Tuesday, February 24, 2009

dZihan and Kamien - Fakes - 2005


Label: Couch Records
Original Release: 14 Feb 2005
Format: 2 x CD
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Acid Jazz, Downtempo, Easy Listening, Trip-Hop


TrackList:

CD1
:
01 - Billie Holiday - Don't Explain
02 - Nitin Sawhney - Homelands
03 - Lyn Leon - Never
04 - Tosca - Busenfreund
05 - Pramod Upadyaya - Ambala
06 - Serge Gainsbourg - Je T'Aime, ...Moi Non Plus
07 - Fop - Avalon
08 - Atjazz - Touch The Sun
09 - Cay Taylan - Beijo
10 - Bob Holroyd - Drumming Up A Storm
11 - Nitin Sawhney - Homelands (Dub)
12 - Bernhard Lang - Schrift III

CD2:
01 - Ford Transit
02 - After
03 - Drophere
04 - Stiff Jazz
05 - Basmati
06 - Where's John Sabatino
07 - Homebase
08 - Just You and I
09 - Smile
10 - Guttenmorgenduft


dZihan and Kamien - Gran Riserva - 2002


Original Release: October 1, 2002
Label: Six Degrees
Genre: Electronica
Styles: Club/Dance, Downtempo, House, Trip-Hop


TrackList:
01. Stiff Jazz
02. Basmati
03. Ford Transit
04. Sliding
05. Drophere
06. Where's Johny Sabatino
07. Deep Kitsch
08. Airport
09. Dundadeova
10. Thrill
11. Gutenmorgenduft




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dZihan and Kamien - Refreaked - 2001

Original Release Date: March 13, 2001
Label: Six Degrees
Genre: Electronica
Styles: Club/Dance, Downtempo, House, Trip-Hop


TrackList:

01. Before
02. Homebase
03. Slowhand Hussein (Hefner Remix)
04. Smile (Eddy & Dus Kontrapunkt Mix)
05. Just You & I (Fauna Flash Remix)
06. After (At Jazz Remix)
07. Carta De Cuducao (Butterkeks Remix)
08. Smile (Nine Bar's Fox 42 Remix)
09. Streets of Istanbul (Mum's East West Remix)
10. Spacewater (Menu B's Parish Remix)
11. 2 Minutes


dZihan and Kamien - Freaks & Icons - 2000


Original Release Date: October 10, 2000
Label: Six Degrees
Genre: Electronica
Styles: Club/Dance, Downtempo, House, Trip-Hop


Vlado dZihan, from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, was raised in a musical family and was known in the local scene as a drummer. He recorded music for the film Arizona Dream, starring Johnny Depp and Faye Dunaway. Mario Kamien, German-born and raised in Switzerland, met dZihan while they were studying in Vienna. Both were interested in traditional Arabic music and Trip hop , and combined their interests and musical backgrounds in the production of their first album, Freaks & Icons.

dZihan & Kamien pronounced (pronounced Jee-hahn and Kammy-en) are a downtempo house and acid jazz music duo based in Vienna, Austria. Their sound has been described as having "jazzy texture, trip-hop rhythms and Eastern ambience". Their first production single, Der Bauch, released in 1996 under the name MC Sultan, was popular in European clubs and was included on several compilations.

dZihan & Kamien's first debut album, Freaks & Icons, was released in 2000 on their label, Couch Records. The group followed their debut with two more albums, Refreaked in 2001 and Gran Riserva, with a more jazzy sound, in 2002. All three albums were released in the U.S. under the label of Six Degrees Records.




TrackList:

01. After
02. Dabudei
03. Streets of Istanbul
04. Before
05. Homebase
06. I Guess She...
07. Slowhand Hussein
08. Just You & I
09. Colores
10. Ocean Air
11. Smile
12. Where Are We?
13. Spacewater


Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Boozoo Bajou - Dust My Broom - 2005


Label: K7
Original Release Date: August 23, 2005
Country: Germany
Style: Loungue Jazz, Downtempo , Trip-Hop, Dub





