
I'm a sucker for Jose James, I won't even lie. Here's the first of 2 new treats from the man. Lyrics and credits below. Listen: Download Jose James - "Coltrane (Dear Alice)" José James - vocals Nori Ochiai - piano Alexi David - bass Luke Damrosch - drums + bells You are the Giver I hear Your Voice Call into the silence of a new Sound I hear voices calling Calling me [...]

To celebrate the critical acclaim swirling around singer Jose James ' Blackmagic record, his folks are throwing a freebie out for your listening pleasure. This song "Blackmagic" was produced by Flying Lotus-these two seem to make great music together. The Deluxe Blackmagic album has lots of remixes and unheard gems. It can be purchased via iTunes . You can hear traces of his major influences; Stevie Wonder, Gil Scott Heron and Terry Callier throughout his music. Brownswood Recordings always does the soul dept. justice. Download audio file (Blackmagic.mp3) [...]
When was the last time a male jazz singer could confidently croon, bump fists with the best slam poets around, serenade the ladies out of their draws, and still maintain hip-hop cred?

So I haven't posted anything since January...pretty bad I guess, but who really cares? There's been plenty of bangers cropping up in the past few months, and I'll try and whittle it down to the essentials...so that's some originals, some mixes, and a couple of Portuguese music videos... So first up, I'll give you what I think are some pretty fucking hot tracks at the moment. I'm not kidding, mix one of these bad boys into your set and you'll have the [...]

December was definitely a slow month for me, working a lot, listening to all kind of music but only a few really stroked me. So I skipped my monthly top 10 having only 4 tracks I really liked came NYE. January was more exciting. So here's a melting pot of songs I really liked recently that will make it up for both December and January! Enjoy! And if you want me to remove one of this track, just email me and don't go all blogger on me ===>>> Previous Tops: NOV , OCT [...]
At den amerikanske jazzmusiker José James har flettet fingre med den elektroniske scene, er ingen statshemmelighed. På hans seneste ep 'Blackmagic', bad han kuntsnere som Joy Orbison, dOP og Untold om at fortolke singlen af samme navn og nu, hvor han er ved at være klar med sin anden fuldlængder, er samarbejdspartnerne ikke blevet det [...]

I've been working on a downtempo/ambient mix with a touch of "proper" 2-step and dynamic dub step (Joy Orbson), here are a few tracks off the mix to tickle your senses this rainy friday afternoon... SCHNEIDER TM - LIGHT 3000 BURIAL - ARCHANGEL (PHASEONE REMIX) BLOC PARTY - WHERE IS HOME? (BURIAL REMIX) JOSÉ JAMES - BLACK MAGIC (JOY ORBISON REMIX) Look for the mix to drop soon, [...]

Kick. Wobble wobble wobble. Snare. Wobble wobble wobble. Lather, rinse, repeat. Even for the most seasoned dubstep fans, this must get a bit boring after a while. This is where new kid on the blog Joy Orbison comes in. Joy Orbison is the anti-bassline. He takes dubstep back to its roots with deep, garage-influenced cuts, pieced together from tiny vocal snippets, nice clean breakbeats and rushing synths. Like Burial, but more euphoric. His debut single "Hyph Mngo" (pronounced "Hype Mango") is like a guardian angel saving dubstep from the doom and gloom. With remixes of José James and Four Tet [...]

pic - Josh Keys "Odd Machine is an open-ended collaborative investigation/ the project will expand over time to include a wide variety of musicians", so starting out with the team-up between Tobias Freund and Ricardo Villalobos, you'll tend to expect something pretty great and The Phase In EP comes with no disappointment. Put together with two tracks, "Phase In" and "Phase Out", both equally as pleasurable to the ears. Bag the full release here . Odd Machine - Phase In [...]
It's been a long time since 2003's Kish Kash . That is to say, if you were one of those who considered 2006's Crazy Itch Radio to be a mere transport point in the band's discography that didn't necessarily lead Basement Jaxx forward (this writer not included). I could go so far as to agree that the conceptual fourth album is their weakest full-length to date. Even though I do believe that the album did have its quirky points and distinctive charm, the lasting impact and "run over" feeling that their previous albums left the [...]

"As I was hiking down the mountain with my pack, I turned and knelt on the trail and said 'Thank you, shack'. Then I added 'Blah,' with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world." - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, Grafton Books, 1972 Yaw - Where Would You Be (Brownswood Bubblers, 2008) Jose James - Visions of Violet (Brownswood Bubblers, 2008) Dudley Perkins - [...]

Photo: Camilla Akrans . There are two silences. One when no word is spoken. The other when perhaps a torrent of language is being employed. The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, anguished or mocking smokescreen. When true silence falls, we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. - Harold Pinter, The Guardian ( 31.12.08 ) [...]
Did you think I had forgotten to do one of these?! Shame on you! Alas, I will not try to bore you to death with mine. I cant claim to have listened to every heralded LP that was released in 2008, I can but merely tell you what I enjoyed listening to the most, in [...] Related posts: J.A.M - Jazzy Joint feat. Jose James J.A.M is a piano trio consisting of three members... Jose James - Park Bench People The Park [...]

Most music dorks, whether professional or amateur, love end-of-the-year listmaking time. Clearly, your friendly neighborhood editors are nothing if not music dorks. As such, we've put our heads together and nailed down our list of the best songs of 2008. It includes some ultra-familar tracks, like our chart-topper "American Boy," but we also fell in love with some less-well-known jams like the bluesy ramble of José James' "Spirits Up Above" and the slinky throwback funk of Menahan Street Band's "Make the Road by Walking," which Jay-Z sampled on one of our favorite songs of last year, "Roc [...]

(Foto: myspace.com) Sonntagmorgens ist die beste Zeit, sich durch die in der Woche aufgelaufenen Podcasts zu hören. Heute bleibe ich bei Gilles Petersons Worldwide hängen. In der aktuellen Ausgabe seines Podcasts trifft er sich mit José James - dem neuesten Signing auf Brownswood Recordings . José James ist ein junger Jazz-Sänger mit unglaublichem Potential. Seinte Interpreationen von klassichen Coletrane Songs verschlagen mir gerade den Atem. Wer braucht da Elektronik oder Plattenteller? Unfassbar, dass ich sowas mal schreiben würde. Ich glaube, José James ist einer der wenigen Künstler, auf [...]