Kia Sydney, the -rather confusingly- Melbourne-based producer, DJ and creative mind behind Animalia serves up her Rooftop StunMix01 – and yes, it surely does live up to all the brezzy, sunlit fantasies that come with a title like that: Two hours of mellow, bass-heavy dopeness.
Folk, jazz, moody experimental electronica, seismic bass tunes, spoken word poetry and electric guitars, a lot of it from that near-mythical center of musical goodness, Bristol – like the talented Pete Cunningham of Ishmael Ensemble himself. For more words, as well as the track list head over to Crack Magazine.
Brian Not Brian serves up an eclectic concoction of mellow grooves and laid-back vibes, spanning across a panoramic stretch of genres. Brought to us via Idle Cellars, a boutique winery in California. A broad hint, indeed.
Speaking of Keno the other day… this North German producer is truly prolific at the moment. Last weekend he dropped the breezy summer vibes of a surprise new Renegades of Jazz single, plus the result of a long-running project he’s specially fond of: The debut album of The Motion Orchestra. Drawing it’s rich musicality from…
One hour of mellow 7 inch dopeness, old and new, hand-played and machine-based, mixed into a seamless flow by German producer Keno aka Renegades of Jazz. Don’t miss the interview on SoundClound, and if you dig these vibes check out the forthcoming Keno album Out Past The Current.
As always with this series, my latest Saltwater Music mix is quite a personal affair. For once it doesn’t consist of music that has been the soundtrack for a lifestyle centered around great bodies of saltwater, but mainly of tunes from the generally strange, yet musically marvelous year that lies behind us. An all-instrumental hour…
A beat-heavy mixtape recorded back in 2009. Mr. Scruff, TM Juke, Thievery Corporation, Gramatik, the scene outside of Medellin, and all that jazz.
A stunning foretaste, both musically and visually, of the upcoming Caoilfhionn Rose (say: Keelin) album on quality label Gondwana Records. The whirling dots of light shown in this video are somewhat reminiscent of those quantum particles (or whatever they’re supposed to be…) in the projections in the series Devs. However, a closer look reveals that…
Embedding poetry into immersive music, We Come From The Sun is a quite a fascinating project and well-worth listening into. Here musical allrounder Joe Acheson, the mastermind behind The Hidden Orchestra, takes it to yet another level by transforming the album into one of his masterful studio mixes. “A series of imagined collaborations including Johnny…
A beautifully Kraft-ed melange of aural warmth and acoustic mellowness that surely lives up to the ideas that come with the title of this mix.
Chilled-out DJ legend and musician Mixmaster Morris p(l)aying tribute to the late Jazz legend Chick Corea.
The legendary DJ Krush laying down a monument to DJ culture at Tokyo’s Zojoji Temple.
Ambient has been the big thing recently, what with all the dance producers putting out mixes and all that. Max Cooper has also been the big thing, not only recently, and especially on this blog. Now this mastermind of synthesized music shares with us a new Ambient mix. And, as it is the case so…
Cyrus Bayandor serves up the result of a Christmas-themed crate digging frenzy, replete with a cosy vintage vibe, quite a few festive obscurities and a notably joyous Latin section. Via Crack Magazine.
Think of Christmas and all the traditions that come with it what you will, but the annual end-of-year mixtapes by neoclassic virtuoso Nils Frahm are a damn good reason to get all festive about the season. Turn up the stereo, turn off all the other stuff that didn’t exist when many of these tunes were…
Creaksbox is a music player for an interacitve, ever-changing, infinite soundtrack created by Hidden Orchestra and artist / developer Jan Chlup. The app is different to a normal album in that the album will never sound exactly the same twice. It has no fixed duration. The music can be heard as it is in the…
Seventy-three minutes of All-Aussie goodness. Well, kinda. Jon Jones recorded a mixtape using exclusively tracks from Australian record labels. “It includes a blend of ambient, downtempo, trance-like sounds with a quirky flavour,” the young producer describes his selection. There’s more: “The mix and the songs within it are inspired by the traditional landowners of Australia,…
Sebastian Mullaert’s four-on-the-floor music for modern trance dance rituals fills a unique and extremely elegant universe of sound – yet it’s a closed system. So it’s amazing to hear the Swedish producer doing something truly groundbreaking again. Working with musicians of the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, he went far beyond the scope of some classical musicians…
Ólafur Arnalds, the Icelandic trailblazer of Neo Classical music, gives us a stunning first impression of his new album. Stunning because of the music which vibrates with the unique virtuosity that made the young composer a protagonist of the genre; and stunning because of the ethereal trip that fills the visible wavelengths of ‘Woven Song’.
Lokke serves up a generous dose of sunlit dopeness and mellow downtempo goodness.