Ido - OrthIDOxy

De Ido não consegui recolher nenhuma informação. Sei que este ano lançou o álbum OrthIDOxy, com o qual fiquei encantado. Há trip-hop, há downtempo, há traços hip-hop, há estilhaços country, há toques jazz, há ambientes cinematográficos, há muito bom corte e colagem e sei lá mais o que. Confiram, porque é mesmo um excelente álbum.

Ido - The good old rebel

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Tremor - Viajante

Da Argentina chega o projecto Tremor. Constituido por Leonardo Martinelli, Camilo Carabajal e Gerardo Farez, o grupo acaba de lançar o seu segundo álbum. Viajante bebe na música tradicional argentina e na electónica IDM e glitch. Músicas instrumentais que contam com a ajuda de violas, violinos, acordeão, melódica e bombo legüero, entre outros. Um álbum rico e recomendado. Do myspace veio o que se segue:

"Released by record company Los años luz, Viajante features 12 new instrumental songs. Its combination of folk music elements and electronic sounds is materialized in a more sanguine fashion, as it involves experimentation with several acoustic instruments such as the charango, ronroco, accordion, bombo legüero, the violin, etc. Viajante involves various rhythms and goes through different moods, ranging from melodic moments of subtle melancholy, to furious, intense sounds that at certain points make people want to get up and dance. Electro-tribal malambo, glitch chacarera, gipsy sayas, and even IDM huaynos are some of the elements involved in the landscapes created by Tremor’s new music.

In recent years, Tremor has given live trio performances together with Gerardo Farez (keyboards and melodics) and Camilo Carabajal (bombo legüero) at very important festivals taking place in the city of Buenos Aires, the interior of Argentina, and Mexico City."

Tremor - Viajante

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Dominick Martin - Shine a light

Dominick Martin, andou dez anos a produzir drum and bass utilizando o alter ego Calibre. Este ano chega-nos aos ouvidos um álbum de downtempo intitulado Shine a light. Ambientes cinematográficos, texturas jazz, uns toques indie e a electrónica a acompanhar, fazem este excelente LP.

"Dominick Martin - aka celebrated "Liquid D'n'B" producer Calibre - drops his much anticipated downtempo album, 'Shine A Light'. After 10 years of writing D'n'B Dominick has swerved into the post-club timeframe, flexing his sensitive singer/songwriter soul with compositions veering from soft indie to smoky cinematic paeans and midnight jazz. For fans of his lushly ornate production style this album still contains all the deeply scupltured textures you love, but reworked into something much more nuanced and impressionistic."

in www.boomkat.com

Dominick Martin - Shine a light (preview)

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King Midas Sound - Waiting for you

Kevin Martin conhecido como The Bug, acabou de lançar o álbum Waiting for you, com a colaboração do vocalista Roger Robinson e sob a designação de King Midas Sound. Um LP carregado de dubstep sombrio, atmosférico e a cheirar a fumo. Há aqui qualquer coisa de Massive Attack! Deste sítio deixo o seguinte:

"The newest alter ego of Kevin Martin, best known as The Bug, King Midas Sound, a collaboration with vocalist Roger Robinson, investigates a hazy, greasy dubstep which, while sharing a clear taste for gritty dub and rounded bass lines with The Bug, is in essence miles apart from its incendiary missiles. The pair have been working together for some time, with Robinson contributing to a number of Bug tracks over the years, but they are brought together by a very different motive here. Working on the close relationship between Martin’s deeply hypnotic atmospheric textures and Robinson’s smooth falsetto and measured delivery, King Midas Sound is a pretty tight and dense association, with a heavy narcotic-fuelled slant and sombre hues."

King Midas Sound - Goodbye girl

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Engine7 - Me, but perfect

De Glasgow chega Alan McNeil AKA Engine7. Em 2008 lançou o álbum Me, but perfect, que veio carregado de IDM, ambiente e glitch.

"Glasgow's Alan McNeil follows up on the recent 'Tempertantrum' single with this full length for the Herb label, harbouring eleven tracks (that single included) of atmospheric beat-driven electronica. There's a real sense of depth and accomplishment to McNeil's sound, which on pieces like 'Hive Mind' boasts a combination of layered electronics, synth strings and IDM era beats, resulting in an unexpectedly filmic outcome. Much of this album sounds as if it could be soundtrack material in fact, as tracks like 'Path Of Least Resistance' and the Sigur Ros-like 'Goodnight, I Love You' both attest. Within the context of the album, the more rock-tinged 'Tempertantrum' feels like a step in the wrong direction, lacking any of the intricacy and subtlety that characterises Engine 7's better work, but digested as an album in its entirety, Me, But Perfect has much to offer."

in www.boomkat.com

Engine7 - Me, but perfect

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G-Swing - Swing for modern clubbing

O colectivo francês G-Swing, lançou em 2006 o álbum Swing for the modern clubbing. Jazz swing dos anos 30 e 40, são revestidas com electrónica, criando uma sonoridade festiva ou igualmente festiva ao próprio swing. Daqui roubei o seguinte:

"On The Louvred Lounge we have been featuring a compilation that comes straight from the era that had dance halls jiving to the big bands of Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington and the voices of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. G-Swing: Music for Modern Clubbing shines a new light on some of swings most memorable tracks spanning the ten year period that fell between 1935 and 1945.
Presented by Fuse Records, this album combines elements of electronic, house and jazz music to reinvent the sound of swing.

