Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Loopa Scava Meets Cayetano - Up and Down



What makes this album really wonderful is the combination of all styles. Dub bass-lines are fitting strong with the trip-hop beats, the saxophone blows abstract jazzy tunes and the rhodes and vintage classic guitars are driving your thoughts very far.

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/164741470/1711082220.rar

Monday, December 22, 2008

Claro Intelecto - Metanarrative



Small and perfectly formed, 'Metanarrative' explores Mark Stewart's experiments with midnight techno variants, utilising a stylistic reduction that looks for warmth and detail in every nook and cranny. Of course, over the last couple of years Stewart has been best known for his 'Warehouse Sessions', a series of stripped twelves that make use of an astute line in reduction and a love of sonorous basslines to develop a sound best noted for its devastating production and frayed dub sequences. Metanarrative is a different beast altogether, built around 8 tracks that provide the backbone and emotive arc for the grand narrative alluded to in the title. Gone are the uncompromising percussive arrangements of the Warehouse Sessions, and instead the sound explores a more melodic, quietly euphoric display of opposites : sweet melodies and heavily padded bass frequencies, introspective conceits and propulsive percussion, and populist arrangements built with a deviant sound palette.

Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=3EFW3GH0

Monday, December 8, 2008

Alias Live In Paris

Mikkel Metal - Peaks And Troughs




This is the third CD-album by Mikkel Metal on Echocord, and again Mikkel presents his own unique style of Dub. With the vocals by Paul St Hilaire aka Tikiman, this time it even goes to higher levels.

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/162478735/Mikkel_Metal_-_Peaks_And_Troughs.rar.html


Sunday, December 7, 2008

Beirut - Lon Gisland



Lon Gisland EP is an EP by Beirut. It is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Gulag Orkestar. It is the first album Zach Condon recorded with his live band.

More info : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Gisland

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/42949021/beirut_-_lon_gisland__2007_.rar

Friday, December 5, 2008

Beat Pharmacy - Wikkid Times




Brendan Moeller's fourth album as Beat Pharmacy features a heavy vocal presence, weaving together engaging verses and streamlined techno-influenced dub in a fashion that's bound to provoke all kinds of comparisons, perhaps most pointedly the contemporary bass manoeuvres of Kode9 - an especially resonant reference since the album benefits from a couple of Spaceape collaborations: "Strangers' and 'Ghostship', both of which bring a real intensity to the album, which finds a nice contrast and counterpoint in the lyrical melodica lines of 'Time', a far more propulsive production, reaching a galloped pace in its final phase. Paul St Hilaire shows up for a couple of tracks, most notably on the dark, soulful 'Sunshine', his voice taking on a phantom-like presence among the skeletal dub stutters from Moeller's arsenal of synths. As dominant and commanding as the various guest vocals are (contributed by Coppa, Ras B, Infinity and Damon Aaron in addition to those already mentioned), Moeller's production is expertly judged, knowing when to flourish and when to keep to the shadows. Excellent.

Link: http://rapidshare.com/files/156787371/bp_wt.zip

Monday, December 1, 2008

Thievery Corporation - Versions



Versions is an album by Thievery Corporation, released in 2006. The album consists of a collection of hard to find remixes done by Thievery Corporation, largely of other artists' material, and the original Thievery Corporation track, "Originality".

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_(Thievery_Corporation_album)

Link: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/129999/Versions.zip.html