Lovely evocative sounds from International Anthem
Couldn’t agree more. I’m hoping once clubs open back up and this pandemic is over, DJ’s will get back to producing what they know best, dance music. So many DJ’s turned to making ambient music these past two years and most of it is trash.
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Sounds like a return to form, I loved his debut on International Feel but have been a bit dissapointed by the follow ups.
Stunning ambient jazz meets eyes closed neoclassical & supine soundscapes, as Finish musicians Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola say a whole lot more with a whole lot less in my new favourite electroacoustic LP for Hush Hush Records.
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Another deep jazz fusion dive from the Raw Tapes stable this time from drummer Amir Bresler who lays down a serious, tempo fluctuating, globetrotting rhythmic journey for his gleeful & seriously tuned in bandmates to groove, synergise and space out over. It’s a real trip.
Sweet nu-soul with a dash of city girl attitude over some lazy Detroit beat bumpiness and a bit of electrospiritual ambience. Slip into the week with the cosmic urbanism of Monica Blaire on Mahogani Music.
Natural field recordings, healing frequencies & binaural beats create a weightless & wondrous ambient lattice through which hinako omori’s soft vocals & ASMR whisperings weave their restorative, chakra aligning magic for anyone wise enough to hit play on her beautiful new LP for Houndstooth.
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Soul has been struggling since the 90s to live up to its 60s & 70s golden age, however Eamon has gone back to the source for his samples, & sings like he used to hold his own at the Apollo. Check out his new LP for Now Again Records for a funky soulful trip back in time.
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Turn on, tune in & head back to the dub kissed neo-psychedelic future as The Lay Llamas mine golden age psyche tropes with a penchant for exotic instrumentation & hypnotic ritualism on this mellow & masterful mind melter for Black Sweat Records. Big up Raven Sings The Blues blog for the tip.
Shades on, sunroof down & take a trip back to the days of soul synthesis, electro funkiness & permed mullets, as Po-one lands at his spiritual home - Dream Chimney, with a new LP of easy, breezy, pleasingly familiar (nu) Balearic boogie.
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Digging this druggy skanking business just out on Studio Barnhus. The whole album is pretty nice.
Judging by what people were playing in Miami, progressive house is back. God help us all.
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Yeah it seems like prog house and trance are having their day in the sun. Hopefully this doesn’t last too long.
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Genuine question: what’s prog house and when and where whas it popular?
It was an early 90s thing that came from the UK originally… It sort came off the back of US house then UK folk got into making a version and for whatever reason started adding percussive drums like bongos etc and tech-y noises, pianos and making the drums straighter so no swinging house beats… Labels like Guerilla and Vivatonal were on it first and then Cowboy and others came into the fray. The percussive element was taken to extremes by Fabi Paras who really went to town on “those” drums… It landed somewhere between trance and US house. Basically started good, got a bit generic.
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What ever happened to Fabi Paras? Still give his Birth of Shiva Shanti lp a runout now and again.
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This was always a fave. Very early prog house
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He’s back on the scene. Had started gigging again just before the pandemic struck.
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Listening back to his old mixes i find he played a hell of a lot faster than i remember…
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There was a period where everything on Guerilla was essential. I still have a good 4 inches of their 12’s stacked in my shelves. They were the first label where I would just buy it. Early Leftfield tracks and mixes were also a must get.
Rave had gone to toy town, Italian pianos were over and maybe it was a bit of a UK tribal thing.
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