Tracklist
1. Keep going feat. Tony Joe White 5:03
2. Take it slow feat. Joe Dukie & U-Brown 5:36
3. Killer feat. Top Cat 5:07
4. 9 below zero 4:53
5. Way down feat. Ben Weaver 5:24
6. Biwak 1:58
7. Blast 4:11
8. Moanin feat. Wayne Martin 4:43
9. S.I.P. 4:11
10. Treat me feat. Willie Hutch 5:01
11. Barkensignal 4:21


Boozoo Bajou - Remixes -2003



Label: Stereo Deluxe
Original Release Date: November 18, 2003
Style: Loungue Jazz, Downtempo , Trip-Hop, Dub

TrackList:


1. Come Close - Boozoo Bajou, Lynn, Lonnie

2. Chocolate Elvis - Boozoo Bajou, Richard Dorfmeister

3. Under My Sensi

4. Bellaluna - Boozoo Bajou, Danks, Gary

5. Gourmet de Funk - Boozoo Bajou, Mousse T.

6. Camioux

7. Under My Sensi

8. Night Over Manaus

9. Under My Sensi

10. Divers

11. A Go Go - Boozoo Bajou, Prommer, Christian

12. Camioux

13. Can't Take No More - Boozoo Bajou, EMO

14. Lava


Sunday, February 15, 2009

Sweetbak - Stage 2 - 2004


Original Release Date: June 22, 2004
Label: Epic
Genres: Soul, Jazz, Pop, R&B
Style: Soul, Urban




TrackList:
01. Voodoo Breath (Master's Love) (Album Version) 5:38
02. Lover (Album Version) 4:58
03. Circles (Album Version) 6:23
04. All My Days With You (Album Version) 4:08
05. Mountain (Album Version) 4:43
06. Things You'll Never Know (Album Version) 4:19
07. Blue Heights (Album Version) 3:40
08. Love Is The Word (Album Version) 4:34
09. Jesus Girl (Album Version) 5:23
10. Circus Waltz (Album Version) 4:09
11. Round And Round (Album Version) 7:12
12. Sing To Be Safe (Album Version) 3:55
13. Shining Hour (Album Version) 2:21


Sweetback -Sweetback - 1996


Original Release Date: October 15, 1996
Label: Epic
Copyright: 1996 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Genres: Soul, Jazz, Pop, R&B
Style: Soul, Urban


Sweetback is an English musical group made up of members of the band Sade, not including the lead singer Sade Adu herself. They are a jazz/funk band with R&B overtones. Stuart Matthewman, Paul Spencer Denman and Andrew Hale had been recording with female vocalist Sade Adu since 1984. The group Sweetback began in 1994 at the end of Sade's Love Deluxe world tour. Their albums feature a host of guest vocalists such as Amel Larrieux, Maxwell, Bahamadia and El Debarge just to name a few.
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La antigua banda habitual de nada menos que de Sade Adu, integrada por Stuart Matthewman (guitarra y saxo), Andrew Hale (teclados) y Paul S. Denman (bajo), se lanza en solitario bajo el nombre de Sweetback ofreciéndonos este su primer trabajo del mismo nombre (Sweetback, 1996). Nadie espere encontrar en este disco una especie de continuación del trabajo anterior del grupo, algo así como un "Sade sin Sade"... el sonido de su grupo en solitario en ningún caso es el mismo que cuando se limitaba a acompañar a Sade. Así, en este disco cargado de colaboraciones (Maxwell en Softly Softly, Amel Larrieux de Groove Theory en Gaze y en el tema estrella del disco, You Will Rise...) se deja ver la inquietud personal del trío, con sonidos marcadamente experimentales y con un cierto aire Drum & Bass más o menos evidente en casi todos los temas del mismo.

Estoy convencido que hay muchos discos de trip-hop que han envejecido de forma estupenda, y ese es el caso de Sweetback, que, aunque sea tangencialmente, está ligado a dicho género.


