 03 - Uvelirnye Magaziny 04 - Sviter 05 - Japan Punk 06 - Broadway 07 - Greenland 08 - Kofta Fata 09 - Edu 10 - Sindirimba 11 - Plastunka N 12 - San Francisco 13 - Oop Shoop 14 - Rimskie Prazdniki |
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011 16:09
Monk Turner + Fascinoma - Emergency Songs
GENRE: Rock, Country, Pop, Gospel, Soul, Downtempo
Label: ____________
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:35:08
"LA is due for a massive earthquake but no one is ready. Also, the city, ergo, the state is broke, so if The Big One hits—the earthquake scientists are predicting will strike in the uncomfortable window of between now and 30 years—the citizenry will suffer.
Everyone knows it is an imminent possibility, but daily life is difficult to live while anticipating total destruction. Sounds like a sci-fi movie, but in this case, it’s just geography.
In Los Angeles, emergency management organizations and relief agencies are anticipating a crisis on par with Katrina for the City of Angels. The going rule is that individuals and families will need to have supplies for 3 days to 2 weeks, as crisis management teams focus on larger, infrastructural issues.
Enter music. A concept album conceived to awaken the imagination of the locals through song and story…charting the various phases of crisis, from pre-quake boredom, to post-quake freeway BBQ’s. The album starts with an acapella public safety address sung with the help of a backing chorus, The Emergency Choir, that returns throughout the recording to chart the journey." - Monk Turner’s official concept
Label: ____________
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:35:08
"LA is due for a massive earthquake but no one is ready. Also, the city, ergo, the state is broke, so if The Big One hits—the earthquake scientists are predicting will strike in the uncomfortable window of between now and 30 years—the citizenry will suffer.
Everyone knows it is an imminent possibility, but daily life is difficult to live while anticipating total destruction. Sounds like a sci-fi movie, but in this case, it’s just geography.
In Los Angeles, emergency management organizations and relief agencies are anticipating a crisis on par with Katrina for the City of Angels. The going rule is that individuals and families will need to have supplies for 3 days to 2 weeks, as crisis management teams focus on larger, infrastructural issues.
Enter music. A concept album conceived to awaken the imagination of the locals through song and story…charting the various phases of crisis, from pre-quake boredom, to post-quake freeway BBQ’s. The album starts with an acapella public safety address sung with the help of a backing chorus, The Emergency Choir, that returns throughout the recording to chart the journey." - Monk Turner’s official concept
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Letter to the Los Angeleans [BEFORE] 02 - Where's My Horse? 03 - Trust (Is Just a Word) 04 - Everything Already 05 - Did You Feel That? 06 - HOLD ON! 07 - fLover Won't You Hold Meree download 08 - Prisoner 09 - Whatcha' Doin' [AFTER] 10 - After Disaster 11 - O Say Can You See (the Future) 12 - Start Again |
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Published in Rock
Monday, 25 April 2011 10:46
Kisszanto - Surrealism On Tape
GENRE: Electronic, Downtempo, Lo Fi, Acid Jazz, Abstract
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:50:13
Another special release for Dusted Wax Kingdom, this time from Hungarian DJ and electronic music producer Kisszanto. Prepare yourself for properly chilled ambient backgrounds, fascinating acid jazzy chords and trippy alternating drum patterns!
Label: Dusted Wax Kingdom
Release date: 2011
Total running time: 00:50:13
Another special release for Dusted Wax Kingdom, this time from Hungarian DJ and electronic music producer Kisszanto. Prepare yourself for properly chilled ambient backgrounds, fascinating acid jazzy chords and trippy alternating drum patterns!
| TRACKLIST |
| 01 - Freezed Moments In Blue 02 - Stump With Different Moods 03 - Surrealism Futam 04 - No Seagull 05 - Digthis 06 - Surrealism On Tape 07 - The Hungarian Loop 08 - The Yaee Sound 09 - Blunted Atmosphere 10 - Jungle 8000 11 - Ode To Madness |
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If you liked "Songs for Rainy Mornings", try "Sketchbook" of the same musician http://humantracks.blogspot.com/2011/04/cd-sketchbook.html Written by Roxana on 20 April 2011 -
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