Thanks to everyone who's posted thus far. I did a thorough search of this Music board prior to setting up the thread and was surprised to not really find a downtempo focused thread, nice to see a wider range of what people are listening to here.
@Zak: Love the horns on that MF Doom Instrumental, they just really drove the track. Definitely feelin that and the one Shake just posted.
@Cheat: Chill Hip Hop Instrumentals defintely welcome falls under that "Everything In Between" category in the intro.
@860: Diggin' that Woodblue, really easy with the nice asiastic overtones.
Recently featured in the commercials for the action game, Bayonetta. Skreams, "Lets get ravey remix" of In For The Kill by La Roux. Recorded from one of only 500 copies of the vinyl in the world, this picks up a little steam in the last part but has such a nice slow build, I think it could easily find it's way into Chill Out set. Someone listed it as "Dubstep" which I'm not always super crazy about but this mix definitely has such a subtle power to it, I had to throw it in.
Someone posted some Leftfield on the last page this track has really been catching my ear in the last week.
Nice classic synthey vibe on this one. I think you'll like it.
This post has been edited by meta187 on Monday, Feb 22 2010, 21:05
Noticed the banner is, quite slyly, a link to our host's last.fm. Clicked it and had a gander. Saw two things I have not listened to for ages! - Tosca and St. Germain.
And I raise you something you have, based on these two, certainly listened to before - Gotan Project.
If you haven't heard this tune on the floor or on another club, you probably caught it in a car commercial or something.
By the way, how would you guys would like to do some tracks in this style? Do any of you work with sequencers, like the much thrown around Fruity Loops? We could exchange MIDIs and build up a tune from the ground up. My interface went with the dogs, so I can record live guitar or live Yamaha-keyboards, but not live MIDI performances. What I can't do live, I can program into notation or a sloppy piano roll.
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By the way, how would you guys would like to do some tracks in this style? Do any of you work with sequencers, like the much thrown around Fruity Loops? We could exchange MIDIs and build up a tune from the ground up. My interface went with the dogs, so I can record live guitar or live Yamaha-keyboards, but not live MIDI performances. What I can't do live, I can program into notation or a sloppy piano roll.
I usually have a good ear when I work with music producers or DJs like I can tell them what I want to hear and usually we get somewhere in the ballpark but my musical background is primarily as an emcee though I've been chilling for a number of years, I did however do a sort of spoken word thing with this DJ Nikbitz out of the UK who I met via Last.FM who liked something I did with my friend Delia and he made a sort of spoken word track around it called Space Pioneer so if you ever want someone to lay down some vocals or original lyrics, Holla Back.
I throw the term "lounge" around loosely in this thread but I'm a big fan of the Parisian style of lounge you selected St. Germain, Gotan Project, etc. I'll def get around to dropping some tracks off the very french Hotel Costes compilations, at some point which are very well mixed but definitely lean towards that Parisian influence.
@The-King: Yea def feeling that driving beat on Zion I and the Nujabes has a great overall feel from beginning to end. And yea, you know me I try to put the quality into anything I attach my name to.
"Try" being the operative word.
Anywho.
Passion Pit recently had a feature on Current which was very, very good. I've pretty much looked for any excuse to play this track at any event or party I've attended this year, it finally found it's way on to a cell phone commercial.
If John Denver died, went to Heaven and was suddenly endowed with awesome angelic abilities he'd sound something like this. Turn this up, clear your mind and picture another place and time.
And just to bring the InI level byake up in'ere, rudebois.. ^
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I love that Damian Marley track. Makes me wanna listen to "Road to Zion".
Instrumental to my favorite rap song of all time.
First heard this on the way to my cousin's wedding in Long Island back in October. My cousin, his girlfriend, my other cousin's boyfriend and myself were all getting baked in the car before the wedding and then put this on. Great times.
Also, I think that this topic definetly needs some classic soul/r&b. Thumbs up if you know where this is sampled.
Jadakiss's - By Your Side , that's a bangin track.
I really liked watchin' that dude work on that Equalibram clip as well.
@Vanilla: You pick up that Silver Illmatic 10 Year Anniversary Edition yet? It has some seriously well done remixes on it.
Watch this girl literally build the track as she goes, pretty freakin amazing. Like she's literally recording her loops and samples as she builds the song. Stay with it she moves through like 3 or 4 instruments, literally a one woman band.
If your house cat suddenly turned into a cute chick who could sing very well, it would sound like Elsiane.
If you ever find any of the Mushroom Jazz compilations by Mark Farina do yourself an immediate favor and pick them up. Very Consistant.
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@Cand: That Bibio was bananas I'd like to hear more.
QUOTE (Masterkraft @ Feb 23 2010, 16:17)
Gnarls Barkley
DJ Danger Mouse actually has a new colab project he just put out with the lead singer of The Shins called Broken Bells, very different sounding but interesting never the less.
Here's a cut from it.
I'm really picky on World Music as I got a bit burnt out on it when I was younger my father would listen to it quite a bit but there are some good tunes out there if you go siftin'.
Mr. Scruff is one of my favorite sample maestros this side of Kid Koala. This song cracks me up every time.
This post has been edited by meta187 on Tuesday, Feb 23 2010, 18:48
That was really, really trippy, teetering somewhere between blissful and nightmarish. Very cool you put that together yourself. The Blurry face looks like that dude, Eric Stoltz from that old movie Mask with Cher.
Suppose it's a good time to transition into the evening.
I'm sure our friends "Down Unda" couldn't escape these guys over the last 2 years as I know they got major play there but this easily in my top ten for 2008.
Dreamy almost MIDI sounding Trip Hop Instrumental.
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Another great post, meta. Almost. Empire Of The Sun is not for me but the last two ones - especially the trip-hop thing - were really good. Also, the last one catched my immediate attention remembering that that The Stylistic song was heavily sampled in Westside Connection's '96 song Gangstas Make The World Go Round. Whadda ya know, the world is small.
Talking about hip-hop samples, here's a sweet one. I bet you know where it is sampled. Not to forget that nothing can be as good or relaxing as The Temptations
Okay I guess I'm fallling out of topic again, so I'm getting back. Here is one of the very best chill-out/jazz masterpieces you can find.
Yeaaaaa.. Empire isn't for everyone. I really dig them as they make me nolstalgic for a lot of the 80's synthpop era but I'm starting to think that album is going to be a 2 hit wonder because that dude from PNAU ended up leaving and going back to his own band later in the year.
Anyways, it's a new day.
I found this while tracking down something for the Hip Hop topic yesterday and really liked it.
Thievery Corporation, always a safe bet. So consistant on Everything they do.
Bristol 101, I've pitched a lot of woo to this little tune.
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I was going to post another original, but that Death by Chocolate was nice, reminded me of this band my friend showed me yesterday called Jaga Jazzist, this song Animal Chin is insane, it starts out disjointed for a couple seconds, so give it a chance.
As someone so eloquently puts it in a comment, "it's a wonderful mix-together of bebop jazz, house and a bit of d'n'b love it."
That was way trippy. It's funny when you watch something like that and realize how much the mind compensates for empty spaces. All the animals and animals with people faces in that are essentially about 4 or 5 photos being shifted around to simulate animation about a minute in you stop considering the fact they are cut out bits of photo. Very cool.
Love Horace Andy, combine him with Massive Attack and I'm just lifted.
Another great combo.
Used to force my wife to listen to this when we first started dating. Beautiful Song.
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