2018. 07. 09. 10:06 # magyarugar:MiX # 33 válogatott szám

2018. 07. 09. 10:06 # 33 válogatott szám >>Papaver Cousins, Anima Sound System, SmokeFish, Én meg az Ének, Bérczesi Robi, Darvas Benedek, Czitrom Ádám, Elkövetlek Projekt, Alone In The Moon, Péterfy Bori & Love Band, DLRM, Black Nail Cabaret, cs. kalotas | k6, Apey & the Pea, Bohemian Betyars<<

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Papaver Cousins
Boyz and Girlz 3:41
Selfish Enough 3:01
~ Bad Writing 2018
PAPAVER COUSINS: BAD WRITING (LEMEZKRITIKA)
A Papaver Cousins duó a kétezertizes évek hazai akusztikus zenei reneszánszában tűnt fel a Lone Waltz kiadónál, tavaly megjelent debütlemezük (Lack Of Lightness) az egyik legjobb a színtéren. A kétgitáros-kéténekes felállás legtöbb árnyalatát bemutatták, így alighanem joggal érezték, hogy a dúsabb zenekari megszólalás felé érdemes kanyarodniuk. A Bad Writing részben ennek a fordulatnak a lenyomata, részben pedig a még cizelláltabbá tett akusztikus, szolidan folkrockos dalok tárhelye...

Anima Sound System
'68 (S Olbricht Crisis Mix) 4:42
'68 (Bernazhy Renix) 5:53
~ #SZABAD ('68 Remixes) 2018
BESKATULYÁZHATATLAN # AZ ANIMA SOUND SYSTEM ’68 REMIXALBUMA
Prieger Zsolt zenekarvezető összefoglalta a remixlemez sztoriját: „Húsz éve elveszettnek hittük a ’68 sávjait, aztán Route8 szólt, hogy megtalálta a Soundcloudon egy link alatt, amiből meg kiderült, hogy aki feltette, anno az index.hu – de lehet, hogy még elődje, az Internetto – remixversenyén megnyerte a közönségdíjat. Remixre jelentkező egyből akadt sok, vagy aki meg még nem vette hírét a munkának, azt magam kértem fel a feladatra.
Azt akartam, hogy olyan remixalbum szülessen, amilyen az Anima: beskatulyázhatatlan. Legyen rajta kísérletezés, tombolás, táncparkettre való és meditatívabb darab is, legyen rajta fiatal és tapasztalt alkotó, régi arc és nagyon fiatal is. Nem hiszem, hogy túl sok album lenne, ahol szépen megfér egymás mellett iamyank és Budai, Imre Kiss és HOTX, S Olbricht és Jutasi, Subotage és a SanFranciscoBeat vagy Bernáthy Zsiga és Mateo. Itt meg szépen elvannak egymás mellett és ezt én szeretem. Nagyon szeretem. Ha valamiről szól az Anima, hát akkor erről: sokan dolgoznak egy ügy érdekében, nem számítanak a felszínes különbségek.”

SmokeFish
The City of the Thousand Sculptures 6:47
The Experiment is Experiment 4:43
~ The Doomed City (The Experiment Is Experiment) 2018
SMOKEFISH: THE DOOMED CITY (LEMEZKRITIKA)
... ’Faszi, a Quimby-dobos’ persze eleve nehezebben érhető tetten egy másik zenekaron keresztül, pedig mellékprojektből bizonyára neki van a legtöbb. Az ősi Marlboro Man-es zenésztárssal, Selmeci „Basstard” Péter gitárossal most megvalósították rég dédelgetett álmukat és összehoztak egy ízig-vérig progrrocklemezt, ami döntően instrumentális, kettejük alkotása (néhány vendégzenésszel) és a Sztrugackij-testvérek igen súlyos, sokáig betiltott A kárhozott város című sci-fije ihlette konceptlemez. Karakteres, végig sokrétű főhajtás a műfaj nagyjai előtt, de úgy, hogy a lépten-nyomon előkerülő idézetek cseppet sem patchworkké, hanem – főleg a vége felé – egyre kíméletlenebb kísérleti támadássá állnak össze. Progrockereknek és nyitott fülűeknek kötelező.