Members

  • Stuart Matthewman (guitar, saxophone)
  • Paul Spencer Denman (bass)
  • Andrew Hale (piano, keyboards)


TrackList:

1. Gaze. 5:26
2. Softly softly. 4:29
3. Sensations. 4:29
4. Au natural. 4:14
5. Arabesque. 3:36
6. You will rise. 6:28
7. Chord. 3:30
8. Walk of Ju. 4:06
9. Hope she’ be happier. 6:16
10. Come dubbing. 4:41
11. Cloud people. 5:28
12. Powder. 5:21



Friday, February 13, 2009

Deep Dive Corp. - Undiscovered - 2007


Artist: Deep Dive Corp.
Title: Undiscovered
Label: Jubilee Records
Genre: Ambient/Downtempo
Release Date: May 20 2007
Source: CDDA

TRACKLIST:

01. Rising Sun [Flipside's Shine Remix]
02. Shine [New Track]
03. Walker [Ohm-G Remix]
04. Hands Up [Ibizarre's Sunset Remix]
05. Beloved [Razoof Rmx]
06. Peter Gunn [Deep Dive Corp. Remix]
07. Jiyou [Gerit Van Der Meer (Orbient) Remix]
08. Blue [Timewarp Inc. Remix]
09. Stack [Karl Moestl Remix]
10. Phony [Havana Boys Go Divin' Remix]
11. Klovn's Deeper Diving Dub

Deep Dive Corp. - Freestyle Floating 2005


Label: In-D Records
Format: CD
Country: Germany
Released: 11 Jul 2005

Deep Dive Corp. - Freestyle Floating 2005

01 Walker (Instrumental Version) (7:22)
Featuring - Hattler
02 Rising Sun (6:14)
03 Marsimba (7:29)
04 So Funky (4:30)
Featuring - Hattler
05 Stack (5:22)
Vocals - Dennis LeGree
06 Coastline (5:14)
07 Little Ditty (7:08)
08 Daydreaming (5:55)
09 Spank (7:07)
10 I'm In (5:03)
Vocals - Dennis LeGree
11 The Eagle (4:48)


Deep Dive Corp - Blackmail Recordings - 2001


Label: Jubilee Records
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Germany
Released: 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Ambient
Credits: Mastered By, Mixed By - Ingo Bartsch
Photography - Christian Kaiser , Doris Wagner , Enno Krieger
Producer, Written-By - Björn Gerhard (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 9) , Peter Musebrink (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 9)
Notes: Track 4 orignal version taken from the album Klangstrahler Projekt - "Im Rausch Der Sinne".

TRACKLIST:
1 Deep Dive Corp. The Island (6:49)
2 Deep Dive Corp. Bassic (Flow Mix) (8:36)
Producer, Written-By, Bass - Hellmut Hattler
3 Deep Dive Corp. Deep Heart (7:58)
4 Klangstrahler Projekt Mark Dub (Smokin RMX-Remix - Deep Dive Corp.) (8:14)
5 Deep Dive Corp. U Got Mail (7:11)
6 Deep Dive Corp. Pianoforte (5:15)
7 Deep Dive Corp. Jazztalk (7:06)
8 Deep Dive Corp. Relaxer (7:55)
9 Deep Dive Corp. Lucsus (6:27)

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Deep Dive Corp - Support Your Local Groover 2000

Deep Dive Corp - Support Your Local Groover- 2000

Label: Free Form
Format: CD, Album, Digipak
Country: Germany
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic
Style: Trance, Downtempo, Ambient
Credits: Artwork By [Design] - Weissraum
Mastered By [Premastering] - Ingo Bartsch
Producer, Written-By - Björn Gerhard (tracks: 1, 3 to 11) , Peter Musebrink (tracks: 1, 3 to 11)
Notes: Mastered By: Never Heared Before Studios.

01. 07'49" Deep Dive
02. 06'29" Summertime
03. 06'47" Imagination
04. 07'39" Bal-Hi
05. 06'57" Enjoy
06. 07'02" Back And Forth
07. 06'30" Dish
08. 06'51" Laugh
09. 09'04" Gogodancer
10. 05'41" Trippin
11. 01'29" Free Audio Samples


Deep Dive Corp. - Some Funky Fish 2006

Deep Dive Corp. - Some Funky Fish 2006

Artist: Deep Dive Corp.
Title: Some Funky Fish
Label: Jubilee
Genre: Ambient/Downtempo
Release Date: Oct-19-2006

