Hi!

If you like Radiohead and/or Imogen Heap you also might like Jack Conte:

Jack Conte got promoted on YouTube and that's why I found my way to his MySpace page. There are a couple of very good tracks on there for your enjoyment. I liked it so much, that I bought the MP3 download of his EP "Nightmares and Daydreams" on CDBaby. :-)

Categories:
Indie, Alternative, Electronica

Cheers!
Z.

After a quite long pause I bought another disk-shaped physical music carrier today. I can't even remember what the previous purchase was, so it's gotta be a long pause :)

But let's not bitch about audio CD prices today.

The new one is Classics by Ratatat.

You really gotta appreciate the possibilities of the web when it comes to music discovery. I have no idea what people did back in the old days. They certainly wouldn't have heard something about Ratatat. Ratatat came to my attention via a music blogger's site. Thank you SMB!

Ratatat is some kind of…

I thought I just compile my personal best of Monotonik. Here it goes … ;-)

monotonik - Year 2007

MTK186: Grating Rainbows
MTK179: It's Really Pretty Simple After All

monotonik - Year 2006

MTK171: Landscapes Of Late
MTK165: Secular EP

monotonik - Year 2005

MTK150: El Hacedor EP
MTK149: Conscious EP
MTK143: Maintenance Werk
MTK142: Perpetual Autumn EP

monotonik - Year 2004

MTK140: I'll Meet You There
MTK136: El Hacedor EP
MTK135: Stuff EP
MTK132: A Random Collection Of Consonants
MTK131: Pasteism EP
MTK123: ..Meets Torsti At The Space Lounge

monotonik - Year 2003

MTK122: Nibiru Coming EP
MTK121: Emotions…

Even though I love Imogen Heap's 2nd album I fear I might dislike listening to her performing live. (I just watched some YouTube videos.)

I realize that it's hard to be on-key all the time while jumping around but you can see some performances as well where she isn't THAT active (for instance here singing Goodnight and Go). It could be her being nervous in this case, however, after watching more of the videos I get the slight feeling that her singing skills aren't that big actually. She might have done some computer-aided tuning after recording her voice…

Check out hype.non-standard.net If you don't know about it already. It's a search engine that gathers MP3 links from audio blogs.

I tested it with Imogen Heap to get an idea what the new album is about (9 of the 12 new album tracks are streamable, full length! Some bloggers seem to violate certain laws, I suppose).

If you follow the links to the actual blog entries you'll usually be able to DOWNLOAD the tracks.

I also found 4 nice tracks from Mint Royale. The hypemachine led me to this music blog: http://www.comfortradio.org/comfortmusic/ – I definitely need to check…

I got a bit bored yesterday and browsed 'couple of user pages when I finally saw Frou Frou in someone's weekly top list. I got to know them due to the movie Garden State. Let Go was part of the Garden State's OST and IIRC the movie's trailer had some good music in there – which was one of the reasons I finally watched it … (the other one was Natalie Portman playing a weird character) ;)

So? I can remember checking their album Details for but some reason I forgot about it. What a shame. With the help of…

Just bought
Dial M for Monkey (yummy!)
as well as
All I Know Is Tonight
Oslo Skyline
Mikado
Flite
via
Bleep
to expand my little Ninja Tune collection :)

Yeah, first time I bought seperate tracks. Honestly, the What We Must hasn't convinced me completely. Weird. I love these 3 tracks but the other 4? …
I guess I can't call myself a Jaga fan then. ;)

BTW: Bleep serves high quality VBR mp3 files (powered by L.A.M.E.) for iTunes-like prices. No digital restriction management and shit – playable on every DAP.

z

Bonobo/Jaga Jazzist/The Cinematic…

Hi!

I came across this superb guide to electronic music:
http://www.di.fm/edmguide/

Appearently I'm someone who likes
Breakbeat: Funky Breaks, Big Beat, Abstract Hip-Hop
Downtempo: Chillout (including Trip-Hop und Nu Jazz)
Jungle: IDM

But I guess it shouldn't be taken too seriously. The
authour is obviously biased and the comments about
genres are primarily entertaining. ;-)

Man With a Movie Camera
"Man With A Movie Camera"

I listened to some of their tracks via nu-jazz-tag-radio and really liked it. I decided to give TuneTribe a chance since the local music shops in my city have a really limited collection. I didn't feel like ordering the physical CD and waiting a couple of days this time. :-)

It turned out TuneTribe is using L.A.M.E for MP3 encoding and track transitions play seamlessly when using an appropriate player like Foobar2000. Yay! :-)

Also, I noticed that Ugress have/has a new free EP on their/his homepage entitled "Retroconnaissance".…

After listening to the excerpts over and over again I finally ordered the album Seawards by Sickoakes via hausmusik.com. Two days later I received 2 CDs, the one I ordered plus a promo version of the album "The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me" by Jape. How cool is that? :)

I'm glad I made the choice to order it. I really like Seawards and Autumn Summer turned out to be one of my current favorite tracks, too.

For some reason last.fm messes up my Autumn-Summer-link. %-|

z