06-07-2018 16:06 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks

Justin Adams

06-07-2018 16:06 # WORLD:MiX # 33 selected ETHNiC FUSiON tracks # WmW   Justin Adams, Kolinda, Lila Downs, Lo'Jo, Tony Allen, Samba Toure, Raul Rodriguez, Tania Saleh, Axel Krygier, Dina El Wedidi

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Guitarist/producer and composer Justin Adams is both one of Britain's great bluesmen and African crossover music's leading proponents. First coming to prominence in 1990 with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart, Adams laid the foundations of his career through working as a respected sideman. His list of credits grew to include internationally known artists such as Sinéad O'Connor, Damien Dempsey, and more. His love affair with the music of North Africa first became evident with the release of his debut solo record in 2001.
Justin Adams
Desert Road (Justin Adams) 4:28
Blue Man (Justin Adams) 4:07
Majonoun and Leila (Justin Adams / Salah Dawson Miller) 6:08
from Desert Road  2001
Justin Adams has a fascination with the space of the desert, and on his solo debut, he recreates the feel, openness, and rhythms of the Western Sahara, where it bleeds into Mali, Morocco, and Mauritania. A proponent of the less-is-more school of playing, he inhabits a place where North African, West African, and blues music intertwine and notes bend, hang, and ultimately mix with a late 20th century recording studio, where samples and beats co-exist. The percussion, from longtime collaborator Salah Dawson Miller, fleshes out the bones. Although Adams is very much a player's player, he lets the rawness of style show through, never flashy, always to the point, whether plucking lead lines or fingerpicking, letting his left hand dictate the melodies and rhythms. The overall effect is soothingly hypnotic, as mesmerizing as shifting waves of desert sand. It's beautiful, often eerily bluesy (a nod to Blind Willie Johnson, one of his idols), and evokes the mystery of one of the earth's last great places. A tiny masterpiece.

Kolinda plays complex folk music with diverse instrumentation and with medieval and Eastern influences. They lived in France for a time, and were produced by Hughes de Courson of the French folk group Malicorne. Kolinda disbanded in 1979, only to reform five years later.
After playing as a group for 11 out of the past 16 years, with 7 albums under their belts, Kolinda is still relatively unknown in their native Hungary and virtually unheard of in North America.
"They're one of the most interesting European groups that I've heard," says Gary Cristall, organizer of the Vancouver Folkfestival, "but they do it in a different way. Even though they were doing traditional stuff, it had a different edge to it. They've never been looked on very favorably in Hungary. They were always a little too far outside."...
Kolinda
Napforduló / Solstice 4:48
Elfelejtett Istenek / Forgotten Gods 6:10
Rohanás 9-ben / Rush in 9 3:38
from Forgotten Gods 2000
Double Bass – Péter Kôszegi
Oboe – Endre Juhász
Percussion – Csaba Gyulai, Tibor Pongrácz
Violin – Lilla Várhelyi
Vocals – Kriszta Kováts
Vocals, Flute, Violin – Dóra Kováts
Vocals, Mandocello, Gadulka, Synthesizer – Péter Dabasi

A Mexican-American Laurie Anderson or if Frida Kahlo were a musician instead of a visual artist. Singer Lila Downs grew up with the culture of her father, a professor from the United States, but eventually turned her back on it to explore the tradition of her mother, a Mixteca Indian from Mexico. In doing so, she has created a very individual strain of song that has indigenous Mexican roots and North American sonorities. Born in 1968, she spent her early years in Mexico, but after her parents split up, she was shuffled off to live with a relative in California. She grew to love music, specifically classical and opera, and began studying those in college. After two years, however, she experienced a crisis, questioning why she was singing and dropping out to become a Deadhead, following the Grateful Dead around the country in a VW bus, earning money by making and selling jewelry, and not singing at all.
Lila Downs
La Sandunga (Máximo Ramón Ortíz) 4:13
Naila (Chuy Rasgado) 3:14
Ofrenda (Lila Downs) 3:10
Bésame Mucho (Consuelo Velasquez) 5:24
from La Sandunga 1999
Downs weaves a numinous tapestry of indigenous Mexican and Latin American traditions with Tex-Mex, North American folk, blues, jazz, rock, funk, and hip-hop inflections. Hers is an astonishing voice whose mimetic brilliance, affecting coloration and soaring range (in Spanish, English, and indigenous Mexican idioms) reflect a mesmerizing creative tension that razes all categories. Listeners unfamiliar with her work may recall her riveting appearance in the 2002 film Frida, wherein she played a Vargas-like singer, a one-woman Greek chorus to the protagonist's unrelieved suffering (even against a powerful cameo by Vargas herself, Downs more than holds her own). The ensemble (piano, clarinet, tenor and baritone sax, guitar, bass, Latin percussion) commands a variety of idioms, in brilliant complement to the singer. For Downs, music entails a sacred quest, one not without risk; but laying personal claim to some untouchable Latin classics...

