The big big Bleep list

Every year one of my favorite source of music, Bleep, makes a list of 100 best songs of that year. I took the time, which took actually quite loong..to browse the list trough and picked my favorite ones, some I knew, but most of them were totally new for me. Found couple very interesting artists, couple dope ones..it's a mix of calm music, techno, world music, muslim trance, crazy ones so it's all mixed. The songs are not in any particular order for me. Some songs weren't actually on the list but were from the same artist who was on the list (if I thought that the other song was cooler).

My Bleeping list for 2014:

Andy Stott - "Damage" but I chose out of the list "Faith in strangers" (from the same named album) and also "On oath".

Hadn't heard anything before from this artist and he really surprised me positively. Very good stuff!
Beautiful electronic music, calm but powerful and sometimes bit grimm.




Andy Stott SoundCloud: Andy Stott SoundCloud
Andy Stott FB: Andy Stott FB


Caribou - "Can't do without you" is a groovy dance song and well the lyrics will stick into your head. Haven't listened that much Caribou though I have heard lot about them.




Get more of Caribou:  Caribou SoundCloud
Webpage: Caribou official
Become a Caribou fan at Facebook: Caribou FB


Fatima al Qadiri - "Shanghai freeway" on the list but I choose "Muslim Trance mini-mix". It is a mix of Islamic sacred Shi’ite and Sunni acapella found from the internet. I think this was one of the most interesting artists from the list. If SoundCloud info is correct then this artist comes from Kuwait. I wonder how many muslim woman dj's there are. Would be cool to hear more!




Fatima al Qadiri SoundCloud: Fatima al Qadiri SoundCloud
Fatima al Qadiri official: Fatima al Qadiri official



FKA Twigs - "Two weeks" is a sexy and a beautiful song. Check the music video!

FKA TWIGS [two weeks] from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.

Check the official FKA Twigs Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/twigstv



Grouper - "Clearing" is a very calm and a beautiful song. Check also "Vital" from Soundcloud.

Check more info: http://www.kranky.net/
More Grouper songs from Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/tags/grouper


Hudson Mohawke - "Chimes"  Mohawkees are some of of my favorite bands what it comes to crazy synth disco/trap music. Keep it dope! Plus the image on the track cover is awesome!



More Hudson Mohawke at SoundCloud:  Hudson Mohawke SoundCloud
Hudson Mohawke Official: Hudson Mohawke
Hudson Mohawke FB: Hudson Mohawke FB



Jacques Greene - "No excuse (Yung Gud VIP rmx)" is a cool club dance'ish song. At least I would like to dance to this in a nice club. Plus the base is great!



More Jacques Greene on SoundCloud: Jacques Greene SoundCloud
Jacques Greene Official: Jacques Greene Official
Jacques Greene FB:  Jacques Greene FB


Lowtec - "Drone one"  We go back to more techno.

Lowtec SoundCloud:        https://soundcloud.com/lowtec


Lv and Joshua Idehen - "Imminent" Joou! Listen this song and get your swag on!



More Lv and Joshua Idehen: https://soundcloud.com/lvlvlv
Lv and Joshua Idehen FB:    LV and Joshua Idehen FB



Mo Kolours - "Little Brown dog" The song name says it all! A nice summer chilling song, plus I love the steel drums!



 Mo Kolours bandcamp: Mo Kolours bandcamp    Free album downloads!!
 Mo Kolours FB:  Mo Kolours FB
 Mo Kolours: Mo Kolours


Planningtorock -"Human drama" some of my favorite artists. And she's still great!
...It's liquid it's living...




Planningtorock webpage: Planningtorock Official
Planningtorock SoundCloud: Planningtorock SoundCloud
Planningtorock FB:                Planningtorock FB



Randomer - "Stupid things I do (new school mix)" I actually listened quite some time ago Randomer and used one of his songs in one performance. I loove that base! Dance shoes on! Great artist!




Randomer SoundCloud: Randomer SoundCloud
Randomer FB:                Randomer FB
Randomer RA:               Randomer resident advisor


Sophie - "Lemonade" This song is just totally nuts. Nuts! I won't say how the beginning of the song sounds to me, but well listen yourself! You get this song if you mix really bad pop song lyrics with crazy nice base. I love the mix of this crazyness!

