'Intershop' - Dettinger
I've done my rave about this fairly recently. Really warm, soothing album.
Beautiful chill out music, balanced nicely with a good dose of crackle and
some off-kilter rhythms. The opposite end of the chill-out spectrum from, say,
Kenny G. Definitely my overall favourite of the year. Strangely, despite that
it's not something I'd want to emulate in the slightest. Weird. :)
'The Amateur View' - To Rococo Rot
Another very "pleasant" CD. Despite being ostensibly a live band, I'd have no
hesitation in recommending this to fans of the "classic IDM sound".. a very
synthetic sounding release, but still distinctly contemporary. Bah, that
doesn't say much does it? All I mean is it has an approach to sampling and a
certain production aesthetic that's very now.
Generally low-key and groovy, maintaining a good balance between warm and
gritty sounds. It moves me lots.
'Huone' - Vladislav Delay
My pick from the "minimal techno" camp, even if only one of these tracks has
anything approaching a dancefloor rhythm. I wasn't surprised to hear this guy
does less beat oriented glitchy stuff, because I hear similarities between his
stuff and "serious" computer/electroacoustic compositions. I can't say much to
attempt to describe this - it's on Chain Reaction, but all the tunes are quite
dense, with multiples layers of amazing percussive sounds.
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I was trying to come up with a hip-hop release, but, well, this has been my
year of catch-ups on that front, so no particular release springs to mind. I'm
loving Vadim's 'USSR: Life from the Other Side', but, well, that's a pretty
recent release to judge it a favourite of the whole year. :)
Michael
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Hear some Jet Jaguar
http://mp3.com/jetjaguar/
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