All tracks written, produced, and mixed by Trifonic. Track 1: Co-written and co-produced by MindBuffer. Tracks 2 and 7: Co-written, co-produced, and vocal performances by BRML. Track 4: Additional mixing by John Rodd Track 8: Remixed by Hecq. Mastered by Mike Wells. Album image: "Freeway" by Jeremy Geddes.
Tracklist :
1.Nightrun (feat. MindBuffer) 04:18 2.Life In Here (feat. BRML) 04:53 3.Ninth Wave 07:02 4.Baalbek 07:37 5.Santa Rosa 06:13 6.Calling 03:21 7.Forget (feat. BRML) 06:09 8.Baalbek (Hecq Remix) 04:59
Country : France Genre : DJ , Electronic Style : Minimalist , Techno , Experimental
Label : In Paradisum Year : 2013
Mondkopf est un artiste rare dans le paysage électronique. Parce que s’il ne renonce jamais à la fonction primitive de sa techno –la danse-, il la construit avec une telle profondeur et une telle minutie mélodique qu’il explose le cadre un peu étroit du « producteur de son ». Après deux ans d'une tournée qu il’a conduit à ouvrir pour Aphex Twin, il a présenté à la Cité de la musique Eclipse, un set audiovisuel élaboré avec le collectif de designer Trafik. Il a édité cette année pas moins de cinq maxis sur son label In Paradisum dont son propre Ease your pain, avant de rejoindre Perc Trax pour The Nicest Way EP.Source
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Country : Spain Genre : Post Metal , Instrumental Style : Post Rock , Hard Rock , Electronic , Experimental
Label : Sacramento Records Year : 2013
Deviante est un trio sévillan composé de Raúl Delgado (Guitare), Manuel Jiménez (Batterie) et de Jose Alcántara Jiménez (basse). Il est communément classé post rock, style commode à utiliser car difficile à définir qui permet parfois de qualifier une musique difficilement classable. Il faut tout de même orienter un peu nos fidèles lecteurs et dresser l'esquisse de ce qu'est ce groupe espagnol. Deviante officie dans une musique instrumentale qui met très en avant la guitare. Celle-ci est assez souvent claire ou à peine saturée, ce qui permet de distinguer et d'apprécier l'alternance d'arpèges et d'accords souvent riches. Le ton est plus metal et agressif à plusieurs occasions. 'Kubishev' est par exemple assez nerveux. Les six longs morceaux (de 7 à 10 minutes) permettent à Raùl Delgado de développer ses rythmiques et surtout ses mélodies conférées dans une ambiance minimaliste mais toutefois soignée. 'El Hadès' est en grande partie planante dans une tradition assez progressive. La musique n'est pas ennuyeuse car les variations de rythmes et le nombre important de lignes distinctes présentes au sein d'un même titre permettent d'assurer la variété, de susciter la curiosité et de donner de l'intérêt. La basse n'est pas toujours audible si ce n'est sur 'Obelos A Caron' qui se construit lentement avec un aspect plus groovy apporté justement par le son plus présent de cet instrument. Certains brefs passages, breaks ou riffs, où la guitare est plus en retrait autorisent également l'expression ponctuelle de la basse. La batterie révèle un son assez organique qui donne un peu l'impression que "Voronia" a été enregistrée dans un garage, ce qui ne nuit pas à la créativité mais un peu au professionnalisme et à l'impression d'ensemble donnée par la production. Fort de ses qualités mélodiques, Deviante est tout de même un peu un OVNI compte tenu de la simplicité et de son caractère épuré mais surtout de sa musique inclassable entre rock planant et prog rock classieux et intimiste. Ce qui importe finalement c'est ce réel talent de composition et d'exécution. Toutefois une production plus aboutie et un travail d'arrangement approfondi auraient pu porter Deviante dans une autre dimension.Source
