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Groove Salad Taste of the Week for December 19, 2007
Special Holiday Edition
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for December 19, 2007
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for August 9, 2007
Something else from Mindtrap, released on Elektrikal Records, described as Scandinavian chillout and ambient. You can tell I like this a lot because I've been playing so much from it.
Another nice remix from Bassnectar from Om Records. Mr. Projectile is musician, photographer and artist Matt Arnold.
A classic from Jonah Sharp, who is currently "in the studio" wearing his producer's hat, working with lots of other artists - some well known, some not so well known. Always looking for new stuff from Jonah.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for April 29, 2007
Bassnectar is Lorin Ashton, a San Francisco based Musician, Producer and DJ with a huge cult following in San Francisco. This is from his new release on Om Records.
Phutureprimitive is the musical creation of DJ, Producer and Remixer Rain, based out of Portland, OR. This was released on Waveform Records.
This release from Native State Records is a great compiation, I've played some other tracks off it before. This song is Phutureprimitive's remix of Bluetech's Oleander and is only available on this compilation.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for April 19, 2007
South Africa native Jake Childs is more famous for his four on the floor dance music than his chillout music, and one of the only places you can find this track is the Purobeach - Volumen Dos release from
SeamlessÊrecords.
All India Radio is the name of this project from Australian Martin Kennedy. He's now expanded to include a couple other people in the band and just completed a tour of the US, and they've got some videos from the tour on their website. This was released on Inevitable records.
Unforscene is UK-based Will Bower, Ben Bower and Benji Muscat. They perform, arrange, write, record and master all of their own material as well as produce music for movies and TV as UFS Productions. Pacific Heights was released on Kudos records.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for March 28, 2007
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for February 22, 2007
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for January 24, 2007
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for December 12, 2006
Chris Paine used to be in a duo with Justin Pierret, who co-wrote this track. But they broke up after Justin moved to New York, and Chris chose to stay in Austin, Texas, but they still collaborate on recordings.
Israeli composer/producer Zero Cult (real name: Emil Ilyayev) has a great track on this updated release of the debut compilation of Cosmicleaf Records. This track is not on the full-length Art Of Harmony release, you have to get it on this compilation, or one of the other compilations it's on.
Classic chillout track "Earthgarden" is given a new workover with this remix by French artist and remixer Jong. Relaxed Journeys is a compilation from Chill Tribe Records.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for December 5, 2006
Something else from Mindtrap, a new release on Elektrikal Records, described as Scandinavian chillout and ambient.
Spanish trio Lideres Band have a couple tracks featured on this compilation on Candyflip Records from Greece. Lideres means "Lead" in spanish.
Elemental Journey is collaboration between Matt Hillier (aka ISHQ, who we've played in the past) and Matt Coldrick founder of Absolute Ambient.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for November 18, 2006
(No track listing available for this eposide)
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for November 9, 2006
The Album Leaf is James LaValle, on this new album, his fourth full lenght album, he's working with Josh Eutis of Telefon Tel Aviv who is helping out on the drum programming.
Monte La Rue is a Belgian dj/producer currently living in Amsterdam. He not only produces music and DJs, but also does a podcast show called "Le Podcast Deluxe" and runs United Recordings' new label, Disque Deluxe. I'm playing this track from the compilation set, Your Lounge, Your Music, volune 6.
Scandinavian artists Mindtrap come from a diverse background, producing hiphop and comedy and playing guitar, and loving vintage analog synths and samplers. Northern Rooms was 3 years in the making and was released in 2006.
Ralf Knappe Heinbockel and Thorsten Reinhardt make up the German duo Hemisphere. Their latest creation, 'Rambling Voyage' was released in January 2005 and is just starting to be discovered by more people around the world.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for October 27, 2006
Canadian Dino Pacifici is an electronic keyboard player in the ambient/new age scene, he moves into a more electronic fusion style with this 2003 release (which by way he just sent us last week), The Blue Velvet Lounge.
London nightclub Ginglik features a lot of underground electronica, and this is their second compilation release on their in-house record label.