G-Swing: Music for Modern Clubbing is remixed by renowned artists ranging from one of Frances premier house DJ's DJ Brame, Lindstrom (well known for remixing artists such as Franz Ferdinand and LCD Soundsystem) and instrumentalist, arranger and recording engineer Itchy Mango.
With a sound that permeates a new era of club-goers, this album also manages to pay great respect to an era that changed the face of music."

G Swing - I'm Crazy 'Bout My Baby

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Vienna Symphonic Lounge feat. Vienna Symphonic Orchestra - A trip to the core

O projecto Vienna Synphonic Lounge pediu ajuda à Vienna Symphonic Orchestra e resultou o álbum A trip to the core. Martin Böhm e Ludwig Coss pegam em clássicos de Mozart, Beethoven e Joseph Haydn, e juntam-lhe uma dose de electrónica, resultando num downtempo muito tranquilo.

"MG-SOUND “Masterminds“ Martin Böhm & Ludwig Coss invite you on a the trip to the core — with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Come along for this completely new and intimate experience, based on timeless classics. Instead of simply highlighting classical music with cool beats, VSL music explores a sharp and sensitive design to charm lounge aficionados with delay chains and filterflows, but above all to entice traditional classical music lovers.

The musical works on this CD are Fantasias.
Liberated interludes that play with familiar themes. Enjoy them with the curiosity of a child, turn them around in your mind, put them away, and then slowly savor their intrinsic core. These tracks don’t presume to translate the composers’ original intentions into the year 2009 - that would be disrespectful. On the contrary, “I have chosen works whose history of creation isn't familiar enough to me to restrict my imagination, so I could do the things that came to my mind first, go with my first musical instincts. Perhaps comparable to Keith Johnstone's approach to improvisational theater — only with samplers, synthesizers and the incomparable Vienna Symphony Orchestra“, says Ludwig Coss, Composer."

in www.viennasymphoniclounge.com

Vienna Symphonic Lounge feat. Vienna Synphonic Orchestra - Another Serenade

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The Brunettes - Paper dolls

Os neozelandeses Jonathan Bree e Heather Mansfield estão de volta com o seu projecto The Brunettes. O seu novo álbum intitula-se Paper dolls e rompe com os anteriores. Agora a sua sonoridade apresenta-se mais electrónica, mais avant-garde e experimental. O resultado é um electro-pop e uma indietrónica viciante. Daqui veio o seguinte:

"There’s always an air of innocence and a dash of danger with The Brunettes, and the play off between Heather and Jonathan remains a powerful, playful force on Paper Dolls. The album’s biggest point of difference is its modern bent.

Paper Dolls is a step away from typical Brunettes fare that’s often oriented toward more cute and copy pop, and is instead more about experimenting with modern technology and ideas. It’s great to hear, as it sounds like they’re stepping out of their comfort zone and having fun while they’re at it."

The Brunettes - Red rollerskates

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Printempo - Printempo

Printempo é um projecto polaco, que lançou este ano o álbum homónimo. Downtempo, batidas hip-hop, e traços jazz, constrõem um disco transparente, melódico, rico em sonoridade orgânica e bastante colorido. Tudo isto lançado à borla pela netlabel Estrada Nagrania e muito recomendado aqui pelo sítio.

Printempo - Subways are for sleeping

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Digitata - Discografia

O trio Digitata, vem de Minneapolis e conta na sua formação com os multi-instrumentistas Ryan Olson e Drew Christopherson e com a voz de Maggie Morrison. Este ano lançaram o seu terceiro LP intitulado, Art work pays. Em 2005 estrearam-se com o álbum Sexually transmitted emotions, e em 2007 voltaram à carga com II Daggers. A sua sonoridade tem-se mantido coerente ao longo de todo o seu trabalho. Canções electro-pop, com toques de trip-hop e indie. Deixo mais em baixo os três álbuns para conferir e daqui, sobre o mais recente álbum, as linhas seguintes:

"The driving tension in Digitata's music is between organic and synthetic elements, with Drew Christopherson's drums on one end and Ryan Olson's sequencer, squiggly synth, and loops on the other. Morrison's voice often rises clear above that push-and-pull, occasionally layered through effects to mixed results. When Olson passes Morrison through a fader on "Sawdust City," like a DJ scratching a record, it comes off as gimmicky, but the layers of distancing distortion on the frantic "Leave It Alone" heighten the effect of the breakup tune.

"Weak Teeth," the longest and most textured track on the disc, is a great example of when the tension of the full band works. Olson's beats punctuate Morrison's vocals, and the tune sways between the synthesizers and Morrison's dreamy Wurlitzer chords as Christopherson's drums build to a thunder of low toms, covering a spectrum of sound. Not all the tracks are as compelling, and sometimes the disc feels like only incremental progress from 2005's Sexually Transmitted Emotions and 2007's II Daggers. Despite the plateau, album closer "mbaby" is a sweet song that takes full advantage of Morrison's melody, supported by stripped-down backing. More of those strong production choices, and Art Work Pays could be a killer full-length."

Digitata - Spring Fever

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