Blazing Downtempo / Electronic Suggestions

[On_the_Red_Clay]

hearty cosign on stereolab and the bonobo albums mentioned. I like my donwtempo earthy and organic, and would like to add

express rising - st (dante carfegna on memphix)
the rehash stuff obviously
tortoise - millions now living will never die ("postrock" - hate the term - from 1996)

 

[Dubious]

Sorceror - White Magic

 

[meistromoco]

on bonobo.

And nightmares on wax's "in a space, outta sound" is pretty darn good. it came out in 2006 but kind of went back to their earlier style. Also, if you can find it, NOW's Late Night Tales mix is

 

[yuichi]

Nightmares on Wax stuff.
Protection remixed by Mad Professor
Tommy Guerrero- Soul Food Taqueria
J-Walk- A night on the rocks

 

[dreas_heardrums]

i put up a mix of some more recent blazing downtempo titled "blazing downtempo mix" a couple months ago. myspace.com/dreas then click on my blog.

 

[bonzaisk8]

Don't Sleep:

taste test for you:



both cd and digital mp3's can be purchased at ttable lab, or groovedis or here:



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[jimey]

dimlite

 

[white_tea]

Can't believe no one mentioned this, but, for me, this is the watershed. This one stood the test of time and might have even gotten better. I would feel comfortable throwing out a vast majority of my downtempo records but never this.

 

[bonzaisk8]

oh yeah don't sleep on "Free The Robots"

 

[youknowyouknow]

some albums that come to my thought:

white rainbow-prism of the eternal now
kruder&dorfmeister-g-stoned
kim hiorthoy-hopeness
boxcutter-glyphic / digital mystikz-magnetic city / health-s/t (i find good, current dub-step to be chill 'backround' music)
??-kantamoninen
fennesz-venice and also endless summer
clark-body riddle
express rising-s/t (along w/ the other memphix 45s)
afx-ambient works vol 1 & 2
triosk-the headlight serenades
triosk meets jan jelinek-1 + 3 + 1
jan jelinek-loop finding jazz records
jan jelinek-kosmischer pitch
MHE-000-015
GB-Soundtrack for Sunrise

 

[3RD_Man]

Lotta great suggestions posted.... HUGE cosign on the Mo'Wax... the bulk of their stuff released up until 96/97 is the straight dope... could start with the first HEADZ comp... good a place as any to start and IMO the best comp of its kind...

Too many great releases on Ninja Tune and Warp from this period as well.... again, their comps would be a good starting point...

Kruder & Dorfmeister also tops... especially IMO the G-Stoned EP... K&D Sessions is tight as well but it's a collection of remixes... just sayin...

Also check the stuff on Yellow Records outta France eg. early Mighty Bop, Ingrid De Lambre.... the first SourceLab comp is also nice for more of the euro flavour...

Who here's down with DJ Smash's New Breed label?!? Could never get enough of this stuff and suprisingly haven't found that many people who feel the same... will never tire of the Kromozone & Prunes EP's...

 

[meistromoco]

this mix is the truth...all early ninja tune mixed by dj krush and coldcut: http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/release.php?id=162

 

[doom]

Who here's down with DJ Smash's New Breed label?!? Could never get enough of this stuff and suprisingly haven't found that many people who feel the same... will never tire of the Kromozone & Prunes EP's...

I love the prunes but never checked out the Khromozomes, is it similiar in style? How does the rest on the label sound?

 

[DJFerrari]

Meatyogre has this genre on lockdown... just gotta put more stuff out there *ahem*

 

[BreakSelf]

Just PM Meaty and have him send you some of his beats.

EDIT: Yeah, what Ferrari said.

 

[piedpiper]

To add a few "classics": Peace Orchestra LP and the Tosca Suzuki LP. I still enjoy the Thievery Corporation Sounds from the Thievery Hifi LP as well. They did a lot of mediocre crap, but this is hot fire.

For recent additions I would recommend stuff from Quantic and other tru thoughts acts, Dimlite, Forss, Radio Citizen. There is quite some new stuff on Ubiquity and sonarkollektiv.

 

[hugh_lucero]

Flying Lotus - Reset

 

[pcmr]

hearty cosign on stereolab and the bonobo albums mentioned. I like my donwtempo earthy and organic, and would like to add

express rising - st (dante carfegna on memphix)
the rehash stuff obviously
tortoise - millions now living will never die ("postrock" - hate the term - from 1996)

pretty much exactly my recomendations...i have 3 of these mixes containing these artists
check thine pms in the coming days

 

[kicks79]

this mix is the truth...all early ninja tune mixed by dj krush and coldcut: http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/release.php?id=162

Dope mix... Me and my girl of a few years back used to religiously fall asleep listening to that album, Can't really listen to it any more just heard it too many times. I find a lot of the mo wax stuff dosn't really stand the test of time.

 

[highscheme]

DJ Krush is the gawd.

Maybe not his best album, but I would recommend the album DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo "Ki-Oku"

It is about as chill as you can get, amazing nighttime, city driving music.