Another track from the new J*S*T*A*R*S release, the new project from Sim Lister (Heights Of Abraham and head of Twentythree Records) and Steve Cobby (Fila Brazillia), some of the originators of the ambient groove "Hull Sound", now moving on to slightly more uptempo workings.
A new compilation from Water Music Records, music for a modern cocktail lounge.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for October 19, 2006
Sounds From The Ground formed in 1995. Both members Nick Woolfson and Elliot Jones met through their involvement with the underground music scene in London. High Rising is their 5th album.
J*S*T*A*R*S is Sim Lister (Heights Of Abraham and head of Twentythree Records) and Steve Cobby (Fila Brazillia), some of the originators of the "Hull Sound", now moving on to slightly more uptempo workings.
Popular London club Ginglik features a lot of underground electronica, and this is their second compilation release on their in-house record label.
Formerly with the band The Cure, Roger OÕDonnell has gone solo working with a Moog Voyager synth to create this new album. Keyboard magazine has an article about making the album.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for October 11, 2006
(No track listing available for this eposide)
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for September 19, 2006
A new CD from Groove Salad favorites, Sounds from the Ground, Just released on
Waveform Records.
This track comes out October 3rd. You'll have to be patient until then!
Available only online from Cyberset Records and not to be confused with "Sonic Diary", which has different versions of these tracks.
A tasty new Waveform compilaton, thanks to Forest for sending this our way.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for September 7, 2006
San Francisco musician Miguel Fierro recoreds as Single Cell Orchestra. This album is the first in his 'Celldom' series, being released by Cyberset, an online label.
Richard Dorfmeister, half of famous ambient duo Kruder & Dorfmeister teams up with Heinz Tronigger (who runs the label Sunshine Enterprises) and multi-instrumentalist Pogo, who form the core of the band Madrid De Los Austrias.
This comes out on October 3 from G-Stone records.
This just came out on Native State records, Rena Jones is a cello player who plays cello, guitar, violin, and clarinet along with her laptop to create a hybrid acoustic/electronic music. Driftwood is Rena's third solo release.
This is a 2003 release from French label Ultimae records, somewhat hard to find but it shows up a few places. Totally worth tracking down, although some tracks are almost beatless, it's a great CD.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for August 30, 2006
Pure Chill is a compilation from Water Music Records, released for their 5-year anniversary. (The nice folks at Water Music sent me a bunch of their CDs recently, with a lot of great tracks on each of them!)
Mohan isÊDave Nugent from Seattle, Washington, and he has a full length CD that this track is also on called "As is where is". We play a couple other tracks from that CD on Groove Salad as well.ÊNot to be confused withÊDeva Mohandas, another electronica artist who has released a couple tracks under the same moniker.Ê
Ovnimoon is Hector Stuardo, from Chile, I played another track of his last week from his debut full length album entitled, Camanchaca, named after the coastl fog in the desert areas of Northern Chile. This CD is a bit hard to track down, but some UK music services carry the digital download of it.
(No episode the week of Aug 21)
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for August 10, 2006
Ovnimoon is Chilean producer and DJ Hector Stuardo, Camanchaca is his debut full length album.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for August 7, 2006
Cordovan is Greg Reeves, LA based composer/producer/remixer/sound designer. This is his self-titled 2004 release.
Jens Buchert is a very popular downtempo producer from Stuttgart, Germany, who produces music for films and special events as well as albums released on his label Jebu Records. This album has been out of print for a while, but finally available on iTunes.
A New York City native, and label manager for Microcosm records, Ezekiel Honig produces minimal music while trying to be emotively warm.
The Italian born producer and composer now based in London. This is his 5th solo album, on Interchill records.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for July 31, 2006
1er cru stands for "Premier Cru". George is originally from Detroit, now living in New York City.
An older track, originally released on Ninja Tune back in the late 90s, this pops up on several compilations as well as "Coffee Shop - The Chillin Sessions 3".
