Idyllic Music

Idyllic Music Podcast

Trip Hop - Electronica - Downtempo

Episode 116

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, we'll examine the creative process. Painter Kimberly Brooks offers up and octet of stages of which six match the songs on this episode of Idyllic Music. They are Vision and Hope. Excitement, Clarity, Obsession and Resolution. Look for these in music of Screenatorium, Lasswell, Synthetic, Electric Hippies, Fauna and Endlos. I'm Jim Nye

We'll begin in Lyon with trip hop trio Screenatorium from their Blue Morning EP. This is 'Memories'

Sample much more for from these guys www.myspace.com/screenatorium

Lasswell takes a turn now at remixing another cool Trifonic track. Here is 'Pink Clouds'

Find more more at ccmixter.org Up next Denver's Synthetic teams with Wisconsin cellist Heather Anderson and Dutch graphic artist and mixer Norbert Croonenberg for this variation of 'Old man in a Teahouse' called 'You Know'

 

 

Hear the other four versions at ouim.net Here are Electric Hippies with SilviaO and 'Trampa Animal'

Find more at ccmixter.org

Here is another great track from Fauna called '14th floor'

Download this release for free at homework.polarnet.ru or www.myspace.com/faunaproject

 

We'll close with Leipzig-based duo Endlos and a live track called 'Renne durch dein Leben.

Find more at www.endlos-toene.de

Visit the Cornershop where you can help support many of the artists you hear on Idyllic Music by buying a song or CD from them.

There is also a book corner with where you can browse through 20 great music books including Miles Davis's autobiography and the Trouser Press Guide to Music.

And look for all 4 Volumes of The Idyllic Music iMix.

Thanks for listening. I'm Jim Nye.

 

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