Track List

1. Povarovo – J.S Bach
2. Teargas & Plateglass – Plague Burial
3. Leila – Mettle
4. Amon Tobin – Chomp Samba
5. Moondog – Why Spend the Dark Night With You
6. Al Chem – No Hopper
7. Instituto Mexicano del Sonido – Tristeza Hawaiana
8. King Midas Sound – Cool Out
9. Wangtone – Bi Ma Wen
10. Einstuerzende Neubauten – Weil Weil Weil
11. Moondog – Bird’s Lament
12. Django Reinhardt – Minor Swing
13. Sibot – Expect Everyone
14. Rukus Roboticus – Everlasting Ghettoblasting Gobstopper

Jason Webley is a Seattle-born singer-songwriter known for playing a mix of gypsy, folk, and punk. He has released five albums on his own label, Eleven Records. These feature Webley on the piano, guitar, accordion, and a number of other instruments, though when touring he only brings his guitar, accordion, and a vodka bottle containing coins from around the world, which he uses for percussion.

In high school Webley played in a punk band called Moral Minority. He picked up the accordion in 1996 in his last year in college at the University of Washington when he was part of a performance of Bertolt Brecht’s play The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and wrote a couple songs for the play on the accordion. He later recalled, “I was just a geeky kid; accordion came later. It’s since playing accordion that I’ve become cool. I used to be a geek with an electric guitar. I had a guitar and played in punky bands and I had a computer. I sequenced stuff. I was much geekier.”

Webley is the brains behind the Monsters of Accordion tour, an all-accordion extravaganza that takes place on the West Coast. The tour came together when Webley was invited to play at an accordion shop in Oakland, and met two Bay Area accordionists, Daniel Ari and Aaron Seeman. They decided to do a little accordion only tour, which was the first Monsters of Accordion. The tour has since featured such accordionist as Corn Mo, Geoff Berner, Amy Denio, Mark Growden, (former Gogol Bordello member) Stevhen Iancu, and Eric Stern (frontman of Vagabond Opera).

Icarus (with Amanda Palmer from Dresden Dolls):

Check also this amazing street performance of Icarus here.

Kitchen video clips:

MySpace, LastFM, Facebook, iLike, Internet Archive, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube channel, Official page.

J.S. Bach:

New born:

Nothing going:

Ronald:

Dead fish:

Black Powder:

MySpace, LastFM, Official page.

More great music, on their website

Mira and Laurent -- a fashion model from Finland and soundtrack musician from France. Austere, minimal music made with voice and acoustic guitars and other very sparse orchestrations.

Mi and L’au met in Paris a few years back. Mi is Finnish and was working as a model to make ends meet and L’au (who’s French) was working in the music industry (soundtracks). They fell deeply and immediately in love, and after a short period of moving from apartment to apartment in Paris, they gave everything up and decided to move in a small cabin in woods in Finland, so they could be alone together in peace and spend their time discovering each other and their music. (last.fm).

Ten Kingdoms

Transparent

Dancing and smiling

MySpace

Killa is a girl. Yep, a DJesse.  She’s cool. Check her MySpace. Great scratches and samples.

Airships

Four harts

Metal Berry

Snakes & Tea

Nighttime and morning with Anthony Hagerty

Desert Cathedral

Pale Dog

Disparu

Myspace

Pitchfork review for the Desert Doughnuts album

Vid vorum smá

Himininn er ad hrynja, en störnurnar fara pér vel

More after the jump…

Haust

FOK

This is not his, but it sounds like a heavy, cold, mind blowing winter on your soul

Erla’s Waltz

Some heavy classical music

In April 2009, Iceland’s neo-classical export Ólafur Arnalds created the 7-song series ‘Found Songs’ –
recording a song a day for 7 days and instantly making each track available via Twitter. With artwork contributions
from fans via Flickr, this modern release awakens memories of a tradition that seemed lost in the digital age we live in.

You can listen to these tracks and also download for free here

Myspace

Twitter

Website

Dan “the Automator” Nakamura is the brain behind many of the best hip-hop acts of the last 20 years, such as: Lovage, Handsome Modeling School, Gorillaz, Peeping Tom and he mingles along the likes of Mike Patton, Prince Paul, Dj Shadow, etc.

Kid Koala is …. Kid Koala -- the turntable master, signed to Ninja Tunes and constant inovator, mixing turntables, games and graphics into a big ball of fun.

Del tha Funkee Homosapien is that voice that you will never forget but never quite put your finger where you heard it for the first time. Well I’ll spare you the effort of googling it: he is Gorrilaz’s Del from Clint Eastwood & Rock The House. But he’s also a regular on many underground hip-hop acts, such as Jurassic 5, Handsome Boy Modeling School, etc.

Important info: The song Time Keeps On Slipping, featuring Damon Albarn, is said to have been the influence on the creation of the Gorillaz.

In this formula, Deltron 3030 is born, telling the story of Deltron Zero’s fight against an oppressive government and powerful corporations, while also battling to be the Galactic Rhyme Federation Champion.

Madness

Time keeps on slipping (with Damon Albarn <3).

3030

Turbulance

Love Story

Memory Loss

Myspace

12345

Super evil me

Expect everyone

Who Split the beans on the dance floor

Nice one George

Granny scratch -- a little kid koala influence-just a tiny bit…

I give you my love

Pull you back

Bang on the drum

Hello Flat Foot Have You Had Your Fish Yet

Get clean

Meribeth Old

Sixatesix

Octivebyoctive

Itch Cross over RetroSpective

Only doin a bit lads

Strhaff Tak

Folland

Shoulder Crawl Remix

Mums the word

Chilli Pick Your Nose

Buyline

Badder Than