Harmonic 33 is Dave Brinkworth & Mark Pritchard (who also records with Tom Middleton as Global Communication), Extraordinary People is the name of the CD that came out in 2002, Alphabet Zoo Records. It's also on a compilation called "The Sound Of The Cosmos".
John Digweed's Bedrock label released this CD, which includes the Downey mix of Jiva's Strange Dimensions. It's the only release of this version as far as I can tell.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for July 17, 2006
Jonah Sharp's music career goes back to 1993, when he released his first EP on Reflective Records, the label he founded. He's most famous for his Spacetime Continuum project which came out in the mid 90s, but he hasn't produced much since 2000 when he started spending more time with his family. He's about to re-launch Reflective records, and this is one of his new, internet-only available tracks.
Chilled C'Quence is the ambient/downtempo project of Pedro Matias (aka dj Fluxo) and Fernando Rodrigues (PsyJar). They're playing live at Sonica festival from the 21st to 24th July in Bolsana Lake, Italy.
Austrian-based Tosca is Richard Dorfmeister & Rupert Huber, Suzuki in Dub is the remix of the Suzuki album which came out a few years ago.
Kuba is UK-based Laurence Harvey's downtempo project, this is from the album Inside Out on Liquid Sound DesignÊrecords, aka LSD records, which is an offshoot from trance label Dragonfly Records.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for July 11, 2006
The Big Nic is Nic Gorissen from Ontario, Canada, and independent music producer who lives in the woods of Ontario and sells his CDs over the net.
FNDMNTL is Matt Van Dyke, Aaron Grain and Dan Sorce. This is from FNDMNTLs debut release, Subduction, available from CD Baby and I think also in the iTunes music store.
I've been tracking down a bunch of Jens Buchert's releases lately, I played something else last week, this is a great album that's just been re-released on CD.
From Isreal, Blue Beryll is Ben-Canar, Dirk Kunesh and Shahar Kaufman. They call their music "meditative chillout", combining acoustic instruments with electronica and digital recording. Their album was just released in the last month, and is easy to get from CD Baby in the US.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for July 4, 2006
Coldcut is Jonathan More, a former teacher; and computer programmer Matt Black, who have been making music together as Coldcut since the late 80s. This track is remixed by Afterlife, who is musician Steve Miller (no relation to the 70s rock musician Steve Miller), "the most played artist in Ibiza in 2005",
Jens Buchert is a very popular downtempo producer from Stuttgart, Germany, who produces music for films and special events as well as albums released on his label Jebu Records. This track is from a compilation he did for TeNo jewelry.
Musician and songwriter Jon Hopkins was born in London and began playing piano when he was just five years old, and by twelve he was studying piano at the Royal College of Music. Released on UK's Just Music label.
Entheogenic is Helmut Glavar & Piers Oak-Rhind, a Psychedelic-ambient duo currently working in South-West France.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for June 27, 2006
UK-born John Twells' third album on the City Centre Offices label. John is also the co-founder of experimental music label Type Records.
South London born singer David Sylvian came to prominance in the late 70s with the band "Japan". Sylvian later did some solo work with Ryuichi Sakamoto, veteran of early Japanese synth band Yellow Magic Orchestra. Sakamoto later gained solo fame for his soundtrack for "Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence", which Sylvian contributed to. Twenty lears later, they collaborated again on this track.
Telepopmusik is made up of core members Stephan Haeri, Christophe Hetier and Fabrice Dumont, and they are working on their next album between New York and Paris. Christophe Hetier, aka DJ Antipop, is living in New York now, and has a residency Thursday nights at trendy nightclub Bed in Manhattan.
This track features Deborah Anderson on vocals, who has previously worked with DJ Shadow and the Mo' Wax crew in the past.
This is the opening track from San Diego-based composer and multi-instrumentalist James LaValle's project, "The Album Leaf".
They have a new album set to be released in September, which will be really good from some of the previews I've heard.
