Fat Jon, Dabrye, Lone

Fat Jon – Muses

Dabrye – With A Professional

Lone – Interview at Honolulu

Three cuts of  hip-hop minded music.  These tracks coming from the albums “Lemurian” by Lone, “Repaint Tomorrow” by Fat Jon, and “One/Three” by Dabrye.  You can listen to more tracks from these albums right on Grooveshark.

Songs That Would Be Great At The End Of Movies

These three tracks really lead you away, provide closure, and set you down nicely.  I don’t intend to slight them in suggesting they’d be perfect atop which to segue into credits.

Donato Wharton – Flutlichter

Arovane – Tides

Strategy – Stops Spinning

Get Lost

You should stop reading right here if you don’t like feeling good.  Seriously, stop now if you don’t like relaxing music.  No need to go any further if you’ve never enjoyed any of the following: Air, Zero 7, Ulrich Schnauss or Saint Etienne.

It’s Been A Long Time…

I shouldna left you, without a base clef to step to, step to.  But I’m back.

Several new posts coming in the next week, getting back into the groove.  For now, I have two great tracks for you.

Some Things Never Change

Perhaps because of its relatively recent release, Sebastian Taylor’s material as Hibernation cannot be found on allmusic…or Pitchfork. As its namesake suggests, this music is not out galavanting, eager to find its friends; rather, it subsists in a cavernous realm- perhaps once a room- percolating, contemplating, and marinading.

Secret to a Baltic-beat, bubble-gum summer

Here is Studio’s remix of a track by fellow Swedes (the) Shout Out Louds on the cover album Yearbook 2.

Recommended for:  car rides down highways near water, making fruit salad, reminiscing, playing outside.

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Tortoise revived – and revised?

I’ll let you decide for yourself this time, just this once.

This is the single “Prepare Your Coffin” from new album

Ulrich Schnauss

Critics like to call him the “mysterious” or “enigmatic” producer from Berlin.  The only thing that’s mysterious to me is why he’s not more popular.

Tychonic Bliss

This 2007 single from Tycho is a great introduction to his style.  Click on the album art to hear.  Fans of Boards of Canada, Telefon Tel Aviv, Isan or Four Tet will thoroughly

Drumsolo’s Delight

West coast multi-instrumentalist Paul Dickow is a busy musician.  When not running his Community Library label or playing in three-piece Nudge, he has time to record and perform his own brand of busy music as Strategy.

I made a post about his latest album, Future Rock (Kranky; 2009), below and linked to Pitchfork who streams it.  If you’ve listened to one but not the other, I strongly recommend doing so as they’re quite different.

As for Drumsolo’s Delight (Kranky; 2004), it is an album that haunts you. When I first listened to it, after sorting through an enormous list of IDM recommendations, slightly irritated and tired

They Know What Ghost Know

Not too long ago, it was still normal to be surprised at the amount of noise one musician could make.  “Wow, I can’t believe it’s just one guy!” to “Yeah, ______ are great!” “You mean is great, right?” were just some of the things said in this regard.

No longer.  Even before he formed a band, Joe Corrales already sounded like one. His debut release You Are Beautiful at All Times (Ninja Tune/Iris; 2006) made this very clear on stand-out tracks, “Again With the Subtitles“, “I’ll Hit the Breaks” and “It’s Not the Same“.

Corrales then brought together a band to perform Yppah’s material live.  This might lead one to think that he now had a mind to creating music meant for multiple musicians, but no.

Crying Over Pros For No Reason

For me, the best part of glitch-hop is the name.  Seriously, ‘glitch-hop’..just say that a few times.  Of all the plays on ‘hip-hop’ (drip-hop, skip-hop, trip-hop), glitch is my favourite.  Besides kickass nomenclature, glitch-hop is also worth your time because of its quickly growing pool of dedicated and talented artists.  More importantly, by getting into this specialized form of glitch, you will be exposed to the many other sub-categories (at least four other types to get your glitch on).

In 2004, Edward Ma a.k.a edIT (formerly known as ‘The Con Artist’) released his first solo album, Crying Over Pros for No Reason, on Planet Mu.  Coming out almost exactly a year after

Fyris Swan’s one-way ticket

Australian masters of dramatically understated cool, Solo Andata, stun on this LP.  Check it out below or purchase it here.  Also, they have some new material coming out.. which is exciting in an understated, lazy Sunday kind of way.

Outroducing Eric Sieker

Eric Sieker is a good friend of mine who makes music in his apartment. You should check him out if you’re into acoustically-influenced electronica, spacey wonderland pop music, Yo La Tengo or Brian Wilson.

Latest Ochre release

Ochre’s previous release Lemodie (Benbecula; 2006) was a lush and galloping effort.  The above is a Rothko piece, Ochre and Red on Red. Like Rothko, Novocastrian Christopher Leary crafts lush canvasses who’s immediate simplicity of beauty belies their multi-layered aesthetic construction.  Have a listen to Lemodie