What's Spinning?

Today I had time to catch up a bit on a series of podcasts I recently discovered called "GrooveTek". It's mostly electronica or variations fitting that genre or what I could tag with words like "chill", "deep house", "progressive trance" and "down tempo", styles of music that I listen to quite a bit and even hope to produce one day

http://groovetek.blogspot.com/

The highlight of my listening so far has probably been the first track from podcast #3: United Trance Nations, "Qubism D Final" by Mike Vandee, a DJ from the Netherlands (about 1:30 into the podcast). Nice beats without being high energy rave music or anything.

Last CD I bought and listened to was probably the excellent Endtroducing by DJ Shadow.

Primal Scream _ Riot City Blues.

DJ Russ Jones and Felix B - Gypsy Beats and Balkan Bangers

Gypsy electronica? Fanfare Ciocarlia meets Basement Jaxx, it's a combination impossible not to love. Hate to give this disc back to the owner, though, so I'm gonna have to try to find it somewhere.

- JP

De-Phazz _ Death By Chocolate.

Jarvis Cocker _ Jarvis.

The first from the ex-Pulp leader... simply a pearl.

I hate to do it but I have to plug my favorite new podcast again!

Tonight, while I was messing with my Infinity WTLCs (see the speaker forum) I had on GrooveTek's podcast #4, "A Tribute to Massive Attack".

http://groovetek.net/2005_11_01_gtekshownotes_archive.html

I'm very much into Trip-Hop, Techno, and the like but I've never really given much of a listen to Massive Attack until tonight. This podcast is a real eye-opener, especially the spectral female vocals on tracks #1 and #2, "Downlow" and "Sunday Bed". Very "chill" sounding, perfect for quiet comtemplation of vintage electronics

If you like electronica even the slightest bit, if "Massive Attack" is one of those groups you've thought about checking out but never got around to, this podcast is for YOU:

(Free, in .mp3 format)

http://libsyn.com/media/groovetek/grooveTE...Session_004.mp3

Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle

Tricky _ Maxinquaye.

Lhasa de Sela - La Llorona

David Bowie _ The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars.

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Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow

Badi Assad - Rhythms

Once again Chesky demonstrates their excellent abilities in making very high quality recordings of boring, passionless music played in a highly reverberant environment. Good elevator and clothing store background music, but not for listening.

Need to find something with passion to spin, not just technical skill.

- JP