Knee Deep In The Beats:

Junkies Bad Trip:

The London Funk Allstars were Jason Tunbridge aka Mad Doctor X, Stefan Turner and Francis J Carter.

Old Skool Reunion:

Funky Sweater:

U.J.:

Flesh Eating Disco Zombies Vs. The Bionic Hookers From Mars:

Mad Love:

Booyakka:

There’s Only One F In Funk:

According to Wikipedia:

Mad Doctor X, the undercover alter-ego of hip-hop veteran DJ Jason Tunbridge (aka Xavier Jones, Funk Wizard Jay Rock, DJ Jason, Monty Props) has been busy working in the lab conducting his illicit experiments and concocting his ill beats in various disguises ever since: London Funk Allstars and DJ Toolz on Ninja Tune, Clusterfunk on Cooltempo, and most recently as Mad Doctor X on Freskanova. He may also be familiar as the man providing all the scratches on The Freestylers’ recent records.

London Funk Allstars is the fruit of a collaboration between a bunch of musicians/DJ’s/Producers/Mixers already responsible for various projects including Clusterfunk and DJ Toolz and all those releases on Blaaps!. The link between all these is Jason, who was (is) part of all these projects.

For the London Funk Allstars projects, Jason teamed up with long time friends and musicians (keyboard, bass, flute…) and the debut EP Can You Understand arrived in March 1995. This was closely followed by the release of London Funk Allstars Vol. One, packed with samples, breaks, jazzy cuts, laid back hip-hop and even a hint of acid.

At the time Ninja Tune were catching vapours from a pretentious competitor label called Mo’ Wax. Pete played the groundbreaking DJ Krush album Strictly Turntablized to the Doc and felt the London Funk Allstars could sell to a new market of instrumental album buyers of the now vilified Trip hop market.

The album was very well received by DJ’s, punters and press. ..Genius..!! was used by music loving DJ and journalist Willbur Wilberforce in his review of London Funk Vol I for Touch magazine.
“Armed with samples from Gang Starr, Barry White, The Six Million Dollar Man and the video game Street Fighter, the London Funk Allstars add quite a bit of jazzy spice to their funky breaks and hip-hop influenced beats.” (Jessy Terry) London Funk Allstars want to give a big slap to the hip hop genre, giving the London version of the thing. Indeed, London Funk Volume 1 is a small wonder that inspired hip hop turns in all directions.

“I really wanted to have some rap tracks in amongst the instrumentals. I thought that people who bought Ninja Tune releases, that were basically hip hop backings, would want to hear the tracks laced with raps. I wanted to bring in emcees and singers to give my tracks wider appeal.” The Doc was told Ninja Tune was not a rap label. Ironic when you look at its output today.

The second album Flesh Eating Disco Zombies Vs. The Bionic Hookers From Mars, is more musician based than the first album, and includes, William George on vocals, John Miles on flute, Alan Simpson on guitar, Stefan on keyboards and Sir Hugo Havern on brass. It is warm and funky and has a sound resolutely melodic and live orientated.

The 2nd and the last London Funk Allstars album was released on Ninja Tune and the overspill of tracks was released simultaneously on Blapps!’ through Ninja Tunes distribution and was the 1st Mad Doctor X album Mad Doctor X’s Hip Hop Experiments Escape From The Lab And Go On The Rampage Volume 1.

Links: MySpace, LastFM, Wikipedia.

Shadows:

Palace of the Tigger Woman:

Lobby:

The Nothing changes:

Goya:

Patra (Saint Vitus cover):

Twisted Horizons:

The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (TKDE) formed in 2000 as a project to compose new music for existing silent movies. Jason Köhnen (aka Bong-Ra) and Gideon Kiers, both graduates of the Utrecht School of Arts, combined their audio and visual skills to reinterpret classic movies by F.W. Murnau (Nosferatu) and F. Langs (Metropolis).

In 2004 UK trombonist Hilary Jeffery and Swiss cellist Nina Hitz joined TKDE to record the self-titled debut album which was released on Planet Mu Records in May 2006. The ensuing tour saw Eelco Bosman and Paris based vocalist Charlotte Cegarra join, forming the Ensemble into a sextet. London based violinist Sadie Anderson joined in 2008 to supply the group with extra power on stage.

Apart from the mothership which is TKDE, there is another entity; The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation is a live improv jazz/ drone/ doom side project consisting of TKDE members and a host of interchanging guest musicians.

Succubus (by the TKDE alter ego: The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation)

MySpace, LastFM, Facebook, YouTube, Official page.

About him? He is a german-born DJ and he is very into brazilian sounds…as you will easyly notice…

go to his site:

http://www.ianpooley.com/

I heard this beautifull song on the world first non official short movie shot with the Canon EOS 5D MarkII “Tokyo Reality” (by David Michaud & Florent Porta):

For some this song reminds of DJ Shadow, for me it reminds of Planeta Moldova, and more exactly “Ermetic -- Intre patru scanduri”:

Kraked Unit is a french based music production company founded in 2000 by french composer and DJ Loïc Dury in collaboration with other musicians and composers.Loïc Dury was the radio show producer of Novamix at Radion Nova between 1987 -- 1997.

Links: Official page, Wikipedia, LastFM, iLike, MySpace.

Knee Deep

Just for a day

Life rain fall

http://www.tmjuke.co.uk/

http://www.last.fm/music/Pogo

The next song wasn’t in the concert, but it has something that reminds me of the days I used to listen to Karmacoma up to 20 times a day.

False Flags

If you didn’t know already (like me, for example), Peace Orchestra is the solo project of the Viennese trip-hop-dub producer Peter Kruder, best known as one half of Kruder & Dorfmeister.

As a coincidence, during a recent trip, domnux had on his ipod, this other nice song from Peace Orchestra:

Who am I (from the Animatrix soundtrack)

Peace orchestra’s second album Reset (2002) consisted in remixes, the most popular being El Hombre (originally by Gotan Project).

This is the part where all the girls start to scream. Ahhhhhhh!!!!

FSOL is a prolific british electronic music band often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music.

More clips: Antique Toy, Smoking Japanese Babe, Far Out Son Of Lung, Amoeba, My Kingdom (one of the perfect songs from my point of view), Cascade, Lifeforms (with Liz Fraizer), Max, Kai, Papua New Guinea, We have explosive, Snake Hips, Expander, Domain, Art Futura.

Links:
- Official page
- MySpace page
- Wikipedia page
- LastFM page

Istanbul

Strung out (extremely nice turntable and romanian traditional music samples)

Dreamer

Go-go killer

Snow

Backini began in 2004 with the release of first album ‘Threads’. The album was produced by Rob Quickenden using random old samples carefully nicked from charity shop records. This randomness led to a quirky, off-beat style with lots of humor and a slightly dark edge, especially when layered with fat beats, bass and synth sounds. Rob decided to form a band to perform his tunes live and started with guitarist Jeff Bruce-Hay (who had co-written a few tracks on ‘Threads’) and drummer Kristian Cockburn. The band has now developed in to a nine piece extravaganza.

MySpace

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