Wow, this is truly epic. Space travel through the galaxy.
Jaga Jazzist – Oban (Todd Terje Remix)
Ludovico Einaudi – Taranta Project
World music kind of thing. Italian traditional music from Salento mixed with North African and Turkish flavours, tuned to the voices of jazz, rock, folk, and in some cases soundtrack-like grandiose orchestrations. For me it resembles Dead Can Dance on quite a wide range from the medieval sounds to the Spiritchaser’s ethnic fusion. It is a very unique and interesting record.
Lucy and Klock – War Lullaby
Collaboration between Ben Klock and Lucy. Deep minimal techno and eerie drone ambient on one EP.
Throwing Shade – Fate Xclusive
Previous Throwing Shade materials were not convincing for me, indeed I think they were crap. But this new one locked gaze with me and kept my glimpse until the end of its four tracks. Slow electronic music with some nice atmosphere. Could be the little sister of Dark Sky.
Ben Chatwin – The Sleeper Awakes
Beautiful modern composition album with a post-rock and atmospheric ambient edge to it. The moment of standing at the edge of the world, looking at a calm post-apocalyptic scenery and just turning away to leave everything behind and move on.
Crazy P – Walk Dance Talk Sing
A totally usual and casual nu-jazz album, like it’s 2004, the high times of Dzihan & Kamien, Jazzanova, Herbert et al. And !K7 still lives this era by releasing such a record in 2015.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Chasing Yesterday
Being someone who never really listened to Oasis (or liked it in the first place) I am most surprised to have just listened through Gallagher’s latest album from beginning to end and actually found it quite okay. For me it needs a certain mood setting but worked this time.
Jaisu – A Long Player
Great instrumental hiphop.
Lakker – Tundra
Deep, melodic, thumping. An exquisite journey into your subconscious, through dark places and dreams.
Amon Tobin – Dark Jovian
I added this one to my playlist a few days ago and since then I haven’t listened to anything else just keep hitting replay. A captivating experience of deep space ambient, groaning noises and ethereal voices.
Amon Tobin himself has some things to add:
“I made these tracks a year or two ago after binge-watching space exploration films. People have, from time to time, described things I’ve done as “scores for imaginary movies,” which has always irritated me, but on this occasion it’s sort of true.
Even so, what I was really trying to do was to interpret a sense of scale, like moving towards impossibly giant objects until they occupy your whole field of vision, planets turning, or even how it can feel just looking up at night.”