A few faves of the week...some new, some old. With zero forced commentary. You're welcome. Justin Townes Earle - One More Night In Brooklyn Escort - Cocaine Blues Gloria Lynne - If You Don't Get It Yourself Marco Benevento - It Came From You The Shins - 40 Mark Strasse King Devil - Lackland Blues [...] • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • Digg • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS
-Una compilación de lo que hemos estado escuchando por estas semanas. -Arnold - Luke Million / Todo lo que toca Arnold es un éxito -Your Instructor-How Deep Is Your Love - The RaptureKensington System - Breton / Un productor del que oiremos mucho más en un futuro.Alerta (Luminodisco Happy Remix ) - Dutch Rhythm Combo feat. Isa Gt /Fiesta!Watch Me Dance - Roots Manuva /De su última producción

virgil howe - "b-boy bounce" (download) This is from a collaborative digital 123 from drummers Virgil Howe (Killer Meters) and Malcolm Catto (Heliocentrics, Quantic Soul Orchestra). As you can expect, it's heavy on the drums. The A-side, "B-Boy Bounce" features only Virgil, while the B-side features both drummers. buy

After growing up surrounded by hip-hop, in my late teens I moved to a place where underground hip-hop heads were scarce, and I primarily had to rely on myself to find under-the-radar emcees and producers. Without much in the form of exterior stimulation, I used mixes as a way to listen closer to new musical finds. I made a number of mixes in the tape era, but with the first CD-burner I purchased in '98 or so, hip-hop mixes for myself became routine. They were quickly assembled and provided with no tracklist; simply labeled in numeric order starting with "Mix [...]

Musician. Illustrator. Professional tea brewer . Mr. Scruff is no doubt Manchester's quirkiest renaissance man. And dilettante he is not. Prolific creator of jazzy breakbeats he's got no less than 6 albums (5 of which on the mighty Ninja Tune label), numerous singles and countless mixes under his belt. He's no slouch in the drawing department either. Besides branding himself with his signature badly drawn jazztastic potatoes (gander here and here ) his illustrations also routinely turn up in fancy coffee table books like Booth Clibborn's who's who of street art tome [...]

Sultry singer Noelle Scaggs lists her top 10 driving tunes Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

PRO BALL If Quantic owns a wallet, it's the one that says Bad Mother Fucker. He is one of the most talented musicians in the world. The British DJ and producer Quantic (Will Holland) is in a league of his own. Think the Meters meets the JB Horns meets St Germain meets the Dap-Kings meets Budos Band. His music draws upon elements of salsa, bossa nova, soul, funk and jazz. Holland plays guitars, bass, double bass, piano, organ, saxophone and percussion. My musical love runs deep for this guy. Don't buy everything from his [...]

Quantic is preparing to drop his upcoming album Quantic Presenta Flowering Inferno "Dog With A Rope," out July 13th via Tru Thoughts. Many are familiar with his solo work, or his various group projects like The Quantic Soul Orchestra and Quantic and his Combo Barbaro, and this particular Flowering Inferno project for "Dog With A Rope," aims to draw similarities between Latin and Reggae rhythms, blending and fusing various Tropical, Caribbean, African, and Latin styles. Recorded in his Sonido Del Valle studio in Cali, Colombia, Quantic continues to make his mark as one of the most prolific [...]

(There have been several readers experiencing problems due to server overload. At the end of this post you'll find a link to download the whole set via mediafire as well as a link to hypem to stream the songs. Please help us save some bandwith.) I Little Dragon - Twice Little Dragon (Peacefrog, 2007) Darkel - At the End of the Sky At the End of the Sky 73 (Source Etc, 2006) [...]

El Ten Eleven Monday, August 10th Growlers @ The Echo Alex & Sam @ Hotel Cafe Tuesday, August 11th The Section Quartet with Sam Phillips @ Largo at the Coronet Wednesday, August 12th N.A.S.A.'s Intergalactic Circus including Fatlip DJ Set @ El Rey Theatre Dawes @ The Echo Buddy Guy and James Cotton @ The Hollywood Bowl Olin and The Moon @ Pershing Square Maxim [...]

