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music: kelpe
What starts off as something that seems like improv Jazz, Kelpe’s Colours Don’t Leak ends up turning into a phenomenal ambient instrumental track with some droning synths, electronics and a high class drum kit. The track is off of Kelpe’s 2008 album, Ex-Aquarium and I have yet to get a hold of the whole album but I’ll be sure to post about it when I do.
The song clocks in around six minutes but don’t worry, shit never gets tiring. It’s a great song to add to your weekly playlist and if you dig it enough, It probably wouldn’t be a bad idea to check into some of Kelpe’s other stellar music.
Kelpe- Colours Don’t Leak
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-Kyle
photo via flickr user, piccadillywilson.
music: tenniscoats
Tenniscoats are from outside Tokyo and have just released their excellent seventh album, Tan-Tan Therapy. The album is a mix of their work over the last two years, owing much of its influence to the band Tape, who also play on the record. They’ve managed to utilize the sound of double bass, zither, and glockenspiel to thicken up their original sound.
Umbarepa! is so catchy that it’s already well into this month’s top ten most played on my end. I get a pretty rad Stereolab/Cibo Matto vibe from the track, and have found myself singing this in the shower for the last three mornings. Repa!
Tenniscoats- Umbarepa!
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-Ben
photo via flickr user, cylou.
music: food
Food is a kickass breakbeat jazz duo that recently plopped out a new record called Molecular Gastronomy. Once a larger more acoustic outfit, Food is now a pared down duet that exhibits some seriously exciting sonorities that are much needed in the jazz realm.
“Spherification,” one of my favorites on the album, sounds like vintage Tortoise. All About Jazz calls {Molecular Gastronomy} an album built on”sound sculpting, space and deceptively simple melodies to build music that may not have conventional form, but is never without purpose.” Ride the next wave before your friends know what hit them and go buy this record.
Food- Spherification
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-Ben
madvilliany instrumentals (even you can freestyle!)
Cruising through my music collection, I noticed an oft forgotten piece of genius from Madlib’s seemingly endless discography. The tracks on 2004’s Madvilliany Instrumentals are some of the best and most interesting beats for rhyming you’ll ever hear. Otis Jackson Jr. obviously pounds out shit like this in his sleep, but at least in my humble opinion, it’s never a bad time to be reminded of what he’s done.
“Figaro” and “Curls” sample obscure jazz grooves, which expertly and inevitably will instigate some verbal convection. In the time it’s taken me to write this post, I’ve already dropped verses that I think even my mom would be proud of. So I encourage you, humble consumer, to create!
Madlib- Figaro
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Madlib- Curls
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-Ben
