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Autumn Remixed – remixed downbeat/chill out

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Some day I will get of that “chill out” tag, but until I do, I am afraid I have to use it fullon. Sorry – its a web thing.
I will get back to that in some other blog.
So we released “Autumn Remixed” nearly two weeks ago, and as I hear it, especially spanish DJs are going crazy over Lennys Dubdriver remix.
I got a lot of nice feedback also on the other mixes – all of them actually – not just Lennys. And this is great news. One of them we already licensed to a compilation so I guess things are moving ahead as it should.
I found out this week also, that the DJ Mr. Sam, who is on Black Hole Recordings (Tiestos label) – he has released his five track EP which also contains a Morten Y. remix of a song from my first album.
Its the track Sweet Morning, that Morten Y. remixed and its available now on Beatport and everywhere else.
So if you were dreaming of a progressive house version of this chill out downbeat classic, this one is for you.
Its licensed from my old label Music For Dreams. My good neighbeurs here in Copenhagen.

I will back into the music now on this somewhat crappy day here in Copenhagen. It seems like grey is here to stay.

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“The Black Angels” – chill out with the brainwaves in Webster Hall

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Just happened to catch a show last week with “The Black Angels” in Webster Hall New York.
Very cool band with tons of backward references such as Velvet Underground, Doors, Black Sabbath and possibly others I cant remember right now.
Even the artwork for one of the posters was nearly a total ripoff of an old Velvet Underground cover. A blackhaired woman in a psychedelic bedding of what appears to be flowers.
It sounds maybe not so cool to ripp of stuff like that, but in regards to the music its actually very original and they play with great nerve and black intensity. Very dark, but a beautiful darkness that lets you take of on that journey that so much other is the essence of listening. Definitely not your average downbeat listening experience, even though many of the tracks are slow.
Got their album also, after only hearing one song maybe.
But I think I would have bought the vinyl anyway, just because the cover was so great looking.
Thats the way to go – make a great cover and your vinyls will be sold not for the music, but because they look good.
Dont really care so much for CDs. I will rather download if I can get 320 kbs mp3s – ofcourse my favourite bands I would love to have on CD – so I guess its not totally true.
Next show was the Raveonettes – my fellow countrymen from Copenhagen, whom I had never heard live before and really didnt know know too well.
But they delivered a truly amazing concert. Noiserock and retro sounds in one nice combination. I love her voice – wish she would sing on more tracks than she does.
I can understand what they are trying to acheive with the dubbing of their leads – they kind of blend well together, but they also sound good alone – both of them. I must admit they were better than The Black Angels in terms of “The Show” they put on. And one funny detail. The drummer is standing up and they are performing with a backtrack and click track for the drummer. Makes it a little stiff I would say, but you hardly notice because they play so well.
Nice noises.
Ganga – Downbeat / Chill Out Music

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Mark Bell and Laurent Garnier about “More Light Please”

Sunday, October 4th, 2009

DJs and Producers  about “More Light Please”

Mark Bell (Depeche Mode, Björk, LFO): “Beautifully Crafted

Laurent Garnier: “Excellent”

Richard Earnshaw: “Loved his first album and this is a wicked next step. Will be supporting at my dj gigs”.

Scott Reeder (Hexadecimal): “…really nice productions, definitely great home listening material, wicked stuff! Hex :)

Jon Soularis (Sunsoaked): “Mesmerising”

Danny Krivit (NYC): “I like this”

DJ Pheel:”4 those of us who luv spinnin’ lounge sounds, this is a treasure chest”.

Aris Kokou:

“Awesome album! Great mood,atmosphere & production

Tony Rodriguez: “Amazing artist…Love the layers, the trip!”

David Dunne (Hed Kandi): “will be featured cd on nu cool this weekend”..

Jessica Roe (Anjuna Beats):

“Really interesting sound. Quirky and original with echos of familiar beats.”

Breakonomics:

“This is a superb collection of dubby, progressive and tripped out electronica.”

Brandon (Properly Chilled NYC): This is a really, really good album. It takes so many turns in style that it’s really impossible to pick a favorite. That kind of choice really depends on the mood you’re in at that moment. Thankfully, this music is so good that it does a great job of progressing you through all its many moods. Great work.

Vinny Da Vinci (House Africa): “Excellent” Supertight!”

Ryan Sullivan (Gutfeel Records): “Awesome music!”

Ian Bang (www.dv.fm):

“Always Been a fan of Ganga, this only cements it! Brilliant move to have Vanessa Daou on vocals, and the Electric Horse track is awesome, eighties refences aside (Michael Jackson-ish bassline, and Talk Talk-ish piano hook) Will support 100% :-) ”

Black Liquid (House Sounds of LA):

“I am a big fan of chill out and lounge music.This will go down well here in LA”
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Friday, September 11th, 2009

“The wills and the wonts the does and the donts” – James Curd - my morning listening today.

Sneaks in under the hood and works on my brainwaves with his strange sounds. Not that strange actually – but just not ordinary.

Lovely downbeat track to start the day – in a smooth but energetic way.