04-07-2018 9:06 - JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1986-1974

Joe Zawinul

04-07-2018 9:06 - JAZZ:MiX # 33 jazz tracks on the the JAZZ_line 1986-1974 / 3:47 # Joe Zawinul,  Willem Breuker Kollektief, Mark King, David Friesen, Claus Ogerman / Michael Brecker, James Blood Ulmer, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Gary Burton, Jack DeJohnette New Directions, Keith Jarrett, Zbigniew Seifert, Joe Diorio, Flora Purim

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1986-1974

An outstanding jazz pianist/keyboardist who worked with artists such as Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis.  Joe Zawinul belonged in a category unto himself -- a European from the heartland of the classical music tradition (Vienna) who learned to swing as freely as any American jazzer, and whose appetite for growth and change remained insatiable. Zawinul's curiosity and openness to all kinds of sounds made him one of the driving forces behind the electronic jazz-rock revolution of the late '60s and '70s -- and later, he would be almost alone in exploring fusions between jazz-rock and ethnic music from all over the globe. He was one of a bare handful of synthesizer players who actually learned how to play the instrument, to make it an expressive, swinging part of his arsenal. Prior to the invention of the portable synthesizer, Zawinul's example helped bring the Wurlitzer and Fender Rhodes electric pianos into the jazz mainstream. Zawinul also became a significant composer, ranging (like his idol Duke Ellington) from soulful hit tunes to large-scale symphonic jazz canvases. Yet despite his classical background, he preferred to improvise compositions spontaneously onto tape rather than write them out on paper.
Joe Zawinul 
The Harvest (Joe Zawinul) 6:02
Zeebop (Joe Zawinul) 4:52
Carnavalito (Joe Zawinul) 6:19
from  Dialects 1986
If Joe Zawinul was out to prove that he didn't need Weather Report anymore, he succeeded spectacularly in this virtual one-man show. Zawinul recorded many of the vocals (assisted now and then by Bobby McFerrin and a vocal trio) and all of the synthesizer and rhythm machine tracks himself in his Pasadena home studio, yet the results are anything but mechanical. Zawinul in fact achieves a rare thing: He manages to get his stacks of electronics to swing like mad in these pan-global grooves that pick up where WR was about to leave off... This is an important, overlooked album because it proves that electronic instruments can reach your emotions and shake your body when played by someone who has bothered to learn how to master them.

The Willem Breuker Kollektief is a jazz group formed in 1974 by 10 musicians leaded by Dutch bandleader Willem Breuker. The band plays unconventional jazz mixed with different styles, from latin to (contemporary) classical to theater and vaudeville.
Willem Breuker Kollektief
Like Other People Say 1:43
Hap Sap (But Not From Jaffa) 5:59
Driebergen-Zeist 10:00
from To Remain 1985
...There's a sense of wonder combined with the glee of a kid in a candy shop that he exploits with passion and humor, going so far to have composed sections with some band members "misplaying" their parts while others exasperatedly wait for them to get it right...

Virtuoso bass player and singer of English pop band Level 42 known for his bass-slapping technique. 
Mark King
Essential (Mark King) 18:36
I Feel Free (Pete Brown / Jack Bruce) 4:50
from Influences 1984
EXCLUSIVE! Level 42’s Mark King speaks to movingtheriver.com about his classic solo album Influences, released by Polydor in July 1984.

Talented and prolific jazz bassist who has continually experimented yet remained decidedly accessible.  A technically adept, immensely intuitive bassist and pianist, David Friesen is a forward-thinking performer whose albums touch upon spiritually minded contemporary jazz, folk, world traditions, and acoustic post-bop.
David Friesen
Amber Skies 8:16
Voices 7:17
from Amber Skies 1983
One of bassist David Friesen's better jazz sessions as a leader, this set (which has been reissued by other labels on CD) has some excellent playing by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson on "Amber Skies" and "Underlying," a rare opportunity for flutist Paul Horn to take a solo in a straight-ahead setting ("Blue and Green"), and was the first opportunity that pianist Chick Corea and drummer Paul Motian had to work together; percussionist Airto completes the sextet. The diverse originals, all by Friesen, feature each of the players quite favorably, and the overall results are stimulating.

