Nina Simone, Felix Da Housecat - Sinnerman

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

Up, Bustle & Out- Soliloquy

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Wim Mertens - Struggle for Pleasure (What Dreams May Come)

Quantic- Not So Blue

MARSEN JULES - Yara

MARSEN JULES - Yara: "

MARSEN JULES
Yara
Oktaf
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
MP3 Release

Originally released in 2004, Marsen Jules' outstanding slice of contemporary ambient music, Yara, has been remastered and reissued by the Oktaf label, complete with a further two bonus tracks that add nearly twenty-minutes of new music. As established fans of this artist's work will already know, Jules (real name Martin Juhls) has forged a creative path through dissecting classical music and reshaping it in a Steve Reich-inspired, looping, minimalist fashion. Much of what Juhls went on to achieve with his City Centre Offices releases, Herbstlaub and Les Fleurs was pioneered on two early digital-only albums for Autoplate, Lazy Sunday Funerals (2003) and Yara (2004), both of which have now been re-released in a remastered form with brand new artwork. All the original acoustic recordings used for this album come from the classical trio, Yara, with harp performances by Meike Rath, and despite being heavily manipulated and sliced into loop-shaped fragments, there's a very in-the-room live feel to this record. This manifests itself prominently on the bonus cut 'Harfenklang' through the intimacy of the piece's short, reflective reverb - lending a sense of perspective on the harp sounds - but over the course of the main album, Juhls' focus seems to slowly disintegrate and disperse into the auditorium: from 'Yara 4' through to 'Yara 6' you'll hear the strings, piano and harp starting to vapourise. This ethereal tone is reprised on the closing fifteen-minute 'Yara Variation', which layers the ambience of the performance venue with recordings of crowds and percussive, bell-like sounds. On this piece the string instruments arc and soar from the low-level babble of the space, bringing a miasmic, fluid quality to the composition that obscures the joins in the loops. The faded, slightly distant beauty of Yara has endured well over the six years since its first release and this new presentation of the album is easy to recommend, both to fans old and new.

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THE BOATS - Sleepy Insect Music

THE BOATS - Sleepy Insect Music: "

THE BOATS
Sleepy Insect Music
Home Normal
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
MP3 Release

A special, one-off collaborative release from the Home Normal and Flau labels, Sleepy Insect Music was conceived as an accompaniment to The Boats' tour of Japan, scheduled for May. The album spans the band's entire career, collecting unreleased tracks or hard-to-find recordings that have only cropped up on compilations or highly limited Our Small Ideas releases. The resultant hour's worth of music turns out to be a brilliantly compiled trawl through The Boats' hidden catalogue, sequencing early compositions like 'Birthdays' and 'I Did Not Sleep So Soundly' (both from 2003) alongside wonderful contemporary works. The likes of 'Understand' and the freshly reworked 'Raindrops' offer magical, otherworldly takes on the conventions of song-craft - the pattering, crackle-laden beats and eroded, lo-fi electronics finding welcome embellishment from Danny Norbury's weeping cello strokes and Chris Stewart's muffled, lowercase vocal. In addition to The Boats' own originals, an unreleased remix of the Nive song 'Louise' is thrown in. Instantly, the band seem to make the song their own, casting the Greenlandic songstress' vocal into a familiarly warm, glitching production. The already-heard entries are sourced from compilations for Flau and [parvo] art or are cuts lifted from the Stenography and Saturation, Hum And Hiss EPs. All are well worth returning to, although only the most obsessive followers of the group are likely to have the lot already - either way they're all welcome inclusion on this disc. There's abundant exclusive content here to make Sleepy Insect Music an essential addition to The Boats catalogue, and furthermore, those newer recordings featuring the freshly recruited Danny Norbury ('Veleta Two Step' and 'George Herbert Leigh Mallory' would be two more examples) hint to a great future for the group.

