Ivan Ave – Lo-Fi Radio 002
” If Jazzy Ambient Synth Porn was a genre, this would be its quintessential mix.” (Ivan Ave)
Monk Veneris – Lunae Ortus Mix
A deeply meditative, deeply ritualist journey full of hypnotic percussions, ethereal singing, dreamy melodies and the sounds of the jungle.
Nils Frahm – Xmas Mix 2016
Pianist and electronic music composer Nils Frahm keeps up his christmas mixtape tradition and shares with us an hour of cosy pops and crackles on mellow vintage records.
Kabanjak – The Dooza Tapes Vol. 1
Kabanjak is back with bang. Today the German beatmaker dropped The Dooza Tapes Vol. 1, and they are oozing with his signature dopeness. The bass lines are so fat and heavy that they might ask you to book two contigious seats if you wanna listen to this album on the airplane. Dynamic live drums, Trap-ish…
Hidden Orchestra – Wingbeats
Mellow Trip Hop meets contemporary Jazz meets field recording meets stunning nature videography: Joe Acheson and his imaginary orchestra present Wingbeats.
Robot Koch & Savannah Jo Lack – Time Travel Tape
Complementing the release of their mutual album Particle Fields, Robot Koch and Savannah Jo Lack take us on a nearly hour-long time travel through the soothing realms of Classic, Neo Classic and mellow electronic music.
Bonobo – Kerala
Same but different: Bonobo is among the few producer who manage to keep up a signature style, but at the same time to sound fresh and new. So it’s exciting news that his next album Migration has just been announced for the beginning of next year on Ninja Tune. Kerala, the promising first single, comes with…
Robot Koch – Boiler Room 2016
Robot Koch played a live set for Boiler Room together with vocalist Delhia De France. It took place in front of video projection that provided the pefect visual match for the warm, organic sound of this performance.
Phaeleh – The Monday Is Okay Mix
The grand master of so-sweet-and-melodic-it’s-almost-kitsch-but-it’s-not Bass Music presents a beautiful mix of deep Ambient and Downbeat tunes for Ransom Note. „I’ve done chilled and ambient mixes in the past which covered my influences over the years, whereas this mix features a lot more recent material of mine and stuff I’d get on promo that I…
Floating Points Live
Absolutely stunning live session by Floating Points and his 10-person ensemble.
Oldtwig – Seaside (Part 1)
Dope beats for sophisticated music lovers: Two years after the release of his outstanding Through Hills album, Oldtwig is back and presents the exquisite first part of his Seaside series. The rich, emotional sounds of a piano and a trombone lead the listeners through deep, slightly melancholic senarios with a very cinematic vibe. Great to…
Guts – Peaceful Life feat. Lorine Chia
Guts news everyone: The French grandmaster of Dope Beats is about to drop his new album ‘Eternal’ on 1st April. Judging by this little video he just keeps getting better and better…
Kodiac Kid @ The Forum Melbourne 2016
Kodiac Kid delivers a beautiful mix of Dope Beats and mellow Australian Glitch Hop tunes.
Nicolas Jaar – RA500 Podcast
Nicolas Jaar delivers a new DJ mix for Resident Advisor and, no surprise here, it’s a class of its own. Excellent track selection from a multitude of genres, skilfully blended into one smooth listening experience. Download Link
10 Outstanding Albums of 2015
There’s never been more good music out there than right now. Here’s 10 random examples. Scuba – Claustrophobia His early work on the field of Dubstep and Bass Music was and still is magnificent. Then Paul Rose took a musical detour to the shallows of hands-up-everybody land. Now he’s back with a…
Mateo – Mezcla 25
This DJ mix by Mateo is just as much deep, ethereal World Music as it is slow, shuffling club groove.
Dolph – Deep Afterhour No. 218
Dolph mixes his way through an impressive bandwidth of genres, from Downbeat Electronica to Trip Hop to Nu LatAm grooves to mellow Deep House, and back to some Dope Beats and singer / songwriter tunes. Strictly quality stuff with a dreamy, melodic vibe. Full credit.
Pablie – B-Sides
Dreamy flute sounds, the organic warmth of a Fender Rhodes, laid-back yet inspiring beats: Pablie from beautiful Barcelona delivers a collection of tracks that ranks fairly high on the dopeness scale. Pablie – B Sides by Atomnation
Den Sorte Skole – Indians & Cowboys
The Danish sampling maniacs known as Den Sorte Skole dropped their new album today. Reflecting the unique production approach of the duo, Indians & Cowboys is a skilful collage of rhythms and sounds from a multitude of countries, music genres and eras. Some tracks are surprisingly heavy on the beats, others float along with barely…
Hidden Orchestra – Reorchestrations Live Mixtape
Outstanding mixtape by the Hidden Orchestra. Well, it’s actually not a mixtape in the classical sense of this term, but rather a live recording of a performance at Berlin’s Radialsystem V. Joe Acheson improvises live remixes of his Hidden Orchestra material, alongside versions of tracks by Floex, Piano Interrupted, Macmaster/Hay, Long Arm, and Clarinet Factory…