The prolific arranger and orchestrator, Claus Ogerman moved from Europe to the United States in 1959 and began an association with the Verve label, where his arrangements were featured on albums by Frank Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim (1967's Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim -- the first of two collaborative albums by the pair), Astrud Gilberto, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, Stan Getz, Cal Tjader, and other leading artists
Claus Ogerman / Michael Brecker
A remarkable technician and a highly influential tenor saxophonist (the biggest influence on other tenors since Wayne Shorter), Michael Brecker took a long time before getting around to recording his first solo album. He spent much of his career as a top-notch studio player who often appeared backing pop singers, leading some jazz listeners to overlook his very strong improvising skills.
Cityscape (Claus Ogerman) 8:46
Nightwings (Claus Ogerman) 7:45
from Cityscape 1982
...This 1982 collaboration with the late jazz saxophonist Michael Brecker is one of his most successful works, not least because the overlap between the extended harmonies of jazz and the chromaticism of the late German Romantic polyphony in which Ogerman was trained is large enough to allow Brecker to operate comfortably -- his improvisations seem to grow naturally out of the background, and the intersections between jazz band and orchestral strings come more easily here than on almost any other crossover between jazz and classical music. The mood is nocturnal and reflective. Brecker at this point had not yet made an album as a bandleader; he was primarily known to those who closely followed jazz and R&B session musicians. The album was originally billed as a release by Claus Ogerman with Michael Brecker. Yet notice how skillfully Ogerman eases the fearsomely talented young saxophonist into the spotlight....

01-07-2018 10:46 BLUES:MiX # 33 blues songs from the BLUES circle 1995-1985

01-07-2018 10:46 RULE BLUES:MiX # 33 blues songs from the BLUES circle 1995-1985 # Tommy Castro, Phillip Walker and Otis Grand, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Luther 'Guitar Junior' Johnson, Johnny Winter, Jimmy Rogers, Charlie Musselwhite, Henry Gray, Snooky Pryor, Chris Thomas King, Albert Collins, Johnny Copeland, Robert Cray

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1995-1985

One of the brightest contemporary blues musicians, combining passionate, fiery guitar playing with powerful vocals. According to all the press and hype and hoopla for a time during the 1990s, Tommy Castro was pegged as the next big star of the blues. Long a favorite among Bay Area music fans, Castro -- in the space of two album releases -- took his music around the world and back again with a sheaf of praise from critics and old-time blues musicians alike. His music was a combination of soul-inflected rockers with the occasional slow blues or shuffle thrown into the mix to keep it honest. His vocals were laid-back and always a hair behind the beat, while his scorching guitar tone was Stevie Ray Stratocaster-approved. Crossover success did not seem out of the question.
Tommy Castro
Exception to the Rule (Tommy Castro / Shad Harris) 3:28
Had Enough (Tommy Castro) 4:55
Sho' Enough (Tommy Castro) 4:00
from Exception To The Rule 1995
EXCEPTION TO THE RULE by TOMMY CASTRO just rocks. It has a good blend of blues, soul and rock that is totally lacking from most of the music that is popular today. (Martin Lemos)

Despite recording somewhat sparingly since debuting as a leader in 1959 on Elko Records with the storming rocker "Hello My Darling," Louisiana-born guitarist Phillip Walker enjoys a sterling reputation as a contemporary blues guitarist with a distinctive sound honed along the Gulf Coast during the '50s...

Phillip Walker and Otis Grand 

b. Fred Bishti, 14 February 1950, Beirut, Lebanon. Grand has spent most of his life in the USA, although he lived in France for a few years. He began playing guitar at the age of 13, citing his influences as B.B. King, T-Bone Walker, Otis Rush and Johnny Otis, and he has played with many San Francisco Bay area blues artists. Otis Grand And The Dance Kings created a sensation when they burst onto the British blues scene in the late 80s...

Dressin' Trashy (Nathaniel Dove / Phillip Walker) 3:51

She's Gone (Phillip Walker) 7:02

Play Me Some Blues (Jimmy Johnson / Phillip Walker) 8:54

from Big Blues From Texas 1994

Nice comeback set after a lengthy absence from the recording scene that was cut in London under the direction of guitarist Otis Grand (who shares axe duties throughout). Why this Louisiana-born guitarist hasn't been recorded more heavily is a mystery; he seldom fails to connect, and this import is no exception to the rule.

Indie '90 trio that bent the rules of rock while demonstrating a devotion to the music’s R&B roots. After a long and semi-successful tenure as leader of scuzz-rock heroes Pussy Galore, Jon Spencer shook up his anti-rock vision and hooked up with guitarist Judah Bauer and drummer Russell Simins to create the scuzz-blues trio the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Postmodern to the core, there was a genuine irony in the band's name; little of what they play resembles standard blues.