Telefon Tel Aviv is New Orleans artists Charles Cooper and Joshua Eustis. Josh has been in Iceland, working with the James LaValle on his upcoming release, along with engineer Biggi Birgisson at Sundlaugin studios outside of Reykjavik.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for June 20, 2006
| Antarktida |
GluK |
(online only) |
Russian composer/producer GluK sent me this track recently, it's available from his website but it's all in Russian, so it's a bit hard to navigate. The site is a little slow, but here's a direct link to download GluK's Antarktida. He points out that he's a hobbiest, just making music to suit his own moods. I think he's a very talented individual.
| Codeine Covered Cocktail Nuts |
Momma Gravy |
Dribble It On |
Momma Gracy is Remko Schouten & Robert Ellerby, this came out a few years back on the sadly now-defunct Pork Recordings, and re-released in 2005. You can also find this track on the Pork Chops compilation from Kudos records, which is a great compilation of some of the best releases from Pork Recordings.
| Be Brave |
Sinq |
Passage LP |
Sinq is Sander van Oirschot, a Dutch independent electronic musician, releasing music under the creative commons license, and you can download it all from his site.
| Kelso Called |
Eric Ryan |
I Got A Habit |
Eric Ryan is an independent artist from the United States, who releases his music through Soundclick.com. He's a self described hiphop beat producer, although some of his music clearly fits into the chilled grooves genre.
| Sad Flower |
Keston and Westdal |
Truth is Stranger |
UK native Rhodes keyboard player John Keston and Bay Area bass player Nils Westdal refer to their music as "jazz infiltrated downtempo" and "organic electronic music." They've got an online "pre release" of their album on their website.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for June 11, 2006
This is a special "dub influence" program. Dub was born in Jamaica, is very bass-heavy, and has lots of reggae rhythm influences along with heavy use of echo, reverb and other audio processing tricks. Dub has influenced many electronica artists, adn here are a few of my favorite dub-inspired tracks.
Templeroy is artist Tricky Van Spall, who released a couple albums in the UK during the mid 90s and appeared on several compilations, including this essential one from Waveform Records.
Burnt Friedman is German recording artist Bernd Friedman who has a few dub-inspired albums out now.
Chris also records as Nu Ambient Grooves, he's scored several German films, and runs a record label.
Also hailing from Germany, producers Peter Heider and Florian Seyberth have released a few albums, remixed numerous tracks, and have a rather large discography.
Nightmares On Wax was founded in 1988, and includes Chris Dawkins and DJ E.A.S.E (George Evelyn) on this release. This track is dub-ier than their typical releases, which are more soul inspired.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for June 6, 2006
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for May 30, 2006
Written, Produced & Mixed by Ludovic Navarre, and released on Blue Note, St. Germain is a mixture of dub-inspired sampled rhythm and bass lines with live jazz musicians playing along.
Norwegian composer, producer and trumpet player, bring brass instruments to electronica. This album he released on experimental Jazz label ECM, but don't let that fool you, it's full of sampled beats and similar hallmarks of electronica.
Innersphere is David Hedger & Lindsay Edwards, prolific musicians, producers and remixers. Their Innersphere work largely dates from 1995 to 1997.
This series came from Israeli label Brand New Entertainment. Volume I originally released 1995, re-released in 2000 as a double CD with Vol 2.
This classic mid-90s chillout track, from a classic Instinct records compilation, also on a full album called 2001-2008. Now out of print, but you can still find copies used at many of the online CD stores. If you think you recognize the underlying bass line, you're correct. It's a sample from....
This is the track that Trancend's "2003" sampled for it's bass line. Released in 1972, (aka Theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey).
Brazilian jazz musician Eumir Deodato, it hit #2 on the Top 40 in the US back in the early seventies. His work is often cited as inspiration to many of the pioneers of Trip Hop styles, and it was sampled on many trip hop tracks like the last one we played.
This is from a compilation on AP Records from Germany. Chi A.D is the work of musician/producer Dave Young, who started out playing synths for death metal and primarily produces goa trance these days, but from time to time release a really chilled-out track like this one.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for May 23, 2006
Originally a member of Japanese electropop band Denki Groove, this is Yoshinori's second solo album, released in 1999.
