Country : France Genre : Downtempo Style : Experimental , Abstract Electro
Label : Auto Prod. Year : 2014
DJ DEMONANGEL Rating : 3/5 FAN Rating :4/5
Il nous vient de Nord Occitanie, il fait partie de ces artistes mystérieux et prometteurs qui bâtissent des oeuvres en solitaire dans le secret d'une maison, l'intimité la plus exacerbée. Touché par la magie du trip hop depuis son enfance, avec sa guitare et son ordinateur il rend sa composition expérimentale, quelque part entre abstract hip hop et downtempo. C'est un album très court, qui passe à une vitesse folle nous plongeant tantôt dans la rêverie et l'étrange, alternant différentes courbes émotionnelles que Dolàn Xakò distille à coup de sample rendant l'ensemble homogène. On serait tenté de comparer son opus à l'univers de Doctor Flake ou celui de Portishead, alliant à la fois une ambiance sombre et torturée, reflétant les angoisses de l'artiste. Et puis, on sera obligé de constater que ce monsieur à tout d'un grand avec des titres aux influences orientales comme Timit, une mélodie nostalgique et cinématographique avec le sublime Elle ou encore un dowtempo prenant sur Rêveur. Une identité musicale à la fois teinté de noir et de gris où l'obscurité s'écrase dans l'esprit. Dolàn Xakò un drôle de nom qui raisonne comme le lapin effrayant de Donnie Darko, Le Prisonnier et les étoiles, comme un voyage intérieur pourrait être la bande son de ce film. De sa vision un hommage à la musique qu'il reprend si bien avec cette citation : "La musique [...] est la vapeur de l'art. Elle est à la poésie ce que la rêverie est à la pensée, ce que le fluide est au liquide, ce que l'océan des nuées est à l'océan des ondes." VH
Country : France Genre : Trip Hop Style : Abstract Electro , Electronic
Label : BedroomResearch Year : 2013
DJ DEMONANGEL Rating : 5/5 FAN Rating : 5/5
Digital Velvet is the new side project of gifted french producer Julien Chastagnol, aka Ruby My Dear, known for his radical, technical, detailed and raging productions he has been firing from reknown labels such as Ad Noiseam, Acroplane or Peace Off.
For this ethereal and oniric trip Julien gathers with an allié of choice: Anna, a singer and writer that has gained recognition over the years in the french underground Dub scene. She, from her own words, defends a "music of life" that has the ambition to go deeper than the usual codes of the dancefloor. Her jazz tinted voice, both intimate and full of attitude, talks to you in the face. She brillantly spices instrumentals from a Ruby My Dear who puts aside his frenetical Breakcore to explore a colorful and funky Breakbeat flavoured with Glitch Hop, IDM, Skweee and some of this mythical Bristol TripHop made famous by Massive Attack or Portishead's early works.
A guest of choice also makes an apparition on this deep piece of work: maybe the most electronica MC of them all, a veteran of HipHop crossovers: Non from Shadow Huntaz.
1.The Silence of a candle 03:53 2.Gnossienne de Cookies (SavannaMix) 02:06 3.Hello ( d1PCT edit) 02:49 4.Down on me 02:38 5.Blooperama (deep D1 mix) 03:16 6.I wish i could 04:05 7.Dream of me 03:35 8.What a day 02:34 9.Pride (CbC_RmX) 02:37 10.Fairies of the lake 04:33
Country : UK Genre : Abstract Electro Style : Electronic , Ambient , Alternative , Trip Hop
NetLabel : Dusted Wax Kingdom Year : 2014
DJ DEMONANGEL Rating : 5/5 FAN Rating : 5/5
After the self-released "Perpetual Emotion" EP, Indican Sound drops his "A Fine Time To Be" LP with Dusted Wax Kingdom. 9 tranquil downtempo tracks built upon deep warm ambience, phat trip-hop grooves and psychedelic guitar riffs.
