Ott - Blumenkraft

This album is very hard to describe but i will give it a try. For fans of Shpongle and other psy-trace artist's, Ott bombards your face with a huge sonic spiral of sound. From Dub to Middle Eastern influence and beyond. Ott doesn't leave much to the imagination. This is some full frontal electronic music. I was amazed at how much i liked this upon first listen and it keeps on getting better with time. This album is not for the faint of heart and comes highly recommended.

1. Jack's Cheese and Bread Snack
2. Somersettler
3. Splitting the Atom [pick]
   
4. Escape from Tulse Hill
5. Cley Hill [pick]
   
6. Billy the Kid Strikes Back
7. A Load Up at Nunney Catch
8. Spannered in Pilton
9. Smoked Glass and Chrome [pick]
   

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Bonobo - Days To Come

Ninja Tune rarely disappoints and this album is no exception. I would classify Days To Come as breaks having sex with some jazzy lounge. If that doesn't make sense you might be too far gone. The incredible vocals of Bajka only put this album over the top.

Simon Green aka Bonobo returns with his third album and the kind of quantum leap in quality that very few artists make. “Days To Come” has the feeling of a classic all over – a big, brooding, emotional and uplifting record that you can dance to, do the dishes to, or sit and really study.

Green has always been expert at welding together music dripping with atmosphere, combining his own musical and technical talents in such a way as to make utterly organic-sounding machine music. This is not just a knob-twiddling producer but a multi-instrumentalist at work, who writes, plays and then manipulates almost every note of music he releases. And “Days To Come” shows a new structural awareness growing from this, a feeling for the song form and the gradual build which raises it way above the work of many of his contemporaries and cries out for him to achieve the kind of mainstream success that has talent has long hinted at.





01 Intro
02 Days To Come
03 Between The Lines (feat. Bajka)
04 The Fever
05 Transmission94 (Parts 1 & 2)
06 On Your Marks
07 Hatoa
08 Recurring
09 Nightlite (feat. Bajka)
10 If You Stayed Over (Feat. Fink)
11 Walk In The Sky (feat. Bajka)
12 Ketto


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Tosca - Choclate Elvis Dub's

Man where to even start on this one. This is the kind of album that you keep going back to again and again. My buddy described one of the breaks as "a new hope for man kind." While that might be a little strong this album is that good. How could it not be incredible with half its genetic makeup coming from Kruder and Dorfmeister. Mainly the Kruder part. Enjoy.



1. Chocolate Elvis - (Babylon To Vienna Voiceover)

		2.	Chocolate Elvis - (Boozoo Bajou Soul Sufferer Version)
		3.	Chocolate Elvis - (Baby Mammoth Version 3)
		4.	Chocolate Elvis - (Rockers Hi-Fi Vocal Version)
		5.	Chocolate Elvis - (Uptight Version)
		6.	Chocolate Elvis - (Au Version)
		7.	Chocolate Elvis - (Bullitnuts Version 2)
		8.	Chocolate Elvis - (Baby Mammoth Version 1 + 2)
		9.	Chocolate Elvis - (Quant Version)
		10.	Chocolate Elvis - (Bullitnuts Version 1)
		11.	Chocolate Elvis - (Baby Mammoth Graceland Dub)

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St.Germain - Tourist

All I can say is do you like funky house? Well I do and let me say this album is a must hear. Very chill. This is more puff down or come down music than anything. Here is what Blue Note Europe has to say about this album.

"Ludovic Navarre, alias St. Germain, pioneer of the French Touch, the new electronic music in France, has become an indisputable and respected reference on the international music scene. His album Boulevard, released in July 95' has sold over 200,000 copies worldwide and has achieved 'classic' status from DJ's and producers alike. After taking a 5 year recording hiatus, St. Germain is back with the highly anticipated TOURIST, an intriguing collage of jazz for the DJ culture - a mixture of sampled rhythms and live musicians. Special guests include guitarist Ernest Ranglin and percussionist Idrissa Diop."

	1.	Rose Rouge
	2.	Montego Bay Spleen
	3.	So Flute
	4.	Land of...
	5.	Latin Note
	6.	Sure Thing
	7.	Pont des Arts
	8.	La Goutte d'Or
	9.	What You Think About...