One-hit wonders Funkhaus did this track which can be found on several compilations. Most likely Funkhaus is from Germany, but don't confuse them with another band called "Funk Haus".
Speedomeer is producer Jun Takayama based out of Osaka Japan. This track goes way back to 1997, it's from the "Private" album which is the only release domestic by Speedometer. Takayama has been doing lots of remixes as well.
Vienna based dZihan & Kamien released this track back in 1998 on vinyl through their label Couch records, and it came out on Six Degrees records in the US in 2000. The original vinyl release was called "No Pork Please" which I think was a poke at fellow downtempo label Pork Recordings.
PolyGroovers is the re-invention of the group PolyVinyl (who we've featured before), this is their 2nd downtempo album as PolyGroovers, which is composer and producer Konstantin Gredeskoul and collaborator Telene Johnston.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for May 15, 2006
Alamein is the brand new ambient project from Simon Heselev. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he now composes and records in his Santa Monica studio and does a lot of music for film and television, some of the tracks of this EP stem from music he did for the CSI TV show. If your local record store doesn't have it yet, you can find it on CD Baby and downloads at iTunes and other places.
Essa 3 is Darshan Jesrani & Manish Sehgal. Darshan is mostly involved with a much more uptempo project called "Metro Area" these days, and this album was their only release as Essa 3 back in the mid 90s.
I played another Puff Dragon track last week, and I liked this whole albumn so much I had to play some more. Puff Dragon is composer and producer Steve Good. Originally from Wales, now living in Japan. This is his first full release, from Dakini records. Steve is also featured on the Ultimae records "Fahrenheit Project Part 4."
Dub Plates From The Lamp is a compilation from Pork Recordings' founder and DJ David "Porky" Brennan. A Dub Plate is a short run vinyl "proof", and The Lamp is the club in Hull, UK that he spins at. So these are some of the demos and one-offs that have been the most popular during his gigs at the Lamp.
This is a breakthrough album that spawned tons of imitators and defined the "Hull sound". One of Pork Recordings' first ever releases but long out of print (still available used), it's now available as an iTunes download as well.
It's also available on a great compilation called "A Taste Of Pork" that came out on Quango records a while back and is still in print.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for May 8, 2006
This is Katarsis Lab's first release, State of Mind by Anesthesia, which is mostly musician and producer Giuseppe de Bellis, who has been creating music since 1991. Originally from Italy, then moved to Copenhagen, and finally to London, he formed Anesthesia in 1993. 'State of Mind' is Anesthesia's Third album release.
Puff Dragon is composer and producer Steve Good. Originally from Wales, now living in Japan. This is his first full release, from Dakini records, a Japanese label, it may be hard to track down their records in your local record store, but they have an online store which I ordered this CD from and it arrived pretty quickly. I love the internet!
Hibernation is London-based Seb Taylor, who also records as the Kaya Project and many other psuedonyms. A super prolific artist and remixer, I'd guess he's released over a hundered tracks so far in his career.
From the Cosmicleaf Records compilation, compiled by DJ and producer Nick Miamis. Zero Cult has a full length record called Art of Harmony that's coming out in a few weeks.
Padmasana is a collaboration between Gio Makyo and David Hikari. Another release from Dakini records, from way back in 1999.
Gio Makyo is actually Italian musician Giovanni Fazio, who lives in Tokyo and heads Dakini records.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for May 2, 2006
Paloma is the German duo of Hanno Leichtmann (of Static fame) & Hannes Strobl (who also records as Bassman).
We play "Funky Bones" from this 2003 compilation on Kriztal Records, but it's also available on their much harder to find Fabrique Records' album Sometimes We Love You Truly.
This is off a just released compilation Vajra (compiled by josko) from the Italian label Indica Music. MAUXUAM is a music producer as well as a VJ, he just did a VJ gig at the Soulclipse festival during the recent total solar eclipse in Turkey. Mauxuam also on the Liquid records release "Soul Vibration", and has done a DVD of visuals entitled "Dervish" which is due to be released soon.
