Posted by: mx on: December 18, 2009
Onra is a French producer making mainly instrumental hip-hop. Chinoseries is an extraordinary album featuring samples of old Chinese and Vietnamese music mixed with fat beats. Pretty awesome stuff.
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Posted by: mx on: July 30, 2009
But maybe she will…
A friend introduced me to this band. There’s nothing particularly awesome about them in fact, they’re just a very good post-rock band, that can remind you of many others but thinking, hey these guys have some variety. And they did make The Paris Hilton Sex Tape song worth its title.
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Posted by: mx on: December 26, 2008
I first heard the late Jay Dee (or J Dilla) while listening to instrumental hip-hop radio on last.fm. He’s a masterful producer, worked with people like Flying Lotus and ?uestlove. His tracks really do stand with out when you listen to a stream. Here’s a full discography.
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Posted by: mx on: December 5, 2008
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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Posted by: mx on: September 29, 2008
Nine compositions of Henry Mancini, famous composer and arranger – you must’ve heard the Pink Panther theme, well that’s him. My favourite tracks here are the more “classical” sounding ones, the first five, whereas the rest sound like dated 70s movie and TV music. Anyway, I think that this man is an important composer with [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 14, 2008
Today is the first really bad rainy day, so is it a coincidence that I found and downloaded a new album by Mogwai? Scotland’s finest post-rock beasts have spit out another series of waves of brilliant instrumentalism. Just another or… no. It seems that they’ve combined all the dynamics, bass melody, sharp noise and dreadful [...]
Posted by: mx on: September 3, 2008
Hey everybody! It’s been a long journey and now this blog is alive again.
A few textures deep hazy mix, perfect soundtrack to walking around a modern city in the night, when psychedelic is the escape and the means. He goes a lot further in experimentation than Massive Attack for instance. Largely instrumental, but there are [...]
