Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue

To me previously unknown British artist Stephen Wilkinson aka Bibio made one excellent album that’s, as all good ones, kinda hard to describe – it’s largely electronic music but at the same time it floats back and forth between folk and funk let’s say. Mellow but experimental, it grows on me on each listen. I don’t associate the music to a perfectly ordered street with identical cars parked on the side… rather to an afternoon out on a hill.

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Fever Ray

Fever Ray is a solo debut of Karin Dreijer Andersson from the Swedish electronica band The Knife. It’s still slightly distorted electronica, but with way more subtle vocals, slow and atmospheric. If you need a feeling of an upcoming fall in the night.

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Amon Tobin – Adventures In Foam

This is a Ninja Tune reissue of the original Cujo (Amon Tobin) record from 1996, originally released on a small London-based label called Ninebar. Later on Amon Tobin became widely known for his atmospheric beats that incorporate drum’n'bass, jazz, hip-hop backgrounds.

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Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume 2

An ambient classic, over two and a half hours of Aphex Twin’s anti-music. It’s very hard to describe it as on the surface it’s quiet, undefined yet you feel that it always reflects and creates emotions. There’s an air of feeling uncomfortable. It doesn’t have any pattern, it flows freely as a state of mind.

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Boards of Canada – Trans Canada Highway

My first time with Boards of Canada. This EP is from 2006 and it’s simply brilliant relaxing electronica that actually makes me feel like I’m out in nature somewhere in spring time.

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Jaga Jazzist – What We Must

Oh finally I get a chance to check out the ten Scandinavian jazz outcasts Jaga Jazzist. I love it! This is awesome, probably as good as it gets at the moment when you mix jazz with one or two rock people in a band exploring electronic sounds. And it fits the winter time.

This is a FLAC rip of a limited double CD edition in cardboard slipcase with a bonus CD “Spydeberg Sessions”.

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Fennesz – Black Sea

An album that sounds like a human response to whales. A soundtrack to a transformation, a texturized loop into eternity. Will keep an open eye on Fennesz from now on, happy to have discovered him.

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Friendship Lingo – Mixed by Jay Skinner

Although I’m not some fan of electronic music, I’m quite enjoying this mix. Jay says “There’s a lot of energetic music on this mix. Some breaks, some trance and a very special surprise – [his own song]” which is very good too! When I hear “trance” I think of something only an intoxicated individual can respond to, but it’s really not like that in fact, it feels good at any time of the day. See the torrent page for the track list.

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Beck – Modern Guilt

Dunno why I never posted about this; I often return to it these days. It’s such a juicy beat box with psyched vocals and vintage collage sounds. Yet it’s all very modern. It often happens with Beck, but I haven’t been into none of his albums this much. The important factor this time must be the album’s length – about half an hour, just right for each idea to have its own time and leave space for another, all equally good. Catchy and thoughtful at the same time.

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Edit: this torrent’s track 6 can’t be played, it has a virus it seems. Somethign more awesome can be found on Demonoid, a vinyl rip.

One Day As a Lion EP

No matter how hard you try… Yeah so we now have Zach De La Rocha’s solo album where he’s in a duo with an ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore. I don’t know, maybe we don’t need a RATM reunion after all?

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