01 - A Fine Time To Be 02 - The Dust Bowl 03 - A Well Worn Path 04 - Dusty Corners 05 - Lies 06 - Perpetual Emotion 07 - Depths 08 - Don't Move A Muscle 09 - Underbeat
Country : U.S.A Genre : Electro Trip Hop Style : Trip Hop , Downtempo
Label : Auto Prod
Tracklist :
01. Ready For Love (Ft. Agina Alvarez) 02. Do You Think It Hurts (Ft Agina Alvarez/Reallyfe) 03. My Way (Ft. Cue) 04. These Nights Alone 05. Some Love 06. O.D. 07. Home 08. Lifetime For Love
Country : U.K Genre : Trip Hop Style : Electronic , Experimental , IDM , Dubstep
ARTWORK BY : Dan Tassell of Factory Fifteen Label : Monotreme Records
Tracklist :
1. I Would Rather Explode (5:02) 2. Post Six (5:06) 3. Violaceae (4:53) 4. Havana Nights (5:40) 5. Dusk Till Dawn (3:08) 6. Float (6:49) 7. Land Leviathan (1:52) 8. TMA (3:03) 9. here.now.here (5:21) 10. Home (6:18)
After his previous succesful albums Shallow and Profound and Splendid Isolation, Hungarian producer Yonderboi has finally finished his third album. The highly anticipated final part of his trilogy called Passive Control is coming out on 23rd September at Mole Listening Pearls.
During the past decade Yonderboi has grown from a teenager into a 31 year old man constantly experimenting and looking for challenges. That’s why on the new album he tried to do more and more by himself, from songwriting to recording and making the album cover. The "DIY dandy" explained his approach, interviewing himself to Hungarian fashion magazine The Room: "Lots of todays music or film projects are rather similar to a production line, which delivers products that are perfect in every detail, but still give a muddled and impersonal impression in total. It is not the goal to create a product that is perfect in every particle, but to create a final result that is as personal as possible.”
The upcoming album was inspired by Yonderboi’s big loves: sci-fi and fantasy visuals, mostly works by the legendary French comics artist Jean Gireaud Moebius, and films like Kin-Dza-Dza and the Hungarian cult-film Meteo. The title Passive Control is another oxymoron after his earlier releases and refers to the period while he was working on the new material. At that time the social network boom had its impression also on Yonderboi giving him ideas for more experiments. However he is not really interested any of the networking sites, even though he found his female voice, the Cologne-based 24 years old Charlotte Brandi via Myspace. Her voice is the key of Passive Control to bring balance to the album trilogy.
Tracklist : 01. Sustainable Development 02. I Am CGI 03. She Complains 04. Roast Pigeon 05. Paint Hunting On The Wall 06. Brighter Than Anything 07. Mono De Oro 08. Synchronicity 09. Inexhaustible Well 10. Come On Progeny 11. After The Snap
Not only are they great songwriters but also as a band they are accomplished producers...
Christian Hopwood 2002-11-20
Three years ago Skinny entered the musical arena with the release of their critically acclaimed debut The Weekend.
The single "Failure", a quirky testimony to self-loathing, did much to raise their profile and was astrong indication that this was a band with ability and a healthy sense of humour. Then, much to their frustration, their record company was sold to a major and in the process all of the acts were frozen until the deal was done. Cryogenic suspension anyone?
However, the interim was well spent with Matty Benbrook joining forces with label mates Faithless, benefiting from Rollo's studio expertise. Meanwhile, chief songwriter Paul Herman helped Rollo's soon-to-be-very-famous sister Dido with the writing of No Angel, in particular "Thank You" as used by Eminem on "Stan".
Away from the promotional rigmarole Skinny have grown up, reassessed and paid attention to the detail on this impressive second album.
Taller is a departure from their concept debut to a more song-based approach. That said the furrow ploughed by this album is wide, offering an innovative sound that draws on post-club electronica as well as the more traditional rock elements.
"Coming Up Roses" creates its' optimism with a surge of guitars, giant drums and a soul stirring admission, 'I'm taller than houses, I'm faster than the brightest light, I'm the king of England'. Passionate stuff, but things don't alwayssmellso good as Skinny's focus takes in the lows as well as the highs.
Paul's meditation on family "Worth It" poses difficulties, 'The lying, the crying and the fighting, the judgement, the time spent in denial. Was it worth it?' Yet, their take on Gunter Kallman Choir's 'Daydream', "On A Beautiful Day" is a summer time dub that raises the mood again.
