Roots Garden Records

Okay! Finally!

For some stupid reason I couldn't log into the blog anymore for about a month, but I'm back. Since my main input to this seems to be posting youtube links as if nobody else would know that site, but if nobody minds I would be up for continuing that.

I have a feeling this will be the song of summer for me, from the exquisite Roots Garden label and mixed/produced by Nick Manasseh. Look up those two, I find Roots Garden one of the better reggae labels, who also have the amazing Bob Skeng on their playlist. Enjoy!

Pupajim - The Big Tree

oh dear god, how chill can a song be.
K

Jerry Lee Lewis - Just Dropped In

ooooh what, I think this is a super super super cool song. Really.K

Shawn Lee's Incredible Tabla Band - "Apache"

Damn! I'm in the mood for weird music tonight.

K

I smell your sweat on my skin/ breakfast in Vegas on cocaine and gin.

Personal checklist item and an essential bad-ass Belgian song. Nowadays the artist Praga Khan (aka Maurice Engelen) does quite impressive audio-visual performances that are quite worth checking out. He's also one of the founders of the SonicAngel label. This label lets fans 'invest' in studio time for artists to give new talent a chance of recording an album by buying it in advance. Once the artist gets a certain amount of funding the recording process can start and the fans get their album. This system has been proven to actually work and shows that the music industry can still develop and change, instead of being obsolete and in the way of the artistic side of it all.

K

Joker - Digidesign

Although I think what has become of this dubstep hype is pretty retarded, the things I heard a couple of years ago when it was still pretty unexplored territory, was pretty good. I always loved the releases of Hyperdub, a London based label lead by the intriguing Kode 9 ( 9 Samurai and Portal both are still some of my fastest personal launches into deepspace) that also has Burial - he's been blogged about enough already I think - Four Tet, Flying Lotus, King Midas Sound, Darkstar and the Spaceape, an MC that redefines the concept of mindfuck every two verses.

Anyway, I always liked this song for it's pretty cool title, the simplicity, the trippy sounds, the chillness and at the same time some mysterious tension, that cymbal pitching up every few beats and the beautiful, beautiful synth melodyn how it flows around itself... damn.
If I were an astronaut who loses grip of the edge of his ship and starts floating away into infinity, I'd put this song on infinite repeat.

K

This song is also worth listening to, I don't know a lot of songs as dreamy as this one.

Daniel Lanois - Fire

And sometimes a song that used to be painful to hear to turns out to be the song you listen to when the person you love is far away and you need something to ease the missing.

K

Duke Ellington - It don't mean a thing (if you ain't got that swing)

My god! The sound of that trombone at 1:05! Have you ever heard anything like that? And the swing indeed... This makes me want to get my lovely Isa in my arms and dance again.

K

Chillaxation time

Wake up, go to class, notice you misread your schedule, realize how pointless waking up was, listen to this song, feel alright anyway. Sit down, relax.

K

The Exit - Back to the Rebels

Okay, just got back from going through time (see earlier post) and while checking out some stuff and giving some good advice to myself in 2004 I ran into me when I was about to buy Home for an Island by the Exit. I had never heard of the band but the album title seemed kind of interesting and I bought it. Since that day I have been bitten by the need of knowing every band I come across because this random buy turned out to be one of the albums of my puberty. The Exit wasn't the greatest band of the world but except for the last two songs every single track is just... I don't even know.  Just listen and maybe watch, there's a cool video for this one.

K