EXPANDIZONS – episode 48
uploaded 8 July 2009
Episode 48 is full of trip-hop, soulful grooviness. Starting with an introduction from Guillaume of the popular trip hop ensemble, SHINE, we launch into SHINE’s opening track (“Soulful Music”) from their album “The Common Station,” which you can buy from iTunes, Amazon, and other online sellers. Every track on this album is enjoyable from beginning to end, so I highly recommend that you buy it. Guillaume informs us that they’re working on a new album with Terry Reid that should come out later this year. Can’t wait!
The beats and grooves continue throughout. There’s quite a few Jamendo artists in this episode: Screenatorium, from France, with “Addiction,” Wasaru, also from France, with “Old Story,” Chill Carrier, from Germany, with “Me and My Rocket,” and Shyam Monk, from India, with a memorable and enchanting world groove called “Orphan’s Song,” that will leave you thinking “how can I hear more from this guy??” It’s that good.
The netlabels have solid representation here, as well. The artist Lost Soul Refuge is here with a track from his new release on the Dusted Wax Kingdom netlabel, called “Black Orchid.” PinocChio SP from Germany shares a track called “Last Days,” released on a compilation on the Konsum netlabel in Germany. Phour Trakk has a totally chilled groove called “Running on Karma,” and there’s a soulful, sample mashup from Ate One that sounds like Archie Bell and the Drells have arrived in the 21st century, both from the Id.eology netlabel in Germany.
Three more independent artists have tracks in this podcast, and you’re sure to enjoy all of them: Di Evantile (also known as Oleg Somov), from Kazakhstan included “Storm,” which has some nice breaks in it. (Di Evantile also has several albums for sale on CD Baby, iTunes, and more.) Leon Somov from Lithuania has the Brazilian flavored “Mano (Arclab and Nearth, the Parentheses remix)” with Jazzu. And there’s yet another track from the prolific and wonderfully trip hoppy Suhov in Hungary: “Tinilányok Alma.”
Enjoy the music. And please support these artists and netlabels by buying …or licensing …their music and spreading the word about them: turn it up and let it be heard!
Intro from Guillaume of SHINE
- SHINE – Soulful Music (from the album “The Common Station,” buy from iTunes or Amazon)
- SCREENATORIUM – Addiction (from the EP “Blue Morning,” from Jamendo.com)
- LOST SOUL REFUGE – Black Orchid (from the EP “Black Orchid,” from dustedwax.org)
- WASARU – Old Story (from the album “Prisoner of State,” from Jamendo.com)
- DI EVANTILE – Storm (vocals by Christiane Karam) (from his website)
- PINOCCHIO SP – Last Days (from the compilation “Kapitel 1,” from the netlabel Konsum Records)
- PHOUR TRAKK – Running on Karma (from the album “Slip into Something More Comfortable,” Id.eology netlabel)
- CHILL CARRIER – Me and My Rocket (from the album “Moving Off Ground,” from Jamendo.com)
- SHYAM MONK – Orphan’s Song (from Jamendo.com)
- LEON SOMOV FEAT. JAZZU – Mano (Arclab & Nearth The Parentheses Remix) (from “Offline Remixed” [Sutemos021], download from archive.org)
- SUHOV – Tinilányok álma (from his album “Lakótép,” buy it from Bandcamp)
- ATE ONE – I Need A…(from the album “Lost in Beats,” from ideology.de)
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