Not only are they great songwriters but also, as a band, they are accomplished producers well versed in the art of keeping things polished, simple and interesting. Skinny are, by their own admission, a new band who feel like they are starting again and in a peculiar way they are making a second debut with this aptly named release. Time has been a difficult taskmaster for Paul, Matty, Tim and Dave but they have returned in fine style. Bigger. Brighter. Taller.
Backing Vocals – Dido Bass – Aubrey Nunn, Tim Vogt Drum Programming – Matty Benbrook Keyboards – Dave Nally, Mark Bates Lead Vocals, Guitar – Paul Herman Percussion – Malik Smith
Tracklist : 1 - Intro 1:28 2 - Sweet Thing 3:53 3 - Coming Up Roses 5:08 4 - Morning Light 4:28 5 - Worth It 3:55 6 - On A Beautiful Day 4:16 7 - No More Daydreams 1:02 8 - 5 Past 9 4:07 9 - Beautiful 1:37 10 - Failure 4:54 11 - Smoke Machine 0:36 12 - Lets Pretend 4:11 13 - I Wish 3:50 14 - What I Was Here For 10:03
UNKLE est un collectif d'abstract / trip-hop créé en 94 à l'initiative du producteur James Lavelle, également fondateur du label Mo Wax. Le collectif, qui se veut expérimental et éclectique, commence par sortir jusqu'en 98 une série de singles fourmillant de featurings alléchants... C'est dire que Psyence Fiction était attendu. Pour l'occasion James Lavelle s'est entouré de Josh Davis alias DJ Shadow (excusez du peu), et de plusieurs vocalistes des scènes pop et hip-hop du moment. D'où un véritable patchwork sonore qui navigue entre trip-hop et abstract, sans se priver pour autant d'instruments.
Sans transition, on passe du très hip-hop Guns Blazing, featuring le flow insistant de l'américain Kool G sur des beats très jazzy, à l'électro-pop U.N.K.L.E Main Title Theme et ses notes de guitare, ses samples et ses touches de violon, en passant par l'abstract Unreal et ses relents de guitare new wave, mélange assez inédit et diablement efficace ! Entre deux, on aura apprécié l'apparition d'Alice Temple à la voix sur le tourmenté downtempo Bloodstain.
Difficile de pas accrocher sur Lonely Soul qui, malgré son format somme toute assez pop (Richard Arshcroft à la voix), compose un hymne sombre sur fond de sonorités tant abstract (beats) qu'électro (samples). Nursery Rhyme et ses guitares énervées présente l'intérêt d'une rupture de style, mais je lui préfère (de loin) le trip-hop symphonique de Celestial Annihilation qui s'enrichit progressivement de samples et beats électros très marqués. Retour au hip-hop avec le flow de Mike D (Beastie Boys) sur The Knock et son petit côté décalé un peu crade, avant d'enchaîner sur Rabbit In Your Headlights avec Thom Yorke à la voix et ses softs accords de piano..
On l'aura compris, Psyence Fiction est un album hétéroclite et contrasté, et c'est ce qui fait tant son intérêt que le plaisir de son écoute, malgré peut-être un aspect inégal : mais ce petit côté baroque reste un régal. Au final on en retiendra surtout les titres phares U.N.K.L.E Main Title Theme, Unreal et Celestial Annihilation, mais après, c'est selon les affinités.. Et c'est toute la richesse des collectifs : au fil des featurings, embarquement pour un voyage sonore aux destinations multiples. Un concept encore novateur en ces années 90.
On apprécie particulièrement l'artwork de l'album designé par le street-artiste new-yorkais Futura 2000 et ses célébrissimes Pointmen (Ah ! les heureux détenteurs de la pochette vinyle !...)
Tracklist : 1. Guns blazing (Drums of death Part1) 2. Unkle (Main title theme) 3. Bloodstain 4. Unreal 5. Lonely soul 6. Getting ahead in the lucrative field of artist 7. Nursery rhyme 8. Celestial annihilation 9. The knock (Drums of death Part 2) 10. Chaos 11. Rabbit in the headlights 12. Outro