Rivel is an independent artist and producer, based out of the Coachella Valley in the southern California desert, home to the Coachella music festival which just happened this weekend. He mixes dub-inspired melodies on top of ambient soundscapes with IDM-style production (lots of digital effects and edits).
Ahl-ul-bait roughly translates to 'people of the house', a term of endearment for greeting a group of people. From a 2003 compilation from Out Records, with music production by Mr. Goldfish & Muhammad Mehdi and working with guest vocalists (in particular, Sohan Lal on this track). You can download it for free from Out Records.
BEATLAB:DIGITAL is the moniker of producer Bruce Jamieson, from Wellington, New Zealand. Mellowgrounds is the debut compilation from Israel's Mighty Fat Records, which came out late in 2005. CDBaby.com also carries it, if you want to order it domestically.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for April 24, 2006
Royksopp is comprised of Norwegian artists Torbjšrn Brundtland and Svein Berge. This is from the album, Melody A.M., and was originally released in 2002, it was picked up domestically by Astrelwerks in 2003 and tracks from it were included on many compilations, and Rolling Stone included it as one of the "50 Best Albums of 2002".
Released on Coup De Grace records, UK native Rhodes keyboard player John Keston and Bay Area bass player Nils Westdal refer to their music as "jazz infiltrated downtempo" and "organic electronic music."
Aspen is New Zealand-based Bevan Smith, currently living in Londan, and this album, recorded over a long period of time in many different environments, is his explorations of the fusion of guitar based "indie rock" and electronica.
Originally from the album simply called "Album" released in 1998 on Elephant Electronic, This track is easiest to find on Interchill's 2002 compilation release, Infinessence
Dusseldorf-based producer Tomio Tremmel released this on Elektrolux records back in 1999. It shows up used from time to time on Amazon and a few other stores, but you'll have better luck buying it from one of the German online CD stores.
Released on UK's Just Music label, 24 year old musician and songwriter Jon Hopkins was born in London and began playing piano when he was just five years old, and by twelve he was studying piano at the Royal College of Music. He's joined by Imogen Heap providing vocals on some of the tracks as well, if you like this track you'll love the album.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for April 18, 2006
Written and produced by Jonas Quant, this came out on Dot records from Sweden (not to be confused with the vintage Dot label in the US). I played something else from this CD a few weeks ago, which reminded me how much I liked all the tracks on it, and wanted to play a little more for you.
Vienna based dZihan & Kamien, from 2002's Gran Riserva, featurng Ma. Dita on vocals.
International Peoples Gang is producer and composer Martyn Watson, & engineer and producer Ric Peet, both based in the UK.
This was just released on Emit records.
Producer and acoustic guitarist Christophe Goze is a very prolific artist,
probably due to the fact that he's a third generation professional musician.
Musician and producer Nacho Sotomayor, based out of Madrid and Ibiza, Spain, released
La Roca vol. 1 in 1999, and was the first of a series of 5 chillout CDs. The series was inspired by a small island near Ibiza called "the Rock".
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for April 11, 2006
This track is from a compilation produced by artist, DJ and Abysoma records founder Luis Junior, based in Madrid. Luis Vaquero is his real name, and he's quite well known in the Spanish electronic music scene.
This came out in the US on Guidance recordings, Nuspirit Helsinki is Finnish collective of DJ's, producers and musicians.
Leftfield is Neil Barnes and Paul Daley. Lately most of their work has been remixes, but this is a great track that originally came out in late 1999.
Kick-Bong is a psychedelic ambient project from French artist Franck Jousselin, from this Spirit Zone records compilation.
Another track on the compilation Futura from Abysoma records
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for March 27, 2006
Cantoma is Phil Mison, joined from time to time with some friends, but this track is just him. He also has a full length album out called Cantoma on the Music For Dreams label out of Denmark and was just released in the US on Quango records.
This is on a recent compilation also from Quango Records and long time ambient DJ and record producer Bruno Guez. Daniel Masson also does music for video games from Ubi Soft.
