These are all reviews and articles tagged with "Jazz".
Category: Drum and Bass | Electronica-Indietronic | IDM | Jazz
Jazz meets Drum’n'Bass | Bitbasic’s new album Sprinkling Rainbows, released on Monotonik, delves deep into the world of smooth and funky Jazz stylings, in a follow up the 2007 “Grating Rainbows EP”. This is an album of deft and clever combinations that soothe and then surprise the listener, as exquisite jazz chords and chromatics give [...]
Category: Jazz
Jazzy Smokin Loops | Turn on your delicate hifi soundsystem, free a cigar out of its cuban box, lean back in your rocking chair and lit up the tobacco. Mentz is here to trip with you on some wonky and crackling jazz loops collected from dusty records. Feel the phlow while old memories pass by [...]
Category: Jazz
Smooth, Melancholic, Jazzy | Jazzy drums, a regular bass line, a sound somewhere between an oboe and a clarinet – but is in fact an accordion: “Woody Allen” has arrived to the set. And there it was, a tiny impression that something mysterious is about to happen. Some suspense, please. Evgeny Grinko – “Woody Allen” [...]
Smooth Downbeats | Like his other label mates on Budabeats Netlabel M.W.D. loves Hip Hop, samples, Jazz and crackling vinyl. In comparison with the excellent release by Suhov who delivers rolling rhythms to dance, the drums of M.W.D. sound lighter, smoother. His approach on instrumental Downbeats is more cinematic and relaxed. The DJ from Hungary [...]
Category: Hip Hop
Mexican Hip Hop Adventures| Oh, this one is fresh! Straight from Mexico Hip Hop-Group Menuda Coincidencia delivers us a delicious package full of jazzy loops, a bucket full of trumpets and eight groovy tunes. It’s like watching an entertaining cartoon. Or like going down to your favorite jazz club just being knocked down by this [...]
Postpunk Teenage Surf Twang | There we go with a record very likely to enter my 2008 top ten! Rock-orientated Netaudio has become rather usual these days, but this precious lo-fi gem is something special. Brian Wilson-style vocal melodies, jazzy chords on guitars that sound like metal-rimmed glasses and a lot of (North) American Indiepop [...]