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 

Afro (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) 2:55

Train #2 (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) 2:25

from Extra Width 1993

On their self-titled debut album, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion had worked out the basic framework of their sound -- lots of guitar clatter, booming drums, and wild vocal gesticulations from Spencer -- but it took a while for the pieces to really come together, and 1993's Extra Width was the first album where they revealed their true potential...

28-06-2018 11:32 ~ FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2012-2017

28-06-2018 11:32 ~ FAVTRAX:MiX ~ 33 FAVOURiTE tracks 2012-2017  >>Grinderman, Andrea Schroeder, Lydia Lunch, little hurricane, Ryley Walker, King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, Seasick Steve, Charles Howl, Savages, Jo Passed, Mike Stern, Lana Del Rey<<

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2012-2017

A noisier and more musically experimental side project for Nick Cave and three members of his band, the Bad Seeds.  While Nick Cave's music has evolved from the harrowing post-punk wail of the Birthday Party to the eloquent and often poetic approach he explored on the albums The Boatman's Call and No More Shall We Part with his group the Bad Seeds, the troublemaking noise merchant of his youth has never entirely gone away, and in 2006 Cave founded Grinderman to give this side of his musical personality a new outlet.
Grinderman
Super Heathen Child feat: Robert Fripp 6:30
Bellringer Blues [Nick Zinner Remix] 4:30
Hyper Worm Tamer (Remix) 5:57
from Grinderman 2 RMX 2012
Nick Cave's garage band to issue Grinderman 2 RMX, featuring 12 last pieces of gnarly noise before their 'indefinite hiatus' 
Although Nick Cave announced the end of the Grinderman last month, the band are set for one last hurrah. They will say farewell with a remix album featuring Josh Homme, UNKLE and the National's Matt Berninger. As the band begins an indefinite hiatus, Grinderman 2 RMX, due in March on Mute, will collect 12 reworkings, mix-ups, demos and B-sides, including a collaboration with King Crimson's Robert Fripp.

Once in a while, Germany offers uniquely talented female singers, and Andrea is one of those. Draw yourself a line from Marlene Dietrich over to Nico, add some dashes Chamber Pop in the vein of The Tindersticks to it and you come close. Discovered and loved by such illustrious people like Charles Plymell or Mike Watt, Andrea Schroeder is an exceptional phenomenon. 
Andrea Schroeder ‎
Paint It Blue 2:49
Bebop Blues 3:17
from Blackbird 2012

A pivotal figure in the late-'70s no wave scene, a punk poet/actor who recorded confrontational, sexually charged music. The year 2013 proved to be prolific for Lunch. Her live band offering Retro Virus (her backing trio included guitarist Weasel Walter, drummer Bob Bert, and bassist Algis Kyzis)...
Lydia Lunch
Mechanical Flattery 4:34
Ran Away Dark 2:19
from Retro Virus 2013
...Now based in Spain, Lunch both affirms and rejects the “grand dame of no wave” (or any such terminology) in Retro Virus, a quartet convened with Weasel Walter (guitar), Algis Kizys (bass, ex-Swans/Foetus), and Bob Bert (drums, ex-Sonic Youth/Pussy Galore). Released on Walter’s ugEXPLODE label, the eponymous Retro Virus was recorded live at Knitting Factory Brooklyn at the close of a November 2012 US tour, and it finds Lunch and company in top form...Looking beyond the somewhat dated production values of late-80s/early-90s avant-rock and “industrially-associated” music (which are occasionally played up here), the tunes and their general feel are surprisingly undated, tough and economical in execution but with an underlying ornateness (some might call that excess — to each one’s own). Lunch is a force among vocalists/presences, and it’s wonderful to be reminded of that so keenly. Her nuance, power, and theatrical dynamism are certainly front-and-center here, but with a cracking ensemble sonically dropped in from the prime era of scum, Retro Virus is also some of the most empathetic music Lunch has made.