Nice very straight beat and a funny bass line is what makes this track what it is. His voice fits perfectly with this music for the slow ones.

Then there is the Enzo  Ponzio remix, that takes the oddness out a little further. Its still not VERY odd – odd in a normal way.. hehe. Is that possible? I guess here it is.

The timing of the words reminds of the first hip hop stuff from the est coast “Dont push me cause Im close to … the… edge” was it Grandmaster Flash? I think so. Nice timing – works all the time…. when it works. Confused? What I mean is, this kind of old school hi hop timing is almost archetypical, so if you dont use it the right way it will stick out and bite you in the nose..

Next track on this little James Curd trip is called “Back off move away”.

The timing is still very nice and thisn track is a little bit more busy – with a very active electronic arpegiator bass line. The production is very minimal – very tight and well defined roles that all sits well together. This track is not so chilled as the other tracks, but still nice. Funny Phil Collins like drum breaks and a nice little synt line that stops JUST before it gets annoying – so thats how its supposed to be.

I will trow myself out into this new day now – loaded with some new fresh old sounds.

Some strange track is waiting for my reptile brain to work on it in the most mysterious ways.

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Biosphere is in my ear

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

Sorry about the wording – couldnt help it.

I just purchased the Biosphere album “Dropsonde” and I am listening to the track called “Birds fly by flapping their wings” .

Some nice breaks riding along in this track. Some repetitive synt stuff and a kind of spooky pad is also there and makes it al sound very snowy white and nordic – melancholic but in a happy way, if that makes any sense.

Next track on the cd is “Warmed by the drift” – the same atmosphere (or Biosphere maybe) is present here, but a little more dark maybe. Synt drones evolving and some random small noises creeing into the mix here and there. Its still repetitive and reminds me a bit of Murcof – the mexican electronica wizard. Not much going on in this track and thats great. It all warms up a bit in the end where he introduces some synt bass sounds and small pizzicato like figures – gives it a new more human feel at the end. Its actually just the transition to the next track – he tied them together.

In the next track “In triple time”,  he is ofcourse in tripletime as the title says, and we are back at the breaks again, exept last time the rhytmic flow was in 7th (means 7/4 or 7/8) – well doesnt mean so much to a non musician maybe, but its a bit no so obvious to compose in this time signature – in this genre anyway. Peolpe has a tendency to stick with 4/4 – how little adventorous that may sound.

This track is in triple time and a little dark also – fast and with a very old school synt sound and still very repetitive. Very melancholic.

The track “From a solid to a liquid” is almost ambient in the old way – like Brian Enos “Apollo” f.ex. – very little movement and sporadic synt lines and a background drone noise thing that prevails the whole track – like planets turning or something – a very beautiful track. Perfect for a nap on the couch after a hard days work.

On ”Arafura” he breaks op the structure with “broken cd”  loops. STill very repetitive but moving in its own crooked way. Sounds like broken equipment somehow – nicely done.

In “Fall in fall out” there is a jazzy feeling and even some vinyl noise  – love this one. Could put anyone to sleep in under ten minutes. Lovely track.

All in all a great album for home listening, falling asleep, staring out into space on a rainy day.

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DJ Krush is old news ofcourse

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

but never the less GOOD old news.
And as with most other good music,  it doesnt matter so much how old we are – I mean – the tracks are.
In this case the tracks are 8 years old.
So they just started school I guess. Lets see how they look when they look at the retirement age – are we still listening to them, or do we think they are out of style and place them on a shelve.
I think not, these are all great track from the downtempo maestro DJ Krush.
Its hip hop, but with so much other stuff added to the production, so it could have fooled your ears here and there.
Listening to “Danger of Love” – great voice – Zap Mama I think provides these chilled vocals. They really have a nice edge to them – the Horace Andy quality.
This must be a downtempo classic if there ever was one. Really smooth and mellow grroves and nice voices and instruments – some ethnic sounding stuff as well. And vibes – playable vibes that is – starts out the whole thing with the flute track “Song 1″ (Cant imagine it took so long for an artist to finally have the guts to release a song with a name like that). Nice ethnic flute and breaks that fits perfectly.
Some hypnotic synt or lower vibes get your mind confused and it all ends up in a beautiful corner of your mind – blocking your view of all the small parts its put together from- like it should be.
Okay, moving down the track line, here is a bit of humor in “Duckchase” – with a strange duck sound continuing throughout the track – I can see where the name came from, but its more funny than good in my opinion. Nice production though – really cool rhytmic flow – ….hmm. okay, I give up… its actually also a very cool track with some fantastic scratching – sound slike scratching anyway – sscratching a … yes scratching a duck ofcourse. Christmas tune maybe (danish christmas ritual)
Here is the list of personnel on the cd:
DJ Krush, Black Thought, Zap Mama, Tunde Ayanyemi, PhonosycographDISK, Company Flow, Kazufumi Kodama, N’Dea Davenport, Boss The MC, Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, Kukoo Da Baga Bonez, Sunja Lee.
I can recommend this journey – its a nice one, with just enough of surprises to keep you interested – even if you are not into hip hop, you can definitely chill on the couch to this one, or take a little slow dance on the coffee table.

