Maybeshewill

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.

download Sing The World In Four-Part Harmony (latest album)

download Japanese Spy Transcript EP (debut, should be yout first listening) + Not For Want Of Trying

band website

Jay Dee

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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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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artist web site

Henry Mancini – Symphonic Soul

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 a distinctive playful style and you should be aware of his work.

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Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling

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 peace they’re capable of making and made one wonderful album. The feeling I got reminds me of the first times that I’ve heard them. Rock Action and Young Team. The titles are still perfectly appropriate as well: I’m Jim Morrison, I’m Dead, Thank You Space Expert…

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Flying Lotus – Los Angeles

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 three hypnotic vocal tracks as well. The torrent includes nice artwork in PDF.

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official website