Audio Absinthe

There are only a handful of albums I have ever really anticipated like Quantic’s upcoming album, Tradition In Transition, due July 14th.  This album could be truly amazing.  ”The Dreaming Mind” is the song in the video teaser for the album below and it’s featured on Quantic’s myspace page as well.  It might be one of my all time favorites.  Between the string arrangements and the funky percussion, it’s a cinematic-style masterpiece that just kills me.  If I like half of the songs on the album as much as I like “The Dreaming Mind” I might find the answer to the “if you were on an island and could only have one album” question.

Bonus MP3: Quantic and His Combo Bárbaro – New Morning
Bonus MP3: Quantic and His Combo Bárbaro – Arianita

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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

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First song is “4, 3, 2, 1″ by K-OS.  It’s the single from the Canadian MC’s upcoming album Yes!.  The album is supposed to be a double CD with all new material on the first disc and remixes on the second disc.  I first heard his track “Man I Used To Be” maybe a year ago and thought K-OS had a lot of potential.  The track was good but nothing special.  I like “4, 3, 2, 1″ a lot more so I’m definitely anxious to hear the upcoming album.  The Pharcyde “Soul Flower (Remix)” sample he uses on this track is pretty recognizable and I like the new take on it a lot…