Sonargaon is also on the mix CD Buddha Bar VI: Rebirth, which I haven't heard, but they're generally good releases.
On Schema records from Italy, Luca Pernici & Giulio Vetrone. It's also on a compliation called your LOUNGE your music 4, compiled by Enrico Riva
This is a pre-release track we got from emit records, it's due out in mid april, so you'll only have to wait a few more weeks. International Peoples Gang is producer and composer Martyn Watson, & engineer and producer Ric Peet, both based in the UK.
Liquid stranger is Martin Staaf, who describes his music as "Cosy ballads and sonic deep sea dystopia"
Earth Octave Lounge Vol. 2 is a compilation out on Canada's Interchill Records, released in the second half of 2005, and it was compiled by Gordon Field.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for March 21, 2006
This track also shows up sometimes listed as 299ml (milk). I'm sure it's some metric translation issue.
Kyoto, Japan based artist Rei Harakami released this track way back in 1999. He was really ahead of his time.
From Japan's Sublime Records. Rei has a blog, but it's all in Japanese, so it's a bit hard for me to read.
We just got this in the mail last week, on a new compilation from Native State Records called Beneath The Surface.
Marconi Union is a reclusive Manchester, UK-based duo who are now signed to Brian Eno's All Saints label. (Which should tell you something about how good their music is.)
Producer Kevin Dooley brings us this track. It's on Waveform Records.
Sounds From The Ground is London based producers Nick Woolfson and Elliot Morgan Jones, joined on this release by "dub maestro" Dillinger, also from Waveform records.
Written and produced by Jonas Quant, this came out on Dot records from Sweden (not to be confused with the vintage Dot label in the US).
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for March 14, 2006
Austrian-based Tosca is Richard Dorfmeister & Rupert Huber, this came out on Studio !K7 recordings from Germany last year.
This CD is hard to find new now, but it's a great compilation out of Austria and I just checked and there are some inexpensive used copies on Amazon right now.
New York based Etro Anime is an actual group with several members, something not always common with this kind of music.
This came out in late 2003 on Entry 1 Records
M-Seven is Montreal-based producer Maurizio Nalli
This compilation out on Canada's Interchill Records records in the second half of 2005, and it was compiled by Gordon Field, who has put together quite a few excellent compilations on Interchill. He's got a full length release called 'activate' available from CD Baby.
New from Native State Records, this just arrived in the mail today. A really nicely chilled compilation, just the thing to listen to before going to bed.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for March 7, 2006
The track, Medusa, by Skin 4, is available on a compilation Irma Records released back in 1999. There were some tracks on it that were very hard to find here in the US. The original album this track by Skin 4 is from is called "Nail, Foot & Skincare", released in Italy.
London-based Producer, songwriter, DJ and multi-instrumentalist Nitin Sawhney released this track, Bengali Song, back in 1996 on his album "Displacing The Priest" which was released on Outcaste Records. I'm playing it right now off an compilation called "Chillout voices" but it's on numerous compilations as well.
Palm Skin Productions is producer Simon Richmond, this track, "The Beast" remixed by Autecher, is on a Mo Wax CD5 release called The Beast Remixes. It's also on a really good older compilation called "A Journey into Ambient Groove, Phase 3" which came out on Quango Records a few years back.
Shen is Toronto-based producer Noah Pred, and this release is called "Stonehouses". It's on a new compilation from Native State Records and compiled by veteran electronica producer Evan Bluetech. If you like this track, you'll like the whole album.
Hardfloor is the german duo of Oliver Bondzio & Ramon Zenker. In this classic track, they demonstrate their mastery of the Roland TB303, an electronic music instrument that became the mainstay of acid trance. But their release are more varied than just dance beats, as they demonstrate with this ambient groove track called Dubdope.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for February 28, 2006
Released in 2001 on Water Music Records. Electric Skychurch is Songwriter and producer James Lumb, often along with some friends and collaborators. Currently based in Los Angeles, Electric Skychurch has been around since the early 90s, and their music can range from ambient to dance.