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BONOBO - Black Sands

BONOBO - Black Sands: "

BONOBO
Black Sands
Ninja Tune
ELECTRONIC
MP3 Release

With Black Sands, Bonobo seems to have reached maturity, fashioning an album that takes in a far greater scope than its predecessors. In additional to the sampling and beat-making expertise of prior releases, Black Sands features a clever integration of real instrumentation. 'El Toro' is like a collision between Four Tet and the Cinematic Orchestra, with beautifully crafted drum edits slotting alongside jazzy ensemble performances complete with lavish strings. Further highlights come from the collaborations with vocalist Andreya Triana: 'Eyesdown' starts out with what sounds a bit like the introductory tremolo chords to David Sylvian's 'Blemish', only bathed in deep vinyl crackle. Then, almost Burial-like beats launch into the mix making for a deep, swinging, soulful production that benefits greatly from the vocal supplied by new Ninja Tune signing Triana. A most impressive record, Black Sands successfully delves into modern hip-hop's deep FlyLo-style deep compressions (as on 'Kiara') while also staying true to a kind of bluesy chamber-jazz mindset that blows that cobwebs off those old trip-hop associations.

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Synch Festival στις 4 Ιουνίου, 2010

Synch Festival στις 4 Ιουνίου, 2010: "Location: Technopolis

Το Synch, για έβδομη συνεχή χρονιά, ξεχωρίζει για το μουσικό πλουραλισμό του και υποδέχεται, στην «Τεχνόπολις» του Δήμου Αθηναίων, την Παρασκευή 4 και το Σάββατο 5 Ιουνίου μία σειρά από διεθνώς καταξιωμένους καλλιτέχνες της παγκόσμιας μουσικής σκηνής, πολλοί εκ των οποίων επισκέπτονται για πρώτη φορά την Ελλάδα, αλλά και νέα, φρέσκα ονόματα του 21ου αιώνα που ήδη αφήνουν το δικό τους στίγμα στο καλλιτεχνικό γίγνεσθαι. Από τον μουσικό διάλογο του Synch δε θα μπορούσαν να λείπουν και μερικοί από τους πιο δραστήριους και ταλαντούχους Έλληνες δημιουργούς, η δουλειά των οποίων ανεβάζει διαρκώς τον πήχη της εγχώριας παραγωγής βάζοντας την Ελλάδα στον παγκόσμιο μουσικό χάρτη.

Την κεντρική σκηνή της «Τεχνόπολις» έρχεται να καταλάβει ο παριζιάνος γκουρού της ηλεκτρονικής σκηνής, Laurent Garnier, όπου θα εμφανιστεί για πρώτη φορά live στην Ελλάδα με την πολυμελή μπάντα του! Βραβευμένος τόσο για τα «ιστορικά» dj sets και τις ιδιαίτερες παραγωγές του, όσο και για τη συμβολή της δισκογραφικής του εταιρείας, F Communications, στον ηλεκτρονικό ήχο, ο Laurent Garnier εδώ και δύο δεκαετίες βρίσκεται στο προσκήνιο της ηλεκτρονικής -και όχι μόνο- μουσικής. Ο τρόπος με τον οποίο αναμειγνύει τον ηλεκτρονικό ήχο με την soul, την jazz και άλλα μουσικά είδη, δημιουργεί το ιδιαίτερο και χαρακτηριστικό στυλ που τον κατατάσσει, εκτός των άλλων, σε έναν από τους πιο σοφιστικέ εκπροσώπους της dance σκηνής.

Στην ίδια σκηνή, οι Hot Chip, το πιο hot electro pop σχήμα των τελευταίων χρόνων, που κυριολεκτικά κατέκτησαν τα ραδιόφωνα αλλά και τις καρδιές μας με το νέο τους άλμπουμ "One Life Stand", έρχονται να μας ταρακουνήσουν με τις ποπ μελωδίες και τους χορευτικούς 80's ρυθμούς για να ακολουθήσει η electro-punk ιέρεια, Peaches -ο θηλυκός Iggy Pop όπως πολλοί την αποκαλούν-, με τα φαντασμαγορικά κουστούμια, το εκκεντρικό στυλ, τους προκλητικούς στίχους και σίγουρα το πιο εκρηκτικό performance επί ελληνικής σκηνής!

Με μια πιο indie διάθεση και ονειρικές, ενίοτε radiohead-ικές μελωδίες, το Synch υποδέχεται τους Get Well Soon (το project του γερμανού μουσικού Konstantin Gropper) που έχουν ήδη σκαρφαλώσει στα διεθνή charts και καθηλώνουν το κοινό με τις live εμφανίσεις τους. Σε αντίστοιχο ονειρικό μοτίβο, ακολουθούν και οι dark folk μελωδίες του Matt Elliott -γνωστός στους πιο «ηλεκτρονικούς» ως Third Eye Foundation -, ενώ η πρώτη εμφάνιση των Beak>, το ολοκαίνουριο side project του Geoff Barrow των Portishead, ένα συνονθύλευμα krautrock, drone και jazz ή αλλιώς ο ήχος του 21ου αιώνα σίγουρα δε θα αφήσει κανέναν αδιάφορο...

