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  • Esco 18:15 on May 27, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: chillwave, , DFA, Mock & Toof   

    Mock & Toof – Farewell to Wendo 

    Mock & Toof‘s debut album comes out this week and ‘Farewell to Wendo’ is the first single. The UK duo has built up a minor reputation via 12″ releases on DFA Recordings, and remixes for Hot Chip, Zero 7 and Groove Armada. The album is a bit ‘hit and miss’ for me, but “Farewell To Wendo” is a beautiful song announcing the first hot summer nights. If you’re into Caribou, Bonobo and the Permanent Vacation stuff this might be your thing. Download the single here for free and check out the music video, directed by Playgroup’s Trevor Jackson!

     

  • Esco 01:24 on May 23, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , Jackhigh, Teeb   

    Teebs & Jackhigh – Comes to Mind 

    From Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder’s camp, Teebs (LA) & Jackhigh (UK) have just issued a nice EP for the Svetlana Industries imprint. Boomkat is right when it says that there’s no shortage of ideas and excellent execution on ‘The Tropics EP’, which includes 7 tracks that range from sweetly melodic yet turbulent dream-hop sequences through to submerged experiments with what sounds like a kalimba played by mermaids in a Caribbean lagoon. ‘Comes to mind’ is the track that dives deep into this lagoon. Loving the smoked out, dubby and deeeeeep vibe in this one.

     

  • Esco 23:39 on May 22, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: dilla, , , spaced out   

    Jon Phonics – Chipfunk 

    When I was in London two weeks ago I stumbled upon a free 28-track instrumental album showcasing beats of Jon Phonics. I had never heard of this UK producer before, gave it a shot and was quite surprised to hear after a funky intro of 25 seconds this absolutely massive spaced out Dilla/FlyLo banger coming out of my speakers. The rest of the album is as good. A great discovery and I warmly recommend you to check out the album. Top notch!!

     

  • Esco 13:13 on May 21, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , , , Walls   

    Walls – Hang Four 

    Walls are a band from London made up of members Sam Willis (Allez-Allez) and Alessio Natalizia (from Banjo or Freakout) which signed to Kompakt in December 2009 and immediately released their debut album a couple of weeks ago. The album fits easily in your ambient collection next to The KLF, Neu!, Spiritualized and The Field. ‘Hang Four’ is for me the stand-out track, mixing cosmic sounds with a deep, warm bass and a lush melody. Great.

     

    • jean 21:15 on May 29, 2010 Permalink

      really diggin this album!

  • Esco 13:11 on May 19, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bpitch, Ellen Allien, ,   

    Ellen Allien – Our Utopie 

    This sounds good. Very good actually. B-pitch labelboss Ellen Allien released her 5th album yesterday and ‘Our Utopie’ is the hypnotic opening track. Definitely sounds warmer and less clinical than the slightly disappointing “Sool”.

     

    • Esco 13:12 on May 19, 2010 Permalink

      This is only a snippet by the way – full track is 4.10 minutes, but not available yet on youtube.

  • Esco 19:30 on May 17, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Erykah Badu, ,   

    Erykah Badu – Uhm Hmm 

    Erykah Badu is back with a new album. I’ve been a big fan of Erykah ever since Mama’s Gun dropped in 2000 and have been following her throughout the years. Of course Erykah delivers on this album again. I’m particularly fond of the two tracks where Madlib provided the beats for (Incense and this horribly titled ‘Umm Hmm’ – reminds me of that awful neverending Crash Test Dummies Song ‘Mmm mmm mmm’). Other beats are provided by James Poyser, Dilla, 9th Wonder and Sa-Ra Creative Partners. The bass in this song screams ‘make love to me right now’, no?

     

  • Esco 19:30 on May 15, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: aeroplane, , , low motion disco   

    Low Motion Disco – Love Love Love (Aeroplane Remix) 

    Love love love. Yes, actually we are all hippies over here at the blog. Peace Love and Unity is our motto ladies and gents! Although we have pumped our fists in the air to Kemal’s ‘Fuckin Hostile’ as well in the past, but that’s another story. This lovely song was released by Eskimo Recordings in 2008. It’s a piece of ‘nu’-disco at its finest. I like the original a lot, but when i was looking for this song on youtube I saw that they only have the Aeroplane remix available, which is actually even better! I’m sure you all will be wanting to wave your arms in the air when the song hits the 3.40 mark. Let me know in the comments section. I’m particularly looking at you Kevin.

    Anyway, the reason I’m posting this because Amnesty International is doing another music-related fundraising attempt. This time you can get 180 songs for 5 dollars. There’s an interesting line-up of bands participating (4Hero, Jori Hulkkonen, Fennesz, Low Motion Disco, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mujava and many many more) so go and contribute to the good cause by listening to some fine music. That’s a no-brainer, no?

     

    • Jan Waeben 17:22 on May 18, 2010 Permalink

      big fan of aeroplane. this has their mark all over it!

  • Esco 19:30 on May 13, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Crystal Castles, ,   

    Crystal Castles – Empathy 

    The new Crystal Castles album is awesome. This unofficial video for melancholic melodic electro monster ‘Empathy’ is even totally awesome. You can see dancers doing some proto-breakdance moves called ‘Voguing” in the 70s or 80s. Madonna popularized it and brought it to the mainstream world with her hit song “Vogue”.

     

    • Jan Waeben 17:23 on May 18, 2010 Permalink

      the album is unbelievable. I thought CC was winding down, little did I know they we’re coming back in full force! Best work I’ve heard from CC so far (the entire album), really feels like their “coming of age”.

  • Esco 19:30 on May 11, 2010 Permalink | Reply
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    Jacob Korn – Grosskariert 

    We’re loving Jacob Korn here at the Worldsbelow100Hz (check out the comments to an earlier post with music of the man from Dresden here), so let’s bring this guy again to your attention. ‘Grosskariert’ was released late last year on the terminally hip Permanent Vacation label on the nicely titled ‘If this is house, I want my money back’ compilation. This tune has D-E-T-R-O-I-T stamped on its forehead and I would go completely nuts on the dancefloor hearing this one out loud. Only after I discovered this tune I realised that Martyn picked up the tune for his XLR8R podcast as well, which shows again that there are no boundaries when it comes to good music in the world below 100hz.

     

  • Esco 19:32 on May 9, 2010 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Twee Ons   

    Twee Ons – InstruMentale Introspectie 

    More quality from The Netherlands. While I’m not entirely convinced by the raps of this Dutch hiphop-outfit, their beats sound very full and warm. This instrumental Dilla-insprired song comes from their Winter EP, which you can download for free here

     

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