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Chill out on the westcoast – with Om Records

Friday, August 28th, 2009

There is something about this music from the westcoast – of the US. Waves rooling and everything is soft and easy.
Listening to J. Boogie, “Deep in the cut” – beautiful downtempo track. With a funny cut up vocal and a nice sounding sitar – and the slow hip hop beat just making the heartbeat of the song – cruising with the modal baseline – really simple percussion and a funky flute – handclaps – deep in the cut – deep in the cut. Funky and indian at the same time.

Really warm sounding track that can go on forever without noone ever noticing how long it has been playing – it sucks you in. Like the waves of the pacific – rolling on the shores – calming the upset – cooling the hot.
Now I am on a new track – “Try Me” they call it – nice downbeat, funky and chilled and with a nice male talking voice and a – not too souly – female vocal.
The flute is still here, and its a bit like Barry White also was in that studio that day.
Sitar also still there, giving the whole thing the ethnic touch.
Soft trumpets – very laid back feeling in this music.
I can highly recommend it “J. Boogies Dubtronic Science” – its from 2003 I think – out on Om records in San Francisco. J. Boogies Dubtronic Science Home of Kaskade, Mark Farin and King Kooba.

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“The adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn”

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

In the dream I was a warewolf…..

thats how Coco Rosie starts off side two on their album named “The adventures of ghosthorse and stillborn”.  

Nice lyrics, although I must admit some of them fly over my head. Just cant hear all the words she is singing/saying. Doesnt matter though, there is a very nice ring to her voice, that make up for the lack of recogniceable words.

Maybe all the rationalists of this world will disagree, but there is so much to be learned from nonsense -  linguistic nonsense that is. Words that doesnt make normal sentences and sentences that doesnt have an obvious meaning. This is poetry. Or could be.

So I dont mind so much when there is a word or two missing there – makes it so much more interesting to listen to, when not everything is cut out for you. Either you can look at it as a challenge  – to make (a new) sense of the words, or you can just lean back and taste the words as they hit you – just let them hit you. Dont analyse their meaning in the context – listen to them as they themselves were music and forget all you learned about logic and language.

There is a logic beyond language – and this is where you learn stuff you didnt know you needed to know -  when you switch off the analyzing part of your brain.

How you are gonna do it is your own problem – I would say the people who knows best about these things are probably peolpe that meditates a lot, or regularly go beyond the intellect via some practice or special technique.

But I would say that it is possible for everybody to enter a non intellectual state where you can experience some  new territory, by just closing your eyes, listen and watch the movie. Sex would be one way of getting to a place similar to that.

The first track on the b side of Coco Rosies album definitely is a good way to start.

Close your eyes – you are on your way. 

There is definitely a big Bjork inspiration in many of the tracks on this album. The same fascination of the “little girly voice”, that I think Bjork must have – or has. Its very intimate  and combined with the lyrics, it has a great effect – whether or not you are analyzing the words and meanings.

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NEW ALBUM OUT TODAY – “MORE LIGHT PLEASE”

Saturday, August 1st, 2009
Ganga - "More Light Please" (Flinc Music 2009)

Ganga - "More Light Please" (Flinc Music 2009)

Get the new chill out downbeat album from Ganga.

Available in all major and minor stores. Chilled  scandinavian electronic beats with

a cool acoustic vibe and featuring interesting instrumentalists and singers.

Among them eighties diva Vanessa Daou, Helle Chirholm, Flamenco guitarist Steen Kyed

and gipsy violinist Niels Skovmand.

ITUNES

BEATPORT

AMAZON

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Laurie Andersson and Lou Reed

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I witnessed something very special the other day in the big new concert hall in Copenhagen – “Koncerthuset”.

Two giants from each their side of the musical spectrum so to say, joined forces and delivered a very special coctail of Laurie Andersson eighties performance art and old school rocker Lou Reed with the many many fabulous albums behind him.

Together they performed what must be considered mostly her show.

The setup was far from what you would expect from Lou Reed. No drums, just Laurie Andersson on keys, vocoder, recitation, singing and violin. And Lou Reed on guitar and some handheld fx.

There was also a guy on electronica and keys, but it was hard to see his hardware – he had a synt and some fx and his function was like a mediator between the two others. It worked very well I thought. Most of it anyway.

I love Laurie Anderssons lyrics, or recitations, and her voice is crystal clear and you can hear every word of her political wordings. Very good. Her singing was also really amazing, and quite unusual to hear almost ethnic frasings in a concert like this these days.

Lou Reed also delivered some of his songs, and they did some Velvet Underground together as well.

The concept with those two together works very well, and also with the guy on electronica. Except when he played beats – which he luckyli only did twice – that didnt work out so well.

But it was an inspiring evening, and it made me think of performance and the different roles people has when they perform.

In this setup it was clear, that Laurie Andersson and Lou Reed are so big peronalities, that that in itself saves whatever flaws there could be in the setup. This is not always the case for smaller setups and especially often not for laptop setups. Hmm…once again I must redefine my live setup. It is often so boring to look at one person bend over a screen.

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