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The Heliocentrics - Out There

Up next is the spacey funk of the Heliocentrics. Personally I think it sounds like a mix between The Beastie Boys In sounds From Way Out and Tortoise mixed with some sick drum breaks from the likes of Madlib and YNQ. Malcom Catto's drum work is amazing and I highly recomend giving this a listen. Here is what some others said about this album. “Malcolm Catto’s band turns traditional funk on its head with his syncopated drums tying up ’60s psychedelia and free jazz into chaos-on-the-one.” – URB Magazine "

Four years in the making, The Heliocentrics' debut album is finally complete. Out There is here.

Good luck trying to categorize their music. Led by the relentless drummer Malcolm Catto, the UK collective's objective lays quite a ways beyond what ordinary listeners know or expect. In an alternative galaxy, where the orbits of Hip-Hop, Funk, Jazz, Psychedelic, Electronic, Avante-Garde and Ethnic music all revolve around “The One” – that's where you might find The Heliocentrics.

A listen to a song or two reveals no small influence from the funk universe of James Brown. But there's also the disorienting asymmetry of Sun Ra's music. The cinematic scope of Ennio Morricone. The sublime fusion of David Axelrod. But the Heliocentrics' music isn't retro. It's brand new. And it's timeless. They have well-placed fans in the likes of Madlib (Catto was featured on his Shades of Blue album and on various Yesterdays New Quintet releases) and DJ Shadow (the band backed him on the song “This Time I’m Gonna Do It My Way” from his The Outsider album), who will tell you that this band is really the next shit but that they have the consistency and musicianship that seems to have been lost somewhere in the analog to digital shuffle over the past thirty years.

1. Intro
2. Distant Star
3. Flight 583
4. Once Upon a Time
5. Beyond Repair
6. Sirius B
7. Untitled
8. They Are Among Us - Part 1
9. The Zero Hour
10. Joyride
11. The American Empire
12. Before I Die
13. Intermission
14. Age of the Sun
15. They Are Among Us - Part 2
16. Winter Song
17. A World of Masks
18. Sounds of the East
19. Somewhere Out There
20. Second Chance (K2’s Prayer)
21. Return Journey
22. Sirius A
23. Falling to Earth
24. Outro

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ESL.Remixed

This is my new blog that I am making to share some music with you guys.
I hope you enjoy it. I have an eclectic music collection and hope to update frequently.

First up is ESL.Remixed
This is a wonderful album by the boys from the Thievery Corporation. I have really been diggin' this album and hope yo do too. Here is a little write up from the peeps at ESL.



A decade after dropping its first single, Thievery Corporation's classic "2001 Spliff Odyssey," ESL Music has reached its 100th release! To celebrate this rare milestone Thievery Corporation and their label mates have invited some of the world's finest musicians, DJs, and producers to remix, reinterpret, and rewind gems old and new from the ESL Music catalogue. What better way to honor the catalogue than through the eyes and ears of friends and international music luminaries like Medeski, Martin & Wood, Beatfanatic, Calexico, Boca 45, Quantic, Fort Knox Five, Shawn Lee and more. This is no static retrospective; this is the next stage in the ever intriguing ESL musical journey.

1. A Gentle Dissolve [Shawn Lee Ping Pong Orchestra Remix]
2. Tamarindio [Thievery Corporation Remix]
3. Supreme Illusion [Nikodemus Remix]
4. Stereo Tonic [Boca 45 Remix]
5. Wrong Alley Street, Pt. 1 [Fort Knox Five Remix]
6. Chick-A-Boom [Chris Joss Remix]
7. Belly Disco [Beatfanatic Remix]
8. The Heart's a Lonley Hunter [Louie Vega Remix]
9. Road to Benares [Bombay Dub Orchestra Remix]
10. Divinorum [Quantic Remix]
11. Exploration [Medeski, Marti & Wood Mix]
12. Boop [Skeewiff Remix]
13. Golden Touch [Connie Price Mix]
14. Diario de Viaje [Calexico Mix]

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