"I got something to tell you
hope you'll understand
I never meant to hurt you
it wasn't in my plans
just know when I'm with you
everythings okay
I get that thirsty feeling
and I want lemonade
lemonade, l-l-lemonade (lemonade, l-l-lemonade)
candy boys, c-c-candy boys (lemonade, l-l-lemonade)"

Sophie Soundcloud (more crazy shit): Sophie SoundCloud
Sophie:                                                 http://msmsmsm.com/


Toumani Diabate & Sidiki Diabate - "Rachid Ouiguini" But I took "Salimou" which was in the SoundCloud. Some really cool african music! I highly recommed this duo, it's a father and a son.




Official:                       http://www.toumaniandsidiki.com/
FB:                              Toumani & Sidiki FB
World circuit records:  https://www.youtube.com/user/worldcircuitltd

Hibernation?

It is a long time since I wrote here last time. I have not abandoned the blog and will not. The year changed, my laptop crashed, moved into a new place, been to concerts and club nights. Heard new good music and some bad too.

Some of the things that come first into my mind are the new or debut albums from Moby - "The Innocents" in which he is returning back into his older style but in a very good way. There were some songs from the album that definitely stuck with me since hearing for the first time, like "Perfect life" and "Lonely night" and the great vocals of Inyang Bassey.

Moby - "Perfect life"

Moby - "Lonely night"

The third album if I now remember right from Planningtorock called "All love's legal". The songs "Misogny drop dead" and "Patriachy over and out" were the first one I heard, might have a oppoturnity to go to see her gig soon. Was at one club evening where she was DJ'ing and got to say that she's good also as a dj! We wil for sure hear more from this artist!

Planningtorock - "Patriarchy over and out"

The debut album from the New Zealander Lorde "Pure heroine" became a huge thing all over. This 17-year old girl has a talent and we will for sure also hear from her later more. Her debut album is a very strong one and bringing some new fresh ideas. It's not r'n'b but it's not either just pop. And what shines trough the whole album is the great vocals, like in the big hit "Royals".

Lorde - "Royals"

Also got bit stuck with one great tune from Colleen, who's work I'm only bit familiar. On the first litening I didn't like it so much but when I found this song it was done, I love this song, how soothing it is while still being not so friendly. It was from this contortion video of Samatha Halas that I picked the song from.

Colleen - "Petit Fleur"

The XX came also with a new album "Coexist" which turned out to be great training music. I still love the guitar, bass and vocals in it but somehow i get the feeling how long this band can ride on the same wave? It doesn't take anything away from the new album but in the future I'm interested into which way they will go.

The XX - "Coexist preview"

Florence and the machine is also working on their third studio album and will be very exciting to see how it will turn out. Will they go for the more pop side or for the electronic side? We'll see!

Never ending search

I look for music. I search for songs. I lurk behind the computer to find the tunes. I feel like a detective trying to solve out the murder, on the dance floor... I want to share immediately some of the places where I find songs, lots of lots of songs. (X-files remark) so you people can find easier some music that you might like or hate. Good idea is always to browse trough some interesting record labels like for example:


Ninja Tune                    (Home of Amon Tobin, Bonobo, Daedelus, Mr. Scruff)
Planet Mu                     (µ-Ziq, Venetian Snares)
Warp                             (Aphex Twin, Autechre, Bibio, Boards of Canada,
                                     Brian Eno, Nightmares on Wax, Plaid)
Toytronic                      (Gimmik, Digitonal, Abfahrt Hinwil, Ochre)
U Cover Records         (Lackluster ,he's from my hometown, Tim Koch, Joel Tammik, Ontayso)
Type Records              (Helios, Deaf Center, Johan Johansson)


Last trio is sort of my "dream team"! And there must be more that I'm forgetting.
Then there are sites where you can buy or search music.


http://bleep.com
Is very handy one. It's good to subscribe into different newsletters so you might come up every month some new tunes!


http://soundcloud.com
Is a great place to search lot of different kind of music. Just dive and search. Could spend hours here.


http://grooveshark.com
Extremely handy place to create your own music playlist.


http://www.last.fm/
Good place to search something totally new. Recommends artists to you.
And of course youtube, all libraries and music magazines and record stores.


Today I found some cool songs..
Planningtorock: Doorway, and One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fAJ7nlD3_Y


Holy Other: Touch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7z6whozjr8


Marina and the Diamonds: I am not a robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_oMD6-6q5Y


Deadboy: Here 4 U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0bjtKj7Fi4&feature=related

Redinho: Whips
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOGdprNESOA


And I want to end this post with Burial: Forgive.More about Burial later. He's awesome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOh6WEmTryU&feature=related