Tracklist :
01. Timaeus Et Critias (08:54) 02. Gagra (07:33) 03. Kubishev (06:56) 04. Obelos A Caron (09:16) 05. El Hades (10:32) 06. Atlantis (06:57)
Country : U.S.A Genre : Abstract Electro Style : Electronic , Ambient , Downtempo , Trip Hop
Label : Loci Records
Fin 2008, je découvre Emancipator dans une compile Trip-hop et là coup de foudre. Les basses bien douces, les voix, le rythme simple mais parfaitement maitrisés et ces belles lignes de guitares m'ont immédiatement conquis. Lors d'un voyage au USA je suis même allé à Portland pour voir son premier show en première partie de Bonobo live (imaginez l'affiche) pour finir à une soirée chez lui en compagnie de ses colloc'. Puis un 2e album, dans la même lignée, moins surprenant mais des titres comme Rattlesnake m'ont rappelé la qualité de l'artiste. Et enfin le 3e album qui, sans être mauvais (Minor cause est certainement une de ses meilleurs création) ne sort pas assez des sentiers battus. La construction de l'album est exactement le même que les précédant, cela finit par tourner trop rapidement en rond. Ces voix, qui faisaient le charmes de son premier album finissent par être agaçantes voire vraiment chiantes. Néanmoins tout n'est pas à jeter, la mélodie de saxo de The Way est superbe et Afterglow est assez jolie mais... il y a un petit quelque chose qui ne permet pas à l'album de rester aussi bon que ses prédécesseurs..Source
Tracklist :
01 Minor Cause 02 Valhalla 03 Merlion 04 Outlaw 05 Dusk to Dawn 06 The Way 07 Afterglow 08 Eve II 09 Natural Cause 10 Galapagos
Minor Cause - Ilya Goldberg (violin, viola), Jamie Janover (hammered dulcimer), Madeline Hawthorne (vocals) Valhalla - Ilya Goldberg (violin) Merlion - Ilya Goldberg (violin) Dusk to Dawn - Derek Van Scoten (mandolin, guitar), Thacher Schmid (violin, viola) The Way - Dominic Lalli (saxophone), Cedar Miller (percussion), Thacher Schmid (violin) Afterglow - Cedar Miller (percussion) Eve II - Eve Grice (vocals) Natural Cause - Marcus Marino (piano), Ilya Goldberg (violin) Galapagos - Rena Jones (cello) Most other instruments by Doug Appling Mixed by Doug Appling Additional mixing by Ilya Goldberg Mastered by Nick Moon at Tone Proper Studios Album photo by Owen Miller
Country : Deutschland Genre : Electronic Style : Ambient , Experimental , Electronic , Neo-Classical , Minimal
Label - Sonic Pieces
Tracklist :
01 - The Conversation 02 - Maelbeek 03 - Manami 04 - Soylent Green (1973) 05 - Poem From A Rooftop 06 - A Bout De Souffle 07 - Rattle 08 - Au Botanique 09 - Nr. 12
Country : U.K Genre : Trip Hop Style : Electronic , Experimental , IDM , Dubstep
ARTWORK BY : Dan Tassell of Factory Fifteen Label : Monotreme Records
Tracklist :
1. I Would Rather Explode (5:02) 2. Post Six (5:06) 3. Violaceae (4:53) 4. Havana Nights (5:40) 5. Dusk Till Dawn (3:08) 6. Float (6:49) 7. Land Leviathan (1:52) 8. TMA (3:03) 9. here.now.here (5:21) 10. Home (6:18)
Origine du Groupe : Turkey , Canada Style : Alternative Fusion World Music , Electronic Ethno
Discography :
Sufi Dreams (Golden Horn 1998)
Journeys of a Dervish (Golden Horn 1999)
Seyahatname (Doublemoon 2001)
Nar (Doublemoon 2002)
Fusion Monster (Numoon 2004) (as DJ Arkin Allen)
Su (Doublemoon 2003) (23 July 2003)
Sufi Traveler (High Times 2004)
Nefes (Doublemoon 2007) (22 June 2007)
800 (Doublemoon 2007) (5 November 2007)
Mercan Dede (born Arkın Ilıcalı, 1966, Bursa, Turkey), also known as DJ Arkin Allen, is a Turkish composer, ney and bendir player, DJ and producer. He divides his time between Turkey, Europe and North America. He is a world music artist, playing a fusion of traditional acoustic Turkish and other oriental musics with electronic sounds.