  1. Deep Dive Corp. - Blue (reprise)
  2. Deep Dive Corp. feat. Bahram Ji & Bashir - Brilliance
  3. Deep Dive Corp. feat. Hellmut Hattler - Nice Flight
  4. Deep Dive Corp. - Blue
  5. Deep Dive Corp. feat. Hideyo Blackmoon - Jiyou
  6. Deep Dive Corp. feat. Bahram Ji - Beloved
  7. Deep Dive Corp. - Souled
  8. Deep Dive Corp. feat. Patrick P & Boris - Galaxies
  9. Deep Dive Corp. - Slamjam
  10. Deep Dive Corp. - Phony
  11. Deep Dive Corp. feat. Dennis Le Gree - Hands Up

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Deep Dive Corp. - Beware Of Fake Gurus 2002

Deep Dive Corp. - Beware Of Fake Gurus 2002

Artist: Deep Dive Corp.
Title: Beware of Fake Gurus
Label: Jubilee Records
Country: Germany
Released: 22 Apr 2002
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo


01. - Gran Curazon
02. - Borderland
03. - Rhodes First
04. - Turn's Guru
05. - Sister
06. - On
07. - Delhi News (Deep Dive Version)
08. - P.M.FM's Guru
09. - Afloat
10. - Talk

Federico Aubele - Gran Hotel Buenos Aires - 2004

Artist: Federico Aubele
Title: Gran Hotel Buenos Aires
Original Release Date: February 24, 2004
Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge

Argentinian electronic musician Federico Aubele made a wise choice when he first approached Rob Garza and Eric Hilton with a demo. The twin heads of Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, also collectively known as Thievery Corporation, saw something of themselves in his work. It's a fusion of music without boundaries, beat-driven without once falling into cliche, carried by gentle, reverberant vocals. So what if the words are in Spanish. That's all the more appropriate given Aubele's origins, both musical and personal. The lyrics touch on feelings, memories, relationships, and culture.

Several musical themes emerge throughout the recording. Aubele's guitar is omnipresent, usually fueling grooves with repeated vamps but also rippling and providing off-center accents. The vocals, with few exceptions, feel honey-sweet and warm. This is music for romance, no doubt about it. Flamenco, tango, reggae, dub, and other less easily-recognizable styles intermingle, whether through reverberant echoing afterbeats, Latin-inflected hip-hop, gentle bandoneon-infused folk, Flamencoed electro, or thickly textured synth/percussion grooves.

Aubele mixes up the vocalists on this record—Sumaia, Gabriela Maiaru, La Susi—in order to provide variety and reinforce a sense that the disc is winding along a musical journey. Sumaia, who opens and closes the record, has a breathy delivery and floats effortlessly up into the higher register. The sing-song melody of "Ante Tus Ojos" ("Before Your Eyes") is an appropriate counterpart for reggae-tinged keyboard and guitar accents, a bright welcome to Gran Hotel. She transports into jazz diva territory on "Besos De Sal," gliding smoothly along the countours of the song. Gabriela Maiaru sounds like she's half there on "Postales," wisping along in a dream state on "Esta Noche" and tranforming a sense of melancholy to discovery on "Contigo."

Aubele himself sings on "Salvacion." He's not a virtuoso in any sense of the word, but there's something about his fragility and understatement that serves the song. It seems like he's explicitly reminding you of his folk roots (stereo guitars peacefully stepping along), emphasizing the organic feel that informs his music, and emerging as a humble, grounded artist.

Gran Hotel goes down easy and never demands close listening. That doesn't subtract from its impact, subtle and sweet as it may be. Friendly music with soul most definitely has a welcome place in the gritty world of contemporary electronica.


TRACKLIST:

1. Ante Tus Ojos
2. Postales
3. Despertar
4. El Amor De Este Pueblo
5. Esta Noche
6. Diario De Viaje
7. Mona
8. Salvacion
9. Contigo
10. Malena
11. Un Lugar
12. Besos De Sal

Monday, February 9, 2009

VA - Bar Lounge Classics - The Chill Out Edition - 2 CD 2008


Artist: Various Artists
Title: Bar Lounge Classics - The Chill Out Edition
Year: 2008
Label: Sony BMG
Genre: Lounge, chillout, jazz, Electronic
Time: 155:33 min


Tracklist:

