imaginary trip sounds

Os alemães Torsten Martens AKA Monophonic e Tobias Schirmann AKA Whizcutz, trazem-nos os projecto Third I Vision. Com um único álbum lançado até então, Somewhere there's music (2006), apresentam algo entre o downtempo, o trip-hop e o hip-hop. São 16 instrumentais, onde se samplam violinos, teclados, guitarras, vozes, etc. Tudo isto é cozinhado em harmonia. E do myspace vem mais um pouco do grupo e do álbum:

"You can call it downtempo, trip hop or headz, but it really is a way of hearing music thatexpresses the experiences and attitudes of many inner city kids or even better: of two guysoutta Mannheim.
From their first chat on during a party where they were both djing. Torsten Martens(Monophonic) and Tobias Schirmann (Whizcutz) discovered their common preferences forhead-nodding beats, floating strings, deep bass lines, and warm-sounding key instruments.
Soon after that, they decided to start a joint project apart from their solo activities, and nowthey present their first album as Third I Vision: "Somewhere There's Music".
With "Somewhere There's Music" Monophonic and Whizcutz present a perfect accousticcompanion for different kinds of moods. It sends you on a time-travelling journey into thepast: back in time when 12"-vinyls from labels such as Mo' Wax, A Cup Of Tea, Pussyfoot orUltimate Dilemma filled the crates of your local record dealers. The time where the variety ofsuch a sound was categorized into "lounge".
A decade where trip hop was downbeat and downbeat was headz (or the other way round!?).But an indication for a still active community in Japan is that the lp was already domesticallyreleased through the Tokyo-based label Argus. Additionally, a specail remix was offered bythe beatmaniacs Boom Boom Satelites, and you can tell by the reviews what magic the soundstill owns in the land of the rising sun: this kind of macic that is covered by the team’ssophisticated arrangements and warm sounds. Either at home on the sofa or in a fumy club,as soon as the the beat detaches itself from the strings and soundscapes, you immediatellystart head-nodding inevitably. Dopebeats galore on 16 tracks."

Third I Vision - Hidden keys