Brand new Hospital release. Wicked bassdrops and trippy jungle beats, yeah... What can I say - The guys on at Hospital never fails to bring us good drum&bass. Not really a spectacular track in my opinion, but q-project shows that he is up there with the more known acts in liquid funk.
BoC track "Aquarius" backed up with a fan-made video
The picture below shows the Scottish electronic duo known as Boards of Canada, They are known for their deep ambient one-of-a-kind sound. It might at first seem repetetive, synthetic and just plain weird - but it's much, much more than that.
Old television samples and random speech mixed with exotic warm background layers creates the unique ambience that Boards of Canada is known for. The child laughs takes us back to the perfect childhood, and the perfection that Michael and Marcus always strives to acquire in their albums.
This admittedly isn't your regular dancefloor bomb, but it takes you away like nothing else. Or to be precise, it takes you absolutely nowhere. It portraits the simplicity of life and nature, as being the basic and most near thing of all. And it makes you feel united with this perfection in life. People may not like electronic music, and claim that it's not real or skillful. But Boards of Canada proves that the mathematical beauty in nature can be expressed through electronic music, and possibly with more success than in any other genre.
Alex Gifford and Will White also know as the Propellerheads was probably who got me into electronic music. Their album Decksandrumsandrockandroll is just fantastic, everyone should own it. Most people know Propellerheads cause of their track "Spybreak" which was used in The Matrix, but I'm probably their biggest fan ever, so of course I've been digging deeper than that. Actually, I decided to bring a track by Propellerheads, which pretty much doesn't even exist on the internet, and probably isn't known by most people who claim that they've heard stuff by The Props. It's called "Ron's Theory", and it's just super groovy. I only had this track on my Dive EP LP, but luckily I googled down some ancient torrent and got the track down after waiting for an hour with 2-3 kb/s - just so I could share it with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Alright, so Ron's Theory was somehow removed from the ftp. This one is Big Dog, another super rare B side on an old 12'' Take California release.
I simply need to get the 12'' of this. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but this one is just so god damn funky. It appears on Dubstep Allstars: Vol.05, but I think I heard it for the first time at an event held in Nørrebro, Copenhagen where the danish DJ Revealomatic, among others, was spinning the records. Most people who knows just a tiny bit of dubstep can tell that it opens up with Benga - Crunked Up, and then fades into Hijak - Tears at around 0:40. I guess I have to be drunk to listen to most dubstep, but this stuff actually works out at any occasion.
Check his myspace: http://www.myspace.com/thehijak
This one is probably a little different. These two guys from Austria do this triphop future jazz thing with house beats and incorporates elements of traditional arabic music. It's not the style I would usually prefer, but some of their tracks on albums like "Refreaked" and "Gran Riserva" are actually quite catchy with a special sound that you wont find anywhere else.
When you mention Shadow, you also mention Krush. These dudes are pretty much the core of modern turntablism. Probably Krush' most notable piece - Kemuri on his first album Strictly Turntablized released on Mo' Wax. The beat basically rips everything up, and the samples fit in amazingly well. A big hit on an album that pretty much was the first trip-hop album ever released.
I'll just be honest here, I don't know a whole lot about Jazzanova. But what seems obvious to me is how they manage to create nu-jazz with a very original, true and harmonic feel, while still having the capability to bring us the more dancefloor oriented jazz-house sound. They've done a bunch of albums and remixes, but always with a slightly different style and feel. The result ïs music that works out for a majority of people and fits in almost everywhere.
Guillermo Scott Herren has several aliases, but the most notable one still remains Prefuse 73. Laid back downtempo with a catchy sound. Off the album "One Word Extinguisher" - worth checking out, by the way.
Drum and Bass producer Matt Gresham under the stage name "Logistics" has always been one of my absolute favorites in the world of Liquid Funk. When I need a break from those deep blasting d&b tunes, this music seems to be the perfect cross between the atmospheric uplifting sound, and the more danceable rough basslines. Cosmonaut - one of his newest tracks, and definitely a great example of his unique sound.
Also, the album "Reality Checkpoint" is DEFINITELY worth checking out - it's just immense. In general, so much stuff on Hospital Records is just good.
Josh Davis also known as DJ Shadow. First of all, "dj shadow", when I saw the name I was like... couldn't he have been a little more creative? But when I heard some of his music I really didn't care too much. Even though this is released on FFRR as far as I know, Mo' Wax is the more widely known triphop label behind most of Davis' work - and just the fact that they got their artwork done by the legendary old graffiti writer Futura 2000 makes Mo' Wax plain awesome. Midnight in a Perfect World is my favorite track on the album "Endtroducing".