CD1
1. Thievery Corporation - All that we Perceive (3:43)
2. Vincenzo & Rivera - Tu Estas Fatal (Never Kiss Me Again) (Original Mix) (5:01)
3. Redlounge Orchestra - Liquid Cool (5:37)
4. The Lushlife Project - Popular Secret (5:52)
5. The Orb - A Beautiful Day (6:48)
6. Naoki Kenji - Mainichi Pia (5:24)
7. Mo`Horizons - Shake It Loose (5:15)
8. Nina Simone - I canґt see nobody (Daniel Y. Remix) (3:02)
9. Chris Le Blanc - Si Vous Voulez (4:23)
10. Groovecatcher - In The Game (4:58)
11. Living Room - Brasilian Sun (4:21)
12. Quantic - Life In Rain (6:31)
13. Espresso Del Lago - Suratat (5:23)
14. Easter Wood Bunch - Sun Diver (5:16)
15. - Odyssee (5:24)

CD2
1. Billy Holiday - Long Gone Blues (GXR Remix) (5:01)
2. Christian Hornbostel invites Rey Salinero - Reflexions (5:27)
3. Clelia Felix - So Quiet (3:06)
4. Guardner - Everybody Needs (6:52)
5. Moodorama - Nakonda (6:15)
6. Kabanjak - Gypsy Soul (Ancient Astronauts Remix) (3:44)
7. Climatic - Che Cos`и (5:08)
8. Road - Saudades Do Brasil (4:25)
9. stempf - Ziggy (3:11)
10. Orgatronics - Briga (4:40)
11. Tafubar - The Wicked Thoughts Of You (Lemongrass Snowflake Mix) (5:02)
12. Trinah - Precious (3:44)
13. Floor - Blue Sky (5:06)
14. Roberto Sol & Chris le Blanc feat Ines - Ahora (4:24)
15. Mel T. Waters - Glass Reflections (Hadi Thereani Mix) (3:42)
16. Index ID - Nautik (4:37)
17. Groove Armada - Soundboy Rock (3:50)

Thievery Corporation - Supreme Illsusion 12" - 2008



Label: Eighteenth Street Lounge Music
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Released: 12 Nov 2007
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo

Thievery Corporation and NYC's own Nickodemus swap remix duties and plenty of exotic "outernational" flair on this new vinyl 12" from ESL Music The A side features Nickodemus' boom bap Near Eastern bhangra style remix of Thievery Corporation's "Supreme Illusion" from the acclaimed compilation ESL Remixed: The 100th Release of ESL Music, now available on vinyl for the first time. The B side features Thievery Corporation's Middle Eastern jazz-house remix of Nickodemus' classic "Crazy Stranger." Two exclusive musical gems on 12" vinyl, and packaging featuring unique artwork by DC based artist and activist Nikolas Schiller.



Tracklisting:
A Thievery Corporation Supreme Illusion (Nickodemus Remix)
B Nickodemus Crazy Stranger (Thievery Corporation Remix)

Omnimotion - Omnimotion - 2002

Label: Waveform Records
Country: US
Released: 24 Sep 2002
Genre: Electronic
Style: Dub, Downtempo, Ambient

This CD features Scandinavian ambient/chill music from Stockholm, Sweden. The writer/producer, Stefan Lundaahl, has really served up a great selection of sensous, high latitude dreamscapes, ideal for the autumn into winter season. The tracks are deliciously slow, but have a definite rhythm to them, and each one has a different view to offer. There are some vocal treatments by Linda Martio, and other guests, which only enhance the dreamy quality of the music. To get an idea of the spaces created here listen to track 1 (Underdub) or 3 (Sunbathdub). I've been playing both on the airwaves in Alaska, and listeners keep calling in to find out more about the music. Definitely a good sign. (By Guardian of the Zen Sea "Indigo")

Traclist:
  1. Underdub (6:21)
  2. Egypt (5:52)
  3. Sunbath Dub (8:12)
  4. Stay Here (6:23)
  5. Love Song (4:54)
  6. Falling (8:52)
  7. Aquatic (6:43)
  8. Kojan (5:43)
  9. Blue Sky (6:34)
  10. Omnidub (5:43)