Tag: Electronic

Chouk Bwa & The Ångstromers – Vodou Alé

Vodou alé is a full-length collaboration between Haitian six-piece Chouk Bwa and Belgian production duo, The Ångströmers. The album is where traditional African/Caribbean music meets modern clubbing electronic and bass music. Prepare to embark into a trippy and transcending experience with this incredible piece of work that feels futurist ritualistic. Like being witness of a traditional ritual but in the year 2050. The album was released earlier this year on the excellent Swiss record label Bongo Joe. Give it a go, you’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Laurence Pike – Prophecy

Prophecy is an incredible album by Sydney, Australia based musician Laurence Pike. He wrote and recorded this album in the Summer of 2019 during the catastrophic times of the bushfires. The rest of the world had an apocalyptic year in 2020 but for most Australians the proving times began half a year before. Prophecy has an existential theme around these crazy times we live in. A little bit like shamanistic ritual music Prophecy gives us matter to reflect over the drum arrangements and jazzy contemplative melodies. Here’s a serious(ly) good album with an heavy theme that will absorb you entirely and live you with an feeling of meditative serenity. It was released in the Summer of 2020 on The Leaf Label.

Guedra Guedra كدرة كدرة – Son of Sun

Son of Sun is the debut release from the Moroccan producer/ Guedra Guedra كدرة كدرة. Heavy African influences with Morocan traditional music blending perfectly with modern electronic dance music to give listener a fever dream like experience! Another incredible gem on the label On The Corner. The vinyls is amazing and on low quantity for this one. Awesome project, big up!

The Diabolical Liberties – High Protection & The Sportswear Mystics

The Diabolical Liberties is the project by Rob Gallagher (aka Earl Zinger and Doug Carramouche) and Alex Patchwork (head of square-pushing). High Protection & The Sportswear Mystics is their first LP release and brought to you through the record label On The Corner. This fantastic album is described as an unpolished gem of a record that falls clumsily in the gaps between post-punk, electronica and jazz. Like a poetic journey of self discovery and reflection into the past, it will bring you back a few years into a sweaty & smoke filled basement club where people were dancing their balls off after munching on unspeakable substances. This is a great album to have a transcending experience on. The vinyl came with a really nice booklet which has photos and words that expands on the album. Definitely a must have record in any respectable collection.

Jesse Koolhaas – Click Me

Dutch producer and sound designer Jesse Koolhaas dropped his latest album earlier in 2020 via the Belgian label Urban Waves Records. “Click Me” is a modern piece blending electronica, jazz and ambient. Unravelling like a motion picture’s soundtrack, the album depicts the imaginative world of Jesse Koolhaas. A meditative album that will help you achieve inner peace through analogic synthesized sounds and blips. Here’s modern ambient music at its finest. A must have, there’s only an handful vinyl stock left too!

Trigg & Gusset – The Way

The Dutch band Trigg & Gusset dropped their third album “The Way In” earlier this year. You have to think modern Jazz but with a dark and noir atmosphere, with bits of electronic music that gives it the extra touch of heaviness. The Way In is a dramatic cinematic experience to say the least. A marvelous road trip into the night, an evening walk into neon light streets, a drink and smoke in a smoke filled basement jazz club in the last century. Even if all that seems a bit much to you, don’t let it get in the way, try out playing this one cause once you’re in, you’ll get hooked. It’s a beautiful experience from start to finish. The vinyl sounds really nice as well. Might just be what you have to add to your collection!

Blameful Isles – Chimerical

The latest album by Swedish producer and song writer, Blameful Isles came out this September and is absolutely breathtaking. Chimerical is filled with soulful and emotional songs that go from spiritual jazz to modern electronica by exploring ambient styles and with touches of inspiration from world music. The style range on the album is incredible, it takes you on a journey. The artist is known for his spiritual albums and while this one goes a bit away from his freeform jazz style from previous albums it still is his own style. The album feels very personal and as if Blameful Isles dug really deep within himself to come up with songs that would convey what he’s been going through since the last album which was a couple years before. The album on vinyl came with a small booklet that is incredible, each song has a short “haiku” style text written by Blameful Isles himself to express how he felt about them. This whole project is so gorgeous, give it a go you won’t be disappointed.

Photay – Waking Hours

The latest album by the New Yorker, Evan Shornstein aka Photay is a very special piece of work. While continuing his path as a musician, song-writer and producer Photay keeps evolving. For every new album his work changes and transforms. His music is an extension of his own life experiences and feelings. As he grows and mature the same happens with his music. I was a huge fan since his early releases in 2012 and never stopped following his work during the years, always surprised by his new albums. Waking Hours is no exception to that rule and it’s a very powerful album with a strong message and direction. It’s a special experience to listen to it repeatedly and on each new listen I’m discovering something new and exciting. It came out in 2020 via the label Mexican Summer based in Brooklyn, New York.

Koichi Sakai / Afla Sackey – Wono

For this amazing project Koichi Sakai & Afla Sackey joined together to bring us their positive energy and vibes. Perfectly recorded and mixed the work of the multi instrumentalists is just splendid. The project is brought to us via the Londonian label Olindo Records.