Το ίδιο ισχύει για τις εκρηκτικές εμφανίσεις τόσο των βρετανών Fuck Buttons και του hype που έχουν δημιουργήσει γύρω από τις ηλεκτρονικές post-rock συνθέσεις τους, όσο και των Νεοϋορκέζων A Place to Burry Strangers με τις αλά Jesus And Mary Chain φαζαρισμένες κιθάρες τους που δεν αφήνουν τίποτα όρθιο στο πέρασμά τους!

Και οι εκπλήξεις του Synch συνεχίζονται! Την ίδια σκηνή θα μοιραστούν καλλιτέχνες διεθνούς βεληνεκούς από διαφορετικούς μουσικούς κόσμους, όπως ο Tony Allen, ο νιγηριανός ντράμερ του Fela Kuti και εκπρόσωπος του afro beat μαζί με τον ειδήμονα της nu jazz Jimi Tenor, ενώ σε άλλο stage η βιομηχανική αισθητική του Blixa Bargeld (frontman των Einsturzende Neubauten και για πολλά χρόνια κιθαρίστας των Bad Seeds του Nick Cave) θα μπλεχτεί με την ψηφιακή μινιμαλιστική electronica του Alva Noto.

Από το line up του Synch δε θα μπορούσε να λείπει το χορευτικό στοιχείο με την επιβλητική παρουσία του DJ Krush (Mo' Wax Records), του γιαπωνέζου πρωτοπόρου της hip hop σκηνής που συνδυάζει με ατμοσφαιρικό τρόπο τα samples, το hip hop και την soul πηγαίνοντας πολλά βήματα παραπέρα αυτό που κάποιοι ονομάζουν "trip hop" και φυσικά, με τη γαλλική electro σκηνή, με τον «πολυμήχανο» Busy P που εκτός από (πρώην) manager των Daft Punk, dj και παραγωγός είναι ο ιδρυτής της Ed Banger της εταιρείας που διέδωσε τον nu electro ήχο παγκοσμίως.

SYNCH 2010 LINE UP:
LAURENT GARNIER LIVE BAND (LIVE) - FR
HOT CHIP (LIVE) -UK
PEACHES (LIVE) - CA
JIMI TENOR & TONY ALLEN (LIVE) - FI/NG
GET WELL SOON (LIVE) - D
DJ KRUSH (DJ SET) - JP
FUCK BUTTONS (LIVE) - UK
BEAK> (LIVE) - UK
ALVA NOTO / BLIXA BARGELD (LIVE) - D
MATT ELLIOTT (LIVE) - UK
A PLACE TO BURRY STRANGERS (LIVE) - US
BUSY P (DJ SET) - FR
JIMMY EDGAR (LIVE) - US
TRUS' ME (DJ SET) - UK
MOONBOOTS (DJ SET) -UK
BALEARIC MIKE (DJ SET) - UK
ANALOG AFRICA SHOWCASE (DJ SET) - D
KEITH SLATER (BOILING POINT) - (DJ SET) - UK
LOLEK (LIVE) GR
MY WET CALVIN (LIVE) - GR
MODREC (LIVE) - GR
LUMIERE BROTHER (LIVE) GR
CAYETANO SOUNDSYSTEM feat. DJ BOOKER (LIVE) - GR
SPYWEIRDOS WITH SCHEMA ENSEMBLE (LIVE) - GR
THE BOY & FELIZOL (LIVE) - GR
NO PROFILE (LIVE) - GR
PI CI (DJ SET) - GR
MATTEUS (LIVE) - GR
ILAN MANOUACH (LIVE) - GR
TERANGA BEAT (DJ DET) - GR




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Quantic - Time Is The Enemy

Andare _ Ludovico Einaudi

Manu Chao "La Vida Tombola" Video (featuring Diego Maradona)

Bugge Wesseltoft - Yellow is the colour

Caro Emerald - Back It Up - Official Video

Μαθήματα ζωής απο τις γάτες του δρόμου

Ενα απίστευτο video απο την Τουρκία που δείχνει μια γάτα να προσπαθεί να σώσει την φίλη της.
Επί 2 ώρες είπαν ότι του έκανε μασάζ και δεν άφηνε κανέναν να πλησιάσει. Δεν επέζησε το άλλο γατάκι
Μαθήματα ζωής !!