Dede was born to a working class and secular parents in Bursa.[1]
He moved to Istanbul from Bursa to study journalism and photography in Istanbul University. Upon his graduation, he received scholarship from University of Saskatchewan and moved to Montreal, Canada.[1][2]
Career
The Mercan Dede ensemble was founded in 1997,[3] by which time Arkın had been working as a musician for some years. Their first album was Sufi Dreams, released in 1998. This album got a boost when the music was used in a German television documentary on Sufi music.
In 2001 he released his third album, Seyahatname, which means "travelogue" in old Turkish, evokes the era of the great caravanserai crossing Anatolia on the silk road. The sound of the ney goes back to this period, and the music aspires to the spirit of the mystic Sufi poets of that time, such as Mevlana. Dede describes the sound of the ney as "a pure, universal spiritual sound" evoking deep feelings, deeper than we can comprehend in just our short time on earth. The ney "speaks the language of love, instantly comprehensible in the heart, compared to which all the mosques, churches, temples built to decorate (our spirituality) drift away". The album is Dede's personal effort to reflect on his own spiritual journey.[4]
His 2002 album Nâr (which means "fire" in Turkish) continued in the same vein. In 2004 he released Su ("water") stayed at number one on European World Music Charts for two months. The album was recorded with an international line-up of musicians and has more vocals on it than the previous works. One track featuring folk singer Sabahat Akkiraz was particularly popular in Turkey. Dede made his U.S. debut at the first Globalfest that year, followed by a North American tour and the release of the album Fusion Monster under the name 'Arkin Allen', which has a slightly different twist on his familiar sound. He was commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Culture as the music director of the Guldestan project to represent Turkish culture and arts all around the globe, working alongside choreographer Beyhan Murphy.
The February 2007 album Nefes ("breath") included Transglobal Underground sitar player Sheema Mukherjee in the line-up. The album includes spoken songs in Turkish, Arabic, and French.
His sound incorporates traditional instruments and ney from Turkey and other parts of the world, with horns, dance beats, ambient electronic music, and a Sufi spirituality. The name Mercan Dede itself evokes Sufism as "Dede" is the word for 'elder' in the Sufi traditions, although the name Mercan Dede was taken from a character in a modern Turkish novel. Dede composes his own music, some of which is rhythmic, some new age.
He plays with groups of various sizes and fluctuating membership: the Mercan Dede Trio, the Mercan Dede Ensemble, and the Secret Tribe. The instrumentation used includes electronics and elements of classical Turkish music such as the ney (which he plays himself), percussion, violin, and zither. The groups often include Montreal-based percussionist Scott Russell, Canadian violinist Hugh Marsh, and Turkish clarinetist Hüsnü Şenlendirici. The shows often include men and women in Sufi costume doing Sufi whirling.
Dede works as a DJ under the name Arkın Allen, specialising in music related to that of his live groups, in this case house and techno dance music with an oriental flavour.[5]
Dede has been criticised by Turkish music purists for not being steeped in the Sufi traditions and for not properly representing Sufism in his music and writings.[6] Another criticism is that the whirling dancers he uses to accompany his shows do not accurately display the correct dervish routines. However, as more than a ney player, working just as often as a DJ as performing live in concert, with an audience consisting of clubbers, not Islamic scholars, Dede aims to synthesise several different traditions rather than recreate a historically pure music.
Discography
Sufi Dreams (Golden Horn 1998)
Journeys of a Dervish (Golden Horn 1999)
Seyahatname (Doublemoon 2001)
Nar (Doublemoon 2002)
Fusion Monster (Numoon 2004) (as DJ Arkin Allen)
Su (Doublemoon 2003) (23 July 2003)
Sufi Traveler (High Times 2004)
Nefes (Doublemoon 2007) (22 June 2007)
800 (Doublemoon 2007) (5 November 2007)
Achievements
His album 800 was selected as the World's Best World Music Album of 2008 by WOMEX!
Mercan Dede has been nominated by BBC 3 Awards for World Music in the Middle East and North Africa category twice and three times in the Club Global category.
Su stayed at #1 spot for two months on the European World Music Charts
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