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ANDREYA TRIANA – “Lost Where I Belong”

Spencer — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:38:50 +0000

I first heard Andreya Triana on Bonobo’s latest album, Black Sands back in March of this year. Just about a month ago, Triana released her debut album Lost Where I Belong. The album is produced by Bonobo and features guest production from Fink on the title track and 2 others.

Lost Where I Belong (Ninja Tune, October 2010)

Bonobo – Black Sands

Spencer — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:26:39 +0000

Simon Green goes by the stage name Bonobo. He recently released his fourth album, Black Sands. Every album is an impressive, well crafted work of art and Green’s development and growth as a musician and producer is on full display. As I’ve gone through his catalog, each album seems better than the preceding one. It’s especially fun to see what a producer like Green comes up with next. Blending jazz infused hip hop with electro-funk beats, Black Sands is another success for Green. ”Kong” and “All In Forms” are great, more classic Bonobo style songs while “Kiara” and “1009″ are something newer and more adventurous. The album shows a wide influence of genres and styles but manages to keep a strong, unifying tone- some Green has always been good at. ”Eyesdown” and “El Toro” add to that rich sound and steady vibe carried on throughout the album. If you look at it or hear it like I do, the album is a great and very cool piece of music art. MP3: Bonobo – “Kong” [See post to listen to audio] MP3: Bonobo – “All In Forms” [See post to listen to audio] Black Sands (Ninja Tune, March 2010)

Beat Juice

Spencer — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:18:02 +0000

Here’s another pretty awesome music website that let’s you create playlists you can share with you friends. It’s called GrooveShark.com and it’s got a pretty big library of music. It allows you to upload your own songs so you can login from anywhere in the world and have all of your music. It also allows you to search for and play full songs and albums. The way this works reminds me very much of Napster (the original Napster) since it seems like the search results are based on what people have uploaded. This is probably why GrooveShark has a very respectable library of music to find. There were a bunch of songs I wanted to add to the playlist below that I couldn’t find in their library but it’s still got much more than I expected. The site also has a great custom widget builder that allows you to embed songs and playlists on any website. The one I made below is a poor example because I’m colorblind so you can’t really see how fancy you can make it look. The playlist is based on a mix I made a couple of years ago called Beat Juice.

I really had this Pete Rock track on the mix instead of the one included above but GrooveShark didn’t have it. And it’s too good not to link here… MP3: Pete Rock – Pete’s Jazz

Copy and paste this into your browser if the link above isn’t working: http://www.flexx.org/blog/pete%20rock%20-%20pete’s%20jazz.mp3