Phantograms music sounds like it s made by a band from the city. Electronic loops, Hip Hop beats, Shoegaze, Soul and Pop each finds its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn’t live and work in a major urban center, but rather calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY (population 26,186) home. Despite the cultural influence of …
Deltron 3030 is composed of a trinity of alt-rap all-stars: Master lyricist Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, superproducer Dan ‘The Automator’ Nakamura and virtuoso turntablist DJ Kid Koala. Individually, they stand at the top of their respective musical disciplines; together, on the eponymous Deltron 3030, they warped space, bent time, transcended genre and blew minds, creating an album that …
San Francisco Under a Groove is the second installment in the Under a Groove series. The series uncovers new electronica from important locations. The concept was created after a trip to France in 2001. There we came across some new French artists who fused electronica with funk and jazz. The resulting album, Paris Under a Groove received some …
Bjork is one of the most recognized stars in the world. She has sold millions of copies of her groundbreaking albums, she is an icon of cutting edge style, & she has received worldwide acclaim as an actress. Medulla, Bjork’s first new studio album in three years, finds her delving deeper than ever before into her haunting & …
For listeners with a sincere interest in the broad variety of music loosely aligned under the New Age banner, Pure Moods II will strike your ears as something less than a high-concept showcase for the genre and more as a mulligan stew of easy-listening favorites. This is not necessarily a bad thing; yet a recording marketed to the …
The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos is a new French documentary film that was created by Disney (Disneynature). The film documents the life cycle of flamingos and was filmed in Northern Tanzania…. The nice thing about this film is the original score brought to you by The Cinematic Orchestra with help from The London Metropolitan Orchestra.The Cinematic …
“What I always wanted to do was to reconnect musicology with nature,” Icelandic composer and performer Björk recently told the New York Times. “I always wanted to make bass lines behave like gravity.”Biophilia is the Icelandic singer and composer’s most ambitious undertaking in a 20-year career distinguished by continuous innovation and artistic evolution. The album title refers to …
The super group Deltron 3030 is composed of producer Dan the Automator, rapper Del tha Funkee Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala and sometimes features guest artists who also take on varying futuristic pseudonyms. Originally released in 2000 on the now-defunct 75ARK record label, this Hip Hop concept album was released the same year as the Gorillaz first 12″ …
Internationally acclaimed artists Thievery Corporation release their 5th studio album entitled Radio Retaliation on ESL Music. With Radio Retaliation Thievery Corporation raise the bar with a new cast of musical collaborators including; Nigeria’s afro-beat heir Femi Kuti, Brazilian star vocalist and guitarist Seu Jorge, Indian sitar virtuoso Anushka Shankar, Slovakian chanteuse and violinist Jana Andevska, and Washington DC’s …
Farina returns with the compilation that essentially put him on the music map nationwide. Now in its seventh installment, Mushroom Jazz lures fans once again with its signature hip-hop-infused, jazz-inspired, deep house grooves. On MJ7, he flexes mixing and production skills to create a decades-worth of melodies, sounds, and inspiration. For the consummate fan (and the newly initiated), …