I remember the days of surfing through the clearance section of Half Price Books for cheap overlooked musical goodies, paying 90% less for CDs I’d purchased new before and since lost, then walking out feeling like a champ. Now along with sites like Gritty Goat, I get bleeding edge jams from Bandcamp.com. Especially [...]
Posts Tagged ‘electronic’
Single of the day: Colfax – “Electricity”
In earlier podcasts, I’d played tracks from electronic musician, Daniel Berkman, that I’d learned about and been granted to play from Magnatune. His projects there featured his performance on the kora, a 21-stringed harp-lute played extensively in West Africa.
As I was mining Bandcamp (which I find myself doing often), I run across [...]
Prefuse 73 – The Forest of Oversensitivity
I think it was the re-imagining of Gabor Szabo’s “Mizrab” on the 2005 release, Impulse! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked that really grabbed by ear and first introduced to the music of Scott Herring a.k.a. Prefuse 73. Since then, I’ve enjoyed tracks here and there, especially his E.P., Prefuse 73 Reads the Books. This latest E.P., [...]
Blackdaylight has a gift for your basket.
Lately, this project by Chicago producer, Blackdaylight, has been a smooth headnoddin’ groove! So that you may also enjoy the ablum, click his picture and, courtesy of Blackdaylight himself, download the entire project for free. My faves are “Indian Chile”, “Hymnal of the Dead”, and “Jade”. You could almost call this smooth IDM.
'and if I Am' mixtape
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“Get yourself together or fall apart…
Make your mind up or let yourself down”
Those words played through my mind as chorus to encourage decision this week. Then Lukid puts this slinky rhythm on it and it’s just nice. Following that :By Design (formerly known as Autolect) brings the track, “Coping Mechanism”. [...]
New mixtape podcast up at Mandrake FM
Catch a blend of independent electro-funk, jazz-flavored house, reggae, and hip-hop music including Outasight, Marcus Paul James, San Serac, and Nigerian artist, Asa via the latest mixtape at Mandrake FM.
tuesday is Fat electric mixtape
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When you’re cycling between dub and dance, there’s fat bass all around so I’ll call this mixtape/podcast Fat electric. The full tracklist is in the comments. Enjoy!
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Thank you for great music, Charles Wesley Cooper III
Charles Wesley Cooper III–one half of Telefon Tel Aviv passed away on January 22. From the My Space page of friend and labelmate, John Hughes, the other half of Telefon Tel Aviv leaves these words:
Hello, Everyone.
It breaks my heart to inform you all that Charlie Cooper, my better half in Telefon Tel Aviv, passed [...]