25-06-2018 11:39 MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past]

Wussy

25-06-2018 11:39 MiX # 33 alter tracks in PRSNT_PRFCT_MiX [from the recent past] # Wussy, sir Was, Pop. 1280, Kelela, Milky Wimpshake, Ryley Walker, Jo Passed, Spectres, Lithics, Wand, Angel Olsen, The Heliocentrics, Gwenno Saunders

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Eclectic, atmospheric, and darkly brilliant American indie band led by Chuck Cleaver (ex-Ass Ponys) and Lisa Walker. Wussy are one of the most celebrated independent bands in the American Midwest, a group whose idiosyncratically thoughtful songs and atmospheric, forceful guitar attack have won them a fervent cult following and a growing stack of rave reviews.
Wussy
One Per Customer (Chuck Cleaver) 4:46
Skip (Lisa Walker) 3:52
from What Heaven is Like 2018
...There's always been something out of time about Wussy. Their take on rock and roll harkens back to classic garage, pop, and psychedelic reference points of the past yet they consistently surprise. Like the tchotchkes and artifacts of our recent, schlocky past, Wussy's sound resonates as if from some other world that resonates with optimism for the future. In Wussy's world, time moves recklessly forward like a souped-out jalopy, fuzzy dice bobbing from the rearview mirror the driver is steering by...

Following myriad musical and travel experiences throughout his early life, Joel Wästberg emerged under the pseudonym sir Was with wide-ranging musical tastes. Wästberg grew up in Frillesås on the western coast of Sweden, and he played music from an early age, starting with the saxophone at ten...
sir Was
In the Midst (sir Was) 5:01
Digging a Tunnel (sir Was) 4:01
Bomping (sir Was) 2:25
from Digging a Tunnel 2017
Considering Digging a Tunnel's persistently chilled vibe, it's somewhat surprising to read sir Was (aka Joel Wästberg) describe it as an "existential dread-filled debut." That surprise is validated to a degree by the album's opener, "In the Midst." The Curtis Mayfield sensibility of the snappy percussion and super-smooth bassline are matched by the relaxed flow of Wästberg's rap. His avowal that "If you wanna have it you gotta start searching/If you wanna keep it you gotta start living" has more in common with Wooderson's (played by Matthew McConaughey) Dazed & Confused mantra, "You gotta keep on livin'...L-I-V-I-N," than it does with Camus or Sartre. But it would be foolish to dismiss the Swedish multi-instrumentalist on the basis of one line from a record that is an extremely dense confluence of musical themes and motifs. The album absorbs a myriad of styles and influences that include, but are not limited to, '90s hip-hop beats, psychedelia, and shades of trip-hop, all of which are bathed in light electronic washes...

Noisy, minimalist Brooklyn quartet influenced by post-punk and no wave. Indebted to no wave and post-punk, and named for one of noir novelist Jim Thompson's bleakest tales, Brooklyn's Pop. 1280 was started by Chris Bug and Ivan Lip in 2009.
Pop. 1280
In Silico (Pop. 1280) 7:11
Paradise (Pop. 1280) 3:36
from Paradise 2016
The band Pop. 1280 named themselves after a book by infamous pulp novelist Jim Thompson, in which the dimwitted sheriff of a small Southern town unwittingly discovers his capacity for corruption and bloodshed. While their music suggests they exist in some otherworldly universe rather than the American Southwest, Pop. 1280's third full-length album, 2016's Paradise, sure sounds like the soundtrack to a story full of violence, betrayal, and bad karma...

L.A.-based alternative R&B singer and writer who appeared on tracks by Teengirl Fantasy and Kingdom prior to releasing her 2013 debut mixtape. Kelela synthesizes contemporary R&B and progressive electronic music with an aptitude for prompting club play as much as bedroom listening. The vocalist and songwriter, born Kelela Mizanekristos in Washington, D.C., was raised in suburban Maryland and didn't have aspirations as a singer until she started studying jazz.
Kelela
All the Way Down 4:29
Hallucinogen 2:20
from Hallucinogen 2015
...Her new EP, Hallucinogen, uses the gristle and guts of feeling as a thematic base for exploring new textures in music. Like Cut 4 Me, the sound is like being enveloped in the black-lit silence of the intro to Belly: it’s a sensuous, sensitive, hi-definition approach to R&B. Some of the producers are the same (Kingdom, Nguzunguzu’s MA) and some are new (Arca, Kendrick and Drake collaborator DJ Dahi), but these partnerships hew to what’s now the Kelela template: soulful songs with unpredictable, assaultive drum patterns, whorls of whimsical synthesizer effects, and so much processing on the vocals that it sounds like you’re listening to a transmission from tomorrow. The deconstructed clatter of FKA twigs—who also worked with Arca—might be from another dimension altogether, but Kelela, whose music feels like there is blood flowing through it, looks to a future with a decidedly human shape...