Monday, April 28, 2008

New minimal tech mix

I've put together a mix with a couple of my favourite minimal tech tunes, some of them are old (less than 1 year though) and some are new. Sorry about some of the transitions between the songs, I'm not that good at mixing and I put it together in an hour. At least I hope it sounds decent!

Enjoy!

Playlist:
Phil Keiran - The fear (Original mix)
Yin Elek - Warrior (Original mix)
Plastikman - Spastik (Dubfire rework)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Original mix)
Marcus Schossow - Chase my rabbit
Adam Beyer - China girl
Sydney Blu - Give it up for me (Original mix)
Sebo K - Far out (Original mix)
Sebastien Leger - Jaguar
Deadmau5 - Faxing Berlin (Original mix)


ps. please avoid downloading this one if you're not into minimal/tech. I've got limited bandwidth in my web account

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Today's artist: Estelle



Estelle became famous with the song 1980 in the year 2004 but since then it has been rather quiet around her. This month, she's releasing her 2nd full-length cd with a couple of great tracks.

The music is soft well-produced RnB which reminds me of Lauryn Hill, especially the track No substitute love. Estelle has managed to bring on a whole bunch of guest appearances from hip hop artists like Kanye West and Kardinal Offshall. My guess is that you will hear Estelle a lot on the radio this spring and summer.

Estelle feat. Kanye West - American Boy (Soulseekerz club mix)


Estelle - No substitute love


Estelle feat. Kanye West - Splice of life (hot toddy dub)

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Today's artist: Four tet

Hi guys,

I've been thinking about creating this blog for some time now.

With music in the center I will present known and unknown artist that I listen to, give a sample of what they sound like and, whenever I find it suiting, give a couple of more listening recommendations. My thought is that the artist selection on the blog should be qualitative rather than quantitative and compensate the narrow selection within genres by covering a lot of them. To make it a bit more personal I will sometimes add an anecdote about how I came in contact with the songs or why I think it's good music.


I will start off by recommending the artist Four tet who creates soft experimental electronic music that is very different from, hm, everything else made.

Four tet - Ribbons


Bonobo - Pick up (Four tet mix edit)


Further listening:
Unspoken (Rounds, 2003)
My angel rocks back and forth (Rounds, 2003)
As serious as your life (Rounds, 2003)
Matthew Dear - Deserter (Four tet remix)
Madvillain - Money folder (Four tet remix)
Nathan Fake - You are here (Four tet remix)


If you have other song recommendations with For tet or similiar artists or you just feel to leave a comment about my posts. Feel free! :-)