Idyllic Music Podcast

Trip Hop - Electronica - Downtempo

Episode 109

Welcome to the Idyllic Music Podcast featuring the melodic and rhythmic, the charmingly simple and deceptively complex.

Idyllic Music can be Trip Hop or Ambient, Jazz, Dub or Downtempo. In short, headphone electronica. Music as cool as a gentle summer stream.

This week, it's another globetrotting episode of Idyllic Music as we find inspiration in 3 continents in a mashup from 5 countries including Italy, Senegal, The U.S. Sweden and the Netherlands. We'll hear from Ten and Tracer, l’ Orchestre A-Dakar, Black Era, MarinuZz and Please. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin stateside in Denver with Ten and Tracer and the pastoral electronica of 'A Distant Monarch'

Hear more great sounds at myspace.com/archaichorizon or tenandtracer.com

Mola, Baz and Frans are l’Orchestre A-Dakar. Their musical alchemy melds the best of Western Europe with West Africa. This is 'LayLay'

Find more from this creative multi-cultural force at myspace.com/orchestreadakar

Italian Trip-Hopists Black Era make a return to the podcast with a Floydian instrumental called 'Shielded'

There is more to discover at www.aquietbump.com/blackera

From Rotterdam, MarinuZz is 'Daydreaming'

Hear more at www.electrobel.nl

Based in Malmö, Sweden, Please creates delicate and stark electronic pop music with subtle hooks and warm harmonies. From their Suture EP this is 'Signal to Noise

Hear the rest of Suture at www.myspace.com/pleasesweden

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Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

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