Hefner's Reworks release is a disc of other artist's tracks that producer Lee Jones has remixed, or more accurately, reworked. It's out on Inertia Records from the UK, a bit hard to track down in the states.
Swag is the UK duo Chris Duckenfield & Richard Brown, who have released 50 or more tracks over the last 10 years. This is a track that came out in 2001, on San-Francico-based OM records. It's an older track, but Swag is typcically on the cutting edge of music production so it doesn'ts show it's age.
I picked this CD up in Barcelona when I was there a couple years ago, but it's pretty widely available now. Soulstance is the artist, Blue Grasslan is the track from this Eastern-music inspired chillout compilation from the UK's Ministry of Sound. And if you can't find that, it's also on Guidance Recording's Hi-Fidelity Lounge - Volume Three
Netherlands-based Alex Cortiz brings us a track called Afterworld, from the Magnifico CD release on Coast To Coast records.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for February 21, 2006
| Dream |
Exstus |
(not yet released) |
From Austin Texas, Exstus is producer Bart Landry. Dream is a track he sent us from his upcoming album which he hopes to have relesed this spring. Until then, Groove Salad on SomaFM.com is one of the only places you can hear it, but maybe soon he'll put it on his site at
Long time San Francisco based Funk producers THE WARHEADS teamed up with master Indian flutist Deepak Ram, mixing their beats with Deepak's Bansuri (wooden flutes) playing. They call the project "Funk 'n Gandhi" and this track is "From her voice".
Israeli artist Mo-Shic has released quite a few dance records and is well known in the dance scene, but this is his first full CD, actually a double CD. One CD is all progressive dance tracks, the other CD is downbeat tracks. Salamat in Arabic means Peace and is used as a greeting.
Oforia is goa trace producer Ofer Dikovsky, who proves he can produce some equally chilled out tracks as well as full on goa trance tracks. This track, Day Dream, is only available on the YoYo Records compilation called Life Is...Creation
Polyvinyl is San Francisco producer Konstantin Gredeskoul, who currently records as one half of PolyGroovers. But "Real Illusion" is one of his older tracks, and still one of my favorites. Konstantin told me he recorded the entire song using a single software package running on a laptop, and demonstrates just how much you can do with a lot of creativity and a bit of gear. It's only available online now.
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for February 16, 2006
A dowload only track from Fila Brazillia on 23 Records
Solo project by Dave McSherry of Fila Brazillia, This is out on CD as well as a downlaod from 23 Records, as a high bitrate MP3s without any DRM or copy protection.
This is a rare and hard to find release from German producer Chris Zippel who is making his older work available online again.
From his 2001 german release which was just re-released along with some bonus tracks in the US on Domino.
Dutch artist Sander van Oirschot, who has released quite a large number of tracks and remixes online during his 8 year career. You can find more of his music at sinq.org
Groove Salad Taste of the Week for February 7, 2006
Revenir from the album Helping Hand, by the french duet Man, released on Sub Rosa records. It's their third album in six years, and the album is very eclectic going from deep ambient to experimental to alt-pop.
Talvin by Patchwork (the name that producer Jens Paulsen records as). This is from the 1998 album Odeon which is sadly now out of print and hard to find. I've had good luck with Half.com in the past, or you can also try Gemm.com.
Chilly by TNT Recordings from the album simply entitled, TNT, just arrived in the mail last week. They tell me it's available on both itunes for download and cdbaby.com if you want a real CD. TNT is a group of producers, consisting of guitarist Nigel Watson, bassist Tom Dean, and keyboardist Tate North.
| Ambala | Dzihan & Kamien | Fakes |
Fakes is a disk of remixes, including remixes of artists such as Billie Holiday, Nitin Sawhney, Serge Gainsbourg. This track is a remix of Nepali percussionist Pramod Upadhyaya's song Ambala.
| Intruder | Heights Of Abraham | two thousand and six |
Heights of Abraham is Steve Cobby of Fila Brazilla, Simeon Lister, who runs Twentythree Records, Fila Brazilla's record label. They're joined by Jake Harries on vocals.
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