British DJ and producer Quantic (Will Holland) brings the sounds of the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa - fused with his special brand of funk and soul to the Echoplex on August 15th. He will be joined by his Combo Barbaro featuring Alfredito Linares, Freddy Colorado, Malcolm Catto and Nidia Gongora on vocals; plus special guests J. Rocc and Nu-Mark will perform DJ sets. This is going to be a special show. Tickets are available via Ticketweb for $15. MP3: Quantic And His Combo Barbaro - Mambo Los Quantic MP3: [...]

There are only a handful of albums I have ever really anticipated like Quantic 's upcoming album, Tradition In Transition, due July 14th. This album could be truly amazing. "The Dreaming Mind" is the song in the video teaser for the album below and it's featured on Quantic's myspace page as well. It might be one of my all time favorites. Between the string arrangements and the funky percussion, it's a cinematic-style masterpiece that just kills me. If I like half of the songs on the album as much as I like "The Dreaming Mind" [...]

MP3: Soul Toronados - Boot's Groove MP3: Issa Bagayogo - Ciew Mawele MP3: Fort Knox Five - The Brazilian Hipster MP3: The Quantic Soul Orchestra - Babarabatiri MP3: Menahan Street Band - Home Again! MP3: Sugarman 3 - Pure Cane MP3: Opotopo - Belema MP3: Interpretations - Trippin' Bookmark It [...]

Kinny aka Caitlin Simpson is a half-Jamaican, half-Native American, half-Swedish soulful, funky, jazzy, folksy singer from Toronto, who now lives in Norway. Her debut album, Idle Forest of Chit Chat on Tru Thoughts showcases the singer's eclectic musical sensibilities, as she is a classically-trained Opera singer as well. So the album is a big bowl of jazzy-soulful freestyles that'll keep your noggin nodding. www.myspace.com/kinnytunes Track list: 1. Idle Forest of Chit Chat (feat. Souldrop) 2. Damn (feat. TM Juke) 3. 2546 Nice! (feat. Unforscene) [...]
Avant de s'envoler en solo, Alice Russell a fait partie du Quantic Soul Orchestra , gang funky et latin jazz dirigé par Will Holland. Je vous avais proposé une chronique de Pushin' On (2005), et voici 2 extraits de Stampede , le premier album du groupe : "Terrapin" et "Something That's Real". [Pour écouter sans télécharger, allez visiter l'article] Télécharger clic droit+enregistrer sous ( right clic+save as ) [Pour écouter sans télécharger, allez visiter l'article] [...]

Image: Mdm's Worddle . 1. Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - For What it's worth Stillness (1970) 2. Joao Donato - Bananeira Lugar Comum (Dubas / 1975) 3. Jorge Ben - Take it easy my brother Charles Jorge Ben (1969) 4. Gary Mcfarland - Bloop Bleep The in sound (1965) 5. [...]
Yep, you gets a bonus post today... not because I'm feeling especially generous, but rather because I had picked out 5 songs for this week, but then, like a truly lazy American, didn't feel like blogging on Monday, my day off... I think I've spoken before of my love/hate relationship with Mr. Will Holland, aka Quantic . Love because he makes such good music... hate because he's made so much good music at such a young age, making me feel like the underachiever I am. I mean, in addition [...]
Aaron Neville: She Took You For a Ride From Tell It Like It Is (Par-lo, 1966) Quantic Soul Orchestra: Tropidelico From Tropidelico (Tru Thoughts, 2007) The B.U.M.S.: West Coast Smack From Lyfe N' Tyme (1995) DJ Shadow: Best of the KMEL Mixes Part 1 (snippet) From The 4-Track Era (DJ Shadow, 2007) Crystal Mansion: And It Will Take Your Breath Away From [...]

Who Knows - Marion Black from 7" on Capsoul (1970). Also available on The Numero Group's Eccentric Soul No. 1. Smoke & Mirrors - RJD2 from 12" on Definitive Jux (2003). Also on the Dead Ringer album. Who Knows - Quantic Soul Orchestra f/ Kabir from the album Tropidelico on Tru Thoughts (2007). Hello readers. I apologize for being so long between posts, my excuses are a tough bought of cold gettin' ill that knocked [...]

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