Tag Archives: Downbeat

Led by visionary pianist Leo Tardin, Grand Pianoramax is really a loose-knit group task offering keyboards, drums, and MC/vocalists and showcasing a musical design that attracts from jazz, electronica, hip-hop, and spoken phrase. Delivered in Geneva, Switzerland, and located in NEW YORK since graduating from the brand new School College …

Amidst heavy competition, Baby Mammoth may be the Pork label’s most prolific act, packaging in five full LPs of blunted instrumental hip-hop between their debut in past due 1996 and the finish from the decade. Like additional Pork works Fila Brazillia and Solid Doctor, the duo of Tag Blissenden and …

Ian Simmonds has released materials on !K7, Ninja Tune’s Ntone offshoot, SSR, and his very own ATL imprint. Previously of pop-house group the Flip flops (who had a big success in the first ’90s with “Foot”), Simmonds proceeded to go solo after issues with the group’s label compelled them to …

Musician, maker and remixer Jay Denes, better referred to as Blue 6, was created in Newark, NJ. After shifting to N.Con.C., the newcomer didn’t get seriously mixed up in local music picture until hip-hop maker Bob Power connected him up with Dave Boonshoff. Jay Denes started focusing on his personal …

Shaped by Tokyo acid jazz maven Gonzalez Suzuki, Soul Bossa Trio documented many albums of relaxing, exploratory jazz having a debt to fusion and Brazilian jazz but a dazzling feeling of interplay often without their club-centered contemporaries. Suzuki was originally an associate of Tokyo Panorama Mambo Young boys, Japanese jazz-pop …

Slick indie electro poppers Matt Locher and Zach Coulter of Solid Platinum met in university in the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. These were introduced whenever a shared friend at the institution was piecing together an organization. The three produced an EP as Solid Platinum before that friend was changed …

Using the Kruder & Dorfmeister collective apparently unwilling to make a studio album being a duo, Peter Kruder debuted his Tranquility Orchestra alias in 1999 for the self-titled album of blissfully stoned beats along with a cinematic/orchestral flair.

Polish duo Skalpel channeled the influence of the homeland’s wealthy jazz traditions to their very own contemporary digital sound. DJs/companies Marcin Cichy and Igor Pudlo initial teamed in Wroclaw, Poland, in 1998. Employed in digital anonymity, Skalpel shortly started assembling the to begin their Eastern Western european fusion-inspired cut-and-paste mosaics …

Sixtoo, aka Robert Squire, arrived from the mid-90s underground hiphop movement, sharing levels with famous brands Buck 65, Sage Francis and associates from the Anticon staff. His hiphop output is gathered in the albums Psyche Intangible, Psyche Continuum and Music I Hate and OTHER FOLKS Moments. Nonetheless it was before …

The Dutch house music production duo Pako & Frederik first met in 1992 nonetheless it wasn’t until 1993 which they made a decision to combine their production styles. Both have been journeying around Europe, rotating home music at finer night clubs, and Frederik got released some paths by himself Gyrate …