Club Des Belugas feat. Brenda Boykin - Second Sight (Doc-Terry Video Mix)

Manu Chao - Me gustas tu

Club des Belugas - "Zoo Zizaro" - Habana Twisted

Skalpel - Sculpture

DJ Delay Presents Brass Wires & Bass by DJ DELAY/VARIOUS on MP3 and WAV at Juno Download

DJ Delay Presents Brass Wires & Bass by DJ DELAY/VARIOUS on MP3 and WAV at Juno Download

HELIOS - Unleft

HELIOS - Unleft by Boomkat
UNSEEN
CD // £8.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Released: Apr 2010
Catalogue Number: UNSEEN001

On Unleft, Keith Kenniff collects previously unreleased Helios material recorded between 2000 and 2009, sequencing the resultant tracks as a self-contained album. The resultant fifty minutes plays out as a wonderfully varied sequence that focusses on melodically resonant electronic music. You'll hear some of the compositional techniques Kenniff has become known for at work, cutting a tuneful, glitched-up swathe through opener 'Convivium', while the crunchily filtered, slow-core beats of 'Friedel' and 'Distance' channel a hazy, opiated quality. Taking this a little further, the creaking deep bass and beautiful electronic post-rock of 'Cross The Ocean' is touched by the influence of Boards Of Canada, something that could also be said of the downtempo, beat-heavy ambience of 'Bounce Dive', though there's a more playful and openly tuneful quality to Kenniff's music compared to that of the Brothers Eoin, something highlighted by the airier, brighter productions of the Portlander's music. There's also a pronounced cinematic quality to all this, and you can well imagine Kenniff being recruited to score a film at some point down the line, especially given beautifully crafted, acoustic guitar-driven pieces like 'South Tree' or the upbeat, piano-heavy 'The Morning Room', both of which showcase this side of his output very strongly.

• Tracks on HELIOS - Unleft:
• HELIOS : 01
• HELIOS : 02
• HELIOS : 03

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JOHANN JOHANNSSON - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees

JOHANN JOHANNSSON - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees
Type by Boomkat
CD // £7.99
HOME LISTENING / MODERN CLASSICAL / AMBIENT
Released: Apr 2010
Catalogue Number: TYPE064CD

You might be surprised by the number of film soundtracks Jóhann Jóhannsson has completed over the course of his career. While his hugely popular and influential catalogue of work for labels like Touch and 4AD tends to dictate how we think about his music, the volume of documentary, short and feature film scores he's penned is prolific to say the least. Even his most widely celebrated work to date, Englabörn, was conceived as a theatre soundtrack. It's surely a testament to the standalone power of this man's output that despite so much of his material having been designed to accompany other people's projects, it's still so much a part of the modern classical canon in its own right. This incredible album for Type was composed as a soundtrack for Marc Craste's award winning animated film Varmints, and draws on the signature elements of Jóhannsson's compositional style: utterly jaw-dropping widescreen orchestration, beatific choirs and the most finely crafted electronic backdrops imaginable - all colluding for some of the most intoxicating and unashamedly beautiful music you'll hear this year. It doesn't take Jóhannsson long to delineate the tone of what's to come, establishing an introductory theme for strings, backed with lyrical piano keys and a soundscape of seabirds and thunderclaps emerging from the mix in the latter stages. After these evocative, scene-setting beginnings comes a burst of celestial melodrama through 'City Building's choral passages, giving an indication of the lofty, unearthly extremes this composer has a penchant for. Within a matter of moments the more abstract and textural leanings of 'The Flat' take us somewhere entirely different, flooding the track with phased, airy noise atmospheres and weightless plumes of strings. 'Rainwater' continues to sew processed electronics into the fabric of the music, reminding you that this is after all an artist who has shared a label with the likes of Fennesz. The recurrent rumbling of deeply ingrained background static only reinforces how cinematic this music is - there's a tangible sense of place and (at the risk of sounding a bit pompous) mise-en-scene, but even beyond that, the album follows a kind of undulating structure that's very much in-keeping with the notion of a beginning-middle-end narrative; you can feel the music slipping into a sombre, minor-key mode by the end of 'The Gift', entering into the desolation of 'Dying CIty', with its processed field recordings and lone voices. 'Escape', with its dark-ambient drones and broad solo cello strokes only reinforces the suggestion of peril, but by the album's final leg glimmers of optimism creep into the denouement, first imbuing 'Inside The Pods' with a magisterial, reverberant grandeur and then reaching outright jubilation over the course of the end theme - a dose of euphoric crescendo that could only have come from the same part of the world as Sigur Rós. The music on this album has already been awarded first prize for 'Best Original Score' at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and for our money is the finest thing he's done since his debut. Jóhannsson's just on exceptional, moving form here - miss out at your peril.

• Tracks on JOHANN JOHANNSSON - And In The Endless Pause There Came The Sound Of Bees:
• JOHANN JOHANNSSON : 01
• JOHANN JOHANNSSON : 02
• JOHANN JOHANNSSON : 03

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Patrick Watson - The Great Escape

Ismael Lo - Tajabone

Cesaria Evora - Sodade

Aides: Graffiti. Graffiti willies and hoohoos. SUPER CREAT- IVITY!

Top 10 Biggest and Best Jumps Ever

Bajofondo - Pa' Bailar

Cinematic Orchestra - To Build A Home

Everything is possible

MATTHEW HERBERT - One One

MATTHEW HERBERT - One One: "

by boomkat

ELECTRONIC

CD

This is the first in an impending trilogy of new albums from Matthew Herbert. With One Club and the intriguingly titled One Pig set to follow over the coming months, One One sets out its stall as an oddly conventional solo outing from this modern-day master of the concept album. While we've become accustomed to Herbert's tendency to theme his records (whether it be the cuisine-based romp of Plat Du Jour to the self-explanatory Bodily Functions), One One proves to be a far more by-the-books affair. For this release, Herbert plays, produces - and perhaps most notably - sings everything himself. Apparently this wasn't always easy to get through. In the press-release this seasoned, often flamboyant performer talks about his struggles with nerves: 'At times it took dressing in a black tuxedo and half a bottle of wine to get over the nerves. I didn't know how to play many of the instruments when I started. This is a really personal and honest record.' Each track takes its name from a city, as if it were a kind of world tour taking in such exotic destinations as 'Singapore', 'Valencia', 'Milan' and, er, 'Tonbridge', yet despite the air miles implied by these track titles, the record is designed to portray a single day in the life of a single man. Perhaps because of this theme the record has a very intimate feel - something compounded by Herbert's voice, which often has the feel of inner-monolgue style, half-whispered narration. Of course, the production is outstandingly good, as underlined by the deep-bass and jazzy timbres of opener 'Manchester', or the ramshackle, sample-jostling thud of standout 'Dublin', which sounds much as you'd imagine a Robert Wyatt record produced by Timbaland might. A detailed, yet often very downbeat, introspective collection, One One comes as a natural reflex reaction to the last Matthew Herbert Big Band album (There's You And There's Me), which featured a mind-boggling 2000 samples and 350 contributors. Here, Herbert's music is at its most intimate - he's as much a songwriter on this record as he is an electronic producer, begging the question: where to next? Happily, to find out we need only wait until June, when the next release in the trilogy is slated to arrive.

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Belleruche - Anything You Want (Not That) promo

Quiet Dawn » Nostalgia 77 » Tru Thoughts video

Η Ιστορία μιας απάτης στο Youtube

Ιστορία μιας απάτης στο Youtube: "

Δείτε το παρακάτω περίεργο και ομολογουμένως εντυπωσιακό βίντεο στο Youtube, με τίτλο "ατύχημα με λεωφορείο στη Λυών" της Γαλλίας:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6UhNIwnwO8&feature...

Και τώρα δείτε το τι πραγματικά έγινε:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cOPw1R5yRQ&feature...

Τελικά κάνεις θαύματα με την τεχνολογία.

Πηγή: taxalia.blogspot.com

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Dub Incorporation - My Freestyle (live)

Livido pallore mattutino

Kinny - Enough Said (feat Quantic Soul Orchestra)

Duffy - Stepping Stone

Amazing Card Throwing

The Mambo Craze- De Phazz

April Fools: Math Class Shadow

Quantic - Time Is The Enemy

(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels

Duffy